IBM is officially joining Consensus 2016 as the conference’s exclusive Four Block sponsor. | Continue reading
Angry or chastened, Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy remains one of the most quotable, candid and entertaining bench bosses in the NBA. Van Gundy got a little too, er, entertaining Sunday in the Pistons’ Game 1 loss to Cleveland when he criticized the officiating in the live TV quart … | Continue reading
The Phoenix Suns have reached an agreement with interim head coach Earl Watson to retain him as the 17th head coach in franchise history. | Continue reading
Do dubstep and Warcraft mix? Do humans and orcs mix? I dunno, but I guess finding out is kind of the point of this movie.A second full trailer for Duncan Jones' Warcraft was released today, and it's basically all about showing off the film's wild visuals, backed up by a thumping … | Continue reading
Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that it has developed a larger version of its Snowball storage server for shipping data from companies’ data centers to the AWS public cloud. When AWS first introduced Snowball in October, it had a 50TB capac … | Continue reading
We are a nation of pill takers.Roughly half of all Americans have taken at least one prescription drug in the last 30 days (21.8% have taken three or more), and almost three-quarters of all doctor visits result in a prescription, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Mana … | Continue reading
Filmic Pro — probably the best videography app available for iOS — has been updated with a bunch of cool new features and support for the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. First, Filmic’s Apple Watch app now shows a live preview of what’s being filmed. Ahead of this update, the Apple W … | Continue reading
The Australian government confirmed today that two items of debris recovered on a beach in Mozambique are from Malaysian Airlines 370, the airplane that mysteriously disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board. It is only the second time that a piece from the missing aircr … | Continue reading
Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has … | Continue reading
First Global Credit is the world’s first Finance Company offering profit opportunities in mainstream markets for digital currency holders. The Company aims to become a market leader in the Bitcoin Capital Market by providing services that accept bitcoin as a valuable asset which … | Continue reading
Google is the undisputed king of search engines. It is imperative that a website is not only well designed, but Google friendly as well. Having a Google friendly site will ensure that your target audience can easily locate you on the World Wide Web. Here are some franchise websit … | Continue reading
This isn’t the lowest that we’ve seen this the Amazon Echo go, but it’s damn close. | Continue reading
Viber announced today that it’s rolling out end-to-end encryption on all platforms — Mac, PC, iOS and Android. Once you download the newest update, Version 6.0, each voice and video call, text message, video and photo share in both private or group chat will be encrypted. Accordi … | Continue reading
On-demand delivery startup Postmates is launching Pop, its 15-minutes-or-less food delivery service, in New York City tomorrow at 11am ET. With Pop, which launched in San Francisco back in October, Postmates features a daily curated list of lunch items that you can receive in 15 … | Continue reading
Happy winter, everyone! Last year, more or less on a whim, I decided to get some fellow Verge-ers to participate in an extremely unofficial Game of Thrones fantasy league. My reasoning was simple: Game of Thrones is a show I like to watch for the numbers — how many kills, how man … | Continue reading
Imagine if your social media accounts got no response from eggheads, haters, Gamergaters, "actually"-ers, garden variety trolls, or boys. Imagine if the only people who commented on your life were your mom and her most true-hearted, liberal-minded friends.Okay, now imagine you p … | Continue reading
Put me precisely in the middle of the following Venn diagram of people: 1) those who want to listen to the radio in the bathroom, 2) those who can't figure out a good way to do that without putting a ugly speaker in the bathroom, and 3) those who are willing to have a magnified v … | Continue reading
A group of Chinese investors has reportedly been defrauded after being pitched on a cryptocurrency launched in 2014 by a local UK government body. | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next major expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, is due on 27th April in Europe and Asia for PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices, Blizzard has announced.Those in the Americas will receive it a day earlier on 26th April.Whispers of the Old Gods introduces 134 new cards a … | Continue reading
Longtime fans of Danish writer-director Susanne Bier probably associate her with the stringent, realism-focused Dogme 95 movement, or a series of intimate, tragic family dramas like Things We Lost In The Fire and In A Better World. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see her helming t … | Continue reading
HBO and Discovery Communications announced today that they are partnering with 3D-graphics startup OTOY — both companies taking equity stakes. The partnership marks an effort by the two networks to evolve entertainment experiences beyond two dimensional television. Virtual realit … | Continue reading
The FBI’s legal battle with Apple over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony from law enforcement officials and technologists about the role encryption plays in criminal i … | Continue reading
With an increased focus on climate change, it’s no surprise that people are paying more attention to weather forecasts and their strange, unseasonal ways. It’s hard to figure out whether this pattern of sunshine is here to stay, or if we’re gearing for a storm next weekend. Part … | Continue reading
Agency Frukt has unveiled its music festival focused Field Work report today (20 April), which this year hones in on the 'three ages of festival activations'. | Continue reading
Facebook is exploring new ways for individual users to profit from their posts on the network, The Verge has learned. A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and takin … | Continue reading
This isn’t a rant post. But if you have worked in tech for long enough, you know this feeling — tech fatigue. At some point, everything new feels old, everything different feels dumb. If you get stuck in this circle of endless cynicism, you need to ask yourself the important ques … | Continue reading
Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center – yes, without even unlocking your phone – is now the #15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “Steve … | Continue reading
The third big expansion in Blizzard's addictive card game is just a week away. Today the company announced that "Whispers of the Old Gods" will be available for Hearthstone via in-game purchase starting on Tuesday, April 26th."Whispers of Gods" is said to have a decidedly darker … | Continue reading
Phillip the duck lost both of his feet to frostbite. His rescuer, Vicki, thought she was going to have to euthanize him until Jason Jischke, a middle school technology teacher, and his class came along and 3D-printed Phillip some new flippers.More details: http://on.mash.to/23IfD … | Continue reading
Every day we get bombarded with pitches for clever little gadgets trying to get launched with funds from Indiegogo or Kickstarter. And many (or most!) of those pitches come from tiny teams making hardware for the first time. It's amazing, really, that such small teams are able to … | Continue reading
ETSI - From Research To Standardisation - The EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation | Continue reading
LeBron James won't get into any verbal fight with Pistons coach Stan Van Gundy. | Continue reading
Blockchain technology has a lot to offer to the fintech industry. Many fintech companies have been exploring the use of bitcoin’s underlying technology in mainstream banking and financial operations. Some of the leading International banking and financial institutions have alread … | Continue reading
Date: 23/05/2016Venue: Tel Aviv, IsraelMore informationOn 23 May 2016, the EU Delegation, together with ISERD - the Israel-Europe R&D Directorate, will be holding a workshop devoted to EU water and energy initiatives in the region. The workshop will take place within the Israeli … | Continue reading
Well, that was fast, Telltale. We've barely caught our breath after the second episode of The Walking Dead: Michonne [$4.99], and Telltale has already announced that the last episode of the miniseries, What We Deserve, will hit the App Store April 26th. In the upcoming finale, th … | Continue reading
If there's one thing that never gets old, it's learning the secrets behind the visual effects and sound design of movies, and yesterday at the annual NAB trade show I had the pleasure of moderating a panel about the making of Star Wars: The Force Awakens. In front of a crowd that … | Continue reading
This is The Harper Spin, a weekly column from seasoned auto critic Jason H. Harper. He’s raced at Le Mans, crushed a car in a 50-ton tank, and now, he’s bringing his unique style to The Verge.Summer nears, and it’s time to travel. The world’s nooks and crannies call, beckoning me … | Continue reading
Date: 19/05/2016Venue: BrusselsMore informationFUSIONS is the European FP7 project committed to contribute to halving per capita food waste at the retail and consumer level, and reducing food waste along production and supply chains, a target that was adopted by the international … | Continue reading
Strategic Cyber Ventures poured $5 million into TrapX Security‘s latest funding round, bringing the startup’s series B capital to $14 million. TrapX makes software that automates the detection, isolation, and investigation of malware attacks on enterprise systems. The startup, wh … | Continue reading
Moody noir adventure game Blues and Bullets will bring its first episode to PS4 on 20th April.It previously launched on PC, Mac, Linux and Xbox One last summer. The second episode just recently came to Steam last month.Set in the fictitious city Santa Esperanza in the 1920s, Blue … | Continue reading
Date: 07/06/2016Venue: Amsterdam More informationThe Conference will share the SILVER experience with Pre-Commercial Procurement as an innovative tool for bringing new care technologies to the market. Participants will have an op … | Continue reading
The upcoming PS4 "Neo" is a huge revamp of the console and a significant jump over the previous iteration -- but Sony's taking steps to ensure that its market isn't separated into "haves" and have-nots" by mandating game compatibility across the entire ecosystem. | Continue reading
Date: From 09/05/2016 to 12/05/2016Venue: Prague (CZ) More informationThe coordination action EXDCI - European eXtreme Data and Computing Initiative - will host the first edition of European HPC Summit. The event's programme incl … | Continue reading
Although Netflix has had a long-standing policy of streaming-only, the CEO of the company appears interested in the possibility of letting users download content. | Continue reading
Date: From 02/06/2016 to 03/06/2016Emerging Technology: Revolutionising Computing!Computational hardware is changing rapidly. Two decades ago, all we needed to know was the speed of upcoming hardware, not its form or the state of its software frameworks. This is no longer true wi … | Continue reading
Airbnb has redesigned its mobile apps around a new campaign geared to help improve traveling abroad, specifically by condemning how big tourist crowds have ruined popular destinations. CEO Brian Chesky, speaking at the company's San Francisco headquarters, said the initiative, ca … | Continue reading
Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced an interesting update to its Device Farm service, which allows users to test their applications on real mobile devices. Rather than just deploying an app and seeing what happens on a plethora of available dev … | Continue reading
Bots. Bots. Bots? Bots.Now you can bot with Microsoft's Bots over Skype even if you use Skype on a Mac. You can bot with famous Bots like "Murphy" and "Bing" and "Getty Images," so you're sure to have a great bot time. Bots are also now available on Skype's web client, if you're … | Continue reading