Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly facing an investigation from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over whether it allowed users to trade unregistered securities, according to a report from Bloomberg. The SEC’s probe hasn’t yet been made public. Sources close to the situation told Bloomberg that the…
Monthly Archives: July 2022
Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s easier than it has ever been to add someone as a friend on your Nintendo Switch account with just your phone now that you can input a friend code into the Switch Online mobile app and send a request. An update in March made it simple for…
The headsets were some of the least expensive out there. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Meta Quest 2 (formerly known as the Oculus Quest 2) is about to get $100 more expensive, bringing the price for the 128GB model to $399.99 and the 256GB model to $499.99. According to a…
Enlarge / Lego’s Atari 2600 set. (credit: The Lego Group) Even the cheapest, slowest modern game consoles are capable of pushing high-definition 3D graphics that would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. But if you’re old enough to remember when video game graphics were just a series of colorful, abstract blobs, Lego has something…
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Hydrogen has been the decarbonized energy sector’s white whale. Wildly abundant and highly versatile, it has long had the potential to decarbonize entire sectors of the economy. From cars and trucks to planes, trains and even household boilers, the universe’s lightest gas isn’t short on possible applications. But it is short on successful applications. Cars…