The suspect charged in the stabbing death of a California man in an otherwise quiet East Bay suburb has a history of prior arrests and originally entered the U.S. during the George W. Bush administration, according to records. Marcos Iriarte-Valdez,…
The Matic robot vacuum now offers gesture controlled spot cleaning and a built-in voice assistant. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge Matic, my current favorite robot vacuum, just got a big upgrade. The company has launched Matic…
If you know Nigeria’s city of Lagos, you’re surely familiar with the hum of its traffic jams. But a new sound is emerging… or rather, one is disappearing. As soaring fuel prices have hit Nigeria in recent years, some motorists…
Part of the world turned its eyes to the skies this Wednesday. The eclipse was also visible across Africa. In Tabarka, where the phenomenon was most pronounced in Tunisia, 59.06% of the Sun was obscured. The partial eclipse was also…
Kyiv and Moscow have been trading attacks on each other’s grain warehouses, as concerns mount that global food prices could rise as a result. Russia struck Ukraine’s largest grain shipment port on the Danube overnight, causing damage and setting off…
Rescuers in Colombia made a last-ditch effort to locate earthquake survivors early Thursday, as the critical 72-hour window for finding people alive drew to a close. Our journalist Rosa Perez gives us the lastest information.
The drought roasting much of Europe this summer is taking a heavy toll on crops across the continent, from potatoes in the Netherlands to corn in Bosnia. Triodos, a Dutch bank with a focus on sustainability, has warned that this…
2K is launching a new AAA game development studio, Small Axe Studios, with an ambitious goal: to build the company’s “next blockbuster sports franchise,” according to a LinkedIn post. The post doesn’t explicitly say what sport this new game will…
Ford said today that its next-generation electric vehicle – recently dubbed Fathom – will go into production at the automaker’s recently overhauled Louisville Assembly Plant in the first quarter of 2027. The first Fathoms will be prototypes, with Ford’s team…
Meta is launching an optional Scam Alert feature on WhatsApp that uses on-device machine learning to flag suspicious messages. Earlier this year, Meta also launched scam detection for device linking requests on WhatsApp. The new Scam Alert feature, which is…