Timothée Chalamet embodies a ping pong player that will stop at nothing to win.
A pair of Search Engine episodes from Sruthi Pinnamaneni gets at the most physical part of the AI hype cycle: the data center. Reporting from “Data Center Alley” and Memphis, TN — home of Elon Musk’s Colossus — Pinnamaneni reveals how these massive infrastructure works get sold to communities, built by communities, and ultimately, what they will cost those communities.
An interview with director Ira Sachs on his excellent new film, Peter Hujar’s Day.
At Wired, Zoë Schiffer (a Verge alum) talked to Cybertruck owners about life with Elon Musk’s controversial car. Somehow, the quotes in this story are even more ridiculous than the photos.
This weekend, you can see a 4K restoration at select cinemas around the US. I revisited the film a couple years ago when it was on the Criterion Channel and guess what? The movie that inspired the Hunger Games, Fortnite, and countless other “battle royales” still holds up. It should still look awesome on a big screen, too.
Earlier this year, I published my second book, Mỹ Documents. It’s a work of fiction but Verge readers will recognize a lot of things we’ve covered here: the Department of Homeland Security, the legacy of the Vietnam War, and how Google has warped the incentives of the internet. If you want to know more about a novel full of Verge themes (should my next book be about a morally bankrupt FCC chairman?), you can see me talking about it with Ronny Chieng on The Daily Show. Clip below!
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Every Sunday, you can watch seven uninterrupted hours of NFL football via RedZone, a program that cuts to the every game that features a team within scoring distance. Not only could you get a glimpse at out-of-market matchups but RedZone also cut away during ad breaks, sparing you from spots hawking beer, gambling, and insurance.
But yesterday, the host Scott Hanson confirmed that this season, RedZone will feature ads of its own. “We are not going to sacrifice any great football for the business side of things,” Hanson said on a podcast, after describing how the show would sacrifice great football for the business side of things.
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is rallying various agencies to fight wind power — including Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s health and human services, which historically has had nothing to do with offshore wind farms. The reasoning? A conspiracy theory that wind turbines emit electromagnetic fields that could harm human beings.
Last week, we published Gabriella Burnham’s investigation into the controversy behind Vineyard Wind. She suggested that Nantucket’s debate over wind power represented a microcosm of its future in the US. With Trump’s aggressive moves against sustainable energy, Gabriella’s prediction is looking more and more correct.
According to Sportico, ESPN’s moible app will launch an algorithmic feed featuring sports highlights, user-generated content, and clips of Sportscenter. Basically, they’re the latest network to take a move out of the TikTok playbook. The public beta starts this Thursday.
404 Media has been on top of the privacy nightmare of Tea, an app that sought to make dating safer for women by sharing “red flags” but has instead been a leaky source of its users’ personal data. A new investigation by 404’s Emanuel Maiberg goes behind the scenes how the app tried to hijack the Are We Dating the Same Guy? Facebook group to goose its community numbers.
