The Chevrolet Bolt and the Tesla Model 3 are the first affordable, long-distance — over 200 miles of range — electric vehicles. They've both been announced, and will eventually hit dealerships. The Chevy Bolt, however, has a one-year head start on the Tesla. And because Elon Musk … | Continue reading
Researchers have grown a type of complex, hairy skin tissue in the lab for the first time. The fluorescent skin was implanted in living mice, and although its use in humans is a long way off, scientists think the lab-grown tissue could one day help burn survivors and people with … | Continue reading
When Yuneec unveiled its Typhoon H drones at CES earlier this year, we called it the first major contender for DJI's crown. Now DJI, the world's most successful consumer drone maker, has filed a lawsuit in California claiming Yuneec has infringed on two of its patents. The claim … | Continue reading
Tom Hiddleston looks like country singer Hank Williams. They're both tall, pale, lean men with narrow faces, sharp noses, and easy country smiles that don't entirely warm up their thousand-yard stares. Looking at pictures or footage of the two of them, the resemblance is clear en … | Continue reading
Hi, I'm Dami, and I'm a webcomic artist. You may recognize me from some of my viral content hits, like 'Hotline Bling Girl' and 'Dogs are good.' What's that? You've never seen these comics before in your life? What's that? I should stop using The Verge as a platform for shameless … | Continue reading
Last night, Tesla introduced the Model 3, its affordable electric car for the masses. The masses have responded, with more than 180,000 preorders placed in the first 24 hours.Even before the first Model 3 rolled into public view at Tesla's facility in Hawthorne, California, Tesla … | Continue reading
Amazon and Microsoft are two of the biggest technology companies in the world who have yet to make overt steps toward the world of autonomous vehicles, but that may soon change. Sources are telling Reuters that both companies are interested in providing cloud computing capabiliti … | Continue reading
If you want to see a great magic show today, take an hour to watch Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone in 2007. Ignore that it already looks insanely dated, and focus on how it's essentially just a 50-minute trick: a person on a stage exploits your optimism with theater, then surpris … | Continue reading
Jason Snell worked at Mac magazines for 20 years and was lead editor at Macworld for a decade. Now he writes about Apple at sixcolors.com and podcasts at relay.fm and theincomparable.com.It's hard to believe it now, but in the early days of Steve Jobs' return to Apple, nobody was … | Continue reading
Nathan Smith knew that Wink would have to go. It was early in 2015, and the smart home company he'd started less than a year earlier was being held back by the very thing that brought it into existence: Quirky. "We knew that Wink needed a parent other than Quirky to achieve its f … | Continue reading
Apple turns 40 today, marking four decades of incredible growth and success. It also marks four decades of products that each changed our relationship with technology: the Apple II, the Mac, the iPod, and the iPhone. We asked Verge executive editor Walt Mossberg to show us some o … | Continue reading
Apple turned 40 today — and the iOS App Store turned seven years, nine months, and about three weeks. It's not exactly the same round number, but it did get me thinking about my years and years of really odd downloads. So I decided to look back at my purchase history.Huh. Co … | Continue reading
The iPod commercials left an impression on a young me. I don't remember the first time I saw those silhouettes dancing in front of neon backgrounds, but I do know that I can't forget them. They defined a specific iPod-obsessed era: the early and mid-2000s. People dressed up as th … | Continue reading
One of the wonderful things about podcasts is how, over time, you get to feel like you're friends with the hosts. There have been a few podcasts like that for me, but the one that's been on my mind lately is The Totally Rad Show, an eclectic review series that covered games, TV, … | Continue reading
I stumbled in late to the staff meeting, my face flushed and sweaty, deep creases worn into both cheeks from the Oculus Rift headset. I had planned to spend 30 or 40 minutes testing out AirMech: Command, one of the launch titles for Facebook’s virtual reality headset. Three hours … | Continue reading
You can’t help but hear about tablets that are designed to replace your laptop. Microsoft and Apple have been pouring tons of effort and marketing into the Surface Pro and iPad Pro, two devices that are supposed to be productivity machines in addition to tablets. You can see them … | Continue reading
LG's new ad for the G5 smartphone brings to life that classic thought-experiment: what if the world was populated entirely by Jason Stathams? The ad shows Stathams starting fights on the subway, a Statham wearing a Statham mask robbing a bank staffed by Stathams, and even a bewig … | Continue reading
Christina Aguilera, Katy Perry, deadmau5, and dozens of other musicians are asking the US government to revamp the Digital Millennium Copyright act (DMCA), the piece of law that governs access to copyrighted work on the internet. Musicians, managers, and "creators" from across th … | Continue reading
I love April Fools' Day. I agree the annual day of pranks and goofs has become a shallow excuse for brands to cloyingly plea for our attention, but sometimes that desperation can transcend into genuine humor. You get the sense, on April Fools' Day, that a certain set of people re … | Continue reading
This morning, Taylor Swift tweeted a short advertisement for Apple Music that she claims is "based on true events." I don't think I've ever believed anything more.In the video, Swift is preparing for a run. Her cat eyeliner is perfect, and her hair looks like it has recently been … | Continue reading
When I was a kid, I used to stare at the Apple logo on my sister’s hand-me-down Macintosh LCII and dream about the future. That half-bitten apple was a symbol, a vision of a different world: a world where renegades and upstarts took crazy ideas and turned them into reality.The fu … | Continue reading
This is Tesla’s moment. It wasn’t the Roadster, nor the Model S, nor the Model X — it’s the Model 3 that matters, the practical EV for the masses that Elon Musk intended to eventually be able to make all along. This car has been a solid decade in the making.But somehow, it all fe … | Continue reading
Elon Musk just unveiled the car that will drive Tesla's future. Here's everything you need to know about the Model 3: a $35,000 electric car that could make the company accessible to many more consumers. More than 100,000 people have already pre-ordered the car, and Tesla says it … | Continue reading
There was a fish in the bathtub. That was one of the first things we saw in the hotel room after we put on Microsoft’s developer-ready version of HoloLens, the augmented reality headset it believes will transform the way we learn, work, and play. We had the chance to use Hololens … | Continue reading
Last night, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's Model 3 to an audience of eager, electric car acolytes. The car, which will range 215 miles per charge and start at $35,000, is set to begin deliveries at the end of 2017. So unless you were one of the lucky few who got to take a test ride a … | Continue reading
Imagine it: a Microsoft-built phone running on Google’s Android operating system. Go ahead, it’s easy if you try. What do you see?I see Panos Panay getting us pumped for hardware as delicious as the oft-imitated Surface Pro 4 and new Surface Book. I see Android tweaked to feature … | Continue reading
After 13 years of blowing stuff up, long-running science show MythBusters went off the air last month, with hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman bidding goodbye with the help of special guests like Barack Obama. But the franchise is far from dead, with the Science Channel now plan … | Continue reading
The reboot of the Doom series is coming next month, and a new live-action teaser trailer is here to try and get you in the mood. As developer Bethesda notes, it's got all the elements you'd expect from a Doom title: non-stop combat, big demons, and lots of high-powered guns. Call … | Continue reading
In virtual reality you can be the person you always dreamed of. And let's face it, your life is never going to get better than when you're rescuing kittens from a wobbly plank halfway up a... | Continue reading
Alex Gibney, the celebrated director of documentaries like Going Clear and Zero Days, is going to direct his first narrative feature film. As Deadline reports, Gibney will direct The Action, a film about a group of anti-war activists who leaked classified FBI documents on J. Edga … | Continue reading
Yes, we know what day it is, but really: Google Photos now lets you search using emoji. Try it yourself. The company announced the news in a blog post on Google+ last night, explaining (in emoji also) that sometimes "searching with a full word just doesn't cut it," and you need t … | Continue reading
Gmail April's Fool's joke seems like a harmless bit of fun, but according to some users, it's already landed them in hot water. Google added a new button to its service last night that allows users to "send and mic drop" their emails, an April Fool's feature that automatically at … | Continue reading
The long-awaited Quantum Break straddles the line between traditional action-adventure video game and binge-friendly cable drama, combining two mediums together in an effort to produce something novel. On one level, the Xbox One exclusive from Remedy Entertainment is a third-pers … | Continue reading
This evening, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the long-awaited Tesla Model 3. It's the most important car Tesla has ever made, and they've already taken more than 130,000 reservations.See More: Tesla Model 3 in photosIt should ship late next year, starting at around $35,000, with a … | Continue reading
Elon Musk just unveiled the Model 3 at the Tesla headquarters in Hawthorne, CA. He also shared that more than 100,000 people put a deposit down on the mass-market electric car before they even knew what the thing looked like. Pictures and live streams have been pouring in from th … | Continue reading
Reddit's latest transparency report, published yesterday, indicates that the social networking site has received a classified request for user information from the US government in the last year. The report has specifically removed a "warrant canary" — a small passage of text tha … | Continue reading
The Tesla Model 3 is here — sort of. It won't actually ship to the thousands of customers with preorders until late 2017, but we finally have our first look at it, even if Elon Musk says this is just Part 1 of the Tesla Model 3 story. Part 2 is yet to come.Tesla says the car will … | Continue reading
Kanye West's latest album, The Life of Pablo, has arrived on Spotify and Apple Music. It was reported yesterday that West's still-changing album would soon appear on the services, despite the self-proclaimed greatest artist ever saying it would remain a Tidal exclusive forever, a … | Continue reading
Tesla has brought in more than $115 million in preorders on the new Model 3 today, according to company CEO Elon Musk. That's 115,000 cars worth more than $4 billion at the base price of $35,000 — but expect many of those cars to sell for considerably more than the base price.He … | Continue reading
After ten years of waiting, Tesla has revealed the Model 3, the vehicle that CEO Elon Musk hopes will take the electric car to the masses.At the unveiling of the Model 3 this evening at the company's design studio in Hawthorne, California, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the car will de … | Continue reading
Gamergate — you remember, the misogynistic hate movement that started in 2014 — quickly became a cyclone of harassment and opportunism that gave a particular tradition of terror on the internet a brand. It was never originally about "ethics in gaming journalism," but this incredi … | Continue reading
Tesla is now taking preorders on its website for its wildly anticipated Model 3, the company's more affordable electric car that's expected to sell in much higher volumes than the existing Model S and X. Brick-and-mortar Tesla locations have been taking deposits (at a very health … | Continue reading
With the release of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it's a very serious few weeks for virtual reality. So it's the perfect time to lighten up with Google's latest April Fools' Day product: an all-new VR headset that truly lives up to the medium's promise. That's Google Cardboard Pl … | Continue reading
Like many companies, eBay is convinced virtual reality is the next big thing. But also like a lot of companies, eBay is trying to figure out just what that means for its business.On Thursday, the company is announcing its first small foray into the VR arena, as subsidiary StubHub … | Continue reading
The Blade Runner sequel is getting a major new addition — Robin Wright, who currently stars as Claire Underwood in House of Cards, is in final negotiations to join the cast, according to Variety and The Wrap. Wright's role is unknown, but she joins a cast featuring Ryan Gosling a … | Continue reading
LG's G5 has a lot going for it. The beautiful Android flagship is also a modular smartphone that could radically change how we think about accessories, and it's armed to the teeth with some of the best components available. So it's safe to say there's little else that could convi … | Continue reading
Theranos' blood tests often fail to meet the labs own standards, a redacted inspection report released by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services revealed today. Because of this, and other errors, a Theranos lab posed "immediate jeopardy to patient safety." Continu … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to bring Android phone notifications directly to Windows 10 PCs. During a session at Build 2016 today, Microsoft detailed how missed calls, messages, and other notifications from an Android phone will appear on a Windows 10 PC. Microsoft is using the Cortana … | Continue reading