As the need for cleaner, more sustainable transport becomes ever more urgent, I’ve noticed a familiar pattern in conversations on the topic. Someone will point out that bikes are a lot more efficient and environmentally friendly, reduce congestion and are often faster than cars in cities. Others respond saying that bikes can’t possibly replace cars…
Acer has unveiled a new lightweight laptop that targets on-the-go professionals in a world where more and more people are choosing to work from home or away from the office. The Swift Edge is a 16-inch OLED laptop with a magnesium-aluminum chassis that’s only 0.51-inch thin and only weighs 2.58 pounds. That’s lighter than the…
Cinewhoop drones are all the rage right now, as they can dive and twist and speed through unreachable places to produce spectacular footage. DJI has jumped on that trend with the Avata, an FPV drone that’s far removed from the company’s speedy DJI model actually called the FPV. Instead, the Avata is more about agility…
Core members of the Disco Elysium team were “fired under false premises”, Martin Luiga has claimed in a new interview. Luiga, one of the co-founders of the studio ZA/UM, originally stated the three leads had left “involuntarily”. Designer Robert Kurvitz, one of the developers affected, later confirmed that he, along with writer Helen Hindpere and…
The classic board game Catan is on its way to consoles in 2023. This isn’t the first time it’s been adapted into a video game, but this new version is set for release across Xbox and PlayStation consoles. It’s coming courtesy of Asmodee Entertainment and Dovetail Games, the former being responsible for a number of…
He Was Confused His eyes wouldn’t leave the note, reading over it again and again. He was beyond confused. He couldn’t stop thinking about it, replaying the previous day in his head. He was desperate to figure it all out. He hadn’t done anything out of the ordinary, at least, nothing that would warrant this….
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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s new AI can hear a snippet of song—and then keep on playing A new AI system can create natural-sounding speech and music after being prompted with a few seconds of audio. AudioLM,…
Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Okay. So it looks like I don’t need to go to Delaware this October. There’s a stay in Elon Musk’s lawsuit against Twitter — which is meant to give the parties time to close the deal. If the deal doesn’t close, the court case is back on for…
Hackers withdrew 2 million BNB tokens worth about $570 million. | Nick Barclay / The Verge It’s been a rough year for cryptocurrency, and things are not looking any better after over half a billion dollars of cryptocurrency tokens were stolen from crypto giant Binance on Thursday night. The exploit hit the Binance Bridge, a…