Stop telling yourself you’re good at texting and driving
Distracted driving has been widely recognized to kill thousands of people every year, but despite the numbers, people don’t really seem to get the message. …
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Uber is fixing its terrible wages by getting drivers to schill phone chargers during your ride
The question of how much take-home income Uber drivers actually make is a tricky one, to say the least. While Uber does put out some …
Amazon’s website went down just as Prime Day 2018 kicked off
As you’ve no doubt heard, today is the beginning of Amazon’s 36-hour Prime Day deals bacchanal, an occasion that’s supposed to be a glorious celebration …
YouTube TV is offering a week of free service in return for ruining the World Cup
During the incredibly tense England vs Croatia World Cup semi-final earlier this week, cable streaming alternative YouTube TV messed up in a big way. The …
Apple Store thieves made off with $27,000 worth of iPhones, MacBooks and more
Surveillance video of a robbery on Saturday morning shows a group of men snagging dozens of items worth tens of thousands of dollars at the Fresno …
PayPal just demanded payment from a dead woman
PayPal has never had a reputation for being a particularly upstanding organization to deal with, but its latest public misstep shows that there is nothing …
Photos show what happens when a Lamborghini crashes into parked Honda Civic
A bizarre accident over the weekend saw a pricey Lamborghini Huracan get wedged underneath a Honda Civic. While the trusty and reliable Honda Civic appeared …
How your smart TV is spying on every other gadget in your home
Smart-home gadgets are quietly sweeping through homes across the United States. Whether it’s a Google Home on your kitchen counter, an internet-connected door lock, or …
The Thanos subreddit is going to ban half of all users to achieve karmic balance
OK, it’s been months since Avengers: Infinity War came out, so you’ve lost all rights to a spoiler-free life. Half of the universe is wiped out when …
Funko is starting a breakfast cereal line so we can all feel like kids again
After turning basically every pop culture figure and character you can think of into a collectible, now breakfast cereal is next in line to get …
Consumer Reports launches special campaign to call out Comcast’s hidden fees
Hidden fees are a depressingly standard part of having a cable or internet subscription in 2018. When AT&T was spotted tripling its “administrative fee” for …
Elon Musk founded his own school and children who attend will end up geniuses or psychopaths
Elon Musk, a man whose companies are alternately burning billions of dollars while changing the world and sending stuff into space in the coolest possible way, …
Amazon Prime savings will be available at all Whole Foods stores beginning Wednesday
Amazon’s annual Prime Day shopping event takes place each year in mid-July, which means we’re probably now less than one month away from Prime 2018. …
Amazon and Microsoft are under serious pressure to kill surveillance contracts with ICE
Donald Trump rescinded the order to separate migrant children from their parents at the border, a mess his administration caused in the first place, but …
Man dies after testing ‘stab-proof vest’ by stabbing himself
In an incredibly bizarre case that serves as a reminder not to believe everything you hear, a man from England has died after testing what …
McDonald’s is ditching plastic straws because none of us can be trusted with them
Well, nice job humans, now you’ve gone and done it. Mankind has a serious problem keeping its waste to itself, and we’ve seen so many …
Elon Musk wins improbably cheap bid to dig a tunnel through Chicago
Elon Musk’s Boring Company, an organization that I’m still partially sure is a front for Musk’s doomsday bunker, has won a bid to create an …
Morbidly obese VW bus will serve free hot dogs in NYC all summer
Nobody feels like they’ve made a particularly great life decision after chowing down on a street hotdog, but lots of us do it anyway. That …
JetSmarter announces that it will open up booking options to non-members for the first time
JetSmarter has only been around for a few years, but the company — which bills itself as an Uber for private jets — has enjoyed …
Amazon just gave Prime members even better deals at Whole Foods
Since buying Whole Foods last year, Amazon has been working aggressively to get as many of its million of Prime members to shop in-store as …
3-D printed houses are going from hype to habitable in the Netherlands
Although we’ve seen concepts and demonstrations of 3-D printed concrete houses in the past, there’s a giant gulf between building one structure as a demonstration, …
Don’t live in the South if you like good internet
Checking whether your new home has coverage from a good internet provider is one of the cardinal rules of buying a house these days. But …
Uber and Lyft scooters are coming soon to San Francisco streets
Earlier this week, Uber launched its electric bike-sharing program in Berlin, Germany, in a move that shows the ride-sharing company isn’t just about cars. It’s …
Soldier steals ‘tank-like’ armored transport, leads police on surprisingly speedy chase
Running from the police is a bad idea regardless of whether you’re on foot or in a vehicle, but a member of the Virginia Army …
An Uber driver shot and killed his rider after an altercation in the car
An Uber driver shot and killed a passenger while the two were in the vehicle on Interstate 25 early Friday morning. According to Denver7 News, …
YouTube ‘prankster’ delivers bomb threat to university, seems surprised when cops arrest him
From the first day that YouTube made it easy for anyone with a smartphone and a bank account to upload and monetize videos, “comedians” with …
‘PUBG’ studio sues ‘Fortnite’ creator for copying its smash hit game
Korean game developer PUBG Corp., the studio behind popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (aka PUBG) is suing the Korean arm of Epic Games, the …
Amazon Alexa recording ‘bug’ shows how little we actually know about our smart home gadgets
Yesterday, the news cycle worked overtime to first bring us the story of how an Amazon Echo secretly sent recordings of a couple’s conversations to …
Tattoo artist misspells child’s name, prompting parents to rename their kid
People get tattoos for all kinds of different reasons, but getting the names of your children tastefully tattooed on your body has become a common …
A week with Jaguar’s $92,000 F-Type
I’ve never been much of a classic car guy, but there are a few classics I can’t help but love. Shelby Cobras from the mid-1960s …
