The worst-case scenario for Apple’s iPhone 7
What if the iPhone 7 is boring? What if everything we’ve heard and seen so far paints a near-complete picture of everything Apple has planned …
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VW hopes a Tesla-style ‘Gigafactory’ will help us forget about the lying and cheating
VW is having some “public relations issues,” a delicate way of saying that the automaker lied to the federal government and thousands of customers about emissions. …
Apple won’t be allowed to sell used iPhones in India
Apple recently made a commitment to have a presence in India for the “next thousand years.” But the first month isn’t going well — Apple …
Why Jeff Bezos’s space company is going to deliberately crash a spaceship
Space is hard, and space is even harder when you take away all the parachutes. But that’s exactly what Blue Origin, the pet space company …
Facebook will now track you even if you’re not a Facebook user
It’s official: there’s nowhere to hide. Companies like Facebook and Google are happy to offer you their services for free, but free always has a cost …
Believe it or not, everyone still hates cable companies and ISPs
We probably didn’t need a survey to confirm this, but the 10,000 consumers polled for the 2016 Temkin Experience Ratings agree that TV and internet service providers …
The iPhone 7 might actually be in trouble
For a long time, Apple’s secrecy was legendary. The company managed to keep secrets under wraps better than any other consumer electronics company in the world. …
Things aren’t looking good for the Xbox One as PS4 sales top 40 million
This console generation is unlike any that has come before it. Last cycle’s Xbox 360 from Microsoft and PlayStation 3 from Sony were neck and neck …
The precise details of how airlines are gouging you for money
Running an airline is a surprisingly unprofitable business, considering that the model does revolve around charging people many hundreds of dollars to sit in a …
Google’s Paris HQ raided in tax fraud, money laundering investigation
Google’s headquarters in Paris were raided by French tax officials and law enforcement on Tuesday morning as part of an investigation over alleged tax fraud. The …
Facebook denies manipulating trending news, but changes its policies anyway
Facebook said in an official response to US Senator John Thune that it has found no wrongdoing following an internet investigation into allegations that the social …
Whatever you do, don’t buy these smartphones
There is nothing in consumer tech right now that’s as hot as the smartphone market, even as it nears saturation in many regions, and the …
Right now, Lyft is cheaper than the subway in NYC
Uber and Lyft have made taking a car to get around a surprisingly affordable method of transportation. But right now, the rivalry between the two is …
While no one was looking, Chromebooks became surprisingly popular
For me, Chromebooks have always existed like flossing: I’m aware of it as a concept, and I know it’s a big part of some people’s …
Noted Apple critic Donald Trump secretly holds $1 million in stock
Donald Trump spent a large part of February bashing Apple over its battle with the FBI, and called for a boycott of Apple “until such time …
T-Mobile just made its Binge On unlimited video streaming even better
T-Mobile’s Binge On service is a handy loophole that lets you stream video from select services without it counting against your data cap. Big players …
Comcast is using a lame excuse to avoid competition for cable boxes
Cable boxes are one of the biggest money sucks in pay TV (and when we’re talking about an industry that charges you money to watch …
A closer look at why Apple just made a $1 billion investment in Uber’s Chinese rival
Apple last week made a surprise announcement when it confirmed that it had made a $1 billion investment in Didi Chuxing, a ride sharing company in …
Did Tesla use cheap labor for factory expansion? Elon Musk promises to investigate
Tesla is moving at breakneck speeds these days. In fact, there’s so much on Tesla’s plate that it can sometimes be tough to keep track …
Waze is testing a ridesharing program to take on Uber
Uber always calls its car-on-demand service “ridesharing,” mostly as a way to get around accusations of running an illegal taxi service. But what if an …
Captain America: Civil War pushes Marvel past $10 billion at the box office
Marvel’s latest superhero adventure is on pace to be one of the studio’s biggest to date, having now racked up more than $940 million globally …
To make the iPhone exciting again, Apple has to launch… an Android phone?
It’s time to make Apple great again! We have arrived at an interesting chapter in the story that is Apple. Sure the company is still pulling in far …
45,000 people are demanding that Netflix do something it definitely won’t do
Netflix is one of the most universally adored services out there. Where as most companies have as many outspoken critics as they do fans, heaps …
ISPs’ latest dirty trick is removing data caps if you pay for TV
Cable companies that have long milked cable subscriptions for profit are worried about how they’re going to replace that cash among new generations of cable-cutters. …
How Apple’s iPhone slump could cause more problems in the future
Apple’s recent decline in iPhone sales is bad news for more than just shareholders. A report in the WSJ details the losses being suffered by some of …
The Pirate Bay will be losing its iconic web address
For as long as I can remember, thepiratebay.se has been the place to go for illegal torrents. But a ruling handed down by Sweden’s court of …
HBO is abusing copyright to take ‘Game of Thrones’ fan videos off YouTube
HBO owns Game of Thrones, the most pirated TV show in existence. So it’s no surprise that it’s going to liberally use DMCA copyright law to …
Creative rises from the dead to try and destroy Android
Do you remember Creative? In the early 2000s, the company had a brief period of being cool, as its Zen MP3 players were the anti-establishment …
The U.S. Senate wants to know if Facebook has been messing with trending news
Yesterday, a Gizmodo report alleged that Facebook’s human curators had been manipulating the trending news section to kill conservative stories — allegations that Facebook carefully didn’t deny …
PayPal will no longer protect you from Kickstarter campaigns that fall apart
You might want to think twice before you find another crowdfunding project with your PayPal account. Starting on June 25th, PayPal is updating its User …
