A 20-year-old Xbox Easter egg has been revealed, and there may still be more
Image: Kotaku Kotaku has revealed an Easter egg that’s been hidden on the original Xbox for almost twenty years, after a developer who worked on the console sent in a…
Tim Cook faces harsh questions about the App Store from judge in Fortnite trial
Tim Cook is seen through a window of the federal courthouse in San Francisco | Photo by Philip Pacheco/Getty Images Apple called CEO Tim Cook to conclude three weeks of…
What’s the best student laptop? We asked students
The Dell XPS 13 is one of the best laptops for high school and college students. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Shopping for a laptop can…
New research shows how many important links on the web get lost to time
Illustration by William Joel / The Verge A quarter of the deep links in The New York Times’ articles are now rotten, leading to completely inaccessible pages, according to a…
Twitch launches a dedicated ‘hot tubs’ category after advertiser pushback
A screenshot of Twitch’s new hot tubs category. Twitch is launching a dedicated category for hot tub streams after claiming that it has received pushback from advertisers and viewers about…
How to create an Instagram carousel
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whenever we use an app continuously, any change to the UI of that app can cause stress — and during these stressful…
Citizen, the vigilante justice app, has a plan to deploy private security forces, too
This morning, The Verge published a story about how Citizen — an app that appears to encourage vigilante justice — encouraged its users to hunt down the wrong person and…
HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay turns the stuffy late-night talk show into a party
Photo: HBO / WarnerMedia There’s a quality that some long-running chat podcasts have that can feel like a brick wall for new listeners. Existing relationships, in-jokes, and context that friends…
I do not understand this chair
Image: Penn Executive Chairs It started with a tweet from Roadshow editor-in-chief Tim Stevens. A picture of a chair that seemed to effortlessly skim the line between office chair, La-Z-Boy…
Biden Wants to Hire 87,000 Additional IRS Agents to Go After Wealthy Tax Dodgers
The Biden administration is proposing hiring 87,000 new workers for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), effectively doubling the agency’s size, as part of a plan to beef up enforcement efforts…
