This morning Spotify rolled out another way for users to discover new music. It's called Fresh Finds, and it's the official launch of a feature that has actually been on the platform since last year, but wasn't heavily promoted or prominently featured until today.Fresh finds is a … | Continue reading
Hello! My name is Dieter Bohn and I have problems. My main problem is that I look around at my fellow humans and see them dealing with little problems that shouldn't be problems. I see tangled cables, messy computer interfaces, and wildly confusing living room TV setups. For what … | Continue reading
The Mazda Miata is an awesome little sports car. Perhaps the only way to make it better is to send it off to the espresso-filled engineers at Abarth to juice all the go-faster bits.The result is the Abarth 124 Spider, a 170-horsepower, rear-wheel drive drop-top that should delive … | Continue reading
The Maserati Quattroporte is a large sports saloon that can accommodate and transport four people in sumptuous luxury. To do that, it needs a big and powerful V8 engine. You know what doesn't need a 4.7-liter V8? A motorcycle. But for Ludovic Lazareth, designer of the Lazareth LM … | Continue reading
The first trailer for Nina, a biopic largely centered around Nina Simone's relationship with her former nurse-turned-manager Clifton Henderson, is finally here. The movie, which was directed by Cynthia Mort, will star Zoe Saldana as Simone. David Oyelowo (Selma) will play Henders … | Continue reading
As last year began, the app developer Pixite held its company retreat at a converted Old West movie set outside of Palm Springs. They spent a few days dreaming about the future while eating barbecue and sipping whisky in the sun. But 2015 was not a good year, and by last month th … | Continue reading
The return of Mass Effect will have to wait a bit longer. While the next game in the space opera RPG series, Mass Effect: Andromeda, was originally scheduled to launch some time during the holiday 2016 window, according to EA CFO Blake Jorgensen it won't be coming until next year … | Continue reading
You might remember that Forza Motorsport 6 was announced at a car show — NAIAS in Detroit last January — and now, Microsoft's Turn 10 Studios is doing it again: it just announced that there's a new Forza game in the works, and the hyper-limited Lamborghini Centenario, announced i … | Continue reading
Brazil is set to release Facebook's vice president for Latin America from police detention, following a court order calling his arrest "unlawful coercion," according to AFP. Facebook executive Diego Dzodan was arrested in Brazil yesterday after the company failed, for about two m … | Continue reading
Ellen DeGeneres is unveiling a new trailer for Finding Dory on her show this morning, and it's the most substantive look yet at Disney and Pixar's long-awaited aquatic sequel. (The movie's first trailer was released back in November.) The follow-up to 2003's beloved Finding Nemo … | Continue reading
The Bentley Mulsanne is perhaps the most elegant way to be chauffeured around, insulated from the hoi polloi. There's plenty of legroom, massaging seats, and curtains to close out the world and get some privacy, or perhaps just a nap on your way to an important business meeting.B … | Continue reading
Despite getting largely negative reviews in the days since its premiere, Netflix's Fuller House has just been renewed for a second season. That means the whole gang will be back for another go at some point next year.Netflix made the announcement on Twitter this morning:Your list … | 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.Apple has drawn a line in the sand over keeping its customers’ iPhones encrypted and … | Continue reading
Samsung's mobile payments service, Samsung Pay, has 5 million registered and processed $500 million in transactions since its launch in August 2015. Considering Samsung Pay is available on every flagship Galaxy device in both the US and South Korea, that's not a particularly impr … | Continue reading
Early on in Terrence Malick’s new film Knight of Cups, Rick — a self-indulgent screenwriter with a failed marriage behind him who soothes his existential ails with a parade of random models, actresses, and high-fiving Hollywood buddies — is shaken from sleep by a massive earthqua … | Continue reading
Activision has just launched a new feature for Call of Duty: Black Ops III called the "live event viewer," which allows players to tune into e-sports matches from directly within the game. Those matches, naturally, will be from the newly launched Call of Duty World League, with w … | Continue reading
Gumpert might not have been a company many people heard of, and its exotic cars were even rarer to see in person, but it offers a proud heritage of road-going race cars that the new Apollo is now building on. Revived from bankruptcy and rebranded to Apollo in 2015, the new compan … | Continue reading
At what point do you give up on a brand you once admired?It’s an interesting question to consider at a time when the once mighty HTC, Nokia, and Kodak companies struggle with reinvention.I have fond memories of TomTom, for example. I was floored the first time one of its personal … | Continue reading
France's national police has urged parents to think twice about posting photos of their children on Facebook, saying the images could jeopardize the privacy and security of their kids. Authorities say that if shared widely, the images could attract sexual predators, while others … | Continue reading
Kanye West may have singlehandedly pushed Tidal to the top of Apple's download charts last month, but when it comes to actually making music, he apparently relies on less legal services. Late Tuesday night, the rapper tweeted out a photo of a Safari browser that was opened to a Y … | Continue reading
Steven Soderbergh has signed on to executive produce an upcoming Western series for Netflix, Variety reports, adding another project to his growing list of TV endeavors. The series, titled Godless, is described only as a Western set in the 1880s. Screenwriter Scott Frank, who wor … | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly landed safely in Kazakhstan this evening, putting an end to his nearly year-long stay aboard the International Space Station. A Russian Soyuz capsule brought Kelly and two of his fellow Russia crew members home, a seven-hour-trip. Kelly has now conclude … | Continue reading
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End has been delayed until Tuesday, May 10th, two weeks on from its previous release date of April 26th. Sony's Shawn Layden announced the news in a blog post, saying that although the game is on track to go gold this month, more time is needed for manufact … | Continue reading
HTC's Vive virtual reality headset appears to be off to a good start. Shen Ye, who works in HTC's VR division, tweeted last night that HTC sold more than 15,000 units of the Vive within its first 10 minutes on sale.There's no barometer yet for VR sales figuresIt's hard to know ex … | Continue reading
In what has to be one of the most unusual pairings of Hollywood and the tech industry, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant can now guide you through an exploratory audio adventure focused on solving the mystery of Batman's murdered parents. The new game, called "The Wayne Investigatio … | Continue reading
In response to a question about emergency situations posed today at a House committee hearing, Apple's General Counsel said the company assisted in a search following the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Lin-Manuel Miranda has a lot of friends — and if you follow literally any celebrity on Instagram, you already know that. His hop-hop musical about the unlikely rise and untimely fall of the first US Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, is sold out for the next 100 years, produ … | Continue reading
If Apple helps the FBI break security on the San Bernardino iPhone, will the rest of the world follow its lead? It's been a live question in recent conversations around the issue, and Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell raised it again today in testimony before the House Judiciary … | Continue reading
An outbreak of the Zika virus in the Americas has turned into a public health emergency, according to the World Health Organization. Though most cases of the virus are harmless, some health officials believe it may be linked to a sharp increase in birth defects. Scientists also t … | Continue reading
Jackson Lanzing has published a beat-for-beat parody of "My Shot," the third song in, objectively speaking, the best musical ever, Hamilton. Paired with footage from the two recent Star Trek films, this song follows the story of everybody’s favorite nerd, Spock, from confused an … | Continue reading
When you're dealing with a property as vast as Star Wars, there needs to be some way to keep the various books, games, comics, toys, TV shows (and did I mention movies?) in check. Earlier today Lucasfilm creative executive Pablo Hidalgo, who's basically paid to know everything th … | Continue reading
Less than a year after returning to lead the company he founded, Mark Pincus is once again out as CEO of Zynga. Today the social gaming company announced that Frank Gibeau, formerly of Electronic Arts and Zynga board member since last August, will be taking over as CEO. Pincus wi … | Continue reading
Huawei's upcoming P9 flagship smartphone is expected to come out some time in the first half of 2016, and VentureBeat has obtained close-up photos showing off the phone’s body and a dual-camera system on its back. The feature looks like a revival of the Honor 6 Plus' similar came … | Continue reading
The Silver Snakes, Blue Barracudas, and Green Monkeys are coming back to television. Nickelodeon is reviving the '90s game show staple Legends of the Hidden Temple in the form of a fictional TV movie, Variety reports. Legends of the Hidden Temple, which ran from 1996 to 2004, pit … | Continue reading
Today, members of the House Judiciary Committee got a front-row seat to Apple's legal battle with the FBI, in a hearing entitled The Encryption Tightrope. The committee took testimony from FBI Director James Comey, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and Apple General Counse … | Continue reading
If you're a starving artist who at least finds consolation in the fact that a computer will never take your job, you may need to think again.As reported by the Wall Street Journal, last weekend Google held an art auction in San Francisco for works created by its algorithms. The m … | Continue reading
Programmers Whitfield Diffie and Martin E. Hellman, who developed the first form of cryptography for the internet era, have been awarded this year's Turing Award. Named after famed British mathematician Alan Turing, the award is a $1 million cash prize sponsored by Google that's … | Continue reading
Entrepreneur, celebrity of the extreme sporting world, and generally insane madman Ken Block has developed a reputation for creating the most entertaining car videos on the planet with his Gymkhana series. This is not an overstatement: you may recall that in his last outing, the … | Continue reading
Deutsche Telekom has its hands tied once again. T-Mobile's majority owner has been wanting to sell it off for years, but it now plans to wait until after an upcoming auction for radio airwaves to resume looking for a buyer, according to Reuters.The German telecom company is halti … | Continue reading
The latest in gaming technology is best used for exploring apartments from 1990s sitcoms. First someone made a virtual reality version of Jerry Seinfeld's apartment, and now there's a ridiculously... | Continue reading
Mars has never looked more otherworldly than it does in this new Medieval-style map of the planet's surface. We might be pretty familiar with the Red Planet these days thanks to all the robot selfies, breathtaking panoramas, and 360-degree images that are beamed back to us on a d … | Continue reading
If you stepped away from video games for a decade, would you recognize them when you returned?Over the weekend, I received an email from Murali Ramanujam, who hasn't played video games in earnest since 2007. Returning to the medium after nine years, he feels lost.As he puts it:I … | 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.Oh, you shameless, unrepentant hedonists. Baubles of billionaires, playthings of playboy … | Continue reading
AT&T has announced that it plans to offer internet-based streaming TV service later this year. The new services, which will be branded and packaged as DirecTV products, will let you stream video from smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, set top boxes, PCs, or other devices using a wi … | Continue reading
Of all the virtual reality games to leave me feeling disoriented, Minecraft was the one I least expected. The pixel-art game, which Microsoft announced today would be coming to the Oculus Rift headset when it starts shipping next month, was a surprisingly immersive VR experience … | Continue reading
Just two weeks ago, Alabama Shakes took home their first set of Grammys. It was a big night for the band, led by one of the best performances of the show, a scorching rendition of "Don't Wanna Fight" guided by lead singer and guitarist Brittany Howard's inimitable vocals. That sa … | Continue reading
Google's biggest event of the year starts May 18th, and today it's announcing how people interested in attending can get tickets. Between March 8th and March 10th, you can register online for the chance to buy tickets to Google I/O. Note that registering between those dates doesn … | Continue reading
Reddit moderator Blair Erickson has unveiled a project that spent two years in the metaphorical oven — a Reddit twin that shows what he imagines the site will look like in 1,000 years. Reddit3016 is a fairly intricate project, as it's covered in links to fake YouTube, Imgur, and … | Continue reading