Louis Cole never set out to show the reality of living in North Korea, as he and his agent have been quick to clarify. But that’s the problem.Last month, the popular vlogger traveled to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, filming a series of videos that extolled some of th … | Continue reading
We’ve long associated color with emotion. Intuitively, each of us associates colors with feelings. Brighter colors often signify good moods, while neutrals and gays are typically associated with negative feelings. This simple concept led researchers Andrew Reece (Harvard) and Chr … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session starting at 1pmPT today, August 19, 2016.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’s Facebook page HEREG3’s archive on ustreamG3’s Facebook page HERE R … | Continue reading
Ride-hailing company Lyft, the second largest such firm behind Uber, has been making overtures to sell itself recently, according to a report from The New York Times. However, the discussions, which have taken place with a number of companies including Apple, Google, Amazon, Uber … | Continue reading
Convicted Ponzi operator Trendon Shavers is now insinuating that the unidentified debtor cited in his defense against the SEC was Mark Karpeles. | Continue reading
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Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, and this is the last time I’ll serve as your host. My time at The Verge is ending today, and I’m not going to be curating jams for anyone — save myself, and maybe my parents if they ask — for a while. It’s sad! I’v … | Continue reading
Health officials confirmed new cases of the Zika virus in the Miami Beach area on Friday and announced an expansion of the virus's transmission zone that now includes some of Miami's most popular tourist areas. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
A massive team of over 30 titans in the tech industry are uniting with the FCC to take down automated phone calls from telemarketers and scammers. | Continue reading
Hainan Airlines Co., LTD: Beijing (ots/PRNewswire) - Gestern hielt Hainan Airlines im Grand Hyatt Beijing die Einführungsveranstaltung für seinen neuen "Restaurant on Board"-Dienst ab, wo Sterneköche aus aller Welt sowie führende chinesische Köche und Feinkostexperten ... | Continue reading
Want to sit in judgement of original content and decide its fate? Now’s your chance – Amazon’s latest slate of original TV show pilots is available for streaming, and it includes I Love Dick, a Kevin Bacon-starrer adapted from the novel by Chris Kraus; The Tick, yet another incar … | Continue reading
‘No Man’s Sky’ is a game unlike any other. With 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 (18 quintillion) planets to explore and enough content to keep the average person finding new things well into the billions of years, what is the internet excited about? Dicks, man. Lots of dicks. In a gam … | Continue reading
It’s the 50th anniversary of the International Photography Hall of Fame, a museum and foundation in St Louis, and among the inductees this year are some real whoppers. Annie Leibowitz, Ernest Haas, Ken Burns… and Steve Jobs. Read More | Continue reading
Chrome apps are dying. Google today announced that it’s planning to phase out support for its browser-based Chrome apps for every single OS except – of course – Chrome OS proper. That means no Chrome apps will be available to download on Windows, Mac or Linux starting the second … | Continue reading
Huawei's sub-brand, Honor, has just voiced its commitment to timely software updates for its phones, up to 24 months after its release. | Continue reading
Two of the biggest trends in television right now are movie reboots and anthology shows, so of course The CW wants to mash them up for an adaptation of the 1980s vampire flick The Lost Boys. Deadline reports that the network is in development on the project, which comes from Vero … | Continue reading
Here are three budget-friendly ways B2B companies can prevent being out-marketed by the competition. | Continue reading
A close, collaborative relationship between CMOs and marketing agencies is becoming more and more valuable for campaign success. | Continue reading
Okay friends, bear with us here: some things have happened since we recorded the podcast. For those of you who didn't know, Ryan Lochte claims he was robbed at gunpoint. Brazilian police say otherwise.In conclusion, don't lie to your mom Here's what we know: on Aug. 14th, initial … | Continue reading
Walking along Jones Beach Boardwalk one sultry August night last week, I paused frequently to line up Pokémon and catch them as my niece, her boyfriend and my two college-age kids walking alongside me did the same (only my wife abstained). As we neared the flagpole at the entranc … | Continue reading
What’s in a name? When it comes in the form of a password, everything. The password has long been the safeguard — and in many cases, the only one — to protect our online identity. At one point, passwords seemed like the most obvious way to verify account ownership. But, over time … | Continue reading
Google has just announced plans to gradually phase out support for Chrome apps on every platform except for Chrome OS. Starting later this year, new Chrome apps will be available only to Chrome OS users and won't be accessible on Windows, Mac, and Linux. (Existing apps will remai … | Continue reading
A few weeks back, we stumbled upon some leaked images of GoPro’s upcoming Hero 5. Today, we’ve got even more to share with you — including a “sick” new feature. The new images seem to corroborate the earlier leak and detail a few new findings. Notably, the Hero 5 is slightly larg … | Continue reading
Apple’s new iPad app Swift Playgrounds is popularizing the idea of learning to code on mobile devices, not desktop computers. But its focus is only on teaching kids to code in Swift. A new application called Mimo goes beyond that, with mini-lessons for not only Swift, but also HT … | Continue reading
Apple and Google parent company Alphabet have joined a coalition of more than 30 tech companies and telecoms focused on preventing automated phone calls, according to Reuters. Called the "Robocall Strike Force," the group is led by the Federal Communications Commission, which hel … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Even before Pokémon Go’s launch in July, the mobile gaming industry was seeing growth. Mobile market insights group Sensor Tower will release its finding for the second quarter of 2016 (April 1 to June 31) next week, but it has given GamesBeat early access to the repor … | Continue reading
Two volunteer paleontologists have found one of the largest T. Rex skeletons ever. The new specimen is especially notable because the 2,500-pound skull is mostly intact, making it only the 15th complete skull in the world. It has a cutesy name — "Tufts-Love Rex," after the peopl … | Continue reading
Samsung is hailing the Galaxy Note 7 as "the smartphone that thinks big," and their latest ad showcases it as an all-purpose portable office. | Continue reading
Blackberry files a pair of complaints against South Florida's Blu Products, alleging the economy handset vendor violated over a dozen IPs. | Continue reading
From Sono Motors in Munich comes the 'Sion' solar powered car. Boasting a 155 mile range and only a $17,000 price tag, the prototype is bound to be gaining attention and capital to back its crowdfunding venture on Indiegogo. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Tech, Crowdfundi … | Continue reading
Some Snapchat users are experiencing outages. While the app works just fine for some editors here at TNW, I’m unable to log in, and Snapchat has confirmed the disruption on Twitter: Downdetector indicates the problems started around 2:09 PM ET. The outage map suggests it’s pretty … | Continue reading
Tech companies copy off of each other. That has always happened, and always will happen. Still Motorola is apparently not happy about Samsung (and LG’s) new always-on displays. The company tweeted this out yesterday: In what galaxy is it okay to steal competitor phones’ cool feat … | Continue reading
Your airplane snaps are about to get a whole lot cooler.Snapchat just added a new type of filter to its lineup: altitude. The new filter joins the speed, temperature, time and battery life filters as one of Snapchat's dynamic filters, which show real-time data based on your curre … | Continue reading
An increasing number of customer complaints about broken modules and phone issues on the LG G5 suggest modular phones may not be as awesome as they sound.One Reddit user (via Android Authority) says he's on is fourth Cam Plus camera module. Another user said he was on his sixth G … | Continue reading
Early this morning, Frank Ocean did what we’ve been waiting for him to do for four years now: he released a new album. But it wasn’t the release we were expecting. Instead of the previously announced Boys Don’t Cry (which will reportedly drop this weekend as a separate project, u … | Continue reading
Yeah, you could pick up TekServe’s 35-piece Mac museum (now $29k), but can you really call yourself an Apple fan if you don’t own an Apple-1? That earliest of Apple paraphernalia is about as rare as they come, but if act fast (and drop a boatload of money), you can snap one up no … | Continue reading
This week on our flagship audio experience, our cast of tech luminaries Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Paul Miller, and Dan Seifert break down new unlimited data plans and what they really mean for the consumer. Dan also details the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after reviewing it this week a … | Continue reading
Pretty legit images and specs of GoPro’s Hero 5 leaked this morning, and one of the standout features appears to be voice control. Shortly after that we got our hands on an unfinished version of the user manual, which offers even more detail about the camera, including all the th … | Continue reading
Apple today started rolling out the sixth public beta of iOS 10, the next version of its mobile operating system. The release comes four days after Apple released the fifth public beta, making it the shortest gap so far between public beta releases for iOS 10. Apple first unveile … | Continue reading
A group of Japanese financial institutions are looking to create a platform for real-time currency exchange services. | Continue reading
Get ready to waste more time on your phone. An MIT spin-out, SolidEnergy Sytems, has developed a new kind of "anode-free" lithium-metal battery that is smaller and has double the energy capacity of most of the lithium-ion batteries that power today's smartphones (including Apple' … | Continue reading
The Pokémon Company, what is going on right now. How is it possible that one of the new pocketable monsters you created for Pokémon Sun/Moon is actually a pile of sand?? Look: What are you doing to me? Do you think this is okay? Here’s what the sand blob evolves into when hit wit … | Continue reading
Huawei's Honor 8 smartphone is set to be the company's first handset to land in the US powered by its in-house Kirin 950 SoC. Here's why that's important. | Continue reading
US Cellular is beginning to set up Samsung 'store-within-a-store' models that put the Korean tech titan's products on display in a dedicated location. | Continue reading
The LG V10 is receiving more and more complaints of a bootloop issue that sounds similar to the one that affected the LG G4 earlier this year. | Continue reading
Call me Chris Plante. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me in material reality, I thought I would take about a little and see the internet part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off … | Continue reading
This morning, in the first of our twice daily bitcoin price watch pieces, we noted that the week so far had given us plenty to go at, and that this meant we were net up on the markets heading into the final session. We also noted that if we didn’t have too rough a trading … Conti … | Continue reading
This week: Sitemaps don’t affect rich snippets, a couple of famous companies get back to the basics, and WordPress 4.6 includes a broken link checker. | Continue reading