Roku will keep Fox apps after all, agree to let you stream the Super Bowl

For a moment, it looked Roku owners would be losing the highest-quality way to stream the Super Bowl for free, when the set-top box maker a...

Fingerprints Can Now Be Dated To Within a Day of When They Were Made

Writing in Analytical Chemistry, Paige Hinners and Young Jin Lee of Iowa State University say they have figured out an accurate way to data ...

This Cybertruck-inspired iPhone 11 Pro costs $15K and isn’t made by Tesla or Apple

Phones are rounded rectangles now. Have been for years — ever since the iPhone killed the QWERTY slider dead. They’re getting rounder and ...

Markets blogger Zero Hedge suspended from Twitter after doxxing a Chinese scientist

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter says it has permanently suspended markets blog Zero Hedge’s Twitter account, @ zerohedge ,...

Uber Officially Bans Drivers From Carrying Firearms, But Company's Business Model Prevents Enforcement

Iwastheone shares a report from The Atlantic, written by Sidney Fussell: Uber has banned guns in cars, for both drivers and passengers, sinc...

Sale of .Org Domain Registry Delayed By California Attorney General

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra sent a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) demanding more i...

Amazon’s Echo Show can now scan barcodes to flesh out your shopping list

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge In our review of the Amazon Echo Show 5 smart display , Dan called it the “smart alarm clock to get.” But...

The guy who knew Nintendo’s Switch surprise ahead of time has pled guilty to hacking

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge A California man has pled guilty to hacking Nintendo’s servers to steal confidential files, including t...

Brexit Happens

"The UK has officially left the European Union after 47 years of membership," reports the BBC. The historic moment, which happened...

Social Media Boosting Service Exposed Thousands of Instagram Passwords

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A social media boosting startup, which bills itself as a service to increase a user'...

Twitter adds threaded replies to iOS to make it easier to see ongoing conversations

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Twitter announced a subtle design change to its iOS app today that may go a long way in both ...

Universal coronavirus treatments could help treat this outbreak — and the next one

Photo by Christophe Gateau/picture alliance via Getty Images Coronaviruses have caused three outbreaks in humans in the past 20 years: the...

Planting 1 trillion trees might not actually be a good idea

Photo by Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/picture alliance via Getty Images The World Economic Forum’s plan to plant 1 trillion trees is backed by co...

Man accused of making thousands of racist robocalls faces $13 million fine

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The FCC has proposed an almost $13 million fine for a man it says was behind a series of racist and anti...

Microsoft to block crapware downloads in its Edge browser

Microsoft is planning to block potentially unwanted apps from being downloaded through its Edge browser. Known as crapware or adware, these...

Amazon wants Alexa to feel normal, Google wants its assistant to feel nostalgic

Happy Friday — the Super Bowl is this weekend and some of the ads have begun to be released. The two that have struck me the most are from ...

Facebook’s trust problem isn’t about being understood

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and News Corp CEO Robert Thomson debut Facebook News last year One of the most common and beloved tropes on a...

Facebook and Instagram to remove coronavirus misinformation

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will remove false claims and conspiracy theories about the coronavirus if it risks causin...

FBI Probes Use of Israeli Firm's Spyware In Personal and Government Hacks

nickwinlund77 shares a report from Reuters: The FBI is investigating the role of Israeli spyware vendor NSO Group Technologies in possible h...

Microsoft launches Xbox bug bounty program with rewards of $20,000 or more

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Microsoft is launching a new Xbox Bounty Program to reward gamers, security researchers, and anyone els...

CBS Makes Star Trek: Picard Pilot Free On YouTube 'For a Limited Time'

Iwastheone shares a report from Ars Technica: CBS has made the entirety of the first episode of its new series Star Trek: Picard freely and ...

Elon Musk releases Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe music track on SoundCloud

Elon Musk, DJ, rocket man. Elon Musk is on a roll. Tesla stock is on a rocket ship and the Model Y SUV is coming early. Now, to share the ...

‘Do not travel to China’ because of coronavirus risk, US tells citizens

Photo by CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images Americans shouldn’t travel to China because of the risks from the new coronavirus, the US ...

IBM Names Arvind Krishna CEO, Replacing Ginni Rometty

An anonymous reader writes: IBM named Arvind Krishna as chief executive officer, replacing longtime CEO Virginia Rometty. Krishna, 57, is cu...

Nintendo says it has no plans for a new Switch this year

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo CEO and president Shuntaro Furukawa told investors today that the company has “no plans” to la...

Roku is losing Fox apps just in time for you to miss the Super Bowl, maybe

If you were hoping to watch the Super Bowl on your Roku TV or set-top box, I hope you don’t mind paying for streaming services like FuboTV,...