Something in space has been lighting up every 20 minutes since 1988
Enlarge / Most of the explanations for this phenomenon involve a neutron star, depicted above. These explanations are uniformly terrible. (credit: MARK GARLICK/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY) On Wednesday, researchers announced the…
AT&T says lead cables in Lake Tahoe “pose no danger” and should stay in place
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Ronald Martinez) AT&T’s legacy telephone network may have nearly 200,000 miles of lead-covered cables, according to an estimate by AT&T submitted in a court filing.…
DoorDash fired an employee for trying to organize a union, NLRB alleges
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Bloomberg reports a regional director for the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) filed a complaint alleging that DoorDash illegally fired an office employee…
How Dell dodged a class action suit over Alienware Area-51m GPU upgrades
The Alienware Area-51m. | Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge In 2021, Dell got sued — because one year after hyping up an Alienware laptop that supposedly let you…
Your Starbucks order is not ready
Oh, goody! Wait, I’ve ordered nothing. | Screenshot: Umar Shakir / The Verge It’s been a long time since I personally ordered from Starbucks, but today, I thought the streak…
Amazon says it’ll ditch plastic padded mailers
An Amazon Prime packet at a plastic scrapyard in Muzaffarnagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India. | Image: Prashanth Vishwanathan / Bloomberg via Getty Images Amazon says it’ll eventually quit sending packages…
Reddit is now inviting mods to participate in weekly ‘feedback sessions’
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Reddit has had something of a contentious relationship with many of its moderators as of late, but now, the company is trying to…
Blizzard games are coming to Steam
Image: Blizzard Some of your favorite Blizzard games are coming to Steam. Today, Blizzard announced that it plans to offer a selection of its games on the PC storefront. “Though…
Oppenheimer is an unrelenting stream of bombastic vignettes in need of a narrative chain reaction
Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer. | Image: Universal Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer epic offers a series of visceral glimpses into the life of the father of the atomic bomb but…
Barbenheimer is just the beginning of this year’s summer blockbuster season
Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer and Margot Robbie as Barbie in Barbie. | Image: Universal / Warner Bros. Pictures After all the mermaids, superheroes, talking robots, and…