Greenland's Ice Melting Faster Than At Any Time In Past 12,000 Years

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Greenland's ice is starting to melt faster than at any time in the past 12,000 ye...

IKEA Is Saying Goodbye To Non-Rechargeable Batteries

Ikea will remove all non-rechargeable alkaline batteries from its global home furnishings by October 2021, according to statement from the c...

Serious Injuries At Amazon Fulfillment Centers Topped 14,000, Despite the Company's Safety Claims

Even as Amazon spends tens of millions on new robotics and technologies to automate its warehouses, workers are still paying the price with ...

Google says the Pixel’s Soli radar and Motion Sense will return

Image: Google Google’s $799 Pixel 4 had built-in radar. The new $699 Pixel 5 does not — it ditches the sensor-laden forehead of its prede...

The just-announced Pixel 5 has somehow already been unboxed

The Pixel 5, Google’s latest Android flagship, was just announced today, and someone on YouTube has already posted an unboxing video of th...

Facebook Launches Cross-Platform Messaging On Instagram and Messenger

Facebook is now allowing select users use Instagram to chat with friends on Facebook Messenger and vise-versa. Instagram's direct messag...

Facebook will ban ads that wrongly claim election victory

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook will ban ads that wrongly claim victory in the US presidential race. The news comes a wee...

Mercedes-Benz's Newest Electric City Bus Uses Solid-State Batteries

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Mercedes-Benz just announced that its new eCitaro and eCitaro G city buses will be av...

A New Google Assistant Feature, 'Hold For Me,' Waits On Hold So You Don't Have To

"In previous years, [Google] launched Call Screen to vet your incoming calls, Duplex for restaurant reservations, and just this month, ...

The key to lowering CO2 emissions is made of metal

Researchers produce malic acid, which contains 4 carbon atoms, through artificial photosynthesis by simply adding metal ions like aluminum a...

Validating the physics behind the new fusion experiment

SPARC is planned to be the first experimental device ever to achieve a 'burning plasma' -- a self-sustaining fusion reaction in whic...

Understanding the effect of aging on the genome

Scientists have measured the molecular footprint that aging leaves on various mouse and human tissues. Using the data, they have identified ...

Asus ZenBook 14 UX425EA review: a standard step ahead

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Dual-Flush Toilets 'Wasting More Water Than They Save'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Toilets specially designed to save water are wasting more than they conserve, the UK&...

Lynk & Co’s compact SUV costs €500 a month but might earn you a profit

Image: Lynk & Co Car company Lynk & Co has finally revealed the details of its hybrid ownership model, which lets people subscrib...

Google’s Pixel 5 event: how to watch today’s live stream

WinFuture Google isn’t known for keeping secrets, especially about the phones they plan to introduce. In the case of Google’s upcoming Lau...

The Google Pixel couldn’t win at the high end, but the midrange isn’t any easier

Image: OnLeaks/PriceBaba Today, Google will announce the Pixel 5 and 4A 5G. Well, not so much “announce” as launch, since the company alre...

Samsung’s Premiere 4K laser projector now available, starting at $3,499

The Premiere promises a big screen even when placed right up against a wall. | Image: Samsung The Premiere, a 4K laser projector from Sam...

'I Monitor My Staff With Software That Takes Screenshots'

AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: Shibu Philip admits he knows what it's like to "maybe waste a bit of time at work." Shib...

Why Coinbase will struggle to ban politics from the workplace

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Programming note: There’s a presidential debate tonight! Here’s how to watch it online . And h...

Amazon starts offering virtual classes and sightseeing tours via new Explore platform

Image: Amazon Amazon has launched Explore , a new platform which it promises will let you “explore anything from lessons to landmarks.” It...

Great North Air Ambulance Trials Paramedic Jet Suit

A jet suit for paramedics which would see patients reached in minutes by a "flying" medic has been tested by the Great North Air A...

Tesco, One of the World's Largest Supermarket Operators, Sets 300% Sales Target For Plant-Based Alternatives To Meat

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Tesco is to become the first UK retailer to set a sales target for plant-based altern...

Denmark: We Can Slash CO2 By 70% In a Decade And Still Have Welfare

Denmark said on Tuesday that it could reach its 2030 climate target of reducing emissions by 70%, one of the world's most ambitious, wit...

The World's First Foldable PC Is Now Available To Order From Lenovo

Last year at its Accelerate 2019 event in Orlando, Lenovo teased "the world's first foldable PC." They didn't unveil the n...

911 outages have become a fact of life — are we even fixing this?

In 2014, after what we described as “frequent failures,” a previous administration’s FCC attempted to change how the United States’ emergen...

Apple outage affects App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV Plus, iCloud, Photos and more

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Many Apple services were hit by outages Tuesday evening, including the App Store, Apple Music, App...

Twitter’s voice tweets are rolling out to more iOS users, and transcriptions are on the way

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter has just expanded its voice tweets feature, which lets you record a snippet of audio to i...

Amsterdam and Helsinki Launch Algorithm Registries To Bring Transparency To Public Deployments of AI

Amsterdam and Helsinki this week launched AI registries to detail how each city government uses algorithms to deliver services, some of the ...