Three days at the mappiest event of the year surfaced the trends redefining geospatial engineering: serverless map stacks, AI-drafted data, and human-in-the-loop authorship at planet scale. From June 11 to 13, Madison, Wisconsin was the center of the mapping universe. Leading geospatial companies and independent mappers packed a hotel a block from the State Capitol … Read more
Over 12 terabytes of data, containing builds of every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013, has been leaked. We don’t know everything in the archives yet because of its massive size. But people have already dug up assets related to the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, content cut from Portal 2, and a … Read more
The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.
Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it’s a bet on a fuel source that’s already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others’) turbines have gone in.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope blasts off. | Photo: NASA / John Kraus After funding struggles and a name change, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has been successfully launched. It will now make a three-month, one-million-mile journey to its orbit at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L2) beyond the Moon. From this vantage point, … Read more
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As backlash grows over Flock’s AI surveillance cameras, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has frozen state spending on them. The move came just ahead of the publication of a Texas Tribune investigation that revealed the state spent over $30 million on Flock cameras. That money was primarily raised by tacking a $1 fee onto insurance policies, … Read more
O Coin has one job: to be money people actually use. Not a store of value. Not a bet. A transactional currency for every country, with its reference value tied to something universal: the local price of one liter of potable water. The blockchain measures water prices and observed exchange rates. It then publishes the reference … Read more
Last month, my smart ring told me I was under high stress at 7 pm on a Tuesday. I wasn’t feeling “high stress” at all, instead, I was just running up the stairs because I had forgotten my laptop charger and needed to get to my Zoom meeting in six minutes. The same night, an … Read more
A static-site pipeline that turns chess live-streams into searchable session pages with games, chat replay, transcripts, thumbnails, analytics, and SEO metadata. Livestreams Are Bad Archives Livestreams are great in the moment and surprisingly weak as archives. After a stream ends, the recording usually becomes a long video with a title, a thumbnail, and maybe a … Read more
Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It’s now bringing that experience to AI deployment.
Three characters of JavaScript grant an unauthenticated caller write access to every field in an object, including the ones you add six months later. Here is the primitive, the sink, the CWE argument, and the grep that finds it in your own codebase. I do not spend much time looking for novel bug classes. Most … Read more
1. What we wanted, and how we set it up Every man hauls his own sack of sad experience and regret, and the heaviest sacks belong to those who once stood at the crossroads, weighing whether to start their own software project — and for some reason decided to go ahead with it. It is … Read more
Chess.com has done one thing, and one thing very well, for almost 20 years, but now it’s going beyond its domain name. The biggest name in online chess quietly launched its first companion site in beta back in May: Gambit, a free online poker website where players can learn the game without risking any real … Read more
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Humanoid robot competes in the optional boxing routine event during the 2nd World Humanoid Robot Games at National Speed Skating Oval on August 26, 2026 in Beijing, China. | Image: Getty Images This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on falling robots and the … Read more
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 142, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, how is it almost September already, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I’ve been remembering Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen, absorbing … Read more
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