Apple may be sending a message to Hollywood with its new one-of-a-kind L.A. store
Apple has finally confirmed its long-rumored plans to build a store and event space inside a shuttered Los Angeles movie palace in the city’s Broadway …
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Almond milk recalled for containing actual milk
HP Hood, the company that produces the Vanilla Almond Breeze that is definitely not milk, has issued a recall of some half-gallon cartons as they’re …
Google Maps dumps its flat view of the Earth for a fully 3D globe
Google has been on a roll with new features for its Maps service this week, from matching users to restaurants that they might like to …
Kevin McCallister could have put this new Alexa skill to good use in ‘Home Alone’
A would-be burglar creeps up on a house that looks like a tempting target, only to find — darn, it’s not empty. He listens closer …
Poop-tained McDonald’s salads have now made 395 people in 15 states sick
The number of people affected by an outbreak of disease caused by tainted McDonald’s salad has now grown to 395, according to the Center for Disease Control …
Manned space flight is coming back to the US, and these NASA astronauts will fly the first missions
After a years-long hiatus, manned space flight is coming back to the US, thanks to two private space companies. Boeing and SpaceX are both scheduled …
Tim Cook sent a memo to his employees when Apple hit $1 trillion – read it here
On February 5th, 1996, the cover of Businessweek magazine read “THE FALL OF AN AMERICAN ICON,” with the iconic Apple logo perched atop the foreboding …
Pretending the exploding Galaxy Note 7 never existed is the saddest thing I’ve seen all year
Samsung just leaked a Galaxy Note 9 promo video that shows the new phone and highlights some of its best features, including the fact that …
New report explains how AT&T and Verizon profit from DSL internet customers twice
Living with slow home internet is a punishment that courts would likely rule cruel and unusual, assuming the victims ever get a consistent enough signal …
Would you be able to turn off this cute robot if it gave you puppy-dog eyes?
A group of scientists asks participants in a study to perform a simple task. Switch off Nao, the cute, human-like robot in front of you. …
Research report claims that Apple’s HomePod now has a 6% share of the smart speaker market
Apple’s HomePod debuted to rave reviews, but it seems that the device — which sells for $349 — is simply too expensive to make much …
Lenovo’s Google-powered smart display launched last week, but it already has a rival
All at once, it seems like, Google Assistant-powered smart displays are starting to hit the market after JBL, Lenovo and LG all announced earlier this …
Canada’s new radio telescope just picked up a strange signal from deep space
Canada’s shiny new radio telescope is up and running, and it just heard something very, very odd coming from deep space. The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity …
Science says there’s a good reason why humans use ‘baby talk’ on infants
You’ve probably never given a second thought to why people tend to use “baby talk” when speaking to small children. Babies are cute and so …
Apple breaks stock market record by closing with market cap over $1 trillion
Earlier today, Apple’s stock price briefly hit the magic number, which in this case was $207.05 per share. According to most estimates, that put Apple’s …
T-Mobile has a very confusing take on what makes the ‘best’ network
Working out which wireless network is the best is, as we’ve covered here extensively before, not a simple thing to do. There’s a bunch of …
Steve Jobs fanboys probably shouldn’t race to buy this memoir from his eldest daughter
“Nope. Sorry, kid.” That was Steve Jobs’ dismissive reply to his eldest daughter Lisa Brennan-Jobs, the child of Steve and his high school girlfriend Chrisann Brennan, …
Astronomers now have a formula for finding planets that are perfect for life
One of the biggest challenges for astronomers searching for habitable exoplanets is trying to match up newly-discovered worlds with the increasingly long list of criteria …
Boeing’s Starliner has been delayed again, because of course it has
Another day, another news story that makes it seem like NASA is never actually going to send astronauts back into space. The administration has been …
Apple becomes the first company with a $1 trillion valuation
Hot on the heels of a stellar earnings report that saw Apple post an astounding $53.3 billion in quarterly revenue, the Cupertino-based company has since …
Leak in latest iOS 12 beta shows us Apple’s new iPad Pro design
For as hard as Apple works to prevent third-parties from releasing information about upcoming products, some of the biggest Apple product leaks we’ve seen in …
Cavalier Maverick review: Everything the Amazon Echo should be
Amazon invented the smart speaker market out of thin air when it first launched the Amazon Echo. Since Alexa first found her way into kitchens …
Even Apple is jumping on the cord cutting train
Cord-cutting, as we’ve said endless times before, is happening faster than anyone could have anticipated. Every quarter brings another round of dismal news for cable …
Google’s new Search app: Designed and censored in California, made for China
It’s good that Google’s famous “Don’t be evil” motto isn’t an official motto anymore, because Google is about to do a bunch of evil in …
Scientists discovered a completely new shape hiding in our cells
Science news is filled with fresh discoveries of all kinds of things. It seems like every day there’s a new dinosaur, planet, or ancient creature …
Boy has huge chunk of his brain removed, and he’s doing better than ever
The brain is the most important organ in your body. It holds everything that makes you who you are, and tampering with it is generally …
Reddit discloses ‘serious’ security breach it discovered on June 19th
Reddit has disclosed a security incident it’s described as a “serious attack,” which it has been investigating for more than a month which the company says …
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory wants you to build your own ‘ROV-E’ rover
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory does a lot of work with rovers. The group works tirelessly to keep tabs on all kinds of NASA hardware, including …
NASA watches the raging California wildfires from space, and here’s what they look like
NASA has a whole bunch of fancy cameras floating around in Earth’s orbit and many of them are peering outwards into the depths of space, …
Google efficiently mocks both Macs and PCs in one Chromebook ad
In a first for Google’s Chromebook division, the company took a massive hit at its main rivals, Apple and Microsoft, in an ad that mocks …
