There’s a past version of me who probably wouldn’t have believed that the devices Google announced at its fall event were actually designed by Google. The old me might have thought: The company that h
For several years now, Disney has been the only Hollywood studio with a digital movie locker worth using , but a host of other industry heavyweights have now jumped on board to launch an expanded vers
When Sundar Pichai was growing up in Chennai, south-east India, he had to make regular trips to the hospital to pick up his mother’s blood-test results. It took an hour and 20 minutes by bus, and when
Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Yesterday, Google announced the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL, two phones I’ve been excited about for a while now. They have big screens, a delightfully playful design sens
Unbeknownst to me, at the very moment on Monday morning when I was asking Google CEO Sundar Pichai about the biggest ethical concern for AI today, Google's algorithms were promoting misinformation abo
An unintended effect of Google’s heavy-handed attempt to silence Barry Lynn and his Open Markets program at New America has been to shine a really bright light both on Google’s monopoly power and the
Enlarge / High Sierra wallpaper. The low-hanging clouds in the background may or may not be related to the name. Apple If you've felt like the last few macOS releases have been a little light, High Si
When I was a child, I could spend all day at Shining Time Station, thefictive train depot with its own eponymous TV show, where Thomas theTank Engine and all his plate-faced locomotive friends worked
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T here were six hours during the night of April 10, 2014, when the entire population of Washington State had no 911 service. People who called for help got a busy signal. One Seattle woman dialed 911
Writing in one of Mussolini’s prisons in the 1930s, the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci jotted down the fragments that would become his theory of intellectuals . New classes, like the European bourgeo
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In the chronicles of Father John Misty, the thirty-six-year-old singer-songwriter whose real name is Josh Tillman, the cardinal psychedelic encounter has him naked in a tree, in Big Sur, in 2010, zonk
Android 8.0 Oreo is the 26th version of the world's most popular operating system. This year, Google's mobile-and-everything-else OS hit two billion monthly active users—and that's just counting phone
On Saturday night, Florida State freshman quarterback James Blackman went from relative obscurity to a name on the tip of every Seminole fan’s tongue. A three-star recruit, Blackman was far from the b
Red Century The Cold War and America’s Delusion of Victory President George H. W. Bush, left, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in Moscow in 1991. Credit... Rick Wilking/Reuters The Cold War as a
John McCain, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American "blood
Earlier this summer Google engineer James Damore posted a treatise about gender differences on an internal company message board and was subsequently fired . The memo ignited a firestorm of debate abo
The work patterns of engineers reveal interesting things about their character, but it’s not what you might imagine. Our Hypothesis: Speedy vs. Bulky To explore this, we started with a hypothesis that some engineers on a team are better at turning work around fast, while others are better at burning…
AMPersand. Posted on 31 August 2017 If you’ve spent any time looking into Google’s “ Accelerated Mobile Pages ” ( AMP ) project , I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s wonderful to hear the AMP team talk about
Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2 , I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game. As usual, I found a video to answer my questi
Published in Google Design · 5 min read · Jul 31, 2017 -- Material Design provides a set of tools and guidance to help you make informed decisions about the different UX design directions you could ta
T wo Major League Soccer expansion clubs first took the field in March 2017, both bearing the moniker United. One in Minneapolis, the other in Atlanta – a city in that lower-third of the American map
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know Twitter these days can feel like an endless litany of commentary on the actions (and omissions) of the US president and the whirlwind of social discord t
8 min read · Aug 6, 2017 -- You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we sho
I sat down with Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, in June to interview him for my feature story, " Instagram's CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet ," and for " Is Instagram Going Too Far to Protect
"Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS" . It's the one Google Page Speed Insights suggestion that I always get stuck with. When a web page is accessed, Google wants it to only load what's usefu
This story is part of a group of stories called Outside contributors' opinions and analysis of the most important issues in politics, science, and culture. James Damore, the man fired by Google last y
Design Matías Duarte's Material World First he brought design to Google. Now, the visionary is subtly shaping our lives. August 03, 2017 Google vice president of design Matías Duarte at his team’s off
Larry Zottarelli, who recently retired from the Voyager flight crew. Credit... Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times Feature The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe As
A rough inventory of July’s contribution to the global collapse of democracy would include Turkey’s show trial of leading journalists from Cumhuriyet , a major newspaper; Vladimir Putin’s ban on the v
Sep 30, 20168min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career. Learn more Key takeaways Feature flags are a valuable technique to deliver better, more r
On the morning after the election, November 9, 2016, the people who ran the U.S. Department of Energy turned up in their offices and waited. They had cleared 30 desks and freed up 30 parking spaces. T
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands. (No, I want this banana, not that one, which looks identical in every way but which you just started peel
Even as President Donald Trump faces ever-intensifying investigations into the alleged connections between his top aides and family members and powerful Russian figures, he serves as commander in chie
Spencer Platt/Getty Images When a Baltimore police shift commander created an arrest form for loitering on public housing, he didn’t even try to hide his racist expectations. In the template, there was no space to fill in gender or race. Instead, that information was automatically filled out: “black…
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