If this bill passes, anyone who purchases a prepaid cell phone will be forced to register their identity with their device. | Continue reading
Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global digital currency markets, and the technology's use case as an asset class. | Continue reading
This is part 2 of my journey to try and write a ray/path tracer in Go. Checkout part 1 here.I’m roughly following the e-book Ray Tracing in One Weekend, but translating all of the code into Go.In the previous post we covered how a path tracer works and got an image to display on … | Continue reading
After a whole series of delays, Microsoft is finally ready to release its up to $22,000 Surface Hub to the businesses. If you’re not familiar, the Surface Hub is giant all-in-one touchscreen PC designed for conference rooms and teams. It supports dual pen input (the pens are mor … | Continue reading
Amazon wants to push its Alexa voice assistant as far and wide as possible, so much so that one of the company's employees has released a step-by-step guide to building an Alexa-powered speaker yourself with a Raspberry Pi. The do-it-yourself Echo can be made with a $40 Raspberry … | Continue reading
Back in January we told you about Prison Run and Gun, an action platformer shooter that was a mobile spinoff of the desktop action platformer shooter Hot Guns that's currently on Steam Early Access. While both games look pretty similar, Hot Guns is actually designed around 2-4 pl … | Continue reading
In an attempt to look good in front of advertisers, Snapchat is touting its ability to hypnotize its fervent teen base into consuming content. According to a report from Business Insider, citing a source familiar with the matter, Snapchat is now saying that its users spend betwee … | Continue reading
A third CGI Resident Evil film has been announced. This one's called Resident Evil: Vendetta. Animation studio Marza Animation Planet (Harlo… | Continue reading
Airplanes and helicopters no longer have the skies to themselves. A new report from the FAA lists 583 separate drone incidents reported from August 2015 through January 2016. The majority of the incidents are minor, with pilots or bystanders reporting drones that are flying in re … | Continue reading
I think it's a good thing to give people second chances, and often even third and fourth chances, and to be accepting of people's mistakes, because mistakes happen and everyone makes them and often life goes on. But if you are tearing down someone's house, please take the time to … | Continue reading
Google Maps hasteamed up with Batman v Superman to create a 360-degree tour of Bruce Wayne’s home and the Batcave. | Continue reading
Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of Paypal, will remain at the helm, with partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nola … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’m excited to get back to your regularly scheduled jamming after spending last week in Austin for SXSW. Of course, half of the artists featured this week had some kind of SXSW presence to … | Continue reading
The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that Hitler did nothing wrong? After a day of silence (and presumably of penance), the company … | Continue reading
Minnesota Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor says he plans to keep general manager Milt Newton on through the draft and free agency to fully evaluate him. | Continue reading
One of the best and most important games in iOS history, Superbrothers Sword and Sworcery EP [$1.99], just turned 5 today. It's an utter classic, and if you haven't played it, then you really, really should – it's a stunning artistic achievement, features amazing sound and music, … | Continue reading
In a ransomware attack, our assumptions that the hackers prefer the ransom paid in bitcoin due to the anonymous nature of its transactions may not be true | Continue reading
Id Software's Doom reboot will be the first game in the long-running series to let you play as a demon and publisher Bethesda has outlined how hoofing it as a baddie will work.As it turns out, there are four demons you can transform into by snagging a demon rune in multiplayer.Th … | Continue reading
Microsoft today published an apology for its Twitter chatbot Tay, saying in a blog post that a subset of human users exploited a flaw in the program to transform it into a hate speech-spewing Hitler apologist. Author Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, … | Continue reading
Casio has just launched their inelegantly named but elegantly designed Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10 on the Google Play Store, Amazon, REI, and the Casio store. | Continue reading
A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world: admiration for Silicon Valley — albeit, with a dash of fear. International media outlets eagerly cover disruption developing in l … | Continue reading
DeNA and Square Enix's Final Fantasy Record Keeper [Free] is celebrating its first birthday as a worldwide game. There was a time when several TA staffers were deep in the thrall of this game, and I'm pretty sure a certain unnamed RPG expert on staff has sunk triple-digit hours i … | Continue reading
Hyperledger today announced it successful created linked code from Digital Asset, IBM, and Blockstream. But that's just the beginning. | Continue reading
First they were just a couple of stoners hanging outside a convenience store. Now they could be video game stars. The characters Jay and Silent Bob have been in numerous movies, comics, and more since their debut in the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks. Now, developer Interabang Ente … | Continue reading
Tim Sweeney is one of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games. He kicked off a big debate over the openness of Windows earlier this month when he wrote an opinion piece that warned about Microsoft’s moves with Windows 1 … | Continue reading
Read enough Franco-Belgian comics, especially in the fantasy/science-fiction/horror genre, and you’ll start to recognize a shared tone: a certain mix of straight-faced humor and a wild, almost improvised-feeling narrative. From serious world-builders like Jean Giraud, Jean-David … | Continue reading
A bill proposed in congress this week would require that all users provide identification and register prepaid ‘burner’ phones upon purchase. Earlier this week we reported that burner phones are what kept Islamic extremists a step head of law enforcement in the days and weeks lea … | Continue reading
Robert DeNiro, the actor and co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, defended the festival’s controversial decision to screen an anti-vaccine documentary, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe. In a statement to BuzzFeed News, DeNiro explained why:"[My wife] Grace and I have a ch … | Continue reading
Two days ago, we wrote about Tay, Microsoft’s AI chatbot modeled to talk like a millenial and learn from its conversations. Unfortunately, by the next day, Twitter users had ‘taught’ her to be racist, homophobic, and all around bigoted. Though the chatbot was promptly shut down, … | Continue reading
If you're looking for a good time-waster to enjoy this wekeend, may I recommend BioBeasts? [Free] This game released earlier this year, and I didn't get around to playing it right away, but it intrigued me enough to at least download. And then one day after release, I got around … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, March, 25, 2016, at 1pmPT/4pmET.Gillmor Gang LIVE chat during show recordingGillmor Gang on Facebook HEREG3 on Facebook HEREG3 archives on Ustream Read More | Continue reading
Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s research and development wing, today apologized for the behavior of Tay, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot the company unveiled earlier this week and soon thereafter took offline. “We are deeply … | Continue reading
Apple just released its latest iPad. Though the iPad Pro 9.7 is smaller than the last model, the tech giant hopes this replaces your laptop as your main productivity toolMashable Chief Correspondent Lance Ulanoff gives this powerful machine a spin and lets you know how great this … | Continue reading
Ted Cruz blamed presidential rival Donald Trump on Friday for a tabloid story that aired rumors about Cruz's personal life. Trump responded that he had nothing to do with it. Photo: AP | Continue reading
500 Startups has been aiming to globalize its brand and work towards attracting the attention of young, cool companies outside the Bay Area echo chamber. This has taken 500’s investments into distant corners of the world with dedicated funds and accelerators scoping out what has … | Continue reading
Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate a virtual burner card every time you need to enter your credit card number on the web. Your actual credit card number stays safe, and you get more control over your online subs … | Continue reading
A bill proposed this week would require people to provide identification and officially register themselves when buying a prepaid phone. Representative Jackie Speier (D-CA), who introduced the bill, called the prepaid phone "loophole" an "egregious gap in our legal framework" tha … | Continue reading
The Oculus Rift is arguably the best VR experience around, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still have room for improvement. The Facebook-owned company today announced it has enabled a new technique called Asynchronous Timewarp (ATW) to reduce jitteriness from your head motions b … | Continue reading
While AMOLED displays may now be cheaper to make than their equivalent LCD version at lower resolutions, higher resolution LCD displays are still expected to be cheaper. | Continue reading
Najim Laachraoui—who French investigators believe built the explosive vests used last year in Paris — has been identified by Belgian investigators as one of the suicide bombers who attacked the Brussels airport on Tuesday. What else do authorities know about him? WSJ’s Jason Bell … | Continue reading
Last week, NHTSA and IIHS announced that 20 auto manufacturers and three agencies had agreed to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) as standard equipment by 2022. Toyota was one of those 20 companies, but this week they upped the AEB ante: Nearly every Toyota and Lexus mode … | Continue reading
Bit Free Games, makers of the stylish one-touch skateboarding game Halfpipe Hero [Free], are working away at their next mobile gaming project, a tile-smashing game called Brick Ninja. Like the "Piano Tile" games that flooded the market some time ago, Brick Ninja has you tapping t … | Continue reading
Belgian police conducted a series of raids Thursday and Friday and found links from Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels to an alleged plot planned by a cell in Paris. Photo: European PressPhoto Agency | Continue reading
Cybercriminals are selling the stolen Verizon Enterprise Solutions customer data online for $100,000. | Continue reading
Women who have been diagnosed with Zika should wait eight weeks before trying to conceive, the US government announced today. It also said that men should wait at least six months after their symptoms first appear to have unprotected sex. Even though scientists haven't yet conclu … | Continue reading
Images from color-soaked Holi celebrations in India, Nepal, Bangladesh and elsewhere. The Hindu festival of colors marks the beginning of spring. Photo: Associated Press | Continue reading
Autobiographical drama, That Dragon, Cancer, received a lot of praise from us and others alike, but when it comes to actually selling copies of the experimental indie game, things have been bleak.Developer Ryan Green noted in a blog post that since its launch over two months ago, … | Continue reading