August 17, 2020 Secret Service bought access to cellphone location data Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge The US Secret Service (USSS) signed a contract to access Locate X, a service that lets law…
August 17, 2020 Microsoft’s Panos Panay is joining Sonos’ board of directors Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Panos Panay, the always-pumped Microsoft chief product officer and face of the Surface brand of hardware,…
August 17, 2020 YouTuber’s DIY gun shoots masks onto people’s faces Given the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths in the US, along with research that shows masks slow the spread of the disease, it…
August 17, 2020 ‘Ghost of Tsushima’ is getting co-op modes this fall If you’ve already fully completed Ghost of Tsushima (including that super-tough Lethal mode) and are yearning for more, you might be excited to learn…
August 17, 2020 Apple will give third-party Mac repair shops its stamp of approval Getting your Mac fixed could soon be much easier. Apple says it will now verify third-party Mac repair shops, Reuters reports. The program will…
August 17, 2020 Google’s Planned Updates for Wear OS Are Underwhelming Google’s smartwatch platform, Wear OS, doesn’t get as much love—or regular updates—as its rivals, but today we got a nice surprise: Google detailed some…
August 17, 2020 Somehow, a Tiny Black Hole Is Causing a ‘Heartbeat’ 100 Light-Years Away There’s a cloudy patch of space inside our galaxy that unexpectedly produces gamma radiation at clockwork-like intervals. Scientists have now linked these periodic pulses…
August 17, 2020 Use This Online Tool to Find Out If You Can Vote by Mail Right Now This was always going to be a tough presidential election. In 2016, Donald ***** spent a lot of time laying the groundwork to call…
August 17, 2020 Ghost of Tsushima gets co-op multiplayer this fall Sony announced Ghost of Tsushima: Legends today, a co-op multiplayer mode coming to its recent PlayStation 4 exclusive this fall as part of a…
August 17, 2020 The US is making it even harder for Huawei phones to get Android updates Illustration by William Joel / The Verge The ***** administration is further tightening restrictions on Chinese phone manufacturer Huawei, making it more difficult for…