Firefox gets even more aggressive than Chrome and Safari with new tracker blocking features
A recent study by Ghostery found that more than 55 percent of the time it takes to load an average website is spent on behind-the-scenes drudgery the …
Year: 2018
The 9 best free iPhone games of the week
The App Store has been relatively quiet in recent weeks, but there was a respectable collection of new iOS games released this week. That includes …
iPhone X vs. Galaxy Note 9 drop test showdown: Which flagship is easier to break?
The clumsier smartphone owners among us typically find out sooner than later how breakable their phone really is. But for the rest of us, it’s …
Vast majority of Apple Watch buyers are opting for old models
There’s good news and bad news for Apple on the cusp of the Apple Watch Series 4 reveal. The good news is that, according to …
The first real iPhone XS rival arrives in October, but it’s not the Pixel 3
The first Android phone that has a real shot at competing against the iPhone XS is coming in October, but it’s not the Pixel 3 …
Here we go again: Newly discovered Android vulnerability can be used to spy on you
We write often here about the security vulnerabilities of Android devices that are due, at least in part, to how much of a delay there …
Great new movie trailers you should watch from this past week
The last week of August brings us the premiere of the sci-fi story Kin, a movie about humans having to deal with a threat that’s …
Netflix has spent years crushing movie theaters – turns out, it kind of needs them now
One of the more fascinating trends to watch these days is the way big digitally focused tech companies are incrementally moving back into the physical …
Saturn’s auroras sure do look pretty
Here on Earth, auroras are pretty neat sight to see. The phenomenon, commonly called the “Northern Lights,” is fairly well understood by scientists. They occur …
This tiny gadget can locate anything, anywhere in the world with cellular and GPS signal
If you’ve been using Tile to track and locate your belongings, then you know the device has a considerable downside. It doesn’t work over GPS, …
This is the most covert spy camera we’ve ever seen, and it probably shouldn’t be legal
The DareTang HD 1080P WiFi Hidden Camera Alarm Clock is by far the most covert hidden camera we’ve ever come across. It looks just like …
A big fake Moon is slowly making its way around the Earth
You probably don’t spare much thought for the Moon. I mean it’s there in the night sky, being all bright and cool and whatnot, but …
Save $70 on a Linksys mesh system that blankets even the biggest homes with lightning-fast WI-Fi
If you’re looking to blanket your home with lightning-fast Wi-Fi and you want to save some money in the process, today is your lucky day. …
Forget that new ‘most popular’ Oscar – Marvel wants a ‘Best Picture’ for Black Panther
Actor Chadwick Boseman has confirmed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that Marvel wants to take home a very specific gold statue at the …
Japan just announced when it will attempt to land on an asteroid
It’s been about two months since Japan’s space program, JAXA, arrived at the asteroid known as Ryugu. The mission began way back in 2014, and …
Heads up, app developers: Apple is getting even more serious about privacy
Apple has made its stance around privacy and the way it handles user data a centerpiece of the company under CEO Tim Cook, who’s been …
6 paid iPhone apps that are free downloads on August 31st
Yesterday’s post on the best paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free was a great one, and you can even find a few …
NASA crosses its fingers as skies over its sleeping Opportunity rover continue to clear up
The saga of the Mars dust storm that may have killed NASA’s Opportunity rover may still come with a twist ending. The rover, which has …
Top-rated wireless noise cancelling headphones are on sale for under $48 today
Today is the last day of Amazon’s big sale on Bose’s best-ever noise cancelling headphones, so you still have time to get them at a …
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station had to plug this hole with their thumb
Yesterday, Russian space organization Roscosmos and the European Space Agency broke the news that the International Space Station had sprung a leak. That’s a pretty …
iOS 12 developer beta 12 available to download right now
With nearly two weeks to go until Apple’s iPhone XS reveal event, the company has released yet another iOS 12 developer beta along with a …
‘Avengers 4’ spoilers: New movie will be just as shocking as ‘Infinity War’
I fully expected to see Thanos kill some of the Marvel superheroes in Infinity War. I also believed that at least Captain America would be …
Best Buy’s Labor Day sale has big discounts on Apple Watch, TVs, laptops, and much more
Labor Day weekend is upon us, which means two things: one last long weekend before the school year kicks back into high gear, and a …
For the first time ever, Apple’s most exciting new product of the year isn’t an iPhone
Apple’s “fall event” takes place in late summer each year, so it remains a mystery why it’s referred to as a “fall event.” What never …
New Pixel 3 leak tells us Google is really serious about selfies
A few days ago, I told you that the monster Pixel 3 XL leaks that we had just witnessed revealed a perplexing detail about Google’s …
Leaked Apple Watch Series 4 photo reveals a cool feature no other smartwatch has
Apple will unveil a bunch of new products on September 12th, including the highly anticipated iPhone XS and 6.1-inch LCD iPhone, but also the Apple …
The leaked iPhone XS wallpaper is available for download right now
Thursday was quite a day for Apple news. First, we learned that Apple would hold the iPhone launch event on September 12th, just as rumored, …
Marshall just added Alexa to one of the best Wi-Fi speakers you can buy
Marshall Headphones, the licensed-out brand that makes headphones and speakers that look like the iconic Marshall guitar amps, already sells one of the neatest Wi-Fi …
Legendary investor Warren Buffett warns Apple that buying Tesla would be a bad idea
Amid the Apple-heavy crush of news today, what with the leaks and headlines about what the newest iPhones and Apple Watch models will look like, …
Freezing temperatures likely contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals
The amount of information we have about the human family tree is steadily growing, but there are still plenty of unanswered questions. One of the …
