February 5, 2020 Pepe the Frog died, and part of the internet died with him Kurt Keppeler and Christian Bruno / Sundance Institute Welcome to Cheat Sheet, our breakdown-style reviews of festival films, VR previews, and other special event…
February 5, 2020 Philips patched a longstanding Hue bulb security flaw Philips and its parent company Signify have patched another Hue smart light bulb vulnerability. Fortunately, the flaw was discovered by security researchers at CheckPoint…
February 5, 2020 This guy now owns Murfie’s nearly 1 million abandoned CDs Image: John Fenley Last November, a small Wisconsin company named Murfie, which streamed and stored thousands of people’s personal CD and vinyl collections, suddenly…
February 5, 2020 Microsoft’s Surface chief now leads Windows and hardware Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge It’s Microsoft reorg day today, and the biggest changes involve Surface chief Panos Panay taking over Windows…
February 5, 2020 BoJack Horseman was a powerful show about addiction and a messy one about celebrity Image: Netflix As BoJack Horseman progressed through its six seasons, the show’s most obvious punchline didn’t get funnier; it got scarier. Yes, the cartoon…
February 5, 2020 YouTube demands Clearview AI stop scraping its videos for facial recognition database Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge YouTube has sent a cease and desist letter to Clearview AI demanding that the controversial facial recognition…
February 5, 2020 Birds of Prey Is a Colorful, Explosive Comic Book Extravaganza Birds of Prey is not a Suicide Squad sequel. It is not DC and Warner Bros.’ follow up to Joker. It’s really not even…
February 5, 2020 Vodafone will remove Huawei equipment from its European networks European telecom Vodafone will remove Huawei-made equipment from the core parts of its wireless networks, the carrier announced on Wednesday. CEO Nick Read said…
February 5, 2020 This Xbox One X bundle includes a free game and a second controller for $349 Photo by Tyler Pina / The Verge It was a big deal when Microsoft slashed $150 off the price of the Xbox One X…
February 5, 2020 Beneath the Arctic’s Sea Ice, Robots Are Illuminating a Mysterious World Less than 200 miles from the North Pole in the middle of the Arctic Ocean, the German icebreaker Polarstern sits frozen into the ice…