Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge High school chemistry teacher Phil Cook (@chemteacherphil) didn’t know anything about TikTok until one Friday in August, when a student in his class suggested that he make one of the day’s in-class demonstration: an experiment he calls the “gummy bear” sacrifice, where adding sugar (a gummy bear) to
Read MoreTinymakesthings One of the most appealing benefits of mechanical keyboards is their customizability, and artisan keycap maker Tiny is on a mission to bring some joy to the keyboard. Her custom keycaps, made from polymer clay and resin, range from designs like waffles drenched in syrup, Baby Yoda, and Kirby, mid-inhale. Whether it’s a lone
Read MoreThere are tools to crack into the phones at the center of a new dispute over encryption. But the F.BI. says it still needs Apple’s aide. Does the F.B.I. Need Apple to Hack Into iPhones? Source: NY Times Tech
Read MoreThe Tesla boss wants to weed out the Twitter bots. Elon Musk suggests Twitter tweaks to Jack Dorsey – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreDemocrats are mad the company will permit false political ads. The Technology 202: Pelosi’s Facebook slam reflects rising tensions between social media giant and Democrats Source: Washington Post Tech
Read MoreMicrosoft offers up the security tool it uses to probe untrusted third-party software components in its applications. Microsoft: Application Inspector is now open source, so use it to test code security Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThe princess saves the prince in this one. Kings of the Castle gives Apple Arcade the royal treatment – CNET Source: CNet
Read MorePhoto by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge I was quite literally riding into the sunset when I began calculating just how fast my legs would have to move in order to abandon the electric skateboard under my feet. The winding road from the High Point Lookout of Red Rock Canyon in Nevada to the bottom
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge; Photo by YourStuffedMemories / Etsy Everyone loves Baba Yoda, but official merchandise of the character has been hard to find, since Disney didn’t want to spoil the surprise surrounding the little green alien by producing toys and t-shirts ahead of The Mandalorian’s premiere. In that vacuum, plenty of enterprising
Read MoreLeica M10 Monochrom | Image: Leica Three years after the release of the M10, Leica is finally introducing a Monochrom camera based on the M10’s design. The new M10 Monochrom has all of the design traits and features of the M10 (or more accurately, 2018’s M10-P), such as a slimmer body and wireless connectivity, but
Read MoreDamon Lindelof is reportedly happy with season 1, and HBO isn’t in a hurry to continue without him. Watchmen season 2 is looking unlikely after creator opts out – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreMicrosoft is developing a new programming language but it’s not giving up its work on Rust. Microsoft opens up Rust-inspired Project Verona programming language on GitHub Source: ZDNet Microsoft
Read MoreThis bright, somewhat blob-like object — seen in this image taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope — is a galaxy named NGC 1803. It is about 200 million light-years away, in the southern constellation of Pictor (the Painter’s Easel), and it was discovered in 1834 by astronomer John Herschel. Hubble Views Galaxy From Famous
Read MorePhoto by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images The big news yesterday is that NBC finally made its streaming service, Peacock, official. It’s coming on July 15th with a handful of pricing tiers ranging from free (with limited content) to $9.99 a month for all the Parks & Rec you can inject into your
Read MoreAlex Hern / The Guardian: Study finds the worlds’ biggest brands, including Samsung and L’Oreal, are unknowingly running ads inside climate misinformation videos on YouTube — Avaaz says firms are unaware commercials being played alongside misleading videos — Some of the biggest companies in the world … Study finds the worlds' biggest brands, including Samsung
Read MoreOur robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Faraday used to say: Money makes the world go around! Bitcoin price We closed the day, January 16 2020,
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last summer, with misinformation swirling about the death of Jeffrey Epstein, I joined the chorus of voices calling for an end to Twitter’s trending topics. The feature is generated by algorithms with little editorial oversight, is easily gamed by bots and bad actors, and yet continues to drive
Read More{$inline_image}I like to think that somewhere inside the bureaucratic labyrinth of Apple’s employee structure, there’s a single person with the world’s greatest job. Each year, they only have to do a single thing: Traverse the world and try to take a sick photo of a landscape for the latest macOS wallpaper. Does this job exist?
Read MoreBT is partnering with Google to launch broadband plans in the UK that come with access to the Stadia cloud gaming service. It’s a first for Europe, allowing BT to offer a free Google Stadia Premiere Edition with broadband deals direct to consumers. BT, the biggest ISP in the UK, is planning to offer the
Read MoreIt’s small, but so is its price tag, and its list of standard features is quite long. 2020 Hyundai Venue is a big ball o' value – Roadshow Source: CNet
Read MoreThis week’s rumors and leaks bring us photos of how the phone could look. Plus, more evidence that Samsung will call this year’s flagship the Galaxy S20. Samsung Galaxy S20: Blurry leaked photos and all the rumors and specs so far – CNET Source: CNet
Read MoreiRobot If you’re tired of doing all of the vacuuming around the house, iRobot’s slick Roomba S9 and S9 Plus robot vacuums are up to $300 off for readers of The Verge. The high-end S9 Plus is $1,099 (down from $1,399) until supplies last at Wellbots with the offer code S9PLUSVERGE. This model comes with
Read MoreSam Byford / The Verge: Renders of Huawei’s P40 Pro show a camera bump with Leica branding that has five lenses at the back and two selfie cameras at the front, but no headphone jack — Seven cameras, zero Google apps? — New renders from Evan “Evleaks” Blass give us what may well be our
Read More{$inline_image} Sam Byford / The Verge: Renders of Huawei’s P40 Pro show a camera bump with Leica branding that has five lenses at the back and two selfie cameras at the front, but no headphone jack — Seven cameras, zero Google apps? — New renders from Evan “Evleaks” Blass give us what may well be
Read MorePhoto by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook has permanently cut the price of its Oculus Go VR headset. “Oculus Go is now priced at $149, which is equal to a $50 price drop,” the company tells UploadVR. “We are applying comparable discounts across all countries where Go is sold. Updated pricing is rolling
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