A film student spied on everything a thief did with his stolen smartphone
Having your smartphone stolen is a lot worse than simply losing it. If you lose it, you still have a chance to retrieve it using …
Year: 2016
Android scammers set their sights on Super Mario Run
Super Mario Run is currently the most popular game in the App Store, and it’s a solid first effort from Nintendo. The game is more …
Guess how many NES Classic Editions have been sold so far
Trying to keep tabs on where and when you can pick up Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition has morphed into something of a cat and mouse …
Here’s what you’ll have to do when you inevitably lose one of your AirPods
After weeks of waiting, Apple finally started taking orders for its truly wireless headphones a few days ago, and the AirPods are already sold out. …
Massive security breaches may cost Yahoo its $4.8 billion deal with Verizon
Verizon announced this summer plans to buy Yahoo for $4.83 million. Since then, Yahoo had to acknowledge two major security breaches that may now cost …
On sale for $300, this Android powerhouse is all the smartphone you need
Flagship smartphones from Samsung or Apple generally sell for $600-700. That’s a lot of money, but in return you’re getting a pocket computer with fast …
Nintendo’s Switch console will be less powerful than the old PS4
Nintendo is one of the popular gaming companies in town right now. There’s Pokemon Go that Nintendo is a part of, there’s Super Mario Run on …
Download ‘Lost Odyssey’ free on Xbox One for a limited time
This week, the Xbox One Backward Compatibility catalog surpassed 300 games. Ever since the Xbox One launched, gamers had been pleading with Microsoft to allow …
Court sets worrying precedent by forcing iPhone owner to reveal his passcode
When the United States Constitution was written, things like smartphones didn’t exist. and adapting the aging document to modern technology is an inexact science to …
Why old-school Nintendo games will never hit the iPhone
After years of steadfastly refusing to admit that iOS was a gaming platform worthy of its time and energy, Nintendo finally realized that there was …
Watch NASA deploy a fleet of micro satellites that will save us from big storms
When NASA isn’t checking out its Saturn-cruising cameras or compiling a collection of hundreds of awesome GIFs, it’s doing its best to save us from …
The 2016 news bloopers you’ve been waiting for are here
2016’s been a pretty bad year for the human race in general, but news anchors have had a particularly bad time of it. You can …
Here’s how Facebook is going to stop the spread of fake news
After already acknowledging its rampant fake news problems and promising to come up with some sort of solution back in November, Facebook today announced its actual …
Every movie and TV show leaving Netflix in January
If you thought that 2017 might be the year that Netflix stopped removing content from its library, I have some bad news for you. On …
Is Apple looking to ‘kill’ the Galaxy Note?
Samsung is the phone maker responsible for making the first phablet the masses really liked. The Galaxy Note came with a bigger screen than you’d …
Verizon decides to mercilessly kill Samsung’s Note 7 after all
You probably thought the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 saga was finally over, now that the phones have been yanked from shelves and the company promised …
Super Mario Run review: Nintendo’s seamless transition into mobile gaming
More than anything, I’m still shocked that Nintendo nailed mobile gaming on its first try. While Super Mario Run is technically the second real smartphone app from …
All the best tricks to help you run through ‘Super Mario’
It’s Thursday afternoon, and offices across the nation are gridlocked because everyone’s decided to download a mobile game. You might have noticed that after a …
We now know where the iPhone 8 will get much of its power
Every year Apple releases a phone that has a faster processor and better graphics than any of its predecessors, and that’s exactly what we expect …
9 paid iPhone apps on sale for free for a limited time
First and foremost, Goat Simulator is still free! You seriously need to grab it if you haven’t already… but we won’t officially include it again …
Best Buy’s got a special iPhone 7 Plus deal just in time for Christmas
Best Buy wants you to know that the NES Classic will be back in stock on December 20th. But that’s not the only good news …
9 years after the iPhone, Apple still gets no respect
The chorus of skeptics quick to proclaim that Apple’s best days are behind it is seemingly louder than its been in decades. According to this outspoken group …
If I had to ditch my iPhone for Android, these are the only two phones I’d consider
To be perfectly honest, I’m a bit surprised by how much I have been enjoying the iPhone 7 Plus since I upgraded back in September. I …
Super Mario Run is now available for free on the App Store
Nintendo just launched a game on the App Store. That’s an odd sentence to type after the company spent years denying that it would ever …
How I knew Yahoo had been hacked before Yahoo did
So, Yahoo got hacked again. It’s a new, bigger breach than the one Yahoo most recently admitted to, and over a billion user accounts have …
NES Classic Edition is coming back to Best Buy
Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition console is one of the hottest gifts this Christmas seasons, and stores are having a hard time keeping up with demand. …
Samsung’s Galaxy S8 will likely still dominate the iPhone 8 in one key area
Apple’s latest iPhones outclass all of the competition in so many ways. The phones’ design, while a bit too familiar at this point, is still …
Every new movie and TV show coming to Netflix in January
Netflix is helping us move on from 2016 this week with a look at all of its new releases for January 2017. This was a …
NES Classic Edition back in stock on Amazon for five more cities
In what appears to be a trend this week, Amazon has once again made a limited amount of NES Classic Edition consoles available on Amazon …
Shots fired: T-Mobile will give switchers a year of AT&T’s DirecTV Now service for free
T-Mobile sure does have a great sense of humor, but we doubt AT&T is laughing very much following the Un-carrier’s latest announcement. On Thursday morning, …
