Etsy will now help designers find manufacturers
Six months after Etsy completed an IPO that valued it at $3.5 billion, the craft marketplace is expanding. The company is introducing Etsy Manufacturing, a new service that will link Etsy sellers — who...
Home-made in factories
Plex is on its way to Apple TV
Apple TV might have just won itself a few more fans. Plex, the popular service for organizing and streaming your personal movie and music collection, is finally coming to Apple's home theater device.
C...
Media streaming app will finally get official support
American Airlines accidentally used the wrong plane to fly to Hawaii
This goes without saying, but planes aren't like socks. You can't mix and match them. Each is uniquely identified and has a precise schedule with the airlines. That's why it's pretty shocking to hear that...
Uh, whoops
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The Verge Review of Animals: the rat
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Burning Man is so anti-capitalist it's threatening to sue Quiznos for mocking the festival
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Find love in a hopeless place with our Burning Man missed connection generator
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If you're planning on ordering an iPhone 6S tonight, do this right now
What I learned this week about Tim Cook’s Apple
No winning streak goes on forever. But it would be hard to tell that from this week’s announcements from Apple. Even though the latest iteration of the company’s main product, the iPhone, didn’t change...
The flow of ideas from Apple is still strong
Here's why Apple made the stylus that Steve Jobs hated
When Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller announced that the company's stylus for new iPad Pro would be called Pencil, the crowd audibly laughed in unison. On the surface, it was because it played into the...
Styluses and screens have come a long way
Microsoft is using Android apps as mobile testbeds
This past Friday, Business Insider revealed that Microsoft had acquired Double Labs, a small shop that makes an Android app screen replacement called Echo Notification Lockscreen. That seems like a weird...
The new Microsoft is here to stay
This company has a way to stabilize footage from almost any camera
Almost nothing makes a video look worse than shaky footage. I’m not talking about the purposely-added shake you see in Bourne Identity fight scenes — rather, the little bumps and wobbles that DSLRs and...
No more shakes — GoPro or DSLR
Burning Man is so anti-capitalist it's threatening to sue Quiznos for mocking the festival
This one's almost too perfect.
Take Burning Man, the annual, drug-addled, desert hippie festival that was formed on tenets of self-reliance and anti-capitalism. Add a brilliantly-executed parody video...
It's almost too much
Watch Furious 7's new featurette about Dom's insane off-road Charger
One of the highlights of this summer's Furious 7 was the beastly black and red Charger assembled by Mr. Nobody's elite squad, later parachuted into the middle of nowhere by Vin Diesel's Dom Toretto on a...
This will hold you over until Furious 8
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See a new, full view of Pluto in high resolution
Just a few short months ago we had almost no idea what Pluto really looked like. These days we’re looking at it unprecedented detail, thanks to the New Horizons spacecraft's successful flyby in July. The...
It's not a planet, but it sure looks like one
Dell is also building its own Microsoft Surface clone
Dell already makes one of the best Windows laptops you can buy, and now it seems the company is working up its own rival for Microsoft's Surface tablet. Leaked slides show a new PC that Dell apparently...
But this one's got a 4K screen
This Month in Luxury: Apple Watch Hermès
Welcome to This Month in Luxury, presented by Micah Singleton, The Verge's resident Luxury Director. In this monthly (or whenever we remember) column, I will take you on a completely superficial journey of...
Affordable luxury. Who knew?
iPhone 6S and 6S Plus preorders are now live
It wouldn't be September without a late night spent hitting refresh on your browser window trying to buy the new iPhone. And so here we are again, as preorders are now live on Apple's site. You can also...
The Apple Store app is the way to go
The 10 most important things from Apple's iPhone 6S event
Apple events can usually be referenced based on the one flagship they focus on: the iPad event, the iPhone event, the Apple Music event. That doesn’t work quite as well with today’s news-packed event. The...
Rose gold iPhones, giant tablets, and a new Apple TV
Tim Cook will be a guest on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert next week
Apple CEO Tim Cook will appear on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert next week on September 15th. Colbert announced the news via Twitter, with an accompanying photo showing the host wearing his Apple...
Make us laugh, Tim
Facebook tests temporary profile pictures for supporting causes
Changing your profile photo is a puzzlingly big decision, but Facebook is trying to make it easier to quickly change them up every so often. According to TechCrunch, Facebook is testing a new feature that...
Temporary photos or temporary support?
Google thinks Los Angeles is underwater
Google has put the residents of Los Angeles in a rather precarious position: underwater, according to the search giant's Maps software. Toggle over Venice, Malibu or select parts of Route 1 and you'll see...
A glitch, or climate change commentary?
Toyota just launched an all-new Prius, and it looks weirder than ever
The Prius has never looked like a "normal" car, really (with the exception of the first generation, perhaps) — but with the official unveiling this evening in Las Vegas of the all-new 2016 model, Toyota...
That face is going to take some getting used to
The LAPD has a Tesla now
At a press conference today, Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti announced the lease of 160 battery electric vehicles and 128 plug-in hybrids for the city's vehicle fleet. "Today, we take another step toward...
The city just leased 288 electric vehicles
Tumblr now has its own clothing line designed by some of its biggest bloggers
Tumblr is partnering with Print All Over Me — a website that lets designers add custom prints to a cycling selection of basic clothing silhouettes and collect a portion of the profits — to release its...
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A Craigslist tradition unlike any other
You can use the new Moto X on Google's Project Fi network
The Nexus 6 is no longer the only phone that's compatible with Project Fi. Droid Life has discovered that the new Moto X Pure Edition can successfully be activated on Google's MVNO network using a fresh...
Well, sort of
The Knick season 2 trailer: Clive Owen keeps hitting bottom
Last year Steven Soderbergh and actor Clive Owen teamed up for The Knick, a riveting period drama about New York's Knickerbocker Hospital in the early 1900s. The show aired on Cinemax, so at the time I...
There will be blood
FCC scolds Lyft for forcing users to opt in to automated texts
The FCC has recently been publicizing its crusade against robo-calls, and it looks like the latest company under fire from the Commission is ride-hailing startup Lyft. In a stern order sent today, the FCC...
No fine against the company yet
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If you're planning on ordering an iPhone 6S tonight, do this right now
I have mixed emotions about Apple moving online iPhone pre-orders from a weeknight to a weekend; on the one hand, this means that many of us won't be getting turnt on a Friday. On the other hand, there...
Maybe I shouldn't be telling you this
NASA releases first clear image of Pluto's small moon Nix
Today, NASA released the first crisp image of Pluto's jellybean-shaped moon Nix. The photo was taken by the New Horizons probe on July 14th as the spacecraft flew by Pluto.
Until now, the only close-up...
NASA TV is launching a dedicated 4K channel
NASA has announced that it will launch a new 4K television channel dedicated to showing UHD footage on November 1st.
The space agency is working with a company called Harmonic, a video delivery...
One giant leap for UHD
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Europe's refugee crisis spurs online activism, but few long-term solutions
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Watch three astronauts return from the International Space Station
Three astronauts are headed back home to Earth today. Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, Andres Mogensen of the European Space Agency, and Aidyn Aimbetov of the Kazakh Space Agency will leave the International...
They're slated to undock from the station at 5:29PM ET
The Vergecast 170: Apple TV, iPad Pro, and iPhone 6S
A day after Apple’s huge event, we ran through all the big announcements. The Hype Seat has transformed into the Skype Seat so that Casey Newton can join Dieter Bohn, Jake Kastrenakes, and Chris Welch. Is...
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The Sony A7s II makes it easy to shoot 4K video in the dark
Sony broke ground in the camera world in 2013 with the announcement of the A7 line of cameras — the first mirrorless cameras with full-frame sensors. They were exceptional cameras, even with a handful of...
Living in the sunlight, shooting in the moonlight
13 new trailers you should watch this week
It's Friday! Unless you're reading this in the future, in which case I have like a 6 in 7 chance of being wrong. Anyway, as a human on this Earth you probably enjoy killing time by watching cool new movies...
