THE RADIOACTIVE COCKROACH HICCUPED, AND GRINNED.—@rosiestonies via InstagramHonorable Mentions:Still, the droid’s skin was healing. —David Gerster via Facebook“Upload Failed.” Phew, that was close. —Assa Naveh via FacebookIt exploded, but he looked hot. —Anna Rose McHugh via FacebookShe could see who had stayed. —@pameleen via InstagramHumans. Not my best work. Still … —@gg3_scorpio via InstagramThe worst…
If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement. Samsung has settled into a new routine for its Galaxy Note line of smartphones: take some of the major new features from the flagship Galaxy S updates from earlier in the year, improve on them slightly, and…
I just played Death Stranding on my wife’s beat-up Samsung Chromebook Plus. That’s because Nvidia just made it possible to do so with its GeForce Now cloud streaming service, which launched in beta for Chrome OS today. While gaming natively isn’t necessarily a strong suit of Chrome OS, support for Google’s Stadia and GeForce Now…
Ghost of Tsushima Legends Sucker Punch The deck is starting to feel a little bit stacked for the PS5 and Xbox Series X launch in favor of Sony. Microsoft has lost Halo Infinite as a launch title, which was going to be one of the highest profile games to launch with a new console in…
The lithium-ion battery is an electrochemical wunderkind. We use it for everything, whether it’s mundane gadgetry like phones and laptops or more extreme applications like electric ships and helicopters on Mars. The Li-ion battery is so important to modern life that it earned the trio of chemists who invented it a Nobel Prize last year.…
WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg didn’t know quite what to expect when Wayne Hsiung, an attorney and animal rights activist, handed him an Oculus headset in his Berkeley home back in the summer of 2019. What he saw, Greenberg said, made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. Hsiung wanted Greenberg to…
In mid-19th century Europe, a debate was raging among early brain scientists. Strangely, this academic disagreement had its roots in the pseudoscience of phrenology, the practice of measuring bumps on the skull to determine someone’s personality. Phrenology had found purchase at fairs and was quite popular with the general public, but it had been roundly…
It was a balmy week in September, and in gleaming office buildings in Beijing’s Central Business District, startup employees hunched over their computers putting in the long hours customary in Chinese tech culture. Nearby, I was hunkered down with eight Chinese entrepreneurs, also working 12-hour days. But we weren’t working on a startup, we were…
Ghost of Tsushima: Legends, a free online co-op mode, will be available in Fall 2020. Legends is a new experience, and doesn’t feature Jin Sakai or his companions, but “instead focuses on four warriors who have been built up as legends in stories told by the people of Tsushima.While Ghost of Tsushima’s single-player campaign focuses…
Unless your brain is performing Olympic-caliber mental gymnastics, wearing a mask during the pandemic is obviously a good thing and the easiest way to help minimize the spread of the coronavirus. Some have resisted, however, which inspired Allen Pan to invent a gun that quickly shoots a mask on to the face of those not…
