Google cancels plans to build a self-driving car
Today, Google announced that it’s killing plans to build its own self-driving car. Instead, the car project is being spun out of Google into its …
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Comcast is hiking fees that shouldn’t exist in the first place
Death, taxes, and cable internet fees going up: the modern-day things that you can guarantee will always happen. As DSLReports has noted, Comcast will be increasing its …
Carriers announce the exact dates they plan to kill your Galaxy Note 7
The Galaxy Note 7 has burned people. It has burned cars. It has even burned down a man’s house. And of course, it has burned …
AT&T customers will get an unexpected refund on their next bill
Hell doesn’t appear to be freezing over and it’s definitely not April 1st, so I guess this story is actually true. More than 2.7 million …
Pebble is Kickstarter’s worst failure
The biggest problem with crowdfunding websites is trust. It’s a tricky proposition for companies to begin with: we have an idea; give us a bunch …
Get ready to hate Zynga all over again
Zynga — the once king of mobile gaming that nobody talks about anymore but which still makes hundreds of millions of dollars every year — …
App Store developers say app refunds are being abused, and Apple isn’t helping
As part of its App Store policy, Apple can choose to give refunds to customers who are unsatisfied with an app they download. It’s a …
‘Buckyballs’ magnets now available after ban is overturned
If you need a gift idea for the holiday season, you can now buy small, powerful, rare earth magnets known generally as Buckyballs. Once regulated …
The FCC thinks the best feature of AT&T’s new streaming TV plan is illegal
Ever since AT&T announced that it was launching a $35 TV plan with unlimited mobile streaming for AT&T customers, the FCC has been all over …
New AI-based digital assistant comes to… gas pumps
Cortana, Siri, Alexa, meet… Miles. Through February, the oil and gas giant BP is testing a new kind of pump technology at several gas stations …
Shopping on Amazon is about to get a lot more reliable
As America’s largest peddler of things online, Amazon is no stranger to controversy. It has had to deal with incentivized reviews, fake reviews, paid five-star …
Amazon deletes over 500,000 sketchy reviews in massive cleanup effort
Amazon has long had a problem with fake reviews, but an even bigger problem might be reviews of products that were received either for free …
Interview: CBS Digital gives us a behind-the-scenes look at how TV shows are made
If 2016 has provided a bumper crop of compelling TV content — in the form of everything from Westworld to all those Amazon and Netflix …
Get ready for your internet to get a whole lot worse
Earlier today, President-elect Donald Trump appointed two advisers to his transition team to oversee telecommunications policy. You could be forgiven for missing the news in …
Amazon is actually going to sell cars online
Amazon is the US’s largest online retailer, and there aren’t many things on this big blue sphere that you can’t buy through an Amazon checkout. Automobiles, …
Trump claims credit for saving Ford jobs that were never going to leave
Donald Trump loves Ford — or at least he loves to use Ford as a tool to make his point. Having already erroneously claimed that …
Apple might make the iPhone American again
Since inception, Apple’s products have born the phrase “Designed by Apple in Cupertino.” But the products themselves are generally assembled in China to Apple’s specs. …
Russia has now officially blocked LinkedIn
As Microsoft works toward completing its $26 billion acquisition of popular business networking site LinkedIn, it looks like the company will inherit something of a problem …
‘Uber for doctors’ wants to change the way we heal
The road to the husband-and-wife team of Nick Desai and Dr. Renee Dua landing a $26.9 million Series A funding round for their Santa Monica-based …
US Navy denies software piracy in $596 million lawsuit
In response to a $596 million lawsuit, the U.S. Navy has denied that it pirated copies of a tech company’s virtual reality software on more …
How Donald Trump’s tax plan might save Apple billions of dollars
Over the past few years, Apple’s cash hoard has swelled to near unthinkable levels. Per the company’s most recent earnings report, Apple now has more than …
The best feature of AT&T’s new $35 TV subscription might be illegal
AT&T is trying to change cable TV forever. Starting sometime this month, AT&T will offer an internet-only subscription TV package, with upwards of 100 channels …
President Trump could be really bad news for T-Mobile
While all of the country is coming to terms with what happened last night, T-Mobile CEO John Legere has reason to be feeling particularly woozy. You …
The new MacBook Pro is selling like crazy
Apple’s new MacBook Pro didn’t get the best reception when it was launched, thanks to a price hike and a rather courageous selection of new …
Entire nation sues to reduce Apple’s tax bill
Tomorrow, Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan will file an appeal against Apple’s $14.4 billion tax bill in European court. But Ireland isn’t fighting to get back …
Evidence suggests Apple is working on the biggest mobile game-changer since the original iPhone
Apple hasn’t yet managed to keep up with iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus demand, suggesting that the company’s new iPhones are a hit. In …
Solid report says Galaxy S8 may be delayed
After Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 quickly became an absolute disaster, the last thing the company wants to do is release its next-generation flagship phone when the …
Analysts have no idea if smartwatches are dying or not
Gather round children, for I have a tale of two analytics companies. One says that smartwatch shipments plummeted by over 50 percent last year, while …
Meaningless survey claims some Note 7 owners have switched to iPhone, sky also blue
A survey from IDC hit the inboxes of tech journalists nationwide this afternoon. It was meant to assess the damage to Samsung’s brand following the Note …
Explained: Why Netflix doesn’t want to be included in Apple’s TV app
It was hardly the star of the show during Apple’s big Mac event on Thursday, but the company announced a brand new app called “TV.” …
