You can now fork over $2K+ to get your Galaxy S7 slickly plated in 24K gold, 18K rose gold, or platinum. | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Our power panel of mobile marketers share secrets from the front-lines about turning casual users into die-hard customers who stay engaged and purchase again and again. Not to be missed! Register here for free. It sounds like a no-brainer, doesn’t it: Create a positiv … | Continue reading
This is The Harper Spin, a weekly column from seasoned auto critic Jason H. Harper. He’s raced at Le Mans, crushed a car in a 50-ton tank, and now, he’s bringing his unique style to The Verge.Oh, you shameless, unrepentant hedonists. Baubles of billionaires, playthings of playboy … | Continue reading
It’s OK, you survived, February is done (with an extra day, no less!) and March is upon us. The next Valentine’s Day is 350 days away. Before you jump headfirst into almost-Spring though, there’s just time to check out nine of the best new and updated Android apps from February. … | Continue reading
Pouring petrol on the bonfire of news tech, Google announced that it has invested more than $30m into projects spanning the European news tech scene. The fund’s goal is to ‘help stimulate innovation in digital journalism’ over the next three years, Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO sai … | Continue reading
Oh what a tangled web we weave … when we’re playing and watching Quantum Break. I discovered that the story behind the big Xbox One and Windows 10 video game coming from Microsoft and Remedy Entertainment is very complicated. That’s the hallmark of Remedy, which made memorable st … | Continue reading
Orangepixel's Heroes of Loot [$3.99] has been a mainstay on my device for the past few years, as I absolutely love how it took the typically methodical and sometimes plodding nature of a roguelike dungeon crawler and replaced it with over-the-top, chaotic shooting and an ultra-fa … | Continue reading
Coinprism is a free of charge online Bitcoin wallet and Token platform that enables users to store and develop their own coin. Coinprism is based on the Open Assets Protocol. Bitcoin’s scripting language allows to keep small quantities of metadata on the blockchain, which may be … | Continue reading
SAN FRANCISCO — If there were any lingering doubts about Microsoft’s commitment to strong encryption, one of Microsoft’s top executives just put them to rest.Company president and chief legal officer Brad Smith reiterated — in his strongest words yet — Microsoft’s support for App … | Continue reading
Mech roguelike strategy game Ironcast is arriving this week on PS4 and Xbox One.The PS4 version is out today in North America and tomorrow in Europe, while the Xbox One edition will arrive on 4th March.Led by Tearaway senior designer Daniel Leaver at his new studio Dreadbit, Iron … | Continue reading
AT&T has announced that it plans to offer internet-based streaming TV service later this year. The new services, which will be branded and packaged as DirecTV products, will let you stream video from smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, set top boxes, PCs, or other devices using a wi … | Continue reading
Facebook is tweaking its News Feed algorithm when it comes to what’s live versus recorded. The company announced that with more people consuming Live videos, it’s looking at making this format a “new content type” that’s different from normal videos you upload later. It’s first s … | Continue reading
Of all the virtual reality games to leave me feeling disoriented, Minecraft was the one I least expected. The pixel-art game, which Microsoft announced today would be coming to the Oculus Rift headset when it starts shipping next month, was a surprisingly immersive VR experience … | Continue reading
Just two weeks ago, Alabama Shakes took home their first set of Grammys. It was a big night for the band, led by one of the best performances of the show, a scorching rendition of "Don't Wanna Fight" guided by lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard's inimitable vocals. That sa … | Continue reading
The official Google I/O 2016 website is now up and running with its familiar countdown timer, and tells us registration will open May 8. The event is May 18-20. As is typically the case, tickets cost $900 for everyone but students, who can get in for $300. And just as it was last … | Continue reading
Google's biggest event of the year starts May 18th, and today it's announcing how people interested in attending can get tickets. Between March 8th and March 10th, you can register online for the chance to buy tickets to Google I/O. Note that registering between those dates doesn … | Continue reading
Facebook has been spending plenty of time on itsLive Video offering — working diligently to better showcase it on both desktop and mobile Web, as well as creating a VR opportunity with its Live 360 Video technology. Today, the company announced via blog post that you’ll likely be … | Continue reading
Despite many healthcare insurers having decried Obamacare as the end of days, the truth–as measured by both stock prices and revenue results–is the nation’s largest healthcare insurance companies have been steadily growing. Read More | Continue reading
Google I/O 2016 registration will take place beginning next Tuesday, March 8th! | Continue reading
At Kik, we’ve been thinking about the coming bot revolution for a long time. We first launched a basic bot platform a year and a half ago, and millions of users have been chatting with Kik bots ever since. Other messengers, such as Telegram and Slack, have been doing their own wo … | Continue reading
Reddit moderator Blair Erickson has unveiled a project that spent two years in the metaphorical oven — a Reddit twin that shows what he imagines the site will look like in 1,000 years. Reddit3016 is a fairly intricate project, as it's covered in links to fake YouTube, Imgur, and … | Continue reading
As first reported by The Verge yesterday, Google's monthly self-driving car report for February — published today — offers details of the very first collision involving one of its cars that it's responsible for. Fortunately, it was a relatively minor crash, caused when one of Goo … | Continue reading
Worried about how to secure your WordPress blog from hackers and XSS attacks. Read this to check, prevent and secure your blog from XSS attacks. | Continue reading
Pebble’s latest smartwatches are now a little less cash. The Time Round is $199 and the Time is $149. At these prices, the Pebble sits more comfortable among its competition. Fitbit’s new Blaze costs $199 and Garmin’s Vivoactive is $219. At $149 rather than $199, the Pebble Time … | Continue reading
User interface designs have to be such that they can be consistently experienced on any device regardless of the form factor, operating... | Continue reading
When the government dumps hundreds and hundreds of documents at one time, it’s almost as if it doesn’t want you to know where to start. And boy is the UK’s new Investigatory Powers Bill a privacy-infringing gold mine. Having had the draft pulled apart by no less than three offici … | Continue reading
Big changes are coming to Disney Infinity. Previously, a new version of the (according to the market research group NPD, most popular) “toys to life” game would come out every year. Those would support new playsets and characters, but they wouldn’t work with older editions of Dis … | Continue reading
There won't be a new Disney Infinity game in 2016 — but there will still be a lot of new Disney Infinity content coming. Since its debut in 2013, the toys-to-life series has seen a new release every year, with each new game introducing a new Disney property. The first game mashed … | Continue reading
Are you in the market for a car that has charm, panache, old-school design, and zero emissions? Allow me to present the Morgan EV3. It's an all-electric version of the wonderful Morgan three-wheeler.With a 20kWh lithium battery, the 64-horsepower, 1,100-pound trike can get from 0 … | Continue reading
The Toronto Raptors announced Tuesday they have signed NBA veteran power forward Jason Thompson. Per team policy, financial details were not disclosed. | Continue reading
Some iOS users who updated to the latest version of Instagram yesterday were greeted with a particularly puzzling new feature: a plus button. According to several user tweets, pressing the plus button opened up their camera roll to select photos, but failed to let them upload to … | Continue reading
Microsoft's Gears of War Ultimate Edition debuts today on the Windows Store, but AMD owners should steer clear. The game's DX12 implementation is a trainwreck if you own a newer Radeon; Microsoft and The Coalition have promised patches. | Continue reading
Twitter Fabric is releasing Answers for tvOS, which compliments its other Apple TV developer offerings Crashlytics and Digits. Last month, Twitter opened a beta of Answers for tvOS, but today marks its official release. Answers provides insight on users in real-time, and gives st … | Continue reading
NASA has awarded Lockheed Martin $20 million to design a new series of supersonic aircraft. Known as "low boom" flight demonstration aircraft, NASA hopes these quieter "X-planes" will pave the way for the reintroduction of commercial supersonic flights. Charles Bolden, the admin … | Continue reading
Charlotte Hornets guard Jeremy Lin is disappointed about the way Asians were stereotyped during an onstage skit at Sunday night's Oscars, and said more racial awareness is needed. | Continue reading
It doesn’t matter if it was Live if you missed it. And Facebook knows that people watch actually Live streams 3X longer than saved ones. So it’s changing the News Feed to prefer on-going broadcasts. Twitter’s big advantage with Periscope is that they’re both inherently real-time … | Continue reading
Pebble today is dropping the price of its Time and Time Round smartwatches to $149.99 and $199.99, respectively. This is a $50 drop from the prior prices, and matches some of the time-limited promotions Pebble has done in the past. The Time Steel is remaining at $249.99.The new p … | Continue reading
Pebble has made a handful of announcements today as the hardware startup looks to increase uptake of its popular smartwatch. The price of Pebble Time, which first went on sale last July, has been slashed from $199 to $150, while the Pebble Round, which went to market last Septemb … | Continue reading
I don't think I'll find anyone who will argue with me when I say that the App Store of 2016 is a crazy place. The fun thing about being involved in the world of the App Store since before there even was an App Store is just how deeply I can appreciate how insane things | Continue reading
Brazilian federal police have detained a Facebook executive over a legal dispute concerning information from Facebook-owned WhatsApp, according to a Reuters report now confirmed by Facebook. Continue reading… | Continue reading
A report released by Senate Republicans claims that the White House made a significant effort to influence the FCC and steer chairman Tom Wheeler to pass net neutrality rules that President Obama wanted. The inquiry was conducted by the majority on the Committee on Homeland Secur … | Continue reading
SoundHound has been working hard at bringing its personal voice assistant out of beta for the past few months, and that day is finally here. Hound is now available for all. | Continue reading
Jaguar has teamed up with Olympic skier Graham Bell to set the Guinness World Record for the 'fastest man on skis'. | Continue reading
Last week, toward the end of a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, GGV Capital managing director Hans Tung took the stage to interview one of his portfolio CEOs, Peter Szulczewski of Wish. With an increasingly boisterous crowd as their background, Tung managed to ferret out lots o … | Continue reading
Apple’s fight with the DoJ and FBI about encryption is, to this point, positioning. At the top of the hour, everyone will have their chance to testify before congress. At the crux of this argument is what Apple is calling GovtOS, an open version of iOS that is necessary to unlock … | Continue reading
PREVIEW: Ashes of the Singularity is a real-time strategy that uses all the brains in your computer’s processor and graphics chips to render as many as 100,000 moving objects on the screen at the same time. That lets you stage huge land battles for the control of planets in an in … | Continue reading
Rock Band 4 could be on its way to the PC later this year — but only if developer Harmonix is able to crowdfund the money necessary for the port. Today the studio launched a campaign on Fig hoping to raise $1.5 million over the next 35 days; Harmonix says the full cost to develop … | Continue reading
A new survey has revealed that the current buzz around blockchains is driving a focus on technological investment within the financial sector. | Continue reading