Windows 10 is installed on more than 75 million PCs after just four weeks
Microsoft released Windows 10 four weeks ago today, and now the company is providing a fresh update on its upgrade figures. 14 million machines had been upgraded to Windows 10 within 24 hours of the...
An impressive figure
Seven arrested over multimillion-dollar ‘internet brothel' Rentboy.com
The owners of Rentboy.com describe their business as "the world's largest male escort site," but federal authorities claim that it is, in fact, an "internet brothel." On Tuesday, law enforcement officers...
"We bring good people together." — Rentboy.com chief executive Jeffrey Hurant
Flourishing marijuana trade is leaving Denver short on warehouse space
Here's an amusing byproduct of the legalization of marijuana use in some American states: it's putting a strain on the nation's freight network. The Wall Street Journal reports that Denver, a central hub...
The new green industry is gobbling up commercial real estate
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What major problem will your next phone have?
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The sound of getting hacked is apparently Thunderstruck by AC/DC
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More people play fantasy football than live in the 18 least populated states combined
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Luigi will always be a second place, runner-up, wannabe Mario
Before he self destructed: chronicling the fall of 50 Cent
There was a time when Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson was unavoidable. With the exception of Snoop Doggy Dogg, it’s difficult to envision a rapper getting a bigger launch: his debut album Get Rich Or Die Tryin’...
The new Olympus E-M10 Mark II is a tiny metal powerhouse of a camera
Olympus is one of a handful of companies taking on the likes of Canon and Nikon by producing high-quality mirrorless cameras. Over the last few years, its OM-D line of cameras was one of the first to offer...
Airbnb starts collecting tourist tax in Paris, its most popular destination
Airbnb has announced that it will begin collecting tourist tax in Paris on behalf of its hosts. The tax will appear on customers' bills as a €0.83 ($0.96) charge per person per night under the category...
working with local regulators
Twitter's decision to ban archiving of politicians' deleted tweets is a mistake
Twitter’s commitment to transparency appears to end when it makes the powerful uncomfortable.
Back in 2012, Twitter decided to allow the Sunlight Foundation to collect and curate deleted tweets from...
A hypocritical move from free speech supporters
Motorola's new camera is a massive upgrade over anything it's done before
For all its leadership in making Android phones more accessible and affordable to the masses, Motorola has never been able to count itself among the best cameraphone makers. The Chicago-based company has...
Here's what the new Moto camera is capable of
Verizon's Hum will turn your beater into a connected car
Verizon is announcing Hum today, a two-piece hardware system bundled with a phone app and monthly plan that give basically any old car (1996 or newer) OnStar-like capabilities, ranging from stolen vehicle...
An OnStar competitor in a box
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AT&T reportedly playing dirty tricks to serve extra ads through airport hotspot
AT&T's "free" Wi-Fi may be too good to be true. One of the company's Wi-Fi hotspots, in Virginia's Dulles airport, is reportedly using an ad-injection platform to tamper with the web traffic of users and...
Adding ads is bad
One Direction are tired: four years of 1D, by the numbers
If you were wondering if that weird sound you heard late Sunday evening was all of tween Twitter crying out in an anguished wail, rest assured you're not crazy: the members of One Direction are going their...
'Does it ever drive you crazy / just how fast the night changes?' One Direction
California may ban drones from trespassing over private property
The California State Assembly yesterday passed legislation that would make drone operators guilty of trespassing if they fly their UAVs over private property.
California may clip drones' wings
Formula One is working on a closed cockpit design to keep drivers safer
Formula One is going to test a new closed cockpit design, and it could be the blade-like enclosure seen above, according to Motorsport.com. The international racing news website has obtained the image...
IndyCar's latest tragedy could accelerate the development
Google Calendar is getting much smarter for business users
Google Apps users are going to start having an easier time managing their calendar. With an update rolling out this week, Google Calendar will begin automatically grabbing events that it detects in Gmail —...
Gmail and Calendar will do the work for you
What major problem will your next phone have?
A controversy accompanies the release of every major smartphone. This is true essentially without fail. Seriously, you can practically set your watch by it: a new model comes out, and a few hours later,...
If you insert the Motion Co-processor without a care in the world, smile detection stops working
US girls are more likely to be obese than Canadian ones
Though the US and Canada have a lot in common, American children are still more likely to be obese.
Between 2009 and 2013, American girls aged seven to 12 were more than twice as likely to be obese...
Figuring out where the differences lie can help focus preventions
YouTube’s answer to Twitch finally launches today
Just before E3 this year, YouTube announced that it was getting into gaming in a big way, with its own stand-alone video site that would take on Twitch. Called YouTube Gaming, the service was expected to...
And then there were two
Google could track potholes to help you avoid them down the road
Google has filed a patent for a way to track potholes across the United States, using your car's GPS navigation system and other sensors to detect damaged portions of a road, put that information into a...
Get from A to B with no bumps
Facebook 'Spam King' pleads guilty after sending more than 27 million messages
Sanford Wallace, known as the "Spam King" after charges alleged he sent 27 million fraudulent Facebook messages, has plead guilty to fraud and criminal contempt charges, Bloomberg reports.
Wallace was...
Faces three years in prison
Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch looks really good on Instagram
Samsung wants everyone to remember that it has a new smartwatch coming. Over the past two weeks, Samsung has been releasing glimpses (and a fashion shoot) of the Gear S2, and today we're getting another...
As for IRL?
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The sound of getting hacked is apparently Thunderstruck by AC/DC
At a press conference yesterday about the Ashley Madison hack, Toronto police distributed a flyer to the assembled reporters with the lyrics to AC/DC's "Thunderstruck." The music mystery lasted a short...
Facebook’s Moments app will automatically create music videos out of your photos
Facebook's photo sharing app Moments, which launched in June, today added a video feature. With this update, Moments will automatically create a photo montage, complete with music, using any grouping of...
Another reflection of Facebook’s increased focus on video
Uber will partner with University of Arizona for self-driving car research
Uber is setting up a new self-driving car project at the University of Arizona, according to an email sent out today to university employees. The new project will focus on self-driving car technology,...
Tucson will be a new hub for self-driving research
Google Map Maker is now online again in over 50 countries
Google continues to reopen Map Maker, bringing it back to 45 countries today including the US. Map Maker was shut down in May after a series of embarrassing user edits began showing up on the public Google...
New moderation policies are in place
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Ashley Madison facing another class action suit
An anonymous Ashley Madison user has filed a potential class action lawsuit against parent company Avid Life Media, alleging that the company failed to take "necessary and reasonable precautions" to...
Lawsuit argues Avid Life Media should have known it needed better encryption
The Apple Watch will be available at all Best Buy locations next month
Apple's three-month exclusive on sales of the Apple Watch is over, so the device is finding its way onto the virtual and physical store shelves of a few new retailers. Now Best Buy, which was the first...
The retailer dramatically speeds up its rollout
The Sensel Morph wants to be a bigger, better version of Apple’s Force Touch trackpad
Earlier this year, Apple opened up some interesting new ways of controlling the MacBook by giving it a trackpad that could detect how hard or soft you were pressing. Now a new company, Sensel, is trying to...
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More people play fantasy football than live in the 18 least populated states combined
A Forbes article from last year claims 33 million people participate annually in fantasy football. That’s more people than the populations of Kansas, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska,...
What happens when fantasy sports become as popular as the real thing?
Highlights from Verge Hack Week 2015
Wave goodbye to Verge Hack Week, our now-annual tradition where we blow up the site and turn the ashes into a playground for the staff.
Verge Hack Week is a chance for our editorial and product teams to...
Chopped and Screwed
Cablevision lines up the beginning of a premium TV package for cord cutters
TV networks like HBO and Showtime have been starting to offer online subscriptions, and they've been turning to internet providers to help sell them. The latest partnership is between Cablevision and CBS,...
Adds CBS and Showtime, which it'll sell... eventually
Streaming radio app TuneIn adds MLB broadcasts and commercial-free music
The streaming radio app TuneIn is continuing to move beyond traditional radio. It's adding a paid offering today that'll give listeners access to over 40,000 audiobooks, 600 commercial-free music stations,...
Premium subscription launches with sports, music, and audiobooks
Netflix is begging for teen eyeballs with two new movies from YouTube stars
According to The New York Times, Netflix is licensing two recent feature films made by popular YouTube personalities. By obtaining the rights to comedy duo Smosh's Smosh: The Movie and Jenn McAllister and L...
Smosh: The Movie and Bad Night are coming to the streaming service
Amazon's Prime Now delivery service launches alcohol sales in Seattle
Amazon's one-hour delivery service, Prime Now, is expanding to cover new markets including the online retailer's hometown of Seattle, Washington. Beginning today, Prime Now is also spreading to Amazon...
Patience is for the weak
