Logitech’s peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices
Logitech's peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices Logitech’s peel-and-stick radar sensors could let companies invisibly monitor their offices Logitech sales boomed during the pandemic as people outfitted their home offices, and it’s getting a piece of the hybrid workplace with teleconferencing gear too. But Logitech’s also got a little-known corporate office […]
The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul
The fallout of Meta's content moderation overhaul The fallout of Meta’s content moderation overhaul Meta is making sweeping changes to its content moderation policies, including abandoning third-party fact-checks in favor of X’s crowd-sourced “Community Notes” approach and loosening restrictions on topics like immigration and gender identity. Under the updated Hateful Conduct policy, for example, calling […]
Boom’s supersonic test plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time
Boom's supersonic test plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time Boom’s supersonic test plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time Boom Supersonic’s XB-1 test plane broke the sound barrier three times during its twelfth test flight. Ten months after its long-delayed first subsonic flight took place last March, Boom Supersonic’s prototype […]
PowerSchool starts sending breach notifications, but there are still questions left to answer
PowerSchool starts sending breach notifications, but there are still questions left to answer Education software platform PowerSchool has started sending breach notifications to victims of a December 2024 cyberattack, but has yet to share how many people were affected or what exactly happened, reports BleepingComputer. PowerSchool, which has has more than 18,000 customers worldwide and […]
Google Play will now verify VPNs that prioritize privacy and safety
Google Play will now verify VPNs that prioritize privacy and safety Google Play will now display verification badges on approved VPNs as a way to “highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety,” the company announced on Tuesday. The new badge will appear on a VPN app’s details page and within search results, proving that […]
X says its payments service will finally launch this year
X says its payments service will finally launch this year X is one step closer to finally launching its payments platform. According to X CEO Linda Yaccarino, the X Money service will debut “later this year” with Visa announced as its first partner. In her announcement, Yaccarino says the service will support “secure + instant […]
The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk
The entire story of Twitter / X under Elon Musk Elon Musk bought Twitter, and now he’s rebranding it as X. Signs have gone up (and back down), icons are changing, and an old plan is new. How’d we get here? On April 4th, 2022, we learned that Musk had purchased enough shares of Twitter […]
Mythic Quest season four switches things up with a new work-life balance
Mythic Quest season four switches things up with a new work-life balance Mythic Questâs ability to spin some of the gaming industryâs ugliest aspects into genuinely funny comedy was what made it such a surprising delight when it first hit Apple TV Plus back in 2020. Even when it was joking about chaotic streamers or […]
Google Maps in the US will change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley
Google Maps in the US will change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley Illustration: The Verge Google said today that it plans to update Google Maps to reflect President Trump’s January 20th executive order to change the names of the Gulf of Mexico and Denali to the Gulf of America and Mount McKinley, respectively. […]
Trump says he’ll put tariffs on imported chips ‘in the near future’
Trump says he'll put tariffs on imported chips 'in the near future' Trump says he’ll put tariffs on imported chips ‘in the near future’ Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Without going into detail about what might happen to the $52 billion in subsidies from the CHIPS Act under his administration, Donald Trump […]