In 2008, Barack Obama redrafted the electioneering script, becoming the first presidential candidate to use social media as a political channel. His opponents’ failure to grasp the significance of social media proved as catastrophic as Richard Nixon’s dismissive attitude to telev … | Continue reading
After the Department of Justice today issued a motion to compel Apple to comply with its request to build software that could prove integral in unlocking the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, Apple has responded with a statement. Within the statement Apple deemed it unnecessary to … | Continue reading
County officials changed the Apple ID password in the crucial days after the attack, senior Apple executives said today on a call with reporters. Had the Apple ID not changed, executives said, the data on the phone could potentially have been retrieved through the iPhone's auto-b … | Continue reading
Burberry is partnering with Apple TV to live stream its first consumer-facing, immediately shoppable runway collection. Apple TV viewers will be able to watch the show live from London’s Kensington Gardens at 1pm UK time/8am EST on Monday, February 22nd.Since this is a cinematic … | Continue reading
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced that its mobile payment service Samsung Pay has been used by more than 5 million “registered users”, with many of them coming from South Korea and the United States. In the first six months since its release, the service has p … | Continue reading
Tesla now has a domain name that makes sense. If you wanted to check out Tesla’s auto lineup, you had to navigate your browser to teslamotors.com. It made sense, but only if you knew about the domain — or your favorite search engine knew you were looking for cars, not info about … | Continue reading
Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its technology in machine learning and big data analytics: the company has acquired PredictionIO, a startup based out of Palo Alto that had developed an open source-based machine learning server. Salesforce plans to use some of … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today to match the Windows 10 Mobile release yesterday. The latest build includes improvements to Cortana’s music feature and the Edge browser. Officially, Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 10 Mobile to existing Windows Phone u … | Continue reading
Salesforce has acquired PredictionIO, a startup with general-purpose open-source machine learning software, Simon Chan, the startup’s cofounder and chief executive, announced today. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Over the past few years, we’ve been on a mission to scale an … | Continue reading
Alice, from a new animated short titled The Last Job on Earth, is not like the rest of the us. Of course, she has a robot cat and receives a health examination and medicine from a machine, but what sets her apart from everyone else is her job — she has one. The Last Job on Earth … | Continue reading
A leak on Twitter has given us what may be our best look so far at the front and back of the LG G5 outside of a case. | Continue reading
Don’t ever say we aren’t flexible. You needed a few extra days to commit to clicking the buy button on tickets to Disrupt NY 2016, and we’re happy to give that to you.We’re extending the deadline on our extra early-bird tickets to next Wednesday, February 24, so you have a few ex … | Continue reading
Since 1992, the domain Tesla.com has been owned by an engineer and Nikolai Tesla fan named Stu Grossman, to the chagrin of Tesla Motors, which was forced to settle for Teslamotors.com as the broader domain sat mostly unused. But no longer: the company has obtained Tesla.com, whic … | Continue reading
Developer John Kooistra and his studio Cat in a Box Games go way, way back to the earliest days of the App Store. His debut title Blue Defense! [$0.99] reminds me of how fun those early days were, when quirky new experiences were dropping all the time taking advantage of the nove … | Continue reading
Constant Contact announced today that it will be shutting down NutshellMail, the social media inbox service it acquired nearly six years ago. The company decided that now was the time because it wanted to “move on to other projects.” NutshellMail will no longer be operational aft … | Continue reading
So earlier this week we profiled a company called NeverWare that's modified Chromium OS into an easy-to-install package called CloudReady that can dualboot on tons of old laptops. And because old laptop hardware is often faster and more powerful than modern Chromebooks, that mean … | Continue reading
CoinDesk profiles Bloq, a new startup by bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik and long-time industry investor Matt Roszak. | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this week’s musical news was dominated by two giant, controversial institutions: Kanye West and the Grammys. The Life of Pablo tumbled onto the internet early Sunday morning, finding a temp … | Continue reading
I'm not personally an SUV driver, but a lot of people around the world are, which is why luxury and sports brands have been clamoring to put out a big soft-roader in recent years: the Porsche Cayenne, the Bentley Bentayga, the upcoming Rolls-Royce truck, the list goes on.And now … | Continue reading
It's undeniable that Maseratis are some of the most beautiful cars on the road, from the two-door GranTourismo to the Quattroporte long-body sedan. Now there's a new great Italian beauty in the family. It's called the Levante. As you can see from the images, it's an SUV.See also: … | Continue reading
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today. This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public since their deadly crash during a test flight with the previous version.In a tweet, Virgin Galactic specified that the new vessel … | Continue reading
Do you remember the very first time you were utterly disappointed? Like, disappointed to the point that the let-down you felt was tangible. You can still feel the frustration as the weight of your … | Continue reading
Lets say you’ve got kids. They like Messenger for talking with other kids about Minecraft or bubble gum or whatever kids talk about these days.You’re happy to let them use Messenger in the evenings, but they’re not quite old enough for a phone of their own just yet. What to do?Fa … | Continue reading
Microservices - An Architectural Pattern Anthony Bouch Sat, 02/20/2016 - 06:09 Microservices - An Architectural Pattern Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video In the mid 2000s it was all about 'Services Oriented Architecture'. The hype machine … | Continue reading
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that it’s time for all of us to boycott Apple. “I think what you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just th … | Continue reading
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below (reportedly shot at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina), Trump was discussing the need to bring overseas jobs back to the Uni … | Continue reading
Where Dawn of Gods has an edge over other raid-based strategies is the sheer diversity of the units. | Continue reading
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A few days ago, the rumor mill pointed out that Facebook Messenger would soon support SMS and multiple accounts for Android. Half of that came true today. Via an update, Facebook Messenger will now support multiple accounts, which the company is framing as a feature for families … | Continue reading
In what's shaping up to be a new annual tradition, Lucasfilm has announced the 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, kicking off this year's competition with an introduction by J.J. Abrams. The pitch is simple: make a short film based on the characters and stories of the Star Wars univ … | Continue reading
The Zero Escape series (999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors and Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward) is getting a real-life spin-off with a licensed Escape the Room experience coming to Los Angeles.Entitled Real Zero Escape: Trust on Trial, the exhibition is being developed b … | Continue reading
Did you miss yesterday’s webinar with Scripted on content marketing tools? No worries, we have the full recap — tools, recording, and slides —right here. | Continue reading
Today, private space tourism company Virgin Galactic unveiled the new version of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, dubbed the VSS Unity. It’s the spacecraft that the company wants to use to send paying customers into sub-orbital space someday. The VSS Unity will ultimately replace Virgin … | Continue reading
Pluto's moon Charon is broken and fractured and now we think we know why. A subsurface ocean that existed when the moon was young may have frozen later, deforming the surface of the planet. | Continue reading
TouchMint's latest in their Adventure to Fate series hits the App Store on March 3rd, with Quest to the Future (formerly Future Apocalypse) releasing for $2.99 without in-app purchases. The game has you traveling through time to portals that can help save the world, playing as se … | Continue reading
Venture capital-backed insurance success stories have risen at a regular drumbeat over the last few years: 2011 brought the billion-dollar Esurance acquisition, 2012 brought the wildly successful Guidewire IPO, 2013 brought the large Climate Corp. acquisition and 2014-2015 brough … | Continue reading
By Alicia Fiorletta and Holly Celeste Fisk Crystal clear skies, a warm, vibrant sun and 80-degree weather blessed all of the B2B marketers who traveled to Scottsdale, AZ for the 2016 B2B Content2Conversion Conference. We took to the marketing streets, er…Solution Zone, and we ha … | Continue reading
Donald Trump today called for a boycott of Apple following the company’s refusal to help the FBI unlock data from the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. Speaking at a rally in South Carolina, the Republican presidential candidate declared, “I think what you ought to do is boycott A … | Continue reading
At a rally today in South Carolina, Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products in response to the company's current legal standoff with the FBI. Currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump was speaking at a rally in advance of tomorrow's S … | Continue reading
Social media marketing can bolster a strong digital marketing strategy, and having the right (free) tools to learn more about your social efforts will help generate bigger, better results. | Continue reading
The initiative is being pushed forward by LinkNYC in an effort to make sure anybody can check their email, find directions, or even place wifi calls. | Continue reading
No hoverboard currently on the market can be deemed safe. That's the startling conclusion the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reached after its months-long investigation into the safety hazards posed by hoverboards.Read the full details: http://on.mash.to/20JAgob R … | Continue reading
Learn how Netflix became a content marketing powerhouse, and how you can apply the same lessons to your B2B content marketing. | Continue reading
In the most recent example of a brand distancing itself from controversy, sports apparel giant Nike officially terminated its advertising contract with Manny Pacquiao after the boxer was quoted saying offensive things about homosexual people in a published interview. | Continue reading
Ben and James discuss the mistakes made by Zenefits, when to challenge regulation, and the problem with short-term thinking. This podcast was recorded before the Apple/FBI news broke; we currently plan to cover that next week. This episode is sponsored by Wunder Capital. Make a g … | Continue reading
Facebook’s recent decision to open its Instant Articles to all publishers will almost certainly transform both publishing and public relations. The social media network will open the program to any Facebook user who owns a page, including individual bloggers on April 12 the date … | Continue reading
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www.ZerCustoms.com - Williams is back for the 2016 Formula 1 season and this is the FW38. As you can ... [...] | Continue reading