The system responsible for the first moon landing is now readily available online, after an enterprising former NASA intern uploaded the Apollo Guidance Computer code to Github this week.Although the code for the MIT-designed system has long been available to interested researche … | Continue reading
Most people are well aware of how the Argentine Peso is not having the best time of its long life so far. The currency is plagued by inflation, and holding Pesos is not the best course of action right now. But the British Pound is having an even worse time since the Brexit. In fa … | Continue reading
HANG TIME, N.J. — Another surprise in free agency: The Houston Rockets announced Saturday afternoon that they’ve agreed to a four-year contract extension with James Harden, keeping the star under contract for at least three more seasons. ANNOUNCEMENT pic.twitter.com/jTSatebUku — … | Continue reading
With Snapchat pushing out its biggest update yet and Pokemon Go finally hitting the App Store, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and updated apps. This week's list includes a game that tests your multi-taskin … | Continue reading
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) — more commonly referred to as drones — are on the cusp of a major commercial trial that has the power to save thousands of lives. This pilot [program isn’t taking place in the Bay Area or Boise or Boston. Instead, it will take place 7,200 miles aw … | Continue reading
Watching assorted junk hardware play music has been a weirdly popular, weirdly good internet phenomenon for some time now — on the order of, say, videos of the red hot ball of nickel being placed on things.The latest entry in the genre: John Williams' Star Wars theme, played by m … | Continue reading
Built on the fringe of the village of Vollèges, Wallis, Switzerland, VS house benefits an amazing view on the valley of Entremont. | Continue reading
Solitude Creek House is a single-family house designed by Washington based architectural company Robert M. Gurney. | Continue reading
Hazel River Cabin is a weekend retreat rebuilt and modernized by Bonstra Haresign Architects in Rappahannock County, Virginia, US. | Continue reading
GUEST: Russia began enforcing a law last year requiring data relating to Russians to be stored on servers that physically sit in Russia. Now, word has leaked of a new law (currently in draft form) that would attempt to further restrict Internet traffic along geographic borders. T … | Continue reading
ZeroLemon is preparing to release a battery case for the Nexus 6P that it says will nearly triple the battery life of your phone. The Nexus 6P Battery Case (why even bother with a ridiculous name) comes with an 8,500 mAh battery that ZeroLemon says will provide an extra 190 perce … | Continue reading
The deleted tweet archive PostGhost is shutting down after receiving a notice from Twitter, the site announced. Continue reading… | Continue reading
It’s Halvening!!! Bitcoin just experienced a major milestone in its short little lifespan. The reward for mining a block (a block = a ledger of transaction data) was just cut in half from 25 bitcoins to 12.5 bitcoins. This means that assuming a price of $650 per coin, going forwa … | Continue reading
You need to understand the costs of content marketing to budget wisely. This post examines how to budget for your six most important needs. | Continue reading
But before we go sagely nodding about the coming Augmented Reality revolution the Poképoaclypse foretells, maybe it’s best to take a step back and examine the components of Pokémon Go’s success, and its potential pitfalls. 1. Pokémon The franchise upon which Pokémon Go is based i … | Continue reading
Imagine a future where a plane lands at an airfield that doubles as a rail yard. The cabin — one of three that cling to the underbelly of the aircraft like a baby possum to its mother — detaches, is seamlessly transferred to a nearby train, and then continues its journey toward t … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: VentureBeat’s international botathon got underway this morning with more than 200 teams competing in a hackathon for chatbots. Believed to be the first of its kind, the competition is taking place in San Francisco, New York, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and via online participa … | Continue reading
You may not have heard of Habitat. The video game, released in 1986, never made a huge splash, although the studio behind it — Lucasfilm Games, later known as LucasArts — would go on to create some classics. But it's a forgotten piece of history: years before massively multiplay … | Continue reading
Jack got hacked. But not just any Jack, Jack Dorsey, the co-founder and current CEO of Twitter. SEE ALSO: Hacker takes over Twitter account of Oculus CEO, has a good laughDorsey had his Twitter account briefly compromised by hackers early Saturday morning. At around 2:50 a.m., ac … | Continue reading
Consumer Reports, eine Art amerikanische Variante von Stiftung Warentest, hat getestet, ob das Galaxy S7 Active so wasserfest ist wie von Samsung versprochen. Dazu haben die Tester ein Gerät für eine halbe Stunde in einen Wassertank gelegt,... | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and it’s always tough to write this column — to write about music at all, even — when the world is being rocked by larger concerns. It feels a little frivolous, you know? When I start to feel d … | Continue reading
After selling out in a matter of hours on its first day of sale on July 6, the ZTE Nubia Z11 will be back in stock on July 13. | Continue reading
Last night, after this week's deadly shootings made national news, Uber changed its app to have riders "reflect on gun violence" while using the service.BuzzFeed first noted the changes as social media users began circulating messages from Uber early today. The company reportedly … | Continue reading
Nächste Woche erscheint mit "Cunning Stunts" ein Update für GTA Online. Rennen gab es dort schon immer, aber jetzt "brettern Fahrzeuge kopfüber durch Loopings und Röhren, schießen dank Beschleunigungsstreifen mit Extra-Schub... | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: On March 3, 1991, after a drunken high-speed chase, Rodney King was pulled over by the Los Angeles Police Department and savagely beaten. The arresting police officers tasered King twice and clubbed the African-American man countless times with their batons, employing a … | Continue reading
If you think Google has a controversial reputation at this point in its business evolution, buckle up because things are really stepping up a gear — as its machine learning DeepMind division pushes for access to publicly funded healthcare data. Read More | Continue reading
Many things have sought to capture your undivided attention, but that might be the ghost of a goal in today’s reality. We’re less attentive than goldfish; even our best and brightest can’t focus; and we’re more likely than ever to be paying less than full attention in even circum … | Continue reading
Lanh took the Xperia X Performance for a spin. A solid phone overall, but we have questions about its price. Meanwhile, the two other phones we looked at this week impress through their affordability: the Meizu M3 Note and the BLU Energy XL. | Continue reading
Are you an adventurous event-goer? Airbnb wants you. Room-sharing represents the ultimate way for event-goers to personalize bu... | Continue reading
The recent news of the first-known fatality involving Tesla's semi-autonomous Autopilot system is undeniably tragic. However, it also highlights one distinct difference between the upstart carmaker and the rest of the established automotive industry: Tesla is beta testing the tec … | Continue reading
PostGhost was a nascent website that archived the tweets of the famous, rich, and important. The site got popular for finding and storing the deleted Tweets of politicians and even Lindsay Lohan who plead with the English PM to #remain. “We created the website postghost.com to pr … | Continue reading
Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack’s user researcher, but her views here do not represent her employer. You can write to her at askle … | Continue reading
In light of recent events involving live video on Facebook, the social network has clarified its stance on graphic or violent video in a new policy document. | Continue reading
If you’re in a startup or even plan to sue one, Chaos Monkeys is the book to read. Antonio Garcia Martinez is a former physics major turned Wall Street quant turned startupper and he’s an amazing writer, able to encapsulate in a few words an era of greed, avarice, and ridiculous … | Continue reading
GUEST: Within the venture capital industry, we all have different styles when we talk to entrepreneurs. Even within the same team: I tend to ask lots of detailed questions on the business and the product, for example, whereas other VCs on our team focus on the personal history of … | Continue reading
Schon wieder wurde ein Promi-Account auf Twitter gehackt. Diesmal traf es den Twitter-Chef Jack Dorsey höchstpersönlich: Die Gruppe OurMine, die auch hinter den Hacks der Accounts von Zuckerberg und Sundar Pichai (via Quora) steckte, postete... | Continue reading
The Senate this week voted to approve a bill that would require foods with genetically modified ingredients to have those ingredients labeled, Reuters reports. It will now head to the House of Representatives, where it's expected to pass as well. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Over the past 10 years I’ve been on the first cap tables of three startups for which I’ve been responsible for closing their capital-raising efforts. I’ve raised money from the smallest angel investor to the biggest European VC funds and some of the world’s largest corporate inve … | Continue reading
Web Sites - Shockingly, some companies still don't have a website. Here's a look at why those companies have avoided creating one and why those excuses don't make sense in our connected world. | Continue reading
Battery packs are incredibly useful for keeping your gadgets charged when they're running low on juice.But what about your laptop? MacBook users can pick up the HyperJuice, but it requires a little bit of modding to make it compatible with the MagSafe charger and not everyone is … | Continue reading
Maybe we shouldn't allow everyone to have access to technology. Most people like to think they have a pretty good grasp on all things tech. But just because you can turn a device on and navigate to your email doesn't mean you're IT professionals.SEE ALSO: 25 people who will never … | Continue reading
Tired of using Chatroulette? There are plenty of great video chat internet sites like it available. Use these chat web sites to meet random new individuals, talk with close friends (or make new ones), or find individuals with comparable interests.I have been to SGV & Co’s (then w … | Continue reading
NEWS OF THE MORNING Bird uses trade market to rebuild Pacers | Familiarity a key for Parsons’ move to Memphis | Knicks “activate” to get ‘Melo back to the playoffs | Ezeli’s journey leads him to Portland No. 1: Bird uses trade market to rebuild Pacers — While other teams have mad … | Continue reading
The bitcoin block reward is set to fall from 25 bitcoins to 12.5 bitcoins in just a few hours. The event, which happens roughly every four years, represents a major shift in the mining landscape, and speculation has swirled about what impact the reward drop will have on the bitco … | Continue reading
From tech startups to personal entrepreneurial endeavors, your business plans are reliant on a strong foundation of skills necessary for any company to thrive. The four courses included in the Business Core Skills Bundle will equip you with the knowledge and foundations in financ … | Continue reading
The wait for the iPhone 7 is killing me. My bruised, worn and cracked iPhone 6 is barely hanging on and I'm not dumb enough to buy a new iPhone when I know the next model is right around the corner.There have been many, many iPhone 7 rumors. The idealist me wants to be believe th … | Continue reading
One of the better alternatives to the official Facebook app is Swipe for Facebook. This weekend the Pro version is available for 50% off in Google Play. | Continue reading
You might have seen a video we uploaded earlier this week, in which we demonstrated how to create your very own rudimentary catapult in Breath of the Wild. All you need is a treasure chest, a metallic plank and a boulder, and you too can fling Link into the air and watch as he so … | Continue reading