Google Agrees To $392 Million Privacy Settlement With 40 States

Google agreed to a record $391.5 million privacy settlement with a 40-state coalition of attorneys general on Monday for charges that it mis...

Seagate Announces Dual-Actuator MACH.2 Drive - and Star Wars, Black Panther Themed Drives

An anonymous reader writes that Seagate Technology has launched its second generation dual actuator MACH.2 series hard drives. "Computi...

Twitter reportedly cut thousands of contractors without warning

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter eliminated a large number of contract employees on Saturday, affecting anywhere from 4,40...

'Cryptography's Future Will Be Quantum-Safe. Here's How'

Fearing the possibility of encryption-cracking quantum computers, Quanta magazine reports that researchers are "scrambling to produce n...

The Climate Issue Government Leaders Aren't Addressing: Livestock Farming

It's "a major cause" of our climate crisis. "It's on course to guzzle half the world's carbon budget," write...

‘Fix your companies. Or Congress will,’ Senator Ed Markey warns Elon Musk

Illustration by Lille Allen / The Verge Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) told Elon Musk, “Fix your companies. Or Congress will,” after Musk snark...

Why California's EV-Rebate Proposition Lost

California's EV-funding proposition 30 "has suffered an unambiguous defeat," reports Bay City News. The measure would've i...