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Office 2016 for Mac finally catches up to its Windows equivalent

By Tom Warren 245

Anatomy of a Hack

By Russell Brandom

12-inch Retina MacBook Air to ship in Q2, says WSJ

By Thomas Ricker 151

There was no good reason for Hillary Clinton to use private email

By Mike Case 84

Chappie could have been the best robot-action-family-drama of the year

By Jacob Kastrenakes 34

Ferrari vs. Lambo: who won the Geneva beauty contest?

By Vlad Savov 24

Surprise: Comcast won't let anyone watch HBO Go on PlayStation 4

By Chris Welch 175

Dropcam customers now need to open a Nest account

Rich McCormick March 5, 2015 08:26 pm2 hours ago 3

Nine months after the half-a-billion dollar deal that brought Dropcam to the Google-owned Nest, the two home automation companies are starting to integrate their products. Dropcam customers received an...

got the drop on you

Harrison Ford sustains injuries after small plane crash

Bryan Bishop March 5, 2015 07:12 pm3 hours ago 21

Actor Harrison Ford, who brought to life characters like Indiana Jones and Han Solo, sustained injuries this afternoon after a small plane he was piloting crash-landed on a golf course in Los Angeles....

Ford is a longtime pilot

Google's new wireless service will reportedly only work on the Nexus 6

Casey Newton March 5, 2015 07:26 pm3 hours ago 31

The wireless service that Google all but confirmed this week will only work on the Nexus 6 smartphone, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the matter, says...

A limited offering

If Super Smash Bros. was about an overbooked pixelated hotel...

Ross Miller March 5, 2015 05:39 pm4 hours ago 4

At one point, I threw a fridge at a trampoline, which proceeded to bounce back and knock me off the stage. That's a something I'm glad I can write.

Check-in, Knock-out is the latest in a trend of...

A Knock-down, drag-out reservation process

Valve's virtual reality headset is great, but its controllers are the real story

By Adi Robertson 30

Does Apple Pay really have a fraud problem?

By Micah Singleton 115

The Daily Show's Samantha Bee leaves to start her own satirical news show

Bryan Bishop March 5, 2015 05:19 pm5 hours ago 25

Last month Jon Stewart announced he would be leaving The Daily Show, ending a run that's lasted more than 15 years and changed the way we consume news. Today it's correspondent Samantha Bee's time to jump...

The exodus continues

Sylvester Stallone is producing an Expendables TV miniseries

Lizzie Plaugic March 5, 2015 05:18 pm5 hours ago 5

Sylvester Stallone's Expendables franchise is moving to television. Deadline reports that Fox is developing a miniseries based on the increasingly dull, half-comical assassin trilogy. Stallone is set to...

No cast yet

Who's going to miss Mad Men the most?

Emily Yoshida March 5, 2015 04:54 pm5 hours ago 10

Mad Men's final episodes begin airing on April 5th, and AMC has already begun playing its funeral dirge. The network has enlisted a cast of celebrities, influencers, and cultural arbiters to express their...

Would not have predicted that David O. Russell was a Peggy stan

20 percent of Mars' surface was likely water 4.5 billion years ago

Lizzie Plaugic March 5, 2015 04:35 pm5 hours ago 12

Mars once had enough water to cover its entire surface, a study published today in Science suggests. Around 4.5 billion years ago, Mars was host to a body of water that was larger than the Arctic Ocean. At...

As big as the Arctic

The Vergecast, live today at 4:30PM ET!

Sam Sheffer March 5, 2015 04:00 pm6 hours ago 16

Greetings, mobile accomplishers!

You probably clicked on this article to find out what today's show is going to be about. I'll tell you: Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Chris Ziegler, and I will be discussing M...

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The Quant F is an electric supercar powered by quixotic ambition

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Up close with Ferrari's latest supercar, the 488 GTB

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Audi's R8 sports car now comes with an all-electric option

March 4, 2015 10:52 am
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Bentley's EXP 10 Speed 6: up close with the future of British luxury

March 4, 2015 09:42 am
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The last of the Veyrons: goodbye to Bugatti's finest

March 4, 2015 04:19 am
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This is Nvidia Shield: a closer look at the 4K Android TV game console

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The Koenigsegg Regera is the 1,500bhp king of the Geneva Motor Show

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Apple, Facebook, Comcast, and hundreds of others ask Supreme Court for nationwide marriage equality

Nathan Ingraham March 5, 2015 03:31 pm6 hours ago 52

A host of the biggest companies in the world, including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and 374 others have banded together to file an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court stating that all...

Marriage equality is actually good for business, so these companies claim

Apple's iTunes subscription music service unlikely to debut at March 9th event

Chris Welch March 5, 2015 02:27 pm8 hours ago 10

Not that we were expecting it, but 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple's premium iTunes streaming service will be a no show at Monday's "Spring forward" event in San Francisco. When it eventually launches, the...

This summer is a more likely target

Google now lets you compare auto insurance quotes in California, will launch in more states soon

Nathan Ingraham March 5, 2015 01:43 pm8 hours ago 17

Earlier this year, news broke that Google was planning to bring some version of its auto insurance comparison and shopping tools that are already available in the UK here to the US. Now, it's official, at...

A reasonably quick way to compare auto insurance quotes

The Xiaomi Mi Note is the best phone you can't have
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Sony SmartWatch 3 review: Android Wear can be remarkably unremarkable

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Dell's XPS 13 is a look at the future of laptops
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Suicide rate among young men has gone down, but the rate for young women is rising

Arielle Duhaime-Ross March 5, 2015 01:15 pm9 hours ago 30

Young men between the ages of 10 and 24 are taking their own lives less often than they did 20 years ago, according to a report released by the CDC today. Unfortunately, the suicide rate among young women...

17 percent of high school students in the US have considered suicide

Music recognition app Shazam wants to help you identify more than music

James Vincent March 5, 2015 12:48 pm9 hours ago 4

Song recognition app Shazam wants to recognize more than just audio. A report from Reuters says the app is planning on expanding its search function to the visual realm too, letting users identify items...

shazam your breakfast cereal

Ringling Brothers circus plans to stop using elephants in its shows by 2018

Lizzie Plaugic March 5, 2015 12:13 pm10 hours ago 14

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus will begin phasing out the use of elephants in its shows, The Associated Press reports. Thirteen Asian elephants will continue to tour with the company for...

Florida retirement

This chemical could protect plants from radioactive fallout at Fukushima

Amar Toor March 5, 2015 11:52 am10 hours ago

A synthetic chemical prevents a plant native to Japan from absorbing harmful radioactive elements, according to a study published today in Scientific Reports. The findings raise the possibility that it...

Findings hold promise for farmers in the region

Up close with Ferrari's latest supercar, the 488 GTB

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Infinite universes and dead strawberries: an interview with Brian Cox and Robin Ince

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Pebble Time Steel is a dressed-up version of Pebble's latest watch

By Dan Seifert 141

Inside Project Loon: Google's internet in the sky is almost open for business

By Ben Popper 55

Samsung's new Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are the nicest phones it's ever designed

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Gmail for iOS now lets you archive and reply to email from notifications

Chris Welch March 5, 2015 11:48 am10 hours ago 40

Google's just released version 4.0 of Gmail for iOS, and the update includes a few significant additions made possible by iOS 8. First, you can now archive or reply from incoming email right from the...

And share documents to Gmail from any app

I just drank all of the new Red Bull flavors

Chris Ziegler March 5, 2015 11:40 am10 hours ago 43

Let's get this out of the way: I'm not a food and drink columnist. (I leave that to my esteemed colleagues at Eater.) That said, some new Red Bull flavors just showed up on my desk. While I don't make a...

What does yellow taste like?

I, Casey Newton, interviewed a man named Casey Newton about his startup

Casey Newton March 5, 2015 11:35 am10 hours ago 15

As PR pitches go, this one had a good hook. "Hi Casey," it read. "I’d like to introduce you to the other Casey Newton." For years I had been peripherally aware of the Other Casey Newton (O.C.N.). There are...

Is this town big enough for the two of us?
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This website lets you customize the Apple Watch of your dreams

James Vincent March 5, 2015 11:01 am11 hours ago 82

Curious about what sort of Apple Watch you'd like best? Worry not — MixYourWatch.com has got you covered. (That is, if you have the money and/or inclination to buy one.) This third-party website lets you...

It'll be less fun once we know the prices

Samsung's Galaxy S6 will probably start at $699 off contract

Chris Welch March 5, 2015 10:51 am11 hours ago 99

Samsung hasn't officially shared full pricing details on the Galaxy S6 or Galaxy S6 Edge, but T-Mobile is giving us a pretty good indication of what you'll pay out of pocket for the former. The Uncarrier...

A wiser buy than any 16GB phone

Valve's weird, old VR headsets are on display at GDC

Adi Robertson March 5, 2015 10:49 am11 hours ago 1

This week, Valve announced that it was partnering with HTC for the Vive headset, a virtual reality display that Valve co-founder Gabe Newell promised made "zero percent of people" motion sick. Very little...

A rare peek into a legendary program

Yahoo Mail adds smart contact cards to your inbox

Micah Singleton March 5, 2015 10:43 am11 hours ago 5

Yahoo Mail is adding new contact cards that can display glanceable information about your contacts without having to leave your inbox. Hovering over an name in an email will activate the smart contact...

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Apple could have a car in production by 2020, Bloomberg says

Electric car battery maker sues Apple for stealing its employees

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AP will use 'robot journalists' to expand its college sports coverage

Lizzie Plaugic March 5, 2015 10:25 am12 hours ago 5

The Associated Press plans to expand its collegiate sports coverage using automation technology instead of human reporters. The news organization's team of robot journalists will compile text based on game...

Rise of robots

Google just learned how to mix cocktails

Russell Brandom March 5, 2015 10:00 am12 hours ago 15

Google announced a new addition to its Knowledge Graph this morning, adding cards that walk through the recipes for various cocktails. The cards break down the "main alcohol" for each cocktail alongside...

The Moscow Mule is the most searched cocktail of 2015 so far

Unboxing a burner phone sent as promo for some new Ryan Reynolds movie

Emily Yoshida March 5, 2015 09:44 am12 hours ago 7

I guess the stunt worked?

"I Give it a B Regular" Emily Yoshida

New Rock Band 4 will support your DLC song library and (hopefully) most controllers

Ross Miller March 5, 2015 08:35 am13 hours ago 13

Rock Band is coming to next-generation consoles later this year, and while we don't know much else, Harmonix made it clear that (almost) all the songs you purchased for past Rock Band titles will carry...

Over 2,000 songs

Rock Band 4 is coming this year for Xbox One and PlayStation 4

Ross Miller March 5, 2015 08:30 am13 hours ago 28

After years in hiding / on hiatus, the age of "instrument controllers" is yet again upon us. Harmonix has announced that Rock Band 4 — the first Rock Band title for this generation of home consoles — will...

"WHAT ABOUT MY DLC LIBRARY? WHAT ABOUT THE HARDWARE THAT I HAVE IN MY HOUSE?" Daniel Sussman

Up close with Lamborghini's even faster Aventador Superveloce

Vlad Savov March 5, 2015 07:03 am15 hours ago 20

You'd think triangles and hexagons would be tired by now. Every gaming PC manufacturer has by now ripped off Lamborghini's violently sharp lines and exaggerated air intakes. The Lambo has become a cliché...

It's a Lambo with an extra shot of testosterone

Ferrari vs. Lambo: who won the Geneva beauty contest?

Chappie could have been the best robot-action-family-drama of the year

Office 2016 for Mac finally catches up to its Windows equivalent

Valve's weird, old VR headsets are on display at GDC

Dubai's $136M Museum of the Future will be full of robots and their inventors

James Vincent March 5, 2015 06:50 am15 hours ago 21

Dubai continues to treat city planning like a simulation game with the cheats turned on, unveiling its latest architectural wonder: the Museum of the Future. The building is set to open in 2017, and while...

sandbox mode on sim city

BlackBerry thinks 100M BBM downloads are impressive

James Vincent March 5, 2015 04:50 am17 hours ago 50

BlackBerry announced that BBM has been downloaded more than 100 million times on Android, a year and a half after the messaging app first launched on Google's OS. The company also notes that "100 million...

bbm can't handle the truth

The Quant F is an electric supercar powered by quixotic ambition

Vlad Savov March 5, 2015 04:22 am18 hours ago 32

Unveiled at the 2015 Geneva Motor Show, the Quant F is an electric car with a difference. It draws its energy from two tanks of differently ionized liquids, relying on the chemical reaction between them to...

0-100kmh in 2.8 seconds is very nice, but where do you go to refuel?

Gandalf is Sherlock in the new trailer for Mr. Holmes

Rich McCormick March 5, 2015 03:10 am19 hours ago 34

Sherlock Holmes may be more than a hundred years old, but you don't have to look far in modern media to find the character. Benedict Cumberbatch is Sherlock Holmes as a young man, obsessive and severe,...

Benedict curmudgeonbatch
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