T-Mobile’s latest smartphone deal is one of the best yet
T-Mobile will do just about anything to lure customers away from the other three carriers. As of today, that extends to giving away Samsung Galaxy …
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Britain’s health network hit by major hacking attack
The UK’s National Health Service appears to have suffered a major hacking attack. Ransomware, a form of virus that encrypts personal files and then demands …
Facebook is ‘crushing’ Snapchat, according to Wall Street
When Snap Inc hit the public stock market in March, it was just the latest in a long list of booming tech IPOs. Two months …
Verizon wins vicious bidding war for major 5G spectrum company
Verizon announced today that it is acquiring Straight Path Communications, a major holder of 5G spectrum licenses, for $3.1 billion. That’s a little unexpected, because …
Famed Apple fanboy says ‘Apple no longer the most innovative company’
Walter Isaacson, a noted admirer of Apple and author of Steve Jobs’s official biography, is officially over Apple. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Alley, Isaacson expressed …
Sprint announces vague plans for 5G in 2019, assuming it lasts that long
Sprint is struggling to find its place in the US wireless industry right now. Its network has been hit by years of under-investment to be …
Snapchat shares fall 25% after bad earnings
Snap, the parent company of renowned selfie app Snapchat, just reported its first set of earnings as a public company. The news was not good, …
The Galaxy S8’s red tint fix is rolling out to AT&T customers
Ever since Samsung launched the Galaxy S8, we’ve been hearing complaints about a red tint to the screen. Samsung acknowledged the problem, but luckily it’s …
This is how Samsung will stop the Galaxy Note7R from exploding.
Fingers crossed it’s third time lucky for Samsung. The phone maker has started quietly producing a refurbished version of its ill-fated Note 7 handset, and …
Check your carrier’s roaming coverage for any country with this comparison
Most good cell contracts now include some kind of roaming coverage for when you travel. But it’s rarely as simple as you’d like, and coverage can …
Yes, you can actually get worse cell service than Sprint
Poor Sprint gets a lot of bad press for being the worst of the big four wireless carriers. Compared to Verizon and T-Mobile, it has …
T-Mobile quietly killed one of its longest-running promos
Back in 2013, T-Mobile started a promo to give cellular iPads a lifetime of free service. Buy an LTE iPad from T-Mobile, and the network …
Let’s hope Comcast and Charter don’t make a wireless network
A report in the Wall Street Journal says that Charter and Comcast are teaming up to make some kind of play in the wireless market. Before you …
Amazon’s ugly touchscreen Echo might be launched tomorrow
Last week, a grainy photo of a 1990s Skymall teleconference device started doing the rounds. According to the site that leaked it, the thing is …
Apple is now worth $800 billion for the first time ever
Freshman economics students will tell you that something is only “worth” whatever other people are willing to pay for it. In the case of Apple …
Go watch the new ‘Blade Runner: 2049’ trailer right now
Blade Runner is finally getting a sequel, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably nervous that Hollywood is about to ruin one of the best …
Apple TV may finally get Amazon Video this summer
The Apple TV is a well-rounded set-top streaming machine, provided you don’t need access to Amazon Video. The competitive rivalry between the two companies has …
The Galaxy Note 7 is about to be released for the third time
After the initial launch of the Galaxy Note 7 went up in flames, Samsung recalled all the phones, “fixed” them, and put the Note 7 …
Apple isn’t as rich as it seems
As part of its earnings announcement this week, Apple revealed that it’s sitting on $258 billion of cash, mostly overseas. That’s more than the GDP …
Galaxy S8 ‘sapphire’ screen protector outed as plastic crap
For a little while, sapphire screens (or at least rumors of them) were all the rage. Sapphire is far harder than even the special Gorilla …
The Google Docs attack took over a million Gmail accounts in an hour
Yesterday, a phishing attack appeared out of nowhere to infect the inboxes of people across the world. The attack relied on a weakness in Google’s …
Tim Cook will spend 0.39% of Apple’s cash to keep Donald Trump happy
In a CNBC interview this evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that Apple will start a $1 billion fund to “promote advanced manufacturing jobs in the United …
How to fix the Google Docs scam if you’ve already been hacked
There’s an incredibly dangerous Google Docs phishing scam sweeping through the internet today. It uses Google’s own Apps system to compromise email accounts, so thousands …
Everything you need to know about 5G
Yesterday, T-Mobile CEO John Legere published one of his trademarked video announcements. In between some choice words about AT&T, Legere said that T-Mobile is planning …
This sophisticated phishing scam has the entire internet terrified
A dangerous email phishing scam is doing the rounds today. Employees at multiple organizations that use Google for email, as well as thousands of personal …
Hulu’s live TV service is here: $40 for 50 channels
2017 is already a good year for cord-cutters, and things are getting a little better starting today. Hulu just announced a “public beta” of its …
The security Apple uses to prevent iPhone leaks is just crazy
Last month, NYU grad student Dejian Zeng gave us an inside look at what it’s like inside an iPhone manufacturing plant. The world inside the …
This is the stupidest thing on Microsoft’s new laptop
Microsoft has a new laptop. It’s called the Surface Laptop, and it appears to do many things well. It’s basically a spiritual successor to the …
The fix for the Galaxy S8’s screen problem has finally reached the US
Since launch, we’ve been hearing complaints about a red tint on the screens of the Samsung Galaxy S8. It was the kind of problem that …
Asus C302 review: A $500 MacBook for everyone
What makes the perfect “everyday” computer? You probably have a different definition of the ideal day-to-day laptop than me, but I’m willing to be there’s …
