Mitsubishi Leaves China and Other Troubled Car Makers
The Japan Times reports, Mitsubishi Motors has suspended its China business indefinitely and will lay off staff after years of poor sales in a market rapidly turning to electric vehicles.…
Musk Drives With Urgency, Speed and Innovation
Joe Justice talks about how Toyota has been the number one car company in the world because of their focus on efficiency and quality. However, Toyota’s Corolla and Camry has…
NASA starts building ice-hunting Moon rover
Enlarge / Artist’s concept of the VIPER rover working in lunar darkness. (credit: NASA/Daniel Rutter) The search for ice at the Moon’s poles has loomed large in the field of…
This Barbie is a feminist parable fighting to be great in spite of Mattel’s input
Margot Robbie as Barbie in her cowgirl guise. | Image: Warner Bros. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie is often good and sometimes great, but it always feels like it’s fighting to be…
Why would anyone make a website in 2023? Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena has some ideas
Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Squarespace has lived through the eras of domain squatting, SEO keywords, and social algorithms and is now launching AI tools. Here’s what’s…
“Church of Bleach” family goes to trial, representing themselves in court
Enlarge / Bottles of MMS, the bleach product that Genesis II Church of Health and Healing was ordered to stop selling. (credit: Genesis II Church of Health and Healing) A…
Was Benjamin Franklin the first to incorporate colored fiber into currency?
Enlarge / Khachatur Manukyan and colleagues at the University of Notre Dame used cutting-edge spectroscopic and imaging instruments to get a closer look at the inks, paper, and fibers that…
Google is testing AI-generated Meet video backgrounds
Illustration: The Verge I am not big on blurring out or replacing my office background with premade images, but then again, I’m fortunate enough to have a small environment I’m…
Musk, Tesla board to return $735M after being sued for overpaying themselves
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Duncan Hull / Getty) Elon Musk, Larry Ellison, and other current and former Tesla board members agreed to return over $735 million to settle a…
The armor of armored fish started out as part of the nervous system
Enlarge / The cells that go on to form the armor on the flanks of the sturgeon start out as part of the nervous system. (credit: Jay Fleming) Our skeleton…