Big Tech has cozied up to nuclear energy
Steam rises out of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island on March 26, 2019 before it closed later that year. | Photo: Getty Images Major tech firms, in search…
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin plans to launch a new crew capsule on Monday
New Shepard in 2022. | Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Blue Origin is preparing to launch its NS-27 mission with the RSS Kármán Line, its new crew…
Starfield’s big Shattered Space expansion isn’t weird enough
Image: Bethesda It’s been a long time coming for Starfield players. Bethesda’s sci-fi take on Skyrim originally launched last summer, and while there have been some updates and improvements since…
This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 5)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MIT Spinoff Liquid Debuts Non-Transformer AI Models and They’re Already State-of-the-Art Carl Franzen | VentureBeat “Unlike most others of the current generative AI wave, these models are not…
Epic has a plan for the rest of the decade
Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Just over a year ago, Epic Games laid off around 16 percent of its employees. The problem, Epic said, was its own big…
Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram
Dozens of neo-Nazis are fleeing Telegram and moving to a relatively unknown secret chat app that has received funding from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey. In a report from the Institute…
Ben Horowitz says he’ll donate to Kamala Harris after all
Hedging one’s bets, I suppose. | Photo by Gregg DeGuire/Getty Images After the podcast where Ben Horowitz repeatedly congratulated himself for being brave enough to support Donald Trump in public,…
Intel says its Raptor Lake crashing chip nightmare is over
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Intel may have one less worry on its very full plate: it believes it has now fully addressed its desktop CPU instability woes…
The latest on the WordPress fight over trademarks and open source
Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge WordPress and its cofounder Matt Mullenweg are embroiled in a public battle against the third-party hosting provider WP Engine. Continue reading…
How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly
London’s Great Exhibition of 1851 attracted some 6 million people eager to experience more than 14,000 exhibitors showcasing 19th-century marvels of technology and engineering. The event took place in the…