Sprint just made Jay-Z rich
Early this morning, slowly dying wireless carrier Sprint announced that it has bought a 33 percent stake in Tidal, Jay Z’s nearly-dead streaming music service. …
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Hugo Barra leaves Xiaomi, says China has ‘taken a huge toll on my life’
Smartphone startup Xiaomi began life as a peculiar beast. From within the safety of China, the company did all it could to copy every last detail of …
AT&T is losing cellphone customers, fast
AT&T is steaming ahead at full speed with its plan to merge with media company Time Warner. That’s probably a good thing for the company’s …
KFC is now using facial recognition to guess what you’ll like
Are your lunch choices dictated by your age and gender? KFC thinks they might be, so it’s going to use facial recognition technology to categorize …
Microsoft bombards Windows 10 users with popups for its bad Chrome extension
Every time it looks like Microsoft has learned its lesson, it goes out and finds an exciting new way to make people angry again. Just …
Apple hits Qualcomm with $1 billion lawsuit over patent royalties
Just days after the FTC declared that Qualcomm engaged in monopolistic practices by strong-arming Apple and other smartphone manufacturers into exclusive agreements, Apple announced it …
AT&T just raised activation and upgrade fees for the second time in 9 months
January 20th is Inauguration Day, and AT&T is making America great again by increasing the fees it charges customers to activate or upgrade their smartphones. Again. …
The company that crowdfunded a mind-reading headset for dogs finally admits it never worked
In 2013 a group called NSID (Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery) launched a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo for a canine wearable called No More …
Here are Trump’s first Presidential Tweets
Donald J. Trump is now President Donald J. Trump, and with great power comes control of the @POTUS Twitter handle. But so far, Trump has …
Amazon calls your bluff, creates virtual Dash buttons that serve no purpose
When Amazon launched its oh-so-tempting Dash buttons it was a revolutionary idea that made reordering items that you buy regularly as simple as pushing the …
How to watch Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration live online
By Friday afternoon, Donald Trump will officially have been sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Although the festivities began on Thursday, …
Scientists built an AI that is smarter than most adults
Computers can already hold a massive amount of instantly-retrievable data in a manner that puts most humans to shame, but getting them to actually display …
This smartphone accessory can diagnose cancer
The smartphone case you slap on the back of your mobile phone might protect it from bumps and scrapes, and maybe even give it a …
This video showing over 100 years of global warming will terrify you
We found out this week that 2016 was the hottest year ever recorded, further supporting the consensus that the Earth is getting gradually warmer due to human …
Top Apple engineer explains why he quit to go work at Tesla
Earlier this week, Tesla scored a huge coup when it announced the hiring of Chris Lattner, a widely respected Apple engineer who helped spearhead the …
Donald Trump provides Internet trolls free ammunition for inauguration speech-writing meme
President-elect Donald Trump will become the de facto next president of the United States this week. Fans and critics alike will surely watch his inauguration …
Here are all the musicians who refused to play at Trump’s inauguration
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration will be taking place Friday, January 20th in Washington, D.C., and Trump himself has already boasted about how fantastic the musical …
Samsung boss freed from jail as court dismisses arrest warrant
Samsung Group’s chief Jay Y. Lee was freed from jail after spending a night behind bars, as a South Korean court on Thursday decided to …
Scientists built an AI that is really, really good at ‘Ms. Pac-Man’
Retro games like Ms. Pac-Man were created to pit a computer opponent against a living, breathing human, but in recent years they’ve become fantastic testbeds …
Researchers prove that smartwatches know you’re sick even before you do
Smartwatches are normally touted for their ability to track our activity, count steps, and log our heart rate during a morning run, but the devices have …
These cracks on Mars are way more interesting than they look
If you’ve seen any photos from Mars rovers exploring the red planet you know that it’s basically a vast rocky landscape with very little going …
Vine is back as a 6-second camera app, and users are furious
Twitter’s micro video app Vine died an untimely death — or, if you never used it, a totally logical and appropriate death — late last …
How Trump’s interview with Tim Cook about US-made iPhones probably went
In an interview with Axios, President-Elect Trump apparently said that Apple CEO Tim Cook is open to building the iPhone in the US. This would …
Last year was the hottest year on record, again
The results are in: 2016 was the hottest year on record, marking the third year in a row that climate records have been broken. The …
Samsung boss Jay Y. Lee waiting in jail for arrest warrant decision
Earlier this week, special prosecutors asked a court in South Korea to grant an arrest warrant for Samsung’s chief Jay Y. Lee. The investigators are …
FTC alleges Qualcomm forced Apple into iPhone LTE chip deals
The Federal Trade Commission has reason to believe that Qualcomm abused its position in the broadband chip manufacturing business to obtain an advantage illegally. The …
Something in space is killing off entire galaxies
When we think about the survival of the human race we often focus on making sure our planet stays alive and habitable, but out there in …
Orlando nightclubs deploy radar technology to detect weapons
Some nightclubs in Orlando are looking to deploy radar-based weapons detection technology in the aftermath of last year’s deadly mass shooting at gay nightclub Pulse. …
Google’s Daydream View VR headset is only $49 right now
Google was one of the first companies to see the value in ultra-affordable VR, and the Google Cardboard sparked a whole subsection of virtual reality accessories …
This might be your last chance to preorder a Nintendo Switch
Somewhat unsurprisingly, Nintendo Switch preorders dried up within days of the live presentation in Japan on January 12th. The upcoming console is unavailable at Amazon, Best …
