Climate change: Course developed for people with learning disabilities

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent every Friday from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they’re going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. For the past week, I’ve been thinking about the fact that Oura has gone to Washington. The Oura…

Thames Water has been given a one star rating for its poor environmental performance by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2024, as part of a scathing assessment of England’s water companies. All but one of the nine English water and sewerage companies were rated as “requiring improvement” – or worse – by the EA, in…

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite system is set to be used to improve farmers’ broadband connections during a pilot scheme. Lincolnshire County Council said it wanted to purchase and install Starlink facilities for so-called “not spot” properties that do not have access to fibre broadband. The council owns a County Farms Estate, comprising about 16,500 acres…

Another first-party Xbox game is making the leap to PlayStation 5. This time around, Obsidian’s Avowed — one of our favorite games of last year — is crossing the great divide. The fantasy action RPG will hit Sony’s console on February 17, one day shy of the game’s first anniversary. As it happens, an anniversary…

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