Twitter just celebrated its 10th birthday, a somber affair. The company's user growth has flatlined, and depending on how you count, might even be shrinking. Twitter has steadily grown its revenue base, but it's never managed a healthy profit. Over the last year it shed a number … | Continue reading
Breaking your leg is objectively painful. But the treatment you get from your doctor can often depend on whether you’re black or white.In new research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers at the University of Virginia found that many white lay … | Continue reading
Drake has just released two new singles "One Dance" featuring Wizkid & Kyla and "Pop Style" featuring The Throne aka Jay Z and Kanye West, his second and third single off his upcoming album Views from The 6. The singles follows up "Summer Sixteen", which Drake premiered back in … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Echo is often referred to as a Trojan Horse. Slid into your home under the guise of a wireless speaker, the Echo has grown to become one of the best ways to control smart home devices, such as lights, thermostats, locks, and more with just your voice. It turns out that i … | Continue reading
A baboon has survived for over two years with dual hearts beating inside its abdomen: the baboon's own heart, and one from a genetically modified pig. The finding, published today in Nature Communications, is an important step toward using pig organs to replace ailing human parts … | Continue reading
The second piece of downloadable content for Fallout 4 launches next week, and based on this new trailer it almost looks like a cross between the Wasteland and Pokemon. Called the "Wasteland Workshop," the biggest new feature in the add-on is the ability to both capture and tame … | Continue reading
It's getting harder and harder to find popular streaming services that aren't part of T-Mobile's zero-rated Music Freedom and Binge On programs. Today, the company announced that over 100 services are now participating across both, with new additions that include Amazon (Prime) M … | Continue reading
I love Slack, the mega-popular corporate-friendly chat client. I love it so much that I desperately want to delete it from my phone, because I can't help but check its messages every hour of every day. Yesterday night, I responded to a message at 3AM. Lol, I have no self-control … | Continue reading
One month ago, I tested a virtual reality headset called the HTC Vive Pre. The Pre was a development kit created by gaming behemoth Valve and smartphone maker HTC, and it was one of the most exciting new pieces of hardware I’ve had the pleasure of writing about — a device that of … | Continue reading
Twitter has bought the rights to stream 10 games from NFL's Thursday Night Football online. The news was rumored earlier this morning, and confirmed by both the NFL in a press release and by Adam Bain, Twitter's COO. Bain said the deal would allow streaming of whole games, as wel … | Continue reading
When Medium announced in February that it would become the home of sports writer Bill Simmons' new media venture, The Ringer, it was the start of something bigger. The amorphous publishing platform and content producer headed by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams is now becoming th … | Continue reading
Starz now has its own standalone streaming service, joining the ranks of other premium networks like HBO and Showtime. The service will cost $8.99 per month, making it cheaper than both Showtime's streaming service ($10.99 per month), and HBO Now ($14.99 per month). Existing Star … | Continue reading
Streaming media company Roku added a new piece of hardware today to its line up of video set-top boxes and streaming sticks. The newest addition is a smaller, thinner Roku stick that will replace the company's second-generation stick introduced in 2014.The new Roku streaming stic … | Continue reading
Next week, astronauts on the International Space Station are getting a brand new room. Called the BEAM, short for Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, the room is launching on top of one of SpaceX's rockets on Friday; it will then be attached to the ISS sometime within the next fo … | Continue reading
In under five minutes you too can make the weird, greenish, cupcake thing and feel like a starving scavenger on the desolate desert planet of Jakku —€” no begging or bartering required! Who doesn't want to eat like their new favorite Jedi? Kirsten, The Verge's esteemed social vid … | Continue reading
Sony's next major update to the PlayStation 4 debuts tomorrow. It includes a number of new features, but the most important addition is Remote Play for PCs and Macs. New Remote Play apps for Windows and Mac will allow PlayStation 4 players to stream games to their Mac and PCs, an … | Continue reading
Google’s Toolbar app launched more than 15 years ago as a convenient way to directly access the search engine from within Internet Explorer. Over the years it served as a Trojan Horse to convince Internet Explorer users to use Google search and other Google services, and eventual … | Continue reading
Twitter has reportedly won a deal with the NFL to stream Thursday Night Football games online, according to Bloomberg. Tech companies including Apple, Amazon, and Google, reportedly showed interest in acquiring the rights for these games earlier this year. In February, the NFL an … | Continue reading
Actress, director, and comedian Elizabeth Banks has launched a new website dedicated "to [shining] a spotlight on funny women." From Amy Schumer and Mindy Kaling, to "your 15 your old neighbor who just started her own Youtube channel," the site — named WhoHaha — aims to bring tog … | Continue reading
HP is launching a global brand offensive today with the ultra-thin Spectre 13 laptop, and one of the subtler changes the company is making is to its logo. Where last year's Spectre x360 had the full "Hewlett-Packard" written out, the new 13-inch model has just four minimalist sla … | Continue reading
The race for the best selfie camera hits a new milestone in Europe today with the launch of Oppo's F1 Plus. This 5.5-inch Android smartphone will already be familiar to Chinese consumers under the title of Oppo R9. It features an octa-core MediaTek Helio P10 processor, 4GB of RAM … | Continue reading
HP just announced a impressive new laptop called the Spectre 13. The laptop is already stylish enough to attract plenty of eyes in stores, but HP brought on two celebrity designers to make even flashier limit-edition versions.And I really mean flashy. One model is plated with 18k … | Continue reading
HP has been trying to make a laptop that will catch everyone's attention. Now, HP thinks it's nailed it.Its newest laptop is called the Spectre 13 (or sometimes, simply, the HP Spectre), and — at just 10.4mm thick — it's supposed to be the thinnest any major laptop manufacturer h … | Continue reading
Today Ikea is launching a pilot virtual reality app called the Ikea VR Experience as the first HTC Vive headsets begin to ship. The app, built using the Unreal Engine 4 from Epic Games, puts Vive headset owners into a virtual Ikea kitchen of real-world size. Users can then change … | Continue reading
Sphero's rocking, rolling BB-8 toy can already totter amiably about your house and terrify your cat, but the tweedling ball now has another trick up its non-existent sleeves — it can watch The Force Awakens with you. Sphero has updated its BB-8 app with a new "Watch With Me" feat … | Continue reading
Paramount has announced its first Blu-ray releases in 4K Ultra HD: Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness. According to a report from Variety, the titles will go on sale on June 14th to mark the 50th anniversary of the broadcast of first ever Star Trek episode on NBC. Both films … | Continue reading
Apple Pay launched in the UK last summer, and made relatively swift progress adding banks. However, there was one notable holdout: Barclays, the country's second biggest bank. Today, though, the company has announced it's adding support for Apple Pay. Barclaycard holders will be … | Continue reading
A Silicon Valley startup is using drones to deliver medicine and blood to patients in Rwanda, and it plans to expand to other countries by the end of the year. The company, Zipline International, announced this week that it will begin flying its drones in Rwanda in July, under a … | Continue reading
Google has nearly tripled the number of countries that can access Android Auto. The smart car interface now has functionality in 18 new countries plus the territory of Puerto Rico; the list now includes potentially huge markets like India and Russia, along with several countries … | Continue reading
Fallout's Deathclaws are nine feet of muscle, sinew, teeth, and claws, and their main objective is to utterly terrorize the player of Bethesda's open-world RPG series. They're also beautifully designed, and given a detailed back-story about their origins as humble chameleons, but … | Continue reading
Ask a member of Facebook’s growth team what feature played the biggest role in getting the company to a billion daily users, and they’ll likely tell you it was photos. The endless stream of pictures, which users have been able to upload since 2005, a year after Facebook’s launch, … | Continue reading
Nintendo's NES classic The Legend of Zelda is 30 years old this year, and what better way to celebrate it than to drag it kicking and screaming from its console origins, right to your browser. The Legend of Zelda 30-Year Tribute is an open-source version of the original game buil … | Continue reading
Tesla blamed its own "hubris" for stuffing its Model X crossover with too much technology, making it difficult to produce in volume, according to a Tesla statement.The company was able to ship just 2,400 Model X cars in the first quarter. In a surprisingly frank statement that re … | Continue reading
Building the "cameras of the future" doesn't necessarily mean that those cameras will actually have a future. In a very frank and straightforward assessment of Lytro's business posted on Backchannel, CEO Jason Rosenthal has tried to explain why his company chose to walk away from … | Continue reading
A federal judge has approved BP’s $20 billion settlement over its 2010 oil spill, the Associated Press reports. First reached in October, the final settlement amount accounts for civil claims against the company set forth by the Department of Justice and five Gulf states. US Atto … | Continue reading
Nest is coming under fire following an announcement that Revolv, a smart home startup it acquired two years ago, would be permanently shutting off its product starting May 15th. The decision, announced in a quiet note on Revolv's website at some point in the last month, has gone … | Continue reading
The first show to emerge from Bill Simmons' partnership with HBO is After the Thrones, a weekly Game of Thrones recap show that's going to premiere on HBO Now alongside Thrones' sixth season later this month. It's not clear when After the Thrones will air on HBO proper — a HBO pr … | Continue reading
In the interest of determining whether Quantum Break is living up to its hype as smart science fiction — a real physicist consulted on the game! — we asked our science editor, Liz Lopatto, play the game and render a verdict.Here’s the thing: Liz mostly does not play video games. … | Continue reading
Pebble smartwatch owners that are using an iPhone on Verizon can now send text message replies from their wrist, according to an announcement from the company published today. The feature, which originally launched last year for AT&T iPhone users, lets Pebble owners reply to inco … | Continue reading
Google today unveiled revamped app icons for its family of Play apps to bring each one in line with the company's more colorful flat design aesthetic. There have been separate apps for services like Play Music and Play Books for about four years now. But the way those apps are di … | Continue reading
Amazon will introduce a new "top of the line" Kindle next week, says company CEO Jeff Bezos. Bezos announced the news on Twitter this afternoon, saying the new model will kick off another generation of Kindle products. It'll be the 8th generation, following the much-loved Kindle … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission has unveiled new broadband labels, modeled after the nutrition facts label found on food products throughout the US, as a way to give consumers more details about their home and mobile internet service. The labels detail pricing, internet spe … | Continue reading
Caitlyn Jenner is set to make an appearance on the next season of Amazon's award-winning series Transparent. Showrunner Jill Soloway revealed as much at the GLAAD Media Awards this weekend, where she told the Associated Press that having Jenner on the show was "a dream come true. … | Continue reading
Swiss Army Man debuted at this year's Sundance Film Festival, where it was described among attendees as "the one where Paul Dano rides a dead Daniel Radcliffe across the ocean using nothing more than the raw energy of the corpse's farts." Other than a couple stills, those who cou … | Continue reading
You can't ask for much better mashup fodder than Kanye West's "I Love Kanye": it's short, spare, rhythmically precise, and unmistakable no matter the context. That's a long way of saying it's "good." John Tesh's baroque, absurd "Roundball Rock" was the theme song for NBC's NBA co … | Continue reading
The two construction crew members who were killed by an Amtrak train Sunday, causing a massive derailment, may have been conducting maintenance work on the wrong track, CNN reported today. The train, which was carrying about 330 passengers, smashed into a backhoe outside of Phila … | Continue reading
There's no good reason for a company to build a levitating Bluetooth speaker, but in fairness, there aren't many reasons not to make one. Quite a few already exist. This here is the Mars speaker, from a company called Crazybaby. It arrived in this world, as most absurd products d … | Continue reading
Microsoft has launched invite-only testing for Outlook Premium, a paid subscription service that gives customers five personalized email addresses (and easier calendar sharing between those people), plus a "distraction-free" inbox without banner ads. Office365 subscribers get it … | Continue reading