Apple says that its reason for making another small phone is simple: "For some people, they simply love smaller phones."In a world where larger phones are king, Apple needed to give some amount of explanation for why it's making the iPhone SE, refreshing its 4-inch design in 2016 … | Continue reading
Apple just announced the 4-inch iPhone SE, and once again it's starting with a 16GB version — the same amount of storage space it has been offering since the iPhone 3GS in 2009. In those seven years, apps have gotten bigger, and Apple has given people reasons to fill that storage … | Continue reading
The new iPhone SE is powered by an A9 processor — just like the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus that Apple introduced in September. The powerful internals represent a major leap forward compared to the aging iPhone 5S, as now the company's smaller-sized handset is essentially on equal foot … | Continue reading
Apple has just announced the iPhone SE, a new 4-inch smartphone that offers a smaller and cheaper option to the company's flagship iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. It's like a mix between the iPhone 5 and iPhone 6 generations of devices, taking the size and design of one and the latest spe … | Continue reading
The latest Apple TV set-top box is getting some new, useful features today as part of Apple's tvOS 9.2 update. The best of the bunch is definitely Siri voice dictation, letting you speak to search the App Store or enter your passwords instead of using the annoying on-screen keybo … | Continue reading
Apple has slashed the price of the Apple Watch to $299, the company announced during its event today. It's kind of surprising that Apple would cut the price of a new device a year after launch without introducing a new model, but the Apple Watch has been on sale at Target and Bes … | Continue reading
Apple today announced that 93 percent of its facilities run on renewable energy, including 100 percent of its facilities in the US, China, and 21 other countries. The company made the announcement at today's event in Cupertino, California where it is expected to announce a new iP … | Continue reading
Another Apple announcement day, another round of products. Today we're expecting a new iPad and a tinier iPhone. Plus, expect Tim Cook to weigh in on Apple's legal fight with the FBI, and for the company to show off some software updates. We'll be collecting all of the news here, … | Continue reading
Tim Cook took today's Apple event as a chance to strike back at government demands that the company break security measures on a phone used in the San Bernardino attack. "We built the iPhone for you, our customers," Cook told the crowd. "We need to decide, as a nation, how much … | Continue reading
Daily fantasy sport sites DraftKings and FanDuel have agreed to stop paid contests in New York while the companies wait for a bill that may legalize the business. Both companies have been embroiled in a heated legal battle for months now with New York State Attorney General Eric … | Continue reading
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It already feels like you can buy everything on Amazon, but today Amazon began selling something unexpected: phone, internet, and TV service from Comcast. Amazon has set up sales pages for various Comcast service bundles — they're just like the standard Amazon product pages, but … | Continue reading
Amazon's staring contest with the BBC over the streaming fate of Doctor Who is over. The company announced this morning that it's signed a multi-year licensing agreement with the British broadcaster, one that'll make Prime Instant Video the exclusive American streaming provider o … | Continue reading
More than any other tech company, Twitter was invented by its users. That’s no slight against the engineers and designers who actually built the thing. It’s just to say that what we think of as Twitter — that 24/7 torrent of news and entertainment, millions of people taking measu … | Continue reading
Nintendo and The Pokemon Company made a splash last September when they announced Pokemon Go, which aimed to bring Pikachu and Squirtle into the real world through augmented reality. We've heard little about the game since then, but a new leaked video could be the first real glim … | Continue reading
Spotify has 30 million paid subscribers, CEO Daniel Ek announced today in a tweet. This is the first subscriber update Spotify has given out since it announced it had 20 million subscribers days before Apple Music hit the market last June, and shows the increased competition has … | Continue reading
Messages sent through iMessage are not as secure as users previously thought. Researchers with John Hopkins University discovered a vulnerability in Apple's messaging system that allows an attacker to decrypt and view sent photos and videos. The Washington Post reports that the r … | Continue reading
According to newly published court documents, Lyft would owe its drivers $126 million in reimbursement expenses for the last four years if the ride-hail service classified them as employees rather than independent contractors. The court documents, which were first reported by Reu … | Continue reading
Speaking to a crowd of investors at Deutsche Bank's Media, Internet, and Telecom conference on March 7th, T-Mobile CFO Braxton Carter suggested that unlimited data could be on its way out the door at the Uncarrier. "We've had and continue to have a strategy of pivoting away from … | Continue reading
Single-day passes to the inaugural Panorama Festival in New York City are now on sale. General admission for just one of the three days of the festival start at $99, and VIP passes start at $230. Weekend passes for Panorama, which runs from July 22nd to the 24th at Randall's Isla … | Continue reading
Ahead of Apple's announcement about new products, we've got some more news about the company. The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal on a long-running patent dispute between Apple and Samsung. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Built as an ironic and crass simulation of the modern life of crime, Grand Theft Auto 5 is replete with downtown bank robberies, cold-blooded assassinations, and expensive therapy on the shore of Laguna Beach. Like its duplicitous characters, the video game leads a double life. F … | Continue reading
Toonz, the software that animators at Studio Ghibli used for classics like Princess Mononoke, is going open source. Italian studio Digital Video made a deal with Japanese media company Dwango, enabling Dwango to produce and release a free version of the tool, called OpenToonz, fo … | Continue reading
You know that scene in the classic film Bruce Almighty when Jim Carrey uses his God-like powers to mess with Steve Carrell's character while he's giving a live news broadcast? That's what this video looks like (kind of), except replace Steve Carrell for George W. Bush, Donald Tru … | Continue reading
Paranormal enthusiasts often report sighting spirits dressed in Victorian period clothing, flowing white dresses, or just jeans and t-shirts. Why? If ghosts are, as paranormal investigators would have us believe, essentially human spirit energy stuck in purgatory between earth an … | Continue reading
Tesla just published a blog post with some more details on reserving a Model 3, which is scheduled to debut at an event at the company's Hawthorne, California facility late next week. But "debut" is a lot different from "launch" — the car won't actually be on the road until late … | Continue reading
No show likes to troll its audience quite like The Walking Dead. Game of Thrones may kill off people you love, and Homeland may test your patience, but there’s something unique about The Walking Dead’s ability to get you invested, hold your hand through long stretches of dialogue … | Continue reading
Today's Apple event caters to the inner Polly Pocket and Mighty Max fans in all of us. You can expect Apple to aim the shrink ray at a couple of its core products — the iPad Pro and iPhone. The smaller devices will be a course correction from the "bigger is better" mentality of y … | Continue reading
Today’s the day “tiny iPhone” fans. At 10AM PT / 1PM ET Apple’s expected to launch a 4-inch successor to the iPhone 5S with an upgraded processor, better camera, and Touch ID fingerprint sensor and NFC for Apple Pay. If you’re one of the 60 percent of iPhone owners who still hav … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met with China's propaganda czar over the weekend, continuing his efforts to build goodwill in a country where Facebook and other social media are officially banned. According to China's Xinhua news agency, Zuckerberg met with senior Communist Party m … | Continue reading
Researchers from John Hopkins University have developed a prototype drone that's just as happy in the water as it is in the air. The submersible quadcopter is designed to launch from an underwater station or vehicle (like a submarine, for example), bobbing to the surface from dep … | Continue reading
News out of Korea today is that Apple and Samsung Display have signed a contract for the supply of as many as 60,000 flexible OLED panels per month, according to ET News. This puts Samsung in the leading position to supply OLED screens for Apple's anticipated future switch in iPh … | Continue reading
For the second year running, Netflix is awarding its "Netflix Recommended" badges to smart TVs that meet its criteria. This year, the selection process has got a little tougher, with Variety reporting that the company has reduced the amount of time it gives TVs to perform certain … | Continue reading
Diablo is now one of Blizzard's biggest games, a gothic world that stands alongside the universes of StarCraft and WarCraft as one of the publisher's three multi-million selling franchises. But back in early 1994, Diablo only existed in the minds of designers, a small group who e … | Continue reading
Casio has announced that its its rugged Android Wear smartwatch, the Smart Outdoor Watch WSD-F10, will go on sale on the company's website, the Google Store, and Amazon, from March 25th for $500. The device was first unveiled at CES earlier this year, and unlike many of the new s … | Continue reading
The Natural Environment Research Council's newest research vessel is the result of £200 million (about $288 million) of government funding, thousands of tonnes of steel, and years of planning. It will also, if the internet gets its way, be called "Boaty McBoatface." Continue … | Continue reading
LG's Watch Urbane 2nd Edition — the company's LTE-connected Android Wear smartwatch — is coming back to the market after being yanked from stores late last year. AT&T is now accepting pre-orders for the second-generation Watch Urbane, as well as the LG G5, the Korean company's la … | Continue reading
Twitter entered the world ten years ago, on March 21st, 2006. Since then, it's gone public and amassed over 300 million active users. But like a lot of ten-year-olds, it's still misunderstood by many. We're sure the company hopes its new ad out today can help change that.The two- … | Continue reading
Today is a big day in Cuba: President Obama is visiting the island nation, marking the first such Presidential trip since Calvin Coolidge in 1928. But Obama and his family are just the latest in an increasing wave of tourists visiting the country, and they all need places to stay … | Continue reading
That old Kindle sitting in your desk drawer is about to get locked out from the internet. Amazon is warning customers of older Kindle e-readers that they must update by Tuesday, March 22nd, or else they will no longer be able to access the Kindle Store or sync with the cloud. Tha … | Continue reading
My mom and I vacationed in Mexico last week. Our ~girl’s trip~ started pretty great. We laid on the beach, sipped on mineral water with lime (detox!), and vegged. On our third day, though, the trip took a very not cool turn. Someone broke into our hotel room while we were at dinn … | Continue reading
The Formula One season started today in Australia, and a massive, scary crash on lap 18 provided an instant reminder why the sport will be adopting partially-closed cockpits next year. McLaren driver Fernando Alonso clipped the left rear of Esteban Gutierrez's Haas car while tryi … | Continue reading
"Apple pie?" The woman at the McDonald's drive-through window was confused when I asked if I could use Apple Pay. "No, Apple Pay," I said. "How many?" she asked, still thinking I was asking for an apple pie.To clear things up, I showed her my iPhone with the image of a credit car … | Continue reading
This column is part of a series where Verge staffers post highly subjective reviews of animals. Up until now, we’ve written about animals without telling you whether they suck or rule. We are now rectifying this oversight. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Last week I put a strange pair of headphones on. They're designed to stimulate your vagus nerve, which then is supposed to trigger a small boost in dopamine in your brain, subsequently relaxing you.I have no idea if they work, despite having used them for a solid half hour.The Ne … | Continue reading
Microsoft has screwed up its Windows Phone upgrades once again. While the software maker promised that all Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices would be upgraded to Windows 10, it's breaking that promise. Microsoft started rolling out Windows 10 Mobile to existing Lumia devices this wee … | Continue reading
Everyone eventually hits a point at which they stop caring about something they once loved. I don’t mean in a romantic sense, I mean in a practical sense: the well-worn sweater that doesn’t fit right anymore, the once-comforting movie you’ve gotten sick of watching. For me, that … | Continue reading
After spending the bulk of my week at SXSW Music watching panels, conducting interviews, and speed-walking from event to event, I crawled into Friday night hoping to embed myself in a series of performances without a looming distraction. I’ve been surrounded by music here in Aust … | Continue reading