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Photo by Andrew Hawkins / The Verge General Motors announced the delay of production of its upcoming slate of electric vehicles, including the Chevy Equinox EV, Chevy Silverado EV, and GMC Sierra Denali EV. The news comes amid a broader environment in which EV demand is softening and prices are dropping, even as sales continue to grow year over year.The delay in production of just a few months" is intended to protect pricing and enhance viability, GM CEO Mary Barra said. The adjustments will make the trucks more efficient and less expensive to produce, and therefore more profitable" in the future.GM is also pulling its near-term targets for EV sales in a nod to slower-than-expected demand growth. The company had said it would sell 400,000 EVs in North America from... Continue reading...

Mahershala Ali as G.H. and Myha'la as Ruth. | Image: Netflix Most people like to think of themselves as having some sort of game plan ready in the event that apocalyptic things start going down. But in the new trailer for Netflix's upcoming film Leave the World Behind, from director Sam Esmail, a lack of planning seems to be a big part of what has everyone running scared.Based on Rumaan Alam's 2020 novel by the same name, Leave the World Behind tells the story of two families who unexpectedly find their fates intertwined just as a massive blackout shuts down most of the Eastern Seaboard's power grid. When Amanda (Julia Roberts) and her husband Clay (Ethan Hawke) rent a house in Long Island, they assume they'll be able to get out of the city for a much-needed quiet weekend vacation with their... Continue reading...

Image: Crunchyroll If you're a Prime Video subscriber, beginning today, you can start streaming Crunchyroll, the popular anime service, right from inside the Prime Video app. The companies have announced a global distribution agreement that allows Amazon to offer Crunchyroll as one of its Prime Video Channels. Prime Video Channels are optional add-on services that come at an extra monthly cost. But there's a convenience aspect in that Amazon handles all billing, and more importantly, you can watch these channels directly inside Prime Video without having to hop between numerous entertainment apps.In the case of Crunchyroll, that's a good thing, as its app available for smart TV and set-top platforms can be buggy and annoying to navigate. Now, you can skip... Continue reading...

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge PimEyes, a public search engine that uses facial recognition to match online photos of people, has banned searches of minors over concerns it endangers children, reports The New York Times.At least, it should. PimEyes' new detection system, which uses age detection AI to identify whether the person is a child, is still very much a work in progress. After testing it, The New York Times found it struggles to identify children photographed at certain angles. The AI also doesn't always accurately detect teenagers.PimEyes chief executive Giorgi Gobronidze says he'd been planning on implementing such a protection mechanism since 2021. However, the feature was only fully deployed after New York Times writer Kashmir Hill published an article... Continue reading...

Image: Square Enix Earlier this year, Final Fantasy XIV fans were treated to a first look at the next expansion, Dawntrail. Over the weekend, during the London leg of the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival event, Square Enix shared a bit more detail about the expansion, including a new trailer revealing the newest class: Viper.Viper will be a melee DPS class that seems similar to the Ninja class already present in the game. Vipers will dual-wield swords that can be fused together into one big sword for more damage a la Zidane from Final Fantasy IX. (Remember his Butterfly Sword?) As is tradition, the Viper was introduced by game producer Naoki Yoshida dressed up as the class, and as also is tradition, the look was pretty damn cool.(Eat your heart out, Todd... Continue reading...

Here's a Ram truck at CES 2018. | Image: Sean O'Kane / The Verge Stellantis - the gigantic international automotive conglomerate that owns everything from Jeep to Ram to Alfa Romeo and Opel - has canceled its plans for CES 2024, we are told via a short press release. The company blames the current United Auto Workers (UAW) strikes, which today expanded to include 6,800 workers at the factory that makes Ram 1500 trucks, which is the largest Stellantis factory in the United States. Stellantis has the worst proposal on the table regarding wage progression, temporary worker pay and conversion to full-time, cost-of-living adjustments (COLA), and more," the UAW said in a statement to Axios.As the costs of the ongoing UAW strikes against Stellantis continue to mount, the Company has decided to cancel its... Continue reading...

Image: Marvel / Wizards of the Coast The great IP crossover experiment continues with Marvel showing up in yet another place you don't typically expect Marvel to be. Today, Wizards of the Coast announced that Marvel's bringing its iconic (and inescapable) heroes to Magic: The Gathering with new collectible products and tentpole sets" that will hit your Local Game Store in 2025.Crossovers are not new to Magic: The Gathering. It just launched the card game's Doctor Who-themed Commander set. Earlier this year, Magic released a Lord of the Rings set (complete with its own One Ring bonanza that caught the attention of prolific Magic collector Post Malone). Throughout the years, Magic has released tons of smaller, collectible sets based on everything from My Little Pony to Bob... Continue reading...

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Nvidia is rumored to be preparing Super versions of some of its RTX 40-series cards, including an RTX 4080 Super with 20GB of memory. VideoCardz reports that hardware leakers have been teasing out information about possible RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Super cards recently, with reliable hardware leaker kopite7kimi backing up the claims.Nvidia canceled a 12GB variant of the RTX 4080 a year ago before announcing it as the RTX 4070 Ti at CES earlier this year. Now, the company might be preparing a 20GB variant of the RTX 4080 with the Super moniker that we haven't seen since the RTX 20 series. Nvidia is also rumored to be working on an RTX 4070 Super, too.The new RTX 40-series Super GPUs might have a higher memory busBoth RTX 40-series Super... Continue reading...

Image: Netflix The first music video from Heartsteel, Riot Games' new virtual boy band starring characters from League of Legends, is here.The video, for the band's first song, Paranoia," has a slick look that harkens back to the awesome art style of Arcane, Netflix's animated series set in the League of Legends universe. While a second season for that show in the works, it's not set to release until Q4 2024, so this new video will have to tide you over for now. It helps that the song is pretty catchy. (You can hear it on music streaming services, too.)Heartsteel is just one of many virtual League bands, a roster that already includes K-pop group K/DA, Pentakill (heavy metal), and hip-hop group True Damage. Riot collaborates with real-life artists... Continue reading...

Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The VergeArt by Junji ItoOriginal story by Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama It's been an interesting year for fans of Junji Ito. 2023 will be bookended by animated adaptations of the famed horror master's work; it started with Netflix's anthology in January, while Adult Swim's take on Uzumaki is expected by the end of the year. And right in the middle is a new collection of his work in English with Mimi's Tales of Terror. It's a series of short stories inspired by urban legends - just the thing for dark, cold October nights.The book is actually an adaptation itself, taking nine stories from Shin Mimibukuro - a collection of Japanese urban legends written by Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama - and turning them into Ito's particular brand of horror manga. They follow the story of a university student named... Continue reading...

Level Lock has launched a new Wi-Fi bridge for its invisible" smart locks that pack all their tech into the deadbolt. But apparently, there's no room in there for Matter or Thread. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge On October 16th, smart lock maker Level announced a new Wi-Fi bridge for its locks to enable remote access and integrations with smart home technology platforms," including Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Welcome to 2015, Level.Let's back up. In November 2022, Level revealed that all its locks had Thread-capable radios, were compatible with Matter, and that they would soon be updated to support the standard. That hasn't happened yet. Instead, Level has released the Level Connect, a $79 Wi-Fi bridge that plugs into an outlet and acts as a bridge between its lock's Bluetooth radio and your internet router, so it can be controlled remotely and work with cloud-enabled smart home platforms.Why is Level resorting to the old ways when it... Continue reading...

Until we get some official stills of Amazon's Fallout series, we'll have to rely on games like Fallout 4 (pictured) to get us in the mood. | Image: Bethesda / The Verge Amazon has yet to release a public trailer for its highly anticipated Fallout series, but at least we now know when it'll arrive on our TV screens. The streaming giant has revealed that Fallout - a live-action adaptation of Bethesda's popular RPG video game franchise - will premiere on April 12th, 2024, exclusively via Prime Video.The announcement was made on October 23rd, otherwise known to Fallout fans as Fallout Day" - the in-game date that marks the beginning of the Great War that turns the world into an irradiated nuclear wasteland. Bethesda's executive producer and game director Todd Howard is an executive producer on the series, which stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Hateful Eight), Aaron Moten (E... Continue reading...

The social future is more open and connected -but what are you supposed to do with it? | Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge The platform era is ending. Rather than build new Twitters and Facebooks, we can create a stuff-posting system that works better for everybody. Continue reading...

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The US Department of Justice (DOJ) is investigating the range of Tesla's electric vehicles after reports surfaced that the company was relying on exaggerated numbers.In documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Tesla said that it had received requests for information, including subpoenas from the DOJ, regarding certain matters associated with personal benefits, related parties, vehicle range and personnel decisions."Customers were incensed that their Tesla vehicles were falling well short of the advertised rangeEarlier this year, Reuters reported that Tesla had received so many customer complaints about range that it created a special diversion team" to cancel their service appointments. Customers were incensed... Continue reading...

New device types, including robot vacuums, smoke alarms, washing machines and refrigerators are coming to Matter. | Photo Illustration by Cath Virginia / The Verge One year in, and Matter is adding support for fridges, robot vacuums, smoke alarms, and more. It's a major step toward a complete smart home, but success hinges on platform and manufacturer follow-through. Continue reading...

Metal Gear Solid 3 protagonist Naked Snake." | Image: Konami It's hard to fault the breadth of content Konami has included in its tantalizingly-named Vol. 1' collection. Just don't go in expecting many modern upgrades to these decades-old titles. Continue reading...

Courtesy of the Toronto International Film Festival Director Ali Kalthami's debut feature film, Mandoob, takes a fascinating look into the world of Saudi Arabia's rideshare and delivery drivers. Continue reading...

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Twitch will now let its creators simultaneously stream across any live streaming service, the company announced on Friday as part of a big batch of news from TwitchCon. Previously, streamers could simulcast on mobile platforms like TikTok and Instagram, but as of Friday, Twitch is significantly broadening where streamers can simultaneously go live. (Well, assuming the streamers don't have a Twitch exclusivity agreement in place.)As of late, some Twitch streamers have been exploring options on other platforms. Big names like xQc, Amouranth, and Nickmercs have signed major deals with Twitch competitor Kick this year; xQc's and Nickmercs' deals are non-exclusive, and given that Amouranth has a video on her Twitch account from a couple... Continue reading...

Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge's newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more.Well, this is a weird email to write - today is technically my last day at Hot Pod. But you'll still see my byline around from time to time because I'm joining The Verge's news team in November. Starting next week, the newsletter will entirely be back in the very capable hands of lead Hot Pod reporter Ariel Shapiro. Although I'm sad to leave, I'm also really excited to see her take the reins again and continue to churn out the coverage that Hot Pod is known for.It's probably not a surprise to most of you that I knew very little about podcasts before taking this job back in April - a time that also coincided with some seismic changes... Continue reading...

Illustration: Beatrice Sala Here's where we'll keep track of late-in-the-week news companies really wish you wouldn't read. Continue reading...