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Boater's stunt to awaken sleeping polar bear backfires after brazen horn blast
A boater in Svalbard, Norway, was fined 50,000 Norwegian kroner, or roughly $5,300, after intentionally using a ship horn to wake a sleeping polar bear on land.
Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch
Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboard, the city's service appears to have f...
Austin Abrams fights to escape a 60-ton sperm whale in new 'Whalefall' trailer with Josh Brolin
The trailer for "Whalefall" stars Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin in a story about a scuba diver swallowed by a sperm whale with one hour of oxygen.
iPhone 18 won’t launch next month, here’s when it’s coming instead
Apple’s big September event is just weeks away, but there’s one key product that all reporting indicates will be missing: the base iPhone 18. Here’s when to exp...
Bloodied, ejected Marine Corps pilot seen calm and collected after Washington crash destroys aircraft
Bodycam footage shows Marine Corps Maj. Jackson Simon bloodied but composed after ejecting from his F-18 Hornet near Rimrock Lake, Washington state.
Waymo lifts the lid on the ‘brain’ powering its robotaxis
What's in the trunk of your car? Shopping bags? A spare tire? Jumper cables? What about a high-powered computer capable of performing up to one quadrillion oper...
Here’s what data Comcast says its motion-detecting routers collect
Comcast announced a new platform this week called Xfinity Shield that includes the option to let customers turn their routers into motion sensors. Many people r...
Welcome to the AI crisis in math
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Robert Hart, The Verge’s London-based AI reporter, about what AI is doing to the field of mathematics and the existential cri...
FromSoftware can do anything
There's something just a little bit different about FromSoftware's office in Tokyo. Like with any other successful video game studio, there's extensive security...
This tiny guitar amp is the most unhinged distortion pedal I’ve ever used
Is Amp Crash a guitar amp or a guitar pedal? Yes. Death By Audio's latest is, in fact, both. While it's in a guitar pedal enclosure, Amp Crash is actually a tin...
We played The Duskbloods, the Switch 2’s wildest new exclusive
The Duskbloods is a world away from the approachable games Nintendo is known for. But for its next Switch 2 exclusive, the company has partnered with Elden Ring...
'DWTS' judge Carrie Ann Inaba admits she's 'always in pain' with 'debilitating' health battle
Carrie Ann Inaba reveals her Sjögren's disease causes "debilitating" daily pain and has affected her organs, forcing her to carefully manage her energy.