8 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free to download right now – save $49
It’s time to start off the week with some paid iPhone apps that you can download for free right now for a limited time. Today …
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The biggest indication that Apple Watch is a dud so far
The Apple Watch is easily the best-selling smartwatch ever… but that’s not saying a lot. The question that Apple and all smartwatch manufacturers have had …
Cheaters’ nightmare: Affair website Ashley Madison hacked, user data vulnerable
So you decided to cheat on your spouse and you thought extramarital affair website Ashley Madison would keep your identity safe? Oops. KrebsonSecurity reports that Ashley …
Video: You never want to make an elephant this angry
Making elephants angry is not a smart thing to do, as a video posted on Friday by Barcroft TV makes clear. Apparently a circus went through a …
Tesla unveils big Model S upgrade – car will go from 0 to 60 in ludicrous 2.8 seconds
Tesla is known for delivering cars that have crazy acceleration, but it’s newest upgrade to the Model S P85D is positively ludicrous. Tesla on Friday …
Let’s say it again: Free Windows 10 upgrades are not an elaborate trick
Yesterday I had some fun with Forbes contributor Gordon Kelly, who wrote an article that raised some questions about Microsoft’s plans for Windows 10. My issue …
Mourners wear Death Vader, Beetlejuice costumes at Halloween enthusiast’s funeral
Funerals are always sad occasions but they don’t have to be depressing — remember Jim Henson’s request that mourners at his funeral not wear any …
iPhone 6s Plus: Leaked photos may be our first look at the device’s case
It’s been a fairly boring season for iPhone-related leaks, most likely because the next-gen iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will both look a lot …
One man’s tragically doomed quest to get off Best Buy’s spam email list
Dealing with spam offers from retailers is one of the more annoying components of managing email these days but for the most part you can …
How Gawker completely disgusted everyone on the Internet
Gossip website Gawker regularly walks the fine line between entertaining, edgy content and completely unethical, sleazy trash. On Thursday, the website went way, way over that …
Specs leak for a mystery LG phone – could it be the 2015 Nexus 5?
Android fans who love the stock version of the platform are clamoring to learn more about the 2015 Nexus 5, an LG-manufactured device that will …
This amazing video of the Magnus effect in action will make you love science even more
Science can just be so cool. If you want further evidence of this, you should watch an incredible new video of a basketball being dropped …
Let’s laugh at this Forbes article on why ‘you shouldn’t upgrade’ to Windows 10
Oh, Forbes contributors. Is there any opinion too silly for you to have? Forbes contributor Gordon Kelly has written a piece in which he explicitly argues that “you …
The most ironic Google job opening ever
Does even Google know how its own search algorithms work? We raise this question because Google is looking for an SEO expert to come on …
Amazon: Prime Day broke sales records, exceeded Black Friday 2014
You may have hated all the junk Amazon tried pawning off on you this week as part of Prime Day… but you bought it all up …
France played the U.S. in American football and received a truly epic beatdown
Sacré bleu! Did the French really think they could beat Americans in a game of American football? This week the U.S. faced off against France …
The ultimate Prime Day humiliation
Amazon’s Prime Day seemed to make the Internet go insane this week, as people both raged against Amazon trying to unload piles of useless junk …
Brace yourself: Netflix CEO says price increases are coming
Netflix is awesome but you’ll have to pay more for it in the future. Per The Guardian, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings this week told users to …
The Internet’s best Pluto memes, featuring Donald Trump, Miley Cyrus and more
Tuesday was a big celebration for space nerds everywhere, as NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft swung by Pluto and captured the clearest images we’ve ever seen …
Japanese hotel replaces all human workers with robots and the result is horrifying
I have seen the future and it is awful. The Associated Press, via The New York Post, has published a dispatch from the Henn na Hotel in …
ZTE just launched its Axon phone in the U.S. – and we’re giving one away for free
ZTE on Tuesday officially launched its amazing Axon smartphone in the U.S. and we’re giving one away for free! The device features 4K video, Hi-Fi audio, …
Video: The worst special effects in movie history
We can forgive sci-fi movies from the ’50s and ’60s for having terrible special effects. That said, once your get to the ’80s and ’90s, …
Prime Day was an excuse for Amazon to unload useless crap – and thanks to suckers, it was a massive success
Jeff Bezos is laughing all the way to the bank. Amazon announced on Wednesday afternoon that its first ever Prime Day was a smashing success …
Hurry! More great Amazon Prime Day tech deals just went live – get them while they last
There are a lot of good Prime Day deals and a lot of bad Prime Day deals. We’ve done our best to highlight the good …
Prime Day backlash: The Internet rages after Amazon tries to unload a bunch of junk
You can get some very good deals on Amazon today thanks to Prime Day — we’ve highlighted several of them here. That said, many of …
A huge number of Amazon Prime Day tech deals just went live – here are the details
Happy Prime Day, everyone! Throughout the day, Amazon is going to be offering a crazy number of discounts to Prime members and a major batch …
Ballmer’s record of being wrong about the future remains unblemished
Even though he hasn’t been the CEO of Microsoft for a while now, that hasn’t stopped Steve Ballmer from making incorrect predictions about the future …
Nexus 5 rumor: Benchmark hints it will be 2015’s Android phone to beat
We’re definitely filing this in the “rumor” category but it’s intriguing nonetheless. WCCF Tech has spotted an AnTuTu benchmark for the 2015 Nexus 5 and it …
Huge leak: Does this picture reveal Motorola’s entire 2015 smartphone lineup?
Well, well, well! A day after leaking one lonely picture of an unreleased 2015 Motorola device, Hellomotohk has posted a new leaked picture showing all four major …
#TrumpYourCat is the best thing on the Internet this week – here are the funniest pictures
The Internet loves cat pictures and it loves making fun of Donald Trump. Now many cat owners on the web are combining these two time-honored …
