Popeye and Tintin are now in the public domain
Popeye’s first appearance in E.C. Segar’s Thimble Theatre comic strip. | Image: King Features It’s a new year, and that means more works are headed to the public domain. This year, thousands of copyrighted works created in 1929, including the earliest versions of Popeye and the Belgian comic book character Tintin, are now free to reuse More...
Is Sleep’s Dopesmoker still the heaviest album of all time?
A sojourn though the heaviest music I could find | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Tee Pee Records An attempt to crush myself to death. Read the full story at The Verge. More...
The Apple Watch Series 10 has returned to its Black Friday sale price
Apple’s 42mm flagship is down to just $329 with various bands. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Whether or not you subscribe to them, New Year’s resolutions are a capital-T Thing for many More...
2024: a year in art on The Verge
Image: Verge staff We take a look back at 20 of our favorite projects from 2024. Read the full story at The Verge. More...
LG’s lightweight Gram laptops get new Intel chips and offline AI features
The 17-inch LG Gram Pro weighs 3.3 pounds while the 16-inch model weighs 2.73 pounds. | Image: LG LG has announced additions to its ultra-light Gram and Gram Pro laptop lineup, adding cloud-based and on-device More...
The US Treasury Department was hacked
Hugo Herrera / The Verge The US Treasury Department suffered a “major” security incident after a China state-sponsored hacker broke into the third-party remote management software it uses, as reported More...
How New York state is defying Donald Trump’s plans to roll back climate action
NEW YORK, UNITED STATES – 2023/06/29: Governor Kathy Hochul speaks during a press briefing at office on 3rd Avenue in Manhattan. | Photo by Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images New York More...
Volkswagen leak exposed location data for 800,000 electric cars
Image: Tim Stevens / The Verge For months, the location information of around 800,000 electric Volkswagen vehicles was available online due to a data leak, according to a report from the German news magazine More...
Apple promised next-gen CarPlay in 2024, so where is it?
Apple’s new CarPlay is still just a concept. | Screenshot: Apple We still haven’t seen the “next generation of CarPlay” that Apple first announced in 2022 and continues to say on its CarPlay webpage More...
A two-pack of refurbished Blink Outdoor 4 cameras is more than half off right now
You can use the battery-powered Blink Outdoor 4 indoors, too. | Image: Amazon As we head into 2025, there aren’t many things preventing homeowners from building out a basic home security system. You can More...
