'Massive' Startup Wants To Rent Your Spare Compute Power To Pay For Apps
What if users could pay for apps or services not with money or attention, but with their spare compute power? A startup called "Massive...
The Virtual Phone Farms Scammers Use To Set Up Fake Accounts
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: When a scammer wants to set up an account on Amazon, Discord, or a spread of other onl...
Microsoft is selling ugly Windows sweaters again, and this time, it’s Minesweeper
Image: Microsoft Microsoft has launched a new Windows software-themed ugly sweater on its Xbox Gear Shop dedicated to the infamous Windo...
Edge users aren’t happy about Microsoft’s built-in ‘buy now, pay later’ tool
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft is tacking on a “buy now, pay later” extension to Edge that prompts users to use short-...
Microsoft Adds Buy Now, Pay Later Financing Option To Edge -- And Everyone Hates It
Microsoft has decided to add "Buy Now, Pay Later" financing options to its Edge browser in the U.S. -- and the overwhelming respon...
Amazon faces new pressure over COVID protections in warehouses
Amazon workers protested outside a warehouse last year | Spencer Platt / Getty Images Amazon is facing new questions over failed COVID pr...
Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chip is here to power the Android flagships of 2022
Qualcomm has a new flagship smartphone processor: the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, announced at the company’s annual Snapdragon Tech Summit, giving ...
Cyber Monday Online Sales Fall For the First Time Ever
Consumers logged online Monday and spent $10.7 billion, marking a 1.4% decrease from year-ago levels, according to data released Tuesday by ...
FBI Document Shows What Data Can Be Obtained From Encrypted Messaging Apps
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Record: A recently discovered FBI training document shows that US law enforcement can gain limi...
Twitch will use machine learning to detect people evading bans
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitch is furthering its efforts to reduce harassment with a new tool that uses machine learning ...
The latest Quest update brings cloud backups and a mixed reality view
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Meta has delivered a new batch of features for Quest headsets in an update rolling out today ...
SpaceX's Starlink Is Testing Internet Service for Aircraft
SpaceX's Starlink unit is testing its space-based internet service with several aircraft and wants to offer in-flight connection to airl...
These transparent Apple prototypes clearly show the greatness of see-through gadgets
Image: Giulio Zompetti Apple device collector Giulio Zompetti has photographed a prototype 29W Apple charging brick , and it may be one ...
Android 101: How to stop location tracking
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Location tracking can be very handy — it’s convenient when an app can tell you, say, where the ne...
Why Red Notice was able to beat Bird Box as Netflix’s biggest movie debut ever
Image: Frank Masi/Netflix Netflix’s heist drama Red Notice has officially overthrown Bird Box as the streaming service’s biggest movie ...
NASA Postpones Spacewalk Citing 'Debris Notification' for ISS
Nasa has postponed a planned spacewalk outside the International Space Station due to flying "debris," two weeks after Russia blew...
Biden Administration Makes First Move on Data Privacy
The Biden administration is launching its first big effort on privacy policy by looking at how data privacy issues affect civil rights. From...
Star Trek creator’s signature will live long and prosper in new NFT
DECEMBER 7: Actors Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley and William Shatner pose for a portrait with writer Gene Roddenberry and director Robert ...
Cyber Monday spending was reportedly down due to early shopping
Cyber Monday sales were down 1.4 percent year over year, according to a report from Adobe Analytics . Shoppers spent $10.7 billion this yea...
Barbados, Formally Casting Off the Queen, Becomes a Republic
In the early hours of Tuesday, at a ceremony attended by hundreds of masked officials, a prince and at least one pop star, the Caribbean isl...
The leader of Facebook’s stalled cryptocurrency project is leaving the company
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Facebook cryptocurrency chief David Marcus announced today that he’s leaving the company. The fo...
This browser extension shows how many brands on Amazon are actually just Amazon
Image: The Markup A new browser extension promises to show you which products in your Amazon search results are sold by brands that are ...
Amazon Launches Preview of New 'AWS Private 5G' Managed Service
At Amazon's AWS re:Invent conference this morning, the company announced the preview of "AWS Private 5G," which is a new servi...
xCloud’s new Clarity Boost promises clearer streams, but it’s only on Edge
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Microsoft’s new Clarity Boost feature for Xbox Cloud Gaming (aka xCloud) is intended to make your...
Big Tech Firms Should Pay ISPs To Upgrade Networks, Telcos In Europe Claim
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The CEOs of 13 large European telecom companies today called on tech giants -- presum...
AMD Allegedly Jacking Up RX 6000 GPU Prices by 10 Percent
As wafer costs increase, so are the costs of GPUs. According to a post on the Board Forums, AMD says it's increasing the price of its RX...
An introduction to Parag Agrawal, Twitter’s new CEO
Twitter has a new CEO : Parag Agrawal, who’ll be taking over for Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the longest-serving chief executive in the...
Four more gaming PCs you might actually buy for an RTX 3080 Ti, 3070 Ti, or 3060 Ti on Cyber Monday
Photo by Tom Warren / The Verge On Black Friday, I introduced you to an extremely curated selection of gaming PCs that might actually be...
Nissan Lays Out $17.6 Billion Plan To Electrify Its Future
Nissan has announced plans to spend around $17.6 billion over the next five years to accelerate the roll-out of electric vehicles. "And...
Amazon must redo Bessemer union election, orders labor board official
Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ordered a new election at Amazon’s Bessemer...
Amazon and Target play ‘outsized’ role in port congestion and pollution, report finds
Container ships at anchor outside the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, U.S., on Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. | Tim Rue/Bloomberg v...
It’s time to study the health impacts of TikTok, researchers say
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge People have flocked to TikTok in droves over the past few years — but research into the social me...
GOG is losing money and refocusing on ‘handpicked selection of games’
CD Projekt says its GOG games storefront will put more focus on offering “a handpicked selection of games” and transfer some developers to ...
Fired Employees Sue Google For Breaching 'Don't Be Evil' Part of Contract
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Three former Google employees who were fired by the company in 2019 sued Google on Mon...
Amazon Builds Out Network To Speed Delivery, Handle Holiday Crunch
Online retail giant has nearly doubled its fulfillment capacity since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. From a report: In the past two yea...
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