Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amnesty International is teaming up with 38 other human rights groups and individuals to call for a halt to Google’s plans to set up an enterprise cloud business in Saudi Arabia because of concerns over the country’s human rights track record. The joint Continue Reading
Eero 6 and Pro 6 owners are now getting Apple’s HomeKit security features
Image: Eero Owners of Amazon’s Eero 6 and Pro 6 routers will now be able to isolate their HomeKit IoT devices from the rest of their home network and the wider internet, thanks to a new integration with Apple’s HomeKit that’s now rolling out (via MacRumors). The new feature is Continue Reading
USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops
Photo by Vlad Savov / The Verge Soon, the majority of portable PCs won’t need to be equipped with an ugly barrel jack and a proprietary power brick to charge. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has just announced (via CNET) that it’s more than doubling the amount of power you Continue Reading
Hundreds of Amazon employees call for Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy to support Palestine
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge More than 500 Amazon employees have signed an internal letter to Jeff Bezos and Andy Jassy calling for the company to acknowledge the plight of the Palestinian people. The move comes after Israeli airstrikes devastated Palestinians in Gaza, leaving 248 people dead. Hamas Continue Reading
Philo is the latest live TV streaming service to get a price hike
Philo’s streaming service on various devices. | Image: Philo Philo has become the latest live TV option for cord-cutters hoping to skirt cable contracts to get a price bump — but there’s a workaround for current subscribers. Beginning June 8th, Philo’s monthly subscription cost for incoming customers will hike to $25 from Continue Reading
Jaguar I-Pace is Google’s first electric Street View car
Google finally has its first all-electric vehicle for capturing Street View. The tech giant and Jaguar Land Rover announced today that they have collaborated to rig up an all-electric I-Pace SUV with the equipment required to capture Street View imagery, and deployed the car in Dublin, Ireland. The I-Pace will Continue Reading
Ryan Grim analyzes Senate effort to award $10 billion contract to Bezos company
The Intercept’s Washington D.C. bureau chief Ryan Grim discussed an effort by some Senate Democrats to expand a NASA program to allow for the creation of a $10 billion contract that would most likely benefit Blue Origin, the private spaceflight…
Glenn Greenwald: Belarus diverting plane similar to tactics previously used by US, EU officials
Journalist Glenn Greenwald on Tuesday said that while the U.S. and European Union have condemned Belarus for its forced diversion of a commercial plane to detain a prominent opposition journalist, he pointed out that Western leaders have previously…
Government decides pipeline cybersecurity ought to be regulated
Photo by Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images The hack of the Colonial Pipeline — which kneecapped oil availability on the East Coast for almost two weeks — was as disastrous as it was likely preventable. A branch of the Department of Homeland Security, however, is hoping to correct course by changing Continue Reading
Amazon workers demand company quit polluting near communities of color
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Hundreds of Amazon tech workers are pressuring Amazon to quit polluting — especially in communities near its warehouses. More than 600 workers signed a petition asking Amazon to bring its pollution down to zero by 2030. They also called on the company to Continue Reading