Kevin Nguyen

When Intuit Dome opened last season, the arena staff assumed only a third of fans would opt-in to scanning, but close to 75 percent of venue attendees enrolled. The Clippers promise they are not using facial recognition — sorry, they call it “facial authentication” — for security purposes.

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.

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!

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.

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.