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
Bitcoin lending platform BTCJam is no longer taking new US customers, citing uncertainty around regulation in the country. | Continue reading
YouTube is a beautifully weird world full of surprises. It turn’s out there’s a big community of TV show and movie reaction YouTubers out there. Some of them have hundreds of thousands of subscribers and millions of views. And yet, it seems like YouTube isn’t the right platform f … | Continue reading
SXSW is often more of a marketing free-for-all than an actual conference or festival, so if you're a company that's trying to promote the upcoming Blu-ray release of one of the biggest movies of all time, what do you do? You bring a life-sized TIE Fighter to Austin, Texas, of cou … | Continue reading
After playing two rounds of Survios‘ Raw Data virtual reality shooter on the HTC Vive, I was sweating. The two-player cooperative demo is one of the first to show that VR can be a multiplayer experience, which could be a critical component in making VR take off as a more social e … | Continue reading
A new study of Twitter activity during Hurricane Sandy describes a correlation between activity on the service around the time of the storm in 2012 and actual damage. In the study, published in Science Advances, the authors suggest social media could eventually be used to assess … | Continue reading
Storytelling allows a brand to build emotional connections to customers, especially when it's being done through social media and video. | Continue reading
By now, the advantages of open source are there for all to see. When you give people access to the underlying code, good things happen. People find bugs and security holes. They make it better. They adapt it to different needs. They even build entire startup ecosystems on top of … | Continue reading
The federal government is operating in high gear trying to get out ahead of the self-driving car movement, which is probably good considering the existing laws and regulations are totally unprepared for what the future may bring, according to a draft report commissioned by the US … | Continue reading
Modder Paul “MoDaCo” O’Brien has figured out a way to enable adoptable storage on the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge. | Continue reading
Cheap phones are increasingly starting to feel way more premium than their prices would lead you to expect. We saw this with Huawei's Honor 5X at CES in January, and just this week I got my hands on Xiaomi's Redmi Note 3, another phone that's setting the bar for the level of desi … | Continue reading
Najszybsza metoda na odżywianie organizmu i wyrównanie wszelkich niedoborów to picie świeżych soków! To słowa mojej Mamy, które w dzieciństwie słyszałam prawie codziennie. W spiżarce w ogrodzie trzymaliśmy wielki wór marchwi, a w drewnianych skrzynkach leżakowały ogrodowe jabłka. … | Continue reading
EverQuest Next, the ambitious MMO by Daybreak Games (formerly Sony Online Entertainment), has been cancelled.The colossal MMO had been in development for years, and indeed our John Bedford played a build of it back in 2013. He came away from his EverQuest Next preview equal parts … | Continue reading
Hearthstone's first expansion for 2016, Whispers of the Old Gods, launches late April to early May, Blizzard has announced.Whispers of the Old Gods adds 134 new cards to the game, themed around the four titular Old Gods of the WarCraft universe: C'Thun - the only God to be named … | Continue reading
GM has announced it will acquire a 40-person startup based in San Francisco named Cruise Automation, which makes autonomous vehicle technology. Terms were not disclosed, though sources claim the deal closed for over $1 billion. Talks began as Cruise was looking for investors, but … | Continue reading
Games studio Daybreak Game Company has canceled EverQuest Next, an upcoming free-to-play MMO that was supposed to be a successor to numerous EverQuest titles. In a statement posted on the studio's website, Daybreak Game Company's president, Russell Shanks, said the title just sim … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new tool that will make it easier for users of Evernote’s note-taking service to make the transition to rival application OneNote, a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The “OneNote Importer tool,” as the software is called, aims to address the switchin … | Continue reading
Last night when I put my baby to bed, I closed the door, walked downstairs and made sure that the "parent" end of my audio monitor was turned on. My eight-month-old son wasn’t wearing a booty that monitored his oxygen levels or a onesie that measured his sleep patterns. He didn’t … | Continue reading