Yahoo said it earned 8 cents a share today, compared to the 7 cents that Wall Street had been expecting. Muted yay.That is still down from 15 cents a year ago. Definite boo.Its revenue was $1.087 compared to an expectation of $1.08. Even more muted yay.That’s still a 12 percent d … | Continue reading
Wall Street is watching Yahoo today, but not just because of its first quarterly earnings announcement that was reported after the bell. The company is for sale and reportedly has a slew of bidders, including TechCrunch’s parent, Verizon. While it is not yet clear what the final … | Continue reading
Google's Tilt Brush has been a staple in demos of the HTC Vive, and now the company is bringing that experience to a wider audience with the help of some notable artists. Virtual Art Sessions is a new VR experience created by Google that will allow viewers to experience virtual w … | Continue reading
Intel is laying off 12,000 employees, or about 11 percent of its global workforce, the company said in a statement today.According to the statement, the company's "restructuring initiative" comes as Intel moves to focus more on its growth businesses, such as its data center and i … | Continue reading
Shazam made its name for its music recognition technology, and since then has tried to get users to scan anything from TV commercials, radio spots, and print ads. While it’s clear that Shazam has grown into more than just a song discovery tool, tomorrow the company will launch Sh … | Continue reading
This early in VR, everyone is still trying to figure out the best way to design the headset —€” up to and including the basics like where to put the processing. With premium devices like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, that's being handled by a separate gaming PC. Less-powerful dev … | Continue reading
Multiple sources confirm that Sony’s yet-to-be-announced refresh, the PlayStation 4.5 ‘NEO,’ is set to receive some real horsepower upgrades. While still unconfirmed by Sony, the system that’s being referred to internally as NEO will reportedly feature a faster CPU and GPU combin … | Continue reading
Snapchat just upgraded the emoji in its iOS app in a big way.The company updated its iOS app Tuesday with its new 3D stickers feature, which allows you to pin emoji to a specific part of a video. The update follows a similar update to Snapchat's Android app last week.SEE ALSO: 10 … | Continue reading
Yahoo, the company with a big “For Sale” sign on its lawn, shared its first-quarter 2016 results today, revealing revenues of $1.087 billion and earnings per share of $0.08. Wall Street analysts expected quarterly revenue of about $1.08 billion and earnings per share of $0.07 or … | Continue reading
Intel announced a restructuring that will cut 12,000 jobs, or 11 percent of its staff, and take a one-time restructuring charge of $1.2 billion as it tries to position itself to be competitive beyond the PC. The move by the world’s biggest chip maker is the most drastic change to … | Continue reading
Intel just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent calling it in all its corporate press speak glory “a restructuring to accelerate its transformation.” Sure. What it means in real human terms is that 12,000 people will be losing their jobs worldwide and that is ne … | Continue reading
Forget the bus. In Beverly Hills, within the next decade, public transportation will be operated by autonomous vehicles.SEE ALSO: Groom crashes rented $342,000 Ferrari into wall on his wedding dayEarlier this month, the City of Beverly Hills, California unanimously passed a resol … | Continue reading
Forex is one of the best options for those wanting so trade in a safe environment with limited volatility. That’s why many of those holding Bitcoin are fleeing to invest their coins in the Forex market. The price of Bitcoin is still highly volatile and many traders are consideri … | Continue reading
Biking to work may be the choice mode of transportation for some, but if it's cold out, it's a lot less attractive. Here's a creative way to stay warm on a bike in colder climates: Turn your ride into a car!Sweden-based entrepreneur Mikael Kjellman has designed a pretty rad four- … | Continue reading
In the lead-up to WWDC, you could follow the rumor mill — or you could learn Swift and get more out of the conference. Via iTunes, Stanford is releasing its Spring semester ‘Developing Apps for iOS 9 with Swift’ course. So far, only the class introduction is available, making it … | Continue reading
If you care about virtual reality at all, you’ve probably heard about VR artists doing their thing using the new medium. Now Google wants to bring you a bit closer to the art-making experience with its new Chrome experiment. Called Virtual Art Sessions, it’s basically a set of 3D … | Continue reading
Nest, the smart home company under Alphabet, has suffered a wave of recent press critical of its culture and business. So much so that, as we reported last week, CEO Tony Fadell appeared before the all-hands meeting of sister company Google to offer a contrite defense of his firm … | Continue reading
Even 2D animation TV franchises have to keep up with technology, as this past Sunday's Family Guy proved when it inserted big mentions of Amazon drones and even the future of TVSee also: 2016 will be the dawn of the drone ageThe episode, in which Lois Griffin is forced to work wi … | Continue reading
IBM is officially joining Consensus 2016 as the conference’s exclusive Four Block sponsor. | Continue reading
Angry or chastened, Detroit coach Stan Van Gundy remains one of the most quotable, candid and entertaining bench bosses in the NBA. Van Gundy got a little too, er, entertaining Sunday in the Pistons’ Game 1 loss to Cleveland when he criticized the officiating in the live TV quart … | Continue reading
The Phoenix Suns have reached an agreement with interim head coach Earl Watson to retain him as the 17th head coach in franchise history. | Continue reading
Do dubstep and Warcraft mix? Do humans and orcs mix? I dunno, but I guess finding out is kind of the point of this movie.A second full trailer for Duncan Jones' Warcraft was released today, and it's basically all about showing off the film's wild visuals, backed up by a thumping … | Continue reading
Cloud infrastructure provider Amazon Web Services (AWS) today announced that it has developed a larger version of its Snowball storage server for shipping data from companies’ data centers to the AWS public cloud. When AWS first introduced Snowball in October, it had a 50TB capac … | Continue reading
We are a nation of pill takers.Roughly half of all Americans have taken at least one prescription drug in the last 30 days (21.8% have taken three or more), and almost three-quarters of all doctor visits result in a prescription, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Mana … | Continue reading
Filmic Pro — probably the best videography app available for iOS — has been updated with a bunch of cool new features and support for the new iPad Pro and iPhone SE. First, Filmic’s Apple Watch app now shows a live preview of what’s being filmed. Ahead of this update, the Apple W … | Continue reading
The Australian government confirmed today that two items of debris recovered on a beach in Mozambique are from Malaysian Airlines 370, the airplane that mysteriously disappeared in March 2014 with 239 people on board. It is only the second time that a piece from the missing aircr … | Continue reading
Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has … | Continue reading
First Global Credit is the world’s first Finance Company offering profit opportunities in mainstream markets for digital currency holders. The Company aims to become a market leader in the Bitcoin Capital Market by providing services that accept bitcoin as a valuable asset which … | Continue reading
Google is the undisputed king of search engines. It is imperative that a website is not only well designed, but Google friendly as well. Having a Google friendly site will ensure that your target audience can easily locate you on the World Wide Web. Here are some franchise websit … | Continue reading
This isn’t the lowest that we’ve seen this the Amazon Echo go, but it’s damn close. | Continue reading
Viber announced today that it’s rolling out end-to-end encryption on all platforms — Mac, PC, iOS and Android. Once you download the newest update, Version 6.0, each voice and video call, text message, video and photo share in both private or group chat will be encrypted. Accordi … | Continue reading
On-demand delivery startup Postmates is launching Pop, its 15-minutes-or-less food delivery service, in New York City tomorrow at 11am ET. With Pop, which launched in San Francisco back in October, Postmates features a daily curated list of lunch items that you can receive in 15 … | Continue reading
Happy winter, everyone! Last year, more or less on a whim, I decided to get some fellow Verge-ers to participate in an extremely unofficial Game of Thrones fantasy league. My reasoning was simple: Game of Thrones is a show I like to watch for the numbers — how many kills, how man … | Continue reading
Imagine if your social media accounts got no response from eggheads, haters, Gamergaters, "actually"-ers, garden variety trolls, or boys. Imagine if the only people who commented on your life were your mom and her most true-hearted, liberal-minded friends.Okay, now imagine you p … | Continue reading
Put me precisely in the middle of the following Venn diagram of people: 1) those who want to listen to the radio in the bathroom, 2) those who can't figure out a good way to do that without putting a ugly speaker in the bathroom, and 3) those who are willing to have a magnified v … | Continue reading
A group of Chinese investors has reportedly been defrauded after being pitched on a cryptocurrency launched in 2014 by a local UK government body. | Continue reading
Hearthstone's next major expansion, Whispers of the Old Gods, is due on 27th April in Europe and Asia for PC, Mac, iOS and Android devices, Blizzard has announced.Those in the Americas will receive it a day earlier on 26th April.Whispers of the Old Gods introduces 134 new cards a … | Continue reading
Longtime fans of Danish writer-director Susanne Bier probably associate her with the stringent, realism-focused Dogme 95 movement, or a series of intimate, tragic family dramas like Things We Lost In The Fire and In A Better World. So it’s a bit of a surprise to see her helming t … | Continue reading
HBO and Discovery Communications announced today that they are partnering with 3D-graphics startup OTOY — both companies taking equity stakes. The partnership marks an effort by the two networks to evolve entertainment experiences beyond two dimensional television. Virtual realit … | Continue reading
The FBI’s legal battle with Apple over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony from law enforcement officials and technologists about the role encryption plays in criminal i … | Continue reading
With an increased focus on climate change, it’s no surprise that people are paying more attention to weather forecasts and their strange, unseasonal ways. It’s hard to figure out whether this pattern of sunshine is here to stay, or if we’re gearing for a storm next weekend. Part … | Continue reading
Agency Frukt has unveiled its music festival focused Field Work report today (20 April), which this year hones in on the 'three ages of festival activations'. | Continue reading
Facebook is exploring new ways for individual users to profit from their posts on the network, The Verge has learned. A user survey distributed this week hints at a broad range of ways that users could make money or promote a cause, including a tip jar, branded content, and takin … | Continue reading
This isn’t a rant post. But if you have worked in tech for long enough, you know this feeling — tech fatigue. At some point, everything new feels old, everything different feels dumb. If you get stuck in this circle of endless cynicism, you need to ask yourself the important ques … | Continue reading
Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center – yes, without even unlocking your phone – is now the #15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “Steve … | Continue reading
The third big expansion in Blizzard's addictive card game is just a week away. Today the company announced that "Whispers of the Old Gods" will be available for Hearthstone via in-game purchase starting on Tuesday, April 26th."Whispers of Gods" is said to have a decidedly darker … | Continue reading
Phillip the duck lost both of his feet to frostbite. His rescuer, Vicki, thought she was going to have to euthanize him until Jason Jischke, a middle school technology teacher, and his class came along and 3D-printed Phillip some new flippers.More details: http://on.mash.to/23IfD … | Continue reading
Every day we get bombarded with pitches for clever little gadgets trying to get launched with funds from Indiegogo or Kickstarter. And many (or most!) of those pitches come from tiny teams making hardware for the first time. It's amazing, really, that such small teams are able to … | Continue reading