How a Tiny Bit of Lacquer Grounded New Falcon 9 Rockets For a Month

On October 2, SpaceX automatically aborted the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket (with just two seconds left in the countdown) after two of its fi...

'I'm Not Drunk, It's My Car.' Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' Gets Mixed Reviews

CNN describes the reactions posted online by six beta testers of Tesla's "full self-driving" software, saying they "appea...

Trump's TikTok Ban Temporarily Blocked by US Judge

Forbes reports that TikTok "cannot be shut down in the United States next month, a U.S. District Court judge ruled Friday afternoon, th...

Apple ordered to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in patent trial

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge A jury in Texas has ruled that Apple has to pay VirnetX $502.8 million in royalties for VPN on Dem...

Therapy Patients Blackmailed For Cash After Clinic Data Breach

"Many patients of a large psychotherapy clinic in Finland have been contacted individually by a blackmailer, after their data was stole...

While Europe Accounts for 46% of COVID-19 Cases, Taiwan Goes 200 Days Without a Local Infection

Europe "now accounts for 46% of global coronavirus cases," reports ABC News, "and nearly a third of total related deaths.&quo...

A Swiss cheese approach to pandemic safety

Photo credit should read CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images Lately, I’ve been thinking about pandemic safety and Swiss cheese. It’s an...

Lower East Side Ecology Center is accepting e-waste at NYC pop-up sites through November

One of the countless impacts of the coronavirus pandemic is that it halted the NYC Department of Sanitation’s recycling program that picks ...

Google Meet will now let you use custom backgrounds on video calls

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google is introducing custom backgrounds for its Meet videoconferencing platform, the company anno...

Sean Connery, star of the James Bond films, dies at 90

Sean Connery, the Scottish actor who brought James Bond to the silver screen as part of a four-decade career, has died at 90, the BBC repor...

League of Legends spinoff Ruined King will launch on consoles in ‘early 2021’

Ruined King: A League of Legends Story , the upcoming single-player League of Legends spinoff that will see the franchise debut on consol...

Best Buy’s three-day sale on OLED TVs, headphones, and more ends Saturday

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Saturday is your last chance to get in on Best Buy’s multi-day sale , but don’t worry if you miss out. Bl...

Woot is selling refurbished Pixelbook Go laptops that don’t have Google branding

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Woot is selling a batch of refurbished Pixelbook Go laptops starting at $530 for the base model with an...

Amazon Now Has More Than 1 Million Employees

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Amazon.com said it now has about 1 million employees after hiring 250,000 workers in the ...

Apple Says Some AirPods Pro Have Sound Problems, Will Replace For Free

Apple said on Friday that it's replacing AirPods Pro headphones that have sound problems. CNBC reports: These problems include a static ...

SpaceX Will 'Make Its Own Laws On Mars'

schwit1 writes: SpaceX will not recognize international law on Mars, according to the Terms of Service of its Starlink internet project. Elo...

It’s Halloween, so here are some mischievous skeletons

Animation: Andre Zimmermann Everyone focuses on what’s blowing up on TikTok, but here’s something that’s been getting a bit of attention o...

US and UK Citizens Are World's Biggest Sources of Plastic Waste

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The U.S. and UK produce more plastic waste per person than any other major countries,...

'Time Cells' Discovered In Human Brains

Researchers have identified cells in the human brain that are responsible for episodic memories. The study has been published in the journal...

A 5-Story Building In Shanghai 'Walks' To a New Location Using Technology

In Shanghai's latest effort to preserve historic structures, engineers have relocated an 85-year-old, five-story building in its entiret...

Playdate, the tiny handheld with a crank, is delayed to early 2021

You’ll have to wait a bit longer for Panic’s odd little handheld: In an update published today , the company announced that Playdate will s...

Sony Close To Buying Crunchyroll For Nearly $1 Billion

According to Nikkei, Sony is close to acquiring U.S. anime-streaming service Crunchyroll for more than $957 million. From the report: Sony h...

Russian Hackers Targeted California, Indiana Democratic Parties In Repeat of 2016 Attacks

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The group of Russian hackers accused of meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election ea...

In its latest confusing decision, Twitter reinstates The New York Post

Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid The New York Post is back on Twitter, after Twitter updated its policy on policy changes. This story is going to ...