Watch a robot prove humans are obsolete by performing the most difficult task known to man
One of the many reasons I’ve lived in the same apartment for five years is because the idea of having to deconstruct and then reconstruct …
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Anyone can use Amazon’s new Alexa Blueprints to create custom skills for Echo
Just hours after announcing that Amazon Prime has surpassed 100 million members, the e-commerce giant revealed a new way for Alexa users to build their …
Chrome’s new autoplay video blocker doesn’t really work, but this free extension does
When Google announced that the next Chrome update would introduce a feature that would block autoplay video, the internet was thrilled. Now that pop-ups are …
See Microsoft’s expressive new Xbox Avatars in action in leaked video
During its press conference at last year’s E3, Microsoft announced a complete overhaul for the Xbox Avatars that first made their debut in 2008 on …
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings is looking for excuses to raise prices again
After raising prices for the second times in two years last fall, Netflix was understandably cautious about its results for the first quarter in 2018. …
You can pick up a new MacBook Air for as little as $699 at Best Buy right now
Even as other brands cast a wider net with more affordable notebooks, Apple has held fast to its commitment to offer premium devices (and nothing …
Amazon and Best Buy are teaming up to sell Fire TV Edition smart TVs
Best Buy and Amazon announced on Wednesday that they will begin working together to sell the next generation of Fire TV Edition smart TVs in …
Watch the iPhone X and Galaxy S9+ go head-to-head in a battery life test
Unsurprisingly, no phones on the market are generating as much buzz as Samsung’s and Apple’s newest flagships: the Galaxy S9/S9+ and the iPhone X. Samsung …
Konami is developing a new ‘Castlevania’ game for iPhone
As traditional console and PC games continue to invade mobile app stores around the world, Konami announced this week that a new Castlevania game is …
Google responds to report that Android apps are illegally tracking children’s behavior
Not to be outdone by Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a political data firm potentially skimmed the private data of around 87 million users …
Apple’s upcoming new service might be the Netflix of news
Just over a month after Apple acquired digital magazine app Texture, Bloomberg reports that the company is planning to integrate the service into Apple News and …
Twitter.com is down for some users, so it’s time to panic until it comes back
UPDATE | 4/17 at 10:37 AM: Twitter is back up for now. Still no word from any official channels though. UPDATE | 4/17 at 10:09 …
New ‘Kingdom Hearts III’ trailer shows off retro minigames with Disney characters
There aren’t many game studios that can keep fans interested in an unreleased game for years on end, but Square Enix has made a habit …
Classic Sega games coming to Nintendo Switch starting this summer
We still have no idea when or if Nintendo will bring the Virtual Console to Switch, but some publishers aren’t waiting around for it. On …
Galaxy S9 tops iPhone X in the latest Consumer Reports smartphone ratings
This shouldn’t come as much of a surprise if you’ve kept up with Consumer Reports’ smartphone ratings over the past few years, but Samsung’s Galaxy …
Cheap live TV streaming service Philo is coming to Apple TV and Fire TV
Despite the sheer number of live TV streaming services that have sprung up over the past few years, there isn’t much variety between the content …
It looks like MoviePass just ruined its unlimited subscription service
After bouncing between a multitude of payment models throughout 2016, subscription-based movie ticketing service MoviePass finally struck gold last August when it lowered the price …
The 8 best free iPhone games of the week
The Masters might be over, but that didn’t stop us from including another golf game in this week’s roundup of free iOS games that were …
6 new movie trailers you need to watch from this past week
It was another slow week for movie trailers, but when a new Star Wars trailer drops, it’s hard to compete. We wrote about it earlier …
‘Sea of Thieves’ to receive three major content updates by the end of summer
Just three weeks after launch, you’d think that Sea of Thieves is already on life support based on all of the negative reviews, tweets and forum …
Moto G6, Moto G6 Plus and Moto G6 Play show up in new leaked renders
Following a flood of seemingly endless leaks, Lenovo will finally (officially) unveil the Moto G6 family of smartphones at an event in São Paulo, Brazil next …
Did the FCC just leak photos of a gold iPhone X?
Now that the red iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus have made their official debut, the next iPhone color option we expect to see is …
Gmail’s new design features ‘confidential mode’ to keep emails private
Gmail’s web client is set to receive one of its most substantial overhauls ever in the next few weeks, but Google has yet to publicly …
Hearthstone’s Witchwood expansion is live – log in now for three free packs
Hearthstone’s Year of the Raven has begun as the first expansion of 2018, The Witchwood, is now live. Revealed in March, The Witchwood contains 135 …
Hulu is cutting the price of HBO to $5 per month for a limited time
With Billions and Silicon Valley having just premiered with new seasons, Bill Hader’s Barry making waves in its debut season and Westworld set to return before the …
Destiny 2’s next expansion, Warmind, will be out in less than a month
Destiny 2 hasn’t had quite the shelf life of the original, swamped in controversy and battered by complaints from fans who were less than satisfied …
‘God of War’ review: Keeping it in the family
If anything, the God of War series has always been about complex familial relationships. After all, Greek mythology is dominated by stories of fathers killing …
New ransomware holds your files hostage until you play ‘PUBG’
As our ability to keep private data safe and secure online continues to be tested day in and day out, be it political data firms …
Spotify is updating its free music streaming tier to make it more like the paid tier
One of the ways that Spotify became the most popular music streaming app in the world was by opening up much of its service to …
The last day of Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony begins at 10AM – watch live right here
In a hearing that was scheduled to last two hours yesterday, Mark Zuckerberg ended up answering questions from the US Senate committee members for over …
