Siri can now answer more of your baseball questions
Opening Day is here, and baseball fans are getting some welcome Siri upgrades for the new season. Siri now has some more baseball smarts: it can answer questions about more detailed statistics, according...
Baseball's back
Oculus apologizes for shipping delays, will waive shipping fees for all orders to date
Oculus won itself the distinction of launching its virtual reality headset first, but it hasn't been all smooth sailing. Even though Rift headsets officially started shipping on March 28th, many customers...
An "unexpected component shortage" is to blame
Walmart is selling the iPhone SE for $299, offers discounts on Apple and Samsung smartphones
Depending on who you ask, April is the time to buy a new smartphone, and it looks like Walmart would like you to pick one up in its stores. The retail giant is taking $100 off all iPhones and $150 off...
$100 off iPhones, $150 off Galaxy S7 and S6
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The Verge Review of Animals: the coywolf
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The Associated Press style guide will no longer capitalize 'internet'
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This Scarlett Johansson robot is a crushing end to another week
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Meet the executive-level fool who gets paid to organize Lyft’s elaborate, expensive pranks
This is your next jam: Brian Eno, Young Thug, and more
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and I promise you this is a prank-free space. I’m not sure what exactly would constitute a prank here — every...
Here's what you need to hear this week
This is the Tesla Model 3, coming in 2017 for $35,000
After ten years of waiting, Tesla has revealed the Model 3, the vehicle that CEO Elon Musk hopes will take the electric car to the masses.
At the unveiling of the Model 3 this evening at the company's...
215 miles for $35,000
Prime Now same-day deliveries will reportedly integrate with Amazon.com in May
Amazon will soon start treating its Prime Now same-day delivery service like a core part of its business. The company will bring Prime Now to Amazon.com this May, according to Bloomberg. That marks a major...
Looks like Prime Now is no longer a side project
The Associated Press style guide will no longer capitalize 'internet'
This summer, many traditional media outlets will abandon a last vestige of old technology journalism: the capitalized "Internet." The Associated Press has announced that its highly influential style guide...
A turning point in this major grammatical battle
Blue Origin just launched and landed its reusable rocket for the third time
Private spaceflight company Blue Origin has successfully launched and landed its New Shepard rocket for the third time. On Saturday morning, CEO Jeff Bezos tweeted out that the rocket had a clean launch at...
It's the second time the rocket has been "reused"
Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon back EPA in challenge of clean energy rules
Tech giants are gathering in support of the Obama administration's contested plan to shift the US toward clean energy. Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon joined together to file a court brief on Friday,...
The companies say they've already shown it's possible to shift to renewable energy
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This Scarlett Johansson robot is a crushing end to another week
What in god’s name is this thing!?! It looks like Scarlett Johansson, but it also looks like it’s about to kill me? Let’s band together to try to figure out what the hell is going on in a dialogue format.
...What in god’s name is this thing!?!
Google apologizes profusely for 'mic drop' April Fools' joke
Google has already killed its controversial "mic drop" April Fools' joke from Gmail, but the company went even further this afternoon with a detailed apology and a post-mortem on what went wrong. Attached...
Oops, Google messed up
Splice is building a collaborative tool for music production
What if Ableton music software had a built-in Github so musicians could contribute and modify samples? That’s essentially the idea behind Splice, a cloud-based music production platform built for...
"GitHub for music"
Why is the Tesla Model 3's dashboard so weird?
Judging from the $200 million in deposits Tesla has already raked in, the Model 3 has quickly found its fans in the last 24 hours — so quickly, in fact, that Elon Musk is openly wondering how he'll make...
Welcome to the interior of your self-driving car
Two key Nest executives are leaving, including its manufacturing boss
Shige Honjo, a veteran executive at Nest, and Scott Mullins, a senior engineering manager, are leaving the company, according to multiple sources.
Honjo, the VP in charge of program management and...
Their exit comes amid a steady stream of departures
Tom Hiddleston: playing Hank Williams was like riding a very complicated bike
Tom Hiddleston looks like country singer Hank Williams. They're both tall, pale, lean men with narrow faces, sharp noses, and easy country smiles that don't entirely warm up their thousand-yard stares....
"I chose this role because it scared me." Tom Hiddleston
If you're not PowerPuffing yourself, you're not living
Let us pull you out of the muck that is April Fools' day. Cartoon Network unveiled a weird and fun thing that will give you the power to get through April 1st by turning yourself into a Powerpuff Girl.
T...
The height of Friday
Microsoft's new Windows Ink makes stylus input way more useful
When I reviewed Microsoft's Surface Book last year, I was struck by how badly Windows 10 handled pen support. Windows has supported styluses since the days of tablet edition for Windows XP, but Microsoft...
Microsoft finally invests in digital ink
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The guide to building a PC for virtual reality
So how much power do you need for your virtual reality gaming PC?
VR, at least the desktop variety, is an expensive technology, and it requires an impressive system. That remains true whether you're going...
Everything you need to get started
Google and Acer built a 24-inch desktop computer for video conferences
Google and Acer have teamed up to release the $799 Chromebase for meetings, an "all-in-one standalone secure video conferencing device" designed for small areas like desktops or office phone booths. Google...
Acer claims it's the biggest screen on any Chrome OS device
Meet the executive-level fool who gets paid to organize Lyft’s elaborate, expensive pranks
The next time you call for a Lyft car and instead you get a DeLorean from Back to the Future, or a horde of hungry zombies, or a faceful of chicken feathers, you'll have one person to thank: Ethan Eyler,...
"I thought it would be funny if cars had mustaches." Ethan Eyler
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How much would you pay for a stroller that fits almost anywhere?
A baby takes up a surprisingly large amount of space. Not the actual baby, of course, but the piles of onesies, newborn diapers, teething toys, and bottles that parents buy to go along with that cuddly...
Designers think some people will pay for small-size luxury, and they’re probably right
There are now more people who are obese than underweight in the world
The number of people in the world who are obese skyrocketed to 641 million in 2014 from 105 million in 1975, according to a new study published in the medical journal The Lancet. That’s a sixfold increase...
One-fifth of adults worldwide will be obese by 2025
A remake of sci-fi romance classic Starman is in the works
Starman, the old '80s romance film dressed up as a sci-fi flick, is getting a remake with Night at the Museum director Shawn Levy, according to a report today from The Hollywood Reporter. The original...
From the director of Night at the Museum
Egypt reportedly banned Facebook's Free Basics program because it couldn't spy on users
The shutting down of Facebook’s free internet service in Egypt wasn't about net neutrality as was initially believed, according to a new report from Reuters. The social media platform refused to give the...
Egypt reportedly wanted to spy on its citizens
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PinSim is a custom virtual reality pinball rig
Jeremy Williams, who previously designed light-up video game pixel art, has built a virtual reality pinball controller from scratch. He designed it to work with the game Pinball FX 2 VR, currently...
Williams was blown away when he played pinball in the Oculus Rift
The Batman v Superman 4DX Experience is brutish, unapologetic capitalism sprayed directly in your face
Imagine what kind of cultural experiences $28 can buy you. A decent show ticket. Three matinees at a suburban movie theater. A couple ritzy museum admissions. Nine movie rentals on iTunes. Three months of...
simmering plastic is probably what gross capitalism smells like
Slack completes new funding at $3.8 billion valuation
Slack, the fast-growing office messaging tool has finally completed a new round of funding, including new investor Thrive Capital, it said Friday.
The funding has been expected for a while and has been...
A healthy bump from its previous valuation
A guide to choosing between the Tesla Model 3 and the Chevy Bolt
The Chevrolet Bolt and the Tesla Model 3 are the first affordable, long-distance — over 200 miles of range — electric vehicles. They've both been announced, and will eventually hit dealerships. The Chevy...
heads or tails?
Scientists used stem cells to grow hairy, fluorescent skin for transplants
Researchers have grown a type of complex, hairy skin tissue in the lab for the first time. The fluorescent skin was implanted in living mice, and although its use in humans is a long way off, scientists...
"An impressive technological achievement" Theodora Mauro, dermatologist
DJI files patent lawsuit against Yuneec, starting drone industry's first major legal fight
When Yuneec unveiled its Typhoon H drones at CES earlier this year, we called it the first major contender for DJI's crown. Now DJI, the world's most successful consumer drone maker, has filed a lawsuit in...
The first major legal battle in the consumer drone market
Elon Musk says Tesla has taken $7.5 billion worth of Model 3 preorders
Last night, Tesla introduced the Model 3, its affordable electric car for the masses. The masses have responded, with more than 180,000 preorders placed in the first 24 hours.
Update April 1 1:24PM ET:...
That's 180,000 cars
Amazon and Microsoft will reportedly invest in Here, the self-driving car mapping unit
Amazon and Microsoft are two of the biggest technology companies in the world who have yet to make overt steps toward the world of autonomous vehicles, but that may soon change. Sources are telling Reuters...
"open to additional investors from all industries" Here spokesperson
After 40 years, Apple's most iconic product is the magic show
If you want to see a great magic show today, take an hour to watch Steve Jobs introduce the iPhone in 2007. Ignore that it already looks insanely dated, and focus on how it's essentially just a 50-minute...
Are you watching closely?
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