We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
This week's podcast is overwhelmed by excitement surrounding two things: The Tesla Model 3 and Miitomo [Free]. If car stuff doesn't interest you (We talk about the rumored Apple Car and other sort of related things as well) skip to around 15:00 in to get straight to the game chat … | Continue reading
This week on MashTalk, Lance calls in from Microsoft Build to break down everything Microsoft announced at its annual developer conference, including HoloLens (9:15) and the company's emphasis on bots (17:00).SEE ALSO: Jason Snell joins MashTalk to discuss the iPhone SEWe also di … | Continue reading
Is bitcoin a safe asset? David Andolfatto, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, acknowledges in his blog, “MacroMania,” that bitcoin can be volatile over a short time span. But when people speak about safe assets, it’s not the same as providing a stable rate o … | Continue reading
Hey everyone, it's Friday and we're close to the end of the week of TouchArcade blasting stories out (unless anything cool happens over the weekend we need to cover), but the fact still remains: To survive, we very much need your support. The business of running a web site is tri … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
Snapchat today released an update that gives users ‘more than double’ the previous character limit — a total of 80. If your mind instantly ventured into April Fool’s territory, you’re not alone. A quick test of the feature seems to work, as promised. Snapchat also took to Twitter … | Continue reading
Tech giants are gathering in support of the Obama administration's contested plan to shift the US toward clean energy. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon joined together to file a court brief on Friday, describing their reasons for supporting the Environmental Protection Agency … | Continue reading
The Windows 10 Anniversary Update, announced during day one of Microsoft Build, will bring about another new feature that should get Android users excited — the ability to mirror notifications on your PC. The update already brings some highly-anticipated features, such as an enti … | Continue reading
Snapchat has released an update that gives you more characters for captions on your snaps. The company said that it has “more than doubled” the amount of characters you could have from the 33 you were limited to before. The news was revealed in a tweet today and the company even … | Continue reading
Peter Thiel is having a good month. According to a new SEC filing, low-flying Mithril Capital Management, which Thiel cofounded with longtime colleague Ajay Royan in 2012, is out raising its second fund with a $600 million target. Sources say the fund is already oversubscribed, h … | Continue reading
Leave it to Reddit to troll us with a surprisingly funny — and poignant — April Fools' Day prank involving none other than Reddit hero Edward SnowdenSnowden, who frequently weighs in on current events from his Twitter account, logged on to Reddit on Friday for a special April Foo … | Continue reading
Monkey Swingers [Free] is a game that has some immediate appeal, but it doesn't take long for it start pushing you away. Not only is the game quite tough, it also demands a fair bit of concentration, and a good run usually lasts longer than the excitement does. If you intend on g … | Continue reading
Apple Computer Company was founded 40 years ago today, on April Fools’ Day, in Los Altos, California, by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne. To celebrate its big four-oh — as Microsoft did last year — the company is flying a commemorative pirate flag at its headqu … | Continue reading
The Ethereum ecosystem is steadily growing, and more services are rolling out on a weekly basis. Not all of these new additions are coming from within the Ethereum ecosystem itself, though, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Solidity, the programming language for Ethereum, has … | Continue reading
What in god’s name is this thing!?! It looks like Scarlett Johansson, but it also looks like it’s about to kill me? Let’s band together to try to figure out what the hell is going on in a dialogue format.Russell Brandom: So the obvious thing to say is that this is creepy as hell. … | Continue reading
Google has already killed its controversial "mic drop" April Fools' joke from Gmail, but the company went even further this afternoon with a detailed apology and a post-mortem on what went wrong. Attached as an update to the top of the original Gmail blog post, the apology explai … | Continue reading
Instagram has long been praised for the simple fact that users see all the posts in chronological order. If your fans and followers looked at Instagram and scrolled their whole feed, it’s likely that they will see your post. This is a sharp contrast to Facebook which has been no … | Continue reading
Overstock revealed Friday it invested $4 million into a blockchain-forward financial technology firm in the Caribbean. The announcement, made in Barbados and attended by principals from the island’s company Bitt and Overstock, enters in a big move by Overstock into the space. It’ … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: The idea of one monolithic marketing cloud may be misunderstood. Xero CMO Andy Lark joins VB’s director of marketing technology Stewart Rogers to look at the reality of cloud-based marketing solutions and how best to use them to break down crippling marketing silos. R … | Continue reading
Robots are getting more life-like by the minute, but when they resemble an actual person, that’s when it gets a little weird. Especially when the inventor programmed it to respond to things like “I love you” and “You are so beautiful.” The robot’s Hong Kong-based inventor won’t n … | Continue reading
For this month only, if you buy a Samsung Galaxy S7 device on AT&T, you could get a 48" smart TV on the house. | Continue reading
MildMania is preparing to release an aggressively cute and colorful puzzle platformer next week called Cattch, and it's definitely one that should be on your radar. First of all it starts a cat, which always earns points in my book, but it also features a really interesting level … | Continue reading
What if Ableton music software had a built-in Github so musicians could contribute and modify samples? That’s essentially the idea behind Splice, a cloud-based music production platform built for collaboration and remixing, and its Beat Maker tool, a new sequencer that allows use … | Continue reading
Game of War players are spending a ton of money, but traditional console gamers still spend more than their mobile counterparts. The average paying player on mobile spends $86.50 per year on in-app purchases, according to research firm Slice Intelligence. That’s right behind the … | Continue reading
Judging from the $200 million in deposits Tesla has already raked in, the Model 3 has quickly found its fans in the last 24 hours — so quickly, in fact, that Elon Musk is openly wondering how he'll make all those cars.Don't get me wrong, the car looks nice (complaints about the g … | Continue reading
Restaurant reservation startup Reserve announced today that it has acquired Dash. When you make a reservation through Reserve, the app already handles payment (including splitting the bill), but by acquiring Dash, it will be able to integrate with point-of-sale systems like Micro … | Continue reading
Shige Honjo, a veteran executive at Nest, and Scott Mullins, a senior engineering manager, are leaving the company, according to multiple sources.Honjo, the VP in charge of program management and manufacturing, will depart at the end of May. Mullins is shifting over to Google to … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I promise you this is a prank-free space. I’m not sure what exactly would constitute a prank here — every SoundCloud and YouTube embed points you towards Rick Astley’s greatest hit? — but I … | Continue reading
Plenty of startups have tried and failed to make enterprise software sexy, but Slack made it viral. Its growth rate is unheard of. Both Slack’s daily user count and its paid seat count are up 3.5X in just a year. Tons of people have still never heard of it, but with this momentum … | Continue reading
Thanks to a dedicated community that donated over 50 000 HYPER to the cause, the HYPER project is pleased to announce sponsorship of Jon Fitch’s upcoming fight in the MMA World Series of Fighting on Saturday, April 2nd, 2016. This is the first time in the world an MMA fighter has … | Continue reading
If you let Brave swap out the usual ads with the ones they prefer, they'll give you a cut of the revenue. | Continue reading
Today we find out what’s under the hood in this exclusive teardown of the beef variant of the Taco Bell Quesalupa. | Continue reading
Remember when Kanye West said his new album, ‘The Life of Pablo’ (TLOP) would “never, never be on Apple?” My album will never never never be on Apple. And it will never be for sale… You can only get it on Tidal. — KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 15, 2016 So, about that… it’s now … | Continue reading
Let us pull you out of the muck that is April Fools' day. Cartoon Network unveiled a weird and fun thing that will give you the power to get through April 1st by turning yourself into a Powerpuff Girl.There are plenty of customization options that let you choose the hair, what yo … | Continue reading
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is planning to launch and land its New Shepard rocket again for the third time tomorrow. CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted out today that the company will be flying the same vehicle that successfully launched and landed once in November and then again … | Continue reading
Caribbean digital currency exchange Bitt has received $4m in new funding from online retailer Overstock. | Continue reading
Those of us who have been around the block a few times have seen multiple attempts to kill email and change the way people communicate in the enterprise. Slack is just the latest, but one that has captured marketshare and money along the way. Consider that just today, Slack got $ … | Continue reading
Some believe that foldable screens are the next step in the evolution of the smartphone, and Samsung wants to be in on the action. | Continue reading
The price of bitcoin experienced relative price stability and consistent volume during the seven days through 1st April. | Continue reading
Capcom is going to make a new push to mobile, and it’s using some of its biggest brands to help it succeed. Mega Man and Monster Hunter highlight the company’s new Mobile Business Division, which the publisher announced today. It will release four games by March 31, 2017. These w … | Continue reading
Some users are reporting issues connecting to Apple’s iCloud services this afternoon. The issue affects those attempting to sync files to iCloud as well as services that require access to Apple’s servers, such as email, calendar and to-do list applications. The issue became appar … | Continue reading
The worst of April Fools’ is behind us, and the best part of April lays ahead, but before you erase March from your mind, take a few minutes to check out the best of last month’s new and updated Android apps. As always, only the most interesting apps make it into this roundup eac … | Continue reading
Capcom has announced that they're putting a big investment into mobile gaming, launching a Mobile Business Division specifically geared towards mobile game development. And this isn't just news for Japanese games that will never hit western shores – the games are set to release g … | Continue reading
April is upon us already, and you’ve just about survived the barrage of the worst April Fools’ puns the Web can throw at you, but before you close your browser in disgust, check out the best of last month’s new and updated iPhone apps. As always, only the best apps each month mak … | Continue reading
Bandai Namco is making a Japanese VR installation to help people conquer their fears.Launching in Tokyo on 15th April and lasting through mid-October, Project I Can will feature six different elaborate VR experiences. One of them, Fear of Heights Show, tasks players with donning … | Continue reading