BMW announced today that it has won a contract with the Los Angeles Police Department to supply 100 of its compact i3 electric cars. The initiative is a part of LA's "Sustainable City pLAn," which includes a commitment to make half of its light-duty vehicle purchases fully electr … | Continue reading
Today, Canadian artificial intelligence company Maluuba released state-of-the-art results for a type of machine learning focused on teaching computers to read like humans do. Companies like Google, Facebook, and IBM have actively been working on this area of research — known as m … | Continue reading
After the success of Hitman Go and Lara Croft Go, Square Enix has revealed its third mobile adaptation: Deus Ex Go. The game is coming this summer for phones and tablets, and it looks to follow a very similar structure as its predecessor, with cyborg protagonist Adam Jensen movin … | Continue reading
Microsoft is no longer planning to add a TV DVR feature to its Xbox One console. The software giant originally unveiled plans to add TV DVR to the Xbox One back in August, noting that the feature would arrive some time in 2016. "After careful consideration, we've decided to put d … | Continue reading
Fiat Chrysler (FCA) is eyeing a partnership with Uber to build self-driving cars for the ride-hailing startup, according to a report in Bloomberg. A deal could be reached by the end of the year, or completely fall apart in the next few weeks, the report says. Uber is said to be i … | Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter will forever be locked in a bewildering dance wherein each continually pushes itself closer and then farther away from the other. In today's news, Facebook is moving a tiny bit closer to Twitter as it tests a new posting option that makes News Feed posts much … | Continue reading
GOG, the game store formerly known as Good Old Games, is kicking off its summer sale with a two-day giveaway of classic shooter / RPG System Shock 2. If you launch GOG through its Galaxy desktop client, you can claim a copy from inside it. GOG says this is its way of getting more … | Continue reading
This weekend, I came across an animal video on Facebook that blew me away. It depicted a turtle attacking a very startled orange tabby cat.As the cat lay on the kitchen floor of some pet owner's apartment, the turtle repeatedly hit it with its head and shell. The cat, clearly ann … | Continue reading
Earlier this summer, DC Comics' bet big on a suffocatingly serious universe in the form of the much hyped Batman v Superman. The film failed to meet critical and financial expectations at the box office. Rumors have been flying ever since that the film branch of the comic book pu … | Continue reading
O.J.: Made in America is a masterpiece, as good if not better than the other critically acclaimed O.J. television miniseries, FX's American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson. The documentary is quite different than the esteemed drama, despite balancing on the same person. … | Continue reading
It's hard to convey what's going on inside a VR headset. Even if you can put a smoothed-out 2D image on a second screen for the benefit of onlookers, they won't get the sense of immersion that comes from having head-tracked screens blasting images into your eyeballs. How can you … | Continue reading
The mosquito truly is a blood-sucking machine. The thin tube the insect injects into the skin, what's called the proboscis, is actually comprised of six different needles that all work in tandem to extract blood from the body. It's fascinating and repulsive at the same time — and … | Continue reading
Chinese company Ehang caught our eye at CES earlier year, with the firm unveiling an autonomous quadcopter prototype it said was capable of ferrying human passengers without a pilot. We were wary of these unproven claims, but Ehang is obviously forging ahead with the vehicle. The … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.Last week, I interviewed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on stage at our third annual Code Con … | Continue reading
Remember E3 2006? Ten years ago, Microsoft shared its roadmap for the still young Xbox 360 with a list of big-name titles, including the first Gears of War, Crackdown, and Forza Motorsport 2. The Xbox 360 era was very good for Microsoft. Now that it's the underdog to Sony's massi … | Continue reading
WWDC is almost here — and this year, Apple has more to talk about than ever. That's because WWDC is Apple's software show, and Apple now has four distinct operating systems to discuss: iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS.As always, bits and pieces of Apple’s plans have leaked out over t … | Continue reading
Apple introduced Live Photos with much fanfare as one of the marquee additions to the iPhone 6S, but I've never really got much out of the feature. Even when I do take a picture that could benefit from a little movement and sound, Apple's implementation is lacking; the results ar … | Continue reading
I’m just like Mark Zuckerberg. Okay, I’m not fabulously wealthy, nor do I meet regularly with heads of state. I’m also not building a Jarvis-like AI for my home. Instead, I have a nasty habit of reusing passwords, just like Zuck… and most of the internet. Continue reading… | Continue reading
If I ever have children I plan to foster good dental hygiene by telling them that teeth grow constantly, and that theirs will eventually pierce their brain from inside their own heads unless they wear them down with daily brushing. Failing that, I'll probably just wait until I ca … | Continue reading
Material Design is supposed to be the visual template that unifies Google's products, but it's taken a while to reach every part of the tech company's kingdom — especially the larger products. We saw a Material Design overhaul of YouTube last month, and it seems the company is al … | Continue reading
The French government has launched a smartphone app that would alert users to possible terror attacks and provide them with information on how to stay safe. The French Interior Ministry announced the app on Wednesday ahead of the UEFA Euro 2016 soccer tournament, which kicks off … | Continue reading
Last year, Adidas unveiled a prototype 3D-printed sneaker made from recycled plastic ocean waste. The design was a collaboration with Parley for the Oceans, an organization that raises awareness about the environmental destruction of the oceans. Now, Adidas and Parley have launch … | Continue reading
As Google develops its VR platform, Daydream, the company is sharing clips of its virtual reality concepts and prototypes. The latest tackle the problem of how to represent users in a virtual space, with Google's engineers settling on a simple solution: googly eyes. Continue … | Continue reading
Do you cringe every time someone says "hoverboard" and mutter under your breath "Actually, it's a self-balancing scooter"? Do you believe that Elon Musk is our lord and savior sent to this earth to make our commutes faster, cleaner, and infinitely more terrifying? Do you have $10 … | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has used Twitter to respond to a Reuters report published yesterday that indicated the company was in talks with Samsung SDI to supply batteries for its car and energy storage products. Musk clarified that Tesla is "working exclusively" with Panasonic to make … | Continue reading
Drink lots of water. Keep going to yoga. Use your standing desk more often. We know these habits are good for our health, but for a long time now, one practice has proven to help us actually lose weight: weighing ourselves.I know, I know. It’s really annoying. And it can be dishe … | Continue reading
When it finally arrives, Magic Leap's augmented reality headset will look like the kind of thing Luke Skywalker would wear to practice his lightsaber skills, if a design patent filed by the enigmatic company this week is anything to go by. Other comparisons for the theoretical de … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton is now the presumptive nominee for the Democratic Party, and the first woman to top a major US party ticket. The former Secretary of State is estimated to have secured the 2,383 delegates she needs to clinch the nomination, putting her well ahead of rival Bernie S … | Continue reading
An unknown number of Lexus automobiles have seen their infotainment and navigation head units broken by a bug in an over-the-air software update from Lexus.The glitch, which was confirmed by a Lexus spokesperson, was delivered in a routine software update. In affected cars, it ca … | Continue reading
Microsoft has an ingenious plan to get the attention of everyone attending Apple's big developer event on Monday: offer them free food and drinks. After WWDC's first day wraps up, Microsoft will be throwing an afterparty basically next door to discuss "the future of apps." This w … | Continue reading
I think we can all sit here in agreement and say that the Fast & Furious series is fun as hell. You've got fast cars and dangerous drivers flying off cliffs and out of large aircraft. Vin Diesel and his crew drive through exotic locales without any regard for the laws of physics, … | Continue reading
Apparently Pebble users had a burning need for the fire emoji. The company's 3.13 firmware update, which it released today, includes a new Weather app and Health app updates. Watches can also now display the fire emoji. We got fire emoji for summer!The built-in Weather Channel ap … | Continue reading
Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared a picture of all the rockets the company has landed so far, noting that one of them will re-fly for the first time in September or October. When that happens, SpaceX will finally be able to boast that it has reused one of its Falcon 9 vehicles. … | Continue reading
I have some questions for the producers of the 2017 film Monster Trucks.When you pitched this film as E.T. meets Fast and the Furious, which I assume you did, how long did it take for Paramount to greenlight? Hours? Minutes? Seconds? Was it too fast to be measured by our traditio … | Continue reading
Developer Nick Lee has earned himself a reputation for putting weird and wacky operating systems on Apple gadgets, including Windows 95 on an Apple Watch. Now, he's gone the practical route of bringing a full-fledged version of Android to the iPhone. There's just one catch: you n … | Continue reading
Reuters reports that battery and display component provider Samsung SDI is "making progress" in signing a deal to provide Tesla Motors with batteries for its vehicles and energy storage products. At present, Tesla gets its cells from Panasonic; it's also in the process of ramping … | Continue reading
The pod-based beverage company Keurig has just announced that it's discontinuing the first and only generation of Keurig Kold, AP reports. The Kold, which allowed users to make soda at home using Coke-branded pods, has been available to consumers for less than a year. According t … | Continue reading
Sometimes when I see something on the internet I instantly connect with, I want to pay tribute to it. Make art with it. I want to feel something profound, and let others share in my joy.So that's exactly what I did when I saw this gif on Reddit titled, "Two kick ass best friends. … | Continue reading
We know Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chip. It's in most new phones, including Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge, after being released in February this year. Now Qualcomm appears to have created a variation of the powerful chip, the Snapdragon 821. It reaches a speed of 2.3GHz and will … | Continue reading
Aerospace startup Masten Space Systems just introduced two new additions to the company's long line of reusable rockets and landers. The vehicles are called Xaero-B and Xodiac, continuing the company's tradition of assigning X-names to its products. A new video of the rockets sho … | Continue reading
The HTC Vive is now officially the first high-end virtual reality headset that you can buy like a normal tech product, instead of preordering and then waiting a month or two. HTC is promising that any new Vive order will ship within 72 hours, and it's also slightly expanding its … | Continue reading
Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and star of the musical Hamilton, penned an op-ed in The New York Times this morning asking New Yorkers to support a bill that would criminalize the use of bots in the ticket resale industry.The exorbitant resale ticket prices … | Continue reading
My entire picture library is inside Google Photos, which makes Apple's Live Photos feature on my iPhone 6S Plus rather useless. Google doesn't support the format, so if I want to preserve them, I need to convert each Live Photo to a GIF using a third-party app, save it to my phon … | Continue reading
One of my favorite hobbies is searching PubMed.gov. I love PubMed — I use it to develop stories, to find sources, and to generally learn about the world around me. For instance: farting.There was a superstar of the fart literature A PubMed search returns 14 results with "excessiv … | Continue reading
Barracuda raised more than $2 million through crowdfunding for its collapsible luggage, and now, the company is opening orders up to the public. There's already connected luggage that can be located remotely and charge devices on-the-go. Barracuda's bag includes these features, t … | Continue reading
As a driver, it's important to know what the various controls on the automobile do. Turn the wheel clockwise and the car goes right. Turn it counter-clockwise? That makes it go left. Then, there's the pedals. On a car with an automatic transmission, there are generally two pedals … | Continue reading
Mars is an extremely popular destination right now. Putting people on the Red Planet has been the big goal for NASA since 2010, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made it very clear that his company is going to try to start a Martian colony as early as 2024. Mars One has managed to fin … | Continue reading
When you think of a McLaren, you probably think of a maxed-out, barely street-legal hypercar that is practically dripping with carbon weave. And if you're talking about something like a 675LT, P1, or P1 GTR, that impression wouldn't be wrong.Yet somehow — somehow — McLaren made a … | Continue reading