Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge After a few delays, Verizon seems poised to actually follow through on shutting down its 3G CDMA network at the end of this year. But the carrier is still contending with a subset of customers who sat out the 4G LTE era and haven’t yet upgraded their 3G…
JWST’s primary mirror on Earth before it launched | Image: NASA Today, NASA released a list of celestial targets that will be revealed next week when the agency publishes the first full-color images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST. The targets include galaxies, nebulas, and a giant planet outside our Solar System….
Enlarge (credit: FT montage | Getty Images | Dreamstime) Chinese university students have been lured to work at a secretive technology company that masked the true nature of their jobs: researching Western targets for spying and translating hacked documents as part of Beijing’s industrial-scale intelligence regime. The Financial Times has identified and contacted 140 potential…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | SOPA Images ) Elon Musk is expected to take “drastic action” to get out of his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter, The Washington Post wrote yesterday in an article citing “three people familiar with the matter.” The anonymous sources seem to be from Musk’s camp. “Musk’s team has concluded…
A fin whale passes by in the Drake Passage crossing for Ushuaia to Antarctica. oversnap via Getty Images In 2018, a multidisciplinary Antarctic expedition to study the impacts of climate change on krill populations, among other things, uncovered a heartening surprise about one of the crustacean’s prime predators: fin whales. Helicopters dispatched from aboard the…
These are turbulent times for both crypto investors and projects alike. Over the past several months, Bitcoin and Ethereum have seen substantial declines in their token prices. But investors have given even bigger haircuts to the breakout success stories of the 2021 bull run. Solana, a newer blockchain with early Silicon Valley backers, has watched…
Investors are used to using their acumen and financial heft to find companies that might disrupt markets. But it turns out their views and investments might disrupt public opinion, too. A massive survey of Facebook users from around the world shows a vast group of people who are neither convinced that climate change is the…
SAVE $20: As of July 8, you can score a Roku Ultra streaming device for $20 off ahead of Prime Day — snag one for just $79.99. We struggle to find any reason to have cable anymore, unless you’re married to watching reruns of Family Feud all day on Game Show Network or something. No…
From Black Panther’s Ramonda to Thor’s Frigga, the Marvel Cinematic Universe has no shortage of badass mothers. With Ms. Marvel, the MCU has taken this dedication to all things maternal to another level. For starters, there’s Muneeba, the mother of protagonist Kamala Khan. But let’s not forget that Sana, Kamala’s nani (maternal grandmother), is herself…
Eddie Munson screaming, Yung Gravy rapping, and Kim Kardashian judging soundtracked TikTok FYPs this week. Let’s get into it. This is music! The final two episodes of Stranger Things Season 4 dropped July 1 and amidst the outlandish theories, thirst for the cast, and love for “Master of Puppets” by Metallica, Eddie’s outburst in the…