Bill Gates is starting another Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, but as any regular AMA visitor knows, he first needs to verify his identity with a photo. Usually that means holding up a sheet of paper with your name and the date on it, but Gates went for something far more inte … | Continue reading
The day of the super SUV has arrived. Ballers will soon be able to buy an SUV in a variety of bombastic flavors, including Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Aston Martin, and Lamborghini. The first entree into this super-premium segment comes from Bentley. It is the Bentayga and it starts a … | Continue reading
New York governor Andrew Cuomo announced a bunch of upgrades for New York City's bus system today (the state is responsible for the MTA, not the city), and it's actually pretty cool: 2,042 new buses will be added to the fleet by 2020 at a cost of $1.3 billion, offering on-board W … | Continue reading
The upcoming 2016 Rio Olympics will be partially filmed in 8K "Super-Hi Vision," and anyone wealthy enough to actually own an 8K TV in Japan will be able to watch around 130 hours of it. That'll include the opening and closing ceremonies, plus some of the more popular sports like … | Continue reading
Yik Yak, the anonymous social network popular on college campuses, is asking users to create user names. Starting today, users will be asked to create "handles" that they can optionally attach to their posts. The handles, which do not have to include users' real names, will be tu … | Continue reading
It's been just over a year since Digit launched its powerful automated savings plan, which painlessly saves a few dollars at a time from your checking account to help you pay down debt or save for major purchases. Aside from adding interest payments, the service hasn't changed mu … | Continue reading
Feminist critic Anita Sarkeesian has risen to fame by dissecting pop culture. Her series Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, which breaks down gender-based gaming cliches ranging from kidnapped princesses to women as prizes, has become both a successful YouTube channel and a linchpi … | Continue reading
Even in an era when social networks are constantly pushing us to share more of ourselves, Paul Davison's projects stand out for their pushiness. Davison's first foray into social apps was Highlight, which broadcast your profile to everyone in your immediate surroundings. Davison' … | Continue reading
Aerospace engineers have dreamed of a spaceship that can launch like a plane, get to orbit, and land on a runway since the 1960s. A British company, Reaction Engines Limited, wants to make that dream a reality. REL’s sleek, winged spaceplane, called the Skylon, looks like somethi … | Continue reading
Live this week, it's humanity vs the machines, as Google's AlphaGo AI battles Korean champion Lee Se-dol at the ancient board game of Go. The five-game match is set to be as historic as the competition between IBM's Deep Blue and chess grandmaster Gary Kasparov, and, even better, … | Continue reading
My mom was wrong about violent video games; it’s the family-friendly stuff that’s treacherous.This past week I joined the millions of newly-minted devotees in Stardew Valley, a game that transports players into the dirt-caked boots of a humble farmer. I enjoy the leisurely days w … | Continue reading
HTC Vive games have to overcome a fundamental barrier: they've got to be good enough to justify flailing around at things no one else can see. Anyone walking around the Verge offices late last week, for example, would have caught me standing perfectly still in the middle of our V … | Continue reading
Batman v. Superman has always promised ground-shaking action, but theatergoers in New York City will have the opportunity to really feel it thanks to 4D cinema. The upcoming superhero flick will show at NYC's first ever 4DX theaters, with the technology providing environmental ef … | Continue reading
The champion entered the room to the machine-gun clicking of camera shutters. He locked eyes with his opponent’s entourage, one of whom was one of the most prominent billionaires on the planet and had just made lofty pronouncements about the importance of the upcoming clash. He l … | Continue reading
Microsoft is dropping support for its Skype for TV application. Starting in June, Skype for TV apps will no longer be supported on televisions from Samsung, LG, Sony, Panasonic, Sharp, Toshiba, Philips, and more. Microsoft revealed the changes in a support article, noting that "T … | 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.For this week’s column, I’ve been testing two new smartphones from a big handset mak … | Continue reading
Samsung Galaxy S7 reviewOn the edge of perfectionBy Dan SeifertHere’s the thing about smartphones: they are a lot better when they have big screens. Virtually everything we do with smartphones is enhanced by a larger display: messaging, playing games, watching video, reading arti … | Continue reading
ExxonMobil today said it would start accepting Apple Pay as a form of payment at around 6,000 ExxonMobil gas stations around the U.S, something that Apple CEO Tim Cook had said was coming during the company's first quarter earnings call.However, these Apple Pay payments won't be … | Continue reading
A total solar eclipse can be seen from Earth today, blotting out the Sun over Southeast Asia and parts of the Pacific Ocean. The eclipse will first occur just west of Malaysia early local time on Wednesday morning, according to NASA. The sight will then become visible farther and … | Continue reading
I’ve been traveling a lot lately and it’s made listening to music tricky. Without a stable mobile connection, I’ve frequently found myself locked out of my own music. I pay for Spotify and I download albums to my phone, but for some reason, the app often demands a working data co … | Continue reading
First it was Coke and McDonald's, then it was Starbucks and doggy bags. Now, Parisians have begun to embrace yet another mainstay of American cuisine: delivery food.A slew of food delivery apps and startups have sprung up across the French capital in recent months, and they're im … | Continue reading
Samsung, Sony, Apple, Microsoft, LG, and others regularly use product placement to get their phones into movies and TV shows. While established companies have long used this as a method to improve brand recognition, a number of Chinese companies are now using product placement in … | Continue reading
Amazon is launching its first live online show today, and it will be available for free to all users. The show, called Style Code Live, is a 30-minute, daily fashion and beauty program that will be streamed Monday through Friday at 9PM ET. As first reported by Variety, the show w … | Continue reading
Amazon is creating a new virtual reality platform, a job posting on employer evaluation site GlassDoor has indicated. The posting, spotted by UploadVR, calls for a senior software development manager for a new virtual reality team. The posting doesn't specify exactly what the suc … | Continue reading
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday will announce a monthly subsidy for broadband internet access in low-income households, The New York Times reports, in an effort to narrow a digital divide between the rich and poor. The final proposal calls for a $9.25 month … | Continue reading
Some of the most powerful people in the technology industry met with Republican senators, party officials, and assorted billionaires on a private island last weekend, the Huffington Post reports, with the main topic of conversation being the rise of Donald Trump, and how best to … | Continue reading
The Department of Justice is pushing to appeal its defeat last week in a New York iPhone unlocking case. The government sought to unlock an iPhone used in a methamphetamine smuggling operation through the powers granted by the All Writs Act, but was vigorously rejected by Magist … | Continue reading
Hillary Clinton has weighed in on the ongoing encryption debate between Apple and the FBI, describing the situation as "the worst dilemma ever." Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the democratic presidential candidate equivocated between the two positions, specifying that "there … | Continue reading
Microsoft's popular database software SQL Server is coming to Linux and will be available sometime next year. This is the first time that Microsoft has let SQL Server run on a platform other than Windows — it's a notable shift that means Microsoft is now prioritizing the sale of … | Continue reading
Virginia today signed into law the "Fantasy Contests Act," a bill outlining how daily fantasy sport sites like DraftKings and FanDuel can operate legally in the state. The law is the nation's first formal recognition of the industry after months of heated legal activity in multip … | Continue reading
Mercury’s abnormally dark coloring has puzzled scientists for years — but a new study using NASA data has revealed the origins of the planet’s unique look. Patches of a carbon-rich material called graphite — the same stuff that’s in a pencil — cover Mercury’s surface, tinting the … | Continue reading
The New York Times is the latest website to employ a pop-up to encourage readers using ad blockers to whitelist their site, according to Ad Age. The news site began testing out various methods including pop-up ads to get users to either whitelist the website or subscribe to the p … | Continue reading
Scott Forstall, an Apple executive who left the company after it fumbled the high-profile launch of its Google Maps competitor in 2012, is a co-producer of Eclipsed, the first Broadway play featuring an all-female cast and creative team and starring Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o. I … | Continue reading
A 99 million-year-old baby chameleon was found in a lump of amber in Myanmar, according to a study published in Science Advances on Friday. That makes it the oldest known chameleon fossil ever discovered, researchers say. Because of its age, the lizard is being referred to as a " … | Continue reading
Lucky passengers on tomorrow's Alaska Airlines Flight 870 will get a special sight when they look out the window: a total solar eclipse. The flight from Anchorage to Honolulu purposefully adjusted its departure time so that the plane's passengers could see the eclipse's totality … | Continue reading
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Oscar winner J.K. Simmons has been cast as Commissioner Gordon in the upcoming Justice League films. The announcement means that Simmons, probably best known for his turn as J. Jonah Jameson in the first Spider-Man trilogy, has made a big jump … | Continue reading
Google Photos will now allow users to back up and view Live Photos taken with the iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, the company announced in a tweet. The latest version of the iOS app has finally received support for the format, nearly six months after Apple introduced Live Photos in … | Continue reading
Chris Poole, the founder of 4chan, one of the world's most infamous websites, has joined Google. Poole announced the news in a blog post today, saying that he was impressed by the "intelligence, passion, and enthusiasm" of current and former Googlers, and that he wanted to begin … | Continue reading
Project Fi is ditching the invite system. 10 months after Google unveiled its own mobile network, which lets consumers pay only for the amount of data they use each month, the company is opening access to everyone inside the United States."With Project Fi, we deliver fast wireles … | Continue reading
One of the great ironies of the cloud computing age is that the five to ten year old laptop gathering dust in your desk drawer probably has more horsepower than a top of the line Chromebook which just hit the market. That means you can take a long dormant unit out of retirement a … | Continue reading
Lyft, locked in intense competition with its larger, better financed ride-hail rival Uber, announced Monday that Facebook Messenger users can now do what they've been able to do with Uber since December: hail a Lyft car from within the Messenger app. Lyft is also expanding its AP … | Continue reading
The drone business is booming, and companies which manufacture these aerial robots are increasingly trying to produce units that can straddle the divide between the consumer and enterprise market. 3D Robotics, one of the biggest US drone makers, announced this morning that it is … | Continue reading
Verizon is settling with the FCC over its use of an ad targeting technology known as a "supercookie," which tracks the websites visited by phones on its network. Supercookies allow websites to better target ads to visitors with Verizon cellphone service; but those visitors — for … | Continue reading
A new world record for the fastest street legal all-electric car has been awarded to the Genovation GXE, a heavily-modified 2006 Z06 Corvette which hit a top speed of 186.8 mph at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida last month. The GXE is a prototype created by small automotive c … | Continue reading
The next big thing from Blizzard is coming very soon. The developer announced today that its colorful multiplayer shooter Overwatch will be launching on May 24th on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. It was previously pegged for a spring 2016 release. A beta for the game will be availabl … | 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
Case modder Jeffrey Stephenson creates the type of extravagant PCs you want to construct a whole room around. His latest is the art deco-inspired SkyVue, which uses mahogany-like sapele wood and aluminum trim to mimic the look of a 1930s skyscraper (although that also means it lo … | Continue reading
Google received just over 75 million DMCA-related takedown requests in the month of March, representing a new high as content owners seek to keep pirate websites out of search results and invisible to people searching for leaked album downloads, movies, and other media. The rate … | Continue reading