'Trouble-free day! No joke': Honda-powered Toro Rosso F1 car debuts

LONDON — Honda’s Formula One partnership with the Toro Rosso team got off to a positive start on Wednesday with a seemingly smooth track debut of their new car on a limited mileage filming day in Italy. “Trouble-free day!! No joke,” commented French driver Pierre Gasly on Twitter. New Zealander Brendon Hartley, who was at […]

BAFTA 2018: Prince William baffles viewers as he debuts new style 'What are those?'

The BAFTA Awards were broadcast on the BBC this evening and just minutes into Joanna Lumley’s speech, the royal was spotted sporting a new accessory.  Prince William, who looked dapper in a black tuxedo, accessorised his smart attire with a pair of thick black framed glasses.  Those tuning into the ceremony were quick to pick […]

Good news: Chrome debuts automatic blocking of annoying ads

Enlarge (credit: Daniel Oines) Google developers this week debuted a long-anticipated feature in Chrome that automatically blocks one of the Internet’s biggest annoyances—intrusive ads. Starting on Thursday, Chrome started filtering ads that fail to meet a set of criteria laid out by the Coalition for Better Ads, an industry group. The organization is made up […]

Marvel’s Wolverine podcast debuts on March 12th

We first heard about Marvel’s Wolverine-starring 10-episode podcast series at the tail end of 2017, and it sure sounded sweet: Ten episodes following agents tracking the legendary mutant as he hunts down a serial killer in a fictional Alaskan town. Now we have a release date. Wolverine: The Long Night‘s first episode airs on March […]

2019 Mercedes-Benz A-class Debuts, Will Spawn at Least Three Models for U.S.

– It’s kind of funny that the Mercedes-Benz A-class has never been offered in the United States, given that the U.S.—and more specifically, California—was a key reason the brand ventured to launch a vehicle below the C-class at all. See, in the early 1990s, it looked as if California was hellbent on going electric. And Mercedes-Benz felt it needed […]

Google’s Gboard debuts a quick way to create reaction GIFs

Google’s Gboard for iOS is lagging a bit behind its Android counterpart, but a new update for iPhone users comes with a game changer. As The Verge has noticed, its dedicated GIF-maker button is no longer hidden at the bottom and now has a more prominent position on the keyboard, right on top beside the […]

Sketchfab debuts object store for 3D and virtual reality creators

Sketchfab is taking one of its biggest steps yet today and launching features so that users can buy and sell 3D objects. The startup is supporting the industry standard glTF as its download format, which should make it easy for creators to take the objects purchased from the siteand import them into creativity software. Google recently launched Poly, […]