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[ad_1] The Elon attrition is real. “Hundreds of Twitter employees have fled since June,” according to Insider’s sources. That’s just over a month after Twitter agreed to sell the company to Musk — or, about as long as it’d take a highly qualified engineer to find a new job. The company is down about 700 employees, according to the report, More...

Tesla Megapack battery fire is ‘fully controlled,’ shelter-in-place advisory lifted
[ad_1] Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A Tesla Megapack battery caught fire this morning at the local utility company PG&E’s Elkhorn Battery Storage facility in Monterey County, California, More...

Netflix’s new Sonic show will be released this winter
[ad_1] Image: Netflix Sonic Prime, Netflix’s upcoming animated series about Sega’s speedy blue blur, will be released sometime in “winter 2022,” according to a new teaser trailer for the show released More...

Microsoft eased up on one DRM hurdle for disc games on Xbox
[ad_1] Put a disc in and play. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft is making it easier to play games on your Xbox Series X, even if it’s offline — as of the 2208 update released earlier this More...

Diablo IV test build leaks with 43 minutes of gameplay footage
[ad_1] Apple has a Will Smith problem. The New York Times reporting on the lose-lose situation at Apple over the release of Emancipation, a $120 million Civil War drama starring Will Smith that finished filming More...

Tom Brady just chucked another Microsoft Surface tablet
[ad_1] Touchdown! Tom Brady might as well have been practicing his touchdown spike when he whipped a Microsoft Surface tablet into the ground during the Tampa Bay Buccaneers game against the Saints on Sunday More...

Base iPhone 15 models could come with the Dynamic Island
[ad_1] Apple has a Will Smith problem. The New York Times reporting on the lose-lose situation at Apple over the release of Emancipation, a $120 million Civil War drama starring Will Smith that finished filming More...

Elden Ring is getting its own board game
[ad_1] Developers are already spicing up the iPhone 14’s Dynamic Island in ways I didn’t expect. One developer, Kriss Smolka created a Pong-style game, called Hit the Island, that challenges you to bounce More...

I use an RGB mouse pad in the office and I’m not ashamed
[ad_1] Recently, The Verge’s reviews team has been making an effort to get rid of some of the ancient products we have lying around our office. We have donated or thrown away some truly prehistoric gadgets. More...

Apple is too strict with copy and paste in iOS 16
[ad_1] Where’s my “always allow” option, Apple? | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge In my time using iOS 16 so far, I’ve generally been very pleased with the new features and improvements. The customizable More...