By Vlad Savov
An image purporting to be of Sony's next flagship Alpha camera has sprung up online ahead of the rumored launch. The A99, an SLT (single lens translucent) camera with a full-frame sensor, appears to look very similar to the A77, its prosumer sibling that reasonably impressed us in our review. It...
Taking things to the NEX level
We hope you're enjoying the first month of our book club, where we've just moved on to Chapters 6 through 8 of Ubik. With a few weeks left to go, it's time to decide what we'll be reading in October. I've plucked a few titles from the suggestions...
With Congress unable to pass legislation strengthening cybersecurity in the US, President Obama is taking matters into his own hands. The Hill reports that the White House has drafted an executive order establishing an opt-in program that lays out best practices for companies operating critical infrastructure, such as railways and the water supply.
Compared to the rumored iPhone 5, Apple's done a far better job keeping a lid on plans for its iPod lineup ahead of next week's media event. We've got an idea of what the company's latest handset may look (and feel) like thanks to purported component leaks in recent months, but know very little about what to expect from the next-generation iPod touch, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle — all of which are due for their annual fall refresh. As the big reveal draws near, however, new details are coming to light. Rene Ritchie at iMore reports that the upcoming iPod touch will feature a 4-inch, 16:9 display similar to the one Apple is expected to use in the iPhone 5.
Say goodbye to 3.5-inch displays
What's not clear is whether the company plans to use the exact same panel between both devices. In recent years, each has included a high-resolution...
Say goodbye to 3.5-inch displays
There's no better way to re-experience the worlds of retro Nintendo games than by taking them over — and thankfully one fan is working to make that a reality. The fan made creation is a custom version of Risk, where the real-world countries have been replaced with places like Hyrule from The Legend of Zelda series and Dinosaur Land from Super Mario World. It's quite detailed with six...
Hyrule declares war with Dream Land
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...
A digital book is more durable than its paper-based counterpart, the story goes. But what about the e-reader itself? A new book by Sebastian Schmieg and Silvio Lorusso entitled 56 Broken Kindles takes on just that question. The picture book of just that — 56 images of Kindles with broken E Ink displays — presents an interesting and visually arresting commentary on what it means for the physicality of the electronic reader when its life-cycle as a working device has come to an end. The half-faded, digitally confused set of images, of course, are printed on paper in a physical book,...
Super Hexagon is the latest game from Terry Cavanagh, creator of the sadistic VVVVVV and somewhat friendlier CatLife: ChatChat. As a triangle cast into an unforgiving world, you must defend against attacks from all sides. Six of them, in fact, as you're restricted to moving around the corners of a hexagon, at least at first — we won't spoil the other shapes that come up.
It's an expansion of an earlier free Flash game, but Super Hexagon works perfectly as an iOS release. The stark style and chiptune music fit the minimalist two-button gameplay to a tee, and since it's definitely towards the sadistic end of Terry Cavanagh's oeuvre it's...
By Dieter Bohn
By Tim Carmody
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By Tom Warren
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 mists of "the fourth quarter of this year." In other...
Today needed to be about delivery instead of more promissory notes
The latest Google Doodle boldly goes where no Google Doodle has gone before — and of course we're talking about Star Trek. The new interactive Doodle lets you tag along with some members of Starfleet in a number of different situations, from going out on an away mission to just hanging out on...
It's no secret that the next iPhone will support LTE, but the Wall Street Journal is reporting this evening that it'll work on LTE networks "around the world" in the US, Europe, and Asia. That's significant because it could allow owners to roam on LTE across multiple countries; to date, LTE band...
Nokia may have introduced its first Windows Phone 8 handsets earlier this week, but there's more to come. We've already detailed a mid- to low-end "Zeal" Windows Phone 8 device, due to ship in early 2013, and now we're hearing from several sources...
In a week that included events from Nokia, Motorola, and Amazon, it goes without saying that the Vergecast is quite eventful. So eventful, in fact, that you might even say it's actually an event of its own. Lets call it an event event. And what's an event without special...
Specs of the purported 'HTC One X+' have been leaked in a tweet from XDA-Developers member Football, the source of several leaks regarding the HTC 'Accord.' If the leak is accurate, the One X+ will be a small step up from the original One X, with a slightly more powerful 1.6GHz quad-core Tegra 3...
Since Amazon announced its new line of Kindle Fire tablets, there's been confusion over whether the company would allow users to avoid seeing "Special Offer" promotions on their lock screens. According to CNET, an Amazon spokesperson has now confirmed that there is no system for disabling ads on new models of the Kindle Fire. That means that unlike the cheaper Kindle e-reader, users can't spend more up front for...
Amazon's new Kindle Fire HD comes with a pretty massive software update — and one of the new features that Ubergizmo noticed in its hands-on is that Microsoft Bing is set as the default search engine in the Fire HD's Silk browser. This comes...
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,...
Time-travel movies traffic in upended expectations. From The Terminator's Michael Biehn fathering John Connor, to Shane Carruth and David...
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...
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 predecessor. Clearly, without that hardware, the new...
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 open source OS project, and left it to die.
As C...
