Sony has a pair of new cameras for sale — though perhaps “new” isn’t the word, since they’re more like upgrades to existing devices. The price is upgraded, too — you’re not getting away for under a grand, though you’ll be getting a lot of camera for your money.The RX100 V is, as … | Continue reading
The solemn and disturbing side-scrolling adventure Inside is one of the year’s best games, and also one of the creepiest. And it turns out that eerie nature extends to the game’s development. In an in-depth article on Gamasutra, Martin Stig Andersen, Inside’s composer and sound d … | Continue reading
Sony and Bethesda have reached an agreement on mod support for the PS4. Both the upcoming Skyrim Enhanced Edition and Fallout 4 will support mods in the future, while Skyrim will offer a native 4K resolution option on the PS4 Pro. | Continue reading
After devastating parts of the Caribbean, Hurricane Matthew is now barreling toward the United States. Responsible for at least 27 deaths so far, the most powerful storm to hit Florida in a decade is expected to make landfall today. Long line of cars waiting to pick up sandbags i … | Continue reading
Flex, the tampon alternative you can wear during sex, has raised a $3 million seed round led by Vivek Ranadive’s new fund, Better Our World Ventures Fund, with participation from Cyan Banister of Founders Fund, Ellen Pao and others. This comes just a couple of months after Flex r … | Continue reading
AT&T customers, listen up! You'll be able to pre-order the LG V20 from AT&T starting Friday, October 7! | Continue reading
Transistor size is an important part of improving computer technology. The smaller your transistors, the more you can fit on a chip, and the faster and more efficient your processor can be. That's why it's such big news that a team at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has suc … | Continue reading
Facebook is planning to launch its subsidized internet service in the US, according to a report from The Washington Post. The service, known as Free Basics, would provide limited internet access to rural and low-income areas through deals with wireless carriers. The service would … | Continue reading
Oculus took the stage for the keynote presentation at its annual Connect developer conference today, and founder Palmer Luckey did not make an appearance. Instead of Luckey, Oculus trotted out chief executive Brendan Iribe, vice president of product Nate Mitchell, and chief scien … | Continue reading
AT&T and T-Mobile just announced pricing and availability for the LG V20 smartphone, LG's flagship phablet that is meant to compete at the high end of the smartphone market.AT&T is selling it for $27.67 per month for 30 months, or $34.59 per month for 24 months, through its AT&T … | Continue reading
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Organizers say Michael Jordan will introduce Russell Westbrook when the Oklahoma City Thunder star is inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame next month. | Continue reading
The popular Prisma app best known for photo editing has started to roll out the ability to create 15-second videos, the company announced today. The ability to lay Prisma’s neural network-altered styles on top of 15-second videos is limited to iOS app users. Prisma is one of seve … | Continue reading
Nike announced earlier this week that it will be releasing a new edition of the Nike Mags, its self-lacing shoes inspired by Back to the Future — but only 89 pairs, which will be raffled off (tickets cost $10), with proceeds benefiting the Michael J. Fox Foundation‘s research on … | Continue reading
According to Pew Research Center, 15 percent of adults have limited options for accessing the internet, aside from their cell phone. Of these 15 percent, nearly half of those reported having to cancel or suspend wireless service because they could no longer afford it. Facebook’s … | Continue reading
Oculus co-founder and Trump troll financier Palmer Luckey was conspicuously missing from the keynote stage at today’s Oculus Connect 3 conference in San Jose, CA. That could be related to the backlash against news that Luckey donated $10,000 to Nimble America, a pro-Trump non-pro … | Continue reading
GUEST: Since founding it in 2011, I’ve run one of Israel’s largest crowdfunding platform, which has afforded me a front-row seat to thousands of fundraising efforts. Over that time, I’ve noticed that the key challenge crowdfunders face is not preparing the necessary assets (such … | Continue reading
Coupa was off to the races when it went public on Thursday. The “spend management” software company priced its IPO at $18 and saw its shares almost double during its first day of trading. With clients like Nike and Toyota, Coupa helps companies keep tabs on everyday expenditures … | Continue reading
The Verge turns five on November 1st, and we’re in the process of refreshing our entire brand for the next five years. In Refreshing The Verge, we’ll be looking at how that refresh process works,... | Continue reading
Kodak accidentally teased an upcoming phone today in a now-deleted tweet. Fortunately, the image accompanying the tweet is also easily found at Kodakphones.com. Read More | Continue reading
Oculus has big plans on how to keep the content rolling out on its virtual reality platform. Disney is working with Oculus to make film and other material for the Rift and Gear VR head-mounted displays. At the Oculus Connect developer summit in San Jose, California today, the Fac … | Continue reading
A group of Democratic senators asked the Federal Communications Commission to investigate cell site simulators like Stingrays to determine if the surveillance devices used my local law enforcement agencies are disrupting cellphone service for ordinary consumers and 911 calls. The … | Continue reading
Ether Camp, organizers of the biggest hackathon in the blockchain space, with now 1,086 hackers taking part, is to launch a new token – Hacker Gold – through which start-up tokens can be acquired. Roman Mandeleil, founder of Ether Camp, which is to hold its second hackathon in No … | Continue reading
Virtual reality may soon be less of a lonely experience for Oculus hardware owners, as the company outlined how people can see each other and play together inside of virtual reality.Oculus announced a new party system during its Oculus Connect developers conference in San Jose, C … | Continue reading
Russia’s central bank said today that it has successfully completed a distributed ledger trial.Source | Continue reading
Theranos decides to close its labs to focus on selling the new miniLab machine to other companies. | Continue reading
If you're a fan of old-school beat-em-ups and upgradeable player characters, then you should try Dan the Man, now available for free in the Play Store. | Continue reading
Arktika.1 looks like it could be one of the most ambitious games yet for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset and its newly announced Oculus Touch controllers. The title is a VR shooter game from 4A Games, the game studio in Malta that made the Metro Last Light and Metro 2033 … | Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Snap — the now-parent company of Snapchat — is working on an initial public offering for as early as March that could value the company at $25 billion or higher. The company most-recently raised $1.8 billion in a financing round in May th … | Continue reading
Oculus wants to make sure the next computing platform isn’t dominated by white males like the last ones. The company has announced it will put $10 million towards supporting VR app and video creators of diverse backgrounds, including women and people of color. This comes alongsid … | Continue reading
The new minimum specs for getting into virtual reality are more reasonable than ever before, and that means the overall price has dropped to get into this space. Oculus VR introduced a $499 “Oculus-ready” machine during a presentation at its developer summit today. This new rig f … | Continue reading
VR has been pretty expensive to get going with, but it’s slowly getting cheaper. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced some changes to the minimum PC spec requirements required for Rift at the company’s developers conference, a move that will likely open up the platform to a much wi … | Continue reading
Epic Games and Oculus VR are giving developers a reason to make Rift content with the Unreal Engine toolset. Today, Oculus VP of product Nate Mitchell announced that Facebook’s VR division will pay the part of the royalty fees for all games using Unreal Engine that sell on the Oc … | Continue reading
Oculus showed off its Oculus Touch controller and a bunch of games that will use the independently movable controls for its virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift. And a bunch of the games that are on display at the company’s key developer event are impressive. The Oculus Conn … | Continue reading
Only at a VR show would a day of playing video games feel like a workout. Oculus started its third Connect conference with an eight-hour block of demos, mostly for the upcoming Touch motion controllers. (And even all those hours weren’t enough time for us to catch everything.) A … | Continue reading
Oculus' proprietary motion controller, Oculus Touch, is launching 6th December and will cost $199 for a pair of these, the VR company announced at its press conference moments ago.That may sound spendy, but the good news is that they'll include two games bundled into their cost: … | Continue reading
Prisma, that filter app that makes your photos look like paintings, is now pushing its effects to the next level with video support. The feature, which is iOS-only for now, allows you to apply the filters to 15 second videos. It doesn’t provide the full breadth of 30 options avai … | Continue reading
Some of the biggest ideas in virtual reality came together at the third Oculus Connect conference, as the company rolled out its latest hardware, partnerships and plans for the years ahead. That included new Touch controllers, two different sets of avatars, and a mysterious mid-r … | Continue reading
Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe introduced a new pair of earbuds that connect to the Oculus Rift VR headset called Oculus Earphones at Oculus Connect 3.They cost $49 and provide an audio experience that's as great as $900 earphones, Iribe said. The earbuds ship on Dec. 6.SEE ALSO: Oculu … | Continue reading
Art filter photo app Prisma is adding a big new feature to its iOS app in an update landing today: support for videos. Read More | Continue reading
We finally know exactly what you'll be playing when Oculus' Touch controllers launch in December. Today at its Oculus Connect keynote, the company unveiled a number of new titles that will support its fledgling controllers, including apocalyptic sci-fi shooter Arktika.1 from the … | Continue reading
The Oculus Touch controllers will ship on December 6 for $200 and include a sensor for detecting your movements in virtual reality. Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe said that the company delayed the launch previously so that it could make the controllers just right because “we were deter … | Continue reading
Onstage at the Oculus Connect 3 conference, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered a Facebook Messenger video call from his wife while in the new social VR environment. It appears that Facebook is finally confident enough with its VR arm that it’s willing to promote cross-network … | Continue reading
Moments ago at Oculus Connect 3, Mark Zuckerberg gave a very brief look at a prototype standalone VR headset that Oculus and Facebook are collaborating on. But the way Zuckerberg presented it was very familiar; it was basically a direct callback to Steve Jobs' introduction of the … | Continue reading
Epic Games is announcing a zany robot-shooting game called Robo Recall as a free exclusive game for the Oculus Touch controllers and the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Raleigh, N.C.-based Epic Games made the announcement on stage during the Oculus Connect keynote speech in … | Continue reading
Outlook.com is down today. We first noticed the problem at 10:19 a.m. Pacific: we couldn’t log into website, and soon our mobile devices started giving errors like “Couldn’t sign in.” Complaints about the outage for the email provider are widespread, according to searches on Face … | Continue reading
Sony held an event in Manhattan today to announce two new cameras: the RX100 Mark V and the A6500. It was a relatively low-key event as far as Sony events tend to go — the A6300 launch event featured basketball players and sparring matches, for example — and that's probably becau … | Continue reading
At its Oculus Connect event today, Facebook finally announced a price and release date for its fancy gesture-based Touch gamepads. The controllers will arrive on December 6, and you can pre-order them starting next Monday, October 10, for $199. All pre-orders will come with two f … | Continue reading
Brendan Iribe, the CEO of Oculus, announced today the the company's VR system will now be compatible with much cheaper, less powerful PCs. In the past Oculus had certified a number of machines as compatible, but all cost around $1,000 at a minimum. Today it showed off some new en … | Continue reading