Today we are taking a look at FLI Charge, a wireless charging solution said to have finally done things right. Is that true? Let's find out! | Continue reading
This week, we noticed an interesting trend emerge here at Verge Science: we wrote a lot about frogs and a lot about space. Well, we wrote two stories about frogs, but that’s way above the frog story average for a typical week, which usually hovers around zero. Because of this wee … | Continue reading
My favorite demo from the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) was the Days Gone gameplay demo at the close of the Sony press conference. I saw it again later in a small group session with the developers from Bend Studio. Sure, it was yet another post-apocalypse game, but this one … | Continue reading
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo will soon either veto or sign into law a bill that makes it illegal to advertise entire unoccupied apartments for short-term rentals on Airbnb. Despite loud objections from Airbnb and Silicon Valley investors like Ashton Kutcher and Paul Graham, the … | Continue reading
GUEST: Now that the VC crunch and tech bubble in Silicon Valley has been holding startups hostage, it’s time to stop overlooking the startup revolution that has been quietly taking place across the Atlantic. While Europe continues to lag behind its louder and more belligerent nei … | Continue reading
While the hopes are strong among the Bitcoin community about the emergence of bitcoin as a mainstream payment instrument in the coming days, the English merchants have a different take on it. According to a survey conducted by the Smith and Williamson, businesses in and around th … | Continue reading
In this op-ed, Jonathan and Robert Wolinsky of the Genesis Project focus on the blockchain technology industry's inability to deliver on its promise. | Continue reading
GUEST: Facebook, Adobe, Autodesk and Planet Labs all have started creative residency programs in the last year, but these kinds of programs aren’t a new invention. Artist-in-residence programs started over a century ago and ranged from making studio space in offices to placing pa … | Continue reading
Blue Origin has successfully completed the fourth launch and landing of their New Shepard rocket and crew capsule. With another nominal flight test, Jeff Bezos’ rocket company is marching toward their goal of becoming the first private company to send tourists into space. And alo … | Continue reading
Views of my room. (Flash Light) | Continue reading
Welcome back to Android Apps Weekly! This week we talk about Microsoft's big week at E3 2016, Pinterest buying Fleksy, and more Android apps news! | Continue reading
When the ‘quantified self’ involves stabbing your little finger with a sharp object and collecting the resulting blood, it feels like the real deal. Enter Seedcamp-backed Thriva, a new London-startup that offers a home finger-prick blood test that lets you track a range of intern … | Continue reading
The new report indicates that Samsung's increased spending will allow it to produce an extra 200 million AMOLED panels per year. | Continue reading
At Sony’s press event at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), Activision Publishing showed off its hands-on combat for Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare. Fans have been skeptical that the sci-fi space combat would work, but Activision’s Infinitey Ward studio showed that it could … | Continue reading
This is the second installment in the Startup Spending Guide series, where we are exploring how early-stage startups should spend their non-payroll money. In the first installment we enumerated areas where early-stage startups need to spend money. In this installment we’re going … | Continue reading
This morning, Blue Origin launched and landed its New Shepard rocket for the fourth time — and we got to watch the entire thing live. It was the first ever live broadcast of a Blue Origin test flight, showing the vehicle’s ascent to the edge of space and then its subsequent fall … | Continue reading
Regardless of the economic climate, the real job of any investor is to help entrepreneurs build meaningful companies and technologies. The best investors that we know don’t try to time the market, and neither do the best entrepreneurs. We have to keep at it. Read More | Continue reading
A rocket launch is the perfect way to kick off Father’s Day. Lucky for you, Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos’ other company, Blue Origin, is today launching its New Shephard rocket into space. This is the fourth time the rocket has launched — it’s reusable, just like the rocket … | Continue reading
By the look of things, the worries for The DAO are far from over. Their Ethereum account is being drained for the second time in as many days, using the same type of exploit. Although a much smaller amount has been stolen, this time, this is a very worrying trend for what many pe … | Continue reading
GUEST: After my recent coverage of virtual reality startups in the Netherlands, a wave of curiosity splashed into my inbox with people asking for insights about the secret sauce the government and private sector have in their hands. What is the formula that has allowed the countr … | Continue reading
The text messages began arriving last month. "Facebook is starting to get a little Skynet on me," my friend Matt said. The text message included a screenshot of the birthdays feed from his notifications. "Help Casey Newton Celebrate His Birthday," blared a bolded message at the t … | Continue reading
Epiphyte's Gabrielle Patrick discusses the balancing act faced by regulators in a fast-changing world and how bitcoin's blockchain could help. | Continue reading
Tired of dragging around beach chairs and giving yourself Louis Armstrong cheeks while blowing up various inflatables? From the beach to the backyard, music festivals to movie nights in the park, the Loungr Inflatable Chair is the new comfort craze. An ultra portable, sturdy rips … | Continue reading
Watch along with our live blog of Blue Origin's latest New Shepard test flight, the first one that the company is broadcasting as it happens. Continue reading… | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING LeBron on the verge of a dream realized | Curry understands stakes are high | Role players could play huge role in Game 7 | Kerr wants Warriors to embrace the moment No. 1: LeBron on the verge of a dream realized — After two weeks of games, tonight it’s finall … | Continue reading
This morning, private spaceflight venture Blue Origin will try once again to launch and land its reusable New Shepard rocket — the company’s vehicle that’s designed to take passengers to and from the edge of space. It will be the fourth test flight for this New Shepard vehicle, s … | Continue reading
The recent Bitcoin network congestion has been a topic of substantial debate on Reddit. But could it affect something as obscure as the dark markets? Despite the block reward halving, they should have no imminent need of switching to different forms of payments. It would be short … | Continue reading
Apple hat sich - nach HP - offiziell von der republikanischen Parteitag zurückgezogen, da ihnen die Statements von Trump wohl zu unvereinbar mit den eigenen Einstellungen scheinen. Es ist in den USA nicht unüblich für große Tec... | Continue reading
Nix Hydra is on a roll with Egg!. The female-run company launched its Egg! mobile game last week and it has been downloaded more than 1.3 million times on the Apple iOS app store, Google Play, and the Amazon Appstore. The pet-care title is the third game from Los Angeles-based Ni … | Continue reading
Fans of Mindfulness-Based-Stress Reduction (MBSR) , which finds rays of Western science in Eastern meditation, have become saintly inside ... | Continue reading
The most innovative thing Apple did with their Photo app recently was the addition of a ‘Selfie’ filter. You can find the folder in your Photos app, and yeah, it is filled with Selfies. Apart from that Apple still thinks we use photography as we did it 30 years ago: we go on a tr … | Continue reading
The EU is not the problem. The EU has shown that it can stand up to corporate giants like Google and Microsoft much better than our own government. They’ve stood up to big TelCo’s, prevented giant mergers (that our government wanted to wave through) and forced down tariffs. Let’ … | Continue reading
Wer nach der Keynote nicht genug Zeit hatte, sich wirklich davon zu überzeugen, ob sich die neuen Upgrades wirklich lohnen und wie sie sich anfühlen, dem empfehlen wir diese 3 Videos von 9to5mac, die ziemlich aufwendig durch alle Neuigkei... | Continue reading
(Reuters) – A soyuz capsule bringing back three astronauts from the International Space Station, including the first to represent the British government, made a safe parachute landing on the steppe near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan on Saturday. The crew, which included a Russian … | Continue reading
Warum genau sich LG bei der X-Serie metaphorisch an dem Film "X-Men: Apocalypse" abarbeitet, ist uns nicht ganz klar. Die Idee dieser Serie ist: jedes Smartphone der Serie bekommt eigene "Superkräfte". Vielleicht leuchtet das ohne Superhelden... | Continue reading
Destination NSW: Sydney (ots/PRNewswire) - Filmmaterial aus schwindelnden Höhen, himmlische Luftaufnahmen und hochstrebende Ergebnisse beflügeln das weltweit größte Festival rund um Licht, Musik und Ideen Vivid Sydney 2016 ist unter Dach und Fach und für ein ... | Continue reading
Frame-rate testing of Final Fantasy 15's Trial of the Titan demo - as seen at Microsoft's E3 presentation - shows Xbox One performance in a much improved state after two playable demos showed the game struggling to hit its 30fps frame-rate target. The E3 segment is taken straight … | Continue reading
The Kingdom Hearts franchise has always been somewhat adventurous with its subtitles, from 358/2 Days to Birth by Sleep. Square Enix no longer thinks about words and numbers like the rest of us, having long ago shrugged off the mortal shackles of reason and logic. But perhaps its … | Continue reading
At first, it seems as though the things you declare, espouse and promise matter a lot. And they do. For a while. But in the end, we will judge you on what you do. When the gap between what you... | Continue reading
Zwar hatte Tim Cook schon angedeutet, dass sich das iPhone SE überraschend gut verkauft, aber selbst zweieinhalb Monate nach Verkaufsstart sind die Lieferzeiten in den meisten Ländern noch überraschend lang.Über zwei Wochen Wa... | Continue reading
It’s happening. The TechCrunch team landed in Tel Aviv and we’re in the starting blocks for the TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off in Tel Aviv on Wednesday June 22. And it’s going to be an awesome event. Read More | Continue reading
In recent news, the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate has issued a grant to Factom Inc., to work on blockchain based IoT security solution. | Continue reading
Laut einer Ankündigung auf der Wired Business Conference haben sich Magic Leap und das ILMxLAB von Lucasfilm für zukünftige Projekte rings um Star Wars zusammengeschlossen. Es soll "Mixed Reality" Spiele geben, die in der immer noch... | Continue reading
(Reuters) – High school student David Dworken spent 10 to 15 hours between classes on his laptop, hacking U.S. Defense Department websites. Instead of getting into trouble, the 18-year-old who graduated this week was one of two people praised by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter at … | Continue reading
This week's reveal of the Xbox One S is our first look at how console technology is evolving to match the increased functionality of the latest living room displays. The new unit is equipped with an HDMI 2.0 controller, opening the door to ultra HD media support and games rendere … | Continue reading
This week we checked out the new OnePlus 3, talked about smartphones with 8GB of RAM, and took Android N Preview 4 for a spin. Here's the news of the week! | Continue reading
Wie zuvor sein Kollege Scott Kelly hat nun auch der britische ISS-Rückkehrer Tim Peake seine besten Fotos veröffentlicht. Wobei das nicht ganz stimmt: Die Auswahl der genau zwanzig Bilder traf der Fotograf Max Alexander, ein Bekannter von... | Continue reading