Hyundai knows how to make a good-looking hydrogen concept car Image: HyundaiHyundai is one of several automakers working to make hydrogen-powered electric vehicles a thing, and a good first step is making sure they’re not ugly. I think the designers hit the target with the “Art of Steel” design language used in the Initium concept SUV revealed this week at an event in Korea. It seems to borrow some of the …

Why is Nintendo targeting this YouTuber? Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, TurbosquidRetro Game Corps isn’t Nintendo’s typical mark. Could he fight back? Continue reading…

Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition review: Intel excellence inside, middling outside The $1,300 ‘Aura Edition’ laptop doesn’t quite live up to its fancy new Lunar Lake processor. Continue reading…

What voting machine companies are doing to avoid another 2020 Image: Alex Parkin / Getty ImagesSmartmatic and Dominion are trying to debunk false stories and rebuild trust — but that’s a tall order in 2024. Continue reading…

The Verge’s favorite social networks Image: Alex Parkin / The VergeSocial networking has become more disconnected, to say the least. Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram. We were curiou…

The AI garage door mystery Image: Alex Parkin / The VergeYou just left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer’s probably nothing, and that feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed this by now. On this episode of The Vergecast, we d…

Amazon’s new Alexa has reportedly slipped to 2025 Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeIn the week’s least surprising news, Amazon’s reinvention of its Alexa voice assistant has reportedly fallen even further behind. According to Bloomberg, the launch of a new Alexa — billed as a smarter, more capable AI-powered voice assistant — has been pushed back. Again. “A person familiar with the matter…

Intel’s Gaudi AI chips are far behind Nvidia and AMD, won’t even hit $500M goal Nvidia made a fortune on the AI boom. AMD’s rival AI chip became the fastest ramping product in its history, already pulling in $1 billion per quarter and inspiring AMD to remake itself as an AI company too. But Intel, which suggested it would pull in $1 billion, even $2 billion on the back of AI in 2024, now says it won’t even meet its more mod…

ChromeOS gets a big update with Quick Insert, Focus mode, and new AI features The Quick Insert button is on the Galaxy Chromebook Plus and is coming to future 2025 Chromebooks. | Image: GoogleStarting today, Google’s ChromeOS 130 update with Quick Insert, Focus Mode, Welcome Recap, and other features is rolling out. Chromebook Plus models with NPU also get exclusive special features in 130, such as the new recorder app wi…

The iPhone 17 might use Apple’s own Wi-Fi chips Hardware is hard. | Image: Cath Virginia / The VergeApple’s journey to making its own wireless chips has been a long one, but the end might be in sight. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo posted on X that Apple’s switch to its own in-house Wi-Fi / Bluetooth chips will start with the iPhone 17 in the second half of next year. Kuo also agrees with 9to5Mac’s re…

Ford won’t be making any new F-150 Lightnings until next year Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The VergeFord is idling the factory where it makes its F-150 Lightning electric pickup trucks until next year, the company said today. It’s another unwelcome hiccup in Ford’s path to becoming a global EV producer. The plan is to shut things down after the last shift on Friday, November 15th, at which point the plant wi…

This pocket-friendly e-reader also wants to be your minimalist phone The Mudita Kompakt E Ink phone is expected to sell for under $500. | Image: MuditaMudita is not the first company to build a phone with an E Ink screen, but its Kompakt isn’t only about bringing the benefits of e-paper to smartphones. The company describes the Kompakt as a “minimalist E Ink phone” that’s designed to reduce distractions with a li…

Chevy’s BrightDrop electric vans will be in Walmart’s fleet by the end of the year A Walmart-branded BrightDrop 400 electric van. | Image: GMGM moved its electric van company BrightDrop into Chevy in August to save some money, and today, the newly branded version of the vehicle is reaching one of BrightDrop’s earliest customers: Walmart. After piloting BrightDrop 400 vehicles for customer deliveries, Walmart is officially addi…

Microsoft just delayed Recall again Image: MicrosoftMicrosoft is once again delaying the roll out of its controversial Recall feature for Copilot Plus PCs. The software giant had planned to start testing Recall, which creates screenshots of mostly everything you see or do on a Copilot Plus PC, with Windows Insiders in October. Now, Microsoft says it needs more time to get the feat…

Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot now has a desktop app Image: The VergeClaude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, now has a desktop app. You can download the Mac and Windows versions of the app from Anthropic’s website for free. Last week, Anthropic released its “computer use” feature in public beta, which allows the Claude 3.5 Sonnet model to control a computer by looking at a screen, moving the cur…

Squid Game runs it back in season 2 trailer Image: NetflixNetflix released a new teaser for Squid Game’s second season on Thursday. Gi-hun, again played by Lee Jung-jae, is participating in the games again, but based on the trailer, it appears that he will try to convince he other contestants to rebel against the competition — and that, at times, he may not be successful. “Three years aft…

Tidal is laying off more staff Image: The VergeThe music streaming app Tidal is laying off more workers. In a statement to Fortune, an unnamed Tidal spokesperson confirmed “the elimination of some roles across our business and design teams.” On Wednesday, Fortune published a leaked memo from Jack Dorsey, the CEO of Tidal parent company Block Block Head, who said that the comp…

iPhone sales are booming — with or without Apple Intelligence Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The VergeTo cap off a busy week that saw the rollout of the first Apple Intelligence features and several new Macs, Apple reported its fiscal Q4 earnings this afternoon. The period included very early sales of the iPhone 16 lineup, offering a chance to gauge the momentum of the company’s latest phones. The Apple…

OpenAI’s search engine is now live in ChatGPT Image: The VergeChatGPT is officially an AI-powered web search engine. The company is enabling real-time information in conversations for paid subscribers today (along with SearchGPT waitlist users), with free, enterprise, and education users gaining access in the coming weeks. Rather than launching as a separate product, web search will be inte…

Apex Legends is taking away its support for the Steam Deck and Linux Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The VergeApex Legends is one of the only battle royale games that lets you play on a Steam Deck gaming handheld — Fortnite, Valorant and PUBG and more never supported it in the first place, citing concerns about anti-cheat. But today, Electronic Arts and Respawn are taking the game away for that very same reason. “In our…