April 6, 2021 Apple, We Know the AirTags Are Coming. Let’s Go Already We know Apple’s AirTags must surely exist, because credible rumors and leaks about them have been trickling into our news feeds for what seems…
April 6, 2021 Google seemingly reveals Pixel Buds A in marketing email Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge As we approach Google I/O 2021, the rumor mill has started pointing to new hardware, including a…
April 6, 2021 Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is expanding into a new frontier:…
April 6, 2021 Report: Clearview AI’s Facial Recognition Has Been Used by Over 1,800 Public Agencies A new series of reports from BuzzFeed News shows the wide net cast by shadowy surveillance firm Clearview AI. Individuals at 1,803 public agencies—many…
April 6, 2021 Big Telecom’s Voting Rights Stance Is as Treacherous as It Is Hollow Corporations have long vied to cultivate brands that consumers will—at the very least—perceive as “socially responsible.” Since the 1980s, these efforts have forced companies,…
April 6, 2021 Employee Indicted for Hacking Kansas Water Utility and Trying to Shut Down Key Systems A federal grand jury is indicting a 22-year-old guy over accusations that he tampered with a public water system. Dude allegedly hacked into a…
April 6, 2021 Gazelle brings back its phone trade-in program two months after discontinuing it Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Trade-in provider Gazelle exited the online trade-in business back in February, and now the company says it’s…
April 6, 2021 Sonos and IKEA are developing new Symfonisk speakers that hide in plain sight According to a new report, one of the new devices IKEA and Sonos are working on is a speaker that will double as an…
April 6, 2021 The number of billionaires spiked by 30% during the pandemic The rise in billionaires’ net worths during the Covid-19 pandemic has reinvigorated the debate about their role in society. | David Ryder/Bloomberg/Getty Images It’s…
April 6, 2021 Lenovo’s new gaming phone looks like a Transformer sandwich Not a big fan of the design of this rumored Lenovo gaming phone, to be honest. Kind of looks like a Transformer in disguise….