Have you seen any checkmarks appear in Google searches lately? If you have, you're one of the few who have reported seeing these little blue starbursts appear when looking for something on Google. Fortunately, it's by no means a scam, as the search giant has confirmed that it's using it to help people identify scam websites.

Steam rises out of the nuclear plant on Three Mile Island on March 26, 2019 before it closed later that year. | Photo: Getty Images Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US. Continue reading…

Illustration by Laura Normand / The Verge Just over a year ago, Epic Games laid off around 16 percent of its employees. The problem, Epic said, was its own big ideas for the future and just how expensive they were to build. “For a while now, we’ve been spending way more money than we earn,” Epic CEO Tim Sweeney wrote in an email to staff.On Tuesday, onstage at the Unreal Fest conference in Seattle, Sweeney declared that the company is now “financially sound.” The announcement kicked off a packed two-hour keynote with updates on Unreal Engine, the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and more.In an interview with The Verge, Sweeney says that reining in Epic’s spending was part of what brought the company to this point. “Last year, before Unreal Fest, we were... Continue reading…

The Pixel Watch 2 can still serve you well in 2024 if you don’t need a bigger or brighter screen. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Pixel Watch 3 may be the shining refinement Google’s wearable lineup needed, but the last-gen Pixel Watch 2 is still a great buy. That’s especially true when you can get it for as low as $224 ($26 off) — which is the watch’s current starting price at both Amazon and Best Buy.Although the Pixel Watch 3 introduces a host of solid improvements — including a bigger and brighter display, a new 44mm size, AI-generated workout suggestions, and offline Google Maps — the second-gen Pixel Watch is still a looker. It only comes in one size (41mm), and the usable display area is only about 10 percent smaller than the third-gen model. It also uses the same Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear W5 Gen 1 chip, though it lacks the ultra wideband chip that lets... Continue reading…

Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Google is rolling out a new set of features aimed at making it less easy for thieves to access your data. That’s according to Mishaal Rahman, who posted on Reddit that the features are showing up in a new update after seeing that his Xiaomi 14T Pro phone now has Theft Detection Lock and Offline Device Lock, two of three features Google announced in May. Others say they only see the third one, called Remote Lock.The flashiest of the new features is Theft Detection Lock, which uses AI to lock your screen when it detects “common motion associated with theft,” like someone snatching your phone out of your hand. Meanwhile, Offline Device Lock locks a device’s screen when it’s offline for a while, and Remote Lock lets users lock their phone... Continue reading…

Discord is tremendously popular as a communication platform, especially for gamers. Its also used for technical support for quite a few developers and companies. You can also easily set up your own private Discord server to manage your time and projects. The problem is that Discord for Linux isnt supported on the Arm processor inside the Raspberry Pi. Not to worry, there are still a couple of options to get Discord up and running on your Raspberry Pi.

Apple AirTags are coin-sized trackers that rely on nearby iDevices to communicate with the company's Find My servers. So you can attach one to an item of yours, and as long as there's an online Apple device nearby, you will be able to locate it on the map. You also get some handy perks, such as audible pings, precision finding, and more. To get started, you will need one of the new iPhones, iPads, or iPods. After it's attached to your Apple Account, you can locate and ping it from even more Apple devices, such as Macs and Apple Watches. Without further ado, here's how to set up and use an Apple AirTag.

Image: Bethesda It’s been a long time coming for Starfield players. Bethesda’s sci-fi take on Skyrim originally launched last summer, and while there have been some updates and improvements since then, it’s taken more than a year for the game to get its first major expansion. This lead-up means there’s a lot riding on Shattered Space — which is a perfectly fine addition to the game that also feels incredibly underwhelming. After a promising setup, it ends up mostly being more of the same.Things start, as they so often do in expansions, with a distress call. This one leads you to a derelict space station that is brimming with ghostly apparitions and which eventually whisks you away to the home planet of the House Va’ruun, a religious sect that worships... Continue reading…

I work from home and have done all my life. It works for me, but one downside was the struggle between separating work from play, particularly when it came to my PC. I didn't really have too much of a problem with the likes of Slack being on my phone, but my PC being constantly in "work mode" became a problem, and I worked over the years to fix it. These tips helped me to improve my work-life balance, and they'll definitely help you too.

New Shepard in 2022. | Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images Blue Origin is preparing to launch its NS-27 mission with the RSS Kármán Line, its new crew capsule, on Monday at 9AM ET. It will be the first launch for the capsule, which the company says in its announcement will have improved performance and reusability, along with “an updated livery, and accommodations for payloads on the booster.”The flight will carry two LIDAR sensors into space that will be used for Blue Origin’s Lunar Permanence program to develop Moon landers. Those are among 12 payloads that also include ultra-wideband proximity operations sensors, a reproduction of the black monoliths from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and student postcards submitted to its Club for the Future nonprofit. Blue Origin will stream the launch on its... Continue reading…

If you're in the market for a new smartphone, the top iPhones and best Androids are always worth examining, which naturally can lead you to the Samsung Galaxy S24 FE. You'll still need a solid case to make sure your new Galaxy phone stays safe and sound. Luckily, we're here to help with a list of the best Samsung Galaxy S24 FE cases out now.

Backed by a thriving community of developers and tinkerers, theres no shortage of fun projects you can build with a Raspberry Pi. From affordable weather stations and Flask web servers to makeshift NAS and personal clouds, the Raspberry Pi boards are perfect companions for DIY enthusiasts.