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Meet Beacon, Uber’s colorful new gadget to help prevent those awkward car mixups

by @andyjayhawk

We’ve all been there: you land at an airport, book an Uber to your hotel, only to find 20 identical black Honda CR-Vs waiting when you get outside. Which one is yours? Or it’s late, you’re leaving the club with a buzz, and inadvertently leap into...

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Twitter's new, longer tweets are coming September 19th

by Chris Welch

Twitter is about to make a big change to the way that tweets work, The Verge can independently confirm. Beginning September 19th, the company will cut down on exactly which types of content count toward the platform's 140-character limit. Media...

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Uber hired CIA-linked research firm to investigate Seattle union politics

by Andrew Hawkins

For months, Uber has been fending off fraud allegations related to an investigation into one of its legal opponents, which the company commissioned from a secretive CIA-linked research firm called Ergo. Documents related to the case also refer to...

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Exclusive: Why Microsoft is betting its future on AI

by @CaseyNewton

Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room, eager to talk about intelligence. I was at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the company’s CEO was touting the company's progress in building more intelligent apps and services. Each...

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Pizza Squirrel is undoubtedly my greatest work as a journalist

by Ben Popper

My 1.5-year-old son has Coxsackie disease, which is very funny to say, but very unpleasant to have. He woke up this morning at 4.30AM. I didn't want to stay cooped up in the house, so after breakfast we went to the park. We were the only people...

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Former Ford GT engineer defects to Karma to make electric cars

by @tamaratam

Former Ford engineer Kip Ewing is among the latest auto industry veterans to join Karma Automotive, the upstart electric car company built on the ashes of Fisker. The company is opening a new Troy, Michigan engineering center, an outpost of the...

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Monohm's wonderfully weird circular phone is now available for preorder

by @sokane1

If you really want to break the pattern of glass and metal rectangles, your next smartphone could be circular. Monohm Inc. is finally taking preorders on Indiegogo for the Runcible — the smartphone-slash-pocket-watch that we first saw at Mobile...

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Uber is experimenting with a phone dispatch system

by Spencer Woodman

Uber is experimenting with a decidedly retro service: a telephone dispatch system that would allow people without smartphones to call a hotline and order an Uber ride, according to a transit official in Pinellas County, Florida. The system is...

Altering the deal: why Tony Fadell left Nest — and Alphabet

by @reckless

Last Friday’s news that Nest CEO Tony Fadell would be leaving the company he founded with Matt Rogers and stepping into an "advisory" role seemed like the culmination of months of stories about Nest’s demanding culture — particularly the frank...

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Donald Trump deletes tweet after objection from flight simulator enthusiast

by @russellbrandom

Earlier today, Donald Trump tweeted a screenshot from a flight simulator rendering of Redding Airport in California, apparently believing it was a freely available photograph of the airport itself. Now, the person who first took that screenshot...

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Google made an insanely high-res camera to preserve great works of art

by Jacob Kastrenakes

In its first five years, the Google Cultural Institute scanned and archived 200 works of art in super-high-resolution gigapixel images. Now in just the past few months, it has managed to scan another 1,000. The sudden expansion is thanks to a new...

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Exclusive: Facebook says it can’t serve a billion people if it’s biased about the news

by @CaseyNewton

This week’s controversy over how Facebook programs its Trending Topics section has highlighted the company’s growing power over the distribution of news — and the fear that it might one day use that power toward partisan ends. Facebook denied a G...

GoPro is finally shipping its massive professional VR rig

by @sokane1

After months of delays, the 16-camera virtual reality rig that GoPro built with Google has finally shipped. GoPro tells The Verge that Odyssey, as it's called, has made it out to the first few companies that were vetted as part of a "limited...

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Can AI fix education? We asked Bill Gates

by @CaseyNewton

The rise of smartphones has transformed the way students communicate and entertain themselves. But the classrooms they spend so much of their time in remain stubbornly resistant to transformation. On one hand, technology has long had a home in...

SmartThings poaches Amazon engineering director to start simplifying the smart home

by Jacob Kastrenakes

SmartThings has hired Robert Parker away from Amazon to oversee future hardware and software development as its new SVP of engineering. At Amazon, Parker served as a director of engineering, spending five years working on a number of the company's...

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Uber poaches a top Ford engineer to help build self-driving cars

by @andyjayhawk

Add Ford to the list of companies that are being pillaged by Uber in its quest to excel in the hyper-competitive world of self-driving cars. Sherif Marakby, director of global electronics and engineering at Ford, is joining Uber as vice president...

Inside Microsoft's HoloLens

by @tomwarren

When I tried Microsoft’s HoloLens headset last year, security guards lined the walls of a hotel, and I had to stash all my belongings in a locker before I even set foot near it. Microsoft was petrified someone would take a photo of the device and...

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Ticketmaster can now be built right into third-party apps

by @MicahSingleton

Ticketmaster is officially launching its first set of public APIs and SDKs, which will allow third-party apps to integrate its ticket discovery, purchasing, and management services directly into their app. The tools are available through...

Google is making a keyboard for the iPhone

by @CaseyNewton

Google has been developing a third-party keyboard for iOS that would put the company’s search engine in a highly used part of the interface, The Verge has learned. The keyboard, which incorporates a variety of search options, has been in...

New iPhone hack caught Justice Department off guard, court transcript shows

by @russellbrandom

Yesterday, the government made a surprising retreat in the San Bernardino encryption case, after an unnamed source revealed a new method of breaking iPhone lockscreen protections. After a hastily assembled conference call, the parties agreed to...

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Remote, Controlled

by @reckless

Matt McRae is fired up about remote controls. Or, more specifically, about getting rid of them. McRae is the chief technology officer of Vizio, a company that sells more TVs — and with them, remotes — than any other company in America. And he...

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Charge Mobile Data dumps your phone’s voice plan for pure data

by @dcseifert

Smartphones are connected computers that fit in our pockets — at this point, the "phone" part of them is virtually an afterthought. We use them for all kinds of communication that has nothing to do with a phone number: email, instant messaging,...

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Controversial game Stolen is reborn, with a twist, as Famous

by @CaseyNewton

A month ago, after one of the worst weeks of his life, Siqi Chen received a message from an unlikely source. Chen is the CEO of the company behind Stolen, a controversial game that let users buy and sell Twitter profiles like trading cards. Each...

Facebook is developing millimeter-wave networks for Internet.org

by @russellbrandom

When Starry announced its new venture for gigabit mesh networks in January, it was hailed as ambitious, innovative, and more than a little far-fetched. But Starry isn't the only company developing the technology. Patent records obtained by The...

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Watch the first trailer for Amazon's sci-fi satire Creative Control

by @kwameopam

Creative Control, a sharp, dark send-up of present-day tech culture, made a big splash when it debuted at SXSW last year. Now, with a release both in theaters and online due some time in the coming months, Amazon has provided The Verge with a...

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This is Microsoft’s iPhone keyboard

by @tomwarren

Microsoft is bringing its Windows Phone keyboard to iOS. The software giant is currently testing an early version of the keyboard internally, and will make it available to public testers soon. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed...

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Exclusive: T-Pain shows us how to use the new GarageBand

by Jacob Kastrenakes

T-Pain is bent over an iPad, dancing and tapping the screen to send glimmering electronic beats through huge speakers and out into the hallway of his home. We’re down in T-Pain’s basement studio, in a room filled with giant control boards, cases...

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Inside Audi's wonderfully improbable project to put a rover on the Moon

by @jlgolson

Much to the disappointment of space nerds everywhere, man has not stepped foot on the Moon in more than 40 years. Governments have sent expensive robots and satellites to our nearest celestial neighbor, but the Moon remains woefully...

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Windows 10’s next major update will let Cortana float around your PC

by @tomwarren

Microsoft just released Cortana for iOS and Android this week, but it's planning much bigger features for its future Windows integration. Cortana first arrived on Windows 10 earlier this year, and now Microsoft is planning and building major...

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Inside Faraday Future, the secretive car company chasing Tesla

by @tamaratam

Inside a suburban Los Angeles industrial building that once served as an R&D facility for Japanese automotive giant Nissan, natural midday light spills through the windows. Today, a very different company occupies this space. I arrive at...

The best portable 3D scanner is about to get way more precise

by @sokane1

Occipital, the maker of the Structure Sensor, has acquired a company called Lynx Laboratories, one that launched its own mobile 3D scanner on Kickstarter a few years ago. The Lynx staff will join Occipital at its headquarters in Boulder, Colorado....

Snapchat introduces a 'lens store' to adorn your selfies with 99-cent filters

by @CaseyNewton

In September, Snapchat introduced Lenses, a way to augment your selfies with silly photos and animations: a monocle and mustache, say, or a violent bolt of lightning coming out of your mouth. There are seven to choose from, and each day a new one...

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