Congress is considering banning its members — and their family members — from trading stocks. Kolderal via Getty Images Bearishness among retail investors reached its highest since June after the last CPI report, Vanda Research says. Individual investors appear to be raising their allocation to money market funds and cash. The cohort is likely increase…
The Pillars of Creation, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI). NASA released the James Webb Space Telescope‘s new image of the Pillars of Creation on Wednesday. The famous stellar nursery is within the vast Eagle Nebula 6,500 light-years away. Webb’s…
iCloud Private Relay is one of Apple’s latest privacy features. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images iCloud Private Relay can help protect your privacy by hiding your identity and location when browsing on Safari. This feature is currently in beta, only available in iOS 15 or macOS Monterey or later, and requires a subscription to iCloud+….
Google’s Material You design language has been available since Android 12, but you wouldn’t know it if you bought an entry Go Edition phone stuck with the old look. Thankfully, Google is finally bringing that aesthetic to lower-cost handset. The newly announced Android 13 Go Edition brings Material You to these basic devices for the…
Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP via Getty Images The US Department of Energy is awarding $2.8 billion in grants from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to shore up domestic battery manufacturing and mineral production, the White House announced Wednesday. The Biden administration is also launching a new government-wide initiative to strengthen supply chains to support…
Quiet, console. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Microsoft has released software updates for the Xbox Series S and X and the Xbox app for iOS and Android that bring some quality-of-life improvements and small tweaks that you may notice the next time you go to play a game. If you have your…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Forget your peaceful Uber ride — the ride-hailing service just announced it’s testing in-car tablets dedicated to displaying ads during your trip. The company’s, thankfully, not rolling out the program widely yet; it’s only piloting it in San Francisco and Los Angeles to start. So far, Uber says…
Enlarge / DirectStorage facilitates direct communication between your GPU and speedy modern SSDs, which can reduce game load times and speed up asset streaming. One of the newer Xbox features that Microsoft has been working to bring to Windows is DirectStorage, a collection of features that allows fast PCI Express-based NVMe SSDs to communicate directly…
Enlarge / Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans, 1636. Uffizi Museum, Florence. (credit: Public domain) In August, we reported that a letter presumably written by Galileo Galilei—part of the collection of the University of Michigan’s library—was actually a forgery, along with a similar document in the Morgan Library in New York City. Now that…
This piece comes to us from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). To honor Hispanic Heritage Month, WCS and Nature are bringing you stories in the fields of nature and conservation. Animal Encounter in the Bronx Zoo Animal Ambassador Building. Photo credit: Chris Durosinmi/WCS. As a child of immigrants, cultural identity was central to my upbringing….