New trailers: Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger, Kingsman’s sequel, and more
Looking for something to watch the other week, I took my colleague’s suggestion and checked out Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench, the first film from La La Land director Damien Chazelle. It’s a scrappy, black-and-white, super-low-budget musical with the same interest in jazz but none of the production value. I love getting to watch More...
The Pope gave a TED Talk and asked tech companies to do better
TED Talks are known for bringing well-known individuals from around the world to a stage before an audience to share big ideas about science, technology, and culture. But during this year’s annual TED conference More...
Nintendo’s NES Classic will be available at Best Buy stores Monday morning
The NES Classic is officially discontinued, and Nintendo has said that the final shipments of the mini-console are reaching stores this month. But April is nearing its end, and thus so are your chances of More...
This adorable Rube Goldberg machine tells the story of brotherly love
My colleagues at The Verge Dot Com have an obsessive interest in the latest and greatest gadgets and gizmos and dongles. But if you ask me, I prefer my machines simple. And I prefer my stories told not with More...
Twitter could learn from this subreddit about adults who don’t understand social media
Spending time on the internet can be draining. But the best remedy for social media blues is built around the very people who don’t understand it: the OldPeopleFacebook subreddit, aka Cracker Bargel. It’s More...
Watch the creation of Disney’s ambitious and immersive Star Wars land
Two years ago Disney announced that it was planning on adding massive Star Wars-themed expansions to its parks in California and Florida, and today at Star Wars Celebration it revealed some new details — More...
Three reasons I’ve been playing this Switch game about a snake called Noodle
Snake Pass is a video game about a snake called Noodle. In a stacked year that’s already brought a staggering number of incredible, vast, life-consuming releases ranging from The Legend of Zelda: Breath More...
Google begins showing Pinterest-like shoppable photos in image search
Google is starting to turn its handy image search tool into a way to shop. In some instances, tapping on an image result will now pull up a shoppable list of products featured inside the photo. So if, for More...
Italy issues a nationwide Uber ban
Uber’s latest regulatory roadblock happens to be the entire country of Italy. In a court ruling issued today, all of Uber’s services were banned in the European country after a Rome judge ruled in favor More...
The Honor 8 Pro is a Huawei P10 with stronger specs and a smaller price
Huawei subsidiary Honor launched its Honor 8 in the US last year, and now it’s bringing the successor to Europe. The Honor 8 Pro, known as the V9 in China, is a spec bump in pretty much everything you’d More...