August 9, 2021 Exxon Kicked Out of Climate Group It Helped Form Seems like Big Oil’s chickens may be coming home to roost. On Friday, the Climate Leadership Council, a bipartisan, industry-supported group that advocates for…
August 9, 2021 Report: Disney Is Only Paying Comics Creators $5,000 for Work It’s Adapted for Billions Behind each and every one of Marvel Studios and DC Entertainment’s comic book adaptations are teams of comic book creators whose ideas laid the…
August 9, 2021 Dish says its will launch wireless 5G service in beta at the end of September Dish aims to cover 70% of the US population by mid-2023 with wireless service. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On an…
August 9, 2021 Hackers reportedly threaten to leak data from Gigabyte ransomware attack Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Gigabyte has been the victim of a cyberattack, which was reportedly the work of a ransomware outfit…
August 9, 2021 A Carnivorous Plant Has Been Hiding in Plain Sight in North America In the boglands of the northwestern United States and Canada, an unassuming plant has been trapping and eating insects, totally unbeknownst to science. Today,…
August 9, 2021 Instagram is now testing ads in the Shop tab Image: Instagram If you thought Instagram had run out of ad real estate, think again. The company confirmed to TechCrunch today that it’s starting…
August 9, 2021 Substack is getting into comics Image: A teaser for one of James Tynion IV’s Substack projects | Michael Avon Oeming Substack is trying to put a new spin on…
August 9, 2021 AI’s real effect on jobs? It’s complicated This article is part of a VB special issue. Read the full series: Automation and jobs in the new normal. To some, AI is…
August 9, 2021 Facebook’s updated data transfer tool can port events to Google Calendar Image: Facebook Facebook has updated its data transfer tool, Transfer Your Information, with two new destinations for information associated with your Facebook account: Photobucket…
August 9, 2021 Doom Patrol’s First Season 3 Teaser Is Your Brain on Drugs Doom Patrol’s second season left its world on the precipice of yet another calamity, as both Jane and Dorothy Spinner unwittingly freed different kinds…