It’s not often that I squee at a gadget. Something about their reflective metal gives off a sterile vibe. A big-screen TV doesn’t sound my cute alarm, you know? But these lil guys: Dezeen Major cute alarm alert. Hyerim Shin, a graduate student at the Royal Colle … | Continue reading
Valentine’s Day 2017 is a long time from now. For fans who have been eagerly awaiting a new Persona — there hasn’t been a new main entry in the cult RPG series since 2008’s Persona 4 on the PS2 — the next game’s oft-delayed release has been a hard one to bear. Persona 5 will fina … | Continue reading
Bad news continues for the Lucas Museum. After two years of fighting for permission to build in Chicago, George Lucas said today that he's abandoning those plans and will once again attempt to bring his museum to California.Chicago's government has been enthusiastic in its suppor … | Continue reading
Kanye West's live-streamed premiere of The Life of Pablo at Madison Square Garden was a phenomenal success back in February, and he's trying to recapture that magic by hosting a similar event for the premiere of his "Famous" music video tonight in Los Angeles. (I guess Aziz Ansar … | Continue reading
Jennifer Stanley isn't psychic, but she has ripped a hole in the space-time continuum. Two years ago, on a whim, she wrote "Wildest Dreams," a 12,000-word piece of fan fiction depicting (with some uncannily accurate details) the budding relationship of Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddle … | Continue reading
Did you think the AMG GT S was the best Mercedes could do against the Porsche 911? Not quite: meet the AMG GT R, an even badder-ass version of the sports coupe that has more power, less weight, and — needless to say — a higher price.Introduced at Mercedes' facility at Brooklands … | Continue reading
Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley can't sleep. You see, they have a problem on their hands, and it's circular and saucy and requires an inordinate amount of human labor to produce. That means inefficiency, which is the enemy of overwrought Medium posts everywhere. It is known by ev … | Continue reading
There’s a signature Taika Waititi stare — a kind of blank, baffled look the New Zealand writer-director's characters get when they’re frustrated. His characters share a deliberate sort of pettiness, not just a smallness of drive, but a smallness in the impotent, baffled way they … | Continue reading
At my apartment, we have a very strict "no talking during Game of Thrones" policy. Since the show is jam-packed with #content, we try to minimize any outside noise so that we don’t miss such important lines as "I drink and I know things" or "You’re a greedy bitch, you know that?" … | Continue reading
Harry Styles is the second member of UK boy band One Direction to land a solo recording contract, following Zayn Malik's contract with RCA Records last July.While Malik officially left the band three months prior to signing, Harry Styles is still technically a member of One Direc … | Continue reading
An important question to ask about any new product is: who is this for? There are a lot of gadgets out there these days, and many of them solve very specific problems shared by very particular groups of people. But sometimes it's really hard to answer that question. Sometimes you … | Continue reading
Earlier this year, HTC was essentially confirmed as the maker of the next generation of Nexus phones — codenamed at Google as Marlin and Sailfish. Now, Android Police is following up on its initial report with rumors of what we can expect to see built into the Sailfish. We’ve got … | Continue reading
Oculus has reversed course on a controversial recent decision: blocking owners of HTC Vive headsets from buying and playing exclusive Rift games.Earlier today, the creators of Revive — a system that enables games from Oculus’ store on the Vive — noted that Oculus had seemingly re … | Continue reading
London-based FX studio The Mill released a video this week showing off its latest creation: the Blackbird, an adjustable car rig that can mimic any model vehicle for advertisers. With the appearance of a murdered-out dune buggy, the Blackbird uses 360-degree cameras and an adjust … | Continue reading
Independence Day: Resurgence has been labeled by the broad critic community as an abomination. It’s been called lazy, nonsensical, and joyless. I voluntarily saw the sequel, 20 years in the making, last night, and none of the words match what I saw.The movie certainly isn’t lazy. … | Continue reading
Samsung has already made a Batman edition of its Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, so it should come as no surprise that the company is working on an Olympic edition of its flagship device, according to SamMobile. The site reports that the device is currently under development, which we've … | Continue reading
The Panorama festival is happening in about a month, but it won't just be a place to see Kendrick Lamar and LCD Soundsystem without switching venues — it'll also be something of an interactive art gallery, where festivalgoers are encouraged not only to look at art, but to touch i … | Continue reading
Watching the promo video above, you'd think that Andbot — a vaguely anthropomorphic "robot butler" on wheels — was the second coming of RoboJesus. Burning your breakfast? Andbot will tell you. Raising your children? Andbot can take care of it! Dying from the ravages of age? Not t … | Continue reading
Two of the most well-known commodity brands are about to come together, because Incipio just announced that it's buying Skullcandy. Incipio LLC says it will pay $5.75 per share for all of Skullcandy Inc., resulting in a cash deal worth $177 million.The deal is just the latest in … | Continue reading
From the very beginning of Nicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon, the protagonist, Jesse (Elle Fanning) is willing to sell herself to whoever’s buying. “I’m pretty, and I can make money off pretty,” she says baldly. Underage, on her own, fresh out of small-town America, and fixat … | Continue reading
Acer’s Chromebook 14 is a two-sided story. For one, it shows the remarkable progress that we’ve made around what a $300 laptop can and should be. It’s made of aluminum, has a fantastic keyboard / trackpad combo, and a crisp 1080p display. And it does Chromebook things (web browsi … | Continue reading
A brand-new episode of Vergecast is here! This week, Paul Miller and Ashley Carman, part of our Circuit Breaker team, join Nilay and Dieter to discuss trends they've noticed while blogging for the site. Also, fan favorite Nicola Fumo stops by the show to tell us what she's been u … | Continue reading
As usual, my girlfriend and I were looking for a Keira Knightley period piece the other week when we learned, to immense disappointment, that Pride & Prejudice is no longer on Netflix. So we looked around for something else and found Far from the Madding Crowd on HBO. It seemed t … | Continue reading
Civilization V is coming to the classroom. Publisher Take-Two Interactive announced that a modified version of the historical strategy game Civilization V is in the works, and is expected to be available for high school classes in North America starting next fall. Called Civiliza … | Continue reading
This morning, the United Launch Alliance’s premiere rocket — the Atlas V — will launch a US Navy communications satellite into a high orbit above Earth. The vehicle is set to take off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 10:30AM ET, but there is a 44-minute launch window if for some … | Continue reading
Last year, Japanese game developer Level-5 kicked off an ambitious plan to make a series about Japanese folklore creatures into a global phenomenon. Called Yo-kai Watch, the game debuted in Japan in 2013 and went on to become a massive success, selling millions of video games and … | Continue reading
Google continues to flesh out Chrome OS with new features. Last week, we saw the first Chromebook devices get access to Android apps and games, and this week, the company is experimenting with adding a storage manager to the latest developer update of the software.The feature doe … | Continue reading
If you're looking for the finest summer weather, don't come to drizzly England. But if you're on the hunt for the best collection of old and new cars on the planet, you have to come to Goodwood at least once in your life. This is my first time at the famed Festival of Speed in so … | Continue reading
The mascot wars turned 25 yesterday. On one side there's Mario, Nintendo’s squishy Italian plumber created by the legendary Sigeru Minamoto. On the other is Yuji Naka’s Sonic. The anthropomorphic blue hedgehog made his introduction on June 23rd, 1991, courtesy of Sega’s new Genes … | Continue reading
"He wanted to hear the sound of the engine."The most extreme Aston Martin roadster to date is a one-off creation tailored to the desires of one very particular customer. The anonymous gentleman — of course it would be a dude — wanted to truly hear the roar of the engine of Aston … | Continue reading
The UK's decision to leave the European Union has rattled the scientific community, amid fears that the so-called "Brexit" referendum could threaten funding for British research and collaboration across the continent.In a referendum held Thursday, nearly 52 percent of British vot … | Continue reading
Donald Trump praised the Scottish this morning for "[taking] their country back" in the UK's vote to leave the European Union. This is despite the fact that Scotland voted overwhelmingly to stay in the EU, with 62 percent of the population backing the Remain campaign. However, th … | Continue reading
Britain's decision to exit the EU has predictably shocked global currency markets. The pound has dropped around 10 percent against the dollar, a 30-year low as the market reacts to uncertainty over the UK's vote. While traditional currency markets react to the news, cryptocurrenc … | Continue reading
The chairman of the Independent Film and Television Alliance (IFTA), the trade association representing the companies behind independent film and TV the world over, has described the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union as an event that is "likely to be devastating" for … | Continue reading
The United Kingdom — the country of my birth — has just voted to leave the European Union. The majority of the electorate has chosen to turn its back on the biggest political project in the world, a flawed but forward-thinking union that served as the only concrete symbol of Euro … | Continue reading
YouTube is adding a live streaming option to its mobile app, the company announced today, a new feature that will allow users to broadcast live video from their mobile devices with the touch of a button. The company's mobile streaming interface looks markedly similar to Periscope … | Continue reading
YouTube Red, Google's paid video streaming service, has purchased its first big-budget television series, reports The New York Times. The show will be called Step Up, and it's based on the Channing Tatum dance drama franchise of the same name. Lionsgate, which produced the franch … | Continue reading
Remember XBMC, or as it was known even longer ago, Xbox Media Center? It's been over a decade since the open-source software was used to turn the original Xbox into a media hub, but the software is still alive and well. It's continued along under a new name, Kodi, and works on Wi … | Continue reading
Apple is discontinuing sales of the Thunderbolt Display, a much-loved, though rarely updated monitor. Although it's still available in the Apple store (for the not super low price of $999), once current inventory is sold out, that'll be the end of Apple producing standalone displ … | Continue reading
As Apple races to add to the number of third-party apps that Siri can search through on Apple TV, Google is today checking off an overdue one over on Android TV. The company has announced that shows and movies from Netflix now appear when you use Android TV's universal search fun … | Continue reading
PartyNextDoor's "Come and See Me" music video debuted on the Snapchat Discover page today. In it, Kylie Jenner, his rumored girlfriend, checks her Snapchat to see what he's up to. Turns out, he's at the club, which is kind of a bummer because Kylie wishes they were making out! Gi … | Continue reading
Surge pricing has long been Uber’s Achilles’ heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone. Drivers love it, often waiting to sign-on to the platform until surge pricing k … | Continue reading
Semi trucks are a fixture on the world's highways, transporting a significant portion of the world's cargo — and that's leading to a rash of innovation in the space that mirrors what's happening in the automotive world. Self-driving trucks, electric powertrains; you name it, some … | Continue reading
Despite reports that say millennials believe "phone calls can be burdensome," users of the very popular messaging service WhatsApp are making over 100 million voice calls every day, taking that oh-so-heavy burden head on. With over 1 billion users, WhatsApp is one of the biggest … | Continue reading
Facebook has grand plans to continue expanding and improving its live video platform this year, starting with support for face-swapping app MSQRD. In the coming weeks, you can go live on Facebook from the MSQRD app and utilize its many different Snapchat-like masks and filters wh … | Continue reading
Volkswagen will pay between $1,000 and $7,000, and in some cases as much as $10,000, to owners of cars that were affected by the diesel emissions scandal, according to reports from Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. The reports state that the payouts will vary depending on fa … | Continue reading
Look! It's Kit Harington, aka Jon Snow, aka Admiral Salen Kotch, the villain of the upcoming Call of Duty game!Kit has been doing motion capture in London for the last week, according to a press release. Sherlock Holmes director Guy Ritchie directed the shoot, but I don't know wh … | Continue reading
Car audio is almost never very good. It's usually too loud in one corner, too quiet in another. The bass is weak or uncomfortably rumbly, the treble is clipped or doesn't exist.Enter Nelson Hidalgo, an inventive man from Queens who seems to have solved the problem of poor car aud … | Continue reading