Apple will argue this week that the issue of whether it should assist the FBI in accessing a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters should be decided by Congress, rather than the courts, the AP reports. According to documents detailing Apple's upcoming arguments … | Continue reading
Sony will soon reveal more about PlayStation VR, its upcoming virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4, after months without saying much about the platform. The company is holding a PSVR-focused event on March 15th at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; the show … | Continue reading
Buzzy Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is making its first major appearance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. The company is set to unveil the Mi 5, its latest flagship smartphone, in what it calls a "Global Launch Event." Could that naming, along with the event's … | Continue reading
The sequel to monster movie Pacific Rim will be directed by the executive producer and head writer of Daredevil, Deadline reports. Steven S. DeKnight will helm Pacific Rim 2, his first ever directing gig after creating TV series Spartacus, and helping to to make Netflix original … | Continue reading
Getting cargo to the International Space Station is expensive and difficult — that's a huge part of why there's been so much buzz over commercial space flight operations like SpaceX. So if I were an astronaut living on board the ISS, I'd like to think I would pick my personal pos … | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics has a long history of producing terrifying robots, and its scientists have a long history of kicking, taunting, and teasing them. That ill-advised practice continues in the company's latest video, showcasing its next generation Atlas droid, a bipedal bot capable o … | Continue reading
Microsoft may have just purchased SwiftKey, but today it's releasing a new Android keyboard of its own. It's called the Hub Keyboard, and it provides quick access to your Office files, your local clipboard, your contacts, and a translation tool. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Pocket — the article and video saving service that raised $7 million in funding last year — is getting serious about its monetization model today by introducing new sponsored content. For the first time, the app’s recommended feed will feature sponsored posts in addition to the u … | Continue reading
In December, as fears over hoverboard fires mounted, Amazon removed boards from its online store pending a safety review. Now it seems the company has once again pulled essentially all boards formerly available for purchase.Last week, the Consumer Products Safety Commission said … | Continue reading
Apple's iPod shuffle holds a special place in my heart; I've never found another music player so perfect for the gym and outdoor activities. Everything about the shuffle — its clip-on design, dead simple controls, and cheap price — meant you could take it anywhere and not really … | Continue reading
Less than a week after its relaunch, controversial mobile app Famous has been pulled from Apple's App Store. The game, which lets people become other users' "biggest fans" by sending them hearts, reportedly violated a developer guideline forbidding apps that are "defamatory, offe … | Continue reading
Next week, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly will head back to Earth on a Russian Soyuz capsule, completing 340 days aboard the International Space Station. Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Korniyenko have both spent nearly a year on the ISS to help researchers better understand how … | Continue reading
First, watch the video above. Don't think too much about it. Just press play, and let the frog scream send a shiver through your bones. Just a normal frog scream, right? That's what I thought, too.This, my friend, is no ordinary frog scream. This is a beautiful instrument, capabl … | Continue reading
Thankfully, Apple has no plans to cripple its Pencil accessory for the iPad Pro. After the most recent iOS 9.3 beta removed the ability to navigate around iOS with the $99 add-on — marketed as a drawing tool more than a stylus — Apple has confirmed with The Verge that all of thos … | Continue reading
Over the years, Amazon has challenged the traditional brick-and-mortar model, redefined the books landscape, and gone all-in with original programming. Now, the retail giant is foraying headfirst into fashion.Amazon has released 1,800 products, ranging from women’s clothing and b … | Continue reading
Car infotainment systems are slowly improving nowadays, but the vast majority remain unintuitive and quickly grow out of date. So what if, instead of being stuck with whatever your carmaker thinks is right, everything could just run on your smartphone instead? That's partly the i … | Continue reading
Doug Liman — director of The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow, and Swingers — is now working on a six-part virtual reality miniseries. Invisible is described as an action-adventure series about a Manhattan family with supernatural powers, which may or may not include invisibilit … | Continue reading
Do you like virtual reality, but wish for more news stories to read? Do you report on virtual reality news, but feel as if you've exhausted the capacity to crib from another press release? Do you desire to live in a future in which the machines have won, making professional write … | Continue reading
Amazon today said that its Dash Replenishment Service will now work with select Samsung printers. Customers who have signed up for the Amazon service through Samsung's Mobile Print app or desktop printer management app can pre-select a toner type and it will automatically be reor … | Continue reading
David Bowie's most recent and final album Blackstar is being made into a four-minute movie that's going to premiere on Instagram. Unbound: A Blackstar InstaMiniSeries will unravel over the course of 16 short episodes on the InstaMiniSeries Instagram account.The series will star T … | Continue reading
With The X-Files miniseries ending in a polarizing cliffhanger last night, series creator Chris Carter is confident his sci-fi brainchild will return. "I can tell you, almost without a doubt, we will come back," he told the New York Times. It's just a matter of when Fox can make … | Continue reading
Luxury SUVs are all the rage right now: Maserati just announced the Levante a few days ago, there's the new Bentley Bentayga, a Rolls-Royce in the works, and the Porsche Cayenne and Macan. But let's bring it back, way back, to the granddaddy of the high-end SUV market — Land Rove … | Continue reading
The funny thing about the FBI and tech writers accusing Apple of refusing to hack the iPhone as a "marketing strategy" is that siding with terrorists is a bad strategy. Apple is not doing that, of course, but to understand how the All Writs Act and custom firmware impact the secu … | Continue reading
When I reviewed Kanye West's new album The Life of Pablo last week, I wrote that the Chris Brown feature "Waves" might be the most beautiful song he's ever made. I'm out of my honeymoon phase with the album, and I still stand by that opinion. Brown turns in the best vocal perform … | Continue reading
Picture this: You're hungry, so you order some food online. But when it comes 30 minutes later, it's not being handed to you by a human. Instead, you pluck it out of a robot.It sounds weird, but some of the founders of Skype want to make it a reality. So Ahti Heinla and Janus Fri … | Continue reading
At this year's Mobile World Congress, the HTC Vive virtual reality headset has been adorned with an aggressive $799 price and a few small aesthetic tweaks to finalize its consumer edition look. It has also wowed and amazed everyone who has tried it, myself included. HTC is rapidl … | Continue reading
BuzzFeed is launching a new app today that's all about video. The app is just called BuzzFeed Video, and its interface is about as straightforward as its name — it's little more than a feed of the site's top shorts. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Ava DuVernay is adding another huge project to her slate by signing on to direct an adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time for Disney. According to Deadline, the Selma director is teaming up with Frozen writer / co-director Jennifer Lee to bring Madeleine L'Engle's 1963 fantasy classic … | Continue reading
Nespresso has quietly launched the Prodigio, a new machine for brewing its espresso capsules that connects to your phone or tablet over Bluetooth. A companion app — which is supposed to be released later this week — "allows you to brew, schedule a brewing time, monitor capsule st … | Continue reading
Samsung is today opening the doors at its long-in-the-works "technology playground and cultural destination," Samsung 837. Located in New York City's Meatpacking district (and named after its address on Washington Street), 837 isn't a retail store as we've come to expect them fro … | Continue reading
Snapchat just launched Birthday Party, a new feature in today's iOS and Android update that lets users celebrate the day of their birth with decorative snaps. If you turn on the Birthday Party feature, Snapchat will give you access to a one-day-only filter on your birthday that y … | Continue reading
SpaceX is gearing up for its next Falcon 9 rocket launch this Wednesday, which will send a telecommunications satellite into orbit for the company SES. It will also attempt to land its rocket after launch, but doesn't expect a successful recovery. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Charli XCX is releasing a new EP on Friday on her very own new label, and the projects share a name: Vroom Vroom. The British pop star worked with enigmatic producer SOPHIE on the EP's title track, which premiered on The Fader this morning. The song made its public debut in Octob … | Continue reading
It costs $799 and it can be preordered next Monday for delivery in April. It's the Oculus Rift's closest and sternest competitor, and today at MWC, it makes its public debut. The consumer edition of the HTC Vive virtual reality headset is being shown off for the first time at the … | Continue reading
Car people are just like any other obsessive. They’ll talk to you about stuff that they expect you should clearly understand as being important, even if it’s unclear to you why it might be.Right now, car obsessives are talking about the BMW M2, a high-performance derivation of th … | Continue reading
A UN panel on aviation is recommending a total ban on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries as cargo on passenger aircraft, Reuters reported Tuesday. The same group rejected a ban on battery shipments last October, but reversed course earlier this year after pilots and airplane manu … | Continue reading
Sword Art Online is an anime about massively multiplayer online virtual reality worlds, and soon it will be turned into a massively multiplayer online virtual reality game. Called Sword Art Online: The Beginning, the new game is sponsored by IBM and powered by the company's tech … | Continue reading
MasterCard says it plans to bring "selfie pay" security checks to more than a dozen countries. Last year, the company started trialling the technology — which uses facial recognition to authenticate users' identity — but now says it has firm plans to roll the feature out to users … | Continue reading
It can be thrilling to fly your drone at top speed low to the ground, but that's also asking for trouble, since accidents can be quite expensive. Owners of DJI drones, the Phantom or the Inspire, can now push the limit without worrying about covering the full cost of repairs. The … | Continue reading
Court documents unsealed today reveal thirteen different Apple devices currently subject to court order by the FBI. Twelve of the devices are listed in a filing by Apple in response to a New York district court request, while the Department of Justice mentions an additional devic … | Continue reading
Last November, Activision Blizzard — the publisher behind some of gaming’s biggest brands, like Call of Duty and World of Warcraft — announced that it was getting into mobile gaming in a big way by acquiring Candy Crush maker King Digital Entertainment for a whopping $5.9 billion … | Continue reading
It’s not every year a new Street Fighter comes along. Beside the copious updates and tweaks to keep the series fresh, last week’s release of Street Fighter V marked the first legitimate new entry in the legendary fighting franchise since 2008’s successful Street Fighter IV, which … | Continue reading
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Bill Gates says he was "disappointed" by reports that he supported the FBI in its legal battle with Apple, saying "that doesn't state my view on this." Continue reading… | Continue reading
When I visit museums I usually use a mapping app to get there, and then I’m immediately lost once I’m inside. That changed tonight, thanks to Google. At Mobile World Congress, Google and Lenovo are demonstrating a useful feature of Project Tango: indoor navigation. Google has bee … | 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.When a colleague heard I was reviewing the new Eero Wi-Fi system, aimed at covering … | Continue reading
Telltale’s video game adaptation of The Walking Dead started with a bang. While the series wasn't the studio's first attempt merge a TV-like narrative structure with an interactive game, it was by far the most successful. There was just something about its brutal world and the aw … | Continue reading
Telegram, the encrypted messaging app that launched in 2013, now has 100 million monthly active users. In a blog post announcing the milestone, the company said 350,000 new users are joining the service every day, and that 15 billion messages are sent on the app daily. Telegram f … | Continue reading
Microsoft has been refining the Start menu in each version of Windows, so it makes sense that its new HoloLens operating system will include a tweaked interface. A leaked video for a new Actiongram HoloLens app has provided the best look at the new holographic Start menu so far. … | Continue reading