Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge If you’re not an Amazon Prime member (or prefer not to shop at Amazon), Target’s competing with the upcoming Prime Early Access Sale with deals of its own — no membership needed. Through Saturday, October 8th, the retailer is holding the Target Deal Days event, offering discounts on…
Enlarge / Herbert Reul, Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, looks at Boston Dynamics’ robot police dog in January 2022. (credit: Getty Images) Boston Dynamics and several other robotics companies have pledged not to weaponize “general purpose robots” according to an open letter released publicly on Thursday and first reported by Axios. Although with sizable caveats…
A render of the Steam Deck Docking Station. [credit: Valve ] The Steam Deck’s long-delayed official dock is now available for order, according to Valve, the company behind it. The dock was initially planned to launch closer to the launch of the Steam Deck, but it was delayed this summer on account of supply chain challenges….
Enlarge / Super Mario as he’ll look in the series’ first full-length CGI-animation film. (credit: Nintendo / Illumination) The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailer is live ahead of the film’s April 2023 launch in theaters, and—hey, whaddya know—it looks decent. We now have a look at what CGI Mario looks like, as re-created by longtime…
A silkworm, like the one seen here, spins a cocoon of silk. Deposit Photos Silk is a fabulous fabric, but it’s also a material that can do so much more. At its best, silk can hold up even better than steel when you pull at it. If you can get enough high-quality silk, you might…
Time to use these little booklets. Spencer Davis / Unsplash Traveling broadens the mind and drains your bank account—but it’s totally worth it. Even so, if you’ve never traveled outside your own country before or just put things on pause for the duration of the pandemic, your first international trip can be a bit intimidating….
Four new composite images from JWST and x-rays from the Chandra observatory. X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; IR (Spitzer): NASA/JPL-Caltech; IR (Webb): NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI When the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) sent back its first images this summer, many of us were gobsmacked at the clarity and beauty of the pictures. But even space telescopes work best with a…
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Judge Kathaleen McCormick ruled that the Elon Musk vs. Twitter trial will be put on hold so that the two parties can work out a deal. Earlier this week, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO finally agreed to pay $54.20 per share for Twitter, the same $44 billion deal he proposed in April. This afternoon, Musk’s…
October’s Made by Google 2022 event marked the full launch of the Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Pro. Thanks to some credible leaks, we saw a lot of this coming, but now we know the lowdown on all of the phones’ exciting new software features — like macro mode and Photo Unblur. Now that the…