'Underwater Roombas' Help Start Cleanup of Decades-Old Toxic Waste Dump Along California Coast

For almost 40 years, the nation's largest DDT manufacturer disposed of some of its waste product off the coast of Southern California. N...

France Grossly Underestimated Radioactive Fallout From Atom Bomb Tests, Study Finds

Adrian Cho writes via Science Magazine: From 1966 to 1974, France blew up 41 nuclear weapons in above-ground tests in French Polynesia, the ...

Drivers Are 24% More Likely To Speed When Using Adaptive Cruise Control

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in the mid-'90s, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration evaluate...

A hacker who exposed Verkada’s surveillance camera snafu has been raided

Tillie Kottmann, a 21-year-old hacker, has been raided by Swiss authorities and their devices seized, Bloomberg reports — days after help...

Apple discontinues HomePod, but HomePod Mini will live on

Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Apple is discontinuing the original, full-size HomePod and will now focus its speaker efforts on the H...

'Reliable Robotics' Startup Wants To Fill the Skies With Cargo-Filled Robot Planes

nickwinlund77 shares a report from Bloomberg: There's nothing unusual looking about the 38-foot-long cargo plane that's been flying ...

Slack will soon respect your chosen skin tone color when you smash that emoji reaction

Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Many of us here at The Verge are big fans of emoji reactions in Slack, and today we noticed th...