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The Verge's weekend editor revisits Soul Glo's 2022 record Diaspora Problems while awaiting the band's new album, NA I'M GON GRAB ALLAT, due in January. Two singles from the upcoming release have already come out, and the piece walks through standout tracks from Diaspora Problems, including 'Gold Chain Punk (whogonbeatmyass?)' and 'Coming Correct.'
A reflective essay examines Ryszard Kapuscinski's life and his book 'Shadow of the Sun,' tracing his path from a young Polish journalist praised by the communist state to decades spent as his country's sole correspondent covering Africa's post-colonial upheavals, coups, and poverty from the late 1950s onward. The piece recounts how Kapuscinski's early reporting on poor working conditions earned him Poland's highest civilian honor before he moved into international and later African correspondence.
The90 makes Gem, a $249 wearable necklace that monitors a user's real-time UV radiation exposure via a companion app and sends alerts when levels rise. A reviewer described using the device at an outdoor Los Angeles event, where it flagged rising UV exposure despite shade from a patio umbrella, prompting her to reassess her sun protection habits and investigate a medication-related heat sensitivity.
Director Taika Waititi has publicly commented on the lukewarm critical and box-office reception of his film 'Klara and the Sun,' which has been overshadowed by larger studio releases. He addressed the situation with a notably casual, unbothered tone rather than defending the film's merits in detail.
A Science study led by Oxford researcher Patrick Lewin found that Manx shearwaters, seabirds that forage hundreds of kilometers into the North Atlantic, experience a form of jet lag from crossing time zones during these trips. Because the birds rely on the sun's position combined with an internal clock to navigate, a desynchronized clock measurably distorts their compass heading on the way home.
Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun's AI system completed an engineering verification task in under half a day for less than $500, a job that previously took three experts five months. The work, used to verify part of Signal's encryption code, underpins the public launch of startup &Truth, which Sun joined in August and which has raised $70 million. Rival Harmonic, backed by $295 million and cofounded by Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev, this week said its AI agent Aristotle can now verify software in C and hardware designs in Verilog, and is testing with firms including Tensordyne and Nvidia's venture arm.
Even Realities has released a tortoiseshell-inspired 'Brown 2' color for its Even G2 smart glasses, made through a 20-hour shaping and polishing process so each pair's pattern varies slightly. The company also launched Polarized Sun Clips and a stainless steel Chain as add-on accessories. The Brown 2 glasses cost $649, with the Sun Clips priced at $149 and the Chain at $79, all available globally.
Paul Tyma, then a Ph.D. student at Syracuse University, recounts receiving an unexpected 1996 phone call from journalist Bob Cringely, who claimed Tyma's Java programming book was the best of several he'd read. Tyma says the book led to conference teaching invites and later to a Java training company he co-founded with a friend.
Reports indicate Tim Burton may direct a film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel 'Klara and the Sun' following his work on 'Wednesday'. The project is said to feature 'Wednesday' star Jenna Ortega, with Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning novel serving as the source material.
New research models how the Sun's eventual transformation into a red giant and loss of mass will loosen its gravitational grip, potentially destabilizing the orbits of outer solar system bodies much sooner than previous estimates suggested. The findings indicate that as the Sun sheds mass, gravitational interactions between surviving planets could trigger chaotic orbital shifts.
Companies in the $64 billion functional beverage industry are reformulating adult-oriented products—those built around electrolytes and better-for-you ingredients—into versions marketed to Gen Alpha children. The shift moves away from traditional sugary kids' drinks like Hi-C, Kool-Aid, and Capri Sun toward healthier-positioned alternatives.
New research finds that slow earthquakes, subtle fault movements that can precede larger seismic events, are often triggered when gravitational pulls from the sun and moon align with fault stress. Researchers describe the tidal effect as similar in force to a light hand push, but say its timing can be enough to nudge a fault into slipping.