During its keynote address at the Build 2016 conference today, Microsoft announced that there are now 270 million computers running Windows 10. The latest version of Windows was released publicly last summer, after a prolonged public test period. Since launch, Microsoft has regul … | Continue reading
Yesterday, suddenly and practically all at once, the internet was bombarded by stories about Alien Day. "Fox Releasing Ripley’s ‘Aliens’ Reebok Sneakers as Part of ‘Alien Day’ Celebration" wrote ScreenCrush. Android Central tweeted, "Aliens vs Pinball game from Zen Studios will b … | Continue reading
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Seagate has announced a monstrous 8 terabyte external hard drive, which will be launching next month for $350. The Innov8 (cringe) requires just a single USB-C port for power, making it a perfect companion for many laptops released between last year and today. Seagate claims it's … | Continue reading
Facebook has been talking on and on this past year about turning Messenger into a more than just a chat service, and a service being launched today illustrates exactly what that future looks like. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is now giving passengers the option to receive flight upda … | Continue reading
Apple's San Bernardino fight may be over, but the government is still seeking both Apple and Google's help in unlocking phones. New research from the American Civil Liberties Union shows 63 different cases in which the government compelled help from Apple or Google in unlocking a … | Continue reading
It's been clear since Verizon acquired AOL last year that the end goal was to combine the two companies' data and technology to build a massive advertising business. Verizon already made clear that it would share the data it had on user's browsing habits to improve AOL's ad targe … | Continue reading
Oscar Isaac and Alex Garland are teaming back up for Garland's new movie Annihilation, an adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's beguiling 2014 sci-fi novel of the same name. Isaac is joining an already-impressive cast: Natalie Portman, Gina Rodriguez, Jennifer Jason Leigh, and Tessa Th … | Continue reading
I'm floating in the ruins of a destroyed space station positioned somewhere in lower Earth orbit, with large chunks of debris passing me by. If my situation wasn't dire enough, my spacesuit is malfunctioning, and I'm quickly running out of the oxygen that's keeping me alive. I ne … | Continue reading
For a game that's been in the works for many, many years, we know surprisingly little about Final Fantasy XV — but that's about to change. Tonight, starting at 7PM PT / 10PM ET, developer Square Enix will be hosting an hour-long event called "Uncovered: Final Fantasy XV," which i … | Continue reading
Fantastical for Mac is one of our favorite desktop apps and one of the best calendaring apps on any platform. But if you are shackled to an Exchange server, the experience in Fantastical was less than great. Today, the app is getting a significant update that adds a number of new … | Continue reading
If you haven’t already seen Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, then odds are you’re probably going to see it in the next few weeks — and to that, I can only say, "I’m sorry." But the good news is that a new month is around the corner, so there will be a ton of new movies and tel … | Continue reading
LG’s R&D campus in Seocho, on the southern edge of Seoul, is not the easiest place to get to. After multiple taxi drivers told me on a cold March morning that it was impossible to take me there from the nearest train station, I ended up walking along highways and side streets for … | Continue reading
The most defining moment in EVE: Valkyrie — and by extension the Oculus Rift itself — happens just before I play my first round. Strapped in and waiting to enter the fight, I calmly look around and appreciate every detail of my craft: disarmingly small and very utilitarian, built … | Continue reading
Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg, now an Executive Editor at The Verge and Editor at Large of Re/code.Last week, Apple introduced both a new iPhone and a new iPad. Normally, such a dual … | Continue reading
Spoiler warning: This article discusses some details from the big central fight in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Here’s the dirty little not-so-secret secret behind Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Batman could have won that fight in 30 seconds flat, if he wanted to. He … | Continue reading
Soccer star Pelé is suing Samsung for $30 million. The 75-year-old Brazilian athlete claims that the company used a lookalike of him in a full-page ad for its UHD TVs last year. According to a report from Reuters, Pelé filed the lawsuit in Chicago earlier this month, with the com … | Continue reading
"We believe that iPad is the perfect expression of the future of personal computing."So said Tim Cook at the introduction of the new iPad Pro 9.7 last week. It’s exactly the kind of phrase you expect from Cook’s Apple: spoken humbly, but revealing a huge ambition. It mixes a thin … | Continue reading
Microsoft returns to San Francisco today to hold its Build 2016 developers conference. It’s an annual event that’s designed to give software developers a better understanding of what Microsoft is planning for the rest of the year. In previous years we’ve seen some pretty big anno … | Continue reading
Microsoft's chatbot Tay may have suffered a racist meltdown last week, but the company is not giving up on AI. According to a report from Bloomberg Businessweek, Microsoft plans to unveil several prototype bots at its annual Build conference later today. These AI-powered programs … | Continue reading
Let’s get something out of the way: I don’t trust Indiegogo. I’ve seen one too many flexible-funding campaigns not deliver upon claims or pass themselves off as the inventors of something already for sale through China’s Alibaba. Yet here I am poised to write a bunch of words tha … | Continue reading
If Apple really wants the iPad to be the future of computing, then it would help if the tablet could easily connect with multiple peripherals at once. A recently-published patent from the iPhone-maker shows one way this might work, with the document outlining plans for a "stackab … | Continue reading
Following months of rumors and delays, Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group has approved a deal to buy 66 percent of Japanese firm Sharp. According to a report from Bloomberg, the companies announced the move in a joint statement this morning, with Foxconn's board agreeing to pay 38 … | Continue reading
A new offender has been added to Amazon's prohibited products list for third-party sellers: USB-C cables and adapters that are "not compliant with standard specifications issued by USB Implementers Forum." It's a perfectly sensible policy, though it's probably most significant fo … | Continue reading
Tay's back. Microsoft AI chatbot is tweeting again after being taken offline following a bout of sudden racism last week. At some time around 03:30AM ET this morning, Tay started firing out tweets to other users, with one particular message repeated over and over again: "You are … | Continue reading
Phil Tippett the man is perhaps best known as the subject of a meme — for failing in his role as "dinosaur supervisor" on Jurassic Park — but the veteran artist's most famous work is his holochess pieces, stop-motion beasts originally seen on the Millennium Falcon's game table in … | Continue reading
Apple and Major League Baseball have signed a multi-year deal that will see every team receive iPad Pro tablets for use in the dugout, reports The Wall Street Journal. The 12.9-inch tablets will have rugged cases featuring the MLB logo, and a custom app called MLB Dugout will hel … | Continue reading
There's a lot to look at in the night sky, but sometimes amateur astronomers get particularly lucky. That was the case for two individuals — one in Austria, and one in Ireland — this month, who... | Continue reading
The CEOs of Facebook, Apple, Lyft, Google, Dropbox, and Tumblr joined more than 80 other company executives in urging Pat McCrory, the governor of North Carolina, to repeal a law that allows for discrimination against LGBT people. In the letter sent today, the CEOs write that the … | Continue reading
J.J. Abrams is riding high after the success of 10 Cloverfield Lane, and is getting ready for his next producing gig.TheWrap reports that Selma's David Oyelowo and Concussion's Gugu Mbatha-Raw have been tapped to costar in sci-fi thriller God Particle. Abrams' Bad Robot will prod … | Continue reading
The NCAA has announced that this weekend's Final Four and National Championship games will be live-streamed in virtual reality. Fans who own a Samsung Gear VR will be able to watch each game from a courtside perspective for free by downloading the NCAA March Madness Live app in t … | Continue reading
AT&T today announced that it's upping the monthly data caps on its U-verse home internet service and introducing a new unlimited option. Now, customers who pay for the first tier of U-verse, the slowest option at .8Mbps to 6Mbps, will have 300GB to use per month instead of 250GB. … | Continue reading
Remember that time you ate glue in seventh grade, and wondered what it would be like if Mortal Kombat featured the characters from your science textbook instead of ninjas? I do! And now I can relive that fantasy without poisoning myself. Browser game Science Kombat stars eight sc … | Continue reading
Last week, Apple released iOS 9.3 and introduced "Night Shift" — a way of modifying the computer’s display so that less blue light is present — to millions of iPhones and iPads. The feature, if enabled, will automatically take effect when the sun goes down, making the phone look … | Continue reading
Twitter is working to make it easier for people with visual impairments to access and understand images uploaded to the site. Although screen readers and braille technology work efficiently with text posts, images have been out of reach — until now. Starting today, people using t … | Continue reading
Kanye West's new album The Life of Pablo racked up 250 million streams in its first 10 days of availability on Tidal, according to a press release the service made available today. The album-specific reveal was tucked within the larger announcement that Tidal has cracked three mi … | Continue reading
Google has just announced Fiber Phone, confirming rumors that the company would be adding a home telephone service to its existing Fiber high-speed internet and cable TV offerings. "While mobile phones have pushed us toward the future, home phone service is still important to man … | Continue reading
In a press release celebrating its one year anniversary, Tidal says it has amassed 3 million subscribers, up from 900,000 last June. Of those 3 million subscribers, 1.35 million are paying for Tidal's $19.99 Hi-Fi offering, according to Billboard. The growth of the streaming serv … | Continue reading
Two months after letting advertisers extend their videos to 60 seconds, Instagram is granting the same privilege to regular users. Instagram videos, which have been limited to 15 seconds since they were introduced in June 2013, can now extend to a full minute. Like its corporate … | Continue reading
Ride-hailing service Lyft is launching a new carpooling service in the Bay Area today that it insists is entirely different from all the other carpooling services out there, including its own Lyft Line. Lyft Carpool will "tap into a completely different population of drivers" by … | Continue reading
Sony today announced that it's new 4K streaming service, called Ultra, will launch in the US on April 4th. Ultra was first announced back at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, when Sony revealed that the service would be available as an app exclusively on the company's new … | Continue reading
Airbnb is offering its coolest accommodation yet: an underwater bedroom surrounded by 35 sharks. Continue reading… | Continue reading
MedStar Health was forced offline this week after hackers took over its computer systems. An unconfirmed virus reportedly strangled the network and rendered it completely useless. Because of the attack, the healthcare operator’s 30,000 staff members and 3,000 affiliated physician … | Continue reading
It was a sunny afternoon in Manhattan and I needed a ride from Rockefeller Center to The Verge's office on West 40th Street. So, like thousands of people do everyday, I pulled out a smartphone, tapped an app, and requested a ride. Minutes later, a black GMC Yukon pulled up to the … | Continue reading
Snapchat is releasing a major update today that bolsters its chat function with a variety of new multimedia features. The long-rumored update adds more than 200 stickers featuring walruses, sloths, aliens, and Snapchat's signature ghost, and they can be searched by keyword, as on … | Continue reading
Sony just announced the RX10 III, a new version of the company's flagship superzoom camera. The biggest difference between the RX10 III and its predecessor is that it has a brand new super-telephoto lens with 25x optical zoom, giving it an equivalent range of 24-600mm. That's a t … | Continue reading
Like people, headphones are complex, multifaceted, and idiosyncratic. Each has its own particular version of reality, and the ones you ultimately like best are those you believe you can trust. That's where I find myself with Beyerdynamic's second-generation T5p (aka T5p.2) headph … | Continue reading
As of last night, Apple’s San Bernardino troubles are officially over. Yesterday, the FBI announced that it no longer needs Apple’s help in breaking into an iPhone linked to last year’s attacks, thanks to a new method for unlocking the phone submitted by an anonymous outside sour … | Continue reading