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Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for Nintendo of America Reggie Fils-Aimé stepped down as Nintendo of America president in February 2019, set on retiring and relaxing after more than a decade in the role. That relaxation period has come to an end, however, with Fils-Aimé set to join GameStop’s board of directors at a time when the gaming retail chain could use some much needed guidance.GameStop has undergone big changes as its quarterly revenue and stock continue to deteriorate.

A batch of 60 Starlink satellites just before being deployed into orbit | Image: SpaceX SpaceX executives aren’t focused on spinning off SpaceX’s internet-from-space project into its own company right now, CEO Elon Musk said today. Instead, SpaceX is focused solely on getting the initiative up and running.
“We’re thinking about that zero,” Musk said during a fireside chat at the Satellite 2020 conference in Washington DC, adding, “We need to make the thing wo

Photo: DoNotPay DoNotPay, the company responsible for creating an AI-powered app that provides legal advice, has released a new product that allows you to privately share your login info for Disney Plus, Netflix, and other subscription services with friends and loved ones.DoNotPay’s subscription sharing product is a Google Chrome extension. Once you install it, you will need to head to a website that offers a paid subscription service, such as Amazon Prime or Spotify, and log in. Click th

Cleaning staff disinfects a subway station in New York City.| Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images SXSW, the annual event each year in Austin, Texas, was canceled one week before it was set to start over concerns about the novel coronavirus. The Swiss government banned gatherings of 1,000 people or more, shutting down the 2020 Geneva Motor Show. Emerald City Comic Con, planned for this coming weekend in Seattle, was postponed. In New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio asked people to work from home

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon told employees in New York and New Jersey that they should work from home for the month of March if they can, CNBC reports. The internet giant’s Audible audiobook division is located in Newark, New Jersey, and it has thousands of employees in New York City.
“We continue to work closely with public and private medical experts to ensure we are taking the right precautions as the situation continues to evolve,” an Amazon spokesperson

Today was an awful day for the stock market, with global and domestic equities falling sharply as the world digested a collapse in oil prices, and yet another weekend of the spread of COVID-19. All major U.S. indices were down, with the tech-heavy Nasdaq falling the least of the three, slipping a comparatively modest 7.29%, to 7,950.68 on the day.
However, while the tech index didn’t fare as poorly as other American indices, a critical portion of the technology market actually fell further

At least it’s over.
The markets endured their worst day of trading of this young year as the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 2,000 points to close at 23,850.79 — a 7.79% decline. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell 624.94, to close at 7,950.68, and losses to the S&P 500 triggered a temporary halt on trading in the early morning hours. The S&P itself closed down 225.81 at 2,746.56, a 7.6% loss on the day. 
Stocks were set up for a fall on Monday as every major finan

Image: BMW The BMW iX3, the company’s first long-range electric vehicle, won’t be coming to the US after all. While the German automaker had previously left the door open to a US release sometime around 2021, a company spokesperson told Automotive News on Sunday that the iX3 will only be sold in Europe and China, which is where it’s being made.Announced in 2018, the iX3 is meant to be BMW’s first long-range — and first normal-looking — electric vehicle. It la

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Lambda School, the controversial coding bootcamp, is threatening a former employee for speaking out about problems at the school.In an article published on February 11th, Sabrina Baez, Lambda’s former head of career services, told The Verge that she was called a “feisty Latina” and a “bulldog” when she pushed for a diversity initiative at the school. Baez had signed a severance agreement when she left Lambda after the inciden

An early concept rendering of the Lyriq from 2019. | Image: Cadillac Cadillac has canceled the April 2nd debut of the Lyriq, the first electric SUV being built on parent company General Motors’ newly unveiled EV platform, as large public gatherings continue to be discouraged amid the new coronavirus outbreak. No replacement date has been chosen.GM only just announced the Lyriq last week at an “EV Day” event in Warren, Michigan, that showcased a new modular electric vehicle pla

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge As multiple publishers and developers pull their games from Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud game streaming service, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney recently tweeted in support of it. In the thread, he stated that Fortnite will remain available for subscribers to the service as will all other games available on the Epic Games Store, at each developer’s discretion (via PC Gamer). This public backing of GeForce Now comes as a growing number of developers and publisher

NASA, South Korea, and the European Space Agency are working together on a “virtual constellation” of space-based instruments to document global air quality in unprecedented detail. For the first time, scientists will be able to track pollution from space on an hourly basis.
The first instrument to launch was South Korea’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) on February 18th, which flew into space mounted on a Korean satellite also tasked with ocean surface

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last week, Facebook announced that it would begin “temporarily” banning the sale of medical face masks on its online marketplace “over the next few days” in light of the public’s growing fears over the novel coronavirus. But as of Monday morning, listings for face masks, some going for exorbitant prices, still littered the platform.
Some Facebook Marketplace listings were only hours old, while others had been up for days. The

Photo by Sam Byford / The Verge iOS 14 is set to have improved system-wide support for mouse cursors, according to 9to5Mac. iPadOS 13 introduced rudimentary mouse support, but you have to dig into the accessibility menu to turn it on — based on what 9to5Mac found, it seems that mouse support will be getting much richer in iOS / iPadOS 14.
9to5Mac says that a lot of features that users may already be familiar with from using a mouse on a Mac will be brought to iOS. One example is that diff

Illustration by James Bareham / The Verge Facebook has applied a “partly false” label to a video of former Vice President Joe Biden that was edited to make it sound like he was saying President Trump would be reelected. The same video, posted by White House social media director Dan Scavino and retweeted by President Donald Trump, also got Twitter’s first “manipulated media” tag on Sunday.The clip shows part of Biden’s March 7th speech in St. Louis. “Ex

Photo by Panayotis Tzamaros/NurPhoto via Getty Images In Wuhan, China, where the novel coronavirus outbreak began, schools are closed, so kids have had to use an Alibaba-owned corporate app called DingTalk to attend classes remotely. (In January, DingTalk got a slew of new education features.) The only problem: a rumor had been circulating that apps with one-star ratings would be booted from the App Store. And according to a dispatch from the London Review of Books, a bunch of Chinese kids did

Photo: Firesprite Games Sci-fi survival horror game The Persistence will come to PC, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One this summer, according to an announcement trailer uploaded by the game’s developer, Firesprite Games. With its bone-chilling tension and creative roguelike gameplay, the game felt like a spiritual successor to the Dead Space series when it launched nearly two years ago. But it was exclusive to the PlayStation VR, so a lot of people couldn’t play it.The Persistence

A new Call of Duty battle royale game is arriving tomorrow to compete with PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, Fortnite, and Apex Legends. Call of Duty: Warzone is a new free-to-play battle royale that will be available to play on March 10th with some unique twists. There have been many Warzone leaks in recent weeks, but the game is officially arriving tomorrow and you won’t even need Call of Duty: Modern Warfare to download and play: it’s free for everyone.
Much like Apex Legends,

Shelves are emptied of hand sanitizer in the UK. | Photo by Matthew Horwood / Getty Images Faced with shortages of hand sanitizer amid the new coronavirus outbreak, New York state has decided to make its own. The hand sanitizer will be made by inmates at correctional facilities, said New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who announced the product’s development at a press conference on Monday.The inmates can make 100,000 gallons per week, according to Cuomo. As the coronavirus outbreak in the US has

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple appears to be readying some big changes to watchOS 7. 9to5Mac reports that the next major Apple Watch update, watchOS 7, will finally include sleep tracking. The reports are based on leaked iOS 14 code, and watchOS 7 is said to include a new personalized sleep goal in the Health app on an iPhone that will also be used to improve sleep duration and quality. Apple Watch sleep tracking has been rumored for months.
Another big addition that’s rumored fo

After teasing its connected bike to rival Peloton last summer, SoulCycle today released official details about its own at-home offering. By and large, it looks very similar to Peloton’s: the bike will offer on-demand cycling classes that users can stream through a monthly content subscription via a digital platform called Variis.
According to the specs, the bike will come with a 21.5-inch full HD screen, 4GB of RAM, and, interestingly, a G-sensor and NFC support. The footprint of the bike

After teasing its connected bike to rival Peloton last summer, SoulCycle today released official details about its own at-home offering. By and large, it looks very similar to Peloton’s: the bike will offer on-demand cycling classes that users can stream through a paid content subscription through its digital platform called Variis.
According to the specs, the bike will come with a 21.5-inch full HD screen, 4GB of RAM, and, interestingly, a G-sensor and NFC support. The footprint of the bi

Image: Robinhood Stock trading app Robinhood is currently experiencing its third outage in a week as US stocks have plummeted. (Today’s fall was so bad that the stock exchange actually stopped trading for 15 minutes, which is automatically done during significant stock market drops to prevent free fall.) Robinhood tweeted that trading was down at 10:06AM ET, and it tweeted again at 10:32AM ET to say trading “has been partially restored.” Right now, equities trading, crypto tra

Apple is working on a feature that will allow the Apple Watch to detect blood oxygen levels for the first time, according to snippets of iOS 14 code obtained by 9to5Mac.Currently, Apple Watches Series 1 and later can notify wearers when they detect irregular heart rhythms that suggest they might be at risk of atrial fibrillation (AFib). They can also send alerts when a user’s heart rate remains above or below a BPM (beats per minute) of their choosing while they’re inactive. With the

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 9to5Mac has managed to obtain code for an early build of Apple’s iOS 14 update, and it has revealed a preview (albeit a small one) of the company’s rumored over-ear headphones. Two icons for unreleased headphones have been discovered in the code; they’re the glyphs that Apple uses to indicate battery / volume levels for connected headphones in iOS and iPadOS. 9to5Mac found both light and dark icons, indicating that Apple will likely offe

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The world is a mess today. Everything that trades is down, and sentiment is in the toilet. Even Robinhood is undertaking its ritual downtime, ensuring that its userbase holds through the selloff. The unicorn’s inability to stay online could be viewed as feature instead of a bug. How? Because it prevents panic selling, we suppose.
On a more serious note, what is going to ha

Devs is not a show that’s out to confuse you. The miniseries — which is billed as an FX show but airs exclusively on Hulu — bears a lot of the hallmarks of extremely cerebral, puzzle-box television. There is strange imagery: a massive, towering statue of a young girl delighted at the forests around her. Redwoods surrounded by LED halos. Rooms full of pulsing, warm orange lights, as if they were alive. Characters who talk around things and are forthright about little. But as hea

Photo: Paul de Leon/Riot Games The biggest esports events in the world, whether it’s a mid-season Overwatch League match or a major Counter-Strike tournament, almost always take place on a weekend. It’s something of a tradition. But today, when League of Legends team Cloud9, fresh off of their first loss of the season, take on the Golden Guardians, it’ll be at a somewhat new time slot: Monday evening.
For the last few years, the League of Legends Championship Series, like most

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Apple has launched a repair program for its third-generation iPad Airs that recently had their screens randomly and permanently turn black. The company acknowledged the bug in a comment to MacRumors and additionally noted that the screen might flicker or flash before going blank.
“Apple has determined that, under certain circumstances, the screen on a limited number of iPad Air (3rd generation) devices may go blank permanently,” Apple said. “A

The tool automatically places the lyrics of your choice over hand-washing instructions. | Image: Wash Your Lyrics By this point, everyone (hopefully) knows that you should be washing your hands for at least 20 seconds, or as long as it takes for you to sing “Happy Birthday” twice, to help prevent the spread of infectious diseases — including the new coronavirus that causes COVID-19. But now that we’re several months into the novel coronavirus outbreak, “Happy Birth

Aerial view of NASA Ames Research Center | Image: NASA One of NASA’s research centers in California has issued a mandatory telework policy after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. The move is temporary for now, coming just a few days after NASA’s centers throughout the country tested out their work-from-home capabilities during a voluntary telework day on Friday.
On Sunday, NASA’s Ames Research Center in Silicon Vall

Image: Spotify Spotify recently announced a new look for navigation on its iOS app, and now it’s changing things up with the home screen. Starting today, all Spotify users will see a redesigned interface when they open both the mobile and tablet versions of the app.Now, the homepage has a dedicated space at the top of the screen for your most-played content. There are six slots, which will be a mix of playlists, podcasts, and albums. Below that is the “made for you” section wi