30 Million Solar Homes Would Create 1.77 Million Jobs and $69 Billion In Energy Savings, Report Finds

A new report (PDF) from the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) finds that installing rooftop solar panels and community solar systems ...

Tencent Is Buying British Game Studio 'Sumo' For $1.27 Billion

Tencent has announced plans to buy British video game company Sumo Group for $1.27 billion. The Verge reports: The Chinese tech giant alread...

Edward Snowden Calls For Spyware Trade Ban Amid Pegasus Revelations

Governments must impose a global moratorium on the international spyware trade or face a world in which no mobile phone is safe from state-s...

China Tech Billionaires Ramp Up Donations As Beijing Cracks Down

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: China's tech tycoons are discovering their charitable side as they come under mounti...

Man Behind LinkedIn Scraping Said He Grabbed 700 Million Profiles 'For Fun'

The man behind last month's scraping of LinkedIn data, which exposed the location, phone numbers, and inferred salaries of 700 million u...

Amazon will end onsite COVID-19 testing at its US warehouses

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon has informed workers that it will end on-site COVID-19 testing at its US warehouses, as fi...

Viral Video Shows Malaysian Police Destroying 1,069 Bitcoin Mining Rigs With a Steamroller

Malaysian authorities seized 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs, laid them out in a parking lot at police headquarters, and used a steamroller to cru...