This week Nilay and Dieter welcome transportation reporter Jordan Golson on Vergecast to discuss happenings at the New York Auto Show as well as news out of the Apple event this week. Racked style editor Nicola Fumo again joins us to helm the hype matrix.We'll be live at our usua … | Continue reading
Procrastinators all know that if you have a month to finish something, you’ll figure out a way to ensure the task takes all of that time — and I think publisher Capcom is one of them. The company announced today that it will finally release the Street Fighter V “March update” on … | Continue reading
It’s 1,934 days since WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange asked for asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London – now the UK has made a formal appeal against a UN judgement last month that found he is being “arbitrarily and unlawfully detained.” Officials responded to the “inaccurate … | Continue reading
A year after blatantly copying Timehop, Facebook’s nostalgia feature is proving how successful big platforms can be when they rip off smaller products. Each day 60 million people visit On This Day, and 155 million have subscribed to its notifications that show your photos, status … | Continue reading
In the world of gaming accessories, “budget-friendly” is not a word frequently used. Naturally, one of the biggest players industry, Razer, aims to change that with the Blackwidow X. The newest set of keyboards added to their existing lineup, the Blackwidow X has changes made not … | Continue reading
Remember how McDonalds restaurants in Sweden were giving away a free VR headset – called Happy Goggles – with every Happy Meal recently? Well, we got a pair. And they're surprisingly good. | Continue reading
Video game giant Electronic Arts announced today that Laura Miele will be the company’s new executive vice president of global publishing. The job is a new position, but she takes over from former chief operating officer Peter Moore, who will start the new quarter as EA’s full-ti … | Continue reading
France’s legislature, the National Assembly, is holding a blockchain symposium today. | Continue reading
Docker is now available for Mac and Windows via a new beta program in celebration of its third birthday. It’s a neat move for those who don’t like using VirtualBox, as Docker notes its desktop app uses Alpine Linux on top of xhyve (Mac) or Hyper-V (Windows) to run virtual machine … | Continue reading
Enterprise app development has to stay in sync with the changing business needs. Learn about the trends and best practices to stay ahead of the curve. | Continue reading
April's Games with Gold - i.e. free games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers - has one of the service's best offering's yet.On Xbox One the freebies are Insomniac Games' open-world action adventure Sunset Overdrive and Telltale's fantasy noir series The Wolf Among Us. Sunset Overdriv … | Continue reading
Smartwatches are still in their PDA phase.That seems like a pretty obvious conclusion when you give the category of wearables even a moment’s thought. Personal Digital Assistants like the Palm Pilot or Pocket PCs or even Apple’s Newton were usually not very useful unless you regu … | Continue reading
Facebook today announced that it’s adding daily measurements of how much people watch videos posted on the social network. Until now, people could see things like the number of views, the number of unique viewers, and the number of minutes that a video was viewed. Now, video publ … | Continue reading
Hulu's first virtual reality app is now available. The streaming service announced back in September that it would be releasing an app for Samsung's Gear VR headset, but the company ended up delaying the launch a few months, according to a report from Variety. It's available now … | Continue reading
IRT leads the collaborative work: MPEG-DASH Live Streams with EBU-TT-D subtitles — The Collaborative Work IRT and partners engaged in collaborative work on the MPEG-DASH (Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) and the TTML profile EBU-TT-D (EBU Timed Text-Distribution) to provide … | Continue reading
HTC hasn't really been doing a good job at keeping its upcoming flagship under wraps. Today we're getting yet another look at the HTC 10 in the wild, this time with benchmarks! | Continue reading
West Midlands Police in the UK occasionally posts inappropriate emergency calls on its SoundCloud account, and the latest is a doozy. I mean, I like Snapchat as much as the next person but I wouldn’t say the app being down is a top-proirity matter for the police. Best stick to co … | Continue reading
Data insights startup CiValue took in a $2.4 million investment for its marketing software, which aims to help grocery, health and beauty retailers, the company announced today. Nielsen Innovate, Korean-Israeli fund Mac Fund, and T-Mobile’s Parent company Deutsche Telekom backed … | Continue reading
What Is a Clause? A clause is a group of words containing both a subject (who or what the sentence is about) and a verb (which describes the main action of the subject). There are two kinds of clauses: independent and dependent clauses. Most simply, an independent clause can form … | Continue reading
Snapchat, a fast-growing photo- and video-messaging app, offers brands that act now an opportunity to stake their claim in a new digital land grab. Snapchat’s user base is already substantial. More importantly, its fans are extremely active on the network. It boasts about 100 mil … | Continue reading
Wearable technology developer LifeBeam announced today that it scored a $16 million investment led by Squarepeg Capital. The funds from the round will help LifeBeam further develop its “awareable” products, which promise users the “most personalized and insight-driven workout exp … | Continue reading
In case there was any doubt that messaging apps were the future of communication in the mobile-first era, a new study released this morning puts some solid numbers behind their traction – and their increasing dominance over email, among today’s youngest users. According to a repo … | Continue reading
Virgin Group founder Richard Branson is teaming up with aerospace startup Boom to help build a new fleet of supersonic commercial jets that can travel at more than twice the speed of sound. The startup claims its vehicles will be able to travel from from New York to London in jus … | Continue reading
To paraphrase William Gibson, “The future is already here and, thanks to intelligent assistants (IA), it is more evenly distributed than ever before.” Based on our spoken input, mobile personal assistants (like Siri and Google Now) answer questions, navigate routes, and organize … | Continue reading
Let's get down to business: here we have a bunch of Pikachu — more than a handful, less than a dozen — "dancing" to Beyoncé's "Formation," that unapologetic celebration of blackness and post-coital... | Continue reading
Here’s how you’ll become a (kind of) real Pokémon trainer. The Pokémon Company and developer Niantic revealed new gameplay details for Pokémon Go, the anticipated location-based mobile game based on monster-collecting series. The mobile games business was worth $34.8 billion 2015 … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price fell away from yesterday’s strained highs, but a price correction introduces some uncertainty about what’s next. Previous price patterns suggest the decline will continue, but simple technical analysis helps us plan contingency, and identify the confirmation of decl … | Continue reading
Raus aus dem kalten Grau, das wär jetzt nicht schlecht. Warum nicht nach Sri Lanka? Auf Google Street View kann man neuerdings virtuell durch den Inselstaat kurven und sich im quirligen Colombo oder auf hügeligen Teeplantagen und Traumstr... | Continue reading
Capcom has dated its big March update for Street Fighter 5, with a patch arriving on March 28th that will introduce features such as Challenge Mode, 8 player lobbies and an online rematch option. Shortly afterwards, on March 30th, another update lands that will introduce Street F … | Continue reading
Chair Entertainment has been busy since it concluded its 50-million-download Infinity Blade mobile game series in 2014. Chair, a division of Epic Games, has just published Shadow Complex Remastered on the Xbox One and is prepping the title for the PlayStation 4 and Steam. It is a … | Continue reading
With nearly 70 percent of American’s shopping online at least once monthly, it’s safe to say that our online Amazon binges are officially a “thing.” Unfortunately, another “thing” that’s quickly pervading the online shopping world is the fear and uncertainty that comes with enter … | Continue reading
Swarm has evolved a lot since it was spun out of the main Foursquare app a couple of years ago. The game side of it is more fun than ever, even if it doesn’t appeal to everyone. Now the app has learned some new tricks that should appeal to people who don’t see the point of mayors … | Continue reading
Foursquare has just launched Swarm 4.0, complete with brand new profile pages, updated search capabilities, full-screen photos and a weekly Swarm update from your friends. The most important update to the app comes by way of new individual user profiles. These profiles show a cli … | Continue reading
This week, Twitter turns 10. Over the next few days we’ll be exploring how far the microblogging service has come, the challenges it faces going forward and some of its key moments along the way. One of the most palpable sore spots in the dynamic between San Francisco and the tec … | Continue reading
Foursquare has updated its Swarm app with a feature it calls an “important one.” Starting today, besides checking into places and competing for points against your friends, you now have access to an analysis of all that data. With “lifelogging,” you can see what story your check- … | Continue reading
In 2016, it’s remarkably hard to buy something anonymously. Bitcoin would be the easiest way, but most places don’t accept it. Even walking into a store and paying cash, there’s a decent chance you’ll be asked for your name and zip code. Paying online is even harder. Use a credit … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama spoke at a memorial honoring the victims of Argentina's military rule and said the U.S. will declassify related documents from the period, with a goal of confronting the past with transparency and honesty. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Even though the new Prius is just a few months old, Toyota has already made major changes to the interior of the new plug-in version, the awesomely named Prius Prime. Unfortunately, the only Prius Prime on display at the New York Auto Show yesterday was a locked-up model we could … | Continue reading
The Information today published a profile on Nest CEO Tony Fadell, but swiftly mentioned in the piece are reports of Google building its own Amazon Echo competitor. “Nest asked to be included in a secret Google project to create a competitor to Amazon’s Echo, a voice-controlled p … | Continue reading
That didn't take very long.Less than a day after Microsoft unleashed Tay, its experimental A.I., to social networks including Twitter and Kik, the chatbot's already become a racist jerk you wouldn't ever want to be friends with.See also: The 100 best iPhone apps of all timeDesign … | Continue reading
e-hoi GmbH & Co. KG: Frankfurt (ots) - NENA-Fans dürfen sich nicht nur auf ein Live-Konzert ihres Idols freuen, auch Stars ihrer Jugend wie Suzi Quatro und die Spider Murphy Gang geben ihre Hits auf der musikalischen Kreuzfahrt zum Besten. Unterhaltung mit Ross Antony, ... | Continue reading
As mentioned last week, and included in our "Out Now" post yesterday, Sega has officially launched Total War Battles: Kingdom [Free] following a lengthy Canadian soft launch. We've had a thread rolling in our forums for a while now, and the response the game has gotten has been.. … | Continue reading
At a loss for ways to improve the quality of your content? This in-depth list of 17 tips will get you started. | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: Lisk raises over 14,000 BTC (approx. 5.7 Million USD). Placing the Lisk ICO as the second most successful crypto-currency crowd-fund to date, and within the top 20 highest funded crowd-funds world-wide. Aachen, Germany – Lisk, the decentralized application … | Continue reading
Paul McCartney, best known as the father of esteemed fashion designer Stella McCartney, has been cast in the new Pirates of the Caribbean film, Dead Men Tell No Tales, according the Deadline. The film news site speculates that the husband of New York Metropolitan Transportation b … | Continue reading
Welcome to the brand spanking new TNW site. Well, it’s not all that new. We still have awesome posts from awesome writers about awesome things, but we’ve made a few changes that we hope will make the experience of exploring content a lot more enjoyable. But before we get into wha … | Continue reading
Sony’s $500 PlayStation VR launch bundle was made available to pre-order less than 48-hours ago on Amazon and it’s already sold out. No need to panic just yet though, because Amazon has confirmed that it will be making a second batch of the bundles available to order today from 2 … | Continue reading
Let me lay out a scenario for you: You're a British TV presenter. You've been asked to answer the question "what does human flesh taste like?" You get a tiny piece of your leg removed. Hilariously, your name happens to be Greg Foot. (Foot is almost Leg.) You take the man meat to … | Continue reading