The US government will pay you up to $500,000 to design a less annoying face mask

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over a year into the pandemic, we’ve seen a wide variety of masks, from totally unsafe fashion pi...

Flight Penguin is a new flight search Chrome app that promises ‘no collusion’

The founders of Hipmunk are launching a new startup today that’s aimed squarely at taking on their own former product. Called Flight Pengui...

Android 12 Adds a New Device Search API For Third-Party Launchers

The developers behind Niagara Launcher, a popular third-party home screen replacement app, have found new evidence in the Android 12 preview...

Samsung’s latest budget phones ask: is refresh rate more important than resolution?

If you had to choose: would you choose a sharper screen on your smartphone, or a smoother-scrolling one? This year, budget phone buyers may...

Clubhouse launches direct payments, and it won’t take a cut

Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Social audio app Clubhouse will let all users pay other creators starting Monday. It’s th...

LexisNexis To Provide Giant Database of Personal Information To ICE

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: The popular legal research and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million...

Intel MacBook Pro Owner Adds Water Cooling To Silence Noisy Fans, Boost Performance

An inventive MacRumors forums member has successfully retrofitted a water-cooling system to their 15-inch Intel-based MacBook Pro, thereby e...