Elon Musk might resurrect Vine

Do it for the Vine. | Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Elon Musk is looking into the Twitter archives for ways t...

Discord Bans 68,000 Servers, 55 Million Accounts

The social media platform Discord recently published its quarterly safety report which notes that some 55,573,411 accounts and 68,379 server...

Tritium and DC-America are building a coast-to-coast EV fast charging network

DC-America EV stations with Tritium DC fast chargers are built on a skid platform, requiring little digging on-site. | Image: Tritium Tr...

Apple Gears Up To Launch Its Next Crop of Macs Early Next Year

Apple's next group of Macs probably won't launch until early next year, Bloomberg News reports, which means it will have fewer new d...

Jair Bolsonaro lost the Brazilian election, but he still has YouTube

Photo by Joao Laet/Getty Images He rose to power by exploiting online platforms — so what happens now that he lost? Continue reading… ...

US Workers Have Gotten Way Less Productive

Employers across the country are worried that workers are getting less done -- and there's evidence they're right to be spooked. Fro...

Can Talking to Strangers Make Us Smarter?

Smartphones "have made it easier than ever to avoid interacting with the people in our immediate environment, writes New York City-base...

Fires from Exploding E-Bike Batteries Nearly Doubled This Year in New York City

"Four times a week on average, an e-bike or e-scooter battery catches fire in New York City," reports NPR: Sometimes, it does so o...

How Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Are Fulfilling Cryptography's Potential

Here's the Guardian's report on new cryptographic techniques where "you can share data while keeping that data private" — ...

Twitter battles hateful trolling campaign following Elon Musk's takeover

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter’s combatting an increase in hateful tweets after Elon Musk officially acquired the compan...

Elon Musk wastes no time changing Twitter

Photo illustration by William Joel / The Verge, photo by Christian Marquardt / Getty Images On his first day, Twitter’s new ‘Chief Twit’ ...

The World Is Running Out of Helium. Why Doctors are Worried

NBC News reports: A global helium shortage has doctors worried about one of the natural gas's most essential, and perhaps unexpected, us...

Elon Musk reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs at Twitter

Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk reportedly ordered company-wide layoffs at Twitter on Saturday, according to a report from The New Yo...

A Space Rock Smashed Into Mars' Equator - and Revealed Chunks of Ice

The mission of NASA's robotic lander InSight "is nearing an end as dust obscures its solar panels," reports CNN. "In a ma...

Vanilla OS: More Than Just Vanilla GNOME With Ubuntu

Slashdot reader Soul_Predator writes: Vanilla OS is Ubuntu on stock GNOME, with on-demand immutability and package selection freedom. It is ...

Liam Hemsworth will play Geralt of Rivia in The Witcher’s fourth season

Season 3 of The Witcher hasn’t even premiered yet. | Photo by Taylor Hill/FilmMagic Although season 3 of The Witcher hasn’t premiered ...

New 'Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi' Animated Series Begins Streaming on Disney+

The animated series "Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi" premiered this week on Disney+, witih all six 15-minute episodes released on We...

Why Is My Cat Using Baidu? And Other IoT DNS Oddities

Long-time Slashdot reader UnderAttack writes: IoT devices are often stitched together from various odd libraries and features. The SANS Inte...

How a Redditor Ended Up With an Industrial-Grade Netflix Server

A Redditor says they've managed to get a hold of an old Netflix server for free, and has posted a detailed online look at the once myste...

Driverless cars aren’t going away, but we need to lower our expectations about them

Driverless cars aren’t going to change the world. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The driverless car startups that haven’t run...

India Sets Up Panels With Veto Power Over Social Media Content Moderation

India will set up one or more grievance committees with the veto power to oversee content moderation decisions of social media firms, it sai...

People are pretending to be laid-off Twitter employees carrying boxes outside of HQ

Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In videos circulating on Twitter Friday morning, two men carrying boxes are seen standing near the entrance to T...

Elon Musk says Twitter will have a ‘content moderation council’

Laura Normand / The Verge Elon Musk, Twitter’s new owner , says the company is setting up a council to make important moderation decision...

'Miracle' Baby Opens Debate Over Possible Use of Centuries-old Sperm

Technology allows sperm to be frozen longer than legal 50-year limit but poses medical and ethical questions. From a report: A change of law...

Amazon’s sales are up, but it’s expecting a tight holiday season

Amazon just reported its third quarter earnings for 2022. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon’s sales finally picked up in ...

Google Filing Says EU's Antitrust Division is Investigating Play Store Practices

A Google regulatory filing appears to have confirmed rumors in recent months that the European Union's competition division is looking i...

Valve’s new beta lets you use the Steam Deck UI on your desktop

The beta UI’s homescreen certainly looks more modern. Valve is officially letting users try out a new version of Steam’s Big Picture mode...

'Old/Weird Laptops' Sought To Help Test Linux Kernel Backlight Drivers

Do you have a laptop that's either "pretty old" or "weird in some other way"? Did it ship without Windows from the f...

Apple flexes its control over the App Store

Apple’s updated App Store rules could have a big impact on developers. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple’s most impactful ...

Google Acquires Twitter-backed AI Avatar Startup for $100 Million

TechCrunch: Google has acquired Alter, an artificial intelligence (AI) avatar startup that helps creators and brands express their virtual i...

How to use personalized spatial audio on your Apple AirPods

Samar Haddad / The Verge When it’s used well, spatial audio can lend extra immersion and depth to music, movies, and TV shows. Apple has ...

Microsoft says Xbox Game Pass is profitable as it sees subscription growth slow

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has revealed that the company’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service i...

British hacker charged for allegedly running The Real Deal dark web market

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge A British hacker who brought the entire nation of Liberia offline more than seven years ago w...