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Up until now, we’ve only been able to see renderings and above-ground images / video of Apple Park’s Steve Jobs Theater, but thanks to a tipster and Mac Magazine, some images of the theater’s interior under construction have been posted online.

Acer is joining the 360-degree video craze with two new cameras, including one designed for your car. The Acer Holo360 is smartphone-sized 360-degree camera powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 625 processor. The LTE-connected camera comes with a 3-inch display and can capture 4K 360-degree videos. It also runs Android 7.1, making it easy for users to share their videos over social media.

Honor is releasing its Honor 9 phone in a new "robin egg blue" shade. The turquoise is certainly unique, although I'm not sure whether that's a good thing. We all want our phones to stand out, but this blue makes my eyes hurt a little bit? It's just so bright and so turquoise. I want to put it in an Easter basket. It shouldn't leave the Easter basket.

Juicero, the company that made its name by creating a proprietary juice-squeezing machine, is shutting down. The announcement comes from Juicero's website. In its post, the company writes that it is suspending the sale of both its juice packets and its Juicero Press device. The last juice packet delivery will occur next week. All customers have up to 90 days to request a refund for their purchase of the Juicero Press, regardless of when they bought it. Fortune reports that employees are being given 60 days notice. Читать дальше...

Life is Strange didn’t need a prequel. Dontnod Entertainment’s time-traveling teen drama was a breakout hit when it launched in 2015, but the developer has been clear that it did not want to return to the story of Max Caulfield and Chloe Price. And so, Life is Strange: Before the Storm — a three-episode arc focusing on a younger Chloe — felt unnecessary.

Alcatel has just announced two new additions to its budget smartphone lineup today at IFA 2017: the Idol 5 and A7.

If you’re reading this article, there’s a good chance that you don’t regularly back up your computer. And why should you? After all, getting a laptop stolen or having a hard drive crash is the sort of thing that only happens to other people. Your files are fine, right?

Television has periodically portrayed school as the ultimate evil, a frame for fluffy slice-of-life scenarios, or just as a mundane backdrop to supernatural phenomena. Pop culture is obsessed with telling school stories, from realistic dramas about the ways school can feel like a villains’ den to fantasies that stylize it as a battlefield. Sometimes school is a place where greater social ideas play out via grand metaphors. Sometimes it’s just the occupation that takes up young people’s time when... Читать дальше...

Apple’s Eddy Cue is no longer in charge of Siri, according to Apple’s updated leadership page. First spotted by Apple Insider, the voice assistant is now under the purview of Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering.

The Vergecast returns to the New York studio this week. Dieter, Nilay, and Paul run through what was announced so far at IFA 2017, including the LG V30, Sony Xperia XZ1, and lots of smart speakers.

I took a short vacation to Maine recently, and ended up blowing through Deliliah S. Dawson’s new Star Wars novel Phasma. It’s one of a few recent books exploring the darker side of the franchise, along with Battlefront II: Inferno Squad and Thrawn. Given that one of my regular hobbies is dressing up like a Star Wars villain, this has special appeal to me, but it’s also a good read in its own right — you can read my full review here.

After years of various revenue models, it looks like the feature people were truly willing to pay Tinder for was the ability to see who exactly swiped right on their profile without swiping right back. Tinder had been testing this feature as part of its paid Tinder Gold subscription tier in select markets for months, but after introducing it in the United States this week, the app rose to the number one spot on the App Store’s top-grossing chart in just one day, reports TechCrunch.

Harmonix — the studio behind Rock Band and the original Guitar Hero — has long experimented with fusing technology, games, and music. Aside from getting millions of people to play with plastic instruments in their living rooms, the developer released games that made use of Sony’s EyeToy camera, Microsoft’s Kinect motion sensor, and even Apple’s old click wheel iPod. It was one of the first developers to start making games for the Apple TV. Now Harmonix has partnered with Hasbro on perhaps its strangest creation yet... Читать дальше...

Every week, a slew of new music videos hits the web. Watching them at your desk is not time theft because you deserve it; think of it as a nice reward for surviving another work week. But what if you don’t have time to watch every video — maybe you have a deadline, a hungry pet, or other grown-up concerns. In consideration of your schedule, Lizzie and Kaitlyn bring you a series called One Video. Each week we’ll tell you “one video” you need to watch, why, and for how long.

Sony is channeling the PS1 era with a trio of new translucent DualShock 4 controllers. The gamepads will be available in red, blue, and crystal, and each gives a good look at the innards of the device thanks to a see-through top panel. (The rear of each controller is still solid.) All three will be available in North America later this month, and you can pre-order now, but there’s a catch — each is exclusive to a different retailer. The crystal version will only be available at Gamestop (EB Games if you’re in Canada)... Читать дальше...

You may have heard that Apple is holding an event in September, and it’s probably going to be a big deal. Big enough that on the next day, September 13th, we’re going to record The Vergecast in front of a live audience in San Francisco. You should come be part of that live audience, because it’s going to be a party.

Netflix has ordered an eight-part musical drama series called The Eddy, executive produced by La La Land director Damien Chazelle, Variety reports. Chazelle will also direct two of the episodes. The bulk of the show will be written by British TV writer Jack Thorne, who is best known for his work on Skins, The Last Panthers, and the National Treasure TV miniseries. He’s also part of the writing team for Colin Trevorrow’s Star Wars: Episode IX.

In the lead-up to The Force Awakens, one particular character caught the eyes of fans: a tall, chrome-clad stormtrooper played by Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie. Captain Phasma was hyped as a silent but menacing Boba Fett-style character, but when the film came out, she only had a couple of minutes of screen time. Fortunately, Phasma, a new tie-in novel by Delilah S. Dawson, provides a much-needed origin story for one of the new Star Wars saga’s most mysterious characters.

Soft, spongy, and flexible robots have been a promising field of research for a while now, but they do have some common limitations. They tend to be built for single purposes, and are difficult to customize for new tasks. Enter the modular soft robot — a new design from researchers working at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

Yesterday, Star Wars fans were blessed with the reveal of new toys and gadgets, including this glorious Lego Millennium Falcon as part of Force Friday II. Today, the folks at manufacturing platform Fictiv have decided to tear some apart. One of their victims is the mysterious black BB-9E droid toy robot from the upcoming film The Last Jedi.

The Bragi Dash wireless earbuds are getting a new feature later this year: the ability to talk to Amazon’s voice assistant, Alexa. The headphone maker announced at the IFA trade show today that a software update coming in October will allow access to Alexa, and will be available in English (US and UK) and German.

Before today I didn't know I needed a clutch on my mouse, but now I'm wondering how I ever lived without. Razer's new Basilisk gaming mouse has a customizable clutch for your thumb. It seems to be best suited for actions that are more of a "press-and-hold" kind of a thing than a single "click" moment. Push-to-talk is the first thing that comes to mind.

With its unprecedented screen-to-body ratio, Xiaomi's Mi Mix was the first harbinger of 2017's least escapable phone trend. A little under a year later, the sequel is nearly here — Xiaomi has confirmed on Weibo that the Mi Mix 2 is set to be announced at an event on September 11th.

Twitter can be a wasteland of heart-wrenching breaking news, trolls, and poorly placed promoted content — but then there are the metal cats and the random factoids, like this viral Twitter thread about Greenland sharks that threw the Verge newsroom into a frenzy today.

Twitch announced a major update to its channel pages today in the form of a new extensions program that will let streamers customize their channels with third-party developer extensions.