Fitbit shares got crushed by the Apple Watch Series 4 announcement
Poor Fitbit. The company’s stock price took a 7 percent hit after Apple unveiled its new health-focused and feature-packed Watch Series 4 Wednesday during the …
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Facebook is using a meme-sniffing AI to hunt down offensive posts
Policing hate speech and offensive content on a platform as large as Facebook is a big challenge. Filtering for nasty words and phrases is simple …
Your brain is noise-cancelling
When you’re shopping for a new pair of headphones one of the best features to have is noise-cancelling technology. Drowning out the random noises around …
Watch live streaming video of Hurricane Florence rolling into North Carolina
Hurricane Florence, after weeks of warnings, has finally begun to touch down in the Carolinas on Thursday afternoon. This is just the beginning of what …
The iPhone XR just killed the Pixel 3 and every other 2018 Android flagship
When the iPhone X arrived last year with its all-screen design, sophisticated Face ID authentication, and a mobile processor faster than anything the competition could …
NASA has a new, foldable heat shield, and it could be part of a manned Mars mission
A manned mission to Mars is (very) slowly coming together for the folks at NASA. There’s a lot of incredibly specific planning that goes into …
The only 8 surprises from Apple’s big iPhone XS event
For Apple fans, the wait for yesterday’s big press conference seemed like it was going to last an eternity. Details surrounding Apple’s next-generation iPhone XS, …
Stephen Colbert perfectly skewers NASA’s new plan to embrace advertising
NASA has a pretty big problem on its hands. The group wants to do amazing new things, like travel to Mars, but those things cost …
Some Amazon drivers are going to extremes like peeing in bottles to make deliveries on time
Neither rain nor snow nor the absence of a bathroom facility will apparently stop Amazon drivers from their appointed rounds. With apologies to our vamp …
Some doctors worry the new Apple Watch health features will freak us all out, WebMD-style
Apple trotted out cardiologist Ivor Benjamin, who’s also the president of the American Heart Association, during today’s product showcase at the Steve Jobs Theatre to …
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a scary look at Hurricane Florence
Hurricane Florence continues its march towards the East Coast of the United States today, and astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a birds-eye view …
An early human mutation helped our species become great long-distant runners
Humans aren’t the fastest animals on the planet, so you might not think the fact that we can run is anything special. There are, after …
The 5 most important announcements from Apple’s iPhone Xs event
The wait this year was particularly excruciating, but Apple’s big “fall event” is finally behind us. Why was it so excruciating? Because details surrounding Apple’s …
Apple announces Watch Series 4, complete with a larger display and new design
Today at Apple’s highly-anticipated iPhone reveal event the company managed to take a bit of time away from talking about updates to its top-selling smartphone …
Here’s what bothers me most about the ending of ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
Next April can’t come soon enough if you’re a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Marvel’s brilliant cliffhanger in Infinity War made sure that fans will …
Apple event 2018 live stream: How to watch Apple’s big iPhone Xs event
Apple celebrated the tenth anniversary of the iPhone last year with the launch of its most controversial phone to date: the iPhone X. With its …
Apple leaks new 40mm and 44mm Apple Watch sizes ahead of today’s event
With just hours to go before its latest hardware reveal event, Apple has seemingly spoiled every surprise that it had left by updating files on …
Last-minute leak is our first-ever live look at the new Apple Watch Series 4 design
The day Apple fans around the world have been waiting for has finally arrived as the company prepares to host its big September event later …
Samsung is launching an LTE-powered tracker this week to help you stop misplacing things
Samsung is launching an LTE-powered GPS tracking device at the end of the week that you can attach to anything from a backpack to keys …
Apple is opening a glam new store in Paris on one of the swankiest streets in the world
The Champs-Elysées is a famed avenue in Paris that’s home to cafes, theatres, super-luxe shops — and, soon, a new flagship retail store from Apple. Apple …
The CDC is begging people to get vaccinated so that flu season isn’t as bad as it was last year
As we hang on to the very last days of summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) wants people to keep the upcoming …
If Netflix cut your bill by $3 – but started showing ads – tons of you would still cancel
Netflix, if you’re listening — there are more warning signs that your current dalliance with the ads that you’re not really referring to as ads …
Arizona might slap a huge fine on Google over location tracking practice
A bombshell report from The Associated Press a few weeks ago, which explained how Google stores location data from some of its services when people …
T-Mobile Sprint merger review delayed by FCC
T-Mobile’s merger with Sprint has been cruising through the regulatory process with few hiccups thus far, but news from the FCC makes it sound like …
It looks like Amazon is leaning towards Washington DC for HQ2, based on a ton of clues
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is set to headline a meeting on Thursday of The Economic Club of Washington DC, a city that just so happens …
Verizon’s ‘5G’ home broadband will launch October 1st, cost $50
The 5G hype machine has been pumping out hot air for the last two years, but with promised launch dates just months away, we’re just …
Obesity might actually make you dumber, new study says
Being significantly overweight comes with plenty of well-documented health problems already. From the risk of injury due to stressed joints to type 2 diabetes, obesity …
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory won an Emmy for Cassini’s grand finale
When NASA’s Cassini spacecraft made its fateful dive into Saturn’s atmosphere roughly a year ago it was a historic moment for astronomy and a bittersweet …
Scientists hear dozens of mysterious radio signals beaming through space
Gazing into space with a high-powered telescope can produce some pretty impressive findings. Scientists regularly discover the presence of far-off worlds by staring at distant …
These creepy new fish species from the bottom of the ocean will give you nightmares
Most of the Earth is covered in oceans, and yet scientists actually know fairly little about the creatures that live at the most extreme depths. …
