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When FireEye reported its earnings last month, the outlook was a little light, so the security vendor decided to be proactive and make a big purchase. Today, the company announced it has acquired Verodin for $250 million. The deal closed today.
The startup had raised over $33 million since it opened its doors five years ago, according to Crunchbase data, and would appear to have given investors a decent return. With Verodin, FireEye gets a security validation vendor; that is, a company that can

Three iTunes users are suing Apple for allegedly disclosing their listening habits to advertisers. The users, who hail from Rhode Island and Michigan, claim Apple violated laws protecting records of entertainment purchases in those states. They’re seeking class-action status alongside other state residents, saying Apple has “disregarded its legal responsibilities to these individuals” by revealing personal information.
The lawsuit claims that Apple has released personal listen

Twitch has disabled the ability for new accounts to live stream following an attack from trolls that flooded one section of the site with pornography, illegal content, and hateful imagery.The move comes as Twitch’s team tries to stop bad actors from abusing its system and flouting rules around copyrighted and illegal video. A statement from Twitch’s support team sent out via Twitter specifies the “safety of our community is our top priority and we’re doing everything we

Archer debuted in 2009 as a sort of animated fusion between James Bond and The Office. Adam Reed’s FX show chronicled the misadventures of titular superspy Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) as he deals with covert international missions and, more significantly, HR, accounting, and working for his mother at ISIS, the International Secret Intelligence Service.
But when real-world events caught up with Archer and being an ISIS agent wasn’t a laughing matter anymore, Reed rein

Switched on Pop hosts Charlie Harding and Nate Sloan join Verge editor-in-chief Nilay Patel to unpack how technology is changing the distribution, production, and sound of popular music.Here is an excerpt of songwriter Charlie Harding and musicologist Nate Sloan explaining why songs are getting shorter in the streaming era.
This interview has been lightly edited for clarity.Nilay Patel: Obviously streaming services are everywhere. Algorithmic playlists are everywhere, the album as we know it is

Let’s go on a little field trip to the '90s, back when the Spice Girls ruled the world, signing onto the internet was a very noisy affair, and texting on your phone wasn’t yet a thing. Ah, the precious memories.
Back then, the technology we know and love now was just beginning to force its way into our daily lives, and internet real estate was like pure gold. There were only a handful of free options for building websites — like GeoCities, Angelfire, and AOL — and man, th

Amazon’s getting a little ahead of itself with Motorola’s upcoming Moto Z4. The phone maker hasn’t formally announced its latest MotoMod-ready device, but, as noted by Droid Life, that didn’t stop Amazon from briefly listing the Z4 on its website and offering it for sale immediately. You know where this is going. Someone managed to order the Moto Z4, and it actually showed up in the mail, complete with a 360-degree camera MotoMod that Motorola will apparently be tossing

The private space industry is giving NASA some ideas on how to turn low Earth orbit — where the International Space Station circulates above our planet — into an area filled with commercial habitats and platforms for future space travelers. Potentially, these “destinations” could be used as locations for in-space research and manufacturing to turn a profit. But such a commercial utopia in orbit won’t be easy until the cost of launching to space comes down, says NAS

Chinese EV startup NIO has indefinitely delayed its upcoming electric sedan just six weeks after unveiling a concept version of the car at the Shanghai Auto Show. The news comes as the startup released unaudited financial results for the first quarter of 2019, which show NIO lost $390 million as deliveries of its ES8 electric SUV dropped to 3,989 (down from 7,980 during the fourth quarter of 2018).
NIO had not previously set a ship date for the sedan, known as the ET7, but the company’s f

Parrot, a longtime competitor to Chinese drone giant DJI, is one of six companies selected by the US Department of Defense to build short-range reconnaissance aircraft for the American military. The deal, which includes five other companies but not DJI, represents a strategic front between the US and European commercial entities, like Parrot, in the face of increasing dominance from Chinese companies.DJI is far and away the world’s largest and most popular drone maker, with Parrot and oth

The Valve Index is supposed to be virtual reality with no expense spared. The recently announced headset costs $999, more than twice the price of competing Oculus and HTC devices. That price tag gets you access to several premium features: high-quality headphones, an experimental super-fast refresh rate, and a wider field of view “for typical users.” But these are all effectively upgrades. If you’re looking for something completely new, the most exciting part of the Index migh

Google had to make a few sacrifices to get the Pixel 3A down to $399, which is half the cost of the Pixel 3. But according to JerryRigEverything’s video, which showcases his rigorous phone tests, durability isn’t something that you should be too worried about.The Pixel 3A’s Dragontrail glass display held up to the YouTube channel’s signature scratch and bend tests just as well as phones that use Corning’s Gorilla Glass. It earned similar marks to Corning’s gl

As of last week, 300 ATMs in the Netherlands manufactured by In2Retail began displaying alerts about missing children. The ATMs are currently mainly located in airports, shopping malls, and in close proximity to tourist attractions. If the idea proves successful, authorities may expand the system to other ATM vendors with the aim of eventually covering the whole country. The Netherlands is the first country to use its ATMs to display such warnings.
Compatible ATMs are capable of displaying two

The final season of Netflix’s Marvel show Jessica Jones is almost here, and its kickoff trailer teases a dynamic fans are familiar with: Jones versus creepy villain.
The trailer doesn’t provide many clues about what the upcoming season has in store. The 35-second video focuses on a creepy voice threatening to kill Jessica Jones as she hangs out in her apartment-turned-detective agency. If you slow down the trailer enough, however, you do get a glimpse of this season’s menace.

Moment is expanding the breadth of its product line today with the launch of a new series of bags and wallet cases for phones that can mount Moment lenses. The new bags join Moment’s line of soft goods, which include straps and other photography accessories, while the wallet cases provide a way to hold up to three credit cards and mount Moment lenses to your phone.
There are two bag designs being announced: an on-trend fanny pack that can carry an assortment of Moment lenses and other pho

Rick and Morty’s cast of wacky characters has always sounded like music to some people, and a new limited edition music device from Teenage Engineering is finally making that dream a reality.The synthesizer, seen above, is part of Teenage Engineering’s popular pocket operator line. The tiny devices often come with fully operating drum machines, bass, and noise percussion options, giving musicians access to a full-fledged band. The Rick and Morty pocket operator (PO-137) comes with a

Apple is due to hold its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) keynote next Monday, but we’re already getting an early look at what the company will likely announce. 9to5Mac has obtained screenshots of iOS 13, and they show the new dark mode that Apple is rumored to be including. The dark mode appears to work across the dock in apps like Music and even in the built-in screenshot tool. Apple will reportedly include a switch in the Control Center or within the main iOS Settings page

Memorial Day has passed, and most of the deals that the US holiday brought with it have ended. However, a few still remain, and we’ve listed them below. But first, we’re going to focus on a few new deals that you should know about.Best Buy is offering discounts on most Chromebooks that feature an Intel processor. A few notable inclusions are Google’s Pixel Slate, which is $200 off of its usual $799 price, and the Samsung Plus V2 Chromebook with an S Pen and backlit keyboard, w

Nvidia’s new RTX Studio initiative is a range of laptops with a combination of software and hardware that’s optimized for popular creative applications from the likes of Adobe, Epic, Autodesk, and Unity. Along with the software, which includes new Studio drivers that the company first introduced back in March, Nvidia has also announced 17 RTX Studio laptops from six hardware partners: Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, MSI, and Razer.
Many of the new laptops have a lot in common due to

There is one frustrating truth about our modern, digital age: Wires are annoying. 
As more of us are trying to end cable clutter, may we suggest you go the wireless route for your headphones, too? It's an approach being taken in every aspect of consumer tech, from computer setups to home cinema systems. Headphones are proving to be no different.
SEE ALSO: 10 of the best earbuds in the UK for 2019
More and more brands are releasing headphones that don't require an auxiliary input to output a

At the very beginning of Kids, you help a small group of faceless bodies fall into a dark hole. You don’t have much say in the matter, either: a crowd forms around the rim of the inky pit, and as you touch the screen, they all topple over. In the next scene, those same bodies helplessly float downward into seeming nothingness. You can’t stop them, but if you hold a finger on a body, it will temporarily slow down before falling again. I’ve played through this opening multiple t

Meta, the augmented reality startup that shut down in January, is coming back — or at least, its tech is. A new company called Meta View has purchased the old Meta’s assets, which were sold when Meta’s creditor unexpectedly foreclosed on its loan. The new company will be led by former Qualcomm executive Jay Wright, and it’s building “a complete hardware and software solution for a specific use case” rather than a generalist AR headset.
Wright presided over Qu

iPod touch fans, your day has finally come. Apple just announced an updated version of the iPod touch that bumps up the processor to an A10 Fusion chip (for reference, that’s the same one that’s found in the iPhone 7) along with a new 256GB storage option.It’s the first update to Apple’s iPod product since the sixth-generation iPod touch was released in July 2015. Aside from those two changes, it appears that Apple is leaving the rest of the iPod touch alone: it has the

Few things are more interesting than the convergence of old and new. It’s with that in mind that we once again look to Indonesia, where East Ventures,an early-stage VC that’s behind a project to digitize the country’s street vendors, has backed a new startup that is modernizing street vendors who sell fresh produce.
In Indonesia — and other parts of Southeast Asia — street-based vendors are a common and important part of local life. Best known for street food, they