Your next laptop may come with a cryptominer, courtesy of Norton
Image: Norton Ethereum mining is coming to perhaps an unexpected place: Norton 360, the antivirus software that many readers will know from setting up new computers for their parents (via…
NASA will send two missions to Venus for the first time in over 30 years
The agency has picked two new robotic missions to explore the hot hell-world of Venus, Earth’s neighbor and the second planet from the Sun, administrator Bill Nelson announced on Wednesday.…
Apple asks staff to return to office three days a week starting in early September
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple employees are being asked to return to the office three days a week starting in early September. Tim Cook sent out an…
LIFE IN PRISON For Anti Vax Speech, JBS MEAT HACK & Canada Launches “VACCINE INJURY SUPPORT PROGRAM”
Just when you thought things couldn’t get any crazier in this Covid-19(84) nightmare, the Canadian government goes full Draconian while global supply chains are facing their biggest threat yet…cyberattacks! “Hackers”…
You probably shouldn’t eat cicadas if you’re allergic to shellfish
Magicicada periodical cicadas, members of Brood X, cluster on a plant at Fairland Recreational Park June 01, 2021 in Burtonsville, Maryland. | Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Brood X is…
Amazon’s newest euphemism for overworked employees is ‘industrial athlete’
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon tells its warehouse employees to think of themselves not as overworked cogs in an enormous, soul-crushing machine, but as “industrial athletes,” and…
If you play Fortnite right now, you might get abducted by aliens
A promotional image for Fortnite’s next season. If you hop into a game of Fortnite right now, you might get teleported across the map by a mysterious laser beam that…
Serious Injury Rate for Amazon Workers Is Nearly Double the Industry Average
New data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) shows that Amazon warehouse workers are injured at a much higher rate than workers at the warehouses of businesses providing…
Amazon will stop testing most employees for weed
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon is relaxing its policy around employees using weed, according to a new blog post, and will no longer enforce marijuana drug tests…
AMC is giving free popcorn away to meme stonk investors
Photo by AaronP/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images Look, when the internet learns a new trick — like it did in January, with GameStop — it’s a pretty safe bet that people will play…