It's been four years since Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 was released, but Hov is back next month, and this time with Samsung in tow. The new album is called Magna Carta Holy Grail, and Samsung has...

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Using tactics that included luring diplomats into fake internet cafes, The Guardian reports that British intelligence spied on major world leaders during the 2009 G20 summit in London. The...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/16/4436120/british-gchq-world-leader-surveillance-program-2009-g20-summit

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A team of archaeologists from Australia has discovered an ancient city that had been buried under the jungles of Cambodia for more than 1,000 years. The 1,200-year-old city, known as...

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Microsoft is tweaking a number of its built-in apps for Windows 8.1, but the Music app appears to include the most changes. A freshly redesigned copy of the Windows Store in leaked builds of...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/16/4435096/xbox-music-redesign-windows-8-1-windows-store

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The mysteries surrounding the death of Yuri Gagarin — the first human to ever travel into outer space — may finally have been solved thanks to fellow Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. Gagarin's...

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Nine years ago, top officials in the Justice Department and FBI threatened to resign over then-President George W. Bush's sweeping domestic surveillance policy, which they believed to be illegal....

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Since the story about the NSA’s secret compilation of Americans’ phone call metadata broke earlier this month, the overwhelming response from government has been "nobody is listening to your...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4434234/nsa-can-listen-in-on-your-phone-calls

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Microsoft has slowly been catching up on filling the Windows Phone store with big-name apps, and according to Bloomberg Businessweek, that may be thanks to some financial encouragement. Microsoft...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4433082/microsoft-paying-companies-100k-windows-phone-apps

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Google is unsatisfied with the deal that Microsoft and Facebook have made with the US government with regard to publishing how many requests for user information they both receive. Facebook and...

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AT&T has announced that it will be pushing a small, over the air update out to the iPhone 5 and iPhone 4S which will add support for the Wireless Emergency Alert System. The system, which went live...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4431924/at-t-to-update-iphone-5-iphone-4s-with-wireless-emergency-alert

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This November, the Xbox 360 will be eight years old. The PlayStation 3 will be seven. At the 2013 Electronic Entertainment Expo, we finally got acquainted with their successors. The new Xbox One...

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"I am the voice inside your head," Trent Reznor crooned after a violent sample from the movie THX 1138, "and I control you." Indelible words imprinted on a 12-year-old brain, and that was only the...

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Welcome to On The Verge, a zeitgeist for the culture of now. On today's show: Khoi Vinh, the former design director for The New York Times and current head of mobile design for Etsy, sits down with...

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Google has unveil what it's calling its "latest moonshot" out of the Google X labs. It's called "Project Loon," and as reported last month, it involved sending up a huge number of giant balloons to...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/14/4432262/google-unveils-project-loon-ballon-powered-internet-for-the-entire

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Microsoft has confirmed that the games it releases for the Xbox One will sell for $59.99, just like those for the Xbox 360, and Sony has previously suggested that it will also be sticking to the...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/14/4431790/microsoft-says-games-for-the-xbox-one-will-still-cost-59-99

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No matter your opinion on iOS 7, there's no denying it's a radical departure from any Apple design that came before it. And if you believe The Next Web, that may be no accident. According to the...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4424582/ios-7-reportedly-still-a-work-in-progress

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As anger over the US National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs continues to foment, a confidential briefing on the topic held Thursday was attended by only 47 of 100 US...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/15/4433504/senators-skipped-confidential-briefing-on-nsa-surveillance

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"Do you have any 'PlayStation Eye' games upstairs?""PlayStation what?""PlayStation Eye.""The camera?""Yeah, the camera.""I think there's a tech demo." "The camera?"It's not entirely...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4424250/sony-forfeit-playstation-eye-no-bundled-with-ps4

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Yahoo is taking on yet another acquisition as it seeks to reinvigorate itself and — in this case — Flickr as well. GhostBird software has just announced that it will be joining the Flickr team...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4424130/yahoo-acquires-ghostbird-software-improve-flickr

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Facebook is taking a move out of Twitter's playbook and officially adding support for the hashtag. Starting today, Facebook users will be able to search for and click on hashtags — as represented...

www.theverge.com/2013/6/12/4423200/facebook-adds-hashtag-support

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