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Petra Nemcova recalled the “split seconds” before the 2004 tsunami in Thailand changed her life forever. Nemcova, now 45, had been vacationing during the Christmas holiday with her then-boyfriend and photographer Simon Atlee in Thailand when a 9.5-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Indonesia caused the world’s worst tsunami. The supermodel had been packing on…
The Mini 3 won’t cost a fortune to replace if you break it. I’ve been itching to get my hands on an easy-to-use hobbyist drone that I won’t hate myself for eventually breaking. The DJI Mini 3 has been at the top of my list: it hits the mark as a compact drone that you…
Las Vegas is set to host one of the most controversial women’s college volleyball tournaments in the sport’s history this week. This year’s Mountain West Tournament will feature San Jose State trans athlete Blaire Fleming, and multiple teams that have already forfeited to the Spartans this season amid a national controversy over Fleming’s presence. Nevada…
Australian Broadcasting Corporation chairman Kim Williams gave a frank and critical opinion of Joe Rogan on Tuesday, suggesting the podcast host was taking advantage of the American public. When asked to offer his thoughts on Rogan during his address to the Australian National Press Club, Williams admitted that he was not a consumer of “The…
Image: The Verge A new startup created by former Android leaders aims to build an operating system for AI agents. Among them is Hugo Barra, Google’s former VP of Android product management, who says the new company — named “/dev/agents” — will revisit the leaders’ “Android roots.” AI companies are pushing AI agents as the…
Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The US Department of Energy (DOE) thinks AI can speed up the process of connecting new energy projects to the power grid. It announced $30 million in funding now available through its Artificial Intelligence for Interconnection (AI4IX) program. The DOE is interested in fostering partnerships between grid operators…
Transparent’s new wireless speaker was inspired by brutalist architecture. | Image: Transparent The design of Transparent’s latest wireless speaker looks like the complete opposite of the glass-enclosed see-through speakers that helped originally launch the brand. The $4,000 Brutalist speaker is made from aluminum, and although it stands around 23-inches tall in person, without context it…
The Verge Elon Musk’s xAI could soon make its next move to compete with OpenAI: launching a standalone app for its Grok chatbot. Musk created xAI as an alternative to OpenAI, the company he helped found but later distanced himself from over ideological differences. Now, The Wall Street Journal reports, xAI is planning to launch…
Charles Barkley’s weight loss was the brunt of Shaquille O’Neal’s latest quip to his colleague. During Tuesday’s episode of “Inside the NBA,” former NBA guard Jalen Rose brought up how O’Neal told Miami Heat great Alonzo Mourning that he is drinking low-fat milk, which led Barkley to crack a joke about O’Neal. “You already got…
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is faced with a crowded field of candidates vying to fill Vice President-elect JD Vance’s seat in the Senate, but a new poll shows some candidates are going into the battle with an advantage. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose leads fellow candidates in a hypothetical GOP primary for Vance’s…