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Faraday Future finally revealed a real car, but you may never get to own one

by Andrew J . Hawkins

Faraday Future finally revealed its first production car, officially dubbed the FF91, tonight in Las Vegas. It’s a breathtaking if bewildering crossover, unveiled at a lavish, stunt-filled event befitting the hype-driven company’s last tumultuous...

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The biggest events and live streams of CES 2017

by Sam Byford

It's CES time again, which means that the week's news will be dominated by a dizzying maelstrom of press conferences, product reveals, and other announcements timed to coincide with the happenings in Las Vegas. It is, as you might expect, pretty...

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Dell has turned one of the best Windows laptops into a 2-in-1 hybrid

by Tom Warren

Dell is unveiling a convertible version of its popular XPS 13 laptop today at the Consumer Electronics Show. While the CES surprise leaked out a little early yesterday, the new Dell XPS 2-in-1 still has some surprises in store for fans of the...

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What makes a planet a planet?

by Loren Grush

Last year, the debate over Pluto’s planet status temporarily resurfaced when NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flew by the tiny world at the edge of the Solar System. Once considered the ninth planet, Pluto was famously demoted a decade ago to a...

Google Tango on Lenovo's Phab 2 Pro: a work in progress

by Lauren Goode

There’s a lot going on with the Lenovo Phab 2 Pro smartphone, a dizzying array of things to consider. The first is that it’s massive, barely qualifying as a phone, with a 6.4-inch display and hard, chamfered edges that make it feel like a...

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Apple AirPods review: wireless that wows, earbuds that don't

by Sean O'Kane

Wireless is the future." That’s how Apple CEO Tim Cook justified removing the headphone jack from the newest line of iPhones. You won’t need a headphone jack in the future, Cook argued, because wires will be a thing of the past. To back up that...

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We visited the world’s most amazing gadget market

by Ben Popper

A trip through Huaqiangbei market, the heart of China’s electronics industry

Oculus Touch review: the Oculus Rift is finally complete

by Adi Robertson

When the Oculus Rift reawakened our fascination with virtual reality in 2012, it was largely a visual medium. People imagined their average VR experience as a more exciting and immersive version of a traditional game or movie, something that gave...

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How to steal $40 million in two days

by Russell Brandom

On February 20th, 2013, a group of criminals stole $40 million from ATMs across the world. The heist came in two parts: first, a quiet hack of a payment processor to raise withdrawal limits on specific cards, then a mad dash to withdraw as much...

Snap Spectacles review: Fun that's totally worth the trouble

by Sean O'Kane

One of the moments I cherish most in my life repeats itself almost daily. It happens when I come home after a long day of work. After around 12 hours of being away, my dog Moose absolutely loses it when she sees me. She jumps around, hops up on...

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Daydream Nation

by Adi Robertson

It’s a couple of weeks before the Daydream View headset launches, and at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, the team has filled a room with pieces of its past. The tables are littered with fabric swatches, molded foam shells, and things that...

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Intel bets on 'merged reality' for its Project Alloy VR headset

by Lauren Goode

In August of this year, Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich appeared onstage during the company’s developers conference wearing a clunky VR headset. He then participated in a live demo that involved using a dollar bill to cut through (virtual)...

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Microsoft Surface Studio review: a beautiful invader of Apple's base

by Tom Warren

The last desktop PC I owned was a 2009 iMac. I now use a laptop every day for work, connected up to two monitors and a keyboard and mouse. Desktop computing hasn’t really changed for nearly 40 years of boring beige or black PCs, but Microsoft’s...

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MacBook Pro with Touch Bar review: a touch of the future

by Jacob Kastrenakes

A little over a decade ago, a Russian design studio unveiled a concept keyboard that, as much as any gadget ever can, rocked the tech blogging world. It was called the Optimus, and it was the most interesting keyboard you'd ever seen: a standard...

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Snapchat Spectacles are here and they are ridiculously fun

by Bryan Bishop

When Snap, Inc. announced earlier this year that it had created a pair of video-recording sunglasses called Spectacles, it was a little hard to get a handle on just what the end result would be. Snap was new to the hardware game, and more...

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How to buy Nintendo's NES Classic

by Chris Welch

Tomorrow’s launch will be your best chance at getting one for a long time

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Bought a PS4 Pro? To get your money’s worth, check these settings

by Nick Statt

So you just bought Sony’s new PlayStation 4 Pro. Maybe you, like me, were itching to get a new console with a 1TB hard drive and thought, “Why not?” Or perhaps you’re genuinely excited about the prospects of 4K HDR gaming, and have the right...

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Good luck finding an already sold-out NES Classic this holiday season

by Chaim Gartenberg

The NES Classic went on sale today, and Nintendo’s latest iteration of its older console is shaping up to be another holiday hit. The diminutive retro console appears to have sold out in minutes this morning, and availability at almost every...

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Google Daydream View review: mobile VR done mostly right

by Adi Robertson

Nearly a year ago, I wrote about a then-new product called the Samsung Gear VR — a mobile phone-powered headset that promised cheap, mainstream virtual reality, but it delivered something I wasn’t quite sure what to do with. The Gear VR felt...

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Here's where you can buy Google's new Daydream VR headset

by James Vincent

Google now has its own Samsung Galaxy Gear: the $79 soft-touch Daydream View. Like the Gear and other phone-powered virtual reality headsets, the View connects to your smartphone for VR experiences (although it's only compatible with the Pixel and...

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PlayStation 4 Pro review: 4K gaming is here

by Paul Miller

The PlayStation 4 Pro marks a turning point for the modern console era. In fact, it redefines what a "console" even means. Consoles are supposed to offer "good enough" graphics at an attractive price point, and a consistent hardware target to...

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Google Home review: Home is where the smart is

by Dan Seifert

For over a decade, Google search has been indispensable. It’s the first place we go whenever we need to find information on virtually anything. It’s used countless times a day on our computers, our phones, sometimes even in our cars and on our...

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MacBook Pro review: the Air apparent

by Vlad Savov

If you’re a fan of Apple laptops, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news: Apple has finally updated its Pro laptop line with some genuinely new and powerful options. Even better, the new MacBook Pro has been shrunken down to the...

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Welcome to Verge 3.0

by Nilay Patel

Pathways into tomorrow

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Here are all the apps that work with the Surface Dial

by Tom Warren

Microsoft's Surface Dial was the surprise announcement at the company's hardware event last week. It's designed as another input device to compliment the mouse / keyboard, touch, and stylus. In drawing apps like Sketchable or Sketchpad you'll be...

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The 8 biggest announcements from yesterday's Microsoft event

by Ashley Carman and Chaim Gartenberg

Microsoft wants artists and content creators to want its products. The company unveiled multiple creative-minded products at its keynote today, including a major Windows 10 upgrade called the “Creators Update” and a gorgeous PC called the Surface...

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Microsoft's Surface Studio is a stunning desktop computer

by Dan Seifert

Microsoft just announced the latest member of its Surface family, the Surface Studio. An all-in-one machine, the Studio is targeted toward creative professionals and has features and design traits that make creating artwork with the device easier. ...

The Surface Dial is a crazy puck that controls Microsoft's new PC

by Jacob Kastrenakes

Microsoft just announced an all-in-one PC called Surface Studio and alongside it a strange new accessory called the Surface Dial. The Surface Dial is big puck that's sort of like a modern twist on a paint palette. When the Dial is placed on the...

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iPhone SE vs. iPhone 6S: which is better?

by Lauren Goode

After using the iPhone SE for a couple weeks, I have now switched back to a slightly larger smartphone, for a lot of the reasons I outlined here. But that doesn't mean the iPhone SE isn't a good phone, or that I wasn't impressed by it; it's...

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Geneva 2016: the most extreme cars of Europe's hottest auto show

by Vlad Savov

The Geneva Motor Show this year was a return to form for one of the most indulgently excessive exhibitions of human engineering. Cheap oil has made huge engines trendy again, and the luxury sports coupes that dominated the Detroit Auto Show have...

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Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. LG G5: two of 2016’s biggest phones face off

by Vlad Savov

Samsung's two new smartphones and LG's one phone with a clique of Friends accessories have stirred up most of the hype and excitement around Mobile World Congress this year. It's actually been a terrific show for improved industrial design from...

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LG's Rolling Bot is like a drunken, headless BB-8

by Vlad Savov

If there's one thing that Sphero's BB-8 droid has proven, it is the extreme adorableness of spherical remote-controlled bots. So when LG announced at Mobile World Congress that its flagship G5 smartphone would have an accompanying Rolling Bot that...

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