Hydroelectric energy sources might be friendlier to the environment at large than coal or gas fired plants can be, but the huge dams needed for the generation of electricity from water sources can cause...
dam turbines!
Toy Story is coming back for another installment, and original film director John Lasseter is on board to direct. The film will be released on June 16th, 2017. This is likely to be exciting, if...
Original director John Lasseter is back
According to documents recently obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, Google's plan to show off its technology in special floating showrooms was scuppered late last year when the barges used in...
scuppered
The launch of Healthcare.gov, the US government's health insurance website, was beset with technical problems so severe that only six people were able to enroll on its first day in October 2013. Ahead of a...
the hack is coming from inside the house
It's not hard to understand the Amazon Echo.
Today Amazon announced the the device, a 360-degree speaker that plays music and podcasts at the command of your voice. The Echo also functions as an...
Listen up
Iron Man is not in this movie. We should get that out of the way right up front. But if you liked Iron Man, and the idea that someone can create wondrous and deadly things with technology appeals to you,...
Inflatable flying robots want to hug you
Google wants to help university labs and hospitals store their clients’ genomes in the cloud, and they’re calling the effort "Google Genomics."
Google wants researchers to "explore genetic variation interactively."
The classic television series The Six Million Dollar Man is going to be remade as a film — but now that we're in 2014, its star is going to be at lot more expensive. Deadline reports that Mark Wahlberg is...
An economic drama about one man's battle with a dated nickname
Taylor Swift has already sold more than 1.287 million copies of 1989. But the pop star says "it's impossible to try to speculate" if her latest release would've reached the same, instant (and increasingly...
We're not out of the woods yet
As a prelude to next year's Halo 5: Guardians Microsoft is releasing a digital video series, Halo: Nightfall executive produced by Ridley Scott. The series will launch next week with Halo: The Master Chief...
"The emotional depth of the Phantom Menace combined with the production values of a made-for-TV movie." Andrew Webster
In a live Q&A session today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked how accurate The Social Network film was in portraying his life. His answer:
"I kinda blocked that one out." Mark Zuckerberg
Earlier this year, rumors swirled that Snapchat was looking to move beyond the ephemeral video and picture messages that defined the service and move into full-on content (and advertising) distribution...
Disappearing news, music, and videos
The next Star Wars finally has a name — Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Sure, people may beef with the title, but honestly, it could have been titled anything and I'd have been on board. Why? Because...
Amid heightened scrutiny of the way social networks enable the harassment of women online, Twitter said it is working with an advocacy group to investigate reports of abuse. A group called Women, Action,...
“We’re always trying to improve the way we handle abuse issues."
After the first trailer for Avengers: Age of Ultron leaked, Marvel played it cool: the company sent takedown notices for the trailer, but soon released an official version, and even made light of the...
Google will hand over info
Don't read anything else about this video. It might be a little boring at first. That's okay. Stick with it. Don't skip ahead. Watch the entire thing in one sitting. I think you'll be glad you did. To tell...
One cook too many
After some uncertainty earlier this year, Quentin Tarantino is really moving forward with The Hateful Eight, and all of the film's big stars have just been announced. That includes each member of the...
Starring... Channing Tatum?
A few years ago, Motorola split into two parts. One of those parts made lots of things that Verge readers care about — phones, mainly — and ended up getting bought by Google before landing in Lenovo's lap....
"Covert mode" sounds like the best feature ever
Google Play is no longer your only avenue for getting the Nexus 6: Motorola, the phone's manufacturer, is now selling orders directly through its own web store. Prices are obviously the same, and again...
Get 'em fast
Well, there has been a strange and surprising amount of news in the past week. Or hell, the past day. The past hour? It's going to be impossible to talk about all of it, but Nilay Patel, Chris Plante, and...
Amazon Echo, Google Now, Siri, and Cortana walk into a bar
It all comes down to this — after some 15 years and five films set in Middle-earth, director Peter Jackson is ready to say goodbye to Tolkien's world with The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Unlike...
Go big or go home
Silk Road 2, a replacement for the notorious online drug bazaar that went dark in October of 2013, has been seized in a joint action involving the FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and European law...
Site reportedly had 150,000 active users
Dan Thorn is a news anchor tor WVNS, a CBS and Fox affiliate that serves a chunk of West Virginia. Dan Thorn desperately wants viral popularity outside the Beckley/Princeton/Lewisburg area. In the past...
Be a star
Last week's fatal Virgin Galactic spaceship crash has cost the company about 20 of its 700 potential customers. According to the South China Morning Post, the company confirmed that it had seen...
Around 680 remain on waitlist
HTC’s marketing its new phone all wrong. The newly launched Desire Eye — available exclusively on AT&T in the US — is being positioned as the ultimate selfie phone. In reality, the pictures you’ll get from...
Just don't call it a selfie phone
Announced by Verizon a week ago, the Droid Turbo is basically a Moto X with every spec turned up to 11, which in the case of the battery means a massive 3,900mAh cell that's expected to last a full 48...
The suitably named Marathon M3 comes with a 5,000mAh battery inside
For most of the iPhone's lifespan, it's been effectively immune to malware. There were theoretical attacks and viruses targeting jailbroken phones, but thanks to the tight controls of the App Store,...
"The door is open for enterprise applications." Ryan Olson, Palo Alto Networks
Minecraft now belongs to the House that Bill Gates built, punching trees into wood blocks into tools into processors into Windows.
It’s official, today we welcome Mojang to the Microsoft Studios family....
Notch isn't sticking around
CBS is today launching an online news channel that'll be broadcasting over its website and apps 24 hours a day, all week long. CBS is naming the naming the new network CBSN, and it plans to fill it with...
"There’s a tremendous opportunity on these platforms." Les Moonves, CBS CEO
When HTC announced the $199 Re Camera last month, the news was met with many different questions that all started with the same word: why. Why did a company known for making phones decide to get into the...
The genre of chiptunes repurposes vintage computers and consoles — particularly the Nintendo Game Boy — to create music that can be as simple as an old game soundtrack or as complex as a tiny symphony. The...
Arduinotunes
You've probably seen a police cruiser or two barrel down the road without an apparent suspect in sight and wondered, who, exactly, you could call to complain. To improve public safety — and hopefully...
LAPD will install the trackers
Scribd is about to give Audible a serious run for its money. Today it's adding an audiobooks section to its ebooks subscription service, giving its customers access to more than 30,000 audiobooks as part...
Putting Amazon on notice
Microsoft is making some big improvements to its Office mobile apps today, starting with an entirely new iPhone app. When the original iPhone version debuted last year, it was basic and underwhelming....
Touch-optimized versions coming to Windows 10 next year
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