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Look: I’m not saying that the Vinci headphones, which puts a full touchscreen interface on wireless headphones, are a good idea. But they are definitely an idea that managed to raise over a million dollars on Indiegogo. The idea is simple: you just want your music on your headphones instead of on your phone, but really you also want Spotify and the only good way to do that is to use a touchscreen. Bam: customize Android a bit and put it on the side of some cans — well they’re more like Altoids tins because they’re rectangular ... Читать дальше...

The 10th season of the rebooted Doctor Who is almost here, and the BBC is stepping up the marketing with a new trailer ahead of the April 15th premiere. While we’ve already seen bits and pieces from the upcoming season, the new trailer gives us our best look yet at The Doctor’s latest adventures, as well as the return of some familiar foes in the form of the Daleks and the Cyberman.

Sony announced today that it’s expanding its PlayStation Now streaming service to include current-generation PS4 games. Currently the service lets players stream legacy PlayStation 3 games to PS4s and PCs for a $19.99 monthly cost. PS4 games will be added to PS Now at no additional cost to subscribers, but Sony isn’t saying exactly when to expect the new titles to be added to the catalog or what games to expect to be able to play.

Apple’s latest iPhone ad debuted today, and it’s focused on highlighting the Stickers feature that came to iMessage with iOS 10. As to be expected from an Apple ad, it’s a highly polished production, featuring a slew of diverse and attractive young adults running around their town, slapping animated iMessage stickers on the various and sundry inhabitants and locations.

Ghost in the Shell will hit theaters in just over two weeks, and fans of the original, as well as online observers, are already gearing up for a fight. Paramount recently launched an online campaign to promote the film at IAmMajor.me, allowing anyone to upload photos of themselves and add bold, affirmative statements like “I Am The Best At Nickelrolling.” It was supposed to be some light fun.

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Seventy years ago this week, the first Ferrari hit the streets of Maranello, Italy for a test drive. It was the 12-cylinder 125 S, the first to bear the name of Enzo Ferrari, and, naturally, the company wants to celebrate.

SXSW has been an absolute mess of open bars, breakfast tacos, and weird weather patterns. But there was also a live Vergecast — also a mess, although the very best kind of mess.

According to documents filed with the SEC today by Yahoo, CEO Marissa Mayer will receive “golden parachute compensation” totaling over $23 million when Verizon successfully closes its buyout of Yahoo’s internet properties. That payout will be a mixture of cash (around $3 million), equity, and benefits.

The Pagani Zonda S Roadster is more than a decade old. It was the first roadster from the Italian supercar maker, and just 40 were built. But, even though it was introduced in 2003 — kids born that year are starting high school this fall — it's still a gorgeous piece of machinery. And so, to show off a bit of its history, Pagani parked one in its booth at the Geneva Motor Show last week.

Getting Android to run on iOS is one of the ultimate achievements for hacking, as the locked-down nature of Apple’s platform makes that extremely hard to do. The Eye is an iPhone case seeking funding on Kickstarter that looks to be the next contender for running iOS and Android on one device, by taking the somewhat obvious approach of simply attaching an entire Android phone to the back.

Facebook today announced changes to its platform policy that forbid developers from using the company’s data for surveillance purposes.

Intel is acquiring Mobileye, a company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles. The Marker and Axios first reported the deal, valued at $15.3 billion, and it will see Intel take over some key technology for its ambitions to lead autonomous cars. BMW, Intel, and Mobileye have all partnered to deploy 40 autonomous vehicles for testing on public roads later this year. Intel and Mobileye’s technology is to be tested on roads in the US and Europe.

British-based luxury phone maker Vertu has been bought yet again, the third time the company has changed hands since Nokia spun off the business in 2012. According to a report from The Telegraph, the firm has been purchased for £50 million ($61 million) by an investment vehicle funded by Turkish exile Hakan Uzan.

Of all of the weird and wonderful ways nature creates resilient bodies, perhaps the most under-appreciated is simply being so squidgy your problems just bounce off you. Well, a group of biomimicry researchers from Swiss university EPFL are taking note, and have created a soft, crash-proof drone modeled after the flexible bodies of insects.

Game of Thrones’ eighth and final season will be its shortest yet, with only six episodes, showrunners David Benioff and Dan Weiss confirmed today. Speaking at SXSW in Austin, Benioff and Weiss said that they were in the process of writing the outline for the show’s final season now, 140 pages that will define how the TV saga of ice and fire will end.

Google has put together an online tool called #myAndroid Taste Test that's designed to help you select a wallpaper, launcher, and icon set based on your preferences. It asks you a bunch of rapid-fire questions where you have to say whether you're more of a “geometric” or "organic” type of person, for example, and spits out a customized result at the end.

Matthew Inman has a considerable audience with his webcomic The Oatmeal, and he’s put those masses to use with projects such as his Exploding Kittens card game, or to raise money for a museum dedicated to Nikola Tesla. This weekend, he launched a new campaign to help convince the National Parks service to consider a particular course of action for a grizzly bear reintroduction campaign in the North Cascades National Park.

As you may have heard, The Vergecast is live this week at South by Southwest! We have one episode down and another one to go on Tuesday.