Netflix’s password sharing crackdown is here — and it costs $7.99 per month
Netflix is about to kick your best friend off your account — unless you pay for them to share your account, that is. On Tuesday, Netflix revealed the details of how its crackdown on password sharing will affect viewers in the US and how much it will cost to keep extra people on your account. If you have the Netflix Standard plan that costs $15.49 More...
A trip to Dyson’s dirt-filled, germ-obsessed world
The Dyson Kool-Aid is powerful. For a week after touring Dyson’s Singapore headquarters, soaking up talks and presentations on filth and viruses, I can’t help but feel like my home isn’t clean enough. More...
Brooklyn built a disaster-proof mesh Wi-Fi network just in time for Hurricane Sandy. What happened?
Tevina Willis taped up her windows as Superstorm Sandy neared her Red Hook, Brooklyn, home. Outside her apartment, hurricane winds pushed a wall of water into the city. The storm surge swept boats from the More...
Instagram is down – The Verge
As you may already know if you’re reading this — Instagram is down. The app’s feed is frozen, tossing users errors that it can’t refresh, while the website gives only a blank page. In an email to The More...
Neeva, once a promising competitor to Google Search, is shutting down
Neeva, which for a while looked like one of the startups with a real chance to challenge the supremacy of Google Search, announced on Saturday that it is shutting down its search engine. The company says it’s More...
Games should let us choose our own stakes
After more than 2,000 hours in Dota 2, I’ve finally been sent to gamer jail for the first time. It’s worse than I ever imagined, which makes it an extremely effective deterrent in a competitive game where More...
AT&T has some concerns about Starlink and T-Mobile’s satellite-to-cellular plans
AT&T filed some concerns with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday over T-Mobile and Starlink owner SpaceX’s plans to let mobile phones connect to Starlink satellites (via Ars Technica). In More...
Microsoft exec tells employees to improve its stock performance in lieu of raises
Microsoft’s chief marketing officer has a solution for employees frustrated with the company’s decision to do away with raises: make the stock price go up. “So great quarterly results contribute to More...
Disney’s Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser is shutting down
Disney World is shutting down the Galactic Starcruiser, the immersive Star Wars-themed hotel that costs around $5,000 for a two-night stay. In an update on Disney’s website, the company says the Starcruiser More...
YouTube is bringing unskippable 30-second ads to TV
Watching YouTube on your TV is about to get more frustrating if you’re not paying to avoid ads. As announced at the YouTube Brandcast event on Wednesday, YouTube will soon add 30-second unskippable ads to More...
