Adam Green is best known as one half of anti-folk duo The Moldy Peaches, but he's also a filmmaker and an artist, creating bright, cartoonish paintings as well as collages and papier-mâché sculptures. The trailer for his upcoming film, Adam Green's Aladdin, manages to mix all the … | Continue reading
Android N is generating a lot of buzz with its split-screens and improved battery life, but there's also a potentially life-saving feature that comes with the newest Android makeover. A new Emergency Info screen will let you add details including name, address, date of birth, blo … | Continue reading
A newly-discovered bacterium that feeds on plastic could help develop new recycling methods. The discovery was made by researchers from Japan, who say that the microorganism is remarkable for its ability to breakdown completely a common type of plastic known as PET. This digestiv … | Continue reading
This week on The Verge's flagship podcast, Nilay and Dieter are joined by news editor Jake Kastrenakes; discussing Google's Android N, Samsung's Galaxy S7, while our very own space cadet Loren Grush talks Blue Origin news. Stay tuned for an all-new episode of Vergecast at 4:30PM … | Continue reading
Apple just pulled off a major scheduling coup. After months of rumors, the company announced today that its next product announcement will come on March 21st, just one day before the company defends itself against government efforts to break security on a phone linked to the San … | Continue reading
Netflix's latest movie acquisition is Hush, a micro-budget thriller from director Mike Flanagan that's premiering at SXSW this weekend. Flanagan also wrote and produced the movie, which stars co-writer Kate Siegel as a reclusive author suffering from hearing loss who's being hunt … | Continue reading
Solar energy is one of the fastest growing new industries in the United States, earning a shout out from President Obama at his State of the Union speech. The president noted that it is now a bigger business than coal, and typically pays its workers a higher wage. Now a Colorado- … | Continue reading
Humans have a hard time letting go of the past. Sometimes it's a good thing — nostalgia helps people fight loneliness and can even make them more tolerant. Other times it feels like a weakness, mostly because of how easily it gets exploited in the name of reunion tours and shows … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission hopes to strengthen rules around online privacy. The commission is circulating a proposal today that would require internet service providers — like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T — to get your permission before sharing information about you with … | Continue reading
Spider-Man just leapt into the final shot of the Captain America: Civil War trailer, tingling spidey-senses across social media. The clip lasts only a couple seconds, but gives fans their first... | Continue reading
A new all-electric racing series has been announced that will pit Tesla sedans against each other on famous race tracks around the world. The series was created by a company called Electric GT Holdings, and the first race could take place as soon as 2017. News of the series comes … | Continue reading
Florida residents who open the Uber app today won't see the typical estimated time to summon a car, but rather a message that reads "tap to vote for Uber." This leads to a second message: "Legislation currently blocked in the Florida Senate would allow all Floridians access to Ub … | Continue reading
Apple's next event is happening Monday, March 21st, when we're expecting it to unveil a new iPhone, a new iPad, and likely a bit more.The announcements are shaping up to be a sequel to those made at Apple's last event, held six months ago. There, Apple announced the iPhone 6S, iP … | Continue reading
The latest Captain America: Civil War trailer is full of fighting and in-fighting and quick one-liners — some new footage, some footage that we've seen elsewhere. But in grand Marvel fashion, the best part is at the very end, when Iron Man summons his friendly neighborhood new fr … | Continue reading
Apple has sent out invites for an event on March 21st at its campus. For those of you who want to read into the invite, Apple's tagline reads "Let us loop you in."The company is widely expected to announce a new iPhone, the iPhone SE, that will be the same size as the iPhone 5 bu … | Continue reading
Convertible laptops — also known as 2-in-1 laptops, hybrids, or in cases where the keyboard comes off, detachables — certainly have their upsides. They can fold into a tablet, which means you get a "tablet" and a laptop for the price of one; and they're ideal for frequent travele … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, private spaceflight venture Blue Origin invited a select group of space reporters to the company's headquarters in Kent, Washington. It was the first time the normally secretive company — helmed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — opened its doors to journalists. About 10 … | Continue reading
The Verge's New York offices now have an official virtual reality room. The library for its HTC Vive Pre holds a bunch of experiments and demos for full games we won't see for weeks or even months. But there's too much cool stuff to ignore. So for the next few weeks, we're puttin … | Continue reading
"A tree climbing a piece of wood. A large bird sitting on a mountain. A bike with a bike leaning against it." This is the world according to AI Scry, a new iOS app that uses a neural network to... | Continue reading
The drone takes off, hovering a few feet off the ground. I guide it up to about 12 feet with the throttle on the remote control. Then my three year old son takes over. He taps the screen on an iPad running our piloting app. The drone, a DJI Phantom 4, begins to ascend, heading to … | Continue reading
As Samsung releases the Galaxy S7 and the S7 Edge, our two experts talk about the design of the new products; the sleek hardware of the phone as well as the software that doesn't necessarily compliment it.We love your feedback and suggestions on how to make our show better and mo … | Continue reading
The new Ratchet & Clank on PS4 is technically billed as a reimagining of the original, a modern update to a nearly 15-year-old game. But based on the few hours I’ve spent with a preview version, it’s clearly much more than the splash of high-definition paint that constitutes most … | Continue reading
The Walk of Life Project hinges on a simple, pure, and extremely goofy question: what would happen if you laid Dire Straits' 1985 hit "Walk of Life" over a handful of iconic final sequences from the last half-century of movies and TV? I know it's the brainchild of Peter Salomone, … | Continue reading
Hackers attempted to steal up to $1 billion from Bangladesh's central bank last month — but their plans were partially stopped after they made a typo in an online transfer request, Reuters reported. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The Verge's New York offices now have an official virtual reality room. The library for its HTC Vive Pre holds a bunch of experiments and demos for full games we won't see for weeks or even months. But there's too much cool stuff to ignore. So for the next few weeks, we're puttin … | Continue reading
Everyone has to start somewhere. David Bowie may have turned in impressive performances in Labyrinth and The Man Who Fell To Earth, but his first ever movie role was starring in The Image, a 13-minute short film that's most charitably described as enjoyably bad. The short has bee … | Continue reading
"No Love Like Yours," the latest video from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, is an evocative, dreamy vision of death and rebirth, set against the unique backdrop of New Orleans. It was also shot entirely on an iPhone 6S Plus. Utilizing a cobbled-together camera rig and an ap … | Continue reading
The Angry God of ARPU demands crapware | Continue reading
At CES this year Roku and its TV manufacturer partners announced that some 4K models would be coming to market this year, bringing its inexpensive Roku-branded TVs from the likes of TCL and Insignia to the next level. Now the first 4K Roku TV is here.This morning Roku and TV-make … | Continue reading
DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it’s not even the main one. As co-founder Demis … | Continue reading
You might soon be able to see a movie on opening night without leaving your couch. According to a report from Variety, top studio executives are considering a partnership with Screening Room, a new service that would give viewers at-home access to movies the same day they're out … | Continue reading
Over the past 10 years technologies like smartphones and VR have marched steadily from the pages of speculative fiction and into reality, and given how ubiquitous these technologies have become it’s not surprising to see fears related to their rise pop up in movies and television … | Continue reading
The New York Times Magazine's first-ever Music Issue is out today, and along with it, the Times has released two new videos on its VR app. The first features Los Angeles group The Internet recording inside frontwoman Syd Tha Kyd's home studio. The second is a 360-degree video fro … | Continue reading
Maybe you've heard the Hyperloop mantra of "San Francisco to LA in 30 minutes?" Well, what about Bratislava to Vienna in eight? Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT), one of the two LA-based startups working to realize Elon Musk's dream of 760 mph, tube-based travel, announ … | Continue reading
Nest's products are about to get better at telling when you're out of the house and when you're about to come back home. An update to Nest's iOS and Android app today will allow it to start monitoring your phone's location. When it sees you leaving the house, it'll be able to set … | Continue reading
Google announced today that YouTube Gaming, its Twitch-like hub for gameplay videos and live streaming, is expanding its iOS and Android apps to Canada, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. The service is also adding features for Android users, including the ability to watch YouT … | Continue reading
The Division, which came out this week, casts you as a resourceful survivor in a vast video game version of New York. The city is huge, and so too is the scope of the game, putting players on a treadmill that rewards them with incrementally better gear as they gun down increasing … | Continue reading
The Russian military is looking for five dolphins to help out with operations in Crimea. As the AFP news agency reports, the Russian defense ministry announced its search in a procurement document published to its website this week, opening the bidding at 1.75 million ruble ($24, … | Continue reading
"Our mission is to fill every home with music," writes Sonos CEO John MacFarlane in a new blog post. "I start every day by asking myself how we can do that better." The answer, according to MacFarlane, is a strategy to bring Amazon Echo-like voice control to Sonos speakers and to … | Continue reading
Google stunned the world by defeating Go legend Lee Se-dol yesterday, and it wasn't a fluke — AlphaGo, the AI program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has just won the second game of a five-game Go match being held in Seoul, South Korea. AlphaGo prevailed in a gripping battle … | Continue reading
The FBI's stance on encryption benefits hackers, according to Apple senior vice president Eddy Cue, speaking yesterday about the ongoing legal battle swirling around the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters. "Of course that's not the way they are looking at it," Cue … | Continue reading
Netflix is close to securing its biggest movie deal yet with a top bid for Bright, a supernatural cop film co-starring Will Smith and Joel Edgerton with Suicide Squad's David Ayer on board to direct. It would be Netflix's most ambitious project to date, with the company footing a … | Continue reading
If you've got a Samsung Gear VR, you can soon connect your Facebook account to "Like" and share 360-degree videos from inside it. There are already Facebook 360-degree clips in the Gear VR's video app, but next week, Oculus Video will start letting users sign into Facebook and ge … | Continue reading
A unique web-based emulator is breathing new life into old Nintendo games like Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man by taking their traditionally flat visuals and transforming them into a glitchy mix of two and three dimensions. Called 3DNES, the software works only with the Firefox … | Continue reading
The Late Late Show's James Corden is turning his popular Carpool Karaoke series into a full show in its own right. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Corden and executive producer Ben Winston are selling networks on a standalone version of his signature segment, which features … | Continue reading
Video game publishers mastered the dark art of the pre-order long ago. In return for an extra in-game costume or some cheaply made bric-a-brac, a publisher can net thousands of sales ahead of (potentially negative) reviews, and maybe in the process make extra cash off merchandise … | Continue reading
Researchers at Google are trying to help robots navigate the world as well as humans can, and that means a lot of practice. Research scientist Sergey Levine and his team took fourteen robotic arms, networked them together, and used convolutional neural networks to let these robot … | Continue reading
The Verge's New York offices now have an official virtual reality room. The library for its HTC Vive Pre holds a bunch of experiments and demos for full games we won't see for weeks or even months. But there's too much cool stuff to ignore. So for the next few weeks, we're puttin … | Continue reading