Periscope's executives may tell you they're not feeling the pressure of endless waves of fresh Facebook Live broadcasts from brands, media companies, celebrities and everyday folks. But their actions tell a different story.On Monday, the Twitter-owned live-streaming platform hire … | Continue reading
Moz's new Keyword Explorer tool offers easily understandable metrics that make keyword planning more accessible. This new marketing asset could potentially change the way marketers approach keyword strategies. | Continue reading
Which smartphone rules all? Here's the results of the shootout featuring the Galaxy S7, Huawei P9, LG G5, HTC 10, Nexus 6P, iPhone 6S Plus and Lumia 950 XL. | Continue reading
The mobile platform in an incredibly unique one. Our little devices are powerful enough nowadays to run games that are pretty comparable to full-blown games on PC and consoles, and there's certainly an audience that craves those meaty game experiences on the go. However, there's … | Continue reading
Stephen Curry has won the Magic Johnson Award, given by the Professional Basketball Writers Association to an NBA player who combines excellence on the court with cooperation with the public and media. | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the establishment of docs.microsoft.com, a new website to house documentation for its services. The site features several improvements on Microsoft’s existing properties for hosting documentation, including MSDN and TechNet. “Both sites are built on a 10 … | Continue reading
Adobe today announced that it plans to acquire Livefyre, the service that’s probably best known for its online commenting system. On top of this service, the company also offers a number of tools for brands to engage with their audiences as well, which is likely what Adobe was mo … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, a 10-year-old — who is not even old enough to sign up on Facebook — impressed Mark Zuckerberg by hacking Instagram, the photo-sharing application owned by Facebook. The Helsinki-based boy genius, called Jani, received $10,000 from Facebook for identifying a sec … | Continue reading
Here's the problem with the Apple Watch: it's slow.It was slow when it was first announced, it was slow when it came out, and it stayed slow when Watch OS 2.0 arrived. When I reviewed it last year, the slowness was so immediately annoying that I got on the phone with Apple to dou … | 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.We like gadgets, add-ons that make life easier, happier, and better. But carmakers might … | Continue reading
Bowers & Wilkins, an audio gear brand that has been familiar to millions for decades, is being bought out by EVA Automation, a two-year-old company that has never released a product. Yet the old company’s name and CEO will remain. You’re not going to hear about a weirder deal tod … | Continue reading
The iPhone 7 will not have a headphone jack. It will have a headphone jack. It won't have a headphone jack.The rumor mill just can't decide if Apple will kill the headphone jack on its next iPhone or not.SEE ALSO: These Chinese phones beat Apple to removing the headphone jackFor … | Continue reading
Every time I write about Sentinels of the Multiverse [$9.99 (HD)], the digital version of the hit co-op card game, I get at least one person wishing the game shrinks down to phone size because ever since release, the game has only been playable on the iPad. Well, Handelabra Studi … | Continue reading
If you stand between people and a Call of Duty reveal, you’ll suddenly become very popular (even if you’re a bot). To promote the reveal of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, publisher Activision teamed up with Facebook to direct players to a chat bot on Facebook’s Messenger that pl … | Continue reading
The local transit app Moovit announced today that it will soon be integrated with the ride-sharing app Uber in 131 cities in 22 countries. This is kind of the chocolate and peanut butter of urban travel. Moovit uses official transit data plus crowdsourced data to give riders the … | Continue reading
A Brazilian judge has overturned the country's blackout of the WhatsApp texting service, restoring service to over 100 million people in the country. The reversal comes just one day into the mandated blackout period, which was initially scheduled to last for 72 hours. The blackou … | Continue reading
Sony's PS-HX500 turntable, which was a standout at CES back in January, is about to launch at retail. Today the company announced that it's taking orders for the $599.99 turntable, and the device will be hitting stores on May 22nd. If all you're looking to do is relax, lean back, … | Continue reading
Prete is a new blowout startup launching today in San Francisco and Los Angeles that wants to hook you up with unlimited hair styling. No cuts, color or anything else, just as many blowouts as you want for $129 a month. Some of you may recall a story I wrote about a similar blowo … | Continue reading
A 10-year-old found a bug in Instagram that let him delete any comment. He reported his discovery to Facebook, and got paid $10,000, according to Finnish newspaper Iltalehti. We contacted Facebook, and a spokesperson confirmed the notable accomplishment. Jani, a Finnish boy from … | Continue reading
Since many Indian mobile users don't have debit or credit cards, Idea Cellular is partnering with the Google Play Store to put transactions on your bill. | Continue reading
Twitter is trying to fix its discovery problem — again.The company is adding a new section to its iOS and Android app that will provide users with personalized recommendations for accounts they should follow.SEE ALSO: Twitter is now a 'news' app in the Apple storeThe update appea … | Continue reading
Google today announced that you can now visit any Blogspot domain — like, say, libraryh3lp.blogspot.com, for example — using HTTPS. And when you do that, your connection will be secure and encrypted. You’ll just need to change the beginning of the URL from “http://” to “https://” … | Continue reading
Google today made HTTPS connections the default for all of the sites on its Blogspot domain. Google first enabled HTTPS for Blogspot last September, but at the time, it was an opt-in feature. Starting today, encrypted connections are enabled by default. It’s worth noting that thi … | Continue reading
Spotify is making a small but meaningful design change on iOS today: it's removing the hamburger button and replacing it with a navigation bar along the bottom of the screen. This better matches the rest of iOS, and — more importantly — does a better job of putting commonly used … | Continue reading
Spotify is one of the more popular music streaming apps, but it’s not necessarily the most beautifully designed (that was long-lost Rdio, unfortunately). Navigating through the various sections of its app took a lot of tapping, and often wasn’t very intuitive. Today, Spotify is a … | Continue reading
Kim Kardashian created Kimoji. Giphy just launched a GIF keyboard. Starbucks has its own branded emoji. Bitmoji personalized emoji and was acquired by Snapchat. Soon, every company, celebrity, and perhaps regular human, will get their own custom keyboards. Do emoji degrade our la … | Continue reading
Apple and Xintong Tiandi, a Chinese company that makes leather goods, have been fighting in Chinese courts since 2012 over the latter’s use of a brand name Apple feels it owns: ‘iPhone.’ While it seems like a no-brainer to allow Apple sole exclusive rights to a product that it ma … | Continue reading
Ellen Pao, a former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, today announced the launch of Project Include, an advocacy group aimed at improving diversity in the technology industry. The group was started by Pao and fellow female engineers and executives, including members of Slack, Pi … | Continue reading
FEATURE: For most college students, the summer months offer a brief escape from endless lectures and exams. But for a small group of young game developers at the University of Southern California, the summer of 2015 was anything but a vacation. The Princeton Review consistently r … | Continue reading
Leaders from IBM, Microsoft, Blockstream and Cognizant discuss how technology companies can best reimagine their products by building with blockchain. | Continue reading
I've played so many runners in the past 10 years or so I've lost count. Much like my teenage years after I realized that I had played hundreds of platformers in my lifetime, over time, I started to notice that you can't really browse the App Store without seeing a runner front an … | Continue reading
It’s time to celebrate the Seven Years War. No, not that one. Plants vs. Zombies, a tower defense game where players use viscous flora to stop waves of the walking dead, turns 7 years old on May 5. It spawned a franchise that has expanded to multiple platforms, including PlayStat … | Continue reading
Craig Wright began the week trying to convince the world that he was Bitcoin’s creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Scrutiny of his claims and evidence duly followed before skepticism took over with programmers and members of the bitcoin core development team poking holes … | Continue reading
Nextbit announced that its Robin smartphone will be available for $299 through Amazon from May 4th through May 10th. That's $100 lower than the current price available from Nextbit's online store and matches the price that early Kickstarter backers were able to get the device for … | Continue reading
DISH is getting into the smartphone repair game with a new on-demand service called — wait for it — Smart Phone Repair. Rather than send your phone in, or take it to a repair shop, DISH will send a technician to you, wherever you are. “Fixing your phone shouldn’t mean losing your … | Continue reading
Real Time Analytics is being considered a quantum leap in the realm of data analytics. But, what exactly is Real Time Analytics? | Continue reading
With a more powerful battery (same size) packaging, BMW's i3 jumps from 81 to 114 miles on electricity. When it ships, BMW will be facing Chevrolet, Nissan and Tesla EVs with 200-mile ranges. | Continue reading
Instagram’s carousel ads have been a staple of the platform for a while, but now they’re getting a new feature: video. If you’re not familiar, carousel ads are basically slideshows you can swipe through to view multiple images from a brand in the space of a single ad. Now brands … | Continue reading
NEW YORK – It was the biggest night of fashion, what some might call the Oscars of style: The Met Gala, an annual event raising funds for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. This year's theme seemed to have it all. Manus X Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology feted the str … | Continue reading
Livefyre has been acquired by Adobe, according to a tweet from Livefyre’s chief operating officer David Rodriguez. A social media content platform, Livefyre enables brands to search Twitter, Instagram, and other networks for content talking about them, their products, or competit … | Continue reading
Disrupt NY is right around the corner. The event starts on May 9th and we’re delighted to reveal the agenda. The lineup is stellar and for the first time, we will be hosting Disrupt NY in Red Hook, Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal. We say this every year, but this is set … | Continue reading
Google's prototypes of driverless cars don't have steering wheels. Simply put, they don't need them. That's because the driving system is the driver, not the human occupant.SEE ALSO: Beverly Hills plans to use autonomous vehicles for public transportationArguably, steering wheel- … | Continue reading
Twitter is rolling out a new feature called Connect, which overhauls the 'find friends' tab and provides better recommendations on who to follow. | Continue reading
Some wealthy car enthusiasts have taken a Lamborghini Gallardo and used a lot of carbon fiber and engineering talent to turn it into a stealthy, Batmobile-esque hypercar / fighter jet on wheels. Now they're going to take it from Dublin to Bucharest on the 2016 edition of the Gumb … | Continue reading
Am Sonntag ist bekanntlich Muttertag und Apple hat zu diesem Anlass einen Werbespot gedreht, in dem sie das machen, was sie am besten können: auf volle Emotionen gehen, in diesem Falle sogar ein bisschen auf die Tränendrüse drüc... | Continue reading
A long-drawn-out battle has been ensuing between tech giant Apple and a Chinese company you probably haven't heard of — and it's not looking good for Silicon Valley's star child. Apple recently lost a trademark suit against Beijing's Xintong Tiandi Technology, which has been sell … | Continue reading
While many of his fans were listening to his new album Views for the first time, Drake was conducting an extensive interview with Apple Music's Zane Lowe live on Beats 1. If you were too busy digesting the 6 God's new music to pay attention to the interview, you're in luck: Beats … | Continue reading
The era of live-blogging is upon us as Facebook has joined the live streaming with Facebook Live. In this guide we will go over everything you need to know. | Continue reading