Verge ESP: Buy the ticket, take the ride
It's sort of a shame Kanye didn't name his album Waves after all — the same week that The Life of Pablo dropped, the LIGO group said they found gravitational waves. (Waves would also be thematically...
Kesha can't terminate or change her contract with Sony Music, court rules
Kesha lost a preliminary injunction motion today that would have allowed her to record music without her longtime producer Dr. Luke (aka Lukasz Gottwald), The Hollywood Reporter reports. Kesha has been...
The contract was already "heavily negotiated"
A photo of my dog, Pasta Bowl
This is a photo of Pasta Bowl, my dog. She is, in my opinion, one of the top 100 cutest dogs of all time. Don't ask me for specific rankings, I don't have them. Frankly, I think they'd upset the millions...
Fridays, right?
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February 19, 2016
A photo of my dog, Pasta Bowl
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February 19, 2016
This data visualization of the ex-boyfriends in one woman's inbox wrecked my whole day
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February 19, 2016
Shia LaBeouf is hanging out in an elevator and live streaming it for a full day
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February 18, 2016
The Simpsons torture sphere takes what you love and turns it against you
Nextbit Robin review: a smartphone in the clouds
Chances are, if you’ve owned a smartphone over the past few years, you’ve used it for countless things: sending messages, using apps, capturing photos and video, or playing games. It’s no secret that...
Floating away
Apple is facing its biggest test of iPhone security
Apple is facing a big test of its commitment to iPhone security this week. A federal judge ordered Apple to assist the FBI with breaking into an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino shooters. It's now...
FBIos
This data visualization of the ex-boyfriends in one woman's inbox wrecked my whole day
"Forget me nots" is a collection of simple visualizations of one woman's emails from ex-boyfriends, represented by number and not by length, content, or importance. The data paints a tidy but obviously...
The ghosts of emails past
Will.i.am doesn't take the hint, makes another smartwatch
Will.i.am, a man with immense musical talents and a history of making fantastically awful tech products, is releasing his second smartwatch called the Dial, instead of another Black Eyed Peas album. The...
Why Will?
LG G5’s Magic Slot battery revealed in leaked photo
LG is just days away from revealing its latest G5 smartphone at Mobile World Congress. While details of the handset and its hardware add-ons and accessories have already been leaked, a new photo appears to...
Just days away from the big unveiling
Shia LaBeouf is hanging out in an elevator and live streaming it for a full day
Shia LaBeouf is holding court in a British elevator and broadcasting it live on the internet for 24 hours. The experimental raconteur's latest bit of performance art with collaborators Nastja Sade Rönkkö...
Art is dope
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The US government is cracking down on unsafe hoverboards
Hoverboards that lack independent safety certification — basically all that have been sold in the US so far — pose an "imminent hazard" and are now subject to recall or seizure by the US government,...
"an unreasonable risk of fire" CPSC
Japanese arcades aren't dead, and here's why
The death of the American arcade has long been lamented, but that's not the case in Japan. Granted, the focus has shifted a bit — there are fewer video games than before, making room for pachinko,...
JAEPO 2016 shows the future of arcade tech
Watch the first teaser trailer for Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt season two
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's second season just got its first teaser trailer, and the stars are hitting the runway just as New York Fashion Week comes to an end. There isn't much in the way of new footage,...
Peeno Noir for NYFW
Google’s CEO just sided with Apple in the encryption debate
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has chimed in on the escalating battle between the FBI and Apple over iPhone encryption. Describing the letter published by Apple's Tim Cook as "important," Pichai says that a j...
"Forcing companies to enable hacking could compromise users’ privacy." Sundar Pichai
Twitter suspensions may actually be curbing ISIS propaganda
Twitter’s efforts to suspend the accounts of suspected ISIS sympathizers is having an effect on repeat account offenders' activity levels and reach, according to a new report from researchers at George...
Accounts suspensions might actually work
Kanye West's The Life of Pablo is an act of radical creative transparency
The Life of Pablo is a spectacular mess. It’s a complete and utter shitshow, an album that forces you to contemplate both the undeniability of genius and the banality of rude, senseless provocation on a...
Yeezus bares his soul
In Broad City's third season, the friendship deepens along with the comedy
Broad City's third season begins with a montage. It's a split-screen shot: Abbi's bathroom is on one side, Ilana's on the other. In two minutes' time, Broad City's heroines (played by Abbi Jacobson and...
Broadly speaking
13 new trailers you should watch this week
I've gone to the theater twice in the past week, once to see Hail, Caesar! (fun!) and once to see the Oscar-nominated animated short films (recommended!). But the best thing I saw this week, without...
Game of Thrones, 10 Cloverfield Lane, Daredevil, and more
The new Fire Emblem on Nintendo 3DS is perfect for beginners
First, a confession: I’ve never played a Fire Emblem game before. Despite enjoying plenty of portable strategy games, like the Final Fantasy Tactics and Advance Wars series, I never got around to checking...
It's like an anime Game of Thrones
To Kill a Mockingbird author Harper Lee is dead at 89
Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, has died. She was 89. Al.com reports that she passed in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama. The cause of death has not yet been reported.
Lee, born on...
One of the greatest American novelists of the 20th century
Apple gets three extra days to decide if it will hack the iPhone for the FBI
Apple has a little more time to respond to the historic order to break security protections on a phone belonging to one of the alleged perpetrators of the San Bernardino attack. When the order was...
How will Apple defend itself?
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The director of The Witch talks about bringing Puritan fears to a modern world
"We have to go back to this time if we're going to believe in a witch."
"What's so interesting to me about history is how humans are the same." Robert Eggers
Volvo wants your phone to be the only car key you ever need
By next year, Volvo wants to become the first manufacturer to sell cars without keys. Instead of a physical key or even a Bluetooth key fob, Volvo customers will use a "digital key" in a smartphone app to...
Forget your physical keys
Smartwatches have outsold Swiss watches for the first time
For the first time in history, smartwatch sales have surpassed Swiss watch sales, according to Strategy Analytics. A new report from the research firm estimates that there were 8.1 million smartwatch...
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Video game stories don’t have to suck
It’s been said so much now that it’s become cliché: "It has a good story, for a video game." Games have garnered little respect over the decades for the stories they tell, and for good reason. Video game...
From Firewatch to The Witcher, the medium is getting a lot better at storytelling
This might be the beginning of 4D GIFs
Its creators call it the first "fully interactive 4D scan on the web," but to us it looks an awful lot like a 4D GIF. Not only can you drag it around in three dimensions, but it also loops over and over...
Julian Assange: 'consequences' must be paid for my detention
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he is still determined to leave the Ecuadorean embassy in London, despite ongoing resistance from the UK and Sweden. Assange, who is wanted for questioning in Sweden...
"It's an illegal situation that cannot continue." Julian Assange
Garmin adds a dash of style to its Vivo line of activity trackers
Garmin has just announced updates to its line of Vivo activity trackers, specifically, its Vivofit wristband and Vivoactive smart fitness watch. The tech updates are somewhat incremental, nudging the...
Even Garmin is trying to make activity trackers stylish
European carrier Three to block 'excessive and irrelevant' mobile ads
European mobile carrier Three is planning to block ads on its network. Three UK and Three Italy have signed a deal with Israeli startup Shine, allowing the carrier to filter out ads provided by Google and...
Three wants advertisers to pay up
This flexible phone prototype lets you flick through digital books
Researchers from Queen's University in Canada have created a flexible smartphone prototype that allows users to navigate pages by bending the screen. The ReFlex is a fully functional Android phone that...
"Users can feel the sensation of the page" — Roel Vertegaal
HTC’s One M10 looks like an extension of the One A9 design
We've not heard a lot about HTC's 2016 flagship yet, but a new leaked image from Evan Blass gives us what appears to be our first look at the device in white. It shows that HTC is sticking to design...
they've dropped the 'htc' wordmark
Amazon acquires Woody Allen's upcoming movie for Prime Video
Amazon has acquired the North American rights to Woody Allen's next movie, a still-untitled romantic comedy shot last year that stars Steve Carell, Jeannie Berlin, Blake Lively, and Jesse Eisenberg, among...
Blossoming romance
Pluto's moon Charon may have had an ancient ocean
Pluto's moon Charon may have expanded when a sub-surface ocean froze, according to NASA. Images recorded by the New Horizons probe's flyby show "pull apart" faults on Charon's surface, suggesting the moon...
