Consumer Reports launches special campaign to call out Comcast’s hidden fees
Hidden fees are a depressingly standard part of having a cable or internet subscription in 2018. When AT&T was spotted tripling its “administrative fee” for …
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Robots are coming for the stuntmen’s jobs next
It’s already a lame joke/terrifyingly possible dystopia that robots will have taken all our jobs by 2040, but we often assume that a handful of …
Dodge leans into climate change with Challenger that drinks a tank of gas in 11 minutes
Over the last decade, electric vehicles have gone from the butt of a bad joke to some of the highest-performance production cars that money can …
Verizon is finally putting its terrible streaming service out to pasture
Traditional cable companies are struggling mightily with the transition to cord-cutting, but no company seems to be struggling more than Verizon. The telecoevery ms giant …
AT&T’s $15 streaming service is now live, but is it worth it?
Earlier this month, AT&T finally took the wraps off its long-teased skinny streaming bundle, called AT&T Watch. The service isn’t pretending to be a replacelment …
Comcast internet, cable, and phone services are down nationwide
Comcast residential and business customers from coast to coast are experiencing a loss of service on Friday afternoon. The outage affects internet, cable, and voice …
Reddit correctly guessed that Overwatch’s newest hero is a mech-piloting killer hamster
Fresh from wrapping up Overwatch‘s massive anniversary event and releasing a huge new patch on the live servers, Blizzard has fired up the old social media …
Tech companies lay the groundwork for staggeringly huge 128TB SD cards
The base amount of flash storage in most decent laptops these days is 128GB. Smartphones normally start at 16GB and go all the way up …
Watch former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure trash his own company for 5 sad minutes
Yesterday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere and now-former Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure went before the Senate subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights to make a …
Test shows how much the iOS 12 public beta can speed up an older iPhone
When Apple announced iOS 12 at its developer conference earlier this month, there was an unusual lack of new features to show off. This year, …
Tesla just made the Model 3 cheaper, despite burning record amounts of cash
Tesla is currently in one of those make-or-break years, a time that will be represented in the eventual Musk biopic by tense music overtop of …
Report: Increased hidden fees are making AT&T $800 million in new profit
The gratuitous imposition of “administration fees” that have no resemblance to reality is one of the many things that make Americans hate their internet companies, …
Verizon’s new MVNO keeps insisting it’s not an MVNO
Earlier this year, it emerged that Verizon is very stealthily funding a company called Visible, which is offering a slightly different kind of wireless service. …
Boost Mobile founder explains exactly why the T-Mobile-Sprint merger rationale is full of crap
Earlier this year, T-Mobile and Sprint finally ended years of awkward flirting and made their union official. If regulators sign off, the US’s two smallest …
I think Blizzard just fixed ‘Overwatch’
Overwatch is doing remarkably well for a two-year-old multiplayer game that relies on people being civil to strangers online. It recently hit 40 million users, new …
Elon Musk founded his own school and children who attend will end up geniuses or psychopaths
Elon Musk, a man whose companies are alternately burning billions of dollars while changing the world and sending stuff into space in the coolest possible way, …
Uber wins court battle to keep operating in London
Uber has overcome a ban on operating in London, its biggest and most lucrative European market. The firm lost its license to operate in the …
Hell is this giant, proprietary Microsoft Surface USB-C dongle
If the state of a society can be gleaned from its luxury technology, then nothing sums up the unbridled consumerism quite like this $80 dongle, …
The first public beta of iOS 12 is available to download right now
Breaking with its hallowed 1PM ET release schedule, Apple has just pushed the first public beta of iOS 12 live. That means anyone without a …
AT&T wireless employees used shady tactics to drive streaming TV subscription sales
Thanks to AT&T’s successful merger with Time Warner, your favorite wireless company certainly isn’t just a wireless company any more. AT&T has fingers in more …
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 arrives at the FCC a month ahead of schedule
Thanks to all the leaks, rumors, renders we’ve seen, plus the fact that we can count to nine, it’s obvious that the release date for …
Volvo is making a true ‘Autopilot’ that’ll let you eat, sleep, or watch movies – coming in 3 years
Self-driving cars have gone from DARPA project to roaming our streets much faster than anyone predicted, but if you bring the topic up with a …
Police are arresting tourists for taking selfies with Hawaii’s Mt. Kilauea eruption
You know how it goes: you’re on holiday on Hawaii, on the same island as an ongoing volcanic eruption, but rather than following the lava …
This is why Sprint’s upload speeds are so much worse than everyone else
Sprint, to put it kindly, doesn’t have the best mobile network. Although it’s winning “most improved” stickers faster than anyone else, its network is still …
Apple admits MacBook ‘sticky’ keyboard problem, will fix broken machines and give refunds
After months of stonewalling an unhappy owner base, Apple has finally chosen 5PM on a Friday to acknowledge an issue with some MacBook and MacBook …
This $10-a-month plan isn’t ‘unlimited’ – but that doesn’t mean it sucks
Earlier this year, popular prepaid wireless company FreedomPop teased a new super-cheap cell brand it was about to launch, called Unreal Mobile. The unique selling …
Google’s new Account Hub is something every tech giant should copy
Google has rolled out an update to the Google Account Hub on Android, centralizing information about your data, privacy, security, and recurring payments in one …
AT&T Watch is here: $15 for 30 channels, but no HBO
After teasing it heavily for the last few weeks, AT&T has finally taken the wraps off its new $15-a-month streaming service, AT&T Watch. For a …
Apple, Samsung, and LG back plans to replace car keys with smartphones
Thanks to contactless payments and mobile wallets, smartphones are already making a bid to replace physical credit cards — and, one day, your driver’s license. …
MoviePass is losing money faster than ever
MoviePass, the subscription service that lets you watch unlimited movies in theaters for less than a Netflix subscription, lost $40 million in the month of …
