Picking one horse to win a race is hard enough, but four horses and their exact placements in the grand Kentucky Derby? It's practically impossible.But that's exactly what just happened thanks to a crowdsourced intelligence called Swarm Intelligence. The bet is called the superfe … | Continue reading
Apple Music was officially released last June, after a splashy introduction at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC). The service, which Apple says now boasts 13 million paying subscribers, competes directly with Spotify (the biggest player in the streaming music), Googl … | Continue reading
Despite the growing number of crypo wallets and transactions, Bitcoin remains a niche product. To become a popular means of payment, it must be accepted by large trading networks and payment systems. Widespread use of Bitcoins depends on the ability of people to pay their bills a … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price confidently pushed into the resistance zone below $470 yesterday, only to fall short and sell-off, today. Today’s analysis identifies potential technical support in the chart. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. … | Continue reading
A Utah-based maker of electric vehicles by the name of Nikola Motor Company (can't call it "Nikola Tesla Motor Company" for obvious reasons) just announced its first two products today. First is a utilitarian four-wheeler called the Nikola Zero with a claimed range of 125 miles; … | Continue reading
Last week’s App Store issues caused headaches for users who, for several hours during the morning on May 5th, were unable to surface apps using keyword searches. This affected top apps like Uber, Spotify, Google, YouTube, Tumblr and many others, as well as apps from smaller devel … | Continue reading
Over the weekend, we adopted a six month old Bernese Mountain Dog puppy. He's a bundle of pure joy, but my first observation as a new puppy mom | Continue reading
The massive world of The Witcher 3 is getting even bigger very soon. Developer CD Projekt Red announced today that the game's second major expansion, called Blood & Wine, will be launching on May 31st. (The first, called Hearts of Stone, came out last year.) And it's a big additi … | Continue reading
Clerkenwell brasserie and bar Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings is hosting a summer series exploring the world of various spirits, including tastings, with industry experts covering artisan cyder to Italian Grappa to whisky. | Continue reading
When word broke a few years ago that AMC was ordering a pilot based on Preacher, the controversial ‘90s comic from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, it was a bit of a record-scratch moment. Not because of the comic’s history as a particularly tough adaptation to crack — everyone from … | Continue reading
Stellaris, the latest massive strategy game from Paradox Interactive, has broken the publisher's record for day one revenue.Selling over 200,000 copies within its first 24 hours, Stellaris almost matched the sales record currently held by Paradox's surprise city building hit, Cit … | Continue reading
Apple's patents should never really be taken as proof of upcoming product announcements, but they're always a fun way to get your mind thinking about what could be. Take this latest one, for example: officially granted today, the patent for a "cover attachment with flexible displ … | Continue reading
The food industry is going through an interesting shift in the U.S. We’re moving away from an era of processed food and microwave meals, to one where people are increasingly concerned about the kinds of foods they’re eating, their freshness, sustainability, healthiness, and other … | Continue reading
Get ready for a lot more ads on Instagram and elsewhere that feel ever more personalised. Instagram today is turning up the volume on its ad tech play, courtesy of its owner, Facebook. Today the photo- and video-based social network is adding Dynamic Ads — a retargeting unit that … | Continue reading
Ein martialischer wie interessanter Rechner-Mod ist diese Spielzeug-Kettensäge, in die ein Raspberry Pi Zero mit Display und dem Game Doom installiert wurde. Urheber dieser sogenannten Painsaw ist George Merlocco, der bis zu diesem Mod angebli... | Continue reading
We got a good look at Noodlecake's upcoming Caterzillar back at GDC, and it seems like the easiest way to describe the game is a modern version of Soosiz [$0.99], which is A-OK with me because these kind of gravity-bending platformers always seem to break my brain in the best way … | Continue reading
Right now you can get your hands on the BLU Advance 5.0 for just $48. | Continue reading
It’s no surprise that Facebook is an advertising juggernaut, bringing in billions of dollars in revenue. To keep things interesting for brands and users, the company has been developing new marketing formats, such as its dynamic product ads, which allow advertisers to better prom … | Continue reading
Facebook announced this morning that its private photo-sharing application, Facebook Moments, is now available in all countries worldwide, thanks the launch of a new, modified version in the E.U. and Canada. While the U.S. and other international versions of the application take … | Continue reading
Moogfest is a festival about synths, but its ambitions extend beyond music. This year's festival, which takes place from May 19th to May 22nd in Durham, NC, will feature internet-themed art installations and IBM's DJ Watson, among a slew of other projects. Today, the festival has … | Continue reading
Postal Redux, the remake of 1997's infamous mass murdering game Postal, will arrive for PC via Steam on 20th May.A PS4 release is planned for Q4 while Mac and Linux players will receive it shortly after the PC release, though no exact date has been pinned down.Developed by the se … | Continue reading
This is more like it. The Witcher 3's second expansion, Blood & Wine, is a treat - as welcome a return to the adventures of monster hunter Geralt as you… | Continue reading
There won't be any new content released for The Witcher 3 after second expansion Blood and Wine, game director Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has told me.CD Projekt Red never promised anything beyond the 16 free pieces of DLC and the two expansions but this is up to date confirmation from … | Continue reading
A year ago I sat in a room with a downcast Adam Badowski, studio head of CD Projekt Red, and we talked about The Witcher 3 'graphics downgrade'. He wanted his game to visually knock people's socks off but instead it faced criticism.Something he said stuck with me. He said, and I' … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: One of the most overlooked aspects of growth is scaling for customer experience. Yet failing to do so can spell the death knoll for a company faster than anything else. Join us for this VB live event to learn strategies and processes to bake in early that will ensure you … | Continue reading
Mobile database platform Realm is launching support for Microsoft’s Xamarin platform. The new Realm was made specifically for Xamarin, too — no fussy workarounds. The Realm team also had direct insight from Xamarin on best practices for structuring APIs and taking advantage of th … | Continue reading
Your ticket to TNW Europe is so much more than a simple, all-access pass to one of the world’s favourite tech conferences: it’s also the key to free registration and 50 percent discounts for a week of incredible side events running from May 23 – 27, 2016. The goal behind Tech Wee … | Continue reading
According to mainstream women’s magazines, there are about as many types of female orgasms as there are brands of flattering workout pants. There’s the storied g-spot orgasm, the cutting edge "a-spot" ("anterior fornix") orgasm, the even more obscure "u-spot" (urethra) orgasm, th … | Continue reading
CD Projekt Red has officially announced the release date for the second, and final, Witcher 3 expansion Blood and Wine. It is 31st May, a day later than was rumoured yesterday.The release date arrives as the embargo lifts on Blood and Wine coverage. I spent a few hours with the g … | Continue reading
With about a month left until Orange is the New Black's fourth season premieres, Netflix has released its first trailer out into the wild. The big shift this season is that Litchfield is now a for-profit prison, which means 100 new inmates, stricter rules, and even more personali … | 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.One of Murphy’s Laws states that if something can be borrowed and it can be broken, you … | Continue reading
Microsoft has announced upgrades for the Universal Windows Platform, allowing for v-sync control, unlocked frame-rates and G-Sync/FreeSync support. The upgrade is due to roll out today, but there's a small sting in the tail - developers need to revisit their existing UWP games an … | Continue reading
Ghost Games has announced it's working on a new Need for Speed game that's due for release next year, while it's also winding down work on last year's reboot of EA's long-running racing franchise. In a detailed blog post on its official site, Ghost Games outlined the progress tha … | Continue reading
One of science fiction's most mind-bending authors is coming to television in a new series called Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick, announced today by Sony Pictures and the UK's Channel 4. The 10-part anthology series will focus on Dick's short stories, which also ser … | Continue reading
One of Donald Trump's presidential delegates is a familiar name in the tech world: investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Yesterday, Thiel's name appeared on a list of pledged California delegates selected by Trump, at this point the presumptive Republican presidential candi … | Continue reading
Since it launched in 2014, Reserve has often been described as a “dining concierge” — which sounds cool but also maybe a little vague. Basically, the company combines a flexible reservation system with payments. Now Reserve is ready to do more, with the launch of something called … | Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, my friend and colleague Bryan Bishop visited Las Vegas for a flashy conference called CinemaCon, where movie studios and theater owners discuss the future of the film industry — a future that isn't as predictable as it used to be.Many theater owners worry that … | Continue reading
The most important attribute in today's cutting-edge drones is the ability to see and understand the world so that the drone can safely navigate to its destination and around obstacles. Last week The Verge learned that Amazon had acquired a team of a dozen computer vision experts … | Continue reading
In a wide-ranging conversation at Disrupt today, Mike George, Amazon’s Vice President of Echo, Alexa and Appstore discussed the past and future of the company’s surprise hit home appliance. George kicked things off by explaining that he wasn’t aware of rumors that the project sta … | Continue reading
Speakers from all over the world stole the show at the Consensus 2016 blockchain conference last week. Here are 10 quotes that defined the show. | Continue reading
For decades, big budget video games were designed to look like films.Why not? Films became, in the 20th century, the most popular form of storytelling. Spread across dozens of genres and forms, films can be funny or sad, artsy or pedestrian, unabashedly childish or confidently ma … | Continue reading
Reserve thinks that the restaurant reservation process is broken and has doubled down on fixing it with the launch of Reserve for Restaurants. This table management system offers restauranteurs more control over key elements such as seating, scheduling reservations, and managing … | Continue reading
Haus Stein (Stone House) is a holiday house designed by Jan Rosler Architekten in collaboration with Sven Rickhoff. | Continue reading
The National Institute for Standards in Technology has issued a report on the need to plan for the cryptographic apocalypse. | Continue reading
LastPass, commonly known as the most popular password manager and vault around has hinted at Bitcoin acceptance as payment for its paid (and premium) accounts. Widely-used password manager and storage vault LastPass could soon begin accepting bitcoin as payment from users. The re … | Continue reading
Falls es jemand noch nicht mitbekommen hat – der britische Actionstar Jason Statham ist das Testimonial für das LG G5 und seit einigen Wochen tummelt sich der Werbespot mit seinen diversen Stathams im Netz. Mit allein 3,5 Mio. Views auf... | Continue reading
Nintendo has finally given us a better look at the next Pokémon games. A new trailer for the Sun and Moon versions revealed that the anticipated 3DS games will release on November 18 for the 3DS. It also showed off the new starter Pokémon (these are the three critters that player … | Continue reading
Amazon announced a significant addition to its on-demand video offering today in the form of Amazon Video Direct (AVD), which will provide a portal for anyone to upload their own clips and shows. The new content will be made available to Prime subscribers in much the same way as … | Continue reading