With official Matter support, Eero mesh routers could soon run your smart home
We are literally right now celebrating The Verge’s 10-year anniversary in New York City, but we couldn’t throw an epic two-day event without also bringing you a…
Get a year of PlayStation Plus for just $39 this weekend
For this weekend, you can get a whole year of Playstation Plus at Eneba for just $39 by using the code 365USVERGE at checkout. Anyone who owns…
Clubhouse will soon let you pin links to the top of rooms
Clubhouse is making it possible for people to share outside links and monetize their work on the platform. Today at The Verge’s On The Verge event, Clubhouse…
The Queen to be joined on public visits by other royals in case of future health scares
The Prince of Wales and Princess Royal will continue to shoulder the day-to-day work of investitures, while the Earl and Countess of Wessex – who live close…
Get the booster jab to save Christmas, Britons urged as country faces Covid ‘crunch point’
Meanwhile, British people who want a Christmas holiday abroad were being advised to get a third jab because countries may impose stricter definitions of what constitutes being…
EXCLUSIVE Italy and UniCredit close to ending talks over MPS sale-sources
Banca Monte dei Paschi’s headquarters in Siena, Italy, October 27, 2017. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini/File Photo Agreed to exclusive talks on July 29 Fail to bridge gap over MPS’…
Russia-led bloc concludes drills near Afghan border to boost Tajik security
HARB-MAIDON TRAINING GROUND, Tajikistan, Oct 23 (Reuters) – A Russia-led military exercise held over six days near the Tajik-Afghan border, designed to demonstrate Moscow stands ready to…
Separatists end week-long blockade of hotel housing OSCE in eastern Ukraine
MOSCOW/DONETSK, Ukraine, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Russian-backed separatists on Saturday called off a protest outside a hotel in eastern Ukraine housing international conflict monitors, ending a blockade…
New migrant caravan in Mexico pushes past blockade to head north
TAPACHULA, Oct 23 (Reuters) – Several thousand migrants from Haiti, South America and Central America set off from southern Mexico headed north on Saturday, clashing with law…
Seven prisoners found dead in Ecuador jail affected by riots
Inmates of the Regional de Guayaquil prison hold banners reading “We want peace,” “The law is killing us,” “Peace, no to violence” after unrest was reported since…
Hungary’s Orban accuses EU, U.S. of meddling as 2022 election race heats up
Tens of thousands rally in support of Orban Opposition alliance also holds protest in Budapest Hungary faces heated election race ahead of 2022 vote BUDAPEST, Oct 23…
Edward Watson: Male ballet dancers no longer face stigma of being called ‘sissy’
Although Watson is officially retiring as a principal dancer, he is remaining with the company as a full-time coach, working with the next generation of soloists. “I…
Anti-woke headteacher urges peers not to ‘crumble’ before student activists
Schools must not “crumble” in the face of student activism, a leading headteacher has warned as she criticises the rush to “decolonise” the curriculum in the wake…
Face-to-face doctors’ appointments slashed ‘to reduce road traffic’ during Cop26
One woman, suffering from severe long Covid symptoms, told the paper she was “outraged” to find her appointment had been moved after waiting months to see a…
Lionel Shriver: Arguments about authenticity are ‘anti-imagination’
Fearing criticism for cultural appropriation would stop authors being able to write fiction and limit them to memoir, Lionel Shriver has said. The bestselling author of We…
Streaming services exploit British artists and ‘should start paying musicians properly’, say MPs
British artists are being exploited by foreign-owned streaming services and record labels, MPs have said, as they called for a change in the law to give performers…
Home care system for elderly with dementia is ‘on its knees’
From 2023, a cap will be introduced, so no one has to pay more than £86,000 for their care in their lifetime, while funding support will be…
‘Reckless’ decisions being made at National Trust homes
The group accuses the National Trust of operating as a “commercial tourist organisation”, reducing the role of curators to mere advisers with no authority to make decisions….
Eoin Morgan does the simple things well to put West Indies in a spin
Left-arm fast bowling has been another no-brainer since the dawn of time. If you have it, use it: in this case Tymal Mills who kept the heat…
Is it ever right for biographers to make things up?
If it is to surprise as well as enlighten, literature should be kept free from hard and fast rules. Had we not taken the view that “anything goes”…
The man who wants to wake us up to Woke Racism
Like their millions of listeners, I had long been dazzled by the wry, intellectual charm on show in McWhorter’s wide-ranging conversations with fellow black anti-wokester, the Brown…
Wanted: Museum curator to return human remains that came to Britain ‘under coercion’
The curator said: “We can probably assume that none of these remains were willingly given. I have never come across any records of someone saying ‘Here, please…
Albania’s history is a harrowing reminder of the horrors of Communism
Lea Ypi writes that if someone was said to be “studying international relations” it meant they were inside for treason; “good results” meant they’d been released; “failed…
Russia and China hold first joint naval patrols in Pacific Ocean
Russian and Chinese warships have held their first joint patrols in the Pacific Ocean, Moscow has said. The two countries, which staged naval manoeuvres together in the…
Viruses could be harnessed by bioterrorists, warns leading chemical weapons expert
Biosafety levels, which run from one to four, monitor how safe a lab is and which pathogens it can study; biosecurity is more about protecting the lab…