Weekend Editor
Wes Davis holds down The Verge on weekends, reporting on everything tech and entertainment under the sun. He loves fixing what is (and ain’t) broke with gadgetry and smart home tech, and came to The Verge from the freelance Wi-Fi router review world.
When he’s not writing tech news, Wes is cycling (transportation, not racing), gaming, or recording music nobody should listen to. You can find him most places under the username "blunderchief."
The Optimus robots at Tesla’s Cybercab event were humans in disguise
Behind-the-scenes human assistance meant the We, Robot event said little about how far its Optimus humanoid robots have come.
That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who writes today that he is “certain these machines are the real deal.” The machines from last week’s leaks seem to be base model M4 MacBook Pros with 16GB of memory and 10-core CPUs and GPUs, he adds.
Apple is expected to announce the laptops along with a smaller Mac Mini, a refreshed iPad Mini, and more soon.
The “catch” marks SpaceX’s first successful touchdown of Starship’s booster back at its launch site in South Texas.
Starship launched about 25 minutes later than planned, at about 8:25AM ET, as SpaceX needed to clear its range of boats.
You can catch the livestream on SpaceX’s website, its X account, or the X TV app.
