The window has officially passed to turn in your astronaut application for NASA, and the numbers are in: more than 18,300 people applied to be in the 2017 class. That's the most applications NASA has ever received during an astronaut hiring period. In 2012, the space agency recei … | Continue reading
Swagway, one of the leading hoverboard sellers in the country, is telling customers to stop using its devices after the US Consumer Products Safety Commission deemed nearly all hoverboards unsafe yesterday. The CPSC's letter — sent to manufacturers, importers, and sellers of the … | Continue reading
Sony had a quiet, more focused CES, but it looks like the company is about to make some waves at Mobile World Congress with its first entry into the growing market of truly wireless earbuds. A press render of a device supposedly called the Sony Smart Ear has surfaced online court … | Continue reading
The beautiful Ferrari Enzo painted in sparkling Nero Daytona that you're looking at above is basically indistinguishable from magic, because it used to look like this: Continue reading… | Continue reading
Last week I found myself lying prone on an operating table, awaiting arthroscopic surgery. I remember mumbling something about my eyeglasses just before the lights went out. Holes were poked into my knee, cartilage was removed, bone was micro-fractured, and then I was sent home. … | Continue reading
Alcatel is getting into the 2-in-1 game, announcing its first ever tablet-and-keyboard combo, the Plus 10. It’s a mixed bag of a device, capable enough to run full fat Windows 10 and coming bundled with a keyboard that’s more useful than most (its got its own internal battery and … | Continue reading
Alcatel may be little known in the US, but it wants to be taken seriously as a manufacturer of quality, relatively low-cost Android smartphones. Last year, the company took the first step to establish this reputation with the Onetouch Idol 3 — a device that cost $249 but offered … | Continue reading
Samsung is all set to unveil its new Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge tomorrow in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress, but if you're not a patient type, you can see the new phones in their entirety right now. We've already seen plenty of leaks, but things are really getting out of hand now t … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Virgin Galactic showed off its new SpaceShipTwo vehicle, called the VSS Unity, in a flashy and slightly absurd ceremony at the Mojave Air and Spaceport in California. The company decked out one of the spaceport’s test hangars into something reminiscent of a night club … | Continue reading
Kohh's "If I Die Tonight" has all the vocal whoops, yelped choruses, and dark, minimalist beats you'd expect from a trap track in 2016, with a dash of 1998 — a Legend of Zelda sample. The song starts with Navi — Ocarina of Time's fairy helper — yelping "hey, listen!" Anyone who e … | Continue reading
Earlier this week we had our second look at what could be HTC's next flagship smartphone, the One M10, and now we might know what its next mid-range device looks like too. Serial leaker Evan Blass tweeted six images of a phone he identified as the HTC A16. Although he provided no … | Continue reading
Google is switching up how it displays ads on desktop searches, removing them from the right-hand side of results and putting them only at the top and bottom of the page. The change was first reported by The SEM Post with Google later confirming the move to the publication. Usual … | Continue reading
In an interview with reporters today, a senior Apple executive made the case that, should the company comply with United States government demands to help unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters, other governments will soon follow suit.Apple's slippery slope a … | Continue reading
County officials changed the Apple ID password in the crucial days after the attack, senior Apple executives said today on a call with reporters. Had the Apple ID not changed, executives said, the data on the phone could potentially have been retrieved through the iPhone's auto-b … | Continue reading
Burberry is partnering with Apple TV to live stream its first consumer-facing, immediately shoppable runway collection. Apple TV viewers will be able to watch the show live from London’s Kensington Gardens at 1pm UK time/8am EST on Monday, February 22nd.Since this is a cinematic … | Continue reading
Alice, from a new animated short titled The Last Job on Earth, is not like the rest of the us. Of course, she has a robot cat and receives a health examination and medicine from a machine, but what sets her apart from everyone else is her job — she has one. The Last Job on Earth … | Continue reading
Since 1992, the domain Tesla.com has been owned by an engineer and Nikolai Tesla fan named Stu Grossman, to the chagrin of Tesla Motors, which was forced to settle for Teslamotors.com as the broader domain sat mostly unused. But no longer: the company has obtained Tesla.com, whic … | Continue reading
So earlier this week we profiled a company called NeverWare that's modified Chromium OS into an easy-to-install package called CloudReady that can dualboot on tons of old laptops. And because old laptop hardware is often faster and more powerful than modern Chromebooks, that mean … | Continue reading
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