I asked a flexible display industry veteran why flexible displays are taking so long to “arrive”. The short answer? Because no one is making enough of them. | Continue reading
A few months back we wrote about the upcoming Duelyst going into beta, and I talked about how I was looking forward to getting this game on my mobile. Well, that day is closer since Duelyst has launched for PC and according to the developers, from here on they'll be focusing on m … | Continue reading
CloudMagic, an email application that today has grown to 4 million users, has just added a useful feature that can aid those who receive a lot of inbound email from unknown persons: Sender Profile. Similar to services like LinkedIn’s Rapportive or newly launched Connect from Clea … | Continue reading
While nostalgically binging on old internet comedy from my childhood, I was struck by an epiphany: just as the comical repacking of 1980s nostalgia during the 2000s made cheap toys and crummy cartoons into flashy movies, so too will the web videos of the late 1990s and early 2000 … | Continue reading
It just got a lot easier for law enforcement agents to hack anonymous computers over the internet. Last night, the Supreme Court approved changes to the rules of criminal procedure, enabling warrants for searches of remote computers, regardless of their physical location. That ki … | Continue reading
Woah there! Where did May come from already? Before we launch into next month, there’s just about enough time for a quick roundup of the most notable updates and releases across April. As always, only the best iPhone and iPad apps from the last month make it into this list. Hippo … | Continue reading
Delta announced Friday it will be the first airline in the U.S. to deploy Radio Frequency Identification — or RFID — baggage tracking technology, for all 120 million bags it handles each year.Since the 1990s, airlines have tracked baggage with barcodes and hand scanning. Delta ca … | Continue reading
Razer has released a new ultrabook as it continues to stamp its name on more categories of gaming gear. Read More | Continue reading
Ah, welcome welcome. I see you enjoyed last week’s edition and are back for more. Well we won’t disappoint. For the uninitiated (go back and start at post one, please) the team at TNW has made a New Year’s Resolution to read a bit more. So every week, a select number of our team … | Continue reading
Volkswagen’s emissions testing scandal last autumn was so severe some observers said it threatened to send the company to the junkyard. But Volkswagen now believes it has turned a corner and hopes to speed away from the crisis, leaving it behind in the smog (sorry about that). Vo … | Continue reading
If you perform a very specific query in the search field of online code repository Github, where many Slack bot projects are stored, you can get info that potentially lets you access a trove of corporate data, including companies' internal chats and files. This is because a lot o … | Continue reading
It's a weird week when Edward Snowden is the biggest action hero in new movie trailers, but here we are and I guess it's kind of great? See below for 13 new trailers worth checking out. Continue reading… | Continue reading
PRESS RELEASE: TRACT Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company developing personalized regulatory T-cell (Treg) therapy, announced today that it received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to initiate a Phase 2 clinical trial to investigate... | Continue reading
Blockchain data startup Tierion has raised $1m in seed funding from several of the industry’s leading venture capital firms. | Continue reading
SpaceX's bold plan to put a Dragon spacecraft on Mars in 2018 will rely on a type of landing technique known as propulsive landing — a way of using rocket engines to go down instead of up. As the Dragon descends toward the Martian surface, eight SuperDraco engines embedded in the … | Continue reading
The Red Bull Racing Formula One team officially debuted its partially closed cockpit solution during practice this morning in Russia. They are the second team to test a solution on track, after Scuderia Ferrari ran a lap in Barcelona with its own partially closed cockpit back in … | Continue reading
This week, earnings reports continued, Elon Musk announced plans for SpaceX’s first Mars mission, we spoke with the Reverend Jesse Jackson about diversity in the tech industry and more. These are the stories everyone in tech is talking about. Read More | Continue reading
Nobody questions the viability of Microsoft’s Xbox business anymore. The company generates billions of dollars a year and healthy profits in the video game business. But back in the early years, the picture was bleak. Microsoft lost around $5 billion to $7 billion in the first fo … | Continue reading
Lange Zeit war TiVo das Sinnbild für den Neid auf die Zukunft des Fernsehens. Der erste moderne Hardware-Recorder für den zaghaften Schritt in das Zeitalter des zeitversetzten Fernsehens. Dass dies immer noch etwas Wert ist, zeigt nicht n... | Continue reading
Amazon shares opened at $665.55 this morning, up 10.6 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of $602. In other words, Amazon’s market capitalization just grew by nearly $30 billion. Yesterday, Amazon announced some blockbuster earnings. This was the company’s most impressi … | Continue reading
There’s an existential question that the staff of The Verge has struggled with since we launched the site: what is the best version of Blade Runner? This May it’s going to get a little more difficult to make an evaluation, because the theatrical cut of the film is disappearing fr … | Continue reading
HANG TIME NEW JERSEY — Last season, the Atlanta Hawks won 60 games and had home-court advantage in the conference finals … and got swept by the Cleveland Cavaliers. This season, the Hawks won just 48 games. Expectations are lower and they’ll be in Cleveland to start the conferenc … | Continue reading
The best content you produce is content which is polarizing, in that only the people who will end up your customers will read it. Here are a few ideas that I have used repeatedly to achieve this. 1) Industry Newsletter, your This Week in We do 'This Week in Native Ads'. That hone … | Continue reading
Today Verizon kicks off preorders for the new HTC 10, with plans to ship by May 5th. Meanwhile Sprint has confirmed it will stock the phone starting May 13th. | Continue reading
Just a few days ago John Romero, the iconic game designer best known for his work on Doom and Quake, launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new, classic-style first-person shooter called Blackroom. Today, that campaign has been cancelled.In a backer-only message, Romero reveal … | Continue reading
You have a great idea for a business and are rightly excited to get going. There is so much to do that you can hardly sleep at night. You are thinking of all the plans and steps that you must complete, like securing financing, setting up a website, hiring your first employees… th … | Continue reading
I've mentioned quite a few times in the past that where the mobile platform excels at is at offering a huge community for multiplayer games, and upcoming 2D multiplayer shooter Armajet aims to capture precisely that community. Armajet developers describe the game as a competitive … | Continue reading
Belgium plans to distribute iodine pills across the country as a safety measure against a nuclear disaster, according to a report from the BBC. Continue reading… | Continue reading
News that Google would soon begin testing a new mobile travel application leaked out last week, and now we have more details, including screenshots, of what that app will look like. The app, called Trips, is being trialed with a small group of testers, and will allow users to kee … | Continue reading
For years, flying RC helicopters has been a hobby for many enthusiasts. But few people have done it as well as Tareq Alsaadi, who has seemingly mastered the art(?) of doing insane tricks that could never be replicated in an actual helicopter. In what can only be described as five … | Continue reading
John Romero and Adrian Carmack have cancelled their Kickstarter for first-person shooter Blackroom in order to make a gameplay demo.The pair plan to resume the Kickstarter once the gameplay demo is complete.The gameplay demo will take more time than the Kickstarter has left, Nigh … | Continue reading
The government of the Isle of Man is looking to plug a gap in its gambling regulatory structure as it relates to bitcoin and digital currencies. | Continue reading
The week is about to draw to a close, and it’s time for the second of our twice-daily bitcoin price watch analyses. As we have done a few times already this week, let’s kick things off with a chart. The chart below is a 15-minute candlestick chart showing the last 24 hours worth … | Continue reading
(Reuters) – Google is likely to face its first European Union antitrust sanction this year, with little prospect of it settling a test case with the bloc’s regulator over its shopping service, people familiar with the matter said. There are few incentives left for either party to … | Continue reading
We take a closer look at the features and image quality that the camera on HTC's latest flagship has to offer in this HTC 10 camera feature focus! | Continue reading
To the world at large, Vogue is fashion and Apple is tech. Each represents the premium in their space: Vogue with over a century in print and access to A-list everyone, Apple with the slickest must-have gadgets on the planet. Whether we subscribe to the magazine or own an Apple d … | Continue reading
Neben ihren eigenen sprachkontrollierten Echo-Geräten, die auf den Namen Alexa hören, will Amazon den Alexa Voice Service ja auch anderen Herstellern anbieten und hatte dafür extra eine Entwickler-Starthilfe gegründet. Mit dem T... | Continue reading
The Priceline Group CEO Darren Huston resigned after an internal investigation revealed that a personal relationship he had with another employee violated the company's code of conduct. | Continue reading
Look what I found on Craigslist. This is the best deal ever. If you browse the “antiques” category, you’ll find an offer you can’t refuse. For a mere $8 billion, you could buy Yahoo! Read More | Continue reading
How is Brian Eno still finding uncharted waters after half a century spent making music? On The Ship, his first solo album in four years, Eno fuses his signature yawning soundscapes and substantive vocal work for the first time. The result is an album that occupies a space somewh … | Continue reading
iTunes Gift Cards are far more exciting now than they used to be. The purchase options on the iTunes Store and App Store have expanded enormously in recent years, as the world has turned its collective attention to Apple’s industry-leading tech in smartphones, computers, tablets … | Continue reading
Google Chrome notifications aren’t always the easiest thing to master. Some websites like Facebook will ask if you want to turn on notifications in Chrome, but it’s an easy window to miss or ignore if you aren’t sure what it is.See also: The 10 Chrome extensions you need mostBut … | Continue reading
Supercell continues trying to level the playing field (at least in terms of hacks and cheats) in Clash of Clans [Free], and as the latest update claims, the efforts have been quite successful so far. The Fair Play status update claims that so far, they haven't had a single false … | Continue reading
Voxel-based mapping reveals the brain regions that we use to think about relationships, self-identity and even abstract things like math and time. Can this finally dispel the notion that we only use 10% of our brains? | Continue reading
The trouble with smartwatches is that no one really knows what they’re for yet. Undercooked as app platforms, underperforming as fitness trackers, and underwhelming as fashion items, it’s unclear to most people why they’d want to strap a little computer to their wrist.As a compan … | Continue reading
We now have a little more clarity on when HTC’s latest flagship phone could start shipping in the U.S., with Sprint today confirming that the HTC 10 will be available from May 13. HTC first unveiled the device, which comes with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 processor, 5.2-inch QHD di … | Continue reading
Color Switch has proven to be a tremendously popular mobile game, clearing more than 75 million downloads in just three months on the app stores. That growth shows it’s still possible for small independent developers to create mega hits in the maturing $34 billion mobile game ind … | Continue reading
Supporters of MMM, which is accused of being a bitcoin-based Ponzi scheme, marched in Soweto, South Africa in celebration of the Financial Freedom Awareness campaign, coinciding with South Africa’s Freedom Day | Continue reading