It’ll be coming to more devices throughout 2022 and 2023. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Samsung is starting to roll out a “Maintenance Mode” feature for its phones that’s designed to keep your messages, photos, info, and accounts safe when you’re getting your phone repaired. The company’s been testing the feature since…
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Production line of a Fiesta. | Image: Getty Ford is ending production of the Fiesta in Europe to make room for electric cars. The automaker’s compact four-door vehicle will be the last combustion engine vehicle to roll off its Cologne, Germany plant, and it’ll instead begin production of a Ford-VW all-electric crossover by next Summer…
Enlarge (credit: Sean Gallup | Getty Images) Google CEO Sundar Pichai has been on a belt-tightening mission at Google over the past three months, so it seems he saw this coming: Parent company Alphabet’s latest earnings are kind of a disaster. The company’s Q3 2022 earnings were released last night, and they show a 27 percent…
A Spring 2022 study following two VR biology labs at Arizona State University showed elevated student performance and engagement in several areas, compared to results in labs without the VR component.Read More
Cabbage destroyed by flooding. Deposit Photos The title and leading message in a report published today in the medical journal The Lancet Countdown sums up what many public health experts around the world worry about: “Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels.” The report paints a grim picture ahead of next month’s 2022 United Nations…
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears: the best thing on the internet (sort of hyperbole, but not really) is soon to return to a web browser and/or mobile app near you! An absurdist baseball simulator with an explosively creative fan base, Blaseball has been on hiatus for over a year. The team behind Blaseball,…
If you are a believer in the endless concentration of corporate power, the work of major tech companies to extend their reach into all areas of the digital economy must bring you joy. If you are more in favor of upstart companies attacking and bringing to heel incumbent wealth by the (figurative) sword, it’s probably…
While ClimateTech may be all the rage right now – and for good reasons – new VC Paris-based firm Satgana (which means “a good company” in Sanskrit) is hoping its take on the subject will gain traction. It’s now completed the first closing of a target €30m fund to back startups in areas such as…
SAVE $155: As of Oct. 26, you can start vacuuming and mopping your floors at the same time with the Bissell CrossWave X7 Cordless Pet Pro Wet Dry Vac on sale for $344.99 at Walmart and Amazon. That’s 31% in savings and its lowest price ever. While nobody needs a vacuum that also mops up…
Photo by: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Chipotle’s CEO says customer orders have remained “consistent” despite price increases. Higher priced proteins can be up to 40% more expensive than basic options. Chipotle raised prices in August following two earlier increases in the last 18 months. Chipotle prices are up, but that’s not getting…