One of World's Most Polluted Spots Gets Worse as $1 Billion Cleanup Drags On

Mismanagement, waste and lack of transparency are making the cleanup in the Niger Delta's Ogoniland anything but exemplary, UN reports i...

Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s biggest bet

A screenshot of Horizon Worlds | Image: Meta Mark Zuckerberg is betting his company’s future on the metaverse — a virtual space in whic...

Scientists Call on Colleagues To Protest Climate Crisis With Civil Disobedience

Scientists should commit acts of civil disobedience to show the public how seriously they regard the threat posed by the climate crisis, a g...

Chinese tech giant buys Detroit: Become Human developer Quantic Dream

Image: Quantic Dream Quantic Dream, the game developers behind titles like Detroit: Become Human and Heavy Rain , has been acquired by t...

If you have an iPhone 5S or 6, it’s time for a rare iOS update

Updates for Apple’s older devices are rare but worth paying attention to. | Photo by Michael Shane / The Verge Almost a year after the l...

Microsoft EU Cloud Revisions Just So Happen To Exclude Google, Amazon

Facing European antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft has made it easier to virtualize its software on non-Microsoft cloud infrastructure -- just so...

Truth Social is strapped for cash and struggling to find new users

Photo by Scott Olson / Getty Images Truth Social is strapped for cash and facing a mountain of tech and legal troubles that could doom th...

Intel, Which Coined The Term 'Patent Troll', Makes Deal With Patent Troll To 'Monetize' Unused Patents

Mike Masnick, reporting for TechDirt: Intel recently announced that it was handing 5,000 patents off to IPValue, which (as it does in these ...

Facebook is Shutting Down Its Standalone Gaming App in October

Just over two years after its launch, Facebook is shutting down the Facebook Gaming app on October 28, 2022. Now, when you open the app, you...

Google's Open-Source Bug Bounty Aims To Clamp Down on Supply Chain Attacks

Google has introduced a new vulnerability rewards program to pay researchers who find security flaws in its open-source software or in the b...

Logitech’s new G502 X gaming mice have clicky optical buttons

Logitech’s new G502 X Plus is the top model with Lightsync RGB. | Image: Logitech Logitech has three new gaming mice, and the wireless o...

To Save Lives, Issue Connected Vehicle Technology Waiver, NTSB Tells FCC

ArsTechnica reports: In mid-August, the Federal Communications Commission succeeded in its long-held plan to reallocate a portion of the spe...

How to edit, delete, and restore a Facebook post

Samar Haddad / The Verge None of us are perfect, and all of us have published Facebook posts with misspellings, grammatical errors, mista...

Closure of Coal Power Station Set To Be Delayed To Prevent UK Blackouts

The effort to prevent electricity blackouts this winter is expected to delay the closure of part of a coal-fired power station in Nottingham...

Microsoft Launches Arm-based Azure VMs Powered by Ampere Chips

Following a preview in April, Microsoft this morning announced the general availability of virtual machines (VMs) on Azure featuring the Amp...

Sony's New PlayStation Studios Mobile Team is Making Spinoff Games For Your Phone

As part of Sony's push into mobile gaming, the company has formed a PlayStation Studios Mobile Division that will operate separately fro...

FTC Sues 'Massive' Data Broker for Selling Location Info on Abortion Clinics

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has sued Kochava, a large location data provider, for allegedly selling data that the FTC says can track ...

Instagram fixes sound issue that hindered TikTok exports

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Instagram has fixed a recent bug that removed the sound from Reels video clips that were downloa...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 should be improved with new Android 12L update

Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge The Android 12L-based One UI 4.1.1 has finally started to land on Galaxy Tab S8 devices, making it the f...

Are Plants 'Intelligent'?

Long-time Slashdot reader Dr_Ish writes: It is not too common for the world of academic philosophy to be changed by a new discovery, or inno...

Trademark filings point to ‘Reality’ branding for Apple’s mixed reality headset

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Trademark filings spotted by Bloomberg suggest Apple might incorporate “Reality” in the name and...

Are More Than Half of All Bitcoin Trades Fake?

Bitcoin represents 40% of the $1 trillion outstanding crypto assets, according to Forbes' director of data and analytics. "An estim...

IEEE's Top Programming Languages of 2022: Python (and SQL)

The IEEE's official publication, IEEE Spectrum, has released its ninth annual ranking of the top programming languages. The results? Pyt...

Walmart Lists a 30TB Portable SSD for Just $39. It's a Scam

What's the deal with that supposed 30TB external SSD being sold for just $31.40 on China-based online shopping site AliExpress? It's...

Web3 DNS Provider Could Lose Its Domain. The Only Person Who Can Renew It is In Jail

"When members of the ENS DAO community go to its eth.link website, all they'll see now is an empty page with a green domain expirat...

Facebook is Settling Potential Cambridge Analytica Class Action Suit

"Facebook's corporate parent has reached a tentative settlement in a lawsuit alleging the world's largest social network servic...

Google Changed Emission Calculations in Google Flights, Making Air Travel Look Cleaner

"Google launched a carbon emissions tool for its flight tracker last fall," remembers Gizmodo, "allowing consumers to see the...

Netflix’s Resident Evil has already been canceled

Image: Marcos Cruz / Netflix Netflix’s Resident Evil series has been canceled a little over a month after its initial debut, according t...

Satellite-to-phone companies are thrilled about SpaceX and T-Mobile, actually

There are a few companies that want to keep you connected when you’re in remote areas. | Image: SpaceX On Thursday, Elon Musk got on sta...

This Is Not the Monkeypox That Doctors Thought They Knew

"At the onset of the outbreak, scientists thought they knew when and how the monkeypox virus was spread, what the disease looked like a...

Eight-Year Study Finds 24,931 WordPress Sites Using Malicious Plugins

"Since 2012 researchers in the Georgia Tech Cyber Forensics Innovation Laboratory have uncovered 47,337 malicious plugins across 24,931...