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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 just get away from it all. Or maybe it's the fact that I spend approximately all day staring...

Daniel Rubinshtein has the social media presence of a wannabe celebrity, featuring Vines of him slo-mo walking through Manhattan while talking on his phone (hashtagged #dentist and #modeling), a clip from Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 show at Madison Square Garden, and a shot of him lounging...

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 recently shared a Facebook video she'd made after buying a Chewbacca mask — ostensibly for her...

"What if advertising, but too much?" That's often the formula for short films about augmented reality. (Thanks to The Verge's VR expert Adi Robertson for that one-liner.) But this new entry into the genre from artist Keiichi Matsuda still feels compelling, not least because the visuals are so...

We do not control the challenges we face. We control how we face them. May we all have the mental endurance and optimism to face life head on, like a giant inflatable octopus kite, charging against the wind.

The footage comes Erich Chew, who has posted many videos of empowering kites. Are you an...

It's the time of year where TV networks announce the new shows they're bringing to television screens, which means it's also time for a lot of trailers — and for CBS, that includes MacGyver and Training Day. And no, you're not crazy, those names do sound awfully familiar, because repurposing old...

Florida's Saltwater Brewery has a pretty clever idea for replacing those environment-destroying plastic rings holding your Tecate cans together: animal food. Technically, the rings are a combination of wheat and barley, leftover from the brewing process. The brewery hopes the biodegradable (and...

The buzziest new thingamajig making the viral rounds this week is the Pilot, a smart earpiece that can translate conversations between two people speaking different languages — in real time.

Obviously, tech like this would be extremely useful for everything from hospitals to airports to m...

Usually my teenage daughter alerts me to the latest app trends that I'm not cool enough to discover, but I've unearthed something way before her today. While Google was busy launching 500 new messaging apps yesterday, a smaller competitor released something called Rawr Messenger, and it's a lot...

July will mark my five-year anniversary of working at The Verge, and in that time I've never broken or lost anything loaned to our company for review purposes. But today I'm sitting here sick to my stomach about the non-functional Vizio 65-inch 4K TV sitting in my living room. It's the new...

Google is taking public submissions to help name Android N, after realizing that there just weren't that many "N" desserts to choose from. While it seems like Nutella would be the obvious answer, it's possible that the good people of Ferrero just weren't interested in a brand partnership with a...

Google took a big step into virtual reality with its Android-powered VR platform Daydream, and while we have to wait until fall for "Daydream-ready" phones, we did get a brief glimpse of the reference design for its headset and motion controller, which is also coming this fall from Google itself...

Google Home is a response to Amazon's Echo, a home speaker and digital personal assistant operated by voice commands. The Echo looks like a generic Bluetooth speaker, which is to say it resembles a stack of hockey pucks or a very large tube of Pillsbury croissant dough. Google Home looks like...

On this week's episode of Game of Thrones, Jon Snow receives a letter, which he reads aloud reluctantly because it is vile. Today, HBO has released an image of the prop letter used when filming the scene:

Calligraphy does nothing to make these words seem elegant. If...

In the ranking of unpleasant life experiences, using Apple's iTunes lies somewhere between filing your taxes and having your wisdom teeth pulled out. It's not good even at the best of times, but two weeks ago it was downright harmful to one James Pinkstone of Atlanta, who found 122GB of his own...

The New York Police Department isn't one for subtlety. In an effort to deter illegal dirtbikes and all-terrain vehicles from drag racing on city streets, the department rounded up a few hundred vehicles that it confiscated and crushed them using a couple of bulldozers. Oh, and they broadcast the...