August 18, 2021 Facebook releases a report on the most-viewed content in News Feed Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook has released a report to show what content was most widely viewed by Americans in the…
August 18, 2021 Joe ***** Continues His Assault on the Freedom to Buy Crappy Appliances Real Americans know freedom when they see it. It can look like refusing to prevent a largely preventable illness, a Lego-bedazzled Glock, or buying…
August 18, 2021 Twitter is making it easier for other apps to point to Spaces Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is updating its API v2 so that developers can look up its Spaces social audio rooms,…
August 18, 2021 Cryptocurrency supporters are in the middle of their first big fight in Congress Illustration by Grayson Blackmon / The Verge Last week, the Senate approved a massive infrastructure package making serious investments in building out the US’s…
August 18, 2021 Heist Team Allegedly Stole $500,000 From Drug Dealer by Using an Apple Watch as a Tracker Food for thought for aspiring child spies: there are probably good use cases for turning an Apple Watch into a tracking device. Related advice…
August 18, 2021 Solo’s Qi’ra Is Back With Her Own Marvel Star Wars Comic When Qi’ra stole Han Solo’s carbonite-encased body in the final pages of War of the Bounty Hunters #1, it brought one of the Solo…
August 18, 2021 Senators ask FTC to investigate Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ promises Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Senators Ed Markey (D-MA) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) have asked new Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina…
August 18, 2021 The Taliban may have seized biometric data that can ID US allies in Afghanistan Photo by John Moore/Getty Images The US military created a vast database of biometric data — one report suggests it had a goal of…
August 18, 2021 Two U.S. Children Died From a Brain-Eating Amoeba This Month Two U.S. children in recent weeks appear to have been killed by a dangerous amoeba found in freshwater lakes and ponds. On Tuesday afternoon,…
August 18, 2021 How Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are handling the Taliban Taliban fighters stand along a road in Kabul on August 18. | Hoshang Hashimi/AFP/Getty Images The world might accept the Taliban as a legitimate…