Spike, a physical keyboard for the iPhone 4 and 4S which folds away into a case, has appeared on Kickstarter. Unlike most keyboard accessories for the iPhone and iPad, Spike doesn't require a Bluetooth or dock connection — instead, it positions itself directly above the virtual keyboard on the...
A keyboard on your keyboard, so you can type while you type
It's the end of week two, but due to Wednesday's US holiday, only episode numero nine — not a very pretty even number, which admittedly bugs us more than it should. None of that really matters, though. What does matter is a rumored Amazon...
Scientists at Georgia Tech have successfully replicated muscle movement of the human eye in robots, a milestone they hope will improve the overall operation of our droid friends. Their research could also lead to numerous other benefits like safer robotic equipment, improved understanding of eye motion, and more intuitive video feeds from robot cameras. The secret to giving robots new...
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Despite repeated notifications from Google, Facebook, and internet service providers, thousands of users infected with the DNSChanger malware may lose internet connectivity next week. Although infections have since decreased, fraudsters infected millions of machines worldwide with a virus that altered DNS information to route legitimate internet traffic to servers that would steal information...
Clean DNS servers being removed on July 9th
“I think I can rip out this review in 20 minutes,” I told David Pierce, our Reviews Editor, after having used Verizon’s Jetpack 890L on and off for a couple of weeks. I was joking, but not really.
“‘It gives you internet,’” he said, an offer of copy for what would be the shortest review in The Verge’s history. And indeed, mobile hotspots don’t really do anything other than...
A Prometheus Blu-ray listing on Amazon France has detailed an extensive set of extras. The listing, for a nine-disc Blu-ray set titled Evolution: From Alien to Prometheus, briefly revealed the contents of every disc. The description has since been taken down, but not before an enterprising user over at Prometheus Forum copy and pasted all the details to a post.
Assuming the description is correct — there's always the possibility it was removed due to inaccuracies — most of the highlights are found on the Prometheus 2D disc. It includes 15 minutes worth of deleted scenes, first and final...
McLean Fahnestock needed to wait until Atlantis took off for the bittersweet conclusion of NASA's Space Shuttle program before he could compile the mesmorizing clip below, which presents all 135 shuttle launches at once. Bookended by STS-1 (1981) and last year's STS-135, it's among the best homages to United States space exploration that we've come across. Sadly, it would be impossible to piece together such a project without including some tragic moments. Those include the Challenger disaster (visible in the 25th frame) and the ill-fated takeoff of 2003's STS-107, which would ultimately result in the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia and its...
Verizon's version of the Samsung Galaxy S III is reportedly shipping with a locked bootloader, much to the consternation of the developer community. According to XDA forum members who received their devices early this week, the bootloader on Verizon's GS III has been encrypted, rendering it exceedingly more difficult to hack. A user at RootzWiki, however, claims to have successfully rooted the device using a five-step workaround that's...
Difficult, not impossible
Google's latest version of the Android operating system is here and will be rolling out to a precious few devices later this month. Unlike the last iteration, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean is more about refinement than revolution, but a new feature called "Google Now" has the potential to finally...
After all the hype and hoopla of last month's E3, you might be forgiven for thinking that consoles are the only way to game. And yet, the stalwart PC continues to defy exaggerated reports of its demise with hugely popular series like Battlefield, Crysis, Diablo, StarCraft, and Total War offering...
When Face.com was acquired by Facebook, the company assured developers that it planned to "continue to support our developer community" — however, it appears as though that is no longer the case. In a email reportedly sent to developers,...
For those of us that grew up in the Nintendo era, our gaming obsessions went beyond just the games themselves — there were toys, magazines, lunchboxes, and of course The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! starring none other than Captain Lou Albano. If you're in the mood for a...
Halo 4's mapmaking Forge tools are being created by Austin-based Crimson Alliance developer Certain Affinity, representatives from the studio announced at the Rooster Teeth Expo today.
The updated Forge mode was shown off on stage during the Halo 4 panel at the event, showing off an unfinished...
In an effort to make its music video service a bit more platform agnostic, Vevo has overhauled its website with a new "mobile web experience" that brings many of the features of its native apps to the web. In addition to an app-like interface, the new Vevo site includes over 50,000 videos from various artists that can be bookmarked and added to playlists. Curiously, though, Vevo's site includes a prominent...
LG's recent efforts in the US phone market have been somewhat... underwhelming. The company's been a stalwart supporter of 720p displays, which is great, but some combination of poor software, underpowered internals, and bad build quality have...
In the New York Times, Brian X. Chen explores a strange new kind of establishment that's popping up in the hills of Northern California. Appearing as plain-looking residential dorms littered with laptops and microwaveable foods, the so-called "hacker hostels" cram scores of aspiring technologists...
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — DARPA — has recently completed successful tests on two gigapixel-class cameras as part of a program it hopes will provide even more advanced...
You may be surprised to hear this, but we get a lot of technology-related books for review at The Verge — some which we do end up covering, and some which we... well, which we never get around to. Publishers are still fond of sending us physical copies of books, too, and while we're happy to received them, we don't keep freebies, so we're...
If you think you have a massive collection of classic video games, think again. eBay user collectors_king is auctioning off a library that consists of every game released for 22 consoles, all in boxes and with instructions. If the listing is legit, over 6,500 titles from every Nintendo console...
The bad news for electronics retail Best Buy continues today with news that it will be cutting 2,400 more jobs on top of those it already cut in this year's closure of 50 stores, MarketWatch reports. The Geek Squad will be hit particularly hard, with 600 jobs out of the 20,000-strong staff getting cut. The cuts amount to 1.4-percent of Best Buy's total workforce of 167,000 employees.
Meanwhile, the company's "Connected Store" effort continues, with recent write-ups in the Wall Street Journal and the local Star Tribune citing the so-called "Apple-esque" feel to the redesign. Best Buy's interim CEO Mike Mikan called the "Best Buy 2.0" stores...
