The Verge Wing’s delivery drones take flight for the first time in VirginiaThe Verge - Andrew J. HawkinsWing’s drone delivery service is now live in Virginia. The Alphabet subsidiary is now delivering snacks and health care products to residents of Christiansburg, Virginia, after receiving approval from
The VergeMobile Technology There’s a new Banana Phone, and it can play ‘Bananaphone’The Verge - Jay PetersIt’s new tech season. New iPhones, new Pixels, new Surface devices, new Echos... and a new Banana Phone. Now, before I tell you more about the biggest tech gadget of 2019, I want to be perfectly clear
The VergeGoogle Pixel Google can’t even get full RCS support for the Pixel 4The Verge - Jacob KastrenakesGoogle’s Pixel 4 won’t launch with support for RCS messaging on some of the biggest US networks. Verizon and T-Mobile both said on Twitter that the phone was not supported, and AT&T has yet to say whether
The Verge Harley-Davidson resumes production of first electric motorcycle after charging issueThe Verge - Sean O'KaneHarley-Davidson has restarted production and deliveries of LiveWire, its first electric motorcycle, after resolving an issue with the bike’s charging technology that was discovered last week, the company
The VergeBoeing 737 MAX Boeing reportedly misled FAA about safety of its grounded 737 Max jetsThe Verge - Andrew J. HawkinsInstant messages from 2016 suggest that Boeing may have misled the Federal Aviation Administration about a controversial safety system of its grounded 737 Max jets, Reuters reports. The messages, between
The Verge Imgur won’t support Reddit’s NSFW communities anymore because they put its ‘business at risk’The Verge - Bijan StephenIn a blog post published earlier this week, image-sharing site Imgur wrote that it won’t display any content from those communities on its site. If you search for, say, r/NSFW on Imgur, you’ll hit a landing
The VergeApple Latest macOS Catalina beta hints at new 16-inch MacBook ProThe Verge - Chaim GartenbergRumors have been circulating for months that Apple is readying a new, 16-inch MacBook Pro model — some reports claiming as early as this year — and we might have just gotten a first look at it, thanks
The VergePixel Buds Here’s how Google Pixel Buds 2 and its wireless earbud competition actually look in your earThe Verge - Nick StattGoogle announced a new version of its two-year-old Pixel Buds headphones on Tuesday, alongside the new Pixel 4 phone. The Pixel Buds 2 are smaller and lighter, and they also ditch that fabric-colored that
The VergeGoogle Pixel 4 Vergecast: Pixel 4 hands-on and Mark Zuckerberg’s speech on free speechThe Verge - Andrew MarinoThere are two big things we need to talk about today: Google’s new gadgets and Mark Zuckerberg’s remarks on free speech. So this week on The Vergecast, hosts Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and Paul Miller through
The VergeIKEA Ikea’s Fyrtur smart blinds start to arrive in the US, but only in retail storesThe Verge - Chaim GartenbergIkea’s new Fyrtur smart blinds are finally making their way to the US after a delay earlier this year, but they only seem to be available in retail locations for now, with online purchases still listed
The VergeHydrogen The Hydrogen One is now only $645, which is $645 more than you should spend on itThe Verge - Jacob KastrenakesNearly a year after launch, RED has dropped the price on its Hydrogen One smartphone to $645 — a price that is still too expensive for what you get, and even at launch, would not have justified all of
The VergeMobile Technology Luna Display turns your Mac into a secondary display for your other MacThe Verge - Jon PorterLuna Display, the solution that lets you use an iPad as a secondary display for your Mac, now works Mac to Mac. Announcing the new functionality in a blog post, Luna Display says that the feature works
The VergeTechnology Samsung says fingerprint security fix is coming as early as next weekThe Verge - Jon PorterSamsung says that it plans to release a patch for its phones’ in-display fingerprint sensors as early as next week, after reports emerged that the biometric security method could be rendered useless by
The VergeFacebook What Mark Zuckerberg’s big talk about free speech left outThe Verge - Casey NewtonAll week, we’ve been talking here about a central debate in our reckoning over big tech platforms and their power: what should stay up on the internet, and what should come down. The discussion has been
The VergeAirPods Apple rumored to launch new AirPods Pro headphones at end of OctoberThe Verge - Tom WarrenApple has long been rumored to be working on a new pair of noise-cancelling AirPods. Bloomberg originally reported they would arrive in 2019, and then revised that estimate to 2020 earlier this year. China
The VergeOnePlus OnePlus 8 Pro will swap the pop-up camera for a hole-punch, leak claimsThe Verge - Jon PorterA new leak says that OnePlus could replace the pop-up selfie camera used by the OnePlus 7 Pro and 7T Pro with a hole-punch notch in the OnePlus 8 Pro. The leak comes courtesy of 91Mobiles, which created
The VergeOnePlus 7 OnePlus 7T Pro review: small updates make a great phone slightly betterThe Verge - Jon PorterIn the right circumstances, there’s nothing wrong with a minor spec bump, especially when it comes just six months after the device it’s improving on. That’s exactly what OnePlus has done with the £699
The VergeVatican Does praying burn calories? Here’s the pope’s $110 e-rosaryThe Verge - Sean HollisterThe Vatican continues to take great pains to bring Catholic faith into the modern era, and this week it’s transforming the faithful rosary — adapting today’s popular fitness tracker idea into a $110 bracelet
The VergeMotorola Motorola teases its foldable RAZR phone reveal for November 13thThe Verge - Sean HollisterWe heard early this year that Motorola would be bringing back its iconic RAZR handset as a pricy smartphone with a vertically folding screen, and in February the company confirmed it was working on a for
The VergeYahoo Some of the UK’s phone number infrastructure relies on Yahoo Groups, which is shutting downThe Verge - Bijan StephenYahoo Groups is about to shut down, and it’s taking a lot of the old web with it. All content that had been posted there will be deleted by mid-December, and although it will be available for download
The VergeGoogle Maps Google Maps on iOS will soon let you report speed traps and traffic slowdownsThe Verge - Jay PetersSince 2018, Google has slowly added ways to report incidents on the road like accidents, road closures, and traffic slowdowns — something made popular by Google-owned Waze — to Google Maps on Android.
The VergeYahoo Yahoo will give you an extra week to post on Yahoo Groups, says it will ‘listen to feedback’The Verge - Jay PetersIf you were saddened to hear that you will no longer be able to post to Yahoo Groups starting next week, cheer up — you’ve now got an extra week to post. Yahoo’s plan to largely shut down Groups was widely
The VergeGaming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ditches loot boxes for a battle passThe Verge - Chaim GartenbergCall of Duty: Modern Warfare is just days away from its October 25th release date, and Activision has finally announced how it’ll be running the in-game economy for the upcoming shooter. Specifically,
The VergeTechnology Newegg leaks Nvidia’s brand-new Shield TV streaming... tubeThe Verge - Chris WelchNvidia can’t be very happy with its online retail partners today. After Amazon leaked every detail about the upcoming Shield TV Pro, Newegg has now spoiled the reveal of a seemingly more mainstream Shield
The VergeHyperloop Reddit-born engineering group buys leftovers of failed hyperloop startup ArrivoThe Verge - Sean O'KaneReddit-born hyperloop and engineering collective rLoop has bought the intellectual property of Arrivo, a fellow hyperloop startup that went out of business last December, The Verge has learned. rLoop Brent
The VergeMark Zuckerberg Mark Zuckerberg on lies in political ads: ‘I don’t think it’s right for a private company to censor politicians’The Verge - Zoe SchifferMark Zuckerberg defended Facebook’s policy of letting politicians lie in political ads — along with free speech more broadly — in a speech today at Georgetown University. “I don’t think it’s right for
The VergeMobile Technology Razer’s Blade 15 Studio Edition is now available, with a whopping 16GB of graphics memoryThe Verge - Cameron FaulknerRazer’s new Blade 15 Studio Edition laptop is now available in the US and Canada. Its design fits right into the company’s lineup of gaming-focused laptops, but this one is built specifically for creative
The Verge Google’s Rick Osterloh shows off new Pixel and Nest hardware on The VergecastThe Verge - Andrew MarinoOn Tuesday, Google held their annual hardware event in New York City to announce all their upcoming products under the Pixel and Nest line. Vergecast hosts Nilay Patel and Dieter Bohn attended and were
The VergeGoogle Pixel 4 Google’s Pixel 4 face unlock has one major privacy weaknessThe Verge - Chris WelchGoogle came up with its own face unlock system for the Pixel 4 and 4 XL using those advanced sensors in the phone’s top bezel. The technology behind it is similar to Apple’s Face ID, and aside from just
