Photo by Nilay Patel / The Verge With so much attention on Elon Musk’s bizarre Twitter adventures, it’s easy to forget how fast SpaceX’s Starlink project has been moving. In just the past six months, the service has launched service in nine new countries, a new service for vehicles, and a new premium tier. There’s…
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The excellent Roborock S7 mop / vacuum hybrid robot vacuum is $220 off for Prime Day. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Amazon Prime Day is the second-best time of year to bag some smart home gadgets at excellent prices. While Black Friday and its various offshoots traditionally have deeper discounts and…
Enlarge / A Canoo LDV wearing Walmart colors. The retailer should receive its first LDVs in 2023. (credit: Canoo) Electric vehicle startup Canoo announced on Tuesday that Walmart has placed an order for 4,500 of its Lifestyle Delivery Vehicles. Canoo and Walmart are customizing the LDV for last-mile deliveries, with added cargo space instead of…
Samsung announced its One UI 4.5 update for Galaxy Watches, including a full QWERTY keyboard, customizable watch faces and dual-SIM support. The update will sit on top of Wear OS 3.5 and will be available for the Galaxy Watch4, the Galaxy Watch4 Classic and other upcoming models. Almost a year after Apple introduced a full…
Check out the bigger, curvier, and sometimes brighter screen of the Apple Watch Series 7. Mike Epstein Prime Day 2022 has been a wonderful day (or two) for Apple fans. First, the Airpods and Airpods Pro went on sale. Now the Apple Watch Series 7 is getting a major price cut as well as part…
What does the future of work look like in a (quasi) post-pandemic world? That’s a question all companies — from startups to major corporations — are asking as they consider how to distribute and manage their workforces in 2022 and beyond. Airbnb, for example, chose a live anywhere, work anywhere policy, while Twitter has gone…
Volkswagen of America and Audi have locked in a resurrection plan for old battery packs from its growing slate of EVs. The two VW Group brands have contracted with startup Redwood Materials to recover and recycle end-of-life EV battery packs from its 1,000-dealership network in the United States. This won’t be the final resting place…
If you tried to play the Heardle this morning and got redirected to a Spotify website, that wasn’t a glitch. Spotify announced today that it acquired the Wordle-inspired music guessing game, which the streamer will leverage to support music discovery. Heardle is one of many beloved spinoffs that have cropped up in the vein of…
The first perfectly edited trailer for A24’s Bodies Bodies Bodies is one of the best trailers of the year so far. And in the latest trailer, there’s another level of horror added to the most murderous millennial weekend away: your girlfriend’s judgmental influencer friends you haven’t met yet. Director Halina Reijn’s dark comedy sees Maria…
I’ve always been a little bit of a skeptic when it comes to Amazon Echo devices. Most of my family were early adopters — even my parents have multiple Echos throughout their home — but, while I love the concept of a fully integrated smart home, I wasn’t really sure if adding an Alexa device…