Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Allegations that Tesla mishandled hazardous waste point to a systemic failure at the company’s California facilities. This was no simple accident or one-off event. No less than 25 counties sued Tesla this week for allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste. Within a couple days, the Elon Musk-led company agreed to pay $1.5 million to settle the suit that says the company “intentionally” and “negligently” disposed of materials that should have been handled with care.Waste management experts tell The Verge that a large company like Tesla should have known better. On top of the trouble it’s facing in California, the company might even have run afoul of federal regulations for handling hazardous waste.“That’s pretty egregious in my... Continue reading…

Laptops are tools that often come along with you on the go, and interact with a number of different foreign objects that can make them dirty. It's important to keep them clean, because aside from looking sharp, a clean laptop is poised to better hold up over time. Things like dust, crumbs, hair, and even skin oils can not only make your laptop look dirty, but can also cause damage. If you find that your laptop doesn't look the cleanest, you might not know where to start. Using some types of cleaners and tools to freshen up your laptop can do more harm than good, which is why some of the best laptops today aren't cleaned as often as they should be.

The MacBook Pro has been getting better and better over the past few years, and the latest M3-powered models offer more performance and efficiency than ever before. These machines truly are the laptop dreams are made of if you want to get work done on the go. However, one thing that hasn't really changed since 2021 is the port selection, which is solid, but not ideal if you have a lot of peripherals.

If only I hadn’t already dived headfirst into Apple’s lovely computing world. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Once upon a time, I bought a Surface Pro only to return it less than a month later. At the time, I felt it was a niche device lacking the foundational integrity of an iPad or a MacBook. I’ve grown a newfound respect for the Surface Pro line with the maturing of Windows, however, and now find the 2-in-1 nicely occupies the middle ground between a tablet and laptop. If I needed one today, Best Buy’s deal on the Surface Pro 9 with a 12th-gen Intel Core i5 chipset, 16GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a Surface Pro Keyboard might win me over. It’s going for $999.99 ($540 off), after all, which matches its all-time low.My favorite thing about the Surface Pro 9 compared to traditional 2-in-1s is that you can use it as a tablet without the heft... Continue reading…

Image: William Joel / The Verge Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 24, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, so psyched you found us, and also, you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading Kyle Chayka’s great book about algorithms, Filterworld, getting nostalgic about Tecmo Bowl, seeing if this show can get me into NASCAR like Drive to Survive got me into Formula 1, catching up on old Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend episodes, spending too much time debating whether I want a Vision Pro, trying to make my basement look more like Peter McKinnon’s studio, and trying desperately to figure out why everyone’s so worked up about rice cookers.I also have for you a new AI search... Continue reading…

Image: iFixit We’ve already found out a few hidden tidbits of Apple’s Vision Pro over the last week, like the revelation that it has not one, but two different kinds of Lightning-esque connectors. But now you can see so much more in iFixit’s first teardown video, offering some answers to questions like what contributes to its weight, and which parts could be very expensive to replace.Disconnecting those Buff Lightning connectors for the battery cable and strap arms is pretty easy, requiring only a SIM eject tool. After that, the disassembly is pretty standard for Apple hardware: heat gun, prying, screws everywhere, brackets, and connectors. Image: iFixit The details of the EyeSight feature that shows a rendered version of the... Continue reading…

Image: Samsung Seeing something on my phone screen that I want to know more about is a regular occurrence, and Google always wants to make it easier to get to, well, Google. And so we have Circle to Search, a new way of looking up information on mobile devices.The idea is pretty simple — and in fact, simplicity is its main selling point. In a video, Samsung (which makes one of the phones that has this feature) gives the example of someone who sees an orange dog lamp in an image, and instead of running a text search describing what they’re looking at, they find out they can just circle the lamp with their finger to get matches from the web.Shopping is the obvious use case here, but you can also identify plants and animals, look up words, and get... Continue reading…

In A Violent Nature. | Image: Sundance Institute A look at some of our favorite films from this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Continue reading…

Installing RAM is a crucial part of the PC building process as it's one of the core components of the computer, without which you won't have a working PC. The modern computers on the market in 2024 either use DDR4 or DDR5 memory modules, both of which are readily available to buy. The process of installing RAM is quite simple, as all you really need to do is slot the modules in place. However, there are a few things to keep in mind to ensure you are installing the RAM modules properly on the motherboard.

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge If you spend $3,500 on a laptop, it’s a near guarantee you know exactly what you’re getting and you’re probably going to be happy with it. But you have to... think different when you spend that kind of money on a new platform like the Vision Pro, Apple’s “spatial computer” that does a lot of rethinking about how face computers should work. The Vision Pro subreddit is naturally offering a taste of how Apple’s vision is landing with people who decide to take the plunge.There’s plenty of what reviewers have already said on Reddit right now. Like our own Nilay Patel, user imatowell called out the “smaller than expected” field of view and reflections in the lenses themselves (Apple said this is normal when Nilay asked), among other things.... Continue reading…

Sometimes you have to put yourself through something painful just to recognize how good you have it. There’s a lot to be gained from enduring the most disheartening shit possible: Want to hear depressing news? Want to feel anxious and unsettled? Want to walk away feeling hopeless and cynical about the world?That’s the experience of watching Threads, the 1984 television film that is now streaming as a part of Criterion Channel’s new Postapocalyptic Sci-fi series. (Sorry, did you think I was talking about a different thing called Threads?) Directed by Mick Jackson and written by novelist Barry Hines, Threads was a cultural phenomenon in the UK when it aired on the BBC. Depicting the aftermath of nuclear fallout with unflinching clarity,... Continue reading…

Nvidia's RTX 40 series refresh is well underway, with the RTX 4070 Super already available to buy. The other two cards in the Super lineup — RTX 4070 Ti Super and RTX 4080 Super — will soon hit shelves before the month is done. But even before the reviews start rolling in, I feel we can make a pretty good case for these Super cards being a letdown from Nvidia.