China asked Elon Musk not to sell Starlink within the country

Laura Normand / The Verge In an interview with the Financial Times last week , Elon Musk revealed that figures in the Chinese government...

Why a $158,000 Drug With Unclear Benefits Hurts Whole Health System

Price tag for a recently approved ALS drug illustrates broad industry problems. From a report: Like many patients suffering from amyotrophic...

It's Lonely in the Metaverse: Decentraland's 38 Daily Active Users in a $1.3B Ecosystem

What's going on in the metaverse these days, you might ask. Looking at two of the biggest companies with over $1 billion valuations, the...

Fungi Find Their Way Into Cancer Tumors, But What They're Doing There is a Mystery

Angus Chen, reporting for StatNews: For a while, scientists thought the trillions of microbes on our bodies lived in landscapes connected to...

Here are the best Amazon Echo deals right now

The Echo Show 5 (left), Echo Show 8 (middle), and the Echo Show (right). | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon’s current Echo lineup...

United Airlines Hopes to Use Electric Planes for Flights Under 200 Miles By 2030

It's one of the largest airlines in the world. But now Futurism reports that United Airlines "is projecting it could have electric ...

Protestors Hack Iran's State-Run TV

"Iran's state-run broadcaster was apparently hacked on air Saturday," reports the BBC, "with a news bulletin interrupted ...