Firefox Now Shows Ads As Sponsored Address Bar Suggestions

waspleg writes: Mozilla is now showing ads in the form of sponsored Firefox contextual suggestions when U.S. users type in the URL address b...

Microsoft Makes a Mouse From Recycled Ocean Plastic

New submitter myinnerbanjo writes: With plastics in oceans becoming more and more of a global disaster, Microsoft uses recycled ocean plasti...

A text message routing company suffered a five-year-long breach

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Syniverse, a telecom company that helps carriers like Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T route messa...

Netflix will edit phone numbers out of Squid Game following prank calls

Image: Netflix Netflix’s immensely popular Squid Game is getting an edit after phone numbers shown in the series dialed real numbers, le...

A Blank Wall Can Show How Many People Are in a Room and What They're Doing

Stare at a blank wall in any room, and you are unlikely to learn much more than the paint color. But a new technology can inconspicuously sc...

Apple Says Apps Must Offer a Way To Delete Your Account Starting In Early 2022

Apple says that as of January 31st, 2022, all applications will need to offer people a method of deleting their accounts. This applies to al...

Sony didn’t close the PS3 and Vita stores, but it’s making it hard to shop at them

The PlayStation 3. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Sony is making it a little bit harder to buy games digitally on the PlayStation 3...