Did you know that Michael Bay is making another Transformers? Number five in the series is being prepped right now. This fact can be a little confusing if you are under the misapprehension that critical feedback, from critics and public alike, are the main influencers when it com … | Continue reading
Legal marijuana has been having banner year after banner year since various states have legalized the sale and consumption of the plant and its derivatives starting back in 2012 within Colorado and Washington. It should be noted that the process of marijuana’s status as a demoniz … | Continue reading
The Apple vs. FBI controversy going on right now is quite a techno-political drama. At the core of it is a topic that isn’t so simple — encryption — and it’s all unfolding very rapidly, from so many corners of the Internet. Some people have come up with a snarky shorthand for the … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
So, you’ve established yourself as a local business. But what next? Are you optimizing your business locally? | Continue reading
Apple's big fight with the Federal Bureau of Investigation could have been avoided if one government employee had kept his hands off the phoneAccording to a senior Apple executive, the company has been working with the federal government since early January to try to provide a wa … | Continue reading
We kick off the show this week talking about my recent foray into police work, which is somehow vaguely relevant to discussing the recent drama surrounding Apple taking a stand on iPhone encryption. Since this is an iOS games podcast and all, we talk about the big releases of the … | Continue reading
Hey guys, we don't publish too many of these Patreon posts as I try to not be obnoxious about fundraising, but the very important fact remains: To survive, we very much need your support. The business of running a web site is tricky, and as we pointed out in our original cry for … | Continue reading
The idea behind the TouchArcade Game of the Week is that every Friday afternoon we post the one game that came out this week that we think is worth giving a special nod to. Now, before anyone goes over-thinking this, it doesn't necessarily mean our Game of the Week pick is the hi … | Continue reading
The beauty of content management systems (CMS) like WordPress, Wix, Weebly and others is in the ability to create and build a complete website using just your browser. Designers are given the flexibility to make changes to their websites using simple browser-based tools, which me … | Continue reading
Jimmer Fredette is about to get another shot in the NBA. | Continue reading
Google is working on a feature that would recommend articles directly in its browser. The suggestions would appear on the new tab page in Chrome for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, and iOS. Google confirmed it is still testing the feature. “We’re always experimenting with new featu … | Continue reading
You may have heard of a game called Byte Rider [Free] which quietly released back in December and is an extremely stylish behind-the-back runner type game that takes place in a dystopian cyber future. It didn't reinvent the wheel of runners or anything, but was quite memorable fo … | Continue reading
In an interview with reporters today, a senior Apple executive made the case that, should the company comply with United States government demands to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, other governments will soon follow suit.Apple's slippery slope a … | Continue reading
Let’s state the obvious: There are no high quality players being cut loose by teams. They all have flaws. If they were still in their prime or at least playing at a relatively high level, they’d still be with their teams. But the buyout season is all about finding the right fit, … | Continue reading
In a call with reporters today, Apple executives spoke in response to a motion the Justice Department filed today to force Apple to comply with a request from the FBI to provide access to the iPhone of Syed Farook taken as evidence in the case of the San Bernardino terrorist kill … | Continue reading
You know something’s not right when your new Freedom 251 has a blob of Wite-Out cleverly concealing the name of the device’s actual manufacturer. | Continue reading
In 2008, Barack Obama redrafted the electioneering script, becoming the first presidential candidate to use social media as a political channel. His opponents’ failure to grasp the significance of social media proved as catastrophic as Richard Nixon’s dismissive attitude to telev … | Continue reading
After the Department of Justice today issued a motion to compel Apple to comply with its request to build software that could prove integral in unlocking the San Bernadino shooter’s iPhone, Apple has responded with a statement. Within the statement Apple deemed it unnecessary to … | Continue reading
County officials changed the Apple ID password in the crucial days after the attack, senior Apple executives said today on a call with reporters. Had the Apple ID not changed, executives said, the data on the phone could potentially have been retrieved through the iPhone's auto-b … | Continue reading
Burberry is partnering with Apple TV to live stream its first consumer-facing, immediately shoppable runway collection. Apple TV viewers will be able to watch the show live from London’s Kensington Gardens at 1pm UK time/8am EST on Monday, February 22nd.Since this is a cinematic … | Continue reading
Ahead of Mobile World Congress, Samsung has announced that its mobile payment service Samsung Pay has been used by more than 5 million “registered users”, with many of them coming from South Korea and the United States. In the first six months since its release, the service has p … | Continue reading
Tesla now has a domain name that makes sense. If you wanted to check out Tesla’s auto lineup, you had to navigate your browser to teslamotors.com. It made sense, but only if you knew about the domain — or your favorite search engine knew you were looking for cars, not info about … | Continue reading
Salesforce has made another acquisition to build out its technology in machine learning and big data analytics: the company has acquired PredictionIO, a startup based out of Palo Alto that had developed an open source-based machine learning server. Salesforce plans to use some of … | Continue reading
Microsoft released a new Windows 10 Mobile preview today to match the Windows 10 Mobile release yesterday. The latest build includes improvements to Cortana’s music feature and the Edge browser. Officially, Microsoft plans to roll out Windows 10 Mobile to existing Windows Phone u … | Continue reading
Salesforce has acquired PredictionIO, a startup with general-purpose open-source machine learning software, Simon Chan, the startup’s cofounder and chief executive, announced today. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. “Over the past few years, we’ve been on a mission to scale an … | Continue reading
Alice, from a new animated short titled The Last Job on Earth, is not like the rest of the us. Of course, she has a robot cat and receives a health examination and medicine from a machine, but what sets her apart from everyone else is her job — she has one. The Last Job on Earth … | Continue reading
A leak on Twitter has given us what may be our best look so far at the front and back of the LG G5 outside of a case. | Continue reading
Don’t ever say we aren’t flexible. You needed a few extra days to commit to clicking the buy button on tickets to Disrupt NY 2016, and we’re happy to give that to you.We’re extending the deadline on our extra early-bird tickets to next Wednesday, February 24, so you have a few ex … | Continue reading
Since 1992, the domain Tesla.com has been owned by an engineer and Nikolai Tesla fan named Stu Grossman, to the chagrin of Tesla Motors, which was forced to settle for Teslamotors.com as the broader domain sat mostly unused. But no longer: the company has obtained Tesla.com, whic … | Continue reading
Developer John Kooistra and his studio Cat in a Box Games go way, way back to the earliest days of the App Store. His debut title Blue Defense! [$0.99] reminds me of how fun those early days were, when quirky new experiences were dropping all the time taking advantage of the nove … | Continue reading
Constant Contact announced today that it will be shutting down NutshellMail, the social media inbox service it acquired nearly six years ago. The company decided that now was the time because it wanted to “move on to other projects.” NutshellMail will no longer be operational aft … | Continue reading
So earlier this week we profiled a company called NeverWare that's modified Chromium OS into an easy-to-install package called CloudReady that can dualboot on tons of old laptops. And because old laptop hardware is often faster and more powerful than modern Chromebooks, that mean … | Continue reading
CoinDesk profiles Bloq, a new startup by bitcoin developer Jeff Garzik and long-time industry investor Matt Roszak. | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this week’s musical news was dominated by two giant, controversial institutions: Kanye West and the Grammys. The Life of Pablo tumbled onto the internet early Sunday morning, finding a temp … | Continue reading
I'm not personally an SUV driver, but a lot of people around the world are, which is why luxury and sports brands have been clamoring to put out a big soft-roader in recent years: the Porsche Cayenne, the Bentley Bentayga, the upcoming Rolls-Royce truck, the list goes on.And now … | Continue reading
It's undeniable that Maseratis are some of the most beautiful cars on the road, from the two-door GranTourismo to the Quattroporte long-body sedan. Now there's a new great Italian beauty in the family. It's called the Levante. As you can see from the images, it's an SUV.See also: … | Continue reading
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo rocket plane today. This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public since their deadly crash during a test flight with the previous version.In a tweet, Virgin Galactic specified that the new vessel … | Continue reading
Do you remember the very first time you were utterly disappointed? Like, disappointed to the point that the let-down you felt was tangible. You can still feel the frustration as the weight of your … | Continue reading
Lets say you’ve got kids. They like Messenger for talking with other kids about Minecraft or bubble gum or whatever kids talk about these days.You’re happy to let them use Messenger in the evenings, but they’re not quite old enough for a phone of their own just yet. What to do?Fa … | Continue reading
Microservices - An Architectural Pattern Anthony Bouch Sat, 02/20/2016 - 06:09 Microservices - An Architectural Pattern Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video In the mid 2000s it was all about 'Services Oriented Architecture'. The hype machine … | Continue reading
Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, republican presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that it’s time for all of us to boycott Apple. “I think what you ought to do is boycott Apple until such time as they give that security number. How do you like that? I just th … | Continue reading
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is stepping up his criticism of Apple over its fight with the FBI. As you can see in the footage below (reportedly shot at a campaign event in Pawleys Island, South Carolina), Trump was discussing the need to bring overseas jobs back to the Uni … | Continue reading
Where Dawn of Gods has an edge over other raid-based strategies is the sheer diversity of the units. | Continue reading
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A few days ago, the rumor mill pointed out that Facebook Messenger would soon support SMS and multiple accounts for Android. Half of that came true today. Via an update, Facebook Messenger will now support multiple accounts, which the company is framing as a feature for families … | Continue reading
In what's shaping up to be a new annual tradition, Lucasfilm has announced the 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, kicking off this year's competition with an introduction by J.J. Abrams. The pitch is simple: make a short film based on the characters and stories of the Star Wars univ … | Continue reading