New ‘House of Cards’ trailer, or today’s White House press briefing?
Life imitating art is all well and good, but this new House of Cards trailer hits a little too close to home.
Articles by Chris Mills
Blue Sadie headphones review: premium audio at a premium price
Blue, a company known for their microphones and recording equipment, has rolled out a new line of premium headphones. The prices go from $250 to $700, …
Chrome adds support for a newer GIF-killing format
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New Mac malware has an evil way of taking over your entire computer
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How hard is Apple’s stock going to crash?
Another day, another analyst shouting BUY BUY BUY on Apple’s stock, based on the upcoming iPhone 8 launch. This week, Credit Suisse analyst Kulbinder Garcha raised …
Razer just made the perfect mouse for normal people
Razer made its name making keyboards and headsets for people who stay up all night shouting at their mortal CS:Go enemies. But since then, the company’s moved …
Get ready for all the wireless carriers to get worse
The last couple months have seen a welcome change in the wireless industry. Instead of massively confusing bills and data caps, we’ve had prices slashed …
Samsung should sell this stunning clear-backed Galaxy S8
For decades, ostentatious supercar makers have stuck panels of clear glass over the engines, all so that you can show off V8 engineering prowess to …
Verizon wins a network test that isn’t about speed
Normally, Verizon wins tests and comparisons based on its network coverage and only its network coverage. But to mix things up a little, Tom’s Guide decided to …
T-Mobile’s new rural network could be live by the end of the year
The worst thing about T-Mobile has long been the one thing that’s out of its control: the network. T-Mobile’s network relies almost entirely on mid-band …
Consumer Reports downgrades the Tesla Model S for dumb, stupid reasons
Consumer Reports, an independent testing agency that also likes generating headlines, has downgraded its rating of the new Tesla Model S. It’s now at at …
New leak shuts down the worst iPhone 8 rumor and hints at wireless charging
Over the past few weeks, we’ve heard troubling rumors that Apple is thinking about putting a Touch ID sensor on the back of the iPhone …
Amazon’s $200 selfie cam will tell you you’re pretty
As part of its ongoing attempts to cut human interaction out of our lives, Amazon has released a new addition to the Alexa product line. …
A few lucky cities will get AT&T’s 5G network by the end of the year
I still can’t get a good LTE signal in my kitchen, but that’s not stopping the wireless networks fearlessly powering into the future. AT&T has …
Why a delayed iPhone 8 launch would make sense
For the last seven or eight years, Apple has followed a boring and predictable pattern. Every fall, a series of Apple execs are wheeled on …
The iPhone 8 will destroy the Galaxy S8, if this leaked benchmark is true
We already know that the big mobile battle of the year is going to be the iPhone 8 versus the Galaxy S8. You can have …
Tesla’s ambitious Model 3 plan relies on a risky manufacturing technology
It’s crunch time for Tesla. Ever since announcing its ambitious plan to deliver hundreds of thousands of Model 3 cars faster than analysts said was …
Comcast knows you’ll pay anything for good Wi-Fi
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T-Mobile keeps growing like crazy
T-Mobile’s results for the first three months of 2017 are out, and it’s good news for anyone wearing a magenta onesie. The company is once …
Does Donald Trump actually know where Mars is?
Earlier today, President Trump took time out of his busy schedule to video-call the American astronauts aboard the International Space Station. In between comments on …
Tesla is doubling the size of its charging network
The biggest complaint about electric cars has always been that there’s nowhere to juice up. Well, that excuse just died if you own a Tesla. …
I’ve run my laptop all week off this giant external battery
Technically, I could have spent all of this past week living off-grid. For the past week, I’ve charged every electronic gadget I own off a …
Leaked document spills the details of Microsoft’s Chromebook alternative
Chromebooks are very quietly taking the computer world by storm. First, they came for the classrooms, using absurdly low per-device prices and Google’s free Office …
The best plans for your new Galaxy S8
The most wonderful of the time of the year, as it happens, is this morning. Not only is it Friday, but it’s also launch day …
Someone rendered that leaked iPhone 8 design, and it looks even worse than we thought
We’ve seen leaks and heard rumors that suggest Apple could put the Touch ID sensor on the back of the iPhone 8. Someone’s now taken …
Trump’s big cybersecurity plan still doesn’t exist
One of Donald Trump’s many campaign promises was to sort out the nation’s cybersecurity. Securing government and the private sector against money-seeking hackers and state-sponsored …
Here’s the real reason Samsung forces you to use Bixby
On the new Galaxy S8, Samsung debuted a brand-new intelligent assistant, called Bixby. It’s the same kind of smart AI that we’ve all come to …
Verizon is losing customers like crazy, even with unlimited data plans
In the first six weeks of 2017, Verizon Wireless lost 398,000 on-contract wireless customers. Considering that analysts expected Verizon to add nearly 250,000 customers in the …
Why the iPhone 7S could be better than the iPhone 8
We’ve still got months until Apple even prints the invites for the iPhone 8 event, but rumors are starting to mount. The new flagship iPhone, …
Tesla driver walks away from a 500-foot crash down a hill
A Tesla driver in California last week was left astounded but unhurt after swerving off the road in his Model S and rolling 500 feet …
