Siri can now answer more of your baseball questions

Dante D'Orazio April 3, 2016 12:53 pmless than a minute ago

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

Dante D'Orazio April 2, 2016 05:24 pm19 hours ago 5

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

Dante D'Orazio April 3, 2016 11:00 am2 hours ago 14

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

This is your next jam: Brian Eno, Young Thug, and more

Jamieson Cox April 1, 2016 04:53 pm04.01.2016 9

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

Jordan Golson March 31, 2016 11:58 pm03.31.2016 308

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

Dante D'Orazio April 2, 2016 03:15 pm22 hours ago 6

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'

Dante D'Orazio April 2, 2016 02:00 pm23 hours ago 21

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

Loren Grush April 2, 2016 11:54 am04.02.2016

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

Jacob Kastrenakes April 1, 2016 07:46 pm04.01.2016 17

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

This Scarlett Johansson robot is a crushing end to another week

Russell Brandom and Chris Plante April 1, 2016 05:55 pm04.01.2016 35

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

Nick Statt April 1, 2016 05:47 pm04.01.2016 27

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

DJ Pangburn April 1, 2016 05:05 pm04.01.2016

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?

Chris Ziegler April 1, 2016 04:59 pm04.01.2016 79

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

Mark Bergen April 1, 2016 04:54 pm04.01.2016

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

Tasha Robinson April 1, 2016 01:04 pm04.01.2016 2

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

Racked Staff April 1, 2016 04:30 pm04.01.2016

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

Tom Warren April 1, 2016 03:44 pm04.01.2016 24

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

The guide to building a PC for virtual reality

Polygon Staff April 1, 2016 03:34 pm04.01.2016

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

Alex Brokaw April 1, 2016 03:34 pm04.01.2016 9

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

Andrew J . Hawkins April 1, 2016 02:49 pm04.01.2016

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

How much would you pay for a stroller that fits almost anywhere?

Katherine Boehret April 1, 2016 02:43 pm04.01.2016

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

Alessandra Potenza April 1, 2016 02:38 pm04.01.2016

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

Nick Statt April 1, 2016 02:35 pm04.01.2016 3

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

Ashley Carman April 1, 2016 02:32 pm04.01.2016 7

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

Alex Brokaw April 1, 2016 02:21 pm04.01.2016 1

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

Kaitlyn Tiffany April 1, 2016 02:12 pm04.01.2016 34

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

Recode Staff April 1, 2016 02:03 pm04.01.2016

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

Jordan Golson April 1, 2016 02:00 pm04.01.2016 67

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

Arielle Duhaime-Ross April 1, 2016 02:00 pm04.01.2016

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

Ben Popper April 1, 2016 01:25 pm04.01.2016 5

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

Jordan Golson April 1, 2016 12:46 pm04.01.2016 56

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

Andrew J . Hawkins April 1, 2016 12:43 pm04.01.2016 2

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

T.C. Sottek April 1, 2016 12:22 pm04.01.2016 3

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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