Today we’re announcing new features and apps for Chromebook to take your creativity and productivity to the next level. Whether you’re enjoying your favorite music or movies, creating a vacation highlight reel or powering through work, Chromebook lets you do it all with speed, security and ease — right out of the box. Over the…
The rise of social media and chat apps as sales and customer care channels is changing the way people buy from and interact with brands—and transforming the retail sector as we know it. In this tribune, Étienne Mérineau, Senior Director of Marketing at Heyday by Hootsuite, explains what social commerce is, why it matters, and where it’s…
Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Street View has returned to select parts of India, Google announced today at an event hosted in New Delhi and on its blog. The 360-degree street-level viewpoint debuted in the country in 2011 but was then rejected by its government in 2016 due to security concerns. The navigation feature…
Drop’s selection of keycaps range from clean aesthetics to cringey Marvel collaborations. | Image: Drop Nothing livens up your desk like some colorful mechanical keyboard keycaps, and Drop’s buy one, get one deal has returned to brighten up your hump day. You can buy one base or ortholinear kit of MT3 keycaps from Drop’s selection…
Roblox removed the “oof” noise over licensing issues. Roblox has gotten rid of the iconic “oof” sound your character makes when dying (that even I, as an adult, can find some semblance of joy in). In a thread on Twitter (via Kotaku), Roblox explains it removed the sound “due to a licensing issue” and replaced…
I am salivating over how convenient this looks. | Image: Google Starting next week, editing PDFs on a Chromebook is going to be a breeze. Users will be able to highlight text, fill out forms, sign documents, and add text annotations directly within the Gallery app. Gallery is the default photo editing app on Chromebooks….
Apple’s redesigned Home app makes it easier to control your lights, locks, and other smart home devices. | Image: Apple A new Home View and a bit of ‘jiggle mode’ make the HomeKit app more usable, but there’s still a long way to go Continue reading… Read More
Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge Every Wednesday and Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where our editors make sense of the week’s most important technology news. On Wednesdays, editor-at-large David Pierce leads a selection of The Verge’s expert staffers in an exploration of how gadgets and software affect our lives…
The Connected Scarf aims to track fans’ emotional response to matches. | Photo by Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images The sports world has generally embraced wearable technology with open arms — though it’s usually for the athletes themselves. However, English soccer club Manchester City is hoping to keep track of its fans’ biometrics, too….
Enlarge (credit: Spotify) Spotify is no longer making Car Thing. The $90 device that connects to a car’s auxiliary power outlet, docks to the dashboard, and enables Spotify listening was doomed by a combination of limited demand and resource issues. As reported by TechCrunch, Spotify revealed during its Q2 2022 earnings today (PDF) that it…