Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge On Wednesday, a jury in New York convicted ex-Central Intelligence Agency engineer Joshua Schulte on all nine charges he faced (as first reported by @InnerCityPress) as a result of the single largest leak in agency history. Dubbed Vault 7, the files and information shared by WikiLeaks in…
Enlarge / Empty vials of the Novavax Inc. Nuvaxovid COVID-19 vaccine arranged at the Tegel Vaccine Center in Berlin, Germany, on Monday, March 7, 2022. (credit: Getty | Bloomberg ) The US Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday issued a long-awaited authorization for Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine. It is the fourth COVID-19 vaccine to gain authorization…
The 360 Invictus. Bell A traditional airplane gets the lift it needs to stay in the air from its wings. A helicopter, meanwhile, has large spinning rotor blades on top that provide lift, allowing it to do fantastic things, such as hover over the ocean and rescue someone at sea. But a sleek new prototype…
Arrival, the UK-based commercial EV company, plans to slash costs and cut as many as 30% of its workforce as it attempts to protect the business from a challenging economic environment while meeting its production targets. The company, which went public last year via a merger with a special purposed acquisition company, said the restructuring plan …
Panasonic said Wednesday it plans to build the world’s largest EV battery plant, a $4 billion factory in Kansas that will manufacture and supply lithium-ion batteries to EV makers. The factory is slated to be larger than the Gigafactory it operates with Tesla in Sparks, Nevada, which is already one of the largest lithium-ion battery…
Uber is being sued by 550 women passengers across the U.S. who have alleged they were assaulted by drivers on the platform. The complaint, which was filed in San Francisco County Superior Court on Wednesday by attorneys at Slater Slater Schulman LLP, alleges that passengers were kidnapped, sexually assaulted, sexually battered, raped, falsely imprisoned, stalked,…
Andrej Karpathy, the deep learning and computer vision expert who was hired five years ago as Tesla’s director of AI and led Autopilot vision team, is officially leaving the company. Karpathy was on a four-month leave of absence, fueling widespread speculation as to whether he would return. In a tweet posted Wednesday afternoon, Karparthy wrote…
Save $30: Prime Day season savings are everywhere — the Lioness Smart Vibrator 2.0 is on sale directly from the retailer’s website for $199, a 13% discount off the vibe’s usual $229. I once saw a review that described this smart vibrator as a “Fitbit for your clitbit” and frankly I have never been the…
SAVE $43.18: Before you head out on your next camping adventure, grab this Prime Day deal on the Coleman Triton camping stove. It’s on sale for just $66.81 — that’s 39% off its MSRP and its lowest price to date. Got a camping trip on the calendar this season? While you might think you can…
Save 32%: Not every part of home improvement needs to be expensive. The Craftsman V20 cordless drill is on sale at Amazon for just $59 — a $28 savings — as of July 13. If you live a home, likely there will come a time when you need a drill. Rather than run a panic…