Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge This week on The Verge’s flagship podcast, The Vergecast: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) yells at Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, gadget makers are going to QVC, and it is weird phone season once again. Hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn talk to Verge senior reporter Adi Robertson about the
Read MoreMakena Kelly / The Verge: Profile of FCC’s Brendan Carr, a potential FCC chairman if Trump is reelected, and a key figure in the Republican fight against Big Tech — SHARE All sharing options — Ted Cruz was shouting at Jack Dorsey. — “Who the hell elected you and put you in charge of what
Read MoreThe Apple Watch SE and an iTeknic water flosser lead Friday’s best deals. Read more… Friday's Best Deals: Apple Watch SE, iTeknic Water Flosser, Beats Solo 3 Headphones, AirPods Pro, Switch 128GB microSD, Vitamix Pro Blender, and More Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreSpider-Man: Miles Morales certainly owes a lot to the massive success of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, the 2018 animated film that helped catapult Miles’ iteration of the webslinging hero to new heights of popularity. So it’s fitting that players will be able to suit up in Spider-Verse’s now-iconic spray-painted version of Miles’ black-and-red suit in
Read MorePhoto by Monica Chin / The Verge It has been a busy few days when it comes to covering deals. Both Best Buy and Amazon launched a deluge of early Black Friday deals, letting you take care of some holiday shopping (for your family or just you) before the calendar flips over to November. Definitely
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has accelerated the speed and scale of adoption of digital health technologies in a way that’s hard to imagine under normal circumstances. Innovations like telemedicine and chatbots designed to limit in-person contact and data models that optimize the allocation of ventilators, hospital beds, and staff are seeing increased use today around the
Read MoreOver the course of this week, a story from across the pond in Canada has been gathering pace. It’s highlighting the potentially dangerous future we could head towards if we don’t take a more thoughtful approach to how we recycle electric cars. This week, Canadian news outlet CBC reported the story of Clayton Brander, a
Read More[Masato Kinugawa] found a series of bugs that, when strung together, allowed remote code execution in the Discord desktop app. Discord’s desktop application is an Electron powered app, meaning it’s a web page rendered on a bundled light-weight browser. Building your desktop apps on JavaScript certainly makes life easier for developers, but it also means
Read MoreThe exoplanet LTT 9779b is far more massive than our own world, and the world is nearly five times larger. Temperatures on its surface put Venus — the hottest planet in our solar system — to shame. This exoplanet, discovered just last year, is so extreme it should not exist — at least not for
Read MoreSo you’ve had an encounter with a ghost. All of a sudden the air turned cold; a light flickered; a shadowy figure floated in a dark corner; when you asked if you were in the presence of a spirit, the Ouija planchette in your shaking hand dragged itself toward “YES.” Naysayers be damned, you know
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Over 21 months in Arizona, Waymo’s vehicles were involved in 47 collisions and near-misses, none of which resulted in injuries Continue reading… Waymo pulls back the curtain on 6.1 million miles of self-driving car data in Phoenix Source: New feed
Read MoreNatasha Lomas / TechCrunch: UK’s ICO reduces Marriott fine for a 2014 data breach, in which 339M Starwood hotels guest records were affected, from £99M to £14.4M — The UK’s ICO has reduced the size of a data breach penalty for hotel business Marriott — dropping it to £14.4 million (~$23.8M) … UK's ICO reduces
Read MoreAccording to new research, POS mobile payments will soon account for half of all digital payments. Mobile POS to account for half of digital payments by 2024 Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreWith the full moon come “the crazies.” Read more… Don't Miss a Rare Blue Hunter's Moon on Halloween Source: Life Hacker
Read MoreThe Wix Playground Academy will give professional designers in Europe the chance to collaborate digitally. Wix is bringing its web design program to Europe Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreDarrell Etherington / TechCrunch: Under Armour to sell MyFitnessPal to investment firm Francisco Partners for $345M, after buying it in 2015 for $475M, and sunsetting Endomondo, bought for $85M — Global fitness giant Under Armour announced this morning that it will be selling MyFitnessPal to investment firm Francisco Partners … Under Armour to sell MyFitnessPal
Read MoreWhether you’re looking to explore virtual worlds for the first time or you’re the proud owner of a PlayStation VR headset looking to game on your brand-new PlayStation 5 console, you’ve got a little work to do. Right now, your PS VR headset won’t work with Sony’s next-gen machine—but you can fix your problem without…
Read MoreSteve Dent / Engadget: Samsung launches SmartThings Find app to track down lost Galaxy devices, works with Galaxy phones, tablets, Buds, Watches, and more — Smartphones and other devices are so intertwined with our lives that losing one can be traumatic. To that end, Samsung has unveiled SmartThings Find … Samsung launches SmartThings Find app
Read MoreThis article was originally published by Michael Coates on Clean Fleet Report, a publication that gives its readers the information they need to move to cars and trucks with best fuel economy, including electric cars, fuel cells, plug-in hybrids, hybrids and advanced diesel and gasoline engines. Last month the world hit a new milestone as
Read MoreBloomberg: Online auto insurance provider Root raises $724M in IPO, with shares closing the day at $27, giving it a market valuation of $6.8B — Auto insurance platform Root Inc. opened below it’s initial public offering price, then rose as much as 9.2% during the day before closing flat in its trading debut. Online auto
Read MoreGoogle wants to give you a free VPN – and Amazon, Microsoft and Apple may follow suit. Google launches first salvo in the VPN war with bundled offer Source: Tech Radar Software
Read MoreMicrosoft gets reports about attacks on the Netlogon protocol bug in Windows 10. Microsoft US election warning: Attackers hit Windows 10 Netlogon flaw Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreNight aboard the International Space Station can seemingly look like every spooky sci-fi movie you’ve ever seen. Night Aboard the Space Station Source: NASA
Read MoreLG’s K92 5G is one of the cheapest ways to get 5G access in the US. | Image: LG Smartphones with 5G access are getting cheaper and cheaper, and the latest mid-range handset from LG is one of the most affordable yet: the new K92 5G is priced from just $359, and offers 5G access
Read MoreMicrosoft Excel update will add support for intelligent new data types. Microsoft Excel update is promising a massive overhaul Source: Tech Radar Software
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