Verizon has refreshed its parental control service, which is now called Smart Family. By subscribing to the service, which starts at $4.99 a month for up to six family members, Verizon customers can track their kids’ activity in painful detail, control which apps they can download, monitor location, and...
Photos of NASA probes and satellites tend to make them look much smaller than they are, since compared to space itself, they are. But they're often bigger than we think.
For example, the radio dish on Voyager 1 out in interstellar space measures at 12 feet (3.7 meters) long, and...
The National Geographic Channel has revealed the first 3D, 360-degree video of space as a part of its new documentary series "One Strange Rock." We took a virtual tour with the astronauts aboard the International Space Station while hearing their thoughts on the enormity of space, and it left...
Ford Performance claims its 2018 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet will rocket down a quarter-mile faster than the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon by more than a second, but it won’t be able to taunt anyone past the exit sign to the drag strip. Its monstrous supercharged 5.2-liter Coyote V8...
Facebook is assembling a team to design its own semiconductors, joining other tech titans that have recently invested in building their own chips, according to job listings and sources who spoke with Bloomberg.
One job posting on Facebook's corporate website highlighted by the news agency is for a manager to...
Distracted driving is responsible for around 3,500 deaths and nearly 400,000 accidents per year, giving it the dubious distinction of being second only to drunk driving when it comes to causing harm on the road. Unlike drunk driving, distracted driving is difficult to test for and doesn’t face quite...
Make no mistake: Fresh battle lines are being drawn in the clash between data-mining tech giants and Internet users over people’s right to control their personal information and protect their privacy.
An update to European Union data protection rules next month — called the General Data Protection Regulation — is...
It's been a long wait, but the second round of original Xbox backwards compatible games have finally arrived on Xbox One. Eight more classic Xbox titles are now playable on Microsoft's current-gen console, with another batch set to follow next week.
This week sees the arrival of some of the...
There have been reports about upcoming changes to Spotify’s free tier of service over the past couple of weeks, and it appears the music service is now serving the updated UI to select users. While The Verge cannot confirm if this is officially the new form of the free...
Raise your hand if you remember The Daily. Back when the iPad still had a 30-pin connection port, Apple teamed up with News Corp. to bring a new type of publication to the burgeoning tablet market featuring exclusive, interactive content, rich animations, and touch-focused games. It cost a buck...
