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…
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…
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…
SpaceX signs bulk deal for three private Crew Dragon missions
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule is seen docked to the ISS in April, 2021 after a port relocation manuever with its crew of four Crew-1 astronauts on board. | NASA/JSC SpaceX’s…
HBO Max’s cheaper $10 ad-supported plan is finally here
The HBO Max logo. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge HBO Max’s ad-supported streaming option has officially launched on the platform. The new tier will be priced at…
Next God of War delayed until 2022 but will come to PS4 too
The next God of War game has been pushed to 2022. The game, intended for PS5, was originally planned to launch sometime in 2021. Head of PlayStation Studios Hermen Hulst…
Go read this story about the rise and fall of a $77 million game cheating empire
Image: PUBG Corp Free-to-play games are hugely successful (in 2020, PUBG Mobile reportedly made $2.8 billion in China alone), but that success attracts unscrupulous developers who earn their own small…
