US Probes How American Electronics Wound Up in Russian Military Equipment in Ukraine

America's federal agents "have begun questioning U.S. technology companies on how their computer chips ended up in Russian military...

TikTok and Oracle teamed up after all, but concerns about data privacy remain

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Friday, TikTok announced that it had started routing American users’ data to US-based servers...

Can a Seattle Startup Launch a Fusion Reactor Into Space?

"Practical nuclear fusion is, famously, always 10 years in the future," reports IEEE Spectrum. "Except that the Pentagon rece...

A New Student Movement Wants You to Log Off

Two years ago a college sophomore started "the Log Off movement." This week the New York Times explored its progress — starting wi...

Is Debating AI Sentience a Dangerous Distraction?

"A Google software engineer was suspended after going public with his claims of encountering 'sentient' artificial intelligence...

WhatsApp now lets you mute individual users during group calls

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge WhatsApp has rolled out several new features this past week, including the ability to mute people...

Google Engineer Who Believes Its AI is Sentient Cites Religious Beliefs

Google engineer Blake Lemoine thinks Google's chatbot-building system LaMDA attained sentience. But Bloomberg shares this rebuttal from ...