World Chess Champion Plays Recklessly Online Using a Pseudonym

World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen has been sneaking onto online chess sites using stupid pseudonyms and taunting his opponents by using po...

Two Private Satellites Dock In Space In Historic First For Orbital Servicing

schwit1 quotes Space.com: In a historic first for satellite operations, a commercial spacecraft "helper" has docked with a working...

SpaceX Starship SN-1 Fails Pressure Test and Explodes

SpaceX envisions Starship as a 387-foot-tall (118 meters) spacecraft/booster that can carry up to 100 people to Mars. Pig Hogger (Slashdot r...

Stealth Startup Plans Fundamentally New Kind of Computer with Circuit-Rearranging Processor

VCs have given nearly half a billion dollars to a stealth startup called SambaNova Systems to build "a new kind of computer to replace ...

Is Microsoft Retaliating For Chrome's Warnings About Extension Security in Edge?

Several pundits criticized Google for warning Edge users to switch to Chrome if they wanted to use Chrome extensions "securely". &...

Some Clever Farmers are Harvesting Metals From Plants

The New York Times reports: Some of Earth's plants have fallen in love with metal. With roots that act practically like magnets, these o...

First U.S. coronavirus death confirmed in Washington state

A do not enter sign has been taped to the door at Bothell High School in Bothell, Washington. It is closed for disinfection after a family ...

Chasing AMD, Intel Promises Full Memory Encryption in Upcoming CPUs

"Intel's security plans sound a lot like 'we're going to catch up to AMD,'" argues FOSS advocate and "mercena...

Oregon Engineer Proved Right About Traffic Lights

"Mats Järlström's emotions were clearly visible Friday morning. After years of arguing red light traffic cameras are flawed, the of...

Tesla and PG&E To Build World's Largest Battery Farm Near Silicon Valley

"Tesla will work with PG&E to build the world's largest battery facility able to store energy generated by both solar and wind ...

This is the last week to preorder Samsung’s Galaxy S20

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Samsung’s new Galaxy S20 series of phones will release this coming Friday, March 6th. This leaves you wi...

YouTube TV will keep streaming Fox RSNs and YES Network during negotiations with Sinclair

Sports fans don’t have to worry about their local teams disappearing from YouTube TV after all. Not yet, anyway. Last night, YouTube tweet...

Health Experts Worry Coronavirus May Be Spreading Undetected in the US

The Boston Globe's Stat News site reports that the new coronavirus "may be spreading in parts of the Pacific Northwest, with Califo...

9 new trailers you should watch this week

Image: Amazon As the leader of The Verge’s Pride & Prejudice (2005) fan group, I obviously went to go see Emma last weekend. It was...

How to stop Spectrum junk mail

Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images For years, I have been getting inundated with physical junk mail from my internet service provider ...

Immunology: Tonsils as a testbed

Biomedical researchers have isolated immune cells from human tonsils obtained following routine surgery, and used them to analyze aspects of...

Bob Iger got Disney into the streaming wars, so what happens once he’s gone?

Between 2006 and now, Disney spent around $100 billion to become the unbeatable giant it is today, snapping up Pixar, Marvel Studios, Lucas...

1More True Wireless ANC headphones review: great features, not-so-great fit

1More’s earbuds sound great, but the fit might not be for everyone Continue reading… from The Verge - All Posts https://ift.tt/2VygovW

Ghostcat Bug Impacts All Apache Tomcat Versions Released in the Last 13 Years

Apache Tomcat servers released in the last 13 years are vulnerable to a bug named Ghostcat that can allow hackers to take over unpatched sys...

FCC Proposes Hefty Fines To Carriers for Not Protecting Consumer Location Data

The Federal Communications Commission announced Friday that it has proposed fining the nation's four largest wireless carriers $200 mill...

Microsoft's Cortana Drops Consumer Skills as it Refocuses on Business Users

With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft's Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills aro...

When AI Can't Replace a Worker, It Watches Them Instead

Whether software that digitizes manual labor makes workers frowny or smiley will come down to how employers choose to use it. From a report:...

Hilary Duff publicly asks Disney to move Lizzie McGuire reboot to Hulu instead of Disney Plus

Photo by: Aaron Poole/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images New Disney CEO Bob Chapek has only been on the job for a few days ...

Telescopes Detect 'Biggest Explosion Since Big Bang'

Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space -- five times bigger than anything observed before. Iwastheone shares a r...