Volvo promised some pretty amazing tech in its EX90 flagship EV, but a lot of it is still to come. | Image: James Lipman / Volvo Volvo’s new flagship EV has plenty of luxury bells and whistles, but some of its technology is still TBA. Continue reading…

Image: Microsoft Lenovo appears ready to launch new more affordable Copilot Plus PCs. Reliable leaker Evan Blass has published a press release from Lenovo that details a variety of Copilot Plus PCs that will be announced at the IFA trade show later this week, including two that are powered by an unannounced 8-core Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus chip.The new Qualcomm-powered Copilot Plus PCs from Lenovo include the IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1, a convertible with a 14-inch OLED display, and the IdeaPad Slim 5x, a full-metal clamshell laptop with the option to pick a 14-inch OLED display. Both feature a new Snapdragon X Plus 8-core chip, instead of the regular 10-core version. Image: Evan Blass (X) The IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 comes with an OLED... Continue reading…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a brutal 2023, the vibes around self-driving cars are improving. Cruise, the industry leader whose vehicle was involved in a horrific San Francisco crash last fall, has rebooted under new management, while rival Waymo is expanding to serve broader swaths of the Bay Area and Los Angeles and Tesla is promising a new robotaxi service.Although Americans say they remain wary of autonomous driving, boosters insist there is nothing to fear. In fact, they foresee roads full of self-driving cars that are both safer and cleaner than the status quo, a tantalizing prospect in a country where transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions and residents are several times more likely to die in a crash than those living in other... Continue reading…

Microsoft's Edge browser is much better today than it was when it debuted in Windows 10 almost ten years ago, but it's still not for everybody. Unfortunately, Microsoft not only includes Edge with every copy of Windows 11 (and 10), but it's also impossible to uninstall normally, on top of forcing you to use it with certain system features like Widgets.

Alex Castro / The Verge Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman are far-right activists, convicted felons, and engineers of questionable political stunts. Politico reports that they are now also running LobbyMatic, a company that sells an “AI automation platform for lobbyists.” LobbyMatic claims on its website that its AI-powered software can do everything — like automatically monitor congressional hearings or “supercharge research” into legislative and regulatory issues. Jumping on the AI hypewagon is a perfectly respectable career move. The problem is that sources have told Politico that Wohl and Burkman are running the firm under the pseudonyms “Jay Klein” and “Bill Sanders.”LobbyMatic has no leadership listed on its official website. A company by the name of... Continue reading…

With the transition from Intel Macs to ones that use Apple's own Arm-based processors, there was the specter of how software written for one type of processor would run on this new hardware. Rosetta 2 quickly put to rest any concerns early adopters of Apple Silicon might have had, but what exactly is Rosetta 2, and how does it work?

Network-attached storage (NAS) has become powerful enclosures that do much more than simply store data. They run software, and services, and can even be turned into servers with multiple features. Want to create your own media streaming service to replace your Netflix and Spotify subscriptions? That's possible on the same NAS where you store device backups. The same goes for a home surveillance system or web server. You can even install Windows inside a virtual machine. What your NAS will require is plenty of RAM to achieve all of this. Here are some reasons why having more memory inside your NAS is a good thing.

This is just one of those SSDs that really blows the competition out of the water. Not only is the SSD fast, but it's one of the fastest that we've tested in a long time, making it a fantastic option for anyone that's looking to upgrade their PC gaming handheld or other compatible device. Perhaps the only knock we had against the Crucial P310 M.2 SSD is that it was just too expensive.

As you use your Windows 11 PC, files can start to pile up and take a lot of space, even when you don't need them anymore. In many cases, these may be files you intentionally downloaded, but other times, the system itself may download or generate files that serve as a cache. Essentially, cached files can speed up certain processes by allowing you to load those files locally without having to download them again.

Image: The Verge A panel of five Brazilian Supreme Court justices voted Monday to uphold a decision (PDF) requiring the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) to limit access to X, the service formerly known as Twitter. Justice Alexandre de Moraes issued the ban on Friday in response to X owner Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with court orders to block certain accounts and to identify a legal representative in the country. Four other justices have now backed the decision.Poder360 and The Globe report that three justices, Cristiano Zanin, Flávio Dino, and Cármen Lúcia, fully supported de Moraes’ ruling, while a fourth, Luiz Fux, noted reservations about a fine for people who circumvent the ban with a VPN, saying only people who post criminal messages... Continue reading…

The tour marks the first reunion for Oasis since Liam (left) and Noel Gallagher split the band in 2009. | Photo by Gie Knaeps/Getty Images The British government has pledged to investigate the use of dynamic pricing by ticketing websites after Oasis fans got priced out of the band’s surprise reunion tour. The UK’s advertising regulator told BBC News it had received 450 complaints regarding misleading ticket prices and availability, with many tickets more than doubling in price. Sales began on Saturday and sold out within hours after thousands of hopeful buyers spent the day in online queues.On Ticketmaster, the cost of some tickets increased from £135 (about $177 USD) when sales began, to over £350 (about $460 USD). UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy told ITV News that the government will “include issues around the transparency and use of dynamic pricing, including the... Continue reading…

The world of bedroom programmers and the open source movement as a whole is full of colorful characters and fascinating stories. It's why we have software with names like "The GIMP" and weird recursive terms like "GNU" for "GNU is Not Unix."