Israel Has Taken All of Northern Gaza
Main combat operations in the north of the Gaza Strip have come to an end, with the focus shifting to central and southern Gaza. In central Gaza, the IDF (Israel…
The Peregrine lunar lander didn’t land, but it’s still collecting data
Astrobotic Astrobotic’s ill-fated Peregrine moon lander may soon be tumbling through space, but in the meantime, it’s collecting data for science. In an update on Thursday, NASA disclosed that payloads…
Substack keeps the Nazis, loses Platformer
Illustration by The Verge Platformer, the tech newsletter started by Verge alum Casey Newton, is leaving Substack over its policies around and response to pro-Nazi publications using the platform. Newton…
Those Games turns crappy mobile game ads into actually good puzzles
Enlarge / Can you master the ornate physics and inscrutable game theory necessary to overcome this challenge? (credit: D3Publisher) You’ve seen them. If you’ve tried to read almost anything on…
Dexcom’s new continuous glucose monitor is a health tech gadget with purpose
The Stelo CGM will look similar to the one pictured here and is based on the Dexcom G7. | Photo by Victoria Song / The Verge Year in and year…
“Such signal, much wow”: Starlink’s first texts via “cellphone towers in space”
Enlarge / Starlink satellites with direct-to-cell capability. (credit: SpaceX) SpaceX is showing off the first text messages sent between T-Mobile phones via one of Starlink’s low Earth orbit satellites. “On…
Astronomers found ultra-hot, Earth-sized exoplanet with a lava hemisphere
Enlarge / Like Kepler-10 b, illustrated above, newly discovered exoplanet HD 63433 d is a small, rocky planet in a tight orbit of its star. (credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle) Astronomers have…
Report: Deepfake porn consistently found atop Google, Bing search results
Enlarge (credit: GeorgePeters | iStock / Getty Images Plus) Popular search engines like Google and Bing are making it easy to surface nonconsensual deepfake pornography by placing it at the…
Actor paid to pose as crypto CEO “deeply sorry” about $1.3 billion scam
Enlarge / A screenshot from Jack Gamble’s video outing Stephen Harrison as HyperVerse’s fake CEO, posted on Gamble’s “Nobody Special Finance” YouTube channel. (credit: Nobody Special Finance | YouTube) An…
Google lays off “hundreds” more employees, strips Google Assistant features
Enlarge / Google is looking pretty dilapidated these days. (credit: Aurich Lawson) Google’s cost-cutters are still working overtime, with more layoffs this week and cuts to Google Assistant functionality. First…