The Pebble’s creator demos his new smartwatch

Eric Migicovsky demonstrates one of the first Core 2 Duo smartwatches from the factory where they’re being manufactured. | Screenshot: YouTube After announcing a new company called Core Devices and a pair of new smartwatches running the now open-source PebbleOS, the Pebble’s creator, Eric Migicovsky, has launched a podcast. In the first episode of Tick…

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Meta’s AI app is a nightmarish social feed

If you took Pinterest, mashed it together with everything annoying about Threads, and sprinkled generative AI prompts on top – that’d pretty much sum up the newly launched Meta AI site’s social feed. So far, prompting AI chatbots – those are the questions or requests you make – has primarily been a private affair. You…

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Waymo says it will add 2,000 more robotaxis in 2026

A Waymo robotaxi being assembled at the company’s factory in Mesa, Arizona. | Image: Waymo Waymo said it recently received its last delivery of Jaguar I-Pace SUVs, which will be retrofitted with sensors and autonomous driving technology at its factory in Arizona, before joining its robotaxi fleet. In a blog post published today, the Alphabet…

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX gets a company town in Texas

Residents near Boca Chica Beach in Texas have voted to become a city called Starbase. | Photo by GABRIEL CARDENAS/AFP via Getty Images<br> South Texas voters mostly employed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX have approved a measure to incorporate as Starbase, a new city in Texas’ Cameron County near the company’s Boca Chica Beach launch site…

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A worthy sequel to one of the best websites ever

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 81, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, happy Finally Feels Like Summer Week to at least everyone who lives near me, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been reading…

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