The past two years have been crazy for me. One minute I was a student, drowning in papers and dealing with stress-induced insomnia by ingesting large amounts of coffee (not my wisest choice), and the next I was employed as a professional editor. There I was, a recent graduate. No … | Continue reading
Microsoft has been telling us that tablets are the future of personal computing since the original Surface and Windows 8, yet after all these years, very few Windows tablets have been able to hit the size, weight and battery life we’ve come to expect from Android and iOS tablets. … | Continue reading
Lenovo announced today the first yearly loss in six years, as the group struggled to integrate Motorola and faced plummeting sales in the critical Chinese market. | Continue reading
For years, Imgur has been the go-to service Redditors use to upload images when opening threads on the website, but this might be about to change soon. Starting today, Reddit is launching its own in-house image uploading tool on the Web that will let users quickly and easily post … | Continue reading
Kumatomo, a curious Nintendogs-esque game from Bandai Namco that came out on Nintendo's 3DS a couple of years back, is being localised for the UK this summer. Rebranded as Teddy Together, it sees a bear moving into the player's house brandishing a mysterious key. Over time and th … | Continue reading
Platinum Games has been around for nearly ten years at this point and has produced some of the best action games ever made. As the studio has grown, however, various teams within the company have taken on smaller, lower-budget projects, including last year's surprisingly solid Tr … | Continue reading
Earlier today, we speculated that billionaire Peter Thiel may have secretly financed a lawsuit to put Gawker Media out of business owing to a series of antagonistic stories about him written by Gawker’s now defunct Valleywag site nearly a decade ago. Thiel has since talked with N … | Continue reading
The growth of data breaches in recent months and years is in large part because of the new generation of smart malware being developed on a daily basis. Malicious actors are constantly taking advantage of technological innovations and breakthroughs to devise new ways to flood the … | Continue reading
Terrapattern is a visual search engine that, from the moment you first use it, you wonder: why didn’t Google come up with this ten years ago? Click on a feature on the map — a baseball diamond, a marina, a roundabout — and it immediately highlights everything its algorithm thinks … | Continue reading
The secrets of search engine optimisation are 2000 years old. It was in the spring of 216 BCE that Hannibal Barca used the predictability of the Roman Army’s war tactics to defeat them. The Romans were known for their front-on assault, and Hannibal used this unimaginative move to … | Continue reading
The blood-testing startup Theranos has been hit with a consumer fraud class action lawsuit, a week after the company voided two years’ worth of Edison blood test results. Continue reading… | Continue reading
For the past five years, Samsung has released a large-screen, stylus-equipped, second-half flagship smartphone known as the Galaxy Note, whose name has been appended by sequential numbers to denote the particular model’s generation. While this year’s version — set to debut in Aug … | Continue reading
The Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, pleaded guilty today on hacking-related charges, prosecutors on the case announced in a statement. He faces seven years in prison. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Ancient piles of broken stalagmites found deep inside a cave in France were made by Neanderthals about 176,000 years ago, way before modern humans were around. This is the first time archaeologists have concluded that our cousins ventured underground and built complex constructio … | Continue reading
A couple of years after bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox imploded, some former Mt. Gox users might finally get their bitcoins back. Tokyo’s court-appointed trustee in the Mt. Gox investigation has finally finished examining all the claims for missing bitcoins. Kraken is also partnering w … | Continue reading
Bluesmart raised more than $2 million on Indiegogo in 2014 for its connected carry-on bag. Now, two years later, the company's improving upon that luggage with the release of its Bluesmart Black Edition, which is available for preorder starting today. The bag doesn't come with an … | Continue reading
Two new Xbox One consoles are planned for release over the next two years, according to a new report.Kotaku's sources reveal a more powerful Xbox, codenamed Scorpio, is set for release in 2017. Kotaku says this will feature a more powerful GPU and will be able to support Oculus R … | Continue reading
Microsoft is said to be planning to unveil new Xbox streaming devices at E3 next month. The software giant has been considering an "Xbox TV" device for at least three years, and it appears a variant of it will be unveiled in June. Brad Sams, executive editor at Petri, revealed th … | Continue reading
Over the years, developers have turned to resources like BuiltWith to help them figure out what technology is under the hood, powering today’s websites – including things like shopping carts, analytics, hosting platforms, and more. Now BuiltWith has new competition: SimilarTech, … | Continue reading
Take-Two Interactive‘s 2K label and Firaxis Games are publishing Sid Meier’s Civilization VI on the PC on October 21. And while the turn-based strategy series is now 25 years old, Firaxis thinks it has figured out a way to keep players coming back for one more Civ. Innovating on … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Recode.Fifteen years ago, when the time became ripe for post-PC devices that put a premium on … | Continue reading
Four years ago Chris Palmer was left paralysed after a long battle with cancer, leaving him fearful he wouldn't be able to walk his daughter, Heather, down the aisle on her wedding day.However his dream to get her down aisle became a reality on May 21 when Palmer used a £90,000 ( … | Continue reading
For months, Gawker Media owner Nick Denton had suspected PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel was out to get him. Turns out, he was right. Thiel — the uber-rich Silicon Valley investor — had been financially backing Hulk Hogan in his fight against Denton and Gawker. Legal bills are pret … | Continue reading
Microsoft is signalling the end of its Nokia experiment today. After acquiring Nokia's phone business for $7.2 billion two years ago, Microsoft wrote off $7.6 billion last year and cut 7,800 jobs to refocus its phone efforts. Microsoft is now writing off an additional $950 millio … | Continue reading
Nearly half of executives worldwide anticipate that data analytics will result in a significant, across-the-board shift in their ability to deliver a superior customer experience within the next two years, February 2016 research found. More than a quarter said it has already done … | Continue reading
In recent years, technology isn't what you'd typically think of when the name Ray J comes up. The career of the actor, singer and reality show star is usually linked to the latest social media chatter involving other celebrities, most notably a certain infamous video involving a … | Continue reading
Developer Full Fat has been on the scene with made-for-touch sports games for many years now with the likes of the Flick Golf, Flick Soccer, Flick Rugby, and Flick Quarterback series. The whole "flick" thing always made so much sense on a touchscreen, especially in Flick Golf [Fr … | Continue reading
About nine months after taking on the role of head of community management at Reddit, Kristine Fasnacht (u/krispykrackers) has left the company. In a post titled, “Admin released from captivity, reintroduced to Reddit community,” Reddit CEO Steve Huffman wrote: I am sad to share … | Continue reading
Twilio stormed into the telecoms market several years ago with a set of services that turned core communications features once controlled by carriers, like text messages and phones numbers, into API-based services that any developer could easily customize and use in whatever app … | Continue reading
Twilio has spent years helping developers build applications on its telecommunications platform, incorporating features like voice, messaging, push notifications, and media sharing. The success of this has shown, with more than 1 million developers registered. But it’s time for t … | Continue reading
Several deaths just days apart on Mount Everest have tarnished the start of the first climbing season in two years since the mountain was closed off by natural disasters. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Given the massive surge in tech startups over the past few years, it’s no question that the industry is booming–and looking for skilled professionals. Of course, to get in on this 21st century gold rush, you’ll need a strong background in computer science, marketing or business. … | Continue reading
Three years after Pebble started selling its original Kickstarter-funded smartwatch, the Redwood City, California-based startup is rolling out a successor. The new Pebble 2 has some aesthetic improvements, but the most notable new feature is the Pebble 2's ability to track heart … | Continue reading
Sometimes in science the answer is right there in front of your nose the whole time. Like, say, when the issue of limitations in a solar technology can be addressed with, of all things, light. Over the past several years, perovskite compounds have garnered increased interest arou … | Continue reading
Fresh on the heels of the launch of Tech:NYC, Jersey is getting in on the action with the unveiling of Newark Venture Partners new incubator, NVP Labs. Over the next five years, NVP has plans to invest $10 million per year into startups as part of the incubator. Alongside investm … | Continue reading
This story has been going on for years, but it looks like France’s equivalent of the IRS (Direction générale des finances) wants more proofs. According to Le Monde and Le Parisien, Google’s office in Paris is being raided right now. According to the DGF, Google should be paying m … | Continue reading
There isn’t a lot of data on the potential of technology in Southeast Asia, which is why many in the industry have been excitedly flipping through a new report released today by Singaporean sovereign wealth fund Temasek and Google. The biggest takeaway: Southeast Asia’s internet … | Continue reading
Since Hideo Kojima's contract with Konami ended on December 16th, the director has embraced freedom with the unmistakeable gusto of the recent divorcee. His Twitter feed is a flick-book of selfies with Hollywood actors and directors in exotic locales, interspersed with photograph … | Continue reading
Another week, another story about a promising independent self-driving vehicle company. Last week, Otto came out of stealth to offer autonomous technology for trucks, and today MIT spinoff NuTonomy announced $16 million in funding to go after its ambitious goal of offering self-d … | Continue reading
TorOption is an innovative online investment platform set up by a knowledgeable team with years of experience in risk management, forex and binary options. | Continue reading
If you and/or your kids are all about animated movies, you’ll want to keep your devices locked to Netflix. The company has announced that it will be the exclusive streaming service for Disney and Pixar movies, as well as Marvel and LucasFilm properties, starting this September. T … | Continue reading
Over the past few years, cyber insurance markets have been growing at between 25-50 percent CAGR each year. According to The Betterley Report 2015, annual policy premiums are approaching $2.75 billion. The ecosystem of insurance underwriters, intermediaries/brokers, analysts/mana … | Continue reading
A few years back, a super quirky game called All Glory to the Pixel King! [Free] was released in the App Store from developer Steve O'Gorman. It was a super lo-fi and blocky game where you'd build a 2D fortress to surround and protect your king by filling it with all manner of so … | Continue reading
If you haven't seen last night's episode of Game of Thrones yet, I suggest closing this tab and putting all of your devices on airplane mode and avoiding human interaction until you have the opportunity to do so.Are you gone?Okay, great. The lovable, perfect Hodor, who dedicated … | Continue reading
When my son was six-years-old, my wife and I refused to give him toy guns. If one arrived as a gift, it was swiftly spirited away – so quickly that he barely noticed its absence.Instead, we bought him Legos... and he promptly built a gun.I was reminded of this as I read over a fa … | Continue reading
Syberia 3, the long-awaited third outing in Microïds point-and-click adventure series, will launch on 1st December for PC, Mac, PS4 and Xbox One.That's four years after it was first announced. And 12 years since Syberia 2 from 2004.This time out series stalwart and lawyer Kate Wa … | Continue reading
E3 is the world’s biggest gaming event, but it’s lost some of its luster to other conferences like PAX over the past few years. Now it wants to fight back by opening it’s doors to everyday gamers. The Entertainment Software Association – which manages E3 – today announced E3 Live … | Continue reading
Chances are, if you think of something new to do with virtual reality, someone already did it — or at least tried — in the '90s. The VR music video, for example, is still a nascent art form, in the sense that every kind of consumer VR is only a couple of steps past the prototype … | Continue reading