Bill Maris, the investor who started Google Ventures, one of the influential tech financiers in Silicon Valley, is departing, as Recode reported earlier today.Maris, a neuroscientist by training, built Google Ventures (now called GV) into one of the more idiosyncratic venture fir … | Continue reading
Mr. Robot is a show built on hacks. The mother of all hacks serves as the big cliffhanger at the end of the show's first season, and nearly every plot development leading up to it was nudged along by some kind of exploit. It’s rare to get through an episode without at least one d … | Continue reading
Only yesterday I was sat in a cafe with my iPad Pro editing an article that a colleague had shared with me in Google Docs, thinking to myself "man, if only this app would get updated so I wouldn't have to pop into Slack every couple of minutes to see what's up, my life would be b … | Continue reading
Bill Maris, the founder and chief of Google Ventures (or GV), is leaving the firm and its parent, Alphabet, Recode has learned. His last day, said sources, is Friday.Maris would be the third high-ranking executive to depart from the Alphabet units outside of the main Google searc … | Continue reading
Star Trek Discovery, CBS's new Trek series due out next year, will officially feature a female lead. Showrunner Bryan Fuller confirmed as much today during CBS's Television Critics Association press event, saying a woman will once again sit in the captain's chair. While details a … | Continue reading
An A-10 Warthog, for those of you who don't know, is a giant flying tank. Which is not an exaggeration. Except it kills other tanks. With a Gatling-type 30mm cannon that can fire off 4200 rounds per minute.Now picture a mini, remote-controlled version of the Warthog — one that fi … | Continue reading
Eye-Fi announced in July that its X2 line of Wi-Fi SD cards would stop receiving support and essentially be rendered useless starting in September. It encouraged people to instead upgrade to its Mobi line of SD cards. Now, however, the company is slightly backpedaling to say that … | Continue reading
A man is currently climbing the exterior of Trump Tower using what appears to be little more than suction cups, carabiners, and rope. While this isn’t the first time someone has made the precarious vertical ascent of a skyscraper, it is the first time such a climb has involved a … | Continue reading
It looks like Jason Momoa will have a lot more than Aquaman on his plate in the years ahead. Mashable reports that the former Games of Thrones star is in talks to star in a reboot of the 1994 cult classic The Crow. Momoa will presumably play slain rocker Eric Draven, a role first … | Continue reading
TheTouch’s HB ring is a ring that’ll recreate your heart rate on a loved one’s HB ring. It's got a heart rate sensor baked in — like one in any other wearable — that picks up on your pulse and then broadcasts it with lights and vibrations on a separately paired ring. It syncs thr … | Continue reading
A lawsuit accusing Twitter of providing material support to ISIS has been dismissed by a California District Court. First filed in January, the lawsuit argued ISIS's persistent presence on Twitter constituted material support for the terror group, and sought to hold Twitter respo … | Continue reading
In 2015, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised that his company’s Oculus Rift VR devices would not always be big, boxy headsets. One day, he said, people would see virtual reality through a pair of ordinary eyeglasses or sunglasses. Where he put that development years in the futu … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission's plan to let cities build their own broadband networks hit a major roadblock today, as a federal appellate court ruled that the commission was overstepping its authority. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said today th … | Continue reading
For the first time, scientists have figured out how to view changes to gene activity in living brains. The brain scan technique may aid discoveries in how Alzheimer’s treatments, schizophrenia, and other neurological disorders work. And not just that: this approach may also help … | Continue reading
Vizio has announced that it's started rolling out a new firmware update for the company's SmartCast P-Series and M-Series 4K TVs that enables support for the HDR10 specification. That's very important for the (very few) people who currently own a 4K Blu-ray player or, just recent … | Continue reading
Pokémon Uranium is a fan-version game based on the central roleplaying games of the Pokémon franchise. Like the upcoming official Pokémon Sun and Moon, the game features a tropical setting. Unlike its contemporary, the game includes 150 new and unofficial pokémon — a good choice, … | Continue reading
We’ve known that Sandra Bollock and Cate Blanchett will be headlining the upcoming Ocean’s Eleven spinoff now titled Ocean’s Ocho. Now, Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. is close to signing up a stellar cast that will include Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mi … | Continue reading
Last week, Samsung announced that it had created the world's largest SSD, a 15.36TB drive that cost $10,000.This week, Seagate quadrupled that. The company has created a 60TB SAS SSD in a 3.5-inch format that Seagate says should be available sometime in 2017. (The drive will be d … | Continue reading
BMW is building an Alexa skill for the Amazon Echo as part of its larger BMW Connected cloud architecture. It will allow owners of connected BMW vehicles to check their vehicle’s remaining range and use commands like “lock doors” through the Echo to control their vehicles.Other f … | Continue reading
Just four months after causing outrage over a similarly offensive selfie lens, Snapchat has incurred the wrath of its users by enabling what many see as, effectively, a yellowface lens. According to Mic, users called out the social platform on Twitter yesterday, saying the lens c … | Continue reading
The White House has opened up a new Facebook Messenger channel, and will use the channel to actively relay notes to President Obama. According to the announcement, it’s part of the president’s long-standing practice of reading 10 letters from constituents every day. Traditionally … | Continue reading
Microsoft may be preparing to launch three new Surface-branded all-in-one (AIO) PCs later this year. Reports of a Surface AIO first began in June when DigiTimes claimed that Microsoft is planning a Surface AIO as an alternative to the Surface Book. Windows Central now reports tha … | Continue reading
Bang & Olufsen is known for making some beautifully designed TVs, and its latest creation, the BeoVision 14, is no exception. The newest addition to the BeoVision lineup features aluminum piping and oak wood lamellas, making it feel like a piece of furniture versus the minimalist … | Continue reading
Bachelor in Paradise is a television show in which the discarded men and women from The Bachelor and The Bachelorette come to a place called "Paradise" (technically a resort in Mexico) for a second (or sometimes third, and occasionally fourth) shot at love. Each week, they pair o … | Continue reading
SolarCity's next big product will be a "solar roof" that's entirely composed of solar panels — a sleeker alternative to covering an existing roof in solar modules sometime after installation. The plan was detailed during a call with investors yesterday, with company chairman Elon … | Continue reading
For years, Google has been building a lobbying machine that outpaces its Silicon Valley peers, turning the internet giant into a major Washington presence. In 2014, the company surpassed AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast in lobbying spending dollars, and it's been particularly adept at … | Continue reading
A new round of video game consoles has began last week with the release of Microsoft’s One S. The slim, white hardware is a minor upgrade to the original Xbox One, and the predecessor to next year’s flashier upgrade, codenamed Project Scorpio. Next month, Sony is expected to anno … | Continue reading
Bologna is not the best deli meat. But, if you’re looking for a cheap sandwich, it’s perfect. It’s also perfect if you’re designing antennas and want to make sure your antennas will work well when they’re near a human body.See, when designing antennas, it’s important to know how … | Continue reading
How Cincinnati tried, and failed, to build one of America’s first subways Continue reading… | Continue reading
The Verge is hosting the official Mr. Robot Digital After Show in partnership with USA Network, and we hope you'll join us tonight directly after the show, and each week, as we discuss the exploits of sophisticated hackers and corporate overlords. Tonight we'll be joined by speci … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Recode by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Recode.When the iPad came out in 2010, I wrote that it might upend the laptop if it could per … | Continue reading
GoPro has announced that it will open up sales of its six-camera "Omni" virtual reality rig when the company starts shipping preorder units on August 17th. The $5,000 setup includes six Hero 4 Black cameras, the cube-shaped metal housing, and all the hardware and software that is … | Continue reading
There's an arms race in the hunt for tradable software vulnerabilities, but it's not just about methods — price counts too. Last week, Apple launched its first ever bug bounty program, offering cash rewards of up to $200,000 for ways to compromise its hardware and software. This … | Continue reading
No Man’s Sky is an almost impossibly huge game, an entire virtual universe filled with 18 quintillion planets, each one different from the next thanks to the powers of procedural generation. Instead of a typical review, for the next week I’m going to be writing daily dispatches f … | Continue reading
Twice, Jason Vale was diagnosed with cancers that should have killed him. But 30 years after the first tumor was found in his chest when he was 18, Vale is still alive. The reason for his survival is not chemo, radiation, cancer drugs, or surgery, Vale claims. He says he owes his … | Continue reading
Surviving in the wilderness of space takes more than a sleeping bag and a packet of wet wipes, and so to explore how humanity can stay alive in the cold dark beyond, NASA is canvassing designs for new deep space habitats. The agency's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partn … | Continue reading
I’ve been desperately searching for a pair of wireless earbuds to wear while working out; a search that’s lasted two years and spanned a dozen or so products. Sound quality isn’t super important to me because these are for the gym, not for critical listening at home. I want bass, … | Continue reading
There's an unconfirmed (but pretty solid) theory on how to tell apart genuine tweets from Donald Trump tweets from those written by his staff. We know that Trump uses a Samsung Galaxy smartphone, and looking at data from Tweetdeck we can see that tweets from @realDonaldTrump sent … | Continue reading
Apple is preparing a big update to its MacBook Pro line of laptops. KGI Securities analyst Ming-chi Kuo first revealed that Apple is planning to replace the function keys on the MacBook Pro with an OLED touch bar, and now Bloomberg's Mark Gurman is confirming the initial reports. … | Continue reading
Videoconferencing is frustrating, joyless, and tedious, but Google has somehow come up with a way to make it even worse: drones. As first spotted by Quartz, the search giant was this week awarded a patent for a "mobile telepresence" system using video cameras and screens fixed to … | Continue reading
No Man's Sky is one of the most expansive video games ever created, tasking players with exploring a procedurally generated universe so vast that everyone's experience will be different. It's unclear whether players can even run into others at all — two people playing the game ye … | Continue reading
Microsoft's new 2TB Xbox One S console is selling out around the world, but it appears that might be by design. While Microsoft is planning to release 500GB and 1TB versions of the Xbox One S, the 2TB console is a special limited edition launch model. "The 2TB Xbox One S was rele … | Continue reading
SpaceX has put together an incredible reel of footage showing various Falcon 9 rockets throughout launch, separation, reentry, and landing. And while SpaceX does that extensively every time a... | Continue reading
Disney just made a big $1 billion investment in BAM Tech, the hugely successful streaming technology business that powers services from HBO, MLB, NHL, PGA, WWE, and others. The deal allows Disney to eventually acquire majority ownership of BAM Tech in the coming years if it wishe … | Continue reading
In 2016, it's become acceptable to use an iPad as a camera. No longer the domain of parents on vacation, iPad photography has been coopted by the young, who shamelessly lift their large screens in the air, obstructing the view as they film entire concerts. Notably, The Verge's ow … | Continue reading
Sony's upcoming PlayStation event, where it's expected to unveil its upgraded PlayStation 4 console, is set for September 7th, according to invites sent out this afternoon. The event will be held at the PlayStation Theatre in New York City at 3PM ET. The company is being elusive … | Continue reading
Last month, we found out that Kobo still exists, and that it's planning on releasing a new e-reader, called the Aura One. Now thanks to a product listing from a Dutch retailer that went live a bit early, we have a few more details on the upcoming e-reader.Featuring a 7.8-inch Car … | Continue reading
Netflix launched an internet speed test at Fast.com back in May, and this week it rolled out dedicated apps for the tool on iOS and Android. While the apps are identical to the website, Fast's launch as an app could go a long way toward getting people to use it. And that's a big … | Continue reading