Discovery of life in solid rock deep beneath sea may inspire new search for life on Mars

Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have provided clues about how to find life on Mars. These bacteria...

Google donates free Chromebooks and 100,000 mobile hotspots for rural California students

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google will provide 4,000 Chromebooks and fund the use of 100,000 Wi-Fi hotspots for rural student...

Sprint is dead. Long live Sprint

Sprint Flatiron Logo It’s done. We now have just three major cell phone carriers in the US: Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, which just co...

YouTube 'Shorts' Reportedly Launching This Year To Counter TikTok

According to The Information, the YouTube app will soon be home to a new "Shorts" format that will counter TikTok. 9to5Google repo...

What Zoom doesn’t understand about the Zoom backlash

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge [Ed. note: Today’s newsletter and column was written and distributed before Zoom CEO Eric S. Yuan ...

The first Harry Potter audiobook voiced by Stephen Fry is now free to stream

Image: Warner Bros Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone , which was released as Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone in the US , is...

Zoom announces 90-day feature freeze to fix privacy and security issues

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Zoom’s recent growth has put it in the spotlight over a series of privacy and security issues, and...