January 30, 2020 First person-to-person transmission of coronavirus reported in the United States View of St. Alexius Medical Center in Hoffman Estates, Illinois on January 24, 2020 where a Chicago woman affected by the coronavirus is treated…
January 30, 2020 Amazon’s disconcerting Super Bowl ad makes real people respond to questions we’d ask Alexa Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Amazon released its Super Bowl commercial this week, and it’s a weird one. The company’s Super Bowl…
January 30, 2020 Today, NASA turns off a space telescope that peered into the extra cold Universe Today, NASA is shutting down one of its long-lasting space observatories, a telescope that’s been wandering through space for nearly two decades, snapping images…
January 30, 2020 What Pokémon can teach us about conservation and climate change There’s a moment in the live-action movie Detective Pikachu when the ground beneath our heroes’ feet is crumbling. As they slip and slide, Pikachu,…
January 30, 2020 AT&T tried to buy out the streaming wars — and customers are paying for it Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over the past five years, AT&T has spent hundreds of billions of dollars preparing for the streaming…
January 30, 2020 How to use Fitbit’s female health tracking tool Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Fitbit added a female health feature to its app in May 2018, allowing you to manually…
January 30, 2020 Moscow rolls out live facial recognition system with an app to alert police Photo by Andrei Makhonin\TASS via Getty Images Moscow is the latest major city to introduce live facial recognition cameras to its streets, with Mayor…
January 30, 2020 This Untitled Goose Game app turns your Windows PC into pure mayhem “What if the Untitled Goose Game was your entire computer?” asked nobody but Sam Person until this week. 18-year-old Person has created an app…
January 30, 2020 Giphy and Infinite Objects will let you gift a physical GIF to your valentine This Valentine’s Day, let that special someone know your love is as infinite as a GIF that loops forever. Giphy is partnering with “video…
January 30, 2020 Twitch and Caffeine are hosting their own Super Bowls before the big game Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In four days, tens of thousands of people will descend on Miami to watch Super Bowl 2020,…