Nick Holonyak Jr., Pioneer of LED Lighting, Is Dead at 93

Nick Holonyak Jr., an electrical engineer who became known as the godfather of the LED lighting that illuminates flat-screen TVs and laptop ...

A week with the BTS Tamagotchi

Adorable and ethically questionable. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Earlier this year, Bandai America announced that the ...

Pandemic Sends Australia's Gambling Problem Online

Already the world's biggest gambling nation in terms of loss per person, Australia has seen a shift in betting behavior since the pandem...

Teenage Engineering’s new Record Factory is your own personal record maker

The PO-80 has an arm to play music with, and another to carve it in. | Image: Teenage Engineering Teenage Engineering is known for its p...

What Is a 'Healthy' Food? The FDA. Wants To Change the Definition.

The Food and Drug Administration unveiled a new proposal this week that would change the criteria for which packaged foods the agency consid...

Soon you can buy a Peloton at Dick’s

Peloton continues to expand outside of its own marketplace. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In August, Peloton partnered with ...

Apple fires exec after he made crude jokes on the expensive car guy’s TikTok

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Apple’s vice president of procurement, Tony Blevins, has been fired from the company after his c...

Physician Burnout Has Reached Distressing Levels, New Research Finds

Ten years of data from a nationwide survey of physicians confirm another trend that's worsened through the pandemic: Burnout rates among...

The CIA Just Invested in Woolly Mammoth Resurrection Technology

As a rapidly advancing climate emergency turns the planet ever hotter, the Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences has a vis...

Mystery Hackers Are 'Hyperjacking' Targets for Insidious Spying

For decades, security researchers warned about techniques for hijacking virtualization software. Now one group has put them into practice. F...

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes will continue the story in 2024

Concept art from Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes | Image: 20th Century Studios The next entry in the Planet of the Apes saga will star...

New York To Mandate Zero-Emission Vehicles in 2035

All new vehicles purchased in New York will need to be zero-emission models beginning in 2035, Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) announced on Thursday. ...

PlayStation’s new loyalty program launches in the US next week

Sony is beginning to roll out PlayStation Stars. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony’s new PlayStation Stars loyalty program will l...

North Korea Launches Mass Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign

North Korea has begun a mass Covid-19 vaccination campaign in its border areas, according to South Korea's spy agency, becoming one of t...

Microsoft’s discontinuing SwiftKey on iOS next week

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Microsoft confirmed that it’s removing SwiftKey from the Apple App Store and ending support ...

Wall Street Hit With $2 Billion of Fines in WhatsApp Probe

US regulators reached settlements with a dozen banks in a sprawling probe into how global financial firms failed to monitor employees' c...

Netflix doesn’t seem to know how to talk about its 3 Body Problem show

3 Body Problem executive producers D.B. Weiss, David Benioff, and Alexander Woo | Image: Netflix Though Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Probl...

UK Online Safety Bill Threatens Security, WhatsApp Chief Warns

The head of WhatsApp has warned UK ministers that moves to undermine encryption in a relaunched online safety bill would threaten the securi...

Robinhood Debuts New Non-Custodial Crypto Wallet

Robinhood is finally rolling out a beta version of its non-custodial crypto wallet to 10,000 customers on its waitlist after announcing the ...

Senators Push To Reform Police's Cellphone Tracking Tools

Civil rights lawyers and Democratic senators are pushing for legislation that would limit U.S. law enforcement agencies' ability to buy ...

Go get your Netflix gamertag

You can set up your username right from the games tab in the Android app. | Image: Netflix Netflix is officially introducing gamertag-st...

Cheat Devs Are Ready for Modern Warfare 2

The PC beta for Modern Warfare 2 was only online for just over a weekend, but cheat developers quickly managed to create wallhacks anyway, a...

Stage Manager isn’t just for M1 iPads anymore

Stage Manager is coming to some older iPad Pros. | Photo by Brennan King / The Verge In a major turnaround, Apple is bringing Stage Mana...

SEC Sues Former MoviePass Executives, Alleges They Made 'False or Misleading Statements' To Public

The Securities and Exchange Commission is suing former MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe and Ted Farnsworth, the former CEO of MoviePass' parent ...

Interpol issues ‘red notice’ for Terra stablecoin co-founder Do Kwon

Kwon co-founded Terraform Labs whose stablecoin, TerraUSD, collapsed earlier this year. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Do Kwo...

Crypto Startup Helium Promised a 'People's Network.' Instead, Its Executives Got Rich.

Helium was touted as the best real-world use case of Web3 technology. But as it struggles to generate revenue, a Forbes investigation found ...

iFixit teardown looks at the guts of the Apple Watch Ultra

iFixit’s video details the inner workings of Apple’s new premium watch. | Image: iFixit The right-to-repair enthusiasts at iFixit have ...

Beijing Bus Drivers Have Been Told To Wear Wristbands To Monitor Their Emotions

Beijing's long-distance bus drivers have been told to wear electronic wristbands that use emotion-sensing technology to monitor their st...

If you still miss Google Reader, Substack has a new web-based RSS client

Image: Substack Substack’s the latest company trying to resurrect Google Reader from the dead — well, in spirit at least. Nearly a decad...

Australia To Overhaul Privacy Laws After Massive Data Breach

Following one of the biggest data breaches in Australian history, the government of Australia is planning to get stricter on requirements fo...

Hackathon Finds Dozens of Ukrainian Refugees Trafficked Online

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Earlier this year, the International Organization for Migration reported that more th...

Gurman: New iPads and Macs Could Be Announced Through a Press Release, No October Event

Apple could decide to release its remaining products for 2022, which includes an updated iPad Pro, Mac mini, and 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook...