Hopper, the makers of a handy travel application that tells you the best time to fly in order to find the best deals, has now raised additional capital to continue to grow its business. It has also scored a partnership with American Airlines which allows it to sell AA’s tickets t … | Continue reading
Screen sizes on smartphones are getting bigger and bigger, but battery tech is lagging behind. As a heavy user of your smartphone, you’ll know that dreaded feeling of your battery marching towards extinction. The most common solution to the problem is to carry a charger or an USB … | Continue reading
Snapchat is making sure its addicted teens have absolutely every tool in their arsenal to communicate with each other, as a new update released today finally makes good on longstanding rumors of improving the app’s chat functions. The company outlined the details in a blog post: … | Continue reading
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It was a sunny afternoon in Manhattan and I needed a ride from Rockefeller Center to The Verge's office on West 40th Street. So, like thousands of people do everyday, I pulled out a smartphone, tapped an app, and requested a ride. Minutes later, a black GMC Yukon pulled up to the … | Continue reading
Vine, the six-second, looping video platform from Twitter, has just hired Hannah Donovan as the new general manager.Donovan has built her career in product and design leadership. Her most recent position was product lead at Drip, which was recently acquired by Kickstarter. Some e … | Continue reading
Years after its release, I thought I'd seen everything you could do in SNES classic Super Mario World.But now, someone has programmed Super Mario World from within the game - while playing it - so it transforms into a completely different and entirely functioning other game, Flap … | Continue reading
It didn’t quite add up when Fortune broke the news last week that Snapchat would spend a $100 million to acquire Bitstrips, the maker of personalized avatar stickers called Bitmoji. Snapchat didn’t have anywhere to put them. But today, Snapchat launched “Chat 2.0”, a huge product … | Continue reading
Google Photos just introduced a clever new feature that will let you edit photos without the risk of irreversibly altering the original. While previously users had to rely on duplicates to avoid making permanent changes to pictures, Google Photos now offers a nifty ‘Undo Edits’ b … | Continue reading
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Dating app Tinder is acquiring Humin the San Francisco startup which took a high-wire approach to contact management, trying to merge lots of disparate information into one contact app. Terms were undisclosed by TechCrunch understands from multiple sources that this roughly equat … | Continue reading
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Snapchat just stepped up its one-on-one chat features in a major way.The company added a host of new messaging features to its app Tuesday, including voice and video calling, audio and video notes and stickers.See also: 10 hidden tricks to make Snapchat infinitely betterFirst rum … | Continue reading
Publicly traded enterprise hardware company Brocade is announcing today that it has acquired StackStorm, a startup that built software for automating data center operations. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. StackStorm launched out of stealth mode in May 2014 and announced the … | Continue reading
Say what you want, how you want. That’s how Snapchat’s reps say CEO Evan Spiegel describes Chat 2.0, a massive set of new features launching today. It lets private conversations morph between mediums depending on what users want to show or tell, and whether they can speak up or m … | Continue reading
Snapchat is releasing a major update today that bolsters its chat function with a variety of new multimedia features. The long-rumored update adds more than 200 stickers featuring walruses, sloths, aliens, and Snapchat's signature ghost, and they can be searched by keyword, as on … | Continue reading
Back in 2013 I came across an intriguing startup in Berlin which had a genuinely original take on social networking (hard, even then). Sharing your mood intimately with someone had been confined largely to Snapchat. But the startup that became Taptalk wanted to mine that idea eve … | Continue reading
WhatsApp is rolling out a beta update today that adds a multitude of features to customize your messaging experience. Most noticeable is the Quick Reply feature that lets you respond straight from the notification. You can attach emoji or a voice message in the toolbar as well. T … | Continue reading
A debate on YouTubers, let's play videos, and how they affect developers has been raised by one of the developers of That Dragon, Cancer, and while I think there's cogent arguments for developers negatively affected by the current status quo, I don't think they're strong enough t … | Continue reading
Sony just announced the RX10 III, a new version of the company's flagship superzoom camera. The biggest difference between the RX10 III and its predecessor is that it has a brand new super-telephoto lens with 25x optical zoom, giving it an equivalent range of 24-600mm. That's a t … | Continue reading
The new Acer Chromebook 14 bring a more “premium” look without breaking the bank, with a price tag of just $300. | Continue reading
Like people, headphones are complex, multifaceted, and idiosyncratic. Each has its own particular version of reality, and the ones you ultimately like best are those you believe you can trust. That's where I find myself with Beyerdynamic's second-generation T5p (aka T5p.2) headph … | Continue reading
Drohnen können jetzt also auch Kunst. Das MIT hat die Drohne Flying Pantograph entwickelt, die Zeichenbewegungen von einem Tisch auf eine vertikale Leinwand überträgt. Man sollte jetzt nicht davon ausgehen, dass die Drohne hyperreal... | Continue reading
As of last night, Apple’s San Bernardino troubles are officially over. Yesterday, the FBI announced that it no longer needs Apple’s help in breaking into an iPhone linked to last year’s attacks, thanks to a new method for unlocking the phone submitted by an anonymous outside sour … | Continue reading
This Sunday the WWE will host the Super Bowl of professional wrestling. Wrestlemania will takeover the AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Texas, which has a maximum capacity of 105,000. If things go as the WWE plans, the show will be the biggest pro wrestling event in history. That's only p … | Continue reading
Chromebooks are finally growing up this year with bigger and sharper displays, premium design materials and ultra-long battery life.Acer's new Chromebook 14 ditches the usual plastic for an all-aluminum body that's both sturdier and sleeker looking. The 14 in its name has dual me … | Continue reading
The lesson is this: we shouldn’t be focusing on hardware anymore. Perhaps instead we need to focus on what happens when hardware and software come together. Read More | Continue reading
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Meet Stratumn, a Paris-based startup that wants to create a platform-as-a-service for developers interested in the blockchain. With Stratumn, you can build, deploy and run applications on the company’s platform, and these applications can communicate with the bitcoin blockchain. … | Continue reading
I was born in 1983 in Estonia, a country then occupied by the Soviet Union. Isolated from the outside world and tightly constrained from within, we were prisoners in all but name. Our birthplace defined our future and limited our horizons. Growing up back then, there was one thin … | Continue reading
Valve has shut down an exploit which allowed games to be released on Steam without any kind of verification. Aware of the loophole, a coder… | Continue reading
The US Government is suing Volkswagen for false advertising as a result of VW misrepresenting the cleanliness of its diesel-powered cars in numerous advertisements over the past eight years.This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California by the US … | Continue reading
Nintendo has confirmed that its first smartphone game, Miitomo, will be available in the US and Europe from March 31 following its initial release in Japan. The game will be available to download on iOS and Android and users can import their Wii U and 3DS Miis using a special QR … | Continue reading
The latest WhatsApp update includes a Quick Reply feature (but not the one we all want), multiple selection capabilities and a new solid color background option. | Continue reading
First, Anthony Davis and now, Chris Paul will not take part in the Rio Olympics, two omissions which will reshape the lineup that the United States will send to South America. Unlike Davis, though, Paul is declining on his own, citing fatigue and concern for his body. Paul spoke … | Continue reading
I own a lot of Bluetooth speakers. And I’ve played with even more. From powerful models from Bose and Libratone down to your basic Jawbone and the Amazon Echo. While each has its own specific strengths and weaknesses, they all have one thing in common: they’re pretty small and re … | Continue reading
The Strong World Video Game Hall of Fame released its 2016 nominations for this year’s entries into one of the game industry’s highest honors. This is the second year for nominations in the World Video Game Hall of Fame, as officiated by the Strong National Museum of Play in Roch … | Continue reading
Acer vervollständigt sein Portfolio an Chromebooks mit einem 14-Zoll-Laptop. Das Chromebook 14 ist als erstes komplett in Alu gekleidet und erinnert damit ans Macbook Air. In seinem Inneren steckt ein Intel Celeron-Prozessor - der neue Dual-Co... | Continue reading
A group of scientists in Europe want to know if electronically enhanced humans have an unfair advantage over regular people – beyond night vision and a skeleton made of steel of course. The cyborg Olympics, or Cybathlon as it has been dubbed, will take place in Zurich this Octobe … | Continue reading
If you’re a WhatsApp user — and the chances are high since more than a billion people open the app each month — you might be interested to know that the chat app just added some neat new formatting options. Now you can use bold, italics and strikethrough in your messages with fri … | Continue reading
The U.S. will soon get to experience Nintendo’s first mobile effort. The Japanese game company announced today that Miitomo will launch in the U.S. on March 31 for iOS and Android. It came out in Japan earlier in the month, where it reached 1 million downloads after three days. M … | Continue reading
An update to the Android version of Google Photos was released yesterday that adds an important feature from the iOS version of the app: non-destructive editing. The updated Android app will now track and save any individual edits you make to a photo, letting you go back — at any … | Continue reading
If you’ve ever worked as a freelancer, you know the last thing you want to do — after lining up gigs, submitting your work, and reworking your project (when that last person on the client side decides he or she wants something entirely different) — is to handle all the administr … | Continue reading
If you're a fan of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo then you should watch the video above. And if the word "blocking" only makes you think of football and Twitter, you should definitely watch it. This 8-minute clip from YouTube channel Nerdwriter breaks down a scene from Vertigo in whi … | Continue reading
Suntory has teamed up with London-based Japanese restaurant group Roka to bring the country's cherry blossom or 'Sakura' season to the capital throughout the month of April. | Continue reading
Nintendo’s first smartphone application, “Miitomo,” now has a U.S. launch date: March 31st. In addition, the company says it will also be available in several other countries at the same time. While the company didn’t detail which countries will also receive the app, it will like … | Continue reading
Biographical music documentaries usually fall in one of two categories: there are the worshipful nostalgia pieces, made for fans by fans, that seek to immerse the viewer in a completist bubble bath of hits and ephemera; then there are the elegiac tributes, following a familiar sk … | Continue reading
Super early this morning, Lemon Jam revealed their upcoming title Into Mirror on our forums. They're calling it a "cyberpunk platformer" where you play as a secret agent in the mysterious "Mirror World" on the hunt for a lost girl with the help of your partner, Kate. There's upgr … | Continue reading