Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this week’s musical news was dominated by two giant, controversial institutions: Kanye West and the Grammys. The Life of Pablo tumbled onto the internet early Sunday morning, finding a temp … | Continue reading
I'm not personally an SUV driver, but a lot of people around the world are, which is why luxury and sports brands have been clamoring to put out a big soft-roader in recent years: the Porsche Cayenne, the Bentley Bentayga, the upcoming Rolls-Royce truck, the list goes on.And now … | Continue reading
In what's shaping up to be a new annual tradition, Lucasfilm has announced the 2016 Star Wars Fan Film Awards, kicking off this year's competition with an introduction by J.J. Abrams. The pitch is simple: make a short film based on the characters and stories of the Star Wars univ … | Continue reading
Today, private space tourism company Virgin Galactic unveiled the new version of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, dubbed the VSS Unity. It’s the spacecraft that the company wants to use to send paying customers into sub-orbital space someday. The VSS Unity will ultimately replace Virgin … | Continue reading
At a rally today in South Carolina, Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products in response to the company's current legal standoff with the FBI. Currently the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination, Trump was speaking at a rally in advance of tomorrow's S … | Continue reading
Picturelife didn't want to sell, but it had to In November 2013, when the photo storage service Everpix went down, the CEO of rival Picturelife offered assurances to his company’s customers. "We have lots of cash and ramping revenue," Picturelife CEO Nate Westheimer said in a twe … | Continue reading
Uber investor Ashton Kutcher is defending Uber from comments that one of its executives made on Friday, in which the exec casually threatened to launch a smear campaign against a specific journalist who had written negatively about the company. In a series of tweets, Kutcher ques … | Continue reading