Target is selling the Xbox Series S with a free $70 game right now
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge The Xbox Series S may sometimes go a little unloved, but Microsoft’s tiny white box isn’t just a QHD-capable console with 512GB of…
What I played on my summer vacation
Enlarge (credit: Sad Owl Studios) Careful Ars readers may have noticed that my byline was absent from the site for a large portion of July and August (if you missed…
Moderna CEO made $400M last year—2,435X the median salary of employees
Enlarge / Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel during a Bloomberg Television interview on the closing day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on May 26, 2022. (credit: Getty |…
Metamaterials Trap Light in a Magnet Could Lead to Optically Controlled Computer Memory
Vinod M. Menon and his research group at The City College of New York shows that trapping light inside magnetic materials may dramatically enhance their intrinsic properties. Strong optical responses…
The fandomization of news
Lil Tay in 2018. | Image: Lil Tay / YouTube Younger generations expect news to come straight from creators. But when creators are wrong, the news ecosystem quickly breaks down.…
Low interest rates and loneliness: the origins of the pandemic crypto boom
Glauber Contessoto, also known as “Pro,” records a video about Dogecoin. | Image: This Is Not Financial Advice This Is Not Financial Advice and Easy Money attempt to explain the…
Baldur’s Gate 3 on the Steam Deck looks bad but plays great
Screenshot by Jay Peters / The Verge Baldur’s Gate 3 is a delight on Steam Deck — even though I sometimes can’t tell what’s going on. I suspected that might…
Tiffany Haddish on her new movie’s bleak vision of our streaming future
Tiffany Haddish and Asante Blackk in Landscape With Invisible Hand. | Image: MGM Landscape With Invisible Hand is an alien invasion story with a twist: a species known as the…
Our health care system may soon receive a much-needed cybersecurity boost
Enlarge (credit: Lorenzo Capunata/Getty) The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (Arpa-H), a research support agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said today that it…
New Intel GPU drivers help address one of Arc’s biggest remaining weak points
Enlarge / Intel is playing up the cumulative performance improvements for DirectX 11 games since its Arc GPUs launched almost a year ago. (credit: Intel) When they launched last fall,…