Rumors have pointed to a new 9.7-inch iPad at Apple's to-be-announced March event, but apparently it's not going to be called the iPad Air 3. 9to5Mac is now reporting that the next iPad will fall under the iPad Pro brand, offering a step-down size from the monstrous 12.9-inch dev … | Continue reading
After months of waiting, TheWrap reports and The Hollywood Reports confirms Marvel has found the star for its next Netflix series, Iron Fist. Game of Thrones' own Finn Jones is set to play Danny Rand in the title role. Marvel and Netflix have yet to comment.Finn is best known for … | Continue reading
Today, Apple filed a motion to vacate the district court order demanding it break security protections on a phone linked to the San Bernardino attacks. The filing lays out Apple's extensive legal objections to the FBI order, setting the stage for a lengthy court battle. "This is … | Continue reading
After more than a decade, an unfathomable amount of money, and hundreds of thinkpieces on the subject, the World Trade Center Transportation Hub — and the Oculus, the spiky, controversial sculpture that tops it — is set to make its debut to the public. The official word is that t … | Continue reading
The Birth of a Nation just got a nationwide October 7th release date from Fox Searchlight, The Hollywood Reporter reports. Nate Parker wrote, directed, and starred in the film, which was one of the biggest hits to come out of this year's Sundance. Fox Searchlight paid $17.5 milli … | Continue reading
Verizon Wireless, the largest mobile carrier in the United States, has strongly — and rather unexpectedly — stood up in support of Apple in its legal showdown with the FBI. In a statement, CEO Lowell McAdam said "Verizon is committed to protecting customer privacy and one of the … | Continue reading
FX just released a trailer for Taboo, its new mystery-drama inspired by an idea from Tom Hardy and his father, Chips Hardy, Variety reports. The eight-episode series, a collaboration between FX and BBC One, will be produced by Ridley Scott and Steven Knight, and directed by Krist … | Continue reading
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had to scold his staff after discovering that unidentified employees recently crossed out Black Lives Matter and replaced it with "all lives matter" on the walls at Facebook headquarters — multiple times. Gizmodo obtained an internal memo written by Z … | Continue reading
A gas leak outside of Los Angeles, in Aliso Canyon, last October forced more than 4,600 households into temporary housing and took 112 days to plug. Now, researchers say it may have been the worst methane leak in US history.Overall, the Aliso Canyon gas leak released more than 10 … | Continue reading
Researchers say they've been able to make immature mouse sperm in the lab and use it to generate offspring. The study, led from Nanjing Medical University, may be a milestone in the path to developing treatments for infertility. Researchers have tried for years to create sperm in … | Continue reading
Even big-deal celebrities will want to sneak a selfie with Vice President Joe Biden at this Sunday's Academy Awards ceremonyBiden will be there to introduce Lady Gaga's performance of her Oscar-nominated song, "Til It Happens to You." Gaga co-wrote the song for "The Hunting Groun … | Continue reading
Speaking at a congressional hearing today, Microsoft president and chief legal officer Brad Smith said that his company "wholeheartedly" supports Apple in the ongoing case that's pitted the iPhone maker against the FBI. "We at Microsoft support Apple and will be filing an amicus … | Continue reading
Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell will argue Apple’s encryption case in front of the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee on March 1. Joining him will be FBI director James Comey, New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance, and encryption specialist and professor at Worcest … | Continue reading
iCloud could be facing some serious changes as a result of Apple's legal fight with the FBI. A Financial Times report today claimed that the company is working on stronger security measures for iCloud, which would potentially block access from both Apple and law enforcement reque … | Continue reading
Google's latest deep-learning program can figure out where a photo was taken just by looking at it. The program, called PlaNet, was trained to recognize locations based on details in a photo by looking at over 90 million geotagged images taken from the internet. That means, for i … | Continue reading
About 30 percent of US adults consume sugar-sweetened beverages like sugary soda and lemonade each day, according to CDC report published today. The people who are most likely to consume sugary drinks are younger adults, men, black people, and people with lower levels of educatio … | Continue reading
After banning hoverboards from New York City's subways, trains, and busses last month, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has begun rolling out new ads, first spotted by Gothamist, to make sure you get the message. The new ads make it clear that passengers cannot transport … | Continue reading
Another week of Vergecast and we have SO much to talk about. Mobile World Conference just wrapped up so Nilay, Dieter, and reporter Russell Brandom are here to analyze the coverage and discuss the continuing saga of Apple's fight with the FBI.Also, the Oscars are this Sunday so o … | Continue reading
Far Cry Primal is an incredible idea. You take the basic structure of a Far Cry game — with its huge, unpredictable open world filled with dangerous animals, weapon-wielding enemies, and plentiful natural resources — and then you set it in prehistoric times. Those gun-toting sold … | Continue reading
There's something's visibly missing in the first season of Syfy's space-opera series The Expanse. When a catastrophe strands a handful of working-class ice miners in a treacherous situation, most of them immediately look to their black female engineer for guidance, rather than to … | Continue reading
YouTube is launching a custom blurring tool today that will let filmmakers blur out any object in their videos. The video platform has offered a face-blurring tool since 2012, but the revamped... | Continue reading
A trio of Resident Evil games is on its way to modern consoles. Today Capcom announced that Resident Evil 4, 5, and 6, will all be coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One later this year. The games appear to be largely straight ports without much in the way of improvements for t … | Continue reading
If you live in New York City and you ride the subway, you've probably seen those tall, skinny Help Point kiosks with the blue glowing light on top. On the surface, the intercom systems, which debuted in 2011, seem fairly straightforward: a red button for emergencies, a green butt … | Continue reading
Tech companies like Amazon and Google have been aggressively advocating for drone delivery over the past few years. They wanted the Federal Aviation Administration to provide them with a set of rules they could test against, a safety standard they needed to meet in order to safel … | Continue reading
London residents who are MasterCard customers and use Apple Pay will be able to ride the Tube for free over the next three Mondays, as part of a promotion by the credit card company to incentivize its users to ditch their plastic cards for smartphones. This is the second time Mas … | Continue reading
After Walt's review of the Eero, the duo discuss in detail the usage of wireless systems and the surprisingly numerous devices one uses in the household with a Wi-Fi internet connection.We love your feedback and suggestions on how to make our show better and more fun — you can tw … | Continue reading
DeepMind, the company inside Google known for making AI that mastered Go, is taking on a new field: healthcare. It announced on Wednesday the launch of DeepMind Health, an initiative to create apps for medical professionals that can help identify patients at risk of complications … | Continue reading
The next few months are going to be awash with virtual reality news. In a couple weeks, we should learn a lot more about the Playstation VR. Then, nearly four years after we first tried the Oculus Rift, it’s finally going to be officially released on March 28th. Not long thereaf … | Continue reading
Superhot is another game about shooting people in the face, but wait please don’t leave. Created by a small team on a modest budget, the shooter finds novelty in the creatively exhausted genre. Where its contemporaries like Call of Duty and Battlefield have chosen to be faster, l … | Continue reading
Readdle launched Spark last year with the goal of making it easier to deal with your inbox, and today it's continuing that mission with the launch of a new version that works on the iPad. Spark is by and large the same app on the iPad as it is on the iPhone: it breaks your inbox … | Continue reading
As promised, the latest Daredevil trailer continues where the last one left off, and this one puts Elektra at the center of the action. Here, Elektra has come back into Matt Murdock's life, bringing news that the Yakuza have returned. They decide to team up, but it looks like thi … | Continue reading
I can always tell when my earbuds are about to die. It usually begins with a whimper — some static here, weird fadeouts there — and I can usually fix it with a few delicate twists of the jack. But deep down, I know that worse things are coming, sort of like that hollow, achy feel … | Continue reading
A group of college students has developed a drone-controlled robot capable of identifying and emptying trash cans. The robot was created under Volvo's Robot-based Autonomous Refuse handling (ROAR) project, which the Swedish automaker announced last year. Students from three unive … | Continue reading
Last year I tried to counterbalance the lack of news at CP+ by shooting film to cover it. This year I had a little less time at Japan's biggest photo show, but I thought I'd try to do something different again. I've been using Fujifilm's upcoming X-Pro2 camera in recent weeks — f … | Continue reading
It's day one of CP+, Japan's biggest camera show, but there's some unusual photography news from two companies outside the country: Chinese telecoms titan Huawei has announced a partnership with Leica, the legendary German camera manufacturer, in an effort to boost its mobile pho … | Continue reading
British telecoms giant BT must open up its huge network of fiber and copper cables to competitors according to Ofcom, the regulatory body for the country's telecommunications industry. The advice is the result of a review into BT's management of its "Openreach" network, the 76 mi … | Continue reading
Two years ago at CP+, Sigma unveiled the DP Quattro, a series of cameras with fixed lenses, APS-C sensors and a truly unique body design. This year, the company is using Japan's biggest camera show to introduce the SD Quattro, a pair of mirrorless cameras with Sigma's own lens mo … | Continue reading
Amazon is in the midst of a TV and movie spending spree, an apparent attempt to beat out streaming rivals like Netflix and Hulu by outbuying them. Amazon Studios has done deals with directors Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Todd Solondz, and Terry Gilliam that will see their movies arri … | Continue reading
As a carless city dweller, Zipcar has been a godsend for me personally: the car sharing service, which was bought by Avis in 2013, has cars parked in specially designated spots around town that you can reserve by the hour with an app. It might not make much sense if you live in t … | Continue reading
Sharp has accepted a 700 billion (about $6.24 billion) bid from Foxconn, according to the Wall Street Journal, confirming months of reports that the huge Taiwanese corporation was looking to buy the Japanese firm. The WSJ says Foxconn beat out competition from a Innovation Networ … | Continue reading
After five years of continuous operation, Google has reportedly decided that Google-focused tech site 9to5Google is violating trademark by using its name. In the meantime, Google has barred the site from using its AdSense network — through which 9to5Google says it makes "well int … | Continue reading
Tonight, ABC World News aired an interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, with the conversation focused on the ongoing encryption battle between the iPhone manufacturer and federal authorities. But it turns out what viewers saw on TV was only a small portion; the full-length interview … | Continue reading
Apple is reportedley hard at work on closing the loophole that would allow the company to aid the FBI in breaking into an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter. Company executives alluded to the plan to expand iPhone security in interviews with the media on Friday, and now Th … | Continue reading
Microsoft today says it's acquiring mobile app development startup Xamarin for an undisclosed sum, giving the company a tool for building mobile apps that can work across iOS, Android, and Windows phones. Xamarin, which has 15,000 customers including large brand names like Coca-C … | Continue reading
A newly discovered vulnerability in Nissan Leaf's NissanConnect app isn't as catastrophic as one found in Chrysler's Uconnect system this past summer, but it still could impact drivers' personal privacy and security. Researcher Troy Hunt uncovered a bug in the companion app to th … | Continue reading
Kesha thanked her fans and wrote about the larger societal implications of her contract dispute with former producer Dr. Luke (aka Lukasz Gottwald) in a note on Facebook this afternoon. The post is arriving in the wake of the rejection of a pivotal motion in Kesha's case, one tha … | Continue reading
Just eight days after a court ordered Apple to break security protections on an iPhone linked with the San Bernardino attacks, CEO Tim Cook is appearing on national news to plead his case to the public. Cook's interview with ABC's David Muir will air tonight, but excerpts of the … | Continue reading
Uber announced Tuesday that it is opening a new Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh, where its autonomous vehicle research operations are headquartered. The company will renovate an old locomotive roundhouse at the LTV Coke Works site in Hazelwood, along the Monongahela Ri … | Continue reading