Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge General Motors wants to be the biggest seller of electric vehicles in North America (maybe the planet, too?) and so far, it’s burning a lot of cash to get there. But by 2025, the cash burning will officially cease, as the company projects its EV program will be
Read MoreTudum, but Google. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube is rolling out a new startup sound that sounds a lot like a Google-y version of Netflix’s “tudum.” You can hear it right here or in the trailer at the top of this post, which also features a slick new startup animation. I
Read MoreBasically: they sold all the tickets in the presale. | Photo by Jeff Kravitz / FilmMagic Ticketmaster is canceling the upcoming public sale of Taylor Swift tickets after the presale debacle earlier this week. Ticketmaster said it canceled the sale “due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet
Read MoreCredit: HBO Max One of the breakout streaming hits of last year, The Sex Lives of College Girls is back for season 2 on HBO Max. The series resonated with critics and audiences, and if you’re among its fans, you may want some more shows like The Sex Lives of College Girls to stream between
Read MoreThe self-assembly option is only available if you bought your Peloton Bike off Amazon. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Peloton is now offering customers the option to assemble their bikes on their own. There are a couple of caveats, though. The option is only available for folks who buy the original
Read MoreCasey Newton / Platformer: A Twitter HQ seating chart shows Elon Musk’s top five special projects: Blue verified, Blue for business, encrypted DMs, tips on tweets, and longform notes — After demanding the remaining Twitter employees pledge their loyalty, Musk’s product priorities are coming into focus — I. Extremely hardcore
Read MoreImage: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI Researchers using the James Webb Space Telescope have found two extremely old galaxies from just 300 to 400 million years after the Big Bang. These galaxies are far brighter than expected, causing astronomers to question what they know about how galaxies formed when the universe was young. “Somehow, the universe
Read MoreImage: 1password 1Password has announced that passkey support will be available to its customers in “early 2023,” allowing users to securely log in to apps and websites without a password. Support for passkeys’ entirely passwordless authentication may seem like a bewildering feature for a password management service, but 1Password isn’t even the first, with Dashlane
Read MoreCredit: Amazon Black Friday used to begin on, well, Friday. Back then, retailers started opening up shop on Thursday night, and that was considered to be early. But times keep changing, and Amazon wants you to start your holiday shopping right away. There are many Black Friday prices across the site, but some of the
Read MoreTSMC’s new Arizona chip plant won’t have the capacity to make iPhone chips and will instead build parts for less important products, it’s thought.
Read MoreThomas Germain / Gizmodo: Facebook will remove religious and political views, addresses, and “Interested in” field, which indicates sexual preference, from user profiles on December 1 — The update to the world’s biggest social network will prevent you from broadcasting certain details in your bio, a farewell to the early days of social media.
Read MoreWhen Josh Sawyer created his video game about 16th-century Bavaria, he set out to capture the feeling of that world, right down to the food on the table.
Read MorePhoto by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge BrightDrop, the EV logistics company owned by General Motors, projects it will reach $1 billion in revenue in 2023, making it one of the fastest companies in history to reach that milestone. The announcement was made in advance of a GM investor event, at which the automaker was
Read MoreShortly after the development of the electric light came the light switch, presumably. Of course, obvious switches are old-hat, and this neat lamp build from [Giovanni Aggiustatutto] goes with a design that’s altogether more coy. The lamp itself is a minimalist modern design, with a cube-like body constructed out of plywood. It was easily constructed
Read MoreCredit: Asus Asus has released another special edition version of the ROG Phone 6. The new special edition of the ROG Phone 6 is themed after Diablo Immortal. The Diablo Immortal Edition comes with some Diablo-themed packaging. Asus is no stranger to making special editions of its phones. In fact, just this September, the company
Read MoreMitchell Clark / The Verge: An update to the About Twitter Blue page shows accounts less than 90 days old won’t be able to sign up when the service relaunch, presumably on November 29 — Twitter won’t let accounts less than 90 days old sign up for its Blue subscription service when it relaunches (presumably
Read MoreAisha Malik / TechCrunch: TikTok says it is testing a research API, announced in July, with members of its Content and Safety Advisory Councils, and working on a content moderation API — Earlier this year, TikTok announced that it’s developing a research API to improve access to public and anonymized data about content and activity
Read MoreReuters: Sources: SoftBank sells a 4.5% stake in Paytm, or 29.35M shares, for $200M, causing Paytm stock to drop 10%+; Vision Fund was Paytm’s second-largest shareholder — SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T) on Thursday sold a 4.5% stake in Indian digital payments giant Paytm (PAYT.NS) …
Read MoreCredit: Robert Triggs / Android Authority Google has announced a bevy of new search features to make searching easier and more helpful. The new features center around Google Maps, Search, Lens, and Shopping. Most of the features are launching today, except one for Google Lens and another for Google Maps. If you’ve been wanting more
Read MoreAfter previously failing to protect England’s Black football players, Meta has posted a statement reiterating its existing policies regarding online abuse ahead of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. | Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images Meta is attempting to get ahead of harassment concerns during the 2022 FIFA World Cup by laying out what
Read MoreZack and the Cactuar may not look as good on older consoles. | Image: Square Enix The remaster of Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII is out in less than a month, and if you have any recent console platform, you’ll be able to play it. But depending on which console you have, the resolution and
Read MoreImage: Pixar Pixar is introducing its next animated feature with a public transit ride. The first teaser trailer for Elemental reveals the studio’s next high-concept world — it’s set in “Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live together” — by showing how all these different groups get on while mingling on the subway.
Read MoreIs it even a company? | Image: Getty Images The thing that’s under-appreciated about lawyers — largely because they are so annoying — is that they are also writers and often talented ones. And so, in the spirit of literary appreciation, let’s all do a close read of the absolute banger filed today by John
Read MoreWant the check mark? You may have to wait. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter won’t let accounts less than 90 days old sign up for its Blue subscription service when it relaunches (presumably on the 29th), according to an update to the About Twitter Blue page. This means that you won’t
Read MoreThe Maingear MG-1, Shroud Edition. | Image: Maingear Maingear has quietly hand-built custom gaming PCs in New Jersey for the past 20 years, occasionally landing splashy partnerships to generate intriguing new systems. Now, it’s teaming up with one of the world’s biggest streamers: Michael “Shroud” Grzesiek. Today, the 50-person company is not only revealing a
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