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Synths are great. You push a key, turn a few knobs and suddenly you're making "music." So when keyboard maker Korg realized it had a hit with its low-cost, entry-level Monotron series, it was only natural to follow it up...

These are the five biggest problems with season six of HBO's fantasy drama 'Game Of Thrones.'

Augmented World Expo this year was home to a ton of cool new gadgets and technologies. Here are a few of the coolest we saw at the show, from augmented reality glasses to fitness tracking wearables. The post The 5 cooles...

Welcome back to The Verge's weekly musical roundup. I'm Jamieson, I'm still your host, and I field-tested this week's jams while blasting up and down the fine provincial highways of Ontario, Canada. (I had a convocation ...

Leah Reich was one of the first internet advice columnists. Her column "Ask Leah" ran on IGN, where she gave advice to gamers for two and a half years. During the day, Leah is Slack's user researcher, but her views here ...

Apple has started decorating its venues for WWDC 2016, which kicks off on Monday, with workers starting to apply a massive Apple logo onto the side of Moscone West. Apple will use Moscone West for all of the week apart f...

Hackers already love them, which means spies will, too. It's no surprise that the U.S. National Security Agency and presumably other spy agencies around the world are investigating how they might take advantage of the ne...

Lenovo took the veils off the pair of its intelligent running shoes. Here is a rundown of what these smart shoes have to offer to wearers.

India wants no part of Google Street View, at least for the time being. Under the umbrella of 'security risks,' the Home Ministry rejected the service, but the search engine company seems unwilling to give up.

A lost wedding ring may be the only sort of challenge astronauts in the Apollo program didn't train for. The post That Time an Astronaut Lost His Wedding Ring in Space appeared first on WIRED.

As thousands were evacuated across multiple counties in Texas due to horrible flooding, one man and his family are living high and dry thanks to something he bought on the internet.

Apple will tap Intel as a supplier for modem chips for the next iPhone, a component that was previously supplied only by Qualcomm. If the report is true, what would be the reason behind such as a decision?

You've heard it a thousand times from motivational speakers: the key to success is to follow your passion. It's an appealing notion, but as Mike Rowe points out, just because you're passionate about something doesn't nec...

The city that never sleeps had another reason to stay awake early Saturday morning, as the Solar Impulse 2 touched down in New York City, completing a historic flight across the United States. The post History was just m...

Inventors of SAMBA, an HIV diagnostic kit, won a coveted prize in the European Inventor Award. The revolutionary device can also be used to detect hepatitis B in just 2 hours.

From a portable electricity grid to tamper-proof meters, these ideas could change lives

Twitter faced new allegations of being hacked, but multiple sources indicated that the rumor was false. The platform catered to its users' credential safety and urged them to take additional security measures.

DeRay Mckesson is a widely known activist in the Black Lives Matter movement and a former candidate in the race for mayor of Baltimore. He's a high-profile target, and someone finally figured out a way to crack his popul...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group on Friday pegged an official June announcement date for Bluetooth 5, a next-generation near-range wireless transmission technology set to feature substantial performance gains over th...

This year's Tokyo Toy Show failed to turn up anything as impressive as the things I cooed over back in 2014. (Perhaps that's why it's only held every two years.) However, I did get another glimpse into what (the hell) Ja...

The busiest shipping port in the US will soon be home to even more activity, thanks to plans to open a state-of-the-art ocean research facility by 2023.

E3 2016 officially kicks off tomorrow, and Microsoft's big press conference is scheduled for Monday, June 13th. While we now know that a PC port of Halo 5 won't be among their announcements, it seems an open beta for the...