The first time I tried out drone racing at CES 2015, it was still a largely amateur affair, with events put on by racing groups or sponsored by companies directly involved in the drone industry. In the year and half since, drone racing has become far more mainstream — securing ve … | Continue reading
A group of researchers have devised a way for people to create their own control interfaces for household appliances. They say their RetroFab system is so simple anyone can use it, although I don't exactly think that's the case, especially considering most people don't have a M … | Continue reading
It took Pebble until December of last year to add real step-tracking and other fitness features to its smartwatch and mobile app. Now, the company is taking a speedier approach to development. A new update out today gives Pebble Time owners a more holistic snapshot of their steps … | Continue reading
Sue Googe is a 2016 Republican candidate who hopes to represent the 4th Congressional District of North Carolina in United States Congress. Also, her surname looks like the Google logo — especially as it's written on her campaign signs, which use a font that's identical to Googl … | Continue reading
The government agency in charge of New York City's JFK, Newark, and LaGuardia airports has sent a scathing letter to the Transportation Security Administration criticizing growing passenger wait times at the three airports, some of the busiest in the country. Additionally, the le … | Continue reading
After announcing the mid-range 5C last week, Huawei subsidiary Honor is back with a high-end device called the V8. The V8 runs Android 6.0 with EMUI 4.1, features a 5.7-inch Quad HD display, an octa-core Kirin 950 processor, 4GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage (there is also a 32GB v … | Continue reading
Uhoo's smart air quality sensor is the newest addition to the ever-growing world of the Internet of Things. The air monitor, the subject of a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, can track and detect temperature, dust, humidity, air pressure, ozone, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide … | Continue reading
Facebook is starting to open up about how a story starts trending, following accusations that it's been censoring conservative topics. In a post today, Facebook search VP Tom Stocky explains that human editors actually have a key role in determining what gets placed in the News F … | Continue reading
Basically everyone thinks that delivering your packages straight to your car is the future: Audi is trying it, Amazon is trying it, Volkswagen even made a special compartment for it in the bumper of the Budd-e concept. Volvo tried it, too, and now it's trying again in Stockholm i … | Continue reading
The lowly internet router has seen a bit of a resurgence of late. Between Google's efforts with the OnHub, Eero's multi-unit mesh routers, and even Starry's new touchscreen model, plenty of companies are trying to make your home Wi-Fi experience better. Portal, a new model hittin … | Continue reading
ESPN and Verizon have resolved a legal battle that began when the popular sports network sued the FiOS provider over its unconventional "Custom TV" channel packages last year. Verizon announced more flexible (and slimmer) programming bundles last April that gave customers the cho … | Continue reading
For all its faults, conventional cable is reliable. Engineers know exactly how much data the network can carry. That number won't change, regardless of rain, sleet, or snow.Gigabit Wi-Fi offers no such guarantees. Championed by both Starry and Facebook's Terragraph project, the n … | Continue reading
Starting today, you have one less excuse for being late to pick up your brother at the airport. Amazon's Alexa voice services now work with Kayak to help you track flight arrival and departure times, so you can call out to your Echo, Tap, Triby, or other Alexa-enabled device righ … | Continue reading
Uber and the unions representing drivers have been at odds for years. But today the ride-hailing giant announced it has struck a five-year deal with the Independent Drivers Guild — one of the more high-profile organized labor groups, representing 35,000 drivers across New York Ci … | Continue reading
Audeze, the boutique US manufacturer of luxuriously large and expensive headphones, has just started shipping its most compact and affordable cans. The Audeze Sine are the world's first on-ear planar magnetic headphones, replacing the traditional dynamic sound driver with an ultr … | Continue reading
A Utah-based maker of electric vehicles by the name of Nikola Motor Company (can't call it "Nikola Tesla Motor Company" for obvious reasons) just announced its first two products today. First is a utilitarian four-wheeler called the Nikola Zero with a claimed range of 125 miles; … | Continue reading
The massive world of The Witcher 3 is getting even bigger very soon. Developer CD Projekt Red announced today that the game's second major expansion, called Blood & Wine, will be launching on May 31st. (The first, called Hearts of Stone, came out last year.) And it's a big additi … | Continue reading
When word broke a few years ago that AMC was ordering a pilot based on Preacher, the controversial ‘90s comic from Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, it was a bit of a record-scratch moment. Not because of the comic’s history as a particularly tough adaptation to crack — everyone from … | Continue reading
Apple's patents should never really be taken as proof of upcoming product announcements, but they're always a fun way to get your mind thinking about what could be. Take this latest one, for example: officially granted today, the patent for a "cover attachment with flexible displ … | Continue reading
Moogfest is a festival about synths, but its ambitions extend beyond music. This year's festival, which takes place from May 19th to May 22nd in Durham, NC, will feature internet-themed art installations and IBM's DJ Watson, among a slew of other projects. Today, the festival has … | Continue reading
According to mainstream women’s magazines, there are about as many types of female orgasms as there are brands of flattering workout pants. There’s the storied g-spot orgasm, the cutting edge "a-spot" ("anterior fornix") orgasm, the even more obscure "u-spot" (urethra) orgasm, th … | Continue reading
With about a month left until Orange is the New Black's fourth season premieres, Netflix has released its first trailer out into the wild. The big shift this season is that Litchfield is now a for-profit prison, which means 100 new inmates, stricter rules, and even more personali … | 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.One of Murphy’s Laws states that if something can be borrowed and it can be broken, you … | Continue reading
One of science fiction's most mind-bending authors is coming to television in a new series called Electric Dreams: The World of Philip K. Dick, announced today by Sony Pictures and the UK's Channel 4. The 10-part anthology series will focus on Dick's short stories, which also ser … | Continue reading
One of Donald Trump's presidential delegates is a familiar name in the tech world: investor and PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Yesterday, Thiel's name appeared on a list of pledged California delegates selected by Trump, at this point the presumptive Republican presidential candi … | Continue reading
A couple weeks ago, my friend and colleague Bryan Bishop visited Las Vegas for a flashy conference called CinemaCon, where movie studios and theater owners discuss the future of the film industry — a future that isn't as predictable as it used to be.Many theater owners worry that … | Continue reading
The most important attribute in today's cutting-edge drones is the ability to see and understand the world so that the drone can safely navigate to its destination and around obstacles. Last week The Verge learned that Amazon had acquired a team of a dozen computer vision experts … | Continue reading
For decades, big budget video games were designed to look like films.Why not? Films became, in the 20th century, the most popular form of storytelling. Spread across dozens of genres and forms, films can be funny or sad, artsy or pedestrian, unabashedly childish or confidently ma … | Continue reading
Conventional wisdom is that if your eyes hurt from staring at screens too long you need to take a break, maybe go outside and have fun looking at objects that aren't two feet away from your face. Well, conventional wisdom never reckoned with the Aurai — a water-filled eye massage … | Continue reading
Sony plans to release a new version of its LED speaker lightbulb this month, and while yes, you can use it to simultaneously light your house and play music, the bulb truly shines when you pull it out to wow a date. The company demonstrates some use cases in its promotional video … | Continue reading
Let's just get this out of the way quickly because you're probably not going to understand it the first time I say it: Budweiser is renaming its beer "America." The beer Budweiser will henceforth be known as America. When you gingerly lift a tall boy of Budweiser out of your bode … | Continue reading
Amazon is launching its new Amazon Video Direct service today to let video creators share any content and receive a cut of the revenue. Amazon is offering a variety of ways for creators to earn money, including royalties through streaming by Prime members, and revenue sharing thr … | Continue reading
There’s something to be said about a return to simplicity in wearable tech. The category brims with possibilities, but in the current throw-it-all-at-the-wall climate, it’s hard to know which wrist dongle to buy, if any at all. Smartwatches run apps, but in a very limited capacit … | Continue reading
Today Uncharted 4: A Thief's End launches on the PlayStation 4, and, if you believe developer Naughty Dog, it'll be the last adventure for hero Nathan Drake. It's a great game — check out our review to see why — but there are still a handful of issues that mar an otherwise wonder … | Continue reading
Back in February Nintendo revealed Pokemon Sun and Moon, but provided little in the way of details for its next big monster-battling adventure. Today, we now know some of the most important aspects of the games: they will be launching on November 18th in North America, and will f … | Continue reading
I finished writing my review of the Huawei P9 on Friday. Today’s Tuesday, I have a Galaxy S7 and two iPhones in my immediate vicinity, and I’m still using the Huawei P9.Have I taken leave of my senses?Two years ago, Chinese networking giant Huawei sent me an unrequested Ascend P7 … | Continue reading
Vaio wants to be Apple for the Windows world: putting out well made and expensive laptops that are premium enough to be worth buying. This year, it debuted the second of its relaunched high-end laptops to hit North America, the Z Flip. It's a pricey machine — starting at $1,799 a … | Continue reading
Robots are usually discussed as a threat to jobs in developed countries, but they could have an even more destructive effect on the developing world. A recent article in The Financial Times describes how automation could destroy one of the tried-and-tested routes of economic grow … | Continue reading
A man accused of tricking celebrities into handing over their passwords and stealing TV and movie scripts, personal information, unreleased music, and sexually explicit videos pleaded guilty to charges of criminal copyright infringement and identity theft in a New York court on M … | Continue reading
Xiaomi has announced the MiMax, just a few days after Chinese regulatory authorities announced the 6.44-inch phone themselves. It's the company's biggest phone yet, but the claim is that it has a "slim 7.5mm body that fits in your pocket." Based on my experience carrying various … | Continue reading
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket stuck another landing last week, making it three times now the reusable rocket has blasted off and arrived back safely on Earth. At the time, people following the launch on live stream had to make do with limited footage of the touchdown, but SpaceX has n … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission is moving to limit the number of times government debt collectors can robocall individuals. The commission approved a proposal last week that would only allow collectors to call three times a month, and only in situations when the debtor has … | Continue reading
The glory of virtual reality is to live in another person's shoes — to feel what they feel, experience what they experience, and see what they see. The Eyse camera, which launches on Kickstarter today, aims to make that a possibility for anyone with a smartphone. Eyse's promotion … | Continue reading
T-Mobile has struck a roaming deal with state-owned Cuban carrier Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Cuba SA (ETECSA), letting visitors to the island nation use voice, text, and data services from this summer. The move follows the Obama administration's loosening of travel and trad … | Continue reading
Another superhero TV series is in the works: Syfy has ordered a pilot for a show titled Krypton, which will essentially be a prequel to Superman. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will begin two generations before the planet Krypton's destruction (and Kal-El's expul … | Continue reading
Lenovo's next Moto phones have surfaced via leaked images over the past few days, and Venture Beat has published an interesting report hinting at some big plans — modular ones — for the upcoming devices. It seems that Lenovo will follow LG's lead in building add-ons that owners o … | Continue reading
A new video from private spaceflight venture Blue Origin gives people a different perspective of the company's New Shepard rocket returning to Earth from space. The footage, taken from a camera on top of the vehicle during an April 2nd test flight, shows the changing landscape ar … | Continue reading
One of the most amazing sections of Miniatur Wunderland — a massive model railway installation in Hamburg, Germany that is Guinness-certified as the largest in the world — is the Knuffigen Airport. It's a huge model airport with dozens of planes and associated airport vehicles, a … | Continue reading