Halloween is the perfect time to watch one of the scariest guys to ever wear a jumpsuit: Michael Myers. His reign of terror started decades ago and now spans a dozen Halloween films. But they don’t all follow a neat order. Also: Best Halloween movies: Top horror films and thrillers to stream The franchise has…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Rad Power Bikes, a popular American e-bike brand that has raised over $300 million in the past two years, will start offering bikes as a subscription service next week. The company is partnering with Cycle, a Berlin-based e-bike subscription service that caters to couriers and last-mile delivery, to pilot the offering in Berlin. Starting September…
Donald Trump was banned from Twitter two days after the January 6 Capitol riot. Alex Brandon/AP In July, the Jan. 6 panel played a recording of an interview with an anonymous Twitter employee. The whistleblower said the company was reluctant to take stronger actions against Trump’s account. The employee, Anika Collier Navaroli, spoke with The…
It may not have the flash of the macroflora and fauna typical of most natural history museums, but the massive collection of diatoms held at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is an archive of past environments. Getty Images This article was originally featured on Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science…
Amazon’s Logo. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon plans to limit automatic ebook returns to cases where people have read no more than 10 percent of the book, according to the Authors Guild. The change, which follows complaints that Kindle buyers were returning titles they’d fully read to get a refund, is…
I love the cute characters in the game. | Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Google’s Arts & Culture division has released a charming new educational game all about ancient Mesoamerica. The game, The Descent of the Serpent, is available to play right now in your browser or via the Google Arts & Culture…
A new institutional tutoring solution from online tutoring company Tutor.com enables colleges and universities to centralize 24/7 academic support services for students.Read More
Erik Torenberg is no longer the co-CEO of On Deck, a tech company that is trying to productize the community in a way that helps founders secure capital and advice. Torenberg, an early Product Hunt employee and the founder of investment firm Village Global, assumed the role only a year ago. But now, as On…
Former Long Beach Police Chief Robert Luna, left, and Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva share a lighter moment near the end of their debate as they both like the TV show Big Bang Theory and both are Dodgers fans. Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Los Angeles Sheriff’s candidates took…
A panel at Nvidia’s GTC event this week spoke about the future of Universal Scene Description, created by Pixar but metaverse-friendly.Read MoreRead More