BA.2.86 shows just how risky slacking off on COVID monitoring is
Enlarge / Transmission electron micrograph of a SARS-CoV-2 virus particle isolated from a patient sample and cultivated in cell culture. (credit: Getty | BSIP) A remarkably mutated coronavirus variant classified…
Chris Kemp unplugged—Astra’s CEO dishes on the space company’s struggles
Enlarge / Chris Kemp, founder and CEO of Astra. (credit: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Chris Kemp is a fighter. That’s the price of admission if you want to…
Vlad the Impaler may have shed tears of blood, study finds
Enlarge / This 1475 letter written by Vlad the Impaler contains proteins suggesting he suffered from respiratory problems, bloodied tears. (credit: Adapted from M.G.G. Pittala et al., 2023/CC BY) The…
Pentagon Eyes JetZero Blended Wing for Next Generation Air Refueling System
Jet Zero won the US Air Force $235 million blended wing demonstrator contract. Jet Zero will build a full scale demonstrator by the first quarter of 2027. The prototype will…
FCC filing hints at a new Fitbit tracker — but which one?
The FCC filing seems to indicate a Bluetooth-only tracker. The Fitbit Inspire 3 (pictured) is a less likely candidate since it launched just last year. | Photo by Victoria Song…
X says it’s fixed the bug that broke links and images in pre-December 2014 tweets
Image: The Verge Over the weekend, word spread about a problem affecting old tweets, and eventually, we narrowed it down to anything posted before December 2014, either with an image…
Original Team Says LK99 Superconductivity Is Real and Next Published Paper Will Provide Answers and Evidence
The original LK99 team reassures the world that LK99 superconductivity is real and was demonstrated. They will provide evidence and answers in the next published paper. They recommend other researchers…
Microsoft kills Kinect again
Image: Microsoft Microsoft is discontinuing the Kinect — again. The company officially stopped manufacturing the depth camera and microphone in 2017 and brought it back in a new form in…
Samsung’s latest pitch for the Z Fold 5: two iPhones at the same time
Imagine if this were two iPhones in a trench coat. | Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Hey, wait a minute, that Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 5 is actually…
US judge: Art created solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted
Enlarge / AI-generated art titled, “A Recent Entrance to Paradise.” The image cannot be copyrighted, a judge ruled. Art generated entirely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted because “human authorship…