WhatsApp is rolling out self-destructing voice messages
Image: Meta WhatsApp has officially announced that you’ll soon be able to set voice messages to disappear after their recipient hears them. The “View Once” feature has been available for…
Google’s 4K-ready Chromecast has returned to its Cyber Monday price
Google’s 4K-ready Chromecast makes for a great gift under $50. | Image: The Verge I don’t know about you, but now that I’m finally starting my holiday shopping, I’m kicking…
SpaceX May Test Propellant Transfer During the Next Starship Launch
Lakiesha Hawkins, deputy associate administrator for NASA’s Moon to Mars program office, one of her slides (at a Congressional Committee presentation) said SpaceX is moving quickly toward the third Super…
Amazon’s latest Echo Frames are more style than substance
I felt like a Kardashian reject roaming the streets of New York City, but hey, Alexa could tell me the weather. Continue reading…
How to watch The Game Awards (and what to expect)
Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images Geoff Keighley’s Happy Holiday Game-a-palooza, also known as The Game Awards (but that’s less fun), kicks off Thursday, December 7th, at 7:30PM…
Stellantis makes a big bet on EV battery swapping in new deal with Ample
Image: Ample Stellantis struck a deal with California-based EV battery swapping company Ample to power a fleet of shared Fiat 500e vehicles in Spain. But the company says the deal…
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s next DLC will let trainers take flight and turn into monsters
The Teal Mask — Pokémon Scarlet and Violet’s first DLC drop — was short and sweet and felt more like an encapsulated side quest experience than a significant update to…
US regulators will now have access to years of Binance transaction data
Enlarge (credit: Wired/Getty) One attraction of Binance, as the company grew from its 2017 founding into the biggest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, was the firm’s freewheeling flouting of rules.…
There’s gold (and lithium and cobalt) in all those EV battery packs
Illustration by Sisi Kim for The Verge Smarter tech and new recycling techniques might just mean our EVs get even greener. Here’s how Redwood Materials is putting recycling at the…
Apple continues its sci-fi push with Constellation in February
Noomi Rapace in Constellation. | Image: Apple Apple TV Plus has been a solid run of science fiction of late — think Invasion, Monarch, For All Mankind, and Silo — and…