Sure, seating is getting more cramped, drinks and snacks are going away, and it costs a million dollars just to check a bag — but modern commercial air travel isn't all bad. Take a look at this self-cleaning aircraft lavatory concept from Boeing, which might someday reduce the ch … | Continue reading
Think augmented and virtual reality headsets are just for games? NASA astronaut Scott Kelly thinks otherwise after spending some quality time with Microsoft's HoloLens aboard the International Space Station during his recent 340-day mission. At a press conference yesterday, the a … | Continue reading
One of the hardest things about walking away from the iPhone is giving up how well it works with the Mac. Paired together, your incoming text messages and phone calls all pop up on your desktop, where you can respond to them, and opened websites can be beamed from mobile to deskt … | Continue reading
“As soon as I could conceptualise being anything,” Christian Ward says, “I wanted to be a comic artist. I would draw comics at primary school that I'd photocopy and sell in the playground. It was having school teachers and tutors at uni who did all they could to steer me away fro … | Continue reading
Recently The Verge reviewed the Robin, a new smartphone from startup Nextbit that has won some attention for its sharp design and clever way of managing storage on the phone. Those features aside, though, the Nextbit Robin shares a lot of similarities with the Nexus 5X, one of Go … | Continue reading
If you haven't listened to Mystery Show, the podcast where Starlee Kine solves unusual mysteries, you should. You can enjoy the episodes in any order. I recommend starting with episode 5, "Source Code," in which Kine tries to solve the mystery of actor Jake Gyllenhaal's height.Wh … | Continue reading
Amazon has quickly reversed course after it found itself in a PR firestorm earlier this week for quietly disabling encryption on its Fire OS 5 software. The move came at a particularly inopportune time: a standoff between Apple and the FBI over a suspected terrorist's iPhone has … | Continue reading
Google has begun experimenting with an entirely new format for search results, which could eventually let any brand, celebrity, or organization have a dedicated Twitter-like feed built right into the company's search engine. Google first started employing it last month by letting … | Continue reading
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket into space this afternoon, but — as expected — failed to land the vehicle on a drone ship at sea afterward. CEO Elon Musk said the rocket "landed hard" on the drone ship. The mission requirements made a successful landing unlikely. … | Continue reading
California's new 220-mph bullet train won't begin accepting passengers until at least 2025, three years later than the initial schedule, according to a new business plan released by the agency overseeing the long-gestating project. But there's a silver lining: the high-speed rail … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this feels like one of the most all-over-the-place collections of music we’ve had here in a while. Azealia Banks and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis make for a peculiar duo; Kristin Kontrol, M83, a … | Continue reading
It's a good year for gorgeous, brutally challenging puzzle games. In January we had The Witness, and this June we're getting Obduction — a new game from Cyan, the studio behind Riven and Myst. Cyan calls Obduction the spiritual successor to Myst, and it's easy to see why that is … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company’s 48 investors laying bare an observation that he’d made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role of darling one year ago at the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, was fail … | Continue reading
A buried knife was found at O. J. Simpson's estate during construction work, though no one is sure exactly when, TMZ reports. Though the construction worker gave it to a nearby police officer, that cop chose to keep the knife at his own house — and did so for years. It didn't com … | Continue reading
Microsoft is today rolling out a new Windows 10 update to its "fast ring" testers that's largely focused on Cortana, the operating system's built-in personal assistant. First, Cortana is expanding its list of supported languages to include Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), a … | Continue reading
"I'm making a music video. 'Peeno Noir: An Ode to Black Penis.'" So begins one of the most purely joyful viral music hits of last year, a song written for Tituss Burgess' character on Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. At first glance, an ode to male anatomy might not seem lik … | Continue reading
Tinder is encouraging users to share profiles they come across with friends. The company announced today that it's testing a button that lets users text a link to a profile, instead of grabbing a screenshot. The link expires after five clicks or 72 hours. Once the text is sent, t … | Continue reading
Lady Gaga will return for American Horror Story's sixth season, The Hollywood Reporter reports. In an interview with the New York radio station Z100, Gaga confirmed she'd be heading back to Ryan Murphy's campy horror series, but she wouldn't give any details about what form that … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago, I walked into the always-crowded Lego Store straddling Manhattan's Madison Square Park. I was alone and I was on a mission, so I sort of chameleoned into "dad casually shopping for his young child's birthday" mode. It was a misguided effort to blend in amongst th … | Continue reading
Google today confirmed that it will remove some search results from all of its sites starting next week, if those searches are made within the European Union.In 2014, an EU court decided that Google must comply with requests to remove some search results, in a decision that becam … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to unveil its universal Xbox apps later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge that the software giant will detail a number of apps and plans to open the platform to developers at the Build conference in San Francisco … | Continue reading
Strong evidence suggests the mosquito-borne Zika virus is causing infants to be born with birth defects — and a lab model provides clues on how it happens. The virus is capable of infecting the cells that form the brain's outer layer, making them more susceptible to death and pre … | Continue reading
DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to develop the agency's newest unpiloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The new "X-plane" concept (no, not that X-plane) will reach speeds of 400 knots and carry cargo loads of at least 40 percent of the plane' … | Continue reading
Photos of HTC's next major smartphone, reportedly called the HTC 10, have surfaced on the web today. Unlike Samsung and LG, HTC didn't unveil its latest flagship at Mobile World Congress last month, so this is our first good look at what the company has been working on. OnLeaks i … | Continue reading
Passes to the first-ever Panorama festival are now on sale. General admission for all three days starts at $369, and VIP weekend packages are available in addition to transportation and layaway options. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Games often age poorly. More so than any other form of entertainment, games change at a rapid pace, and new innovations can make older titles feel downright archaic, to the point they’re no fun to play. That’s why a modern remake of a game like Final Fantasy VII is such a huge un … | Continue reading
The first episode of I Am Cait’s upcoming second season might contain more drama and meaningful dialogue than the entirety of its first batch of episodes. That’s less a slam against the first season than an observation: E!’s smallest, most unconventional reality show had to spend … | Continue reading
Barnes & Noble has notified its users that it will shut down the Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store on March 15th. The company sent out an email to users and developers on Thursday explaining that third-party app sales and in-app purchases would soon cease to work … | Continue reading
Someone at Google Maps clearly loves video games. In the past the company has snuck Pac-Man and Pokemon Easter eggs into its mapping service, and today The Legend of Zelda is joining in as well. It's a small change, but a tiny, pixelated Link now replaces the little peg typically … | Continue reading
Actors Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys have mashed the fictional film The Trip and the reality television series Top Gear into a pulp, extracted the juices, mixed the fluids into a rich blend, stored the liquid in a temperature-controlled basement, and bottled the final product. I … | Continue reading
The Oscars are over and there isn't a new Star Wars movie for nearly a year, so it's probably time to start looking at all the other stuff heading to theaters. Only a few really high-profile movies had trailers come out this week, but those trailers really got people talking — Gh … | Continue reading
YouTube channel Burger Fiction is honing the art of the supercut. Videos like "Ever Best Visual Effects Winner. Ever." and "Every Jason Statham Punch. Ever," are goofy, viral fodder created with the TLC generally reserved for headier fare. Its latest video, "Cursing Without Cursi … | Continue reading
Look at this octopod. Just look at it. In theory, octopi are cute. In reality, octopi are like scary spiders-of-the-sea. But this guy — this guy’s an exception. He's different.The new octopod, discovered by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Okeanos Pod, is a whole … | Continue reading
A $3 million vide game tournament is happening right now in Shanghai, China, pitting 16 of the best Dota 2 teams against each other. But what, pray tell, does any of that mean?Dota 2 is an immensely popular video game that mixes elements of many genres, from sports simulation to … | Continue reading
Snapchat is expanding its partnership with Major League Baseball to include new features that bring users even closer to the field. The campaign will kick off with a special Spring training event on March 11th. Snapchat says for that day, users will have "unprecedented access" to … | Continue reading
The biggest problem with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is baked into the price of admission: It's a film about how the war in Afghanistan affects one middle-class white American. The film is based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle, by former Chicago Tribune South Asia bureau chief Kim Ba … | Continue reading
France's lower house of parliament yesterday passed an amendment that would levy penalties against technology companies that do not provide access to encrypted data during terrorism investigations. The amendment, which has the support of right-wing politicians but is opposed by t … | Continue reading
Excited about the new LG G5 (and Friends) and Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge? Yeah, us too. By now you’ve probably seen all the specs, read all the hands-on articles, and seen the side-by-side comparisons. It’s going to be a tough choice.Buy the G5 in April and you’ll get what's … | Continue reading
In an op-ed for The Guardian this morning, Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney has launched a withering attack on Microsoft and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative in Windows 10. "Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10," says Sweeney, "a … | Continue reading
Facebook has overhauled its UK tax structure and is "set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK" as a result, according to the BBC. Like Google, Facebook makes the majority of its revenues through the selling of ads, and also like Google, it is responding to increasing p … | Continue reading
Sony has a new R&D project called the Future Lab Program, an effort to involve customers in the design process for eventual products. The program will "share concept prototypes with users while still at the development stage, and look to them for inspiration, leveraging their fee … | Continue reading
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has poured water on the idea of his Rift virtual reality headset supporting the Mac by saying that Apple doesn't make any computers powerful enough to run it."That is up to Apple and if they ever release a good computer we will do it," Luckey tells Sh … | Continue reading
The iPhone at the center of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the FBI may hold a "dormant cyber pathogen" that could cripple San Bernardino, according to the county's District Attorney. Michael Ramos' court filing ascertains that the iPhone, provided to San Bernardino sh … | Continue reading
Kendrick Lamar's new album, Untitled Unmastered, is available now on iTunes, and should be arriving on Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify very soon. Spotify leaked information on the album earlier today, including its name and ambiguous eight-song track list, which features the word … | Continue reading
Grammy-winning artist Kendrick Lamar will release a new album tonight, according to Spotify. The streaming service leaked information about Lamar's new record earlier today, titled Untitled Unmastered, detailing its track listing and album art. Not to be left out, rival service T … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has reassured America about his alleged hand size. At an officially sanctioned Republican presidential debate tonight, Trump responded to provocative remarks made by Senator Marco Rubio earlier this week. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Tumblr is removing Crystal Castles from the lineup of its 79 Cents SXSW event after the band's history and suitability for the event was called into question. The feminism-themed event is named after the gender wage gap in the US, and it features an all-female lineup, feminist ar … | Continue reading
The US Chamber of Commerce plans to sue the city of Seattle over a law that allows Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize, according to a report today from Reuters. The Chamber, a pro-business and anti-labor American lobbying group, would be wading into the growing debate over the rig … | Continue reading