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Small, affordable, efficient: A lot to like about the 2026 Nissan Leaf

Nissan provided flights from Austin to San Diego and then to Washington, DC, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Nissan Leaf. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. SAN DIEGO—The original Nissan Leaf was a car with a mission. Long before Elon Musk set his sights on Tesla selling vast numbers of electric vehicles to the masses, then-Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn wanted Nissan to shift half a million Leafs a year in the early 2010s. That didn't quite come to pass, but by 2020, it had sold its

I Wasn’t Sure I Wanted Anthropic to Pay Me for My Books—I Do Now

A billion dollars isn’t what it used to be—but it still focuses the mind. At least it did for me when I heard that the AI company Anthropic agreed to an at least $1.5 billion settlement for authors and publishers whose books were used to train an early version of its large language model, Claude. This came after a judge issued a summary judgement that it had pirated the books it used. The proposed agreement—which is still under scrutiny by the wary judge—would reportedly grant authors a minimum

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is getting a Switch 2 version with new multiplayer modes

Nintendo kicked off its latest Direct on Friday with a slew of Mario-related news to mark the 40th anniversary of its mascot. One of those announcements was for a Nintendo Switch 2 version of the delightful Super Mario Bros. Wonder, which is coming next spring. It will feature fresh multiplayer modes and other new features that Nintendo will reveal later. A region called Bellabel Park will open up. You'll be able to hop into several modes with family and friends, such as one that will see you c

Donkey Kong Bananza is getting a DLC expansion today

Donkey Kong Bananza, probably my favorite game of the year, is getting a paid expansion today called DK Island & Emerald Rush. As the title implies, you'll get to explore the island where Donkey Kong hails from and visit a whole host of his friends while you're at it. Naturally, there is more to explore and find there, but there's also a whole new set of challenges once you've finished the main game story. That's the titular Emerald Rush. The timed missions involve you running around the island

Pokémon Pokopia looks like Animal Crossing for Pokémon fans and I'm here for it

In one of the most unexpected announcements of today's Nintendo Direct, Game Freak revealed Pokémon Pokopia, a game that is clearly inspired by the Animal Crossing series. When Pokopia is released sometime next year, you'll assume the role of a Ditto determined to make a comfortable home for their friends. This Ditto has assumed the form of a human, and as they meet new Pokémon, they'll learn abilities they can use to transform their community. In turn, this work will lead to more Pokémon coming

Lumina-DiMOO: An open-source discrete multimodal diffusion model

A striking photograph of a glass of orange juice on a wooden kitchen table, capturing a playful moment. The orange juice splashes out of the glass and forms the word "Smile" in a whimsical, swirling script just above the glass. The background is softly blurred, revealing a cozy, homely kitchen with warm lighting and a sense of comfort. A collection of vibrant red roses is artfully arranged on a rustic wooden surface. The roses, in full bloom, display their intricate petal layers and deep red hu

Winklevoss-founded Gemini prices IPO at $28 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at $3.3 billion

Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), creators of crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co., on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Gemini Space Station, the crypto company founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, priced its initial public offering at $28 per share late Thursday The company priced the offering above its expected range of $24 to $26, valuing the company at $3.3 billio

The IT job market keeps shrinking, but not for everyone - or everywhere

TEK IMAGE/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY/Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Tech job volume has been shrinking over the past three years. Large tech vendors are shedding jobs, but demand is high among small businesses. Skills with a solid future: AI, creativity, and business acumen. The dour news keeps coming. A new analysis of US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data shows the IT job market is shrinking. However, one needs to look beyond the tr

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Crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Alone. By Stand-Up-Paddleboard

We will, of course, put a live tracker online for his journey, and thanks to modern communications equipment, the paddler will be able to send information, pictures and even videos from the middle of the Atlantic. Preparations for this special challenge have been ongoing for many months. However, for a project like this to come together, a lot of things have to fit together perfectly.

My Experience Testing Under-Desk Treadmills, as Both a Fitness Expert and Busy Mom

As a mom, I'm always multitasking and thinking about what I need to do next. This also includes when I'm going to schedule in my workouts. While I typically prefer walking and running outdoors for cardio, this can be difficult when temperatures are low or the weather isn't ideal. I decided to check out under-desk treadmills, as CNET's resident fitness expert and treadmill tester, to see if they would help me keep up with my step count while indoors. I received samples from Egofit and Costway to

Prongs rock

is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years editing the likes of CNET, Gizmodo, and Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Here’s a hot take: gaming handhelds are better with prongs. How do I know? I hold a lot of handhelds (and gamepads) here at The Verge, but Microsoft and Asus’s upcoming Xbox Ally X might take the cake for the most comfortable to hold. And that handheld

Larry Ellison briefly becomes world's richest person

Larry Ellison briefly becomes world's richest person 2 days ago Share Save Danielle Kaye Business reporter Share Save Getty Images Larry Ellison, pictured at an Oval Office meeting earlier this year, has overtaken Elon Musk in fortune Elon Musk briefly lost his title as the world's richest person to Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle and an ally of US President Donald Trump. Ellison's wealth surged to $393bn (£290bn) on Wednesday morning, surpassing Musk's $385bn (£284bn), according to t

Gene-edited pancreatic cells transplanted into a patient with type 1 diabetes

Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used to treat rare diseases, to adapt crops to withstand the extremes of climate change, or even to change the color of a spider’s web. But the greatest hope is that this technology will help find a cure for a global disease, such as diabetes. A new study points in that direction. For the first time, researchers succeeded in implanting Crispr-edited pancreatic cells in a man with type 1 diab

8 Best Espresso Machines for Home (2025), Tested by Coffee Pros

Compare the Top 8 Espresso Machines Other Machines We Like Photograph: Matthew Korfhage Meraki Espreso Machine for $2,000: Meraki is a young Hong Kong–based company. Last year it was still Kickstarting funds for its debut Meraki Espresso Machine. But the company started off with a bang, with a premium semiautomatic double-boiler machine offering features you don't find even in machines that cost hundreds more. This means a Timemore grinder that'll grind by weight within two-tenths of a gram p

Klarna IPO and ASML's Mistral bet revive Europe's tech dreams

Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO and Co-Founder of Swedish fintech Klarna, gives a thumbs up during the company’s IPO at the New York Stock Exchange in New York City, U.S., Sept. 10, 2025. Brendan McDermid | Reuters LONDON — It's been a busy week for the European technology sector. On Tuesday, London-headquartered artificial intelligence startup ElevenLabs announced it would let employees sell shares in a secondary round that doubles its valuation to $6.6 billion. Then, Dutch chip firm ASML on Wedn

Our website looks like an operating system

I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon. PostHog.com has the same problem – especially as the site has grown from supporting a handful of paid products to over a dozen. As I looked for ways to solve this explosion of pages, I started

XFN – XHTML Friends Network (2003)

Xhtml Friends Network XFN™ (XHTML Friends Network) is a simple way to represent human relationships using hyperlinks. In recent years, blogs and blogrolls have become the fastest growing area of the Web. XFN enables web authors to indicate their relationship(s) to the people in their blogrolls simply by adding a ' rel ' attribute to their <a href> tags, e.g.: <a href="http://jeff.example.org" rel="friend met">... To find out how to write and use XFN, or to write a program to generate or spide

Winklevoss-founded Gemini reportedly prices IPO at $28 per share, valuing the crypto exchange at $3.3 billion

Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss (L-R), creators of crypto exchange Gemini Trust Co., on stage at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention, a cryptocurrency conference held at the Mana Convention Center in Wynwood in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. Gemini Space Station, the crypto company founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, priced its initial public offering at $28 per share late Thursday, according to Bloomberg. A person familiar with the offering told the news service that the company priced

Why our website looks like an operating system

I have a problem with many large, technical websites. Often times, I’ll want to refer to different pages at the same time. So I’ll CMD + click “a couple times” while browsing around and before I know it, I have 12 new tabs open – all indistinguishable from each other because they share the same favicon. PostHog.com has the same problem – especially as the site has grown from supporting a handful of paid products to over a dozen. As I looked for ways to solve this explosion of pages, I started

This Pop-Out Phone Controller Could Reinvent How We Think of Mobile Gaming

Today’s retro recreations are so good at replicating the Game Boy’s look, feel, and portability. The problem is, my pockets are already occupied with my mobile supercomputer that contains my life behind a 6.3-inch pane of glass. If my phone has a powerful processor and excellent AMOLED display, why can’t it also become my gaming device when I’m on the go? MCON, the controller hyped to hell and back by young engineer Josh King and brought to market by phone peripheral makers OhSnap, could be enou

‘Wednesday’ Star Evie Templeton on Agnes’ Progression From Stalker to Friend

During a chat on the official Wednesday podcast—or rather, woecast—Nevermore newcomer Evie Templeton discussed Agnes coming into her own after being an unhinged stalker fan of Netflix’s favorite Addams. After Wednesday (Jenna Ortega) lays into her at the end of the second season of the Tim Burton show, seemingly to push her to be herself in the meanest way possible, Agnes gets gutted emotionally in a way that could have been a villain origin but goes in a surprisingly positive direction. “I th

Microsoft and OpenAI have a new deal that could clear the way for an IPO

is a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. As OpenAI attempts to restructure itself and eventually go public, a hurdle for the startup, recently valued at $500 billion, is its increasingly complicated partnership with Microsoft. On Thursday afternoon, the two companies released this joint state

Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of apartments turns out to be a slug

Inhabitants of an apartment block in Bavaria, southern Germany, who called police to investigate the relentless buzzing of their doorbells late at night were surprised to find the culprit was not a teenage prankster as they had suspected, but a slug. The slug had been sliding up and down the bell plate, creating havoc in the building and tearing angry residents out of their beds long after midnight when they could not sleep for the noise. At first they had suspected the so-called klingelstreic

Fartscroll-Lid: An app that plays fart sounds when opening or closing a MacBook

FartScrollLid 💨 A hilarious macOS app that plays fart sounds as you open and close your MacBook lid - inspired by the classic "fart scroll" browser extension! Features 🎵 Dynamic Fart Sounds - Pitch changes based on lid angle (deep bass when closed, high squeaks when open) - Pitch changes based on lid angle (deep bass when closed, high squeaks when open) 🎯 Motion-Activated - Only farts when you're actively moving the lid - Only farts when you're actively moving the lid 📊 Real-Time Monitoring

How to Get Free Marvel Rivals Skins With the College Perks Program in Season 4

You might be subsisting off ramen noodles and Red Bull, but that doesn't mean you need to look broke while you're playing your games. NetEase has introduced Marvel Rivals perks for college and university students that let them wear some of the coolest in-game costumes for free. All you need is a valid student email and the know-how to navigate the in-game menus. Linking your NetEase account with your college's domain is a simple process that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes. Most US s

'We will do better.' Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella departs following a meeting of the White House Task Force on AI Education in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Sept. 4, 2025. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a meeting on Thursday that the company has work to do to smooth relations with employees after announcing several rounds of layoffs and a mandated partial return to in-person work. In the meeting that was held online, an employee asked executives to speak about a perceived lack of

Your Gmail just got a useful new tool for tracking online purchases

Daniel Grizelj/DigitalVision via Getty Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Gmail's new purchases tab helps organize your online purchases. You can still see the soon-arriving package cards. The tab houses shipping updates, order confirmations, and more. Google is making it easier to keep an eye on all of your online purchases. In an announcement Thursday, the company unveiled a new Purchases tab in Gmail that combines all of your purchase and tracki

Mark Hamill Is Embracing His Villain Era

In a new interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Star Wars‘ Mark Hamill unpacked his recent resurgence in popularity, stating, “I certainly didn’t expect to have this sudden burst of life so late in the game. I should be spending time wandering the beaches with a metal detector. I can’t explain why, all of a sudden, I have five features this year.” As the actor notes, “There was a point about five years ago where I thought that it’s not easy getting older, and it’s even harder when you’re doing

Opendoor stock closes 78% higher after company names new CEO

OpenDoor is disrupting the real estate market with its new model. It buys homes and sells them on its platform. Opendoor stock rocketed 78% higher on Thursday after the retail favorite named Shopify executive Kaz Nejatian as CEO and co-founder Keith Rabois as chairman. The meme stock hit a 52-week high and continued a stunning run this year, with shares up more than 500% so far. Former CEO Carrie Wheeler resigned last month following a pressure campaign from investors that included critical c

Adobe's stock gains on earnings, revenue beat

An Adobe sign hangs along Main Street during the 2025 Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 27, 2025 in Park City, Utah. Adobe reported fiscal third-quarter results that topped analysts' estimates. The design software maker's shares rose in extended trading. Here's how the company did in comparison with LSEG consensus: Earnings per share: $5.31 adjusted vs. $5.18 expected $5.31 adjusted vs. $5.18 expected Revenue: $5.99 billion vs. $5.91 billion expected Revenue increased 11% from $5.41 billion a