Fargo casts Ewan McGregor to play both main characters in season three
The third season of Fargo will star actor Ewan McGregor as the anthology series' two new main characters, brothers Emmit and Ray Stussy, according to a report from Deadline. The latest season is expected...
The anthology series jumps closer to modern day
Cate Blanchett joins Thor: Ragnarok as Marvel Studios' first major female supervillain
Marvel today announced that Cate Blanchett has joined the cast of Thor: Ragnarok as the mystical villainess Hela. Her stepping into the role marks the first time Marvel has cast a woman to play the main...
Hela is coming
Mathpix will solve handwritten math equations for you
Today is the first time in a decade that I actually wished I was back in school. Mathpix is an iOS app that can recognize and answer handwritten math equations in seconds. Open the app, point the camera...
The first of its kind
A closer look at Google’s modular phone prototype
I just sat down with Rafe Caramago and several members of his Project Ara team to learn more about the modular smartphone — because there's a lot going on with this thing. The project, which many had...
It's just an early prototype, but it works!
Watch-Bot uses machine learning to determine when you're bad at life
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When neural networks are hot in the field of machine learning, everything looks like a pattern-matching problem. When you leave the milk out, a...
The Neighbors 2 review: a surprisingly safe space for budding feminism and mouth-to-mouth puking
2014’s Neighbors memorably featured an adorable baby chomping on a discarded condom. Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising sets out to up the ante, as quickly and loudly as possible. In its first three minutes...
Why Facebook will never resolve its trust issues with conservatives
When Facebook hosted a group of leading conservatives to its campus this week, it pledged to open a new dialogue about trust. "I know many conservatives don’t trust that our platform surfaces content...
Algorithm and blues
Uber knows you'll probably pay surge pricing if your battery is about to die
Uber's surge pricing can be annoying. Why pay more if you can wait 15 minutes and pay less? And that's exactly the point — surge pricing is meant to apply downward pressure to demand through an increase in...
And you know it too
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Watch this new Project Ara video and see the amazing potential of modular phones
Google's Project Ara is starting to feel way more real with the announcement that a developer device will be coming later this year. And if that doesn't whet your appetite enough, Google has just uploaded...
It's time to get excited if you weren't already
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Google’s modular Project Ara phone is shipping to developers this fall
On the last day of I/O, Google's ATAP division has finally given us some firm details on when it will release a very real Project Ara modular phone. A developer edition running Android with a 5.3-inch...
With a consumer model coming in 2017
Dell's 43-inch 4K multi-client monitor is amazing
Monitors are usually a boring purchase — they're a means to an end — and monitors targeted at businesses are at the far end of the interesting spectrum. But Dell's new monitor will pique your interest,...
But it'll cost you
Watch Google's latest Spotlight Story, Pearl, on your phone
A month after debuting at the Tribeca Film Festival, Google's latest Spotlight Story, Pearl, just launched at Google I/O and is now available to watch on Android and iOS. The new short film, which follows...
Originally debuted at the Tribeca Film Festival
The Bluetooth-connected breast pump that tracks pumping sessions
Any new parent will tell you that scheduling is a huge aspect of life with a baby. Moms who breastfeed are especially aware of timing so they know when their baby's next feeding is coming up — or when...
This Bluetooth breast pump is one less step for moms, but not a complete solution
Did Google just declare war?
With all the news that came out of Google I/O 2016, Walt and Nilay look at the big picture and discuss the future of the industry. Google is playing catch up with big announcements of AI, an Amazon Echo...
This is the new nutrition facts label coming to your food
Today, the US Food and Drug Administration finalized its design overhaul of the nutrition facts label, a major change to health information provided on Americans' food packaging.
The new label isn't...
Added sugars section now included
Take a ride inside West Hollywood's brand new robot parking garage
If there ever was a place that could throw a three-hour party for the grand opening of a parking garage, it's LA. When West Hollywood's new three-story automated parking garage is unveiled on May 24, there...
Clean, green, parking machine
This is your next jam: Brand New, Wolf Parade, and more
Welcome back to The Verge’s weekly musical roundup. I’m Jamieson, I’m still your host, and this week we’re celebrating the fact that some of the finest purveyors of ‘00s indie rock are still churning out...
Rock is... dope?
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Will you like the upcoming film The Neon Demon? Let our personality quiz help you decide
The first trailer for Nicolas Winding Refn's The Neon Demon debuted about a month ago, and its compelling combination of Elle Fanning, neon lights, blood, creepy voiceover, Los Angeles, blonde cornrows,...
Well, will you?
Blood Meridian is deemed ‘unfilmable’, but does that really mean anything?
The recent media blitz revealing that James Franco was planning a film version of Cormac McCarthy's novel Blood Meridian sparked the obvious spread of reactions: interest, hope, apathy, and knee-jerk...
This Irish farmer's charming vines will make you want to move to the countryside
Maybe it's the fact that I've been living in big cities all my life — Seoul, Austin, Cupertino (home to some random company or whatever), San Diego, and now New York City — but lately I've been itching to...
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Google just showed off a lot of cool products, but no ship dates
With the dust settling on an unusually ambitious I/O conference, it's worth taking stock of exactly what we just saw. Google announced huge moves in virtual reality, messaging, and personal assistants —...
playing games with our hearts
This portable microwave is perfect for adventures
Oh, the microwave. The preferred gadget of college kids in need of a quick dinner and New Yorkers who only eat takeout but need to heat up their leftovers. The box has typically been stationed in kitchens...
Put a microwave in your backpack
Netflix's Gilmore Girls reboot finally has more than a working title
Everyone wants to live in Stars Hollow, the perfect Connecticut town where the diner owner is your secret soulmate and you never have to pay for french fries.
It's been 10 years since we were all...
Confusing
Uncharted 4 finally learns to pace itself
I finished Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in just under 13 hours spread across four sessions. That required me to sit on my sofa doing the same thing for several hours on end, which I almost never do with...
Extended sequences in which nothing explodes at all
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This Simplehuman mirror gets a lot more interesting with Alexa
You lock your front door with an app, you dim your lights using voice commands, and you adjust the temperature of your house from your phone. But is your smart home really that smart if you still pluck...
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, what makes you so smart?
13 new trailers you should watch this week
My girlfriend was out of town last weekend, which meant I had a rare opportunity to watch a movie she isn't interested in. One I considered was Jupiter Ascending. But I watched a minute of it and got super...
Ghostbusters, 24: Legacy, The BFG, and more
AudioQuest's NightHawk headphones sound as beautiful as they look
Modern life is too full of disposable things. From the simplest pen to the smartest phone, we just consume our way through a litany of gadgets, tools, and devices without ever stopping to truly appreciate...
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Minecraft is launching in China
Today Minecraft developer Mojang announced that it’s creating a new version of the game tailored specifically for gamers in China. The studio has partnered with Chinese internet company NetEase, which also...
These stick-on lenses turn your smartphone into a digital microscope
It's a cliché to say that your smartphone is a pocket-sized computer, but sometimes we forget exactly how powerful these devices are. BLIPS — a set of thin, stick-on lenses that turn your cell phone into a...
with up to 100x magnification
Do you trust Google to always be listening inside your Home?
I want privacy. Deep down I know it’s important, so much so that on my home continent of Europe it’s a fundamental right. I’m just not very good at safeguarding it.
A year ago, right after Google I/O...
Amateur fossil hunter discovers frilly-necked dinosaur named Judith
Meet Spiclypeus shipporum, a new species of dinosaur discovered by amateur fossil hunter and retired nuclear physicist Bill Shipp. Bones belonging to the dino were first discovered by Shipp in the remote...
hey, jude
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Xiaomi's first drone will be unveiled on May 25th
Xiaomi teased its first ever quadcopter this week with a picture of a children's toy, but the Chinese tech company has now given us a little more to look at. As spotted by 9to5Google, a post on the...
expect a live-streamed unveiling online
Brighten your day with the happiest Wookiee you'll ever see
I always thought Chewbacca was pretty expressive for someone who communicates only in creaky roars, but even our favorite fuzzball has nothing on Candace Payne, aka, the Lady in the Wookiee Mask. Payne...
laugh it up, fuzzball
