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Image: Fisker Inc. Fisker Inc. and Karma Automotive, two electric vehicle startups with a long shared history, each announced this week that they’ve raised millions of dollars. Fisker has taken in $50 million of fresh capital from “hedge fund king” Louis Bacon and Karma Automotive has raised $100 million from undisclosed “outside investors.” The money comes at a time when … Continue reading Fisker and Karma raise millions of dollars following wave of Tesla optimism Continue Reading →

Image: Dell Dell is adding a new color option to its popular XPS 15 laptop for the first time ever, and it’s a huge visual upgrade to the usual silver aluminum and black carbon fiber of the standard model. Dell is calling the color option frost, and it comes with a ”frost machined aluminum with … Continue reading Dell XPS 15 gets new ‘frost’ white color option coming later this summer Continue Reading →

Google has responded to the inadvertent reveal of a new Nest smart speakerthrough regulatory filings by, well, confirming its existence. The company just sent The Verge an official photo of the device, referring to it only as “what the Nest team is working on from home.” The speaker looks somewhere between the pillowy Nest Mini and the larger … Continue reading Google confirms new Nest smart speaker with official photo and video Continue Reading →

An artistic rendering of astronauts landing on the surface of the Moon again | Image: NASA After years of debate, NASA plans to update its guidelines for how much biological contamination of other worlds will be allowed while the agency explores the Solar System. The new rules would relax some of the agency’s requirements for how to explore … Continue reading NASA is updating its guidelines on how to prevent contamination of the Solar System Continue Reading →

Google has long struggled with getting device manufacturers to update older devices to the latest version of Android, but the company announced today that it’s starting to see some success, with Android 10 seeing the fastest adoption rates of any version of Android. According to Google, Android 10 was installed on 100 million devices five … Continue reading Android 10 had the fastest adoption rate of any version of Android yet Continue Reading →

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge A team of civil rights auditors has delivered a scathing and unexpected indictment of Facebook’s recent moderation choices after a two-year examination of the platform’s practices and internal policies. “While the audit process has been meaningful and has led to some significant improvements in the platform,” the report … Continue reading Facebook auditors call out Mark Zuckerberg for ‘vexing and heartbreaking decisions’ Continue Reading →

Image: Yamaha Yamaha, the Japanese brand known mostly for its pianos and motorcycles, has been selling electric bicycles in the US for a little less than two years. Now, the company is expanding its lineup with the addition of a new, fitness-focused e-bike called the Civante. The Civante is Yamaha’s first Class 3 e-bike offered in the US. … Continue reading Yamaha’s new electric bicycle Civante is a fitness-focused speed demon. Continue Reading →

Image: Jimmy is Promo (YouTube) As is usually the case with leaked gadgets, first there were photos… and now there’s a video. One day after Samsung officially announced the August 5th Unpacked event where it’s expected to launch the Galaxy Note 20, Note 20 Ultra, and Galaxy Fold successor, the flagship Note has been given the hands-on treatment on … Continue reading Samsung’s Galaxy Note 20 Ultra shown in brief hands-on video Continue Reading →

Now that Riot’s team shooter Valorant has been out for some time and the competitive scene is starting to solidify, we can finally get to the important thing: really cool skins. Today, the developer revealed a new line of weapon skins called Elderflame, which are the first “ultimate edition” skins to be featured in the game. They’re appropriately dramatic … Continue reading Valorant’s latest skins turn your guns into dragons Continue Reading →

Samsung may not include chargers in the boxes of some of its smartphones starting in 2021, according to a report from Korean news site ETNews. The company is taking them out because many people already have chargers and to help reduce costs, the report says. While not including a charger in the box might seem like a … Continue reading Samsung reportedly won’t include chargers with some phones starting next year. Continue Reading →