December 12, 2019 Apple’s new parental controls on iOS can be bypassed Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge On Tuesday, Apple released iOS 13.3, and one of its key new features was Communication Limits, which…
December 12, 2019 Samsung claims it has sold 1 million Galaxy Folds Samsung’s first folding phone may have been fraught with a stumbled launch, reliability woes, and a nearly $2,000 price tag, but that hasn’t stopped…
December 12, 2019 Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social network creators don’t trust it Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Yesterday, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey made a theoretically huge announcement: he wanted Twitter to stop being a…
December 12, 2019 NASA picks the asteroid crater its spacecraft will steal rocks from next summer Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth —…
December 12, 2019 Yap is the best new chatroom I’m an inveterate chatter. I miss the days of AIM and Gchat; I regularly reread n+1’s fantastic essay on the history and rise of…
December 12, 2019 New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker scene hints at an unexpected return Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’s release is just a week away, bringing the end of both Disney’s modern sequel trilogy and the overarching…
December 12, 2019 Vudu now lets you undo a movie rental within the first 30 minutes Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images We’ve all started a movie only to realize it’s not quite what we were expecting…
December 12, 2019 The Witcher’s last trailer shows off a fantasy epic that could replace Game of Thrones Netflix’s big-budget TV series adaptation of The Witcher (based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s series of fantasy novels, and not the popular video game series that,…
December 12, 2019 FTC may block Facebook from integrating messaging apps, per WSJ report Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission could force Facebook to back out of its plans to integrate its family…
December 12, 2019 Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit Lyft is getting into car rentals. The ride-hailing company announced Thursday that it’s launching a rental service available in its main smartphone app that…