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Some people take photos of designs they see out in the world that inspire them. Others create mood boards for tracking inspiration. But having a photo of something isn't the same as being able to it in your own work. Knowing this, Fiona O'Leary, a student at the Royal College of Art, developed a prototype called the Spector, so she could capture any font and color she sees in the world. If she loved the font London uses on its subway maps, for instance, she could use this device to capture

A car was burned and shots were fired at a Google building in Mountain View, allegedly by a man who felt "Google was watching him and that made him upset," according to a police affidavit discovered by the Mercury News.
The attacks are believed to be part of a series of incidents that have taken place at Google offices since May, when on May 19th a Google employee reported someone throwing bottles modified into Molotov cocktails in a Google-owned parking lot. Then, on June 4th, Mountain View pol

There are lots of places where drone pilots are not supposed to fly: over sports stadiums, near airports, or anywhere in Washington, DC. DJI, the world's largest consumer drone company, has had a technology in place for a few years now that is meant to prevent pilots from flying into these restricted airspaces. But it didn't alert or prevent pilots from flying into airspace where the FAA had issued a temporary flight restriction, near a raging forest fire, for example.
Today DJI announced that i

Much has been made of Stephen Colbert’s still infant run on The Late Show. In the past couple months, the show has lost longtime producer Meredith Bennet, added showrunner Chris Licht from news program CBS This Morning, faced critical questions about the popularity of The Late Late Show’s James Corden, and undergone a handful of changes to its structure. Uproxx’s Mike Ryan wrote a lengthy breakdown, forecasting a somewhat grim outlook for the program. But I think, while weather

 While noting that Hillary Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless” in using a series of personal e-mail servers during her time as Secretary of State, the FBI recommended the Department of Justice bring no formal charges against the presumptive Democratic nominee, FBI Director James Comey said today in a press conference. During its investigation, the FBI wasn’t able… Read More

Many questions swirl around the Hyperloop: how much will it cost? Where will it be built? How fast will it travel? Really, that fast? Who will be the first to ride it? Will their bodies turn into paste or goo? What’s the difference?
Now, Hyperloop One, one of the LA-based startups seeking to realize Elon Musk’s vision of 760 mph, tube-based travel, has answers to some of those questions. (Sadly, not the last one.) In a new study released today, the company says a hyperloop connecting

The days of 16GB iPhones are nearly over. Our friend Joanna Stern at The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple's next flagship iPhone — the iPhone 7 or whatever it's eventually called — will start out at 32GB of storage; there won't be any 16GB option offered. If true, the bump in storage to the entry-level model will finally address a longstanding complaint regarding Apple's iPhone family.
In recent years, 16GB simply hasn't been enough for most consumers to hold all

 Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL.
This is a programming language, mind you, that was developed in the late 1950s, and used widely in the ’60s and ’70s and even into the ’80s, but it’s never really gone away. Read More

Netflix today reached an exclusive multi-year agreement with the CW to stream all past seasons of the network's shows online in the US. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the company has the streaming rights to hit series like The Flash and The Vampire Diaries, and starting with the 2016-2017 season, viewers will be able to watch the latest full season of new shows like Supergirl only eight days after the season finale airs.
"Netflix members in the U.S. love the great lineup of series fro

Even as computers and devices have trended toward miniaturization over the years, desktop graphics cards have only seemed to get increasingly monstrous. And that's why this new GTX 1070 from Gigabyte is so refreshing — it's one of the best new graphics cards on the market, and also one of the smallest. The new Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1070 ITX Edition is a smaller version of the GTX 1070 at only 6.7 inches long, which is a lot shorter than the 11.4 inches of the standard version. As CNET

The convertible version of Ferrari’s incredible LaFerrari supercar is finally here. Well, three pictures of it, anyway. There’s a lot we don’t know about the car including the price, the name, the technical characteristics, how many will be sold, or when it will be available.
We do know that it will have the same engines as the original LaFerrari, including 949 combined horsepower from its 6.3-liter V12 and its 120 kW electric motor, as well as identical performance figures inc

Great art has the capacity to transport viewers across the emotional spectrum. It can be revitalizing, devastating, beautiful, and terrifying. It can also be made by a hamster. The Hamster Powered Hamster Drawing Machine by Neil Mendoza is one such artistic rarity. Mendoza, whose previous creations include a magical hair creature and something called the Ponytron, has never shied from the experimental. In his latest work, a hamster running in a hamster wheel powers a complicated apparatus to dra

According to St. Louis news outlet KMOV, city fire crews were called last night for 23 fires in dumpsters across the city. While the area is no stranger to flaming piles of garbage, it's apparently unclear whether these fires were set intentionally or not. But whatever the cause, they've given us the perfect illustration for the huge, confusing mess that is 2016: a landscape so full of dumpster fires that their ominous black labels blot out the sun.
There were 23 dumpster fires around

A growing number of sea turtles in Australia's Great Barrier Reef have been infected with a specific strain of herpes virus, and pollution might be the cause, New Scientist reports. Researchers at James Cook University in Australia have found the outbreak is most common in a small part of Cockle Bay known for being a tourist destination. As New Scientist points out, around half the turtles in this area have been infected, compared to less than 10 percent of the bay's overall turtle populati

Red Dead Redemption, the open-world western from the publisher of Grand Theft Auto, will become backwards compatible on Xbox One on Friday, July 8th. The game was originally published on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2010.
Backwards compatible is game industry jargon for allowing the owners of a video game designed for an older console to play it on a newer one. In this case, if you purchased and still own Red Dead Redemption for Xbox 360, you will be able to play it on the Xbox One, no matter w

Matthew Garrett is a security developer at CoreOS who also buys Internet of Things devices on Amazon and writes security reviews about them. Among his purchased and reviewed gadgets are seven smart bulbs and the AuYou Wi-Fi Switch, which lets users remotely turn their home sockets on and off. His writeup, titled "Nice hardware, infuriating setup issues, terrible insecure software," dives deep into the security of this Chinese-manufactured switch that he says exposes the MAC address of users&rsqu

The National Institutes of Health is funding a new study of the Zika virus that will observe exposure among Olympic athletes, coaches, and other Olympic Committee staff in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the Summer Olympics and Paralympics. The study "aims to improve understanding of how the virus persists in the body and to identify potential factors that influence the course of infection," according to a NIH press release put out this morning. The games start on August 5th and extend to Sep

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority unveiled its first mobile ticketing app Tuesday, which will riders on Metro North and Long Island Rail Road to purchase tickets using their smartphones by the end of summer 2016. The MTA eTix app is available for both iOS and Android users. It already is operational for riders of Metro North’s Hudson line, which runs north from New York City’s Grand Central Terminal along the Hudson River, and LIRR’s Port Washington branch, which runs e

 HourlyNerd, a Boston-based, startup aspires to be more than an on-demand staffing service for skilled employees. It wants to be a full-service platform for large companies to change the way they think about employees. “If you think about a company today, it’s structured in the same way as 100 years ago,” says company co-CEO and co-founder Rob Biederman. HourlyNerd sees… Read More

 To say that Nissan is watching Tesla’s every move would be an understatement. The Japanese automaker started this month with a splash, announcing it is expanding its No Charge to Charge promotion to include 11 new markets, such as Las Vegas, Cleveland and the car capital of Detroit to name a few. The program offers new Leaf drivers two years of free public charging with the purchase… Read More

Panasonic is preparing to release a high-end 4K Blu-ray player targeted at audiophiles, and as you'd expect, it won't be cheap. The DMP-UB900 comes with the usual slate of 4K Blu-ray features; 60fps playback, HDR support, and the ability to stream 4K content from Netflix and YouTube.
But it also features some premium audio specifications including High-res audio playback (WAV, FLAC, DSD, ALAC), digital tube sound with up-sampling, isolated twin HDMI ports for audio and video signals, and 7.

Have you heard the life story of Colonel Sanders? It’s taken root in the muddy internet backwater where only inspirational anecdotes tend to flourish.
In the past couple weeks, variations on the tale have materialized in an Osaka Craigslist posting, a YouTube clip designed like one of those Facebook videos you watch without sound while you’re on the toilet, and the Facebook page of former candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, Dr. Ben Carson. I came to it through LinkedIn, my

Ford is putting something called Baja Mode into its 2017 F-150 Raptor pickup truck. Think of it as Tesla’s Ludicrous Mode, but for off-road shenanigans. It’s named in honor of the legendary Baja 1000 desert race where Ford has tested its pickups in near-stock form in the past.
The Baja mode is part of a new terrain mode system in the Raptor, and a first for any F-150 pickup. Drivers can choose from six different modes depending on the surface they’re navigating, including Norma

Captain America has defeated Nazis, invading aliens, and even conspirators within our own government. Now, in recognition for all his good deeds and in honor of his 75th birthday, Cap is getting his own bronze statue. And where better than his hometown of Brooklyn?
Marvel and its parent company Disney will unveil the 13-foot statue at Comic-Con in San Diego later this month, according to USA Today. It will then embark on a cross-country tour before ending in Prospect Park, where it will be dedic

If you thought Aston Martin was a manufacturer of exclusive cars, wait until you get an eyeful of its latest.I have just emerged from the cavernous Aston Martin factory where a throng of company employees got their own first look at the British marque's extraordinary new car, codenamed the Nebula and now known as the AM-RB 001. It's a measure of the secrecy surrounding this hypercar that most of the people slated to work on producing it didn't even know what it will look like. Today, the AM-RB 0

NASA’s Juno spacecraft may be in orbit around Jupiter, but it’s going to be a while before the vehicle photographs its first up-close images of the gas giant. The probe’s instruments were all powered down for orbital insertion yesterday, and they won’t be turned back on for a couple of days. Plus, Juno is in a highly elliptical 53-day orbit around Jupiter, where it only spends a few hours super close to the planet. Right now, the spacecraft is sailing farther an

Sennheiser has announced a new pair of wireless headphones, the PXC 550, which comes with pretty exceptional battery life and a companion app that allows you to alter audio levels to your liking. The PXC 550 Wireless will last up to 30 hours with adaptive noise canceling engaged, according to Sennheiser, which is ten hours longer than wireless listening on the Bose QC35.The PXC 550 Wireless comes with a touch panel on the earcup, and can pause music and phone calls when the headphones are t

Nearly one year after a security breach resulted in the leak of a massive amount of customer data, Ashley Madison is now being investigated by the US Federal Trade Commission. The company's new top executives — replacing those who exited after the tumultuous hack — confirmed the inquiry in an interview with Reuters. CEO Rob Segal isn't exactly sure what the FTC is focusing its probe on, but the leading theory is that it's tied to the website's use of "fembots" to artificially ba

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has completed its investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email server and is recommending that the Department of Justice not indict Clinton, FBI Director James Comey said in a press conference today. The recommendation is not binding, and the ultimate decision will be made by the Department of Justice. Still, the recommendation will likely clear longstanding questions that have dogged Clinton’s presidential campaign for over a year.

Now that they've conquered the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Joe and Anthony Russo — directors of the last two Captain America movies and the upcoming two-parter Avengers: Infinity War — are returning to their TV stomping grounds for an adaptation of The Warriors. Deadline is reporting the brothers are teaming with Paramount's TV division to turn Walter Hill's lurid 1979 cult classic (itself an adaptation of Sol Yurick's 1965 novel of the same name, which happens to be a

DoubleTwist's CloudPlayer Android app already allows you to stream all the music you store in your cloud service, including Dropbox, OneDrive, and Google Drive. Now, the company will let you make playlists with that music for easier listening. Songs from various cloud platforms and those stored locally on your phone can be included in one playlist. Those playlists will also stay with your account, so you have them even if you get a new phone. The updated app is expected to go live today, and Clo

This is The Harper Spin, a weekly column from seasoned auto critic Jason H. Harper. He’s raced at Le Mans, crushed a car in a 50-ton tank, and now, he’s bringing his unique style to The Verge.For a long time, there’s been a bit of common wisdom among car folk: you could buy the BMW 3 Series of your dreams for $50,000. And the Porsche 911 of your dreams for $100,000.
Those days are gone.
As cars become more technologically advanced, they also become more expensive. This isn&rsq

The AM-RB 001, Aston Martin and Red Bull's hypercar, was unveiled to the public for the first time today at Aston Martin's UK headquarters. At the launch today, Aston CEO Andy Palmer said there would never be more than 150 of the extreme machines on the road, and could be as few as 99. In addition to the roadgoing version, there'll also be 25 track-only versions made.
The AM-RB 001 is a mid-engined beast with a naturally aspirated V-12, but beyond that Aston Martin hasn't revealed too

Aston Martin and Red Bull are showing off their new hypercar, the AM-RB 001, for the first time today. This won't be a fully working vehicle, but it'll be our first glimpse of what the car will look like. According to Aston Martin boss Andy Palmer, the company is "70% to 80% there in terms of appearance," and will be ready with working prototypes by spring next year before a full launch in 2018. You can watch the live stream from Aston Martin's headquarters below:LIVE on #Periscope: AM