The waterproof speaker is small enough to throw in a beach bag. | Image: JBL It’s been a busy week here at The Verge, with the recent reviews of the new M2 MacBook Air and Nothing Phone 1 as well as non-stop coverage of Amazon Prime Day. I’m sure all of us are ready for…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Enlarge / This is the last time that the Manhattan skyline will play backdrop to Formula E’s Gen2 car, shown here. Next year the sport gets an all-new machine with a lot more power and a lot less mass. Formula E makes its annual return to Red Hook this weekend for the New York City…
Former Vice President Mike Pence and his chief of staff Marc Short Drew Angerer/Getty Images The January 6 committee is weighing whether to subpoena Former Vice President Mike Pence to testify. Pence’s former chief of staff told CBS News that it could set a risky precedent. Marc Short said it could allow for future lawmakers…
On board each Voyager probe is a golden record, with sounds and images that show life on Earth. NASA/JPL NASA’s been slowly shutting down non-essential instruments on the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft to save power. Aboard each spacecraft is a golden record, with images, sounds, greetings, and music from Earth. The twin probes launched…
Cody Mattice spraying a chemical agent at the Capitol riot last year. DOJ Two men from New York received 44 months of prison time for their involvement in the Capitol riot. Cody Mattice, 29, and James Mault, 30, pleaded guilty to assaulting police officers at the riot. As the judge handed down their punishment on…
Inside Apple’s eight-year struggle to build a self-driving car Wayne Ma, The Information By now, you’ve likely heard at least some of the rumors about Apple’s secretive automotive ambitions. The Information spoke to nearly two dozen people about the self-driving car project to chronicle all of the development, demos, prototypes and staff departures along the…
Technically, this is not the first EV Xiaomi has put out. That would be the Xiaomi M365 electric scooter. There’s an “um, actually” fact to toss to your friends. Joking aside, the Chinese giant made a big commitment to the electric car market last year, pledging to invest $10 billion over the next ten years….
How to change your Apple ID password in three different ways. | Image: Apple Your Apple ID is your key to using the integrated services of Apple’s ecosystem, including the App Store, iCloud, iMessage, FaceTime, and Apple Music. You also need one to set up any new Apple device. As with any password, if you…
Amazon’s annual sales event Prime Day delivered more than $12 billion in sales, according to third-party estimates. The retailer hosted the popular shopping event in the U.S. and in more than 15 other countries worldwide on July 13-15. This was the first Prime Day event under the new CEO Andy Jassy, who took over Jeff…
New images from the James Webb Space Telescope prove the humongous observatory in deep space isn’t just capable of seeing cosmic objects extremely far from home. NASA released Webb’s first pictures taken in the solar system on Thursday, including Jupiter and zipping asteroids. Engineers snapped these shots during earlier tests of the observatory’s instruments. The…