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Bentley, Zoolander pose, or Danielle Steel novel?

2016-05-25T10:25:44-04:00

I was browsing the online configurator for Bentley's range-topping Mulsanne model this morning, and I stumbled upon the most delightful feature: the British luxury automaker names the suggested color combinations for each of its models and sub-models, and the names are fantastic. Molten Bronze. Big Skies. Opera Night. The list goes on, seemingly forever. There are dozens of them.

After staring at the list for a while, I realized something very, very important: I couldn't identify a structural difference between the name of a Bentley configuration, a trademark pose of Ben Stiller's Derek Zoolander, and a book by the best-selling novelist ali …

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Boeing 747s abandoned at international airport raise existential question

2015-12-08T13:19:56-05:00

Once I left my laptop at airport security. It's a sore subject, to be honest. How does somebody leave something so big and important behind? I tell myself that airports are stressful. Surely, I think, someone has left something even bigger and more valuable. Today, I know that to be certain.

Someone has left three Boeing Co. 747-200F planes at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. The planes have been there for roughly a year now, and Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd. would prefer the owner collect them immediately. If they don't, the company explains in a full page ad posted in Malaysia's Star Newspaper, the planes will be sold or disposed …

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Why don’t we remember Dirty Dancing as the feminist, sex-positive, pro-women’s rights film it is?

2015-08-20T10:00:03-04:00

Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week. We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters and editors the entire week to play with new tools and experiment with new storytelling ideas, while members of our amazing product team have gathered in New York to help build all sorts of interesting new things. Learn more.

Dirty Dancing is the most important mainstream film of the 1980s. That may not be saying much, considering the decade doesn't stand up to the unapologetically sexy and violent studio films of the 1970s and the dialogue-heavy indie movies of the 1990s. I suspect its place in the '80s has been responsible for its s …

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What the hell do you call these Bluetooth fashion crimes?

2015-08-06T09:42:55-04:00

If you haven't seen them around yet, you will. They're in-ear headphones, technically, but they lack the long cord that tangles up after about a week. Instead, two tiny wires connect buds to an inexplicably large band that rests loosely around your neck and houses all the circuitry necessary for wireless connectivity.

Here, it'll just be easier to show you:

That's the new Moto Surround, wrapped around the neck of a model who's trying his hardest to make them look beautiful and alluring. It's not just Motorola, of course: LG has a whole series. From there, the form factor seems to trickle down to about a dozen or so small manufacturers.

To …

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Which VR headset should you buy?

2015-07-18T13:00:03-04:00

With projects like Google Cardboard, simple VR is accessible to almost anyone with a smartphone. But if you want the best-looking, least nausea-inducing, and most futuristic experience money can buy, you're going to have a tough year. Three high-end virtual reality headsets will be coming out between the end of 2015 and mid-2016: the Oculus Rift, Sony's Project Morpheus, and the HTC Vive, built in partnership with Valve. Unless you're independently wealthy, you'll have to make some hard choices about what kind of experience you want, and how much you're willing to pay for it.

It's too early to conclusively make this decision. We don't know …

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