Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge Monarch Tractor’s Praveen Penmetsa has a grand vision for agriculture, and it includes autonomous electric smart tractors powered by AI. Continue reading… Source: The Verge
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The Pixel 8 is Google’s best opportunity to bring its AI ideas together under one roof
Google Assistant, but make it Bard. | Illustration: The Verge If there’s one job I’d like AI to take from me, it’s my daily email deleting ritual. Every morning at 8:30AM, Google Calendar pings me with a reminder containing just one word: EMAILS. Thus, my formal workday begins as I speed-delete nearly every email that...
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Apple’s dark sci-fi comedy Fingernails turns love into science
Image: TIFF Fingernails, a sci-fi romcom coming to Apple TV Plus from director Christos Nikou, imagines a future where one very specific technology has changed the world. In this timeline, scientists have figured out how to conclusively determine if two people are in love. This upends relationships as we know them, with couples sticking steadfastly...
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The co-founder of a collapsed crypto hedge fund was arrested in Singapore
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Su Zhu, the co-founder of the collapsed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), was arrested in Singapore on Friday. Zhu was taken into custody while attempting to leave the country from Singapore’s Changi Airport, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. Teneo, the liquidation firm in charge of liquidating...
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Why New York and other cities still aren’t prepared for floods
A general view of a flooded street in Williamsburg, New York, United States on September 29th, 2023. | Photo by Fatih Aktas / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images New York City came to a grinding halt Friday as floods shut down roads and subways and inundated schools in one of the biggest storm-related emergencies since...
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Pokémon’s Van Gogh collaboration turned out to be kind of a disaster
A painting of Munchlax and Snorlax inspired by Van Gogh’s “The Bedroom.” | Image: The Pokémon Company The horde of people that descended upon the Van Gogh Museum yesterday to snatch up as much merchandise as they could was the first sign that the Pokémon x Van Gogh collaboration might be a bit more chaotic...
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Discord resolves widespread outage caused by ‘unusual traffic spikes’ | TechCrunch
Discord has come back online after an hours-long outage, the instant messaging service confirmed on Friday morning. The company said the outage was due to the platform experiencing “unusual traffic spikes.” The issues began at around 6 AM ET/3 AM PT, according to third-party web monitoring service Downdetector. “We’re experiencing unusual traffic spikes that lead...
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Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths
Onewheel at CES in 2015. | Image: The Verge Future Motion, the maker of the Onewheel electric skateboard, is recalling every one of them, including 300,000 Onewheel self-balancing vehicles in the US. Alongside the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the company now seeks to remedy the products after four known death cases — three...
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VW bails on its plan for a $2.1B EV plant in Germany | TechCrunch
Volkswagen’s $2.1 billion plan to launch a dedicated electric-vehicle factory is kaput. The automaker instead reportedly plans to modify its existing plants in Zwickau and Wolfsburg to handle production of a new flagship EV — the postponed Project Trinity — and an all-electric Golf hatchback. This tracks with an earlier statement from VW passenger cars...
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So what happened to Blue Apron? | TechCrunch
News that Blue Apron is selling itself to Wonder Group — Marc Lore’s latest — for around $100 million marks the end of the former startup’s life as a public company. Blue Apron raised a $135 million Series D back in 2015 for its meal kit business before going public in mid-2017 with a valuation...