‘Vomit fraud’ is yet another reason to avoid Uber
Uber’s permanent damage control team, fresh off dealing with some industrial espionage, lawsuits, and a fatal self-driving car, have a fun new challenge: Vomit fraud. …
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Former Apple employee recounts the downside to Steve Jobs’ famed ‘reality distortion field’
One of Steve Jobs’ greatest talents was his ability to influence behavior and persuade people to buy into his own version of reality, an ability …
Google stock shot up 5 percent after pulverizing earnings expectations
Reacting to another monster quarter from Google parent Alphabet Inc., a CNBC analyst wondered out loud if the tech giant has become more powerful than …
Samsung accidentally just leaked the Galaxy Watch on its own website
Samsung is just weeks away from another big Unpacked event where it’s expected to unveil a new Galaxy Note 9 smartphone, and a brand-new Galaxy …
Google attempted to secretly settle the Android antitrust case with the EU in 2017
The European Union hit Google with a second monster fine. The new $5 billion penalty is almost double the $2.8 billion punishment Google received last …
The AT&T Time Warner merger will be back in court sooner than we expected
When Judge Richard Leon ruled in favor of AT&T’s merger with Time Warner last month, he explicitly warned the Department of Justice against seeking a …
Airbus just flew its incredibly bizarre BelugaXL for the first time, and it looks amazing
I have a bit of a thing for big, weird planes. The Super Guppy is one of my all-time favorite things ever, so when I …
NASA may have just caught a nearby star eating an entire planet
Planetary systems aren’t just born overnight. When stars form and begin pulling debris into their orbit, some of that material eventually clumps up into fledgling …
This could be another Cambridge Analytica for Facebook, not that anyone’s surprised
Well, here we go again. Facebook has suspended the Boston-based data analytics firm Crimson Hexagon from accessing its platform — a firm that, hoo boy, …
McDonald’s salads tainted with poop have now infected 163 people in 10 states
The entire concept of McDonald’s serving salad has always seemed wrong and unnatural, but now you have a health reason to only ever eat Big …
Ex-NASA engineer build’s world’s largest Super Soaker, and it’s ‘basically a bomb’
We’re right in the heart of summer, which means getting sprayed down with a water gun sounds like a pretty nice way to spend an …
Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Twitter actually want to make it easier for you to switch services
It was always harder than it needs to be for the average person to transfer, say, photos between Facebook and Google Photos, what with having …
The massive dust storm on Mars has completely changed how the planet looks
Remember that giant, planet-wide dust storm that sprung up on Mars in late May? Yeah, well, it’s still going on. Initially thought to be a …
I am bored of Verizon constantly sweeping the JD Power awards
Testing which wireless network is the “best” is not a simple process, as we’ve covered before. There’s a handful of different testing companies that use …
Microsoft is crushing it, topping $100 billion in annual revenue for the first time
Microsoft has transformed itself into a lean, mean, cash-generation machine. The release of fourth quarter earnings Thursday from the computing giant showed year-over-year gains in …
Tyrannosaurus rex was a big meanie, so this newly discovered dinosaur wore plenty of armor
Living in the Cretaceous period would have been pretty darn dangerous for pretty much any animal. Dinosaurs were out in full force, and massive carnivores …
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 …
New MacBook Pro keyboards get torture tested, can still be ruined by a grain of sand
Last week, in true Apple style, the company released a series of updates to the MacBook Pro lineup. We got new processors, support for Hey …
Here’s a behind-the-scenes look at how Amazon scrambled to handle traffic on Prime Day
Within 15 minutes of the kickoff of one of Amazon’s biggest sales days of the year, it was quickly apparent the e-commerce giant didn’t have …
Man catches shark, shark gets eaten by an even bigger fish, man does not catch shark
Fishing in the ocean can be a pretty interesting experience, especially when you accidentally hook a shark. That’s what happened to a fisherman aboard a …
Saturn’s moon Titan looks absolutely incredible in new infrared images
NASA’s Cassini orbiter is dead. It’s been dead since late last year, having completed an extended mission and a series of daring dives through Saturn’s …
The Curiosity rover finally found a rock too hard to crack, but it tried anyway
NASA’s Curiosity rover has been doing some fantastic work on Mars, and even though it had to basically reinvent how it uses its primary sampling …
Scientists find 99-million-year-old snake trapped in an amber tomb
If you were to travel back in time about 100 million years you’d see a whole lot of things that you can’t see today. Dinosaurs …
VR rivals like Oculus and Valve have a fix for that annoying tangle of headset cables
Several VR industry players like Oculus, Microsoft and Valve are part of a new industry consortium that’s getting behind a new USB-C cable standard that …
Eating dinner earlier could lower your risk of cancer, but scientists don’t know why
You already know a number of things that can reduce your chances of getting various types of cancer. Avoiding tobacco products is a biggie, as …
Maybe all these AI researchers Facebook wants to hire can fix its toxic News Feed
Facebook has found itself plenty bruised in the press and generally beaten up this week over its handling of content, its News Feed and the …
Watch the International Space Station poop out a tiny satellite that will search for matter
You might think of satellites as large, imposing spacecraft that cruise through Earth’s orbit like hulking beasts, but that couldn’t be farther from the truth. …
Let’s hope Uber’s new chief privacy officer lasts longer than the typical Uber exec
Uber has been in the headlines in recent years almost as much for what it’s done wrong — for privacy flaps like hackers snatching information …
This year’s iPhones might be the most durable yet, all thanks to Corning’s new Gorilla Glass
Since the very first iPhone, Apple has used specially-formulated Gorilla Glass from Corning, turning the niche glass manufacturer into a household name along the way. …
It looks like Samsung will release another new device next month alongside the Note 9
The internet has been buzzing over the Galaxy Note 9 for months now, but Samsung’s upcoming Unpacked event may have a few more hardware surprises …
