This week on The Vergecast, we’re doing something a little different — we’re introducing you to our newest reporter, Julia Alexander, who joins The Verge to cover YouTube, Twitch, and more.

Rift-based Oculus Video users will be refunded for purchased films and have until November 20th to watch their movies.

A software designer ended his life in his parked car in the East Village. His family asked the police for help finding him, but met resistance.

HashiCorp announces improved configuration language, remote operations, and new, free collaboration features for HashiCorp Terraform.

Industry vets and students alike crammed into UCLA's historic Royce Hall last week for TC Sessions AR/VR, our one day event on the fast-moving (and hype-plagued) industry and the people in it. Disney, Snap, Oculus and more stopped by to chat and show off…

Alex Stamos on the risks of giving his former employer and other giant platforms the power to determine what people can—and can’t—say online.

The director of Call Me By Your Name puts his own unique spin on Dario Argento’s witchcraft story

Maven’s peer-to-peer car sharing service will expand to 10 cities in the next few months

The latest Google Camera update adds a viewfinder to Wear OS smartwatches.

A powerful utility goes back to basics

Inside the ongoing argument over whether Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the blockchain are transforming the world.

A community project constantly in progress

Job openings at BuildZoom

A Buzzfeed News investigation has uncovered a massive ad scam

Lyft, the transportation on demand company that is heading to a $15 billion IPO in 2019, is racing ahead with its autonomous vehicle plans. TechCrunch has learned that it is acquiring the London-based augmented reality startup Blue Vision Labs and unveiling…

Repairing a phone is harder than it needs to be. With phone manufacturers spending the last decade chasing device slimness and building devices meant to last however long a phone contract lasts, user repairability just doesn’t seem to be something they care…

A few months ago we released automatic IP Warm Up, but we never got to talk about how it’s implemented. Today, we’re going to peek under the hood and try to understand what makes our IP warm up tick. We’re going to start with some context, and then we’ll…

We thoroughly evaluate the claims made by Bloomberg in their Supermicro China tampering stories and found them likely impossible or implausible at best. We take stock of sources and discuss the next steps calling for formal SEC and shareholder investigations…

In the 1980s, there was a synthesizer that you could play like a harmonica. This device was called the Millioniser 2000. It utilized HIP (Harmonica In Principle) technology. The Millioniser 2000 wa…