Investigation into overheating Nvidia RTX 4090 power connectors has found that one supplier is particularly problematic and is a “complete disaster”. There’s been something of an undercurrent of issues for the power-hungry RTX 4090 with Nvidia dealing with power connectors that like to get altogether too hot and then melt. Now, one report has come…
Pikmin Bloom, the social walking game from Pokémon Go maker Niantic, recently passed its first birthday and is now hosting a special event themed around Pikmin 3. This event in particular caught my eye, as it will allow you to grow the series’ original Red, Blue and Yellow Pikmin varieties dressed up in the space…
Image: Rimac Rimac announced that its Nevera supercar hit a top speed of 412 kmh (256 mph), making it the fastest electric production car in the world. The record was set on October 28th at the Automotive Testing Papenburg track in Germany, an oval-shaped racetrack with twin straights that were long enough — 4 km,…
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Amid his endless spitballing of new features for the social media network he reluctantly bought, CEO Elon Musk has announced plans for Twitter to no longer display which device a tweet was sent from, whether it’s an iPhone, Android phone, or Twitter’s web client. “We will…
Tough day for Taylor Swift fans. | Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic Presale tickets for Taylor Swift’s latest concert tour went on sale today, and the massive demand has already crashed Ticketmaster. The company’s support account tweeted that fans “may be experiencing intermittent issues,” and Ticketmaster has “temporarily paused” the virtual ticket queue for one Verge…
This massive Lego set is deserving of its own living room. | Image: Lego Who needs to travel the globe when you can bring the world’s biggest landmarks to your own home in plastic brick form? Lego has announced its tallest set to date with the new 10,001-piece Eiffel Tower, soaring 149cm / 59 inches…
Sam Bankman-Fried testifies on Capitol Hill, before his fall from grace | Photo by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images He had friends in high places — and they are probably embarrassed right now. Continue reading… Read More
Enlarge / People look inside an Orion spacecraft simulator, which is used to train for docking to the Gateway space station, at the Johnson Space Center’s System Engineering Simulator facility in Houston. (credit: Getty Images) Wednesday’s scheduled launch by NASA of the Artemis I mission will be the first integrated test of the agency’s SLS…
Deposit Photos For adults who have struggled with understanding new math homework or marveled at how quickly kids can learn a second language, there is new evidence that shows kids really can learn things much faster than adults. A study published today in Current Biology finds that children and adults have different concentrations of a…
The Amazon jungle in Brazil. Deposit Photos As the 2022 United Nations climate change summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt (COP27) heads into its second and final week, three countries are taking action to protect the world’s tropical rainforest. Brazil, Indonesia, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, three countries that are home to more than half…