Urgent Policies Needed To Steer Countries To Net Zero, Says IEA Chief

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: New energy policies are urgently needed to put countries on the path to net zero gree...

Apple will use Tesla’s ‘megapack’ batteries at its California solar farm

The construction site of the energy storage project at the California Flats solar farm. | Image: Apple Apple announced Wednesday that it...

Scientists Create Simple Synthetic Cell That Grows and Divides Normally

Five years ago, scientists created a single-celled synthetic organism that, with only 473 genes, was the simplest living cell ever known. Ho...

Biden Infrastructure Plan Promises Broadband To All Within 8 Years

One of the many promises made in President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure plan is to deliver "future proof" broadband to e...

Facebook Blames 'Technical Issue' For Shorting Video Creators Thousands of Dollars In Ad Revenue

The Verge spoke with several Facebook video creators, all of whom say the company shorted them on cash and ignored their requests for help. ...

Amazon’s Alexa lets you control a Lamborghini’s air conditioning with just your voice

Image: Lamborghini Amazon is taking a bigger step into cars today by integrating Alexa into Lamborghini’s Huracán EVO , and not just to a...

Twitter now lets you add stickers to Fleets

Image: Twitter Twitter is adding stickers to its ephemeral, Snapchat Stories-like Fleets, the social media company announced on Wednesday...

Ubiquiti is accused of covering up a ‘catastrophic’ data breach — and it’s not denying it

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ubiquiti, a company whose prosumer-grade routers have become synonymous with security and managea...

Amazon's Twitter Army Was Handpicked For 'Great Sense of Humor'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: Amazon's small Twitter army of "ambassadors" was quietly conceived in ...

India Offers $1 Billion In Cash To Each Chipmaker Who 'Makes In India'

According to Reuters, India is offering more than $1 billion in cash to each semiconductor company that sets up manufacturing units in the c...

Turing Award Goes To Creators of Computer Programming Building Blocks

Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho developed many of the fundamental concepts that researchers use when they build new software. From a report: W...

SpaceX is adding a glass dome on Crew Dragon for 360 views of space

The Crew Dragon capsule poised to fly four civilian astronauts to space this year is getting an upgrade: a glass dome will be added at the ...

No Man’s Sky’s latest update, Expeditions, arrives today

Hello Games is releasing a major update for No Man’s Sky today. Called “Expeditions,” it adds seasonal events to the game in which players...

Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine highly effective in adolescents

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Pfizer / BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective in 12- to 15-year-olds, the companies ...

It’s game over for Arizona’s controversial App Store bill

Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge The legislation disappeared before a scheduled vote last week, and now it’s likely done for the year Co...

Spotify Mixes are new personalized playlists based on your favorite artists and genres

A selection of the new mixes Spotify will generate for you. | Image: Spotify Spotify Mixes are a new family of personalized playlists p...

Fiat made a ‘Hey Google’ car

The ‘Hey, Google’ logo appears above the front wheel arches of the new Fiat 500 vehicles | Image: Google / Fiat As vehicles are increasi...

Google Collects 20 Times More Telemetry From Android Devices Than Apple From iOS

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record by Recorded Future: Academic research published last week looked at the telemetry traffi...

A first look at Xbox running Discord and Google Stadia in its new Edge browser

Microsoft has started testing a new version of its Edge browser on Xbox consoles. The software giant provided access to the Chromium versio...

Huawei offsets US sanctions with dominance in China

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Huawei has released its annual report and financial information for 2020, demonstrating the effec...

Facebook is making it easier to turn off algorithmic ranking in your News Feed

Image: Facebook Facebook is introducing a handful of new features that will give users greater control over their News Feed, including a...

Nick Clegg doesn’t think Facebook is polarizing

Photo Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Facebook’s VP of global affairs on the platform’s new changes, with Casey Newton Cont...

IPv4 Parsing Flaw In NPM Netmask Could Affect 270,000 Apps

chicksdaddy shares a report from The Security Ledger: Independent security researchers analyzing the widely used open source component netma...

Biden plans to connect every American to broadband in new infrastructure package

Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images President Biden plans to announce a sweeping infrastructure plan Wednesday that includes $100 billion ...

Google Meet’s free ‘unlimited’ calls will continue until June

Google Meet. | Image: Google Google will not introduce a 60 minute call limit on free Google Meet users at the end of March, the company...

Optical Mouse Inventor, Infoseek Founder Hunts For a Covid Cure

Steve Kirsch has been interested in repurposing drugs since he was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer years ago. In an interview with IEEE S...

Japan's Cherry Blossom 'Earliest Peak Since 812'

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: The cherry blossom season, Japan's traditional sign of spring, peaked at the earliest ...

Even LinkedIn is making a Clubhouse clone

Photo by Lorenzo Di Cola/NurPhoto via Getty Images It feels like just about every big tech company is working on a Clubhouse-like social ...