Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I’ll confess that I wrote up this week’s entries while dreaming of the barbecued meats and warm temperatures I’m going to enjoy at SXSW next week. This’ll be my first year at Austin’s music … | Continue reading
If you’re keeping up with USB-C, you know there are a rising number of peripherals and cables coming out all the time. Moshi’s new Charge Cable for the MacBook may be the best of the lot, though. Though it may seem like any other USB-C cable, Moshi has actually put quite a bit of … | Continue reading
Samsung is throwing crisp thirty dollar bills (which totally exist) at anyone who completes a Samsung Pay transaction on a new Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 Edge. | Continue reading
Though the scaling debate remains in progress, bitcoin enjoyed both price stability and high trading volume in the seven days through 12:00 UTC on 11th March. Market participants traded more than 35m BTC during the seven days through 1:30 p.m. (EST), Bitcoinity figures reveal. Th … | Continue reading
It used to be that you'd buy an atlas of the world to hang on your wall, but now you're better off with a map of space exploration. This poster from Pop Chart Lab follows the rough path of every "orbiter, lander, rover, flyby, and impactor to ever slip the surly bonds of Earth’s … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama believes that there should be some compromise when it comes to protecting the United States from terrorists and criminals while ensuring people’s privacy. When confronted about the issues around encryption and personal data with the government’s case agains … | Continue reading
Google took pretty much everyone by surprise when it announced the Android N Developer Preview yesterday, over two months before the expected announcement at Google I/O. After joining the new Android Beta Program, I installed the OS on my Nexus 6P through a simple system update. … | Continue reading
Google wants to get a better idea of how people use its products, so it's put a few researchers inside a van and sent them off to drive around the US to find out. According to the Associated Press, Google's van will stop in a handful of cities throughout March and April, inviting … | Continue reading
It hasn't been that long since we got the 0.14 update for Minecraft Pocket Edition [$6.99], and yet I'm already waiting for update 0.15 to hit because I want those pistons for my completely-unnecessary secret chamber entry. After a relative silence of a couple of weeks, the devel … | Continue reading
“I am way on the civil liberties side of this thing” President Barack Obama said today regarding the balance between privacy and security surrounding the FBI’s ongoing fight with Apple about penetrating encryption. While speaking today at SXSW, Obama said he could not comment dir … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama called on the tech community to build a safe encryption key to assist in law enforcement investigations, saying that if it failed, it could one day face a more draconian solution passed by a Congress that is less sympathetic to its worldview. The president … | Continue reading
Miitomo is not a game, but rather a kind of "free-to-start," animated messaging application. | Continue reading
The cloud rendering company Otoy is claiming to have invented a new software translation layer that would allow Nvidia's CUDA to run on a variety of alternate GPUs, including AMD. | Continue reading
The Oklahoma City Thunder announced today that assistant coach Monty Williams will not return to the team this season after the passing of his wife Ingrid last month. | Continue reading
“[Technology can] empower individuals to do things they could have never dreamed of before, but also empower folks who are very dangerous to spread dangerous messages” President Barack Obama said today. Obama took the stage at South By Southwest to discuss how technology could be … | Continue reading
If you want to see what a world with built-in backdoors looks like should congress rule on the side of the FBI, look no further than Microsoft. One of the key points to Apple’s argument — and what made the hearing necessary in the first place — is its inability to decrypt the iPh … | Continue reading
Mahindra, the India-based manufacturing giant, wants to offer more people the chance at a cleaner commute. The GenZe 2.0 electric scooter carries one person, a couple big bags of groceries, and a price tag of just $3,000. As a former scooter commuter myself (on a 50-cc gasoline-p … | Continue reading
The federal government has given preliminary approval for a trial to deploy genetically altered mosquitoes in the US as a possible method of fighting the Zika virus. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said today that such a field trial would have no significant impact on anim … | Continue reading
The New York Times is expanding its native ad studio with the acquisition of HelloSociety, a digital marketing agency owned by Science, Inc. Los Angeles-based Science both invest in startups and builds its own companies. It launched HelloSociety (which it fully owned) back in 201 … | Continue reading
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Daniel Ilkovich, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Friday March 11 at 1pm PT. Our LIVE chat during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang on Facebook HEREConnect with our other show – G3 – on Faceboo … | Continue reading
If you want to send out the same email to multiple people, but want to personalize it for everybody, setting up a mail merge will save you a lot of time. Some email clients like Outlook have a built-in mail merge function, but if you want to use it with Gmail, you’ll have to down … | Continue reading
Sometimes, as games grow older, they begin to change and grow hair in strange places … or I think that’s what my health teacher said — I wasn’t paying attention. Fallout 4’s 1.4 update is live on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and you can download it by booting up your console right … | Continue reading
Another Code: Two Memories, Hotel Dusk: Room 215 and Last Window: The Secret of Cape West director Taisuke Kanasaki has announced an upcoming 3DS detective game called Chase: Unsolved Cases Investigation Division.As reported by Gematsu (translating its official Japanese site), se … | Continue reading
[appicon]Plague Inc. [appprice url="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plague-inc./id525818839?mt=8"] was one of my favorite mobile games for quite some time back when it came out. The idea of trying to kill the world by picking the correct combination of symptoms was very entertain … | Continue reading
During my time with the Galaxy S7 Edge I've come to realize that, despite my perceived notions, Touchwiz isn't the monster I thought it was. At least not anymore. | Continue reading
Today, you use your smartphone's cameras to take snaps and creates stories on Snapchat. But in the future, you could be Snapchatting with a pair of Google Glass-like smart glasses on your face.According to CNET, Snapchat has aggressively assembled a team of wearable experts to wo … | Continue reading
The revised and turbocharged 2017 Ferrari California T is here, but who exactly is this V8 super car made for? Mashable Transportation Reporter Nick Jaynes examines the newest GT Ferrari.More details: http://on.mash.to/1Mc4nOc Read more...More about Technology, Cars, California, … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Content marketing is an undisputed must-have in every marketer’s toolbox — but how do you stand out and reap ROI when we live in a world saturated with content in every channel? Get the insights, tips and tricks you need to create a killer content marketing strategy … | Continue reading
The lifetime tenure of each of the U.S. Supreme Court’s nine justices means they have long-lasting influences on the country’s affairs. How a justice votes in a case is a reflection of his or her judicial temperament, personal philosophy and political ideology.Political scientist … | Continue reading
Facebook has purchased Masquerade. Here’s why the purchase is a model for the changing roles of social networks in 2016. | Continue reading
FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has proposed a new set of rules that would set strict limits on what data ISPs can gather and sell about their customers. | Continue reading
What do Rocket League and Dying Light have in common? They're both multiplatform and they both have cars. That's not much, but it's enough for the developers of both games to team up and introduce crossover content with one another.In Dying Light: The Following, you can get dune … | Continue reading
Earlier this week, Google made history when its DeepMind-designed AI beat Go world champion Lee Se-dol — not just once but twice. Still not sure what Go is and why Google built an artificial intelligence program to beat it? Don't worry, we've got you covered. Continue readin … | Continue reading
This week on Verge ESP: Emily chats with food critic Jonathan Gold about the forthcoming documentary City of Gold, a movie about his approach to LA's food. In fact, we discuss a glut of movies this week, including the genre-benders The Witch, 10 Cloverfield Lane, and Midnight Spe … | Continue reading
While most people think about hashtags, marketing stunts and SoLoMo when they hear about the Interactive part of SXSW in Austin, this year is going to be a bit different as President Barack Obama is about to give a keynote at the event. The event should start at 2:40 PM in Austin … | Continue reading
To bring attention to the issues of censorship and Internet surveillance, Edward Snowden, Pussy Riot and Ai Weiwei are teaming up with AdBlock and Amnesty International to launch an online protest campaign. The campaign is starting Friday at 4 p.m., exclusively visible to AdBlock … | Continue reading
Instacart, the $2 billion grocery delivery startup that recently announced an extended partnership with Whole Foods, has slashed pay for its drivers and shoppers in major markets like San Francisco and Los Angeles, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today. Here’s a nugget f … | Continue reading
When Bitcoin was introduced in 2009, it was hailed as the thing for conducting anonymous transactions. Bitcoin was considered as an anonymous digital currency as using bitcoin didn’t and still doesn’t require any identity or address proof. In order to make a bitcoin transaction, … | Continue reading
We've been following along with the development of Paper Wizard since we first caught wind of it in early February, and last night developer Ideatory announced in our forums that the game will be arriving this Monday, March 14th. Paper Wizard is a dual-stick shooter where you're … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama is kicking off the first day of the South by Southwest festival in Austin, TX, with a talk expected to focus on the role that technology should play in civic life. The president is making his first appearance at the festival, and will use the occasion to ca … | Continue reading
Check out our first glimpse of a teaser trailer advertising the upcoming game Plants Vs Zombies Heroes: The Lawn of a New Battle. | Continue reading
The CW announced this afternoon that it's ordering new seasons of every scripted show it's currently airing, meaning the network is bringing back almost a dozen shows between this fall and summer 2017. It's a massive show of faith in the network's current lineup, one that's unpre … | Continue reading
Apple’s battery case for the iPhone 6 made news for being weird, but it was a decent concept. Tech21 seems to have seen it as a challenge, so it created the Evo Endurance case. If you’re not familiar with Tech21, they’ve got an impressive polymer that flexes to protect your phone … | Continue reading
FEATURE: For the people who take pride in doing their own taxes, and on time, it’s getting easier to file your taxes straight from your mobile phone. For some of us, the thought of doing taxes on a phone can be intimidating. But if the process is made easy, it’s doable. Tax-filin … | Continue reading
Today marks launch day for Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge smartphones, and the company has just released a new ad featuring Lil Wayne in celebration. In the spot, Wayne douses his S7 Edge with a bottle of champagne. "I could pour this champagne on my phone and it still work," he … | Continue reading
About a month ago, I wrote about an interview by Paradox Interactive's CEO, Fredrik Wester, where he talked about the possibility of Paradox bringing franchises like Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis, and even Stellaris to mobile in the next year, year and a half. Needless to sa … | Continue reading
EVE Online developer CCP Games is porting its Gear VR shooter Gunjack to PC on 28th March with Oculus Rift support.It will also be compatible with HTC Vive later this year.Priced at $9.99 (about £7), Gunjack places players on a gun turret for a deep space mining vessel that's bei … | Continue reading
When we look to figure out how something works in first person, we become more intimate with how it works and add multiples of value to our own capacity to think about problems. Filtering through our own lens encourages exploration and an open mind. Richard Feynman was a practica … | Continue reading