When your mind is busy growing, it often de-prioritizes the work of making said growth apparent to your conscious brain. Here’s how you can spot this invisible growth.
The only way to finally part ways with a deadbeat partner is to acknowledge what’s keeping you stuck in the first place.
Meta will finance Oklo’s purchase of uranium for its reactors. It’s a massive vote of confidence for both the startup and nuclear power, but challenges remain.
Meta has forged agreements with three nuclear power providers in an effort to secure the vast amount of electricity it needs to power AI data centers. The agreements with TerraPower (which is backed by Bill Gates), Oklo (backed by Sam Altman), and Vistra are expected to deliver 6.6 gigawatts of energy for Meta’s projects by […]
In this week’s edition of The Prototype, we look at building a virtual fusion power plant, a major quantum breakthrough, AI for drug discovery and more.
This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest phones, smartwatches, apps, and other gizmos that swear they’re going to change your life. Optimizer arrives in our subscribers’ inboxes at 10AM ET. Opt in for Optimizer here. At CES 2026 this week, people […]
The truths relationships demand are often less comforting than we expect, but more stabilizing in the long-run. But that pain can be meaningful.
Red blood is the exception, not the rule. Evolution has painted it green, purple and white in animals that push physiology far beyond human limits.
One Covid project has paid for itself and then some only five years later. And the benefits go beyond cost of living.
Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.