Tiny EV maker ElectraMeccanica pulls the plug on its exit plan
ElectraMeccanica, former maker of three-wheeled electric vehicles, said on Wednesday that it has “terminated” its plan to merge with Tevva, which makes hydrogen-electric trucks (not sandals). ElectraMeccanica said its board decided unanimously to bin the deal over “multiple incurable breaches of the agreement by Tevva.” The alleged breaches include “failures
Read moreIs Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense even trying to win?
Even the defense’s opening statement was a bad look for Sam Bankman-Fried | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge The prosecution came out swinging. Oddly, Bankman-Fried’s defense didn’t. I have never seen Sam Bankman-Fried so still as he was during the prosecution’s opening statement. The characteristic leg-jiggling was
Read moreBird lays off staff after Spin acquisition to reduce redundancies
Bird, the shared micromobility company that was delisted from the New York Stock Exchange last week, is issuing another round of layoffs, according to an email interim CEO Michael Washinushi sent to the company. TechCrunch has viewed the email. TechCrunch has been unable to confirm the number of people affected
Read moreX stops showing headlines because Elon Musk thinks it will make posts look better
Illustration: The Verge X, formerly Twitter, is no longer showing headlines on articles shared on the platform. Instead, X is only showing the article’s lead image and the domain it will link you to. The change is present on the iOS app for myself and another Verge staffer. You can
Read moreLemniscate functions
In the previous post I said that you could define the inverse sine as the function that gives the arc length along a circle, then define sine to be the inverse of the inverse sine. The purpose of such a backward definition is that it generalizes to other curves besides
Read morePatreon launches new features, a redesigned app and a new look
Patreon is launching new features, a redesigned app and a new brand identity, the company announced on Wednesday. In a blog post, the company explained that the changes are about “giving creators even more,” noting that Patreon is “no longer just a paid membership company.” One of the most notable
Read moreMicrosoft won’t say if its products were exploited by spyware zero-days
Microsoft has released patches to fix zero-day vulnerabilities in two popular open-source libraries that affect several Microsoft products, including Skype, Teams, and its Edge browser. But Microsoft won’t say if those zero-days were exploited to target its products, or if the company knows either way. The two vulnerabilities — known
Read moreCRM company left millions of files unprotected, says researcher
Another example of what looks like an employee-generated configuration error exposed three million corporate and customer records of a software company to anyone who could find it on the internet. According to security researcher Jeremiah Fowler, who discovered the database in August, the company is Really Simple Systems — now
Read moreWalmart experiments with generative AI tools that can help you plan a party or decorate
After launching a generative AI tool for corporate employees in August, Walmart is bringing the technology to its customers. During a demo with TechCrunch, a company spokesperson outlined how the retail giant is experimenting with generative AI to help shoppers in all stages of the shopping experience, from the search
Read moreWhat’s at stake in the Supreme Court’s landmark social media case
The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether a pair of state laws are allowed to reshape the ability of social media companies to control what does — and doesn’t — appear on their platforms. Last week, the Supreme Court decided that it would hear the pair of cases, which
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