How Snapchat and Facebook’s billionaires are changing rules to keep power forever
As part of the papers filed for its IPO yesterday, Snpachat’s parent company Snap revealed the ownership and power structure that the company will use …
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Apple is destroying Samsung where it really matters
There’s no end in sight to the war between Apple and Samsung. In all likelihood, competition between the two will be healthier than ever this …
Words cannot do this 37.5-inch gaming monitor justice
When I was but a wee child, I remember my parents having an argument over a new living-room TV. My mom thought the 32-inch Samsung …
Samsung is taking no chances with the Galaxy S8’s battery
Samsung’s otherwise-excellent Galaxy Note 7 was ruined by badly planned and improperly manufactured batteries. Although Samsung’s battery supplier wasn’t completely to blame, Samsung is taking …
Time Warner Cable ‘deliberately defrauded’ customers, New York State lawsuit says
On Wednesday, New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman filed a lawsuit in the state’s Supreme Court against Time Warner Cable and its new parent company, …
Instagram is finally adding one of its most-requested features
In the latest beta version of Instagram for Android, everyone’s favorite selfie app has revealed a major upcoming change: the ability to add multiple photos …
This is why T-Mobile is everyone’s favorite wireless carrier
The results are in, again. According to Nielsen Mobile Insights, which is comfortably the largest survey of cellphone customers,, T-Mobile has the best customer satisfaction, …
Leaked LG G6 prototype confirms every detail we thought we knew
LG’s new flagship smartphone isn’t set to launch until later this month in Barcelona, but that hasn’t stopped the internet from ruining LG’s surprise. We’ve …
Your cable company just won a major battle, thanks to Trump
We knew that the incoming administration would mean changes in the FCC, and probably not of the consumer-friendly time. But new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has …
Trump and Apple are on a dangerous collision course
Early Tuesday morning, the Financial Times published an interview with President Trump’s top trade adviser, Peter Navarro. The interview touched on a range of subjects — actually, …
Walmart’s going to war with Amazon with free 2-day shipping for everyone
The fight between Walmart and Amazon for control of the nation’s internet shopping habit isn’t going to be over any time soon. But Walmart is …
Apple could finally have broken its losing streak with the iPhone 7
Apple’s financial results have been bad for the past year, with revenue down for three straight quarters. For a company where increasing growth is normally …
Sprint hopes this $50 unlimited data deal can bribe you onto its network
Sprint has announced a temporary sale on its unlimited talk, text and data plan. For the next four days, new subscribers can get the plan for …
You can already jailbreak iOS 10.2
For every new update Apple puts out, there’s a small and intrepid team of hackers out on the internet trying to break Apple’s security. Running …
Leak suggests the LG G6 will be like every other boring smartphone
There’s not a lot of originality going around the smartphone industry in the last few years. Now that we’ve collectively settled on rounded corners and …
T-Mobile changes customer’s name to ‘IDIOT IDIOT’ after billing dispute
Customer service is a hard job. You deal with all sorts of people who’ve taken the mantra “THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT’ to heart, and …
Verizon might merge with Charter, which is terrifying for anyone with an internet connection
According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, Verizon is considering a takeover of Charter, which itself recently completely a takeover of Time Warner Cable. …
VPN apps actually make it easier to track users, study finds
The simplest weapon that users have to fight data collection, whether by the NSA or Facebook, is a Virtual Private Network (VPN). A VPN encrypts …
Facebook is copying Snapchat’s best-known feature
Life imitates art, Facebook imitates Snapchat. For Zuckerberg’s website, captivating fickle millennials is a life-or-death fight, and what millennials seem to really be into right …
One of iOS’s best features is coming to MacBooks
When Apple introduced Night Shift in iOS 9.3, it rapidly gained a cult following of people who like their phone screens a little more yellow …
Go get a NES Classic at GameStop right now
NES Classic consoles are slowly starting to trickle back into stores, and GameStop is the latest chain to get a new shipment of consoles. According …
T-Mobile employees share horror stories of lies and bill cramming in ‘wild outlaw’ stores
Former T-Mobile employees and managers have contacted BGR to confirm a previously rumored scandal: that across the country, certain unscrupulous T-Mobile sales reps lie to customers and …
You can try Android’s best new feature right now
The best feature announced at Google I/O last year — and honestly, one of a few genuinely new improvements baked into Android in the last …
The NES Classic is back in stock at a bunch of Target stores right now
The NES Classic has been permanently out of stock ever since it first launched last November. Nintendo has been hustling to increase production to meet …
Apple’s new MacBook Pro is on its best sale ever
One of the bigger disappointments from Apple last year was the lack of a follow-up to the MacBook Air. Apple told fans that the cheapest, …
Sprint just made Jay-Z rich
Early this morning, slowly dying wireless carrier Sprint announced that it has bought a 33 percent stake in Tidal, Jay Z’s nearly-dead streaming music service. …
AT&T is losing cellphone customers, fast
AT&T is steaming ahead at full speed with its plan to merge with media company Time Warner. That’s probably a good thing for the company’s …
Here are Trump’s first Presidential Tweets
Donald J. Trump is now President Donald J. Trump, and with great power comes control of the @POTUS Twitter handle. But so far, Trump has …
iPhone leaks could be over as Apple partner builds secretive new factory in China
For years, the Apple rumormill has subsisted for the months before an iPhone launch solely on blurry photos of prototype components smuggled out of Chinese …
Tesla quietly released the longest-range electric car in the world
In the tech industry, it’s common practice to send out an embargoed press release when releasing anything more exciting than a bug fix. But in …
