April 5, 2021 The US government will pay you up to $500,000 to design a less annoying face mask Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over a year into the pandemic, we’ve seen a wide variety of masks, from totally unsafe fashion…
April 5, 2021 Flight Penguin is a new flight search Chrome app that promises ‘no collusion’ The founders of Hipmunk are launching a new startup today that’s aimed squarely at taking on their own former product. Called Flight Penguin, it’s…
April 5, 2021 Samsung’s latest budget phones ask: is refresh rate more important than resolution? If you had to choose: would you choose a sharper screen on your smartphone, or a smoother-scrolling one? This year, budget phone buyers may…
April 5, 2021 Clubhouse launches direct payments, and it won’t take a cut Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Social audio app Clubhouse will let all users pay other creators starting Monday. It’s the first monetization…
April 5, 2021 Once again, someone tampered with an entire drinking water supply via the internet Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge You would think that something as critical as a town or county’s drinking water supply would be well-protected…
April 5, 2021 Online-only Outriders can be paused in single-player — if you have an Nvidia GPU Image: People Can Fly Outriders, the online shooting, looting, and superpower-slinging game from People Can Fly, finally has a way to pause, but to…
April 5, 2021 Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th….
April 5, 2021 This Nintendo Switch is so big you can actually read the text in Skyrim Nintendo has been rumored to be working on a bigger Switch for a while now, which reportedly could show up later in 2021. But…
April 5, 2021 Epic just made streaming Fortnite easier than ever with a new Houseparty integration Image: Epic Games Epic is further stitching together its various platforms with a new Fortnite integration for its social video app Houseparty that lets…
April 5, 2021 LG says some phones will get Android 12 updates, but we’re skeptical The LG V60 — launched in early 2020 — could be on the list for an Android 12 update. | Photo by Chris Welch…