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The hubless electric motorcycle with sci-fi style and a great name

Verge Motorcycles’ 360-degree sensors could make the wild TS Ultra safer than anything else on two wheels.

UK regulators likely to decide on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal next week.

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is expected to issue a preliminary decision on Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard deal next week, a source familiar with the situation tells The Verge. It follows Microsoft restructuring its deal — after the CMA blocked it over cloud gaming concerns — to transfer cloud gaming rights for current and new Activision Blizzard games to Ubisoft.

This preliminary decision will then be followed by a final one, due by October 18th. The UK is the final regulatory hurdle for Microsoft’s giant deal.


Activision Blizzard wordmark over an Xbox logo
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge

Framework Laptop 16: our exclusive hands-on

We upgraded a laptop GPU with a snap — and six screws.

A moonshot for infrastructure

The Biden administration is requesting funding for a program called ARPA-I, a ‘skunkworks’-style R&D project for infrastructure. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg says the goal is to design things ‘we can’t even imagine today.’