By Vlad Savov
It was a drizzly Wednesday afternoon, and the central holding lot at LaGuardia Airport was packed with six dense lines of yellow cabs feeding into the airport taxi line, stopping and starting according to some inscrutable algorithm. Nicole Benman, a thin brunette in a light blue T-shirt...
The taxi industry is "on the wrong side of history with this one" Uber's New York general manager Josh Mohrer
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...
Amid all the excitement about its new Kindle Fire HD devices yesterday, one thing Amazon failed to mention is the new version of its Silk browser installed on the tablets. There are a number of meaningful improvements in the update, like better support for HTML5 web standards and an improved UI, but the biggest difference is speed — "at least a 30 percent reduction in page load latency,"...
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...
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 buoyed by Samsung's demonstrable success in the smartphone market. Of course, Samsung already tried to create its own mobile OS like Android and failed: it folded its Bada OS into the Intel-backed Tizen...
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 14th. The date is a little later than what we're hearing for Nokia's Lumia 920 on AT&T, but it appears to match Microsoft's plans to launch Windows Phone 8 fully on October 29th.
The 8X is rumored to include a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 4.3-inch 720p Super LCD 2 display, 8-megapixel camera, and a microSD card slot. We've confirmed Beats Audio support for the 8X, and we're expecting HTC to unveil its...
By T.C. Sottek
By Scott Lowe
By Vlad Savov
By Tom Warren
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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 either $50 for a standard account or $100 for developer access — but half of the roughly 300,000 posts over the past month have been made by...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Korean Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) is launching an investigation into Samsung's alleged abuse of its wireless technology patents. Reuters...
Audience, the Mountain View-based company which develops the earSmart audio filtering technology embedded in Apple's A5 chip, has announced that Apple is "unlikely" to use the system in the next-generation iPhone, set to be announced next week. EarSmart is known to power the iPhone 4S's Siri voice assistant feature, but third-party hacks have long enabled users to run the app on the iPhone 4...
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 on a seven-foot wide display, LG's panel matches the same resolution as Toshiba's own 55-inch 4K...
