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Despite headwinds from the current administration, automakers continue to release well-equipped EVs with bigger battery packs and increasingly faster charging speeds. For those who want to travel further between plugging in, the future is still bright, just slightly tinted. But there haven't been many sedans starting around or below $50,000, as crossover SUVs have largely taken up this territory. Now, Mercedes-Benz has released its CLA compact sedan which ticks every box above for the 2026 and 2027 model year, and throws in pleasant interior amenities and fun driving character for good measure. What's inside The CLA w … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/transportation/940387/mercedes-cla-350-ev-review-price-specs

The Kane Parsons' film Backrooms is expected to earn up to $90 million in its opening weekend after pulling down $38 million on Friday alone. That's not only above expectations , but absolutely obliterates A24's previous opening weekend record of $25.5 million for Alex Garland's Civil War . It's also a better opening day than The Mandalorian and Grogu , which only pulled down $33.7 million on its way to a total $81.6 million for the weekend. That also means that Backrooms is an incredibly profitable movie, with an estimated $10 million budget. By comparison, the latest Star Wars disappointment cost $165 million and was considered affordable c … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/940421/backrooms-blockbuster-38-million-opening

Cecil Baldwin is a busy man with some dope boots. | Image: Cecil Baldwin Cecil Baldwin's résumé includes appearances on Gravity Falls , narrating the documentary Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Stree t , and performing as part of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company. But he is best known as the host of the podcast Welcome to Night Vale , a long-running fiction show that blends macabre Lovecraftian horror with absurdist comedy. As Cecil Palmer, the voice of Night Vale Community Radio, Baldwin keeps the people of the titular town abreast of all the goings ons with the Faceless Old Woman Who Secretly Lives in Your Home and offers tips on how to best maintain their Bloodstone circles. He also cohosts Random Nu … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/entertainment/939930/welcome-to-night-vale-host-cecil-baldwin-shares-his-tech-pet-peeves

This week, an AI training startup called Shift said it would clean New Yorkers' homes for free . It has plans to expand into other cities as well, including London, and looking around my flat, I get the appeal. But there's a catch. There's always a catch. In exchange for the cleaning, Shift wants footage of its cleaners at work: scrubbing dishes, wiping counters, dusting tables, mopping floors. It wants everything. Video of all the boring domestic labor we'd happily outsource if we could - and that robotics companies are racing to teach machines to do so they can sell us something to do it for us. That's harder than it sounds. Unlike cha … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/940007/ai-companies-will-pay-for-robot-training-data

High school graduation is a time of change that might be felt more deeply by family members than by the grads themselves. While some grads may immediately embark on a career path, many continue their education and delve deeper into their studies at college. Either way, they'll be taking on more responsibility, meaning it's up to friends and relatives to figure out how to support them. Support comes in many forms, but a gift or two certainly won't hurt. Luckily, we've compiled a host of Verge -approved gift ideas spanning a wide array of interests and price points. They'll think of you when they grab their AirPods 4 to tune out distractions w … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/932602/best-high-school-graduation-gift-ideas

I pondered the other day what's next for Microsoft's Surface PC lineup , and it looks like we're about to find out. Windows and Surface chief Pavan Davuluri has just teased "something new is coming for developers," complete with a mysterious image of what looks like a curved display edge. Davuluri notes that whatever is coming is "not a new OS version," so that rules out the potential for Windows 12 to be announced at Microsoft's Build developer conference next week. Separately, the Windows account on X posted a similar cryptic tweet, promising "a new era of PC" with coordinates pointing to where Computex is hosted in Taipei. Something new … Read the full story at The Verge. source https://www.theverge.com/news/939960/microsoft-computex-teaser-surface-nvidia-windows-rumors