Physicists may have cracked the case of “Zen” stones balanced on ice pedestals
Enlarge / A laboratory reproduction of the Zen stone phenomenon in a lyophilizer. (credit: Nicolas Taberlet / Nicolas Plihon) Visit the Small Sea of Lake...
Was Elizabeth Holmes like Steve Jobs? Her emails say no
Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/The Mercury News via Getty Images A Steve Jobs biography makes an appearance in court — but it doesn’t explain Theranos’ problems...
Amazon’s Astro cannot fetch your beer
Astro did not put that beer there! | Image: Amazon Amazon introduced a new robot today with the face of an Echo Show, the sensor-laden...
You can change your Nest doorbell ringtone starting next month
You can soon set your Nest doorbell to cackle at your visitors. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Google Nest is bringing back...
Amazon takes on Nest with an ultra-cheap $60 smart thermostat
Amazon unloaded an entire delivery truck's worth of products at a private event today. Here are some of the many, many smart home products that...
You can now queue to purchase a PS5 at Sony (update: sold out)
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Update September 28th, 6:52PM ET: Sony has sold out of the PS5 and PS5 Digital Edition for the...
Elon Musk to Jeff Bezos: ‘you cannot sue your way to the Moon’
Elon Musk isn’t happy that fellow mega-billionaire Jeff Bezos keeps suing to stop SpaceX’s projects, and he shared a message for the Amazon founder during...
Facebook’s research on kids even considered turning playdates into growth drivers
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s interest in understanding and eventually acquiring younger users extends well beyond Messenger Kids or the currently paused...
Amazon Astro is ‘terrible’ and will ‘throw itself down’ stairs, developers reportedly claim
When you see a flight of stairs. | Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Some of the people building Amazon’s Astro home robot are...
Elon Musk: ‘we probably don’t need’ NDAs for Tesla’s ‘Full Self-Driving’ beta
Asa Mathat Tesla has been making participants in the “Full Self-Driving” beta test sign non-disclosure agreements, but CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday “we probably don’t...