Future Sodium Ion Batteries Could Be Ten Times Cheaper for Energy Storage
CATL of China is mass producing generation 1 sodium ion batteries starting next month. The first factory has about a 40 GWH per year capacity. China has 16 out of…
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie broke presale records in less than three hours
Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images After her Eras tour shattered ticket sales records last year, now Taylor Swift is coming for the box office. The…
CDPR’s game engine transition means no more Cyberpunk 2077 DLC
Enlarge / Hopefully the use of Unreal will help prevent major glitches like this, which showed up in the console edition of Cyberpunk 2077 around its 2020 launch. (credit: CDPR…
NYPD using drones to check out noisy backyard parties over Labor Day weekend
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Richard Newstead) The New York City Police Department said it will use drones to check out backyard parties when neighbors call to complain about large…
Pension fund sues Jeff Bezos and Amazon for not using Falcon 9 rockets
Enlarge / Vulcan’s core stage is lifted into a processing facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida, in January 2023. (credit: United Launch Alliance) Shareholders of a pension fund that includes Amazon…
It’s the Year of the Big Game, and that’s a good thing
Image: Bethesda Game Studios 2023 has been packed with some of the biggest games in recent memory, and I’m totally fine with that. For the past little while, it feels…
The robovacs are coming, and they’re edgier than ever
The Deebot X20 Omni — the latest robot vacuum mop from Ecovacs — was on display at IFA 2023 this week. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge…
Asus ROG Strix Scar 17 review: sure, this one is good, too
It’s not quite as powerful as the gargantuan Strix Scar X3D, but it’s also not quite as expensive. Continue reading…
The Bose QuietComfort 45 noise-canceling headphones are $130 off for a refurb model
If you don’t mind refurbished headphones, this is a great deal. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge While Labor Day promotions have already been going on all week…
Netflix’s One Piece is the rare anime adaptation that gets all of the important things right
Iñaki Godoy as Monkey D. Luffy. | Netflix Netflix’s One Piece succeeds where other live-action anime adaptations have failed by understanding its limits and knowing how to work within them.…