Source: The Verge Ed Smith still remembers the weeks after Election Day 2020. The elections compliance expert worked for voting technology provider Smartmatic at the time: a mostly low-profile company that had supplied ballot-marking devices to Los Angeles County. As the polls reported their vote counts, though, then-President Donald Trump lost to challenger Joe Biden…

Source: The Verge You just left your house. As you peel out of the driveway and tear down the street in the coolest way possible, your garage door… well, what does it do? The answer’s probably nothing, and that feels like the wrong answer. The smart home was supposed to have fixed this by now….

Source: The Verge Social networking has become more disconnected, to say the least. Two years ago, Elon Musk began transforming Twitter into what is now X, and the ensuing chaos drove a lot of former users elsewhere — elsewhere being several places, including Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon, and even Facebook or Instagram. We were curious as…

Source: The Verge Intel is back, baby. At least for now. The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7i Aura Edition is a fine-looking 15-inch thin-and-light productivity laptop with an AI coprocessor — another entry in an increasingly crowded field. It has most of what you’d expect from a laptop like this: all-day battery life, a nice screen,…