Senate approves billions for US semiconductor manufacturing

After months of political jockeying and procedural hurdles, the Senate approved a massive science and technology bill Tuesday to boost US c...

McDonald's Starts Testing Automated Drive-Thru Ordering

New submitter DaveV1.0 shares a report from CNBC: At 10 McDonald's locations in Chicago, workers aren't taking down customers' d...

KDE Plasma 5.22 Released

KDE Plasma 5.22 is now available, bringing "hugely improved" Wayland support, better performance for gaming, adaptive panel transp...

Apple brought back the beloved magnifying glass for selecting text in iOS 15

Apple’s text selection magnifying glass has reappeared in the iOS 15 beta, and Apple’s own site confirms its return by listing it as a fe...

The IRS wants more authority to collect data on cryptocurrencies

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Internal Revenue Service asked Congress for more authority to request reporting on the transa...

Ransomware Struck Another Pipeline Firm -- and 70GB of Data Leaked

When ransomware hackers hit Colonial Pipeline last month and shut off the distribution of gas along much of the East Coast of the United Sta...

The US wants to fix its broken lithium battery supply chain

This photo taken on March 12, 2021 shows workers at a factory for Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd, which makes lithium batteries...