The FAA wants to fine Amazon $350,000 for mishandling the shipment of something called "Amazing! Liquid Fire," Reuters reports. The FAA claims that in October 2014, Amazon shipped the product — one gallon of corrosive clog remover — from Louisville, KY to Boulder, CO, violating t … | Continue reading
Google wants to bring its gigabit Fiber internet service to Dallas, the company announced today.It’s important to note that, for now, the company is only “exploring” the idea of bringing Fiber to Dallas. Google typically first announces its plans to bring Fiber to a city and then … | Continue reading
Sony has secured exclusive early access to the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered campaign on PlayStation 4 - but you have to pre-order one of the more expensive versions of Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare to get it.As already announced, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastere … | Continue reading
Google’s decision to troll the telecom industry by becoming a gigabit ISP continues today as the company announces its latest target: Dallas, Texas. Now available in six cities and coming to six more, Google Fiber already operates in Texas — in Austin and soon San Antonio. Next u … | Continue reading
Well, the rumors were true: Facebook Messenger can now send SMS text messages too on Android, taking a cue from Google Hangouts. Basically, Messenger wants to be your end-all, be-all app for chatting with your friends. According to David Marcus, product manager at Facebook, it’s … | Continue reading
Google has officially begun exploring the possibility of bringing its Fiber service to Dallas, Texas. Today the company announced that it'll be working with the city's mayor and other leadership to see whether bringing fiber-based internet and TV to Dallas is feasible. Google wil … | Continue reading
It’s time to rumble with your Jigglypuff. For its Electronic Entertainment Expo livestreaming presentation from Los Angeles, Nintendo’s Treehouse localization team revealed new information and showed off a new game mode for the upcoming 3DS games, Pokémon Sun and Moon. E3 is one … | Continue reading
Hulu is bringing VR content to Oculus Rift headsets, the company announced this morning. Through the company’s Hulu VR app, launched earlier this year for Samsung Gear VR devices, viewers will be able to access over 30 original VR programs, as well as stream Hulu’s entire 2D libr … | Continue reading
Microsoft dropped the price of the Xbox One to $299 from $349 only two weeks ago, but the software maker is further reducing the console today. Bundles for the basic 500GB machine are now $279, an additional $20 discount. Microsoft says the latest "promotional" price will run unt … | Continue reading
Big news from Twitter today: you can now retweet or quote yourself, and contribute to society’s continual descent into hedonistic narcissism. Or just show everyone how bad your writing was a few years ago. Now you can easily Retweet or Quote Tweet yourself with just a few taps. P … | Continue reading
Uber is experimenting with a decidedly retro service: a telephone dispatch system that would allow people without smartphones to call a hotline and order an Uber ride, according to a transit official in Pinellas County, Florida. The system is being tested as a pilot program in co … | Continue reading
VB EVENT: Here’s the draft agenda of MobileBeat 20016, the first significant event to focus on the exploding ecosystem of bots, to be held in San Francisco on July 12-13. Artificial intelligence, plus the move by billions of people to use messaging apps, is sparking a revolution … | Continue reading
Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO's beloved series led by Seinfeld creator Larry David, is officially getting a ninth season. HBO made the announcement on Medium this afternoon, with HBO's programming president Casey Bloys hailing David's decision to return to the network."We’re thrilled … | Continue reading
Now that the OnePlus 3 is official, we want to know -- what would you change about the OnePlus 3? | Continue reading
DraftKings and FanDuel are in talks regarding a potential merger, according to a new report from Bloomberg. While the companies have been in discussions for a few months, the report notes that no final transaction has been agreed to and the deal may still fall apart. If a deal we … | Continue reading
Docker’s container-style approach to distributing and running apps on any platform has been a big boost to helping patch up some of the fragmentation in the world of Linux. Now, a new package format hopes to have the same effect for smaller apps that need to speak to each other, … | Continue reading
The moment a zeppelin arrives in a multiplayer match of Battlefield 1 is an awe-inspiring sight. At least I'm told it is — I was too busy being run over by a tank built like an oversized steel shoebox to notice the vast airship appearing in the sky. The noise and spectacle of the … | Continue reading
How would you like to make your content go viral? You can increase the odds of that happening with GaggleAMP. GaggleAMP isn’t just about virality, though. It’s really a tool that gives businesses the opportunity to increase their reach by empowering employees to act as brand amba … | Continue reading
Starting today, advertisers will be able to advertise against Pinterest users that have visited their sites — giving retailers a powerful new tool that is available in other advertising suites that will help them follow users as they browse around the internet (including on Pinte … | Continue reading
Lost in the glitz and glamour of bigger emoji yesterday, Apple’s biggest announcement went almost entirely overlooked: differential privacy. Differential privacy isn’t an Apple creation, in fact it’s been around for years and is a well-known method for masking data in order to ke … | Continue reading
The OnePlus 3 has just been officially announced. Here's everything you need to know! | Continue reading
Overkill's popular Payday series of bank heist games is jumping from desktop to mobile with the upcoming Payday: Crime War. And if you're thinking this might be some tie-in simulation game that is only related in name and theme to the main franchise, you thought wrong! This seems … | Continue reading
A great phone doesn’t need a great back story. But it certainly doesn’t hurt.The world wasn’t exactly desperate for another player or a new spin on Android when OnePlus partnered with Cyanogen to announce the One in April 2014 (a measly five months after launching the company), b … | Continue reading
Carl Pei wants you to believe in OnePlus. It’s been three years since this 26-year-old co-founded the company, and as he’s talking to me, the OnePlus 3, the company’s latest flagship, is due to arrive in less than a week. Things are different this go-around: the infamous OnePlus … | Continue reading
Following a tidal wave of leaks over the past few weeks, the OnePlus 3 smartphone is now officially announced and available. The new phone, which can be purchased direct from OnePlus starting today, has a laundry list of high-end specifications combined with a price that undercut … | Continue reading
It's always way more fun to root for the underdogs. The little guys with fewer resources. They're the guys who fight the hardest to keep the lights on because it's truly shoot for the moon or go bust.OnePlus has been fighting an uphill battle against Apple, Samsung, LG, HTC, Xiao … | Continue reading
Brighton Bunker is an extension project of an outdoor living space completed by Australian studio Dan Gayfer Design. | Continue reading
With this near-global roll out of the SMS feature, Facebook is touting ease, as you won’t have to jump back and forth between chat interfaces if your friends are split between them. “There are other SMS clients out there. Some are quite popular, focused on customization” says Fac … | Continue reading
Apartment in Tel Aviv by KOT Project. The K.O.T Project is a young and fresh studio for architecture and interior Design. | Continue reading
Located in front of a bus-stop at a junction of a minor road and a busy main road, this reconstruction of a small bungalow house ... | Continue reading
An invitation to delete the word "should" from our vocabulary and be a case study for doing something differently. | Continue reading
MALTA — Thanks to a newly launched app, people all over the world can give a crucial contribution to charities and NGOs involved in the rescue of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea. I Sea is the first crowdsourcing project of this kind and allows everyone with a smartphone to scan … | Continue reading
Twitter has announced that it’s offering a new “enhanced” Wi-Fi sign-in experience at London’s St Pancras International railway station, after inking a deal with internet service provider WIFI Metropolis. London’s St Pancras sees some 48 million passengers pass through each year, … | Continue reading
It has been coming for quite some time now, but Japan is poised to be one of the first few countries issuing their own digital currency. With the Bitcoin value soaring as of late, the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi will launch the currency as soon as Q3 2017. For several weeks now, the … | Continue reading
When Minecraft: Pocket Edition's [$6.99] Friendly Update hit yesterday, we got numerous new features. However, the biggest one is easily Minecraft Realms becoming available to mobile and Windows 10 users. If you don't know what Realms is, think of it as a paid multiplayer server … | Continue reading
In today’s episode, Stewart Rogers and Travis Wright discuss the future of mobile payments with Aunkur Arya, head of mobile at Braintree. And if you missed last week’s interview with Mayur Gupta, make sure to check that one out. What’s the big news? Android Pay has finally been r … | Continue reading
Before starting, the best way to develop a website is to have a good knowledge base of customers’ needs and with that knowledge ask some key questions. | Continue reading
Sixgill, a self-proclaimed ‘cyber intelligence’ SaaS startup that analyses the Dark Web, is launching publicly today and announcing that it has closed a $5 million funding round led by Elron, an Israeli holding company dedicated to building technology companies. Read More | Continue reading
Zenefits today is laying off another 9% of its staff — or 106 additional people — and offering its existing employees a buyout offer as it continues its transition following former CEO Parker Conrad stepping down amid a ton of turmoil. The news was in a memo issued by David Sacks … | Continue reading
Sling TV, Dish’s internet-based streaming TV service for cord cutters, has rolled out a number of changes to coincide with its debut on Apple TV, announced yesterday at Apple’s WWDC keynote. The company also launched a dozen Viacom channels across both its service tiers, includin … | Continue reading
When Sony first launched the Move in 2011, it also produced several accessories tailor-made for its motion-controlled games. For example, meet the Sharp Shooter. Launched with grimy first-person shooter Killzone 3, it embedded the goofy Move controllers into a bleached facsimile … | Continue reading
Google’s long-running effort to remove much of the technical aspect from search engine optimization (SEO) presents PR a superb opportunity to increase the reach, readership and engagement of its output including news releases and content marketing communications. Google’s updates … | Continue reading
NieR: Automata, the highly anticipated sequel to Cavia's peculiar action-RPG from 2010 has received a new trailer at E3 2016.Now slated for an "early 2017" release, NieR: Automata follows the exploits of androids 2B, 9S and A2 as they battle evil robots in a world devoid of human … | Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but I suck at cooking — and that’s despite the fact that my parents sent me to some bougie cooking camp when I was younger. These days, as an “adult,” I would have to use my own money (gasp!) to take a cooking class, which, depending on where I decided to … | Continue reading
Nintendo's new Zelda is named The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.A gorgeous, huge overworld is the new star of the game - and the many ways which Link can now interact with it. He can cut trees to form bridges, cook ingredients with recipes, roll boulders down mountains to s … | Continue reading
In this week's episode of Plugged In, Mashable Tech Correspondent Ray Wong gives you the low down on the Apollo 7 earbuds. They don't come with any fancy features on other wireless earbuds; Bragi's Dash, for example, has a fitness trainer-like assistant in your ear. The Apollo 7 … | Continue reading
Congratulations, you! If you're a Twitter user, you can now retweet your own tweets. Which means you can write a tweet, send a tweet to your audience, and then lay in wait for the perfect moment to send that same tweet to your audience again — say, 10 years from now. You deserve … | 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.Last year at this time, I was preparing to race at Le Mans. And I was pretty much quakin … | Continue reading