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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the EV company’s secretive robotics startup. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company’s ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to
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Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the Department of Homeland Security, and the tech-right. Days after Ukrainian military drones took down several Russian data centers, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed that the campaign had hurt Russia’s disinformation efforts. “It suddenly became a little easier
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You can get the Nothing Headphone A at a steep discount when you also buy a Charli XCX album. by Brad Bourque Oct 13, 2026, 6:33 PM UTC Brad Bourque is a tech journalist and commerce writer based out of Portland, Oregon. He’s contributed to sites like Digital
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When I was eight, I remember our train to Mumbai ground to a halt with a great noise. When we started moving again, a good eight hours later, someone pointed out a mangled tail, of all things, hanging from a branch close to the tracks. The train, you see, had
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Doug Field has worked on EVs at Ford and Tesla, the not-so-secret car project at Apple, and was employee No. 1 at Segway. Now, the executive is turning his attention to Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s latest project: Mind Robotics. Field has been hired at president of Mind Robotics, an
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Workday Rising is in full swing in Las Vegas this week, as the company Workday sets out its agentic stall to re-imagine work. But for one customer, Flex Credits is proving a significant barrier to deploying agents, one requiring a debate between IT and HR over who’s responsible for
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* The US exported 7,592 military drones, narrowly ahead of Iran's 6,800 * Iran overtook America in 2025 after US deliveries dropped to 402 * Russia received 99% of Iran's exported drones, mostly Shahed-136 attack systems The United States exported the most military drones between 2022 and
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It stars Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel as two new FBI agents that aren't named Mulder and Scully. Hulu has officially picked up Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot, after greenlighting a pilot back in February. Variety reports that Coogler wrote and directed the pilot, fresh off of
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Listening to Apple's new sound features with Siri as our binge-watching companion. Billy Steele for Engadget Apple's "Welcome home" event may have been mostly for the HomeView debut, but the company also announced updated versions of the HomePod mini speaker and Apple TV 4K.
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* The latest Google Play Services update brings four upgrades to Google Wallet * The biggest of these is the ability to scan and store receipts * It also adds an in-app message center, improved merchant names, and a smoother payment process If you have an Android phone then you’re probably already
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Rockets are, infamously, a real pain in the butt. Our old friend physics forces rockets to be built with almost no room for error, and even then only a small fraction of their weight makes it to orbit. There are, at least in theory, other ways to do the job—
