Photo by Derek Davis/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images The Biden administration has new plans to get lower-income households hooked up to solar energy. The White House announced two new programs today aimed at expanding access to “community solar” projects among subsidized housing residents and households that receive federal assistance to pay their utility…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On the heels of Spotify’s blockbuster audio drama Batman Unburied, the company is promoting Gimlet executive Mimi O’Donnell to head of scripted fiction at the streamer, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. Batman Unburied notably unseated The Joe Rogan Experience when it debuted in May…
Pictured: Sony summoning the Yakuza games to PlayStation Plus. Sony has announced that it’s bringing eight games from the (mostly) beloved Yakuza series to PlayStation Plus throughout the rest of the year, with the first hitting the service in August. Be warned, though — if you’re subscribed to the base PlayStation Plus Essential tier, you’ll…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed a complaint to block Meta from acquiring Within, the company behind the virtual reality fitness app Supernatural. The FTC claims Meta bought Within to absorb competition in the fitness market, where it already owned the similar app Beat Saber. The complaint…
Sylvester Stallone stars as an aging superhero long believed to be dead, in Samaritan. Action legend Sylvester Stallone has dabbled in the superhero genre before, most notably as Judge Dredd (1995), the Ravager Stakar Ogord in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. (2017), and the voice of King Shark in The Suicide Squad (2021). (He’s reprising…
This 16th-century horse tooth found in Haiti could reveal more details about the fabled origins of domesticated horses in the Americas. Nicolas Delsol/CC-BY 4.0 The 1947 children’s novel Misty of Chincoteague opens with a dramatic account of a small herd of horses escaping from the wreck of a colonial-era Spanish galleon. According to local folk…
The FTC filed an injunction today to block Meta’s acquisition of the virtual reality studio Within, which is best known more recently for its subscription VR workout app Supernatural. The regulatory body has had plenty of skirmishes with Facebook, now Meta, in recent years, but this is a pretty aggressive signal from the agency that…
Google is again delaying plans to phase out Chrome’s use of third-party cookies — the files websites use to remember preferences and track online activity. In a blog post, Anthony Chavez, Google’s VP of Privacy Sandbox, said that the company is now targeting the “second half of 2024” as the timeframe for adopting an alternative…
While laptops and tablets are great on their own, sometimes you just need both — at once — without the hassle of having to carry around two devices all day. Enter the hybrid laptop (or just “2-in-1 laptop”). It’s a device that you can convert from tablet to laptop and back again with ease. They…
This July 12, 2019 file photo shows the UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minneapolis. Jim Mone, File/AP Photo A Democratic US Senate candidate in Missouri has pledged to “stand up” to health insurers. But the candidate, Trudy Busch Valentine, holds stock in CVS Health, Humana, and UnitedHealth Group. She has pledged to put her investments in a…