Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Well, that’s a bummer. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration won’t be moving forward with a proposal to let electric vehicle owners pick their own low-speed sounds, citing a lack of “supportable data.” The move was first reported by Reuters. Back in 2019, NHTSA introduced a proposed rule-making…
Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives — and which ones you should bring…
The fourth-gen Echo Dot is on sale for just $19.99, which is a 50 percent discount. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Even with Amazon Prime Day going on, deals on inexpensive tech can be hard to come by. Nevertheless, they do exist, and some products are currently on sale on Amazon for…
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter will begin testing a long-awaited accessibility feature today: reminders to add alternative text — or alt text — to image posts. Alt text is a written description of what’s in an image and why it’s important. People who use screen readers, like blind and low-vision users, depend…
In consultation with Chief Judge Paul Michel, IPWatchdog is pleased to announce that Andrei Iancu, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO, and current partner at Irell & Manella, has been selected as the 2022 recipient of The Paul Michel Award. He will be presented with the award on Sunday evening, September 11, 2022, at IPWatchdog…
The screen on Apple’s new MacBook Air. [credit: Samuel Axon ] According to a new blog post by the company, Apple will begin taking orders for its newly redesigned 13.6-inch MacBook Air on Friday, July 8, at 5 am PT. The laptop will arrive at buyers’ doorsteps and be available for same-day retail purchase a week…
Enlarge / If a star (red trail) wanders too close to a black hole (left), it can be shredded, or spaghetified, by the intense gravity. Some of the star’s matter swirls around the black hole, like water down a drain, emitting copious X-rays (blue). (credit: NASA/CXC/M. Weiss) When astronomers first observed a star that was…
Enlarge / Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin really knows how to fill out a hard hat. (credit: Yegor Aleyev / TASS via Getty Images) Rumors on Russian social media networks and in select publications are swirling that the bombastic director general of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, will soon lose his position. The Interfax news agency reports that…
Land-dwelling organisms are retreating by an average of 10 miles per decade. Christal Yuen on Unsplash The following is an excerpt from Nowhere Left to Go: How Climate Change Is Driving Species to the Ends of the Earth by Benjamin von Brackel. Sydney, July 1998. Lesley Hughes was nervous as she stepped up to the…
Mike Epstein I’m normally the gaming guy at Popular Science, but I also really like to cook. When big sales like Prime Day hit, I often wind up getting more excited about picking up new odds and ends for my kitchen than looking for tech. As always, there’s a wide, exciting lineup of cooking gear…