Apple's new TV app is pretty awesome for the subscription apps it supports. Too bad it doesn't include Netflix , HBO Go, Watch ESPN, Sling TV, The Disney Channel, Nick, PBS or many others already available on Apple TV . (Oh, and Amazon Video, which still isn't available on the box.) Likewise, single…

Apple launched its iOS 10.2 software update for the iPhone on Monday, bringing a wider selection of fresh emoji to choose from, including new professions, facial expressions and foods. The iPhone emoji keyboard will now come with symbols that represent occupations like teacher, scientist and…

Here at The Verge , we’ve covered Apple’s iOS 10.2 update extensively. We were thrilled at the prospect of finally getting the all important “shrug” emoji , thereby rendering all annoying copy and pasting of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ obsolete. We discussed the critical update to the peach emoji, which removed its…

Top execs from Apple, Alphabet, Facebook and Microsoft are among those set to meet with Donald Trump on Wednesday in New York City. Invitations were sent to Silicon Valley leaders last week to meet with the president-elect. The meeting is notable because leaders in tech, for the most part, vocally…

Sweeps and Cinderella stories set the stage for the final day of the Boston Major, as two European Dota 2 teams rocketed towards a climactic clash in the grand finals. Of the last four teams remaining, only one would leave with the $1 million top prize and the first major title of the 2017 season.…

Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder and CEO. David Ramos/Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has considered plans to go into government, according to court documents seen by Bloomberg . The documents were filed as part of a shareholder lawsuit accusing Facebook's board of failing to represent…

AP When Apple announced the headphone jack-less iPhone 7 this past September, it also launched the AirPods , a pair of completely wireless set of earbuds similar to smaller-scale offerings like the Bragi Dash and Samsung Gear IconX . The little white earphones were expected to go on sale sometime in…

Believe it or not, there are still people out there who own and use the Samsung Galaxy Note 7, also known as the smartphone that has the unfortunate minor defect of catching on fire after the batteries explode . Back in mid-October, reports circulated that more than one million phone owners had not…

As part of Microsoft’s finalized acquisition of LinkedIn , the Windows maker this morning outlined a series of goals it has for its new social network. One of those goals includes the implementation of LinkedIn notifications in the Windows 10 Action Center, so you will never again miss the note…

Magic Leap’s allegedly revolutionary augmented reality technology may in fact be years away from completion and, as it stands now, is noticeably inferior to Microsoft’s HoloLens headset, according to a report from The Information . The report, which incorporates an interview with Magic Leap CEO Rony…

For consumers and lenders alike, the mortgage process can be a cumbersome and time-consuming process. Recent data from Ellie Mae showed that on average, it takes about a month and a half to close a mortgage loan. But Caliber Home Loans wants to change all that. On Thursday, Caliber Home Loans, a…

There’s a chill in the air, and the leaves are falling off the trees en masse . You know what that means: It’s time for AMD’s huge annual Radeon software update. Like 2014’s Catalyst Omega and 2015’s Radeon Software Crimson , this year’s refresh packs in some huge new features and extends some…

Chewbacca Mom won Facebook in 2016 — and it wasn’t even close. The viral video of Candace Payne, a previously unknown mother of two, donning a Chewbacca Mask she bought at Kohl’s and laughing hysterically while wearing it in her car was the most-watched Facebook Live video of 2016. It has 162…

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FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai. FCC Federal Communications Commission member Ajit Pai yesterday vowed to take a "weed whacker" to FCC regulations after President-elect Donald Trump takes office, with net neutrality rules being among the first to be cut down. Pai is the commission's senior Republican and…

Photo by Screenshot/The White House Leave it to Shaq to try to get video gamers off the couch and sign up for health insurance. Basketball great --and e-sports investor -- Shaquille O'Neal said Thursday the White House is hosting a competitive gaming event , dubbed as a "Game-A-Thon" to air on…

Developer Niantic has begun to unlock the full partner potential of the Pokémon GO augmented reality game. Just yesterday a partnership between the game and Sprint retail stores was announced, teasing new in-game locations corresponding to Sprint, Boost Mobile, and Radio Shack stores . That rollout…

T-Mobile just revealed its answer to AT&T’s NumberSync technology, which lets customers use one phone number across all their connected devices. T-Mobile’s version is called Digits and it will launch in a limited, opt-in customer beta beginning today before rolling out to everyone early next year.…

Team communication startup Slack has always billed itself as more than just a chat app. The company sees its software as a the hub of workplace productivity, with the spokes of the wheel being third-party integrations to any number of products and services customers rely on day in and day out. Now,…

The Bluetooth logo is made of runes emblematic of its Nordic roots. Photo by Bluetooth SIG Bluetooth has become essential for connecting your fitness tracker to your phone or your wireless keyboard to your PC. But the technology has plenty of problems, too. For example, if you just bought a Nikon…

The idea that AMD might license its graphics IP to Intel for inclusion in upcoming Intel CPUs sounds like the kind of headline we might write as an April Fool’s joke — but there’s a rumor that this may, in fact, be in the works. The question is, what kind of product would Intel wind up building, and…

AT&T and Time Warner were called before Congress today to defend their upcoming $85 billion merger and they played all of the antitrust bingo words in the book. We heard a lot about “investment,” “competition,” and “innovation” in the two-hour session — but no reasons to believe that this merger is…

Plume I went into this process really, really annoyed with Plume. At review time, there was no Android app, though there's a beta version that's expected to be released in the coming weeks. There was no Web interface either. You had to have an iOS device or pound sand. I gritted my teeth, bought a…

In a Wednesday email to customers and subsequent blog post, Pebble says : Fitbit has agreed to acquire key Pebble assets. Due to various factors, Pebble can no longer operate as an independent entity, and we have made the tough decision to shut down the company. The deal finalized today preserves as…

RIP Pebble… The wearable maker that pioneered wrist-based notifications before Apple and many others waded into the smartwatch space has confirmed it’s closing its doors as an independent entity. Late last month rumors emerged that Fitbit was set to acquire Pebble — with our sources telling us the…

Masayoshi Son is not a household name in America. Yet. But the billionaire founder and CEO of Japan's SoftBank ( SFTBF ) loves to make a splash and is rapidly gaining a global profile thanks to a series of big deals. He met with Donald Trump in New York on Tuesday, after which the president-elect…

Google says that the Wifi system is the product of three-and-a-half years of work — and it has previously released a router, called the OnHub . But Google Wifi is different from what Google did before. First of all, Google is making it directly. Google Wifi also leverages both clever hardware design…

Apple has sent a letter to the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration providing feedback on the agency’s planned regulations on self-driving vehicles. Though it does not fully acknowledge the existence of Apple’s long-mysterious autonomous vehicle project, widely referred to as…

Photo by FCC The Federal Communications Commission is not cool with AT&T's offer that lets customers stream the carrier's DirecTV service without it counting against their data plans. The commission has also launched an investigation into a similar offer from Verizon. In a letter sent to AT&T on…

One-hundred and forty-three. That’s not the new character limit or the number of heads of product Twitter has employed over the few years (though close). That, rather, is the amount of times the new fellow filling that role has tweeted over the course of the past nine years – a number that includes…

Math. Math. Oh and perhaps some more math. That’s the gist of the advice to students interested in AI from Facebook’s Yann LeCun and Joaquin Quiñonero Candela who run the company’s Artificial Intelligence Lab and Applied Machine Learning group respectively. Tech companies often advocate STEM…

Apple wants to fly drones to improve Maps by collecting more up-to-date information about road changes and street signs, according to a Bloomberg report . Right now, however, it's illegal to fly drones over populated areas and near airports, although the rules are still being written. Customers have…

Credit: Nick Hoffman Amazon Web Services is looking to make it easier, and more efficient, for enterprises to analyze their data in the cloud. "Eighty percent of what we call analytics is not analytics at all but just hard work," said Werner Vogels, chief technology officer at Amazon.com, speaking…

Pokemon Go was the most popular game worldwide on Google Play. Photo by Chesnot, Getty Images There was never any doubt here. The game that caused injuries , took over Comic Con , and made people stumble upon dead bodies was the most popular of 2016, according to Google. Pokemon Go was the top…

Once again, hackers are showing why you should never, ever download apps outside official app stores. Hackers have gained access to more than 1.3 million Google accounts -- emails, photos, documents and more -- by infecting Android phones through illegitimate apps. That discovery comes from computer…

It's great in theory, but the DirecTV Now experience was often frustrating during the first 24 hours of its launch. DirecTV Now During Monday's press event announcing this week's launch of DirecTV Now , AT&T's over-the-top, streaming bundle service, execs weren't shy about proclaiming the product as…