The Speaker’s sudden willingness to bring foreign-aid bills to the House floor risks his Speakership—and Trump’s wrath.

Space law just got a little more complicated.

The winning images from this year's Sony World Photography Awards.

Tesla stock fell to a new 52-week low on Thursday, just days before Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company is set to report full earnings for the first quarter of 2024. Read more...

The trial, the first ever in which an ex-US president is the defendant, may see opening arguments in Monday.

The Meta Quest 2 and its bundled controllers. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Meta Quest 2 has been on sale for nearly a month, and today, Meta’s making that price permanent — $199 is the new sticker price for the virtual reality headset, the company announced today. That’s half what it originally cost in 2020, and Meta is permanently cutting the price of Quest 2 accessories like the Elite Strap with Battery (which I highly recommend) in half as well. The Quest 2 is currently being supplanted by the $500 Quest 3, of course, but it’s still an incredible entry point to VR, one that plays every Quest game except for a single Quest 3-exclusive title announced last month. It doesn’t have...

The Islamist group Boko Haram seized 276 girls from a school in Chibok in 2014

Starbucks is redesigning its cold drink plastic cups as part of its bid to trim its environmental footprint in half by 2030, the company said in a statement on Thursday.Read more...

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Password crackdowns are working really well for Netflix — in fact, the media streaming giant added millions of new subscribers because of it. Read more...

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Image: Kaare Andrews/Marvel ComicsLast summer, Marvel Comics boldly announced that it would return to “The Most Notorious Spider-Man Story Ever Told,” to which the world cried out “You’ll really have to be more specific!” After quickly clarifying that it was a sequel to Spider-Man: Reign, the world cried out again: “Oh. The one with the radioactive jizz?” Now, we know a little more about the hows and whys.Today, Marvel announced that Spider-Man: Reign II would begin this summer, a five-issue miniseries that sees Reign’s original writer/artist, Kaare Andrews (for whom Reign was his first major comics work), return to the world of his 2006 story—an alt-future tale that starred an older,...

Shares of Ibotta — a Denver-based consumer rewards platform that counts major U.S. companies such as Walmart and Kroger as customers — surged in its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. Ibotta’s stock price rose as much as 34% to a high of more than $117, ending the day up a still-impressive…Read more...

After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for its brain implant study is the Barrow Neurological Institute.

Cent jours après sa nomination à Matignon, le premier ministre était l’invité de la chaîne d’informations, jeudi soir. Il a détaillé ses annonces faites plus tôt dans la journée contre la violence des mineurs et défendu son action.

In 2022, Boeing invested in $450 million with Wisk, a company working on a flying car. The next year, it fully absorbed Wisk. By 2030, it hopes to have Wisk’s autonomous flying taxis operating in Asia. Boeing Chief Technology Officer Todd Citron revealed the plans to Nikkei, the Japanese news publication. Read more...

Image: Universal PicturesLike Leigh Whannell’s 2020 reimagining of The Invisible Man,Abigail proves that you don’t need a bigger Dark Universe to make damn good horror films as part of Universal’s legacy in the genre. The latest from Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream) takes vampire lore to a fun and exciting new level. Abigail’s premise centers on a band of crooks who get hired to kidnap a very mysterious and important man’s daughter. There’s an excellent gang set-up introducing each member of the crew in a bar scene where Melissa Barrera’s character reads everyone to filth without knowing their real names—it’s very Hitchcockian. But the tables turn when they arrive for their night of...

Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Netflix is moving beyond subscriber numbers. In its first quarter earnings results released on Thursday, Netflix announced that it will stop reporting quarterly membership numbers in 2025 because subscribers are “just one component” of its growth. The change comes after a quarter where it added 9.3 million subscribers, growing to more than 270 million members globally. Subscriber count meant everything in the early days of streaming. It allows investors, studios, and everyone else to gauge just how well a streaming service is doing compared to the competition, and Netflix has leaned on its lead in that area. But now, Netflix says it is flipping this idea on its head...

A military helicopter carrying senior military officers crashes and caught fire, killing ten people.

Image: Heritage AuctionsIt was our first look at the vision of Star Trek’s future: the original ship model of the USS Enterprise that zoomed across screens in the show’s opening credits. But after being loaned out during the making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, it had gone missing... until now.After, bizarrely, it randomly turned up on eBay last fall—the first time it had been seen publicly since it had gone missing—the original model of the Enterprise made for the Star Trek pilot “The Cage” and shooting its opening titles sequences is now back in the hands of the Roddenberry estate. After the eBay seller quickly learned just what they had their hands on, the model was handed over to Heritage...

[Peter Holderith] set out some time ago to build an electric go-kart. That by itself is not terribly unusual, but where his project diverts from the usual is in the fact that each of the four wheels has an integrated hub motor.
It might not look it, but each wheel has an integrated hub motor.
This kart project is a bit of a work in progress, with [Peter] previously building (then scrapping) a failed attempt at a cheap suspension system. But it’s completely operational with all four wheels able to deliver a monstrous amount of power despite being limited by the power supply (a battery pack salvaged from an Audi Q5 Hybrid).
The kart might not look it, but it weighs 177 pounds (80 kg) with the battery and...

Cath Virginia / The Verge | Photos from Getty Images The Senate is moving forward on a vote to reauthorize a controversial program that allows warrantless surveillance of foreign “targets.” Before voting on the reauthorization bill, senators had to vote on a cloture motion to begin voting. The cloture motion passed 67–32, just one day ahead of the program’s expiration.
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire at midnight on April 19th, a deadline some senators emphasized as they urged their colleagues to vote in favor of reauthorization. “It’s hard to overstate either the importance — the gravity — of allowing it to sunset, yet we are 36 hours away from...

One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New York has been excused over fears she could be identified. It could get even messier.

The President is winning over union leaders, but not necessarily rank-and-file voters.

Ursa is a new keycap profile for Topre keyboards. I want it. | Render: FKCaps Listen, I don’t want to be the guy who always posts about weird keyboard stuff. I have other interests. But I need to tell the dozens of Verge readers with Topre keyboards about these keycaps. Ursa is a new spherical doubleshot keycap profile for Topre that is available for group buy until May 15th. Reactions to the previous sentence will likely fall into three camps: I recognize some of those words
Already smashed that checkout button
A keycap group buy? In 2024? In a new profile? For Topre boards? What could go wrong? I am usually a group three, but today, I am in group two. If you’re in group one, here is what some of those...

Anker is amongst the first accessory makers to rerelease MagSafe-compatible accessories that now support the Qi2 standard. | Image: Nathan Edwards / The Verge Qi2 brings MagSafe-like fast magnetic wireless charging for any device. Continue reading…

Image: Wit Studio/CloverWorks The delightfully zany Spy x Family has captured hearts in anime form since it blew up in 2022. While the Forgers won’t be back on your TV for a while, they’re coming to the silver screen with Spy x Family Code: White. Opening stateside this week after hitting Japanese theaters last December, the movie takes the Forgers on a weekend trip that naturally leads them stumbling into a plot that threatens world peace. Like many a first movie for a popular anime, the movie is a slick-looking (and charming) highlight reel of what makes the source material so beloved to begin with, a lot of which can be owed to its cast. Ahead of Code: White’s theatrical run, io9 got the chance to...

A hit British production of Shakespeare’s ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.

From The Sympathizer to Conan O’Brien Must Go, here's everything you need to be watching on Max this month.

Like many diasporic peoples, the movement of Jews all over the globe is reflected in the cuisine. The Eastern European canon most people in the United States are familiar with reflects just a small part of global Jewish cuisine. One really interesting lens with which to view the differences country to country (and even family to family) is the ritual Passover food known as charoset (also haroset or charoses). Charoset is most often a melange of dried and/or fresh fruits plus nuts — all chopped or ground to a paste. The most prevalent story of the paste’s meaning is that it represents the mortar used in the pyramids when the Jews were enslaved in Egypt. The custom of eating charoset is very old, with...

Two Boeing whistleblowers testified about their safety concerns in a Congressional hearing this week. KCRW looks at how the company became mired in scandal.

The World Health Organization is warning of the dangers of bird flu, should it jump from animals to humans. Last month, a second person in the U.S. contracted the disease.

The latest film releases include Abigail, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, We Grown Now, and The People's Joker. Weighing in are Christy Lemire, film critic for RogerEbert.com and co-host of the YouTube channel Breakfast All Day, and Shawn Edwards, film critic for FOX-TV in Kansas City and co-founder of the African American Film Critics Association. Abigail This vampire horror film follows a group of people who kidnap children for ransom. It’s based on the 1966 film Dracula's Daughter. Edwards: “This movie is basically designed to scare teens and mostly appeal to people who haven't seen very many movies because it's all pretty much stereotypical stuff you see in horror movies. … The one thing that...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign one year ago this week.

Accrochez-vous à vos claviers, car Meta vient de lâcher dans la nature une nouvelle créature nommée Llama 3. Oui, vous avez bien compris, je parle de la dernière génération de modèles de langage « open source » (ou presque, on y reviendra) de la société de Mark Zuckerberg. Si vous pensiez que ChatGPT, Claude ou Mistral étaient les rois de la savane, attendez de voir débarquer ces nouveaux lamas survitaminés ! Avec des versions allant de 8 à 400 milliards de paramètres (pour les non-initiés, disons que c’est l’équivalent de leur QI 🧠), les Llama 3 atomisent littéralement la concurrence sur de nombreux benchmarks standards, que ce soit en termes de connaissances générales, de...

While CD players are nothing new today, they were the height of high-tech in the early 1980s. [w1ngsfly] shows us the inside of a Phase Linear 9500 player from 1983. Not only does it have many components, but it is also mechanically unusual.
The CD loads into a toaster-like slot and even pops out like a piece of toast. The tracking mechanism is quite complex, and there’s something that looks suspiciously like a dial string from an old slide rule tuner radio. Apparently, the unit was made by Kyocera and is internally similar to a Kyocera DA-01.
There’s a “head position” indicator that is actually just an LED connected to the tracking mechanism. The front panel controls look great but also allow you to...

From a standing start in 2016, manga piracy site Mangamura (Manga Village) took just two years to become the largest site of its type and the single largest online piracy threat Japanese publishers had ever encountered.
Publishers including Shogakukan, Kadokawa, and Shueisha, and their anti-piracy partner CODA, estimated that in its relatively brief time online, Mangamura had caused a staggering $2.91 billion in losses. In April 2018, in the wake of a government announcement that detailed emergency website blocking against sites including Mangamura, the site suddenly disappeared and was never seen again. Then came the reckoning.
A criminal investigation eventually led to the arrest of the site’s operator,...

Réunis à Bruxelles, les chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement de l’Union européenne ont acté la nécessité de combler les écarts économiques avec les Etats-Unis ou la Chine. Mais ils restent divisés sur les modalités. Seule mesure lancée : la mise en place d’un plan d’épargne européen.

Extracting ground water for growing urban populations causes half of China's big cities to sink.

Jeudi 18 avril, l’exécutif bruxellois a proposé aux États membres d’ouvrir des négociations avec Londres pour rétablir une certaine forme de liberté de mouvement et d’installation entre le Royaume-Uni et l’UE pour les 18-30 ans. Voilà qui pourrait permettre de compenser en partie la chute de la mobilité entre l’UE et l’outre-Manche qui a suivi le Brexit.

Washington, Rome et Berlin tentent de négocier séparément avec la junte, alliée à Moscou, le maintien de leur présence militaire et diplomatique. Une forme de compromission pour Paris.

La période de décompte du temps de parole pour les élections européennes de 2024 dure huit semaines, jusqu’au scrutin - Crédits : Capture d’écran France 24 Une étape importante dans la campagne pour les élections européennes en France. A partir du lundi 15 avril, l’Arcom (Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique) a entamé son décompte du temps de parole des candidats et soutiens de chaque liste dans les médias audiovisuels. Au nom de la garantie du pluralisme politique, l’autorité doit désormais veiller à ce que le temps de parole à l’antenne soit partagé équitablement entre l’ensemble des listes candidates aux élections européennes en France....

Le Premier ministre vient d’égrener la liste des mesures qu’il entend mettre en œuvre pour lutter contre la violence des mineurs. Si le problème est réel, il n’a rien de nouveau, et surtout, les réponses sont loin d’être à la hauteur. Elles sont symptomatiques de la manière (déplorable) dont sont abordés les questions de fond […]

D’ici à 2049, les dégâts provoqués par le dérèglement climatique coûteront à l’économie mondiale des dizaines de milliers de milliards de dollars, révèle une étude.

En Corée du Nord, une chanson célèbre le dirigeant suprême du pays, dans un clip diffusé le mardi 16 avril à l’occasion de l’inauguration d’un grand projet immobilier.

Stationnés depuis 2020 dans l’enclave arménienne séparatiste, les soldats russes de maintien de la paix ont entamé leur retrait, le 16 avril, de manière anticipée. En effet, l’Azerbaïdjan a repris possession du territoire depuis la fin de 2023, et les Arméniens l’ont totalement déserté. Certains observateurs d’Arménie pensent cependant que leur mission n’est pas tout à fait terminée.

Le Figaro a publié une tribune d’une consœur qui a fait réagir, et je pense que c’était son but, attaquant le droit de mentir que le droit français reconnaitrait selon elle à tout accusé (au sens large : toute personne poursuivie au pénal, même si le droit réserve ce terme à celui qui est poursuivi pour un crime, les degrés inférieurs utilisant le terme de prévenu), prônant non seulement sa suppression, mais qu’il soit remplacé par l’obligation de dire la vérité, avec serment identique à celui du témoin, et sanctions pénales à la clé, invoquant le délit d’entrave à l’exercice de la justice. Sa soif de réforme révolutionnaire de la procédure pénale trouverait sa source...

Jeudi 18 avril, le gouvernement de la région de Barcelone a annoncé qu’une usine de dessalement flottante serait installée dans le port de la capitale catalane afin de garantir un accès à l’eau à la population pendant les périodes de sécheresse.

Départ d’un marathon en Italie - Crédits : LeoPatrizi / iStock Au sein de l’Union européenne, les politiques sportives relèvent de la compétence des Etats. Ces derniers sont libres dans la définition de leurs priorités et dans leurs choix budgétaires. S’il n’existe pas de politique sportive uniforme parmi les pays, le continent européen dans son ensemble est connu pour son action souvent ambitieuse dans ce domaine. De nombreuses compétitions sportives se déroulent chaque année en Europe, concernant un large spectre de disciplines. Ces événements sont aussi bien suivis à l’échelle nationale qu’internationale pour certains. C’est notamment le cas du football, sport pour lequel la...

The IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk is kind of a lifesaver — even if you don’t personally go between sit and stand much, the adjustability makes sharing the desk a breeze. Sharing was the case in [Matthias]’ house during the pandemic, as he and his wife took turns using the desk. Switching between their two preferred heights quickly became annoying, so [Matthias] engineered LYFT, a replacement controller that stores up to four settings.
In addition, the new SAMD21-based controller allows them to raise and lower the desk without having to hold the button down. And finally, having a digital readout showing the position is just plain cool. As you’ll see in the manual (PDF), LYFT is as easy to set up and use as...

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Le chef du bureau de la BEI en France, Grégoire Chauvière Le Drian (à gauche), et le maire de Rouen, président de la Métropole, Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol (à droite), ont présenté le projet dans un bus, lundi 15 avril - Crédits : Toute l’Europe Rouen investit dans les mobilités durables. La capitale normande est en train de renouveler sa flotte de bus pour les 500 000 habitants de la métropole. Pour cela, elle a contracté un prêt à hauteur de 50 millions d’euros auprès de la Banque européenne d’investissement (BEI), l’institution financière de l’Union européenne. Verdir les transports Concrètement, ce prêt va financer 114 bus électriques et 14 à hydrogène, ainsi que la...

L’application Telegram, devenue irremplaçable pour s’informer sur la guerre, est aussi utilisée par la Russie pour nourrir les inquiétudes et les divisions de la société ukrainienne.

« Darons d’ailleurs ». Deux fois par mois, l’un de nos journalistes à l’étranger explore la parentalité hors de nos frontières. Dans l’archipel nippon, le mois d’avril sonne l’heure de la rentrée scolaire et… de l’achat de la tenue réglementaire. Imposée dans la plupart des établissements et bien acceptée, cette tradition connaît quelques assouplissements.

“The new TikTok trend is trying to regulate TikTok.”

Intérêt pour les élections européennes en République tchèque, en France, dans l’Union européenne ainsi qu’aux Pays-Bas - Eurobaromètre avril 2024 L’intérêt des citoyens pour les prochaines élections européennes (6-9 juin) et pour l’UE de manière générale est à la hausse. C’est la conclusion du dernier Eurobaromètre paru mercredi 17 avril. Selon l’enquête, 60 % des Européens seraient ainsi intéressés par le scrutin. Un chiffre en nette hausse (+ 11 points) par rapport à la même période en 2019, date des précédentes élections européennes. Une tendance observée dans l’ensemble des Etats membres de l’Union européenne où l’engouement pour le scrutin augmente...

En Uruguay, au Canada et dans plusieurs Etats américains, les enquêtes montrent une hausse de la consommation dans les années suivant la légalisation. Biais liés aux déclarations, offre pléthorique, baisse des prix… les raisons peuvent être nombreuses.

Today, we’ll look into yet another standard in the embedded space: MXM. It stands for “Mobile PCI Express Module”, and is basically intended as a GPU interface for laptops with PCIe, but there’s way more to it – it can work for any high-power high-throughput PCIe device, with a fair few DisplayPort links if you need them!
You will see MXM sockets in older generations of laptops, barebones desktop PCs, servers, and even automotive computers – certain generations of Tesla cars used to ship with MXM-socketed Nvidia GPUs! Given that GPUs are in vogue today, it pays to know how you can get one in low-profile form-factor and avoid putting a giant desktop GPU inside your device.
I only had a passing...