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A lot of products come out each week — we don't highlight all of them, but all of them make it into The Verge Database. In Spec Sheet, a weekly series, we survey the latest product entries to keep track of the state of...

Though the event continues to be called “Editor’s Day”, this week we had an extended stay with NVIDIA in Montreal, learning about the company’s newest in gaming development and hardware innovation. The biggest ne...

When Microsoft said that it would release its Remote Desktop app for Android and iOS, it left many scratching their heads -- what, no Windows Phone version? There's no need to worry, though, as the company has just promi...

Apple has issued a recall for some MacBook Air notebooks, warning owners that the flash storage used in the ultraportables could fail and result in a loss of data. The “MacBook Air Flash Storage Drive Replacement Progr...

Last week was a great week for low-cost computing, as both HP and Acer announced Chromebook laptops for under $300. Although the browser-based Chrome OS is no replacement for a Windows PC or Mac that can run a full array...

The second iPad mini will include a Retina upgrade and the iPad 5 will not have TouchID as was previously rumored, according to KGI Securities analyst Mingchi Kuo. These and a bevy of other predictions were released toda...

It's no secret that Julian Assange dislikes Hollywood movie The Fifth Estate, which details the rise of WikiLeaks. Assange has been concerned about the film for months, incessantly tweeting bad reviews, and even asking B...

In their ongoing teardown of Play Store 4.4, Android Police have found multiple mentions of a “Play Newsstand” that could turn out to be a one-price news subscription service similar in structure to Play Music All Ac...

wabrandsma writes "New Scientist reports that 'A bacterium has had its genome recoded so that the standard language of life no longer applies. Instead, one of its words has been freed up to impart a different meaning, al...

Carriers' actions and reactions have made calculating the true cost of a smartphone more time-consuming than ever before.

Oil companies and environmental groups have long sparred over off-shore drilling but there's one thing the two might finally agree on: keeping scuttled oil rigs on the ocean floor as a rich environment for coral, endange...

Whovians, brace yourselvesBBC One created a special trailer that celebrates the last 50 years of Doctor Who. In the video, fans are taken back to the very beginning of the popular sci-fi series. All the Doctors — inclu...

Updates on the French and German versions of Amazon.com suggest a new, replacement Apple TV coming the day after this week’s Apple announcement – just in time for Christmas. The prospect of a shiny new Apple TV produ...

Two years ago, Mark Rober was an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., part of a team that worked on the Curiosity rover. For Halloween, he strapped an iPad to his chest and another to his b...

Twitter is considering killing off its Twitter #Music app for iOS, according to AllThingsD. The move comes six months after the music tracking app was launched. It was Twitter's first product to break away from its main ...

Dan Siroker, the co-founder and CEO of Optimizely, a Y Combinator-backed company that helps businesses A/B test their webpages, says he’s got a trick for testing prospective investors. He runs them through mock board m...

There's nothing wrong with being shy, but sometimes you can benefit from putting yourself out there--like at a professional function that can further your career. Phil Kirkham of Atomic Object likes to gamify these inter...

Pelican has been making amazing hard-side cases for quite a while, creating some of the favorite shipping cases for cameras, firearms, servers and other items that owners want to have softly cradled in foam while protect...

jones_supa writes "If you want to find the computer geniuses of tomorrow, you could do worse than to check out which kids are playing Minecraft. In a Google+ post, the Google Quantum A.I. Lab Team says that they've relea...

Hey remember Twitter Music ? Hadn't thought about it in a while? Well apparently that's a common problem, and according to a report by AllThingsD, Twitter is very seriously considering putting the service out of its mise...