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The most exciting laptop I’ve seen in forever

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 125, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, send me cereal recommendations, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading about NASA seamstresses and friction and Muskism and scooters, highlighting […]

Porsche built one of the best electric SUVs ever made, and does not expect the world to buy enough of them


Summary: Porsche unveiled the Cayenne Coupe Electric at Auto China in Beijing, a 1,139 hp electric SUV that does 0-60 in 2.4 seconds with up to 669 km WLTP range and 16-minute fast charging, starting at $113,800. It launches during the worst financial year in Porsche’s history, a 93% operating profit decline, a first-ever quarterly […]



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The Stanford professor behind an FDA-cleared cardiac AI wants $1 billion for his next company


Summary: Stanford professor James Zou is reportedly raising approximately $100 million at a valuation targeting $1 billion for a startup called Human Intelligence that applies AI to research on the human body, according to Bloomberg. Zou’s research includes an FDA-cleared cardiac AI (EchoNet), a Nature-published Virtual Lab that designed novel nanobodies, and a Virtual Biotech […]



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Sega Game Gear at 35: Switch and Steam Deck might not exist without this flop

Sega's Game Gear handheld launched 35 years ago in North America, and it changed the history of handheld gaming

Meta signs multibillion-dollar deal for Amazon Graviton5 chips as AI compute demand outstrips $135B capex budget


Summary: Meta signed a multibillion-dollar, multi-year deal to deploy tens of millions of Amazon’s Graviton5 ARM CPU cores in AWS data centres for agentic AI workloads. The chips are general-purpose processors, not AI accelerators, handling the CPU-intensive inference and orchestration tasks behind real-time reasoning and multi-step agents. The deal is one piece of a procurement […]



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