Developers have earned more than $50 billion through Apple's App Store, and that number appears to be growing quicker than ever. Apple CEO Tim Cook said the milestone followed a month of record payments in July. That's part of why Apple's been able to hit $50 billion in payouts j … | Continue reading
SpaceX and the United Launch Alliance may finally compete with one another for the military’s business. The United States Air Force is officially taking bids from launch providers for its third GPS-III satellite; the probe is slated to go up in 2019, and it needs a rocket to carr … | Continue reading
After months of tweaks and improvements, Apple Music has exited its extended public beta period for Android. The streaming service, which first launched in June 2015, opened to Android users back in November of last year. The app was labeled as a beta then, and Apple has spent th … | Continue reading
It's looking like virtual reality will take center stage at Intel's Developer Conference in a couple weeks. Dimitri Diakopoulos, an engineer on Intel's VR team tweeted out an image of an HTC Vive with an attachment featuring six camera holes that could be used for a hand-tracking … | Continue reading
Basis, the fitness tracking company that Intel purchased in 2014, has today issued a recall on its Peak wearable due to a risk of overheating and potential injury to the wearer. The Peak, which was launched in September, 2014, is the only product currently in Basis’ lineup.Basis … | Continue reading
It's a sad day in Waterloo, folks: Kim Kardashian West, international celebrity and staunch defender of the physical keyboard's merits, has given up on her beloved BlackBerry Bold. While Kardashian has other phones — she uses an iPhone 6S for pictures and selfies, among other tas … | Continue reading
Sony's experiment with PlayStation-based original programming could be coming to an end with the cancelation of Powers, the service's first and only TV show. Co-creator and comic author Brian Michael Bendis broke the news on Twitter this afternoon. "This is hard to tweet, but wor … | Continue reading
Facebook Live has brought live-streaming to some unlikely places, from a coup in Turkey to a Congressional sit-in to the International Space Station. Now it has found its most unexpected home of all: prison.In a Facebook Live video obtained by PIX11, an inmate at Rikers Island in … | Continue reading
The internet is, among other things, a replacement for the outdated smoke break. We all need an occasional distraction from the daily grind, and live streams are particularly good at meeting this need. They feel present, important, and communal. It’s how a feed of bears catching … | Continue reading
Microsoft decided to target Google's Chrome browser back in June with a new campaign designed to highlight how bad the browser is for your laptop battery life. While Microsoft's marketing effort was initially limited to a YouTube video and associated website, the software maker h … | 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
This week, Eric Greitens won the Republican nomination for Missouri governor. To better introduce himself to more voters from the nation’s finest state, Greitens has published many YouTube videos. Here’s one.The former Navy SEAL doesn’t speak much. Instead Greitens' credentials a … | Continue reading
One of the joys of Google's wealth of 3D mapping data is being able to explore far-flung locations from the comfort of your laptop. And the company's latest experiment takes that idea a step further: what if you could turn those maps into interactive, educational playgrounds?The … | Continue reading
Sales of the OnePlus 3 will be suspended throughout Europe and in Hong Kong for a month beginning next week as the company said it needs "to give inventory time to replenish." OnePlus says sales of its flagship device will be suspended from August 9th until September 12th in the … | Continue reading
Yesterday, the US Air Force said its fleet of F-35A fighter jets are ready for battle — finally. The planes were actually ordered 15 years ago, but their development was plagued by numerous delays and cost overruns. The Air Force is the second branch of the US military after the … | Continue reading
A short video that was posted to Vimeo and Reddit this morning appears to give us our first glimpse of GoPro’s long-awaited Hero 5 camera. The video is the same kind of quick how-to that usually lives in the company’s mobile apps, as it shows a step-by-step process of how to conn … | Continue reading
1Password, one of the best password managers out there, is switching up its business model. Today the app's developer AgileBits is introducing a monthly subscription for individuals priced at $2.99 per month. That's cheaper than the $5 / month family plan that 1Password launched … | Continue reading
Meg Whitman, the CEO of HP Enterprise and a prominent Republican fundraiser, has decided to endorse Hillary Clinton and reject the "demagoguery" of Donald Trump, she said in a Facebook post last night. Continue reading… | Continue reading
As the CDC issues travel warnings for Miami, Florida, the National Institutes of Health are set to begin the first human trials for an experimental vaccine for Zika. Last week, Florida health officials identified four cases of the Zika virus that were likely transmitted by mosqui … | Continue reading
For three years, a cartoon dog has sat patiently in a house fire. He smiles as he says, "This is fine." Today, however, the dog changes his stance. Today, says the dog, "this is not fine."The "This is fine" meme comes from KC Green’s 2013 webcomic "On Fire." The meme rarely inclu … | Continue reading
YouTube Red, the subscription service released last summer, is finally being integrated with YouTube Kids. The Kids app already lets parents plunk their kids in front of the screen without having to worry that their little ones will stumble onto some unsavory content. With the ad … | Continue reading
JBL announced in April that it would be releasing a pair of USB-C-powered earbuds this year in coordination with the release of the HTC 10. At the time, we didn’t have a price or specific release date. Well now the day has come. The Reflect Aware C are out on HTC’s website, and t … | Continue reading
A misguided flaming arrow interrupted the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent, a network reality program comprised of Branson-friendly variety acts. Fortunately the arrow's ultimate target, Canadian stunt man Ryan Stock, appears to be okay.Stocks had performed a sword-swallowin … | Continue reading
2016 is a big year for Final Fantasy. After a decade of waiting, fans will finally be able to play the long-standing franchise’s latest flagship title, Final Fantasy XV, when it launches next month. But before that comes another important entry in the series: Mobius Final Fantasy … | Continue reading
The team over at iFixit has completed their teardown of the new Xbox One S, and the results have revealed a couple of interesting features. The Xbox One S features a SATA III hard drive — specifically a Seagate Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 2 TB 5400 RPM with 32 MB Cache — a slight u … | Continue reading
Facebook, as one of the largest and most popular sites in the world, has a healthy amount of physical infrastructure to manage its various mobile apps and web services. Now, that collection includes a new 22,000-square-foot lab at its Menlo Park, CA headquarters, where the compan … | Continue reading
Remember when devices didn’t connect to the internet? Remember when every gadget that launched didn’t come with Bluetooth or Wi-Fi enabled? Do gadgets even still work without an app?Prisma, a new device that launched on Indiegogo yesterday, brews cold brew coffee in 10 minutes. W … | Continue reading
We really dug the first season of Netflix’s show Stranger Things. It’s a great mix of nostalgia for the films of the 1980s and a great story about a town getting to the bottom of a strange disappearance of a local boy. Like any good show, it left us wanting a bit more, and left u … | Continue reading
In a summer movie season burdened by laborious franchise updates and a calendar all but void of fun, April and the Extraordinary World should have made a splash. Its synopsis is as grand and ambitious as any blockbuster. A family of scientists hope to create an elixir to end agin … | Continue reading
BlackBerry has today announced that it's making its Hub software available for all Android devices running Android 6.0 Marshmallow or newer. The Hub, which combines email, messaging, social networking, and other accounts together in one dashboard, was previously only available on … | Continue reading
Even though Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a full three months away, Warner Bros. is moving quickly to get a new trilogy off the ground. The first follow-up to the wizarding world epic is now slated for November 16th, 2018. David Yates will return as director, working … | Continue reading
Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the... | Continue reading
Earlier this year at CES, Chinese smartphone maker ZTE announced that it would be crowdsourcing suggestions for a new mobile device. Today, the company takes another step towards this goal, launching a new website to collect and collate users' ideas.ZTE says development of the de … | Continue reading
The next Mr. Robot Digital After Show hosted by The Verge will air tonight, and we hope you'll join us directly following episode 5 as we talk about the show with a surprise guest! Season 2 has started strong and the stakes keep rising for our hero and the fsociety crew. Tonight … | 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.Last Thursday, my beloved Pioneer Elite 50-inch plasma HDTV suddenly died. I had owned … | Continue reading
Dronemaker DJI has already opened physical stores in China and South Korea, but now it's expanding its consumer outreach with its first ever 'drone arena.' The 1,395-square-meter arena will open later this month in Yongin, a city in the south of Seoul's greater metropolitan area. … | Continue reading
Japan's National Science Museum unveiled a new exhibit last month: a creepy-looking robot that's powered by 42 pneumatic actuators and its own neural network. According to a report from Engadget,... | Continue reading
I’ve always liked the idea of hooking a PC up to my TV, but it’s never really worked out in practice, and the main reason is obvious: input. While the keyboard-and-mouse setup is perfect for many kinds of games on a desk, it’s impractical on a sofa; you need a flat surface for th … | Continue reading
Google is introducing a new version of Chrome for Android this week that includes some important changes to the way video content loads in the mobile browser. Google has tweaked Chrome for Android version 52 to improve playback speed and power efficiency. Web videos should start … | Continue reading
Spaceflight venture Moon Express wants to be the first private company ever to land on the Moon in 2017 — and now the company has been granted approval by the United States government to launch to the lunar surface. It's the first time the government has granted regulatory approv … | Continue reading
I made a terrible mistake. After years of exclusively posting pics of kids and vacation spots on Facebook, I decided to engage my “friends” in a little political debate over the last few weeks. I don’t know what I expected to achieve. Deep down I guess I assumed that well reasone … | Continue reading
The design of small UAVs usually falls into one of two categories: the cruciform quadcopter (with extra arms added as necessary) and the fixed-wing glider (such as early iterations of Google's delivery drones). However, there's still room for innovation in this market, as demonst … | Continue reading
Baidu, the search company sometimes called China's Google, has announced a new augmented reality platform for smartphones. The new platform is called DuSee, and promises to use existing smartphone hardware to "understand" real-world 3D environments, allowing computer-generated ch … | Continue reading
Polar is making a smartwatch for people who need more comprehensive fitness features than the basic step counting and heart rate monitoring you get with most Android Wear devices. The M600, priced at $329 and slated for release within the next few months, is an Android Wear watch … | Continue reading
Summer brings mosquitos, disgusting humidity, and the realization that Winter Is Coming — but that's okay, because it also brings "Summertime." It's only actually legal to play Will Smith's classic track between the months of June and August, but it must be bumped as often as pos … | Continue reading
Microsoft just delivered Windows 10 Anniversary Update for PCs and tablets this week, and now it's setting its sights on Windows-powered phones. While the Anniversary Update for Windows 10 Mobile doesn't bring many big new features, Microsoft says it's planning to launch the soft … | Continue reading
Gogoro is bringing 200 of its stylish all-electric scooters to Berlin. Starting today, anyone over 21 with a valid driver’s (or motorcycle) license will be able to rent one of the scooters as part of a new scooter-sharing program. Gogoro — which was created by former HTC chief in … | Continue reading
As detailed last week, Instagram is now letting some of its users ban certain words from appearing in comments on their posts. The photo-sharing social network has now introduced a new filter that users can manually customize by adding words of their choosing that they want exclu … | Continue reading