By Vlad Savov
Hidden by all of the improvements that Jeff Bezos extolled on stage yesterday about the new Kindle Paperwhite, Amazon has silently taken some features to the chopping block. The Kindle Paperwhite replaces the Kindle Touch before it, but it has lost the 3.5mm headphone jack and speakers of its...
Audio is dead on the Kindle
HTC's Windows Phone 8 flagship, rumored as the 8X, will reportedly land at T-Mobile during November. Following image and specification leaks today, TmoNews is now reporting that the HTC Accord (the codename for the 8X) will arrive on November...
At an investor conference today, Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam discussed Samsung's potential to break away from Android and develop a "strong third mobile platform," CNET reports. McAdam reportedly said that "there's a potential elephant in the room with Samsung," and that the company's position as a "massive conglomerate" could afford it the resources to compete with Android and iOS — a claim...
This is my next is a special feature where writers of The Verge sound off on their latest deep, dark desires from the world of technology.
I’m writing this before the product has officially been announced, and in the 8th month of a self-imposed, year-long "I’m not buying any gadgets or electronics" fast, but I’m confident enough to say it right now: the next thing I buy will be a Kindle Paperwhite. I knew it when we first started seeing the leaked photos the other day, when I wasn’t even sure what I was looking at. Is this thing backlit? Oh my god.
Here’s the thing. I’ve never owned a proper e-reader. I’ve reviewed a few, so I’ve spent a lot of time with them, but, when you review something, even if you spend hours a day for a full week or more with a device, it’s not yours — and that distinction matters with...
No turning back
By Matt Stroud and Joseph L. Flatley
In every direction, Jersey barriers: heavy concrete walls used for deflecting cars and, in this case, slowing down human mobs. Just shy of three feet tall and chipped uneven from having been hauled back and forth to various worksites over the years, they’re now being used to establish a perimeter, within which one might choose to legally go and protest...
Raging inside the machine
Ever heard of a paper launch? Well, today you witnessed one in full flight. Nokia and Microsoft, two former mobile giants seeking to rekindle smartphone buyers' passions, came out with the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 Windows Phone 8 devices. They are beautiful to look at, sumptuous to touch ... and entirely unavailable to buy. Their entire release schedule, such as it is, is obfuscated into the...
An new curriculum in Estonia will teach students to code, starting at age seven. A few days ago, a government-backed education program called ProgeTiiger announced that it would start teaching programming to students in a small set of schools this year, before hopefully expanding across the country. Coordinator Ave Lauringson tells Forbes that the curriculum is built to ease children into seeing "an opportunity to create something" with computers. For novices, it will teach the logic behind coding, something that can also be used in mathematics and robotics, before moving into writing...
Microsoft says it will open its first retail store in Canada on November 16th. Located at the Yorkdale Centre in Toronto, the new store is one of the first international stores planned for Microsoft's retail expansion. The company has previously revealed plans for a store in Puerto Rico and holiday pop-up stores elsewhere, and we're also hearing that London will join the mix in March 2013 too.
The software maker currently has 23 stores open in the US, with plans to have a total of 44 retail stores in place by June of 2013. The stores offer all of Microsoft's software and hardware, and also feature the company's Signature PC devices —...
By T.C. Sottek
By Scott Lowe
By Vlad Savov
By Tom Warren
Lost Photos, the Mac app that combs your email accounts for image files, is available for free all day Friday, and for $0.99 for the rest of the weekend. Ordinarily $2.99, the app automates downloading all the image attachments you’ve sent or received from your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, or iCloud /...
Since the advent of digital communication, the book has been adapted to a variety of forms, most of which remove the physical form factor and rely on computer interfaces. Waldek Wegrzyn, a design student at Poland's Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, has done the opposite, building an electronic...
Time-travel movies traffic in upended expectations. From The Terminator's Michael Biehn fathering John Connor, to Shane Carruth and David Sullivan's schemes in Primer, a huge part of the fun of bending the space-time continuum is watching...
Just over a month after the launch of the ambitious Twitter challenger App.net, the service seems to be struggling to generate engagement. According to a blog post by Diego Basch, who has compiled some statistics, App.net has so far enticed around 20,000 people into paying...
Bloomberg is reporting this morning that Intel has lowered its expected earnings forecast for the upcoming third quarter. The company has dropped its expected sales to $13.2 billion, a decrease of up to $1.6 billion from earlier projections. Intel says that the reduced forecast is due to weaker...
One of the biggest disappointments of Nokia's Lumia 920 and 820 announcement earlier this week was the lack of information around both pricing and availability. While we still don't know how much the Lumia 920 will cost, we're starting to get some idea of when it'll be in consumers' hands — Reuters is reporting that two European carriers have claimed they will begin selling Nokia's new flagship device in the...
The Verge staffers aren't just people who love technology. They're people who love stuff. We spend as much time talking and thinking about our favorite books, music, and movies as we do debating the best smartphone to buy or what...
HTC's flagship Windows Phone 8 device, known previously as the Accord, will reportedly be branded the HTC 8X when it ships later this year. We've seen two renders leaked, alongside some early specifications, but XDA-developers member Football claims HTC will use 8X as the final name for the...
Audience, the Mountain View-based company which develops the earSmart audio filtering technology embedded in Apple's A5 chip, has announced that...
LG's gigantic 84-inch 3D 4K TV hit Korean stores late last month, but the company is unleashing its high definition excess in the US during October for $19,999.99. With a resolution of 3840 x 2160...
From the front HTC's One SC looks right at home alongside the company's One series of Android 4.0 smartphones launched earlier this year, but flip it over and it's a whole other story. The SC has a...
Reuters cites "a source with direct knowledge of the matter" today as saying that Samsung is seeing fewer orders for RAM and flash memory chips for the new iPhone, expected to be unveiled next...
20th Century Fox and its related studios are planning to offer high-quality movie downloads through iTunes, Xbox Live, and other services, roughly three weeks before top titles get released on...
Twitter has been adding features like its new embeddable timeline widget to help expand its presence across the web, and as a result the social...
The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, has filed a lawsuit against Internet Brands (IB), the parent company of travel site Wikitravel, in an attempt to protect two of its volunteers. The suit follows legal action by Internet Brands against the two volunteers, who have worked on Wikitravel but are also involved in setting up a new, non-commercial travel site under the Wikimedia...
The Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) is launching an investigation into Samsung's alleged abuse of its wireless technology patents. Reuters reports that the KFTC is responding to a complaint that Apple filed earlier this year accusing Samsung of abusing its dominant position in wireless...
