YouTube ‘prankster’ delivers bomb threat to university, seems surprised when cops arrest him
From the first day that YouTube made it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a bank account to upload and monetize videos, “comedians” with …
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Shocker: Hulu’s cheap cable alternative is incredibly popular
In the last year, cable streaming alternatives have become about as popular as you’d expect, given that they’re much cheaper and far more convenient than …
AT&T in talks to settle old allegations about ‘deceptive’ unlimited plans
AT&T is in talks with the Federal Trade Commission to settle a 2014 complaint that the company offered “deceptive” unlimited data plans to consumers, according …
AT&T teases $15-a-month streaming service, but only if the Time Warner merger happens
While giving testimony as part of the court case where AT&T is attempting to prove it should be allowed to merge with Time Warner, AT&T …
Insider report says Galaxy Note 9 has been delayed due to a design change
The Galaxy S9 that Samsung launched earlier this year was the opposite of a surprise. Samsung chose to not copy the iPhone X’s notch design, …
Apple vs Google is officially the 21st century Coke vs Pepsi
When marketing professors used to teach about the value of branding, Coke and Pepsi were the classic examples. You have a very similar product that, …
Yep, it looks like those leaked Pixel 3 XL designs are the real deal
Earlier this week, we got our first glimpse at what Google might have cooking for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, thanks to a …
The LG G7 isn’t even on sale yet, but T-Mobile already has a buy-one-get-one-free deal
Pre-orders for the LG G7 ThinQ — yes, writing that name hurt me as much as it hurt you to read it — will be …
Galaxy S10 ‘confirmed’ to be Samsung’s first phone with an in-display fingerprint sensor
The internet spent the better part of last year trying to work out if Apple would pull off a magic trick and release the first …
Another Autopiloted Tesla crashed into another stationary emergency vehicle
A Tesla Model S with the Autopilot driver assist engaged crashed into a stationary police vehicle in Laguna Beach, California, earlier today according to the …
How to delete everything Alexa ever recorded in your house
A story last week revealed something that should have been obvious from the very moment that Amazon released the first Echo: Putting a cloud-connected always-recording …
iOS 11.4 is available right now: Here are the features worth upgrading for
As we expected, iOS 11.4 is available to download right now. Anyone running iOS 11 on their iPhone or iPad should see the update available …
iOS 11.4 arrives at 1PM ET today, adding features the HomePod should have had at launch
When Apple’s slightly-delayed HomePod launched at the beginning of the year, it did so without multi-room controls or stereo pairing, two features that are table …
This $200-off Galaxy S9 deal is worth getting a Costco membership for
There’s a big problem with most of the smartphone deals that carriers offer: They come with a huge commitment. Almost every carrier smartphone deal has …
You only have a few hours left to get a heavily discounted MacBook
Apple is potentially days away from announcing a new fleet of MacBooks, which from one perspective makes this a terrible time to buy a new …
The iPhone X is way more durable than the iPhone 7 and it’s not even close
My iPhone 7, by all accounts, led a pampered life. I got it in September 2016, and it lived eight short months in one of …
How to check if Alexa or Google Assistant is secretly recording you
Last week, we learned a little more about the very human flaws of Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant. One couple in Portland, OR, discovered that their …
Amazon Alexa recording ‘bug’ shows how little we actually know about our smart home gadgets
Yesterday, the news cycle worked overtime to first bring us the story of how an Amazon Echo secretly sent recordings of a couple’s conversations to …
RAM trucks, Jeep SUVs among 5 million recalled Fiat-Chrysler vehicles
Fiat Chrysler has announced a recall of 4.8 million vehicles in the United States alone, based on a concern that they could get stuck in …
Tesla on Autopilot accelerated into fire truck at 60mph but at least the driver only broke his ankle
Earlier this month, a Tesla in Utah crashed into a stopped fire truck at 60mph. The story got plenty of attention from the media, which …
Google just dethroned Amazon in the smart speaker wars
Amazon invented the market for smart speakers when it first launched the Echo, and unsurprisingly, it has dominated the market ever since. Even the HomePod, …
Bitcoin price manipulation under investigation by the Justice Department
The US Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into price manipulation of popular cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, according to a report from Bloomberg. The investigation appears …
Samsung ordered to pay Apple $539 million after an entirely too-long legal battle
A jury has determined that Samsung must pay Apple $539 million for infringing Apple’s intellectual property with the sale of Android devices in 2010 and …
Amazon Echo bug recorded a couple’s private conversations and sent them to a friend
We’ve welcomed smart speakers into our homes with the kind of enthusiasm you don’t normally see around always-on listening devices, because from the very beginning, …
T-Mobile tool let literally anyone with your phone number find your full address
An unsecured T-Mobile tool potentially gave access to millions of customers’ details to anyone with a URL and a phone number, according to ZDNet. The bug …
Does Sprint actually think it can charge $42 more than everyone else for the LG G7?
LG’s latest flagship, the abominably-named G7 ThinQ, goes up for preorder today and tomorrow. As always, the bulk of sales are likely to be through …
Uber’s self-driving car saw pedestrian before fatal crash, but was programmed not to brake
The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report from the investigation into the fatal collision between an Uber self-driving vehicle and a pedestrian …
Cord cutting is crushing pay TV, and it’s glorious
Forgive me if you’ve heard this before, but cable companies just had another dismal quarter of subscriber losses. The top five publicly traded cable companies …
This new $15-a-month ‘unlimited’ plan is probably too good to be true
In the world of wireless, “unlimited” has been abused and misaligned until it basically means “any data plan that doesn’t charge you extra when you …
Acer’s new Chromebooks are the cheap MacBook alternative we’ve all been waiting for
Chromebooks have a bad stigma of being super-cheap laptops for students, useful for pounding out documents or surviving in a classroom, but not for “real” …
