Cyberpunk 2077 is getting a sequel, publisher CD Projekt Red revealed in a tweet Tuesday. The company gave the new entry into the sci-fi franchise the code name Project Orion. CD Projekt Red shared its plans for its Cyberpunk and Witcher universe in a video laying out its long-term product outlook. Along with news of the Cyberpunk
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The consortium behind the Matter standard for the Internet of Things have officially approved the long-award standard. The open-source connectivity standard was built around a shared belief that smart home devices should seamlessly integrate with other systems and be secure and reliable. Smart home device makers understand that people will integrate lots of products from
Xiaomi just launched the 12T Pro, a flagship with a 200-megapixel main camera. The company is using Samsung’s HP1 sensor with a base pixel size of 0.64μm and f/1.69 aperture. The sensor, which was launched last year, uses pixel binning in different ways: it can combine 16 pixels to produce a 12.5-megapixel image (2.56μm pixel
Car rental company Sixt said Tuesday it intends to purchase more than 100,000 electric vehicles from Chinese automaker BYD for its European fleet between now and 2028. Sixt has initially only committed to buying “several thousand” EVs, the first of which will be delivered this year, the company said in a statement. Sixt said it
/ If you’ve got dozens of tabs on your Chrome browser, tab groups can keep you sane Samar Haddad / The Verge I usually have at least half a dozen or more projects going at once: I can be writing or updating several short pieces, editing one or two others, getting ready for Apple or
/ Google’s new mesh routers have the latest Wi-Fi standards and can act as Thread border routers. They’ll also be Matter hubs. Google says that “color was an important consideration when designing the Nest Wifi Pro.”Image: Google Google’s beefing up its mesh networking offerings. On Tuesday, it announced the Nest Wifi Pro, a router that
Figuring out what to pay employees is a universal problem. Startups, in particular, struggle with compensation as they are often competing with other startups for talent. For Roger Lee, the issue came up repeatedly when he co-founded 401(k) provider Human Interest, which achieved unicorn status in August of 2021 and today has nearly 700 employees.
The eight-mile-wide asteroid that ended the reign of the dinosaurs also inspired one of the most cataclysmic tsunamis, with monster waves a mile high crashing into coastlines across the planet. Scientists have long researched the Chicxulub impact crater, which lies under the Yucatán Peninsula in southern Mexico, which was created by a planet-altering impact some
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to back EU legislation that will standardize mobile chargers on USB Type-C — paving the way for the law to start being applied by the end of 2024. MEPs have been pushing for the e-waste measure for over a decade so today’s massively affirmative plenary vote — of 602
This story is part of Gift Guide, our year-round collection of the best gift ideas. If you’re really looking for the best gift for the cyclist in your life, you should start with a giant jar of pickle juice without making them explain why they want it. However, if you prefer a more traditional gift,
Zenskar, a startup that is aiming to help SaaS companies automate their billing workflows, has raised $3.5 million in a seed funding round. Headquartered in New York and Bengaluru, Zenskar is building a platform for SaaS companies to generate bills for their complex pricing plans — whether they are based on usage-based pricing, subscriptions, nuanced
Google is spinning up a new, online-only startup accelerator centered around the elusive circular economy. The effort is Google’s latest to help environmentally focused startups grow while potentially hooking them on its cloud products in the process. In the broadest of strokes, the circular economy represents a colossal shift in how humanity makes and uses stuff.
Wolves have a reputation as meat-eating predators that take down deer, elk and moose for their meals. But they also have some serious foraging skills and will happily chow down on fruit. The Voyageurs Wolf Project from the University of Minnesota follows the activities of gray wolves in northern Minnesota in and around Voyageurs National
THE TRUTH ABOUT NADIAIn the video, Martin explained that he had a friend who had a method for catching cheaters in the Call of Duty: Vanguard ranked play system. “This started off as me wanting to do the right thing, find cheaters and catch them,” said Martin. He explained that people started to “turn” his
/ Google’s Pixel security patch for October is here, and it’s the last scheduled update for the company’s 2019 vintage phones The Google Pixel 4 and 4 XL have reached the end of their three years of guaranteed software support.Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Google has released this month’s Pixel security patch, and
Silly season is out in venture capital land. Today investors and founders alike will bore your ears off with notes about incremental cash flow positivity and their timeline to adjusted EBITDA profitability. Lame. Despite the general boringness of today’s venture capital landscape, replete with conservative valuations, falling deal sizes, and clucking investors sitting atop a mountain of capital,
Rest assured, it’s a regular face. Some people on Twitter are meanly saying he looks like Rumpelstiltskin from the Shrek movies. But regardless of which Shrek character he looks like, Dream’s face is undeniably popular, and his video has already been viewed over 18 million times. That is nearly the entire population of New York
An antitrust win for Amazon and Apple in Italy, where an appeals court has cancelled a multimillion-dollar penalty the pair were hit with last year for alleged collusion following an investigation into the reselling of Apple and (Apple-owned) Beats kit on Amazon’s Italian e-commerce marketplace. The original €203 million (total) penalty had already been reduced
/ The Pixel 7 and 7 Pro phones are on their way, along with an exciting new watch and maybe — just maybe — a foldable Illustration: The Verge Last May, at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O 2022, there were hints about the company’s upcoming Pixel 7 and 7 Pro phones. Now, five months
/ Brace yourself for a new Pixel 7, a Pixel Watch, and maybe even a surprise foldable Image: Google We’re getting even closer to the launch of the Pixel 7 phone and Pixel Watch, with Google’s fall launch event set to take place on Thursday, October 6th, at 10AM ET. While we have an idea
>There was a dramatic increase in interest rates for 30-year fixed-rate refinances and 15-year fixed refinances today. The average rates for 10-year fixed refinances also moved up. Like mortgage rates, refinance rates fluctuate on a daily basis. With inflation at a 40-year high, the Federal Reserve has hiked the federal funds rate five times in
Liran Grinberg Contributor Liran Grinberg is the co-founder of Team8 and the managing partner of its investment fund, Team8 Capital, focused on investing in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, data and AI companies. Has the price tag for innovation become untenable? When venture-backed companies were chasing growth metrics, higher cloud bills were shrugged off as unavoidable. But
The Hubble Space Telescope, a true science warrior, has logged over 30 years in orbit studying the mysteries of the universe, and NASA would love to extend its life for as long as possible. It might be a long shot, but Elon Musk’s SpaceX could potentially step in to give Hubble a helping hand. NASA, SpaceX
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Electric-car maker Tesla‘s worldwide vehicle deliveries jumped 35% in July through September versus the previous three-month period, reaching another record high — but still falling short of analysts’ expectations. The company said Sunday that it delivered 343,830 vehicles in the third quarter, a rebound from the previous period‘s 254,695 when COVID-related factory closures in Shanghai hurt
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For decades, the answer to when fusion power would arrive was like the punchline to an oft-repeated joke — it was always 10 or 20 years away. Now, it might actually be on the cusp of commercialization. No, really. If that refrain sounds all too familiar, it’s because, well, something like that was written 10
Has the entire field of particle physics collapsed, thanks to the efforts of a former physicist who is now speaking out? If you’ve read the latest headlines, you might be inclined to think so. On Monday, the Guardian’s opinion section ran an article by astrophysicist and YouTuber Sabine Hossenfelder that claimed particle physicists have been harboring
Mexican Pizza had its big comeback. Now a new Taco Bell item is set to return from menu exile. And the fast-food chain is leaving it to customers to choose which one. Taco Bell will bring back one of two options — the Double Decker Taco or Enchirito — before the end of 2022. The
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