While AR/VR can create next-gen experiences for users, without stringent data privacy, it can also cause harmful manipulation.Read MoreRead More
An ISS Roll-Out Solar Array (iROSA) is deployed in 2001. The solar arrays are slowly being added to the space station to boost its available power. | Image: NASA In the next few weeks, astronauts will be heading out of the airlock on the International Space Station (ISS) on a series of three spacewalks, part…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges, says it’s monitoring a fix for a partial outage that affected its website and app for around two hours on Tuesday. According to the company’s status page, users experienced difficulties logging in or loading pages — and while the rest of…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It’s hard out there for NFT enthusiasts — the market has slowed down significantly, sales have plummeted since peaks, and the people involved in the space are grasping for ways to get their projects some attention. For crypto businessperson Martin Mobarak, the best way he knew how to…
Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS 11 Big Sur. (credit: Apple) Earlier this week, Apple released a document clarifying its terminology and policies around software upgrades and updates. Most of the information in the document isn’t new, but the company did provide one clarification about its update policy that it hadn’t made explicit before:…
The robot is cuter. Deposit Photos The springtail is a tiny, fascinating semiaquatic invertebrate capable of escaping predators by impressively leaping ten times’ its height, performing a midair U-turn, and finally landing atop the water’s surface. Although there are thousands of known springtail species in nature, the close relative to the flea remains a relatively…
The disgraced founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes will be sentenced on November 18 after she was found guilty on four counts of defrauding investors in January. Once the youngest self-made female billionaire, Holmes is could face up to twenty years in prison for each of the four counts of fraud. Holmes had delayed sentencing by…
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by volume, has signed a letter of intent to buy its closest competitor, FTX, making huge waves in the crypto community after the putative billionaire CEOs of the exchanges engaged in a multi-day public dispute on Twitter. “It’s like real-life ‘Game of Thrones,’” Alex Taub, founder and CEO of…
Google announced today that it’s making the new Gmail interface the standard experience for users. The company first released the new interface earlier this year, but allowed users to revert back to the original view. Starting this month, users will no longer have the option to go back to the old interface. “The integrated view…
Buckle up, Wordle players: The New York Times is making changes to the popular word-guessing game. And it might make figuring out the five-letter word a little more challenging. The paper announced Wordle now has a dedicated editor, Tracy Bennett, who joined the Times in 2020 as an associate puzzle editor. With an editor helming…