After launching a small Linux-based device that can mine Bitcoin and make machine-to-machine payments last year, 21 has launched a micropayments marketplace that allows people to trade digital goods using cryptocurrency. The 21 Marketplace’s initial focus is on enabling developer … | Continue reading
After his nearly year-long mission on the International Space Station (ISS) and 20 years of service with NASA, Astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from the agency, effective April 1st. “This year-in-space mission was a profound challenge for all involved, and it gave me a unique pe … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Consumers are more protective of their inboxes than ever, which goes hand in hand with the glut of email now. Join VB analyst Jon Cifuentes and guest panelist Realtor.com CMO Nate Johnson as they share how to how to break through instead of getting banished to email p … | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will retire from the space agency on April 1st — less than a month after he returned from nearly a year in space, NASA confirmed today. Kelly just spent 340 days aboard the International Space Station for NASA's One-Year Mission, an experiment to see ho … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence is one of the hottest subjects these days, and recent advances in technology make AI even closer to reality than most of us can imagine. The subject really got traction when Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and more than 1,000 AI and robotics researchers signed … | Continue reading
This past week, the Go-playing world was rocked by DeepMind AlphaGo's unexpected victory over legendary champion Lee Se-dol. Sure, supercomputers have beaten chessmasters at their own game before, but due to the extremely complex nature of the 5000-year old game of Go, this was a … | Continue reading
AUSTIN — The co-founder of the annual South by Southwest festival Louis Meyers died on Friday, just as the festival kicked off its 30th year in the Texas capital.The news was first reported by publication Austin Statesman shortly before President Obama joined the event to discuss … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’ll confess that I wrote up this week’s entries while dreaming of the barbecued meats and warm temperatures I’m going to enjoy at SXSW next week. This’ll be my first year at Austin’s music … | Continue reading
While most people think about hashtags, marketing stunts and SoLoMo when they hear about the Interactive part of SXSW in Austin, this year is going to be a bit different as President Barack Obama is about to give a keynote at the event. The event should start at 2:40 PM in Austin … | Continue reading
About a month ago, I wrote about an interview by Paradox Interactive's CEO, Fredrik Wester, where he talked about the possibility of Paradox bringing franchises like Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, and even Stellaris to mobile in the next year, year and a half. Needless to sa … | Continue reading
For the fifth year in a row, biz school professors Yael Hochberg of Rice University and Susan Cohen of the University of Richmond have ranked the many accelerator programs now up and running in the U.S. as a way of helping making sense of which are worth the time, effort, and, of … | Continue reading
NASA announced that it will send its next lander to Mars, known as the InSight Mars lander, in May of 2018. The mission was originally on schedule to launch later this month, but a technical issue found late last year put the InSight launch on hold. The new launch date comes as g … | Continue reading
Google publishes hundreds of research papers every year covering everything from algorithms to education and an upcoming project set to be presented later this month seeks to be the best AI assistant you ever had. You may have already run into difficulty when trying to use someth … | Continue reading
SXSW kicks off today, which means there's soon going to be another crop of cool movies that everyone's buzzing about but most of us have to wait months and months to see. I finally caught up on Dope, one of the hits at Sundance last year, since it recently came on Netflix, and it … | Continue reading
South by Southwest Interactive has finally arrived.But while you can plan for the sessions, keynotes and parties, there's one element to the conference attendees may still wondering how to prepare for: their smartphones. Each year, it seems, SXSW serves as the launchpad for one a … | Continue reading
Samsung’s Galaxy View is finally available to procure through Verizon, which is great news if you’re on the market for a ridiculously big Android tablet. First unveiled last October, the so-called “tablet” sports an 18.4″ full HD screen, stereo speakers, and a two-way stand. The … | Continue reading
What’s the difference between a company that uses big data like a grown-up and one that is still in the playpen? Collect it, store it, crunch it, display it… big data has always sounded more like a candy-store display than something businesses use everyday. This past year, as the … | Continue reading
About a quarter of a million people are injured in US bathrooms every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but as I'm drowning a man in an ornate Parisian toilet I'm thinking I might have a tough time playing this off as an accident. Even trickier to … | Continue reading
In the latest Magic Quadrant report released by Gartner last year, Amazon Web Services (AWS) maintained its position as the king of cloud Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers. Followed by Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform, the three cloud providers are often refer … | Continue reading
Remember how Apple laughed off the giant 5-inch phone trend of 2010? “No one’s going to buy that,” said Steve Jobs at the time, “you can’t get your hand around it.” Well, a year later and Samsung would release the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note and forever cement “phablet” into our gadget … | Continue reading
Since its release this time last year, Cities: Skylines has sold over two million copies worldwide.Colossal Order's latest city builder has demolished sales records from launch, with many players welcoming it as a real alternative to 2013's disappointing SimCity reboot.Despite co … | Continue reading
It's been a brilliant financial year for CD Projekt, crowned by the release of The Witcher 3, a critical and commercial success that has propelled the Polish company to sales and revenue an order of magnitude higher than anything it's enjoyed before.Combined Witcher game sales - … | Continue reading
Remember Nosgoth? The free-to-play competitive multiplayer action set within the Legacy of Kain universe? After over a year in Early Access, it's nearing launch.Nosgoth is the other game Rocket League developer Psyonix is working on. It's a team-based human versus vampire multipl … | Continue reading
Some car fans don’t connect with racing series because their purpose-built, open-wheel race cars bear no resemblance to anything they see on the street. And perhaps the same could be said of today’s Formula E circuit of electric-car races across the globe. But how about a race se … | Continue reading
Nexon's Legacy Quest [Free] was originally announced more than a year ago, in February 2015, and just a week or so after that it ended up being one of my favorite games that I saw at GDC that year. The game had been in soft-launch since last September, and has undergone numerous … | Continue reading
February had a lot of blockbuster game releases, but that wasn’t enough to match spending from last year. Consumers spent $842.5 million on new physical gaming products at United States retailers during the four-week period from January 31 through February 27, according to indust … | Continue reading
Bitcoin started the cryptocurrency revolution. Bitcoin was first introduced in 2009 after Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper about the new digital currency the previous year. Being an open source protocol, many alternate cryptocurrencies followed bitcoin. These alternate currenci … | Continue reading
The Russian Finance Ministry has reportedly beefed up penalties for the issuance of so-called money surrogates including digital currencies. | Continue reading
The Department of Justice issued a response to Apple today claiming that it was creating undue burden where none existed. “By Apple’s own reckoning, the corporation — which grosses hundreds of billions of dollars a year — would need to set aside as few as six of its 100,000 emplo … | Continue reading
Expect to see more and more online multiplayer games on mobile this year. It's always been a thing that companies have wanted to crack, since there is an interest. But up until Clash Royale [Free], it didn't feel like anyone got the live PVP multiplayer thing quite figured out. W … | Continue reading
Every year, Jeep enthusiasts gather in Moab, Utah for Easter Jeep Safari, a weeklong celebration of the iconic SUV, off-roading, and the gorgeous Utah desert. This year is the 50th edition of the event, and Jeep — the company — is bringing along some special concept Jeeps to show … | Continue reading
Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders in the ecosystem. You might have read about, for example, Congress making permanent the 100 percent tax exclusion for sales of qual … | Continue reading
Each year, Jeep creates and unveils some crazy concepts for the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab, Utah. However, this year's concepts might take the cake. That's because, along with six other truly inspired 4x4s, Jeep has debuted a Wrangler with a 707-horsepower V8 engine.See also: Sor … | Continue reading
New York-based Yext, which helps businesses manage their listings for store locations, is announcing $88.8 million in revenue for its fiscal 2016 year. The company says this is a 48% increase from last year and in the past month they have passed a $100 million run rate, or annual … | Continue reading
Another mobile company is getting into the virtual reality game. Colopl NI, the U.S. subsidiary of the Japanese mobile developer that has a revenue of $700 million a year, announced today that it plans to move into the developing virtual reality field. To do so, it has promoted f … | Continue reading
There will soon be yet another collectible card game vying for your attention, this time from EA and Plants vs. Zombies developer PopCap Games.Plants vs. Zombies: Heroes launches this year for mobile devices and once again pits the ever-warring plants against the undead.Your deck … | Continue reading
The drone takes off, hovering a few feet off the ground. I guide it up to about 12 feet with the throttle on the remote control. Then my three year old son takes over. He taps the screen on an iPad running our piloting app. The drone, a DJI Phantom 4, begins to ascend, heading to … | Continue reading
When a new phone is announced, many of of us await the pricing with dread: Will you be able to afford it, or will you have to suffer through another year with your old phone that only holds a charge for 30 minutes?Some customers, however, are ready to pay a much higher price for … | Continue reading
The new Ratchet & Clank on PS4 is technically billed as a reimagining of the original, a modern update to a nearly 15-year-old game. But based on the few hours I’ve spent with a preview version, it’s clearly much more than the splash of high-definition paint that constitutes most … | Continue reading
At CES this year Roku and its TV manufacturer partners announced that some 4K models would be coming to market this year, bringing its inexpensive Roku-branded TVs from the likes of TCL and Insignia to the next level. Now the first 4K Roku TV is here.This morning Roku and TV-make … | Continue reading
Content retargeting is serving content ads to people who have already read your content. It's a new tool in the content marketers toolkit and allows you to manage your content funnel a lot more effectively. Matching content to the buyers journey. For example: Someone reads your t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: With over 3 years experience in the industry Hashflare is pleased to announce one year Ethereum cloud mining contracts with NO maintenance fees which represents the best value on the market, after users sign up for a free account. The platform also offers l … | Continue reading
Whole Foods and Instacart this morning confirmed the grocery chain’s extended, strategic relationship with same-day delivery service and announced plans to expand into several new markets over the course of the year. News of Whole Foods’ financial investment and deepened partners … | Continue reading
I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with tablets. I’ve never managed to convince myself to keep an iPad past a few weeks and I couldn’t take Android tablets seriously with their lack of multitasking. That said, when I tried Google’s Pixel C hybrid late last year, I was impre … | Continue reading
The Wii U is getting a totally new entry in the revered Zelda series this year, and the game’s producer is suggesting that it’s going to surprise fans. Nintendo’s Eiji Aonuma, who is currently directing The Legend of Zelda for Wii U, says that the new game is using a slightly dif … | Continue reading
Russia seems to be making a fair amount of media headlines again, as their regulation of digital currency has just taken a turn for the worse. A new proposal – drafted by the Russian Ministry of Finance – seeks to penalize Bitcoin users by up to seven years in jail time. Do keep … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Selling digital PC games is a tough space with a lot of competition, but a startup is looking to standout by making the shopping experience more engaging and personalized for both consumers and developers. Playfield.io is a digital retailer for PC games that launched l … | Continue reading
While Pokemon Go from Niantic is set to hit sometime this year, it looks like another Pokemon game is set to hit mobile in Japan: Pokemon Comasters. With the help of our own Shaun Musgrave, what we've sussed out about this is that it's a game being developed by HEROZ, where you'l … | Continue reading