You could be forgiven for not having the 57th anniversary of commercial videotape recording marked in your diary, but YouTube is here with a reminder. Certain videos on the site now give you the option to watch them in "tape mode," bringing all the fun of static and fuzz to your modern viewing...
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Construction will begin next year on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), an instrument that will allow researchers to see galaxies forming 13 billion light years away near the beginning of the universe. The TMT will be the world's largest optical...
EU regulators are reportedly prepared to accept Google's proposed solution to a two-year antitrust investigation into its search and advertising practices. While the text of the offer hasn’t yet been made public, it will force Google to change how it labels certain vertical search results in the EU, such as those for airplane tickets or hotel prices, but won’t require any changes to its...
Detune has announced that its Korg M01D music making app, which recreates the popular Korg M1 synthesizer for 3D and touchscreen controls, will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS eShop this summer. Korg M01D includes every sound from the original Korg M1, select sounds from an additional Korg model, and some custom sounds designed for Detune's release. The app can export song data onto an SD card for distribution or further editing in another program, and it includes the ability to share music over the internet. Korg M01D has been sold as a traditional cartridge in Japan since 2010, but it will become available worldwide for the first time with its new downloadable version.
Electronic music, virtual keyboard, 3D display
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A DVD drive could be the next revolution in blood analysis, according to a team of researchers who have turned the mundane object into a laser scanning microscope, reports PhysOrg. The "Lab on a DVD" technology repurposes the laser, normally used to scan physical media like CDs and DVDs, into a cost effective and efficient cellular imaging tool. The research team reports that this tool can complete an HIV blood test analysis in only a few minutes, whereas laboratory results from blood tests today can take several days. Such blood analysis testing is traditionally performed on machines that...
Starting today, you can have a Facebook phone — and all you need is your current Android phone and about five minutes. Facebook Home, a suite of apps that replaces the homescreen of your Android phone with your Facebook News Feed and overhauls your messaging setup, is now available in the Google Play store. Home lets you keep track of what your friends are up to without ever having to launch an app, and the newly-added unification of Messenger and SMS makes keeping in touch even simpler. It's a handsome and clever way to interact with friends with your existing Android handset — and you can easily go back to your old homescreen at any...
Is there a point at which self-aware irony breaks down, and we're forced to recognize that everything we think is a knowing pastiche of a medium has simply become the medium itself? Perhaps, but the creators of Blood Dragon — the weird and kitschy offshoot of Far Cry 3 that will launch in May — have put a tremendous amount of spirit into building their ultraviolent action movie of a game. In the "near future" of 2007, "the apocalypse has...
"It is the near future. The apocalypse has had an apocalypse." Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon
Amid warnings from the White House and civil liberties groups, a trade association representing Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Oracle, and other tech companies has come out in support of the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), which passed a House committee vote this...
Follow the Mississippi River south from Memphis, Tennessee until it hits the Gulf of Mexico and you'll wind up in New Orleans. I took that trip a couple times during my brief tenure in the South, and it was the richest musical education a man could ever ask for. My first night, sitting down...
Xbox Live is currently experiencing a significant service disruption, with many users reporting problems when trying to sign in to Microsoft's online gaming platform. The outage — which inconveniently comes during peak weekend gaming hours —...
The United States and China will form working groups that focus in on two of today's most pressing issues: cybersecurity and climate change. That's according to US Secretary of State John Kerry, who outlined the plans during a visit to Beijing. The collaboration on...
Google may be one of the world's largest collectors of information, but Eric Schmidt thinks people would be uncomfortable with drone surveillance by their neighbors — and that this discomfort will spur tighter regulation. In an interview with The Guardian (available for subscribers only),...
Two years after joining Facebook, designer Nicholas Felton is leaving the company. In a Facebook post yesterday, Felton said he was "extremely proud of the projects I worked on" and called his time at Facebook a high point in his career, but that he would be "moving on" and returning to New York. Felton is best known for working on the Facebook Timeline, a major overhaul that gave profile pages a new look and a...
We're extremely excited to announce that The Verge has been nominated for a whopping five Webby Awards — including Best Writing (Editorial), Best Visual Design (Function), Best Consumer Electronics Site, Best Podcast for The Vergecast, and Best...
Photos captured from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter may provide new clues about a Soviet spacecraft that mysteriously vanished 40 years ago. In a press release published Thursday, NASA credited a group of amateur Russian space enthusiasts with discovering what could be remnants of the Mars 3...
Facebook has released a new commercial with an unusual star — CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The company's "Launch Day" ad, published to the web yesterday,...
In addition to the dour news that Verizon will be strictly enforcing a 24-month upgrade cycle, the company is extending a small olive branch. Customers who want to get a new phone before their...
With Twitter's new music discovery page online but not yet available to most of us, people have started digging into the page itself for details. After looking at the landing page's HTML, designer...
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Gaming hardware modder Bacteria has created the ultimate retro console mod, combining 15 systems into one machine that can be operated with a...
A huge network of over 90,000 IP addresses has been targeting WordPress blog installations with a brute force attack, attempting to gain access by using the default "admin" username by trying multiple passwords. Two prominent hosting providers, CloudFlare and HostGator, report that the scale of the current attack is much larger than usual. CloudFlare tells The Next Web that is has blocked 60...
Earlier this week, a story about how an airplane's navigation system could be commandeered with a simple Android app made headlines and caused quite a bit of commotion. The tale was based on findings published by security researcher Hugo Teso. Teso claimed that he had developed an Android app...
