The Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal on Apple's ebooks price-fixing case, locking the company in to a $450 million settlement, Reuters reports.After a major Justice Department investigation found that Apple had conspired with book publishers to raise the price of eboo … | Continue reading
Amazon will open its second physical bookstore in a San Diego mall, opposite an Apple store and next to a Tesla store, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune. Signage erected outside the location says the bookstore is arriving "this summer," confirming rumors of the new location spa … | Continue reading
The next Fable game is shutting down — and the influential studio behind it may well be too. Today Microsoft announced that it was cancelling the free-to-play title Fable Legends, which was in development for the Xbox One and PC. The company also says that it is "in discussions w … | Continue reading
Facebook's fast-loading Instant Articles have been slowly rolling out, but on April 12th every publisher will be able to create articles using the special format. Facebook is now making it even easier for small WordPress blogs to offer their content in Instant Articles. The socia … | Continue reading
SoundCloud, the music and audio-sharing service, has hired digital media veteran Alison Moore as its chief revenue officer. Moore, whose resume includes stints at NBCUniversal* and HBO, joins SoundCloud as it is getting ready to launch a consumer subscription service.That service … | Continue reading
Jimmy Kimmel will host the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards this year, Deadline reports. Kimmel has hosted the television-centric awards show once before, in 2012. Continue reading… | Continue reading
After a 13-year run, the final episode of MythBusters' final season aired this weekend, and a reunion special featured a goodbye from a few special guests. President Barack Obama himself recorded a farewell to the show's hosts, sharing some memories and thanking them for "inspiri … | Continue reading
BMW is in the midst of celebrating its 100th anniversary, and to mark the occasion, it just rolled out the Vision Next 100 concept at its Munich headquarters. By all appearances, it's one of the most insane concept cars BMW has ever conceived.If you squint your eyes, you can stil … | Continue reading
Google’s DeepMind will be taking on the world’s best Go player this week in what’s shaping up to be the 21st century’s take on Deep Blue vs. Garry Kasparov — the 1997 event that saw a reigning world chess champion defeated by a computer. The ancient Chinese board game of Go, howe … | Continue reading
Tony Dyson, longtime special effects supervisor and the "father" of lovable Star Wars droid R2-D2, has died at the age of 68. In addition to his work on Star Wars, Dyson also worked on Superman II, built a miniature space battle for Bond movie Moonraker, and put together a huge r … | Continue reading
Joseph Gordon-Levitt has backed out of the planned Sandman movie, three years after he helped to get a film version of Neil Gaiman's classic comic greenlit. In a Facebook post this weekend, the actor said he made the decision to walk away from the movie after he realized that he … | Continue reading
We've had presidential endorsements via Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, but as you'd expect from a man famous for playing a robot from the future, Arnold Schwarzenegger is ahead of the tech trend curve. The ex-Terminator and former governor of California delivered his president … | Continue reading
As the legal battle between Apple and the FBI continues, Apple's vice president of software today presented the company's case to the public. Craig Federighi, Apple's vice president of software, is the latest to present the case for the company to the public. In an op-ed in the W … | Continue reading
Hayao Miyazaki, the director and writer of some of the world's most beloved and masterfully imaginative anime films, has a following in and outside of Japan dedicated enough to rival that of Disney. So it was no surprise to see the line for an art show inspired by his sprawling b … | Continue reading
Users of BitTorrent client app Transmission became the first reported victims of Mac ransomware this week. People who downloaded infected versions of the app also received "KeRanger" malware, 9to5Mac says, nefarious software that would encrypt a user's hard drive three days after … | Continue reading
Scott Kelly is enjoying his first week back on planet Earth after spending 340 days in space. Naturally, people are curious about how he's doing. On Friday, the NASA astronaut held his first press conference since he's been back, answering questions about readjusting to gravity, … | Continue reading
On Thursday, March 4th, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan officially opened to the public. The hub replaces the PATH train station that was destroyed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which — if you'll recall — was rather a long time ago. Indeed, over … | 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.As of last weekend, Pokemon is 20 years old, which means f … | Continue reading
A computing legend has died. The inventor of email, Ray Tomlinson, suffered an apparent heart attack on Saturday, according to reports. He was 74 years old.Tomlinson sent the very first email back in 1971; at the time, he was working in Boston at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman, a comp … | Continue reading
Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill buddy movie 23 Jump Street will, in fact, be a crossover film with Men in Black. The idea for combining the two franchises was first leaked as part of Sony's devastating hack in 2014, and now several industry publications have confirmed that the stud … | Continue reading
Sure, seating is getting more cramped, drinks and snacks are going away, and it costs a million dollars just to check a bag — but modern commercial air travel isn't all bad. Take a look at this self-cleaning aircraft lavatory concept from Boeing, which might someday reduce the ch … | Continue reading
Think augmented and virtual reality headsets are just for games? NASA astronaut Scott Kelly thinks otherwise after spending some quality time with Microsoft's HoloLens aboard the International Space Station during his recent 340-day mission. At a press conference yesterday, the a … | Continue reading
One of the hardest things about walking away from the iPhone is giving up how well it works with the Mac. Paired together, your incoming text messages and phone calls all pop up on your desktop, where you can respond to them, and opened websites can be beamed from mobile to deskt … | Continue reading
“As soon as I could conceptualise being anything,” Christian Ward says, “I wanted to be a comic artist. I would draw comics at primary school that I'd photocopy and sell in the playground. It was having school teachers and tutors at uni who did all they could to steer me away fro … | Continue reading
Recently The Verge reviewed the Robin, a new smartphone from startup Nextbit that has won some attention for its sharp design and clever way of managing storage on the phone. Those features aside, though, the Nextbit Robin shares a lot of similarities with the Nexus 5X, one of Go … | Continue reading
If you haven't listened to Mystery Show, the podcast where Starlee Kine solves unusual mysteries, you should. You can enjoy the episodes in any order. I recommend starting with episode 5, "Source Code," in which Kine tries to solve the mystery of actor Jake Gyllenhaal's height.Wh … | Continue reading
Amazon has quickly reversed course after it found itself in a PR firestorm earlier this week for quietly disabling encryption on its Fire OS 5 software. The move came at a particularly inopportune time: a standoff between Apple and the FBI over a suspected terrorist's iPhone has … | Continue reading
Google has begun experimenting with an entirely new format for search results, which could eventually let any brand, celebrity, or organization have a dedicated Twitter-like feed built right into the company's search engine. Google first started employing it last month by letting … | Continue reading
SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket into space this afternoon, but — as expected — failed to land the vehicle on a drone ship at sea afterward. CEO Elon Musk said the rocket "landed hard" on the drone ship. The mission requirements made a successful landing unlikely. … | Continue reading
California's new 220-mph bullet train won't begin accepting passengers until at least 2025, three years later than the initial schedule, according to a new business plan released by the agency overseeing the long-gestating project. But there's a silver lining: the high-speed rail … | Continue reading
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this feels like one of the most all-over-the-place collections of music we’ve had here in a while. Azealia Banks and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis make for a peculiar duo; Kristin Kontrol, M83, a … | Continue reading
It's a good year for gorgeous, brutally challenging puzzle games. In January we had The Witness, and this June we're getting Obduction — a new game from Cyan, the studio behind Riven and Myst. Cyan calls Obduction the spiritual successor to Myst, and it's easy to see why that is … | Continue reading
Two weeks ago, Meerkat CEO Ben Rubin sent an email to his company’s 48 investors laying bare an observation that he’d made peace with months earlier: Meerkat, the livestreaming app that played the role of darling one year ago at the annual SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, was fail … | Continue reading
A buried knife was found at O. J. Simpson's estate during construction work, though no one is sure exactly when, TMZ reports. Though the construction worker gave it to a nearby police officer, that cop chose to keep the knife at his own house — and did so for years. It didn't com … | Continue reading
Microsoft is today rolling out a new Windows 10 update to its "fast ring" testers that's largely focused on Cortana, the operating system's built-in personal assistant. First, Cortana is expanding its list of supported languages to include Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), a … | Continue reading
"I'm making a music video. 'Peeno Noir: An Ode to Black Penis.'" So begins one of the most purely joyful viral music hits of last year, a song written for Tituss Burgess' character on Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. At first glance, an ode to male anatomy might not seem lik … | Continue reading
Tinder is encouraging users to share profiles they come across with friends. The company announced today that it's testing a button that lets users text a link to a profile, instead of grabbing a screenshot. The link expires after five clicks or 72 hours. Once the text is sent, t … | Continue reading
Lady Gaga will return for American Horror Story's sixth season, The Hollywood Reporter reports. In an interview with the New York radio station Z100, Gaga confirmed she'd be heading back to Ryan Murphy's campy horror series, but she wouldn't give any details about what form that … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago, I walked into the always-crowded Lego Store straddling Manhattan's Madison Square Park. I was alone and I was on a mission, so I sort of chameleoned into "dad casually shopping for his young child's birthday" mode. It was a misguided effort to blend in amongst th … | Continue reading
Google today confirmed that it will remove some search results from all of its sites starting next week, if those searches are made within the European Union.In 2014, an EU court decided that Google must comply with requests to remove some search results, in a decision that becam … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to unveil its universal Xbox apps later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge that the software giant will detail a number of apps and plans to open the platform to developers at the Build conference in San Francisco … | Continue reading
Strong evidence suggests the mosquito-borne Zika virus is causing infants to be born with birth defects — and a lab model provides clues on how it happens. The virus is capable of infecting the cells that form the brain's outer layer, making them more susceptible to death and pre … | Continue reading
DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to develop the agency's newest unpiloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The new "X-plane" concept (no, not that X-plane) will reach speeds of 400 knots and carry cargo loads of at least 40 percent of the plane' … | Continue reading
Photos of HTC's next major smartphone, reportedly called the HTC 10, have surfaced on the web today. Unlike Samsung and LG, HTC didn't unveil its latest flagship at Mobile World Congress last month, so this is our first good look at what the company has been working on. OnLeaks i … | Continue reading
Passes to the first-ever Panorama festival are now on sale. General admission for all three days starts at $369, and VIP weekend packages are available in addition to transportation and layaway options. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Games often age poorly. More so than any other form of entertainment, games change at a rapid pace, and new innovations can make older titles feel downright archaic, to the point they’re no fun to play. That’s why a modern remake of a game like Final Fantasy VII is such a huge un … | Continue reading
The first episode of I Am Cait’s upcoming second season might contain more drama and meaningful dialogue than the entirety of its first batch of episodes. That’s less a slam against the first season than an observation: E!’s smallest, most unconventional reality show had to spend … | Continue reading
Barnes & Noble has notified its users that it will shut down the Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store on March 15th. The company sent out an email to users and developers on Thursday explaining that third-party app sales and in-app purchases would soon cease to work … | Continue reading