Speaking at the Wired Business Conference on Tuesday, Windows chief Julie Larson-Green confirmed Microsoft will ship a developer release of Windows 8.1, codenamed Blue, at the end of June. The release will be available during the company's Build conference, Larson-Green confirmed.
Microsoft is...
Developers, developers, developers
Social media has had a massive impact on news-gathering and dissemination. Major print institutions like Reuters and the Associated Press have hired social media editors, adopting new platforms as a way to get information out quickly while larger...
Over a period of four days at the end of April, our very own Joshua Topolsky moderated the Future of Film Live Series at the Tribeca Film Festival. The collection of panels with filmmakers, critics, video game developers, and other industry experts explored how big changes in technology and distribution are changing what we watch on the silver screen and in our homes. In case you weren’t able...
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We are now in the first week of May — a month that promises to be chock full of all kinds of mobile-related news. While things have been quiet on the mobile front thus far, that's likely to change with a bang next week, as events are scheduled for Google, Nokia, and BlackBerry all at the same time. Join our hosts as we go over the news of the past week and look forward to what may happen in the coming weeks. The show starts at 4:30PM ET / 9:30PM BST!
Goodbye April showers, bring on May flowers
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An array of Aereo's coin-sized antennas, designed to pick up TV signals and retransmit them to paying subscribers.
The bluster-fueled battle between upstart Aereo and incumbent over-the-air broadcasters has reached a fever pitch in recent days, most recently with a legal complaint designed to prevent CBS from filing another copyright lawsuit against the service as it prepares to launch in...
DJ Kaskade.
Kazaa. Limewire. Napster. There are hardly any widely used filesharing sites that didn't try to "go legit" at some point after being dinged for facilitating piracy. It doesn’t usually work. Napster, for example, no longer exists; it was nearly bought by a porn company before it was acquired by Roxio and then sold to Best Buy, which de-branded it and merged it with the paid service Rhapsody. So could BitTorrent, the current king of peer-to-peer filesharing, succeed where the first generation failed?
BitTorrent, Inc., which invented BitTorrent and owns the most popular client,...
"I'm a lot more comfortable doing instrumental music," explains Jim Guthrie. "I feel like I can say more without words." After getting his start in the Canadian indie rock scene, Guthrie has spent the last few years intimately tied to the worlds of film and gaming creating music for games like Sword & Sworcery and Sound Shapes and documentaries including Indie Game: The Movie and more recently The Manor. But a decade after his last solo record came out, he's returning to his roots with a new album appropriately dubbed Takes Time. "Like anything that's worth anything," he tells The Verge, "some things just take time. And if you can accept...
Upstream Color, the beautiful and acclaimed indie sci-fi film from Primer director Shane Carruth, is still showing in a few theaters, but it's now available for everyone as a download or DVD. Carruth has released Upstream Color for download on a variety of platforms, including iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play; while it's $14.99 on these sites, you can also spend $5 more for a DRM-free stream or download through his studio's site. A combination...
An indie sci-fi gem comes to everyone
Microsoft is updating its YouTube application for Windows Phone on Tuesday in a significant way. Previously, the app was simply a web link to the mobile YouTube interface, but it's now a full application for Windows Phone 8 devices. You can now access videos, channels, playlists, and pin them to...
Three years ago, Sipho Molefe (not his real name) was a normal 16-year-old boy — an athletic, easygoing high schooler who was well liked among his peers in rural South Africa. Today, Sipho is unemployed, gaunt, and mired in a life of crime outside Durban, where he and untold others have been...
24 hours after Hulu Plus finally made its debut on Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's users have another reason to be excited: Foursquare just unveiled a brand new app for the platform. Designed from the ground up in close collaboration with Microsoft...
What if you could design a video game simply by drawing it on a piece of paper? That's the goal behind Pixel Press, an upcoming app that aims to make game design a much more approachable task. It's still in the prototype phase, but Pixel Press could potentially be a...
Believing it could be the next step in the evolution of cars, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed he has been in talks with Google to bring driverless technology to its vehicles. According to Bloomberg, Musk believes autonomous driving is the next logical step in the evolution of cars, but believes...
It's rare to actually witness a meteorite falling toward Earth. Only 1,042 meteorites were observed and recorded during the past 4,500 years, even though across the planet over 34,000 have been found. A new visualization by designer Carlo Zapponi highlights the wonder of catching a glimpse of such an event. The interactive animation creates a timeline of every meteorite that has been seen falling since 861 AD,...
The US Senate has approved a bill that could one day spell the end of sales tax-free online purchases. The Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013, which the Senate symbolically supported earlier this year and has now passed by a margin of 69 to 27, will...
The online map wars have taken an interesting turn lately, with Google and its rivals Nokia and Apple all turning to their users to try and crowdsouce improvements in their main global map data. But a lesser-known, crowdsourced project called OpenStreetMap — sometimes referred to as the "W...
Wireless internet provider Boingo offers specialized apps for every major phone or computer platform, but iOS users now have the moderate advantage...
Rovio's games — particularly the Angry Birds series — have propagated across a wide variety of mobile devices, but unfortunately there's no way to keep your progress in sync. If you're an iPad...
Valve has begun testing new biofeedback technologies based on a player's sweat levels and eye movements, as part of the company's ongoing efforts to incorporate user emotions into gameplay. As V...
One of gaming's most iconic first-person shooter franchises will be revived later this year when Bethesda releases Wolfenstein: The New Order. The publisher announced the title today, tentatively...
To give users a better understanding of what people are watching, but also where they are watching it, Google has launched a new Trends Map feature to "surface popular videos in real time, and...
Last week, SoftBank CEO dissected Dish Network’s competing bid for Sprint, calling it "incomplete and illusory," but today he explained exactly...
The popular RunKeeper fitness app on iOS and Android is finally getting the support for the Pebble smartwatch the two companies promised almost exactly one year ago. With the update, Pebble owners will be able to see their pace and mileage on their watch face, along with the ability to start or stop a workout. Unfortunately, you'll still need to pull out your phone to get things started —...
Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp, has no intention of building an app for desktop computers. WhatsApp is arguably the most successful independent mobile messaging app in the world, so Koum's views have some credibility, but what if mobile is only one half of the messaging puzzle? Viber CEO Talmon Marco...
