Bitcoin prices are tumbling again
Bitcoin has once again fallen below the $9,000 mark as a bad 24 hours of news sent speculative investors scurrying back to their fiat currencies. …
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Verizon’s secret new unlimited plan is so good you need an invite
Thanks to competitive pressure from T-Mobile (pre-merger T-Mobile, that is), all four major carriers in the US now have unlimited plans. Sure, they’re expensive and …
SpaceX just successfully landed its most powerful rocket yet
By now, SpaceX landing one of its Falcon 9 rockets (or even landing two, for that matter) is barely worthy of a headline. But late …
Why is it so difficult to make a smart speaker that looks good?
Apple’s HomePod had a notably mediocre reception to the world of smart speakers, thanks to a too-high pricetag, lack of basic features like multi-room pairing, …
Boston Dynamics releases more videos of the last thing you’ll see when the robots rise
Boston Dynamics, the Massachusetts-based company that builds increasingly sophisticated robots that enjoy opening doors, has released two more videos of its robots doing very clever …
Apple might launch a credit card to help you pay off that $1,000 iPhone
Apple is planning to launch an Apple Pay-branded credit card with Wall Street titan Goldman Sachs, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The …
Battery packs are for so much more than charging phones these days
Battery packs are as ubiquitous as they are cheap. The top-rated battery pack section on Amazon is one of the most hotly-contested on the entire …
Overwatch League finals are coming to NYC
Given the resources Blizzard has thrown at it, it’s no real surprise that Overwatch League has had a rapturously successful first season. With playoffs just …
Windows File Explorer is finally getting a dark mode, and you can try it right now
Dark themes are about the most popular software modification to make to any operating system, and software companies are finally taking note and enabling dark …
Here are all the things Google Assistant now does that Amazon Alexa can’t
Amazon started the current trend of voice assistants when it launched the Amazon Echo four years ago. But the first-mover advantage doesn’t last all that …
Uber makes more empty promises at its annual flying car summit
For the second time in as many years, Uber has gathered a thousand people in Los Angeles for the Elevate Summit, an event that “brings …
MoviePass is rapidly running out of cash to support its incredible deal
MoviePass, the subscription movie theater service that is far too good to be true, is rapidly running out of money. According to a filing from …
This is one of the best MacBook Pro sales we’ve ever seen
The MacBook Pro is, despite all my jesting, a very good laptop. If someone gave me one (and a small mountain of dongles) I would …
Google Maps is getting the coolest new feature since turn-by-turn directions
Google is adding some massive new features to Google Maps, the biggest being the addition of augmented reality directions to help with walking directions. If …
Starting this month, Gmail will write your emails for you
Google’s I/O 2018 developer conference just kicked off, but Google is already announcing small additions to some of its core products. Gmail just received a …
Report: Self-driving Uber detected pedestrian before fatal collision, but chose to ignore her
In the wake of a self-driving Uber fatally colliding with a pedestrian in Tempe, Arizona in March, other autonomous vehicle companies were quick to point …
Volvo’s new cars will come with the Google Assistant and Maps, even if you have an iPhone
The original iPhone is more than a decade old at this point, which means that even car companies are starting to catch up on the …
The 5 biggest announcements from Microsoft’s Build event
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella just wrapped up the keynote at the company’s big developer conference, Microsoft BUILD. This year, the keynote was a wild ride …
Verizon’s new iPhone BOGO deal has shockingly little fine print
Verizon has a new buy-one-get-one free deal on the iPhone 8, Samsung Galaxy S9, Pixel 2, and Moto Z2 Force. If you’ve already moved your …
Apple just broke another record on its way to becoming the first trillion-dollar company
Apple’s stock opened at a record high on Monday morning, thanks to a general stock-market rally and some kind words from Warren Buffett last week. …
AT&T accidentally blocked Cloudflare’s privacy DNS service
Last month, internet performance company Cloudflare announced a “privacy-first” alternative to the domain-name servers that are normally controlled by your internet service provider. By changing …
This is what Google’s new music streaming service might look like
Google has a complicated relationship with music streaming. On the face of it, Google Play Music is a viable streaming alternative to Spotify or Apple …
Jilted investor hits the world’s third-biggest cryptocurrency with a wild lawsuit
Cryptocurrencies, the savior of the world’s financial system or a “noxious poison,” depending on who you talk to, are woefully good targets for fraud. The …
Verizon ‘doesn’t care’ about the Sprint T-Mobile merger
If you listen to what T-Mobile CEO John Legere has been saying about the T-Mobile Sprint merger, Verizon and AT&T should be running scared. “Even …
Tesla isn’t the only one struggling to manufacture cheap electric cars
Unless you have studiously avoided the internet for the last 12 months, you’ve probably run into the dispute over Tesla’s production of the cheap-and-cheerful Model …
Charter’s wireless service might arrive next month, and the price sounds right
We’ve known for a while that Charter is planning on launching a new wireless service, using a mixture of Wi-Fi hotspots and Verizon’s network, but …
Every Twitter user needs to change their password because someone messed up real bad
Twitter is advising all 330 million users to change their account passwords after a bug logged them in plain text. Although Twitter doesn’t believe that …
The statistic Tesla has been using for Autopilot safety is virtually meaningless
In January last year, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration published a report that seemingly gave the seal of approval to Tesla’s Autopilot system. “The …
Overwatch players rejoice: Hanzo’s Scatter arrow is officially dead
Nearly two years since Overwatch first came out, its most-hated skill is finally being killed. Hanzo’s scatter arrow is no more, deservedly ripped from existence …
Google Assistant just just took a big step toward catching up with Alexa in the smart home
If you’re the kind of person who has filled up his or her home with an internet-connected security system and color-changing light bulbs that at …
