Dodge puts a price on its first electric muscle car - Technology news - NewsLocker (2024)

2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Scat Pack, two-door version. | Image: Stellantis Dodge has put a price on its first all-electric vehicle, the Charger Daytona, and it won't be cheap for the mean, clean, neighborhood-disturbing machine. The 2024 Daytona two-door models will start at $59,595 for the R/T and $73,190 for the Scat Pack — both excluding a $1,995 destination fee.
Both Daytona models are starting production this summer, and four-door models will be built in the first half of 2025. You c

Democrats push Sam Altman on OpenAI’s safety record

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Rep. Lori Trahan (D-MA) are calling for answers on how OpenAI handles whistleblowers and safety reviews after former employees complained that internal criticism is often stifled.
“Given the discrepancy between your public comments and reports of OpenAI’s actions, we request information about OpenAI’s whistleblower and conflict of interest protections in order to understand whether federal intervention may be necessary,” Warren and Trahan

You can now share 20 slides in one Instagram post

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram is expanding the number of photos and videos that can be added to a single grid post, the company said today.
Each carousel post can now have up to 20 photos or videos. Users could previously add up to 10 pieces of content to each carousel post — something that’s colloquially known as a “photo dump.” The carousel feature was first rolled out to users in 2017.Image: Instagram
Instagram has slowly added more features to the ca

OpenAI Warns Users Could Become Emotionally Hooked on Its Voice Mode

The company has revealed details of AI model safety testing—including concerns about its new anthropomorphic interface.

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Apple’s next Mac Mini could be as small as an Apple TV

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Apple’s smallest Mac is in for some major changes, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.A new version of the Mac Mini coming later this year will undergo the product’s most significant redesign in over a decade. Gurman says “the device will be far smaller than its predecessor, approaching the size of an Apple TV set-top box.” That’s tiny, even if the Mini will likely be taller than Apple’s streamer.The company has been te

The Right Is Still Pushing Election Denial—and Pillows

Ahead of November, far-right election deniers are only getting more organized.

The Right is Still Pushing Election Denial — and Pillows

Ahead of November, far-right election deniers are only getting more organized.

DOJ antitrust chief is ‘overjoyed’ after Google monopoly verdict

Photo illustration by The Verge / Photo by Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images AAG Jonathan Kanter says the Google monopoly verdict belongs on the ‘Mount Rushmore of antitrust.’Continue reading…

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Trek’s electronic bike bell lets you customize how urgent it sounds

Cyclists have quick access to two of eight selectable alert tones. | Image: Trek The quiet ding of many bike bells isn’t always enough to alert pedestrians or vehicles of a cyclist’s presence. Trek’s new BellBeats is a compact Bluetooth speaker that can be mounted to a bike’s handlebars giving cyclists a selection of eight quick access alert tones that are either friendly or urgent.
Like a traditional bike bell, the alert tones on the BellBeats can be triggered while ridi

Intel’s BIOS updates for crashing CPUs are now rolling out

Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge Asus and MSI have both released beta BIOS updates today to address Intel’s crashing 13th and 14th Gen Raptor Lake desktop processors. While the BIOS updates won’t fix CPUs that are already damaged, they include Intel’s new microcode update that should help further address the instability issues.
If it works well, this could be a very big deal for Intel, which lost some of its reputation after its flagship chips were found to crash earlier this ye

Saluting the Chromecast, one of the great HDMI dongles

The Chromecast, in The Verge’s first review. | Image: The Verge When I was still a starry-eyed 20-something living with my then-fiancée, the only way I could stream video on my TV was through its HDMI ports and my laptop. This had served me well for years — and still does, when I’m desperate — but dealing with the setup was cumbersome.
Then came the original Chromecast in 2013, and it was a revelation. Suddenly, I had this tiny black stick, shaped like an oversized

Kia and Hyundai’s antitheft software update seems to be working

Image: Getty Images The Kia Boys may have met their match.A software update that first rolled out last year to owners of Hyundai and Kia vehicles without electronic immobilizers has cut theft rates by more than half, according to a new analysis from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI).The automakers first began implementing the update in February 2023 in response to a wave of car thefts that started during the covid pandemic, when instructional videos on how to steal the cars first started go

USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

The Smishing Triad network sends up to 100,000 scam texts per day globally. One of those messages went to Grant Smith, who infiltrated their systems and exposed them to US authorities.

Social media platforms warned against inciting violence by UK regulator

Anti-immigration protests have quickly escalated into violent riots across the UK, spurred in part by misinformation spread via online platforms. | Photo by Christopher Furlong / Getty Images The UK communications regulator Ofcom has raised concerns regarding social media being used to incite violence amid far-right riots across the country. In an open letter, Ofcom’s online safety director, Gill Whitehead, urged online platforms to tackle the potential spread of harmful materials related

Social media firms warned against inciting violence by UK regulator

Anti-migration protests have quickly escalated into violent riots across the UK, spurred in part by misinformation spread via online platforms. | Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images The UK’s communications regulator Ofcom has raised concerns regarding social media being used to incite violence amid far-right riots across the country. In an open letter, Ofcom’s online safety director Gill Whitehead urged online platforms to tackle the potential spread of harmful materials relate

Apple’s last-gen iPad has dropped to $229 for a limited time

Two words: headphone jack. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Although Apple’s tablet lineup has undergone several shakeups over the last several years, we long considered the ninth-gen iPad to be the best budget iPad you could get. That changed when Apple dropped the price of the 10th-gen iPad to a more sensible $349 and discontinued its entry-level model. But the 2021 iPad remains a perfectly good slate, especially now that the base model with 64GB of storage is down to an all-time low o

Lexar’s new SSD expands the iPhone’s storage without monopolizing its USB-C port

Mobile filmmakers can boost their smartphone’s storage capacity by up to 2TB. | Image: Lexar A terabyte of storage can disappear quickly when you’re capturing 4K footage on an iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max. Lexar’s new Professional Go Portable SSD with Hub not only adds up to an extra 2TB of storage, but it also enables ProRes video captures at 60fps while giving mobile filmmakers a few extra USB-C ports for attaching other accessories.
Lexar’s external storage solution def

Rivian and Lucid are still burning a lot of cash, but thankfully, they have rich backers

Image: Getty This week’s earnings reports make two things clear about the viability of the electric vehicle future: EV-only companies are continuing to struggle and lose lots of money, and having wealthy investors who are willing to pour money into your money-losing operation is the difference between survival and bankruptcy.Two of the big US-based EV-only companies — Rivian and Lucid — reported their second quarter earnings this week. Lo and behold, there’s still a lot o

Google’s new weather app has leaked ahead of the Pixel 9 launch

Image: Google Google is expected to launch a new weather app alongside the Pixel 9 — but you don’t have to wait to try it out. As highlighted by 9to5Google and Android Authority, the Weather app is now on APKMirror, where you can sideload it on devices running Android 14 or newer.
Based on some of the screenshots posted online, it looks like the Pixel Weather app will offer a clean look at your hourly and 10-day forecast, along with other handy measurements like wind speed, visibilit

6 Best Mattresses for Back Pain, Tested and Reviewed (2024)

Struggling with back pain while you sleep, or when you wake up in the morning? These mattresses can help with that.

TikTok adds in-app hubs for videos about movies and TV shows

Image: The Verge TikTok will now create in-app hubs for movies and TV shows and place them directly on fan-made videos. The feature, called TikTok Spotlight, will automatically add links to “applicable” videos on the platform, leading to landing pages that provide more information about the relevant title as well as options to buy tickets or watch it on a streaming service.
The links will show up in the bottom-left corner of a creator’s video, and users can tap in to view a lan

This Scuf controller looks even cooler than Microsoft’s Elite and is $84 off

For a camouflage-style pattern, it’s far from the most try-hard. | Image: Corsair I’m rarely a sucker for camouflage-print anything, but put it on a game controller and turn it black-and-white and suddenly it warms my heart — especially if it’s a solid deal. That’s just the case with this custom Scuf Instinct Pro controller in a black tiger camo finish, which is on a clearance sale at Best Buy for $155.99 ($84 off).The Instinct Pro is an excellent step-up controller

The 30 Best Energy Drinks, Tested and Reviewed

The future is here, and it is jacked up on B vitamins, red dye, and taurine. These are the best energy drinks to get from tired to wired.

You can stack and sync up to 300 of Nanoleaf’s new color-changing display cases

You can fill an entire wall with Nanoleaf’s new glowing display cases, which simply need to stack to connect to each other. | Image: Nanoleaf Nanoleaf’s new Expo Smart Display Cases are an eye-catching way to make a carefully curated collection the focus of any room. Each case features diffused color-changing LED lighting, and multiple cases can be stacked to create a larger display with colors and animated lighting that syncs across hundreds of cases. They’re available now ind

Good Luck Selling Your AI Startup

This week, we talk about the current trend of Big Tech acqui-hiring key talent from smaller AI companies.

The Benefits of Ozempic Are Multiplying

There’s mounting evidence that GLP-1 drugs have health benefits beyond diabetes and weight loss, for conditions ranging from addiction to Parkinson’s—and scientists are evolving theories of why.

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

Hacker Samy Kamkar is debuting his own open source version of a laser microphone—a spy tool that can invisibly pick up the sounds inside your home through a window, and even the text you’re typing.

Meta and Google secretly targeted minors on YouTube with Instagram ads

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images Meta and Google teamed up to run a secret campaign that deliberately targeted 13 to 17-year-olds with Instagram ads on YouTube according to the Financial Times, breaking the search giant’s own rules against advertising to children.
The publication reports that Google directed ads to a subset of users labeled as “unknown” in its advertising systems, in an attempt to disguise the group skewed toward teenagers. According to a Go

Generative AI Has a "Shoplifting" Problem. This Startup CEO Has a Plan to Fix It

Bill Gross’ ProRata, which has struck deals with partners like Time and Universal Music Group, has a strategy for making AI powerhouses pay for content.

The Trump Campaign Is All In on Dude-Bro Politics

While Tim Walz models a traditional yet empathetic masculinity and White Dudes for Harris raise millions, Donald Trump is appearing on fratty streams in an effort to turn out the most reluctant voters.