San Bernardino tragedy showed us how terrible Twitter has become
Around 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning, U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook and Pakistan national Tashfeen Mali allegedly stormed a room and opened fire on attendees of a holiday …
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Amazon’s hottest deals of the day include giant HDTVs and an insanely powerful WiFi router
Amazon’s Black Friday 2015 and Cyber Monday 2015 sales are said to have handily topped any of the retailer’s rivals, and it’s no wonder. Amazon was …
8 best Cyber Week sales you can still shop
The country is finally starting to catch its breath after the crazy Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping period. Retailers went all out this year and offered …
Samsung will finally pay Apple more than half a billion dollars for copying the iPhone
Nearly five years after Samsung was found guilty in a California court of copying certain aspects of Apple’s iPhone and iPad without permission, the South …
Researchers attack cancer cells with liquid metal ‘nano-terminators’
If you’ve ever read Ray Kurzweil’s books, you know that he envisions a future in which benevolent little nanobots flow through our bodies attacking malicious …
Hubble spots faintest galaxy from early universe
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescope have found what they believe is the faintest object ever seen in the early universe, a galaxy …
Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don’t leave space exploration up to private companies
Neil deGrasse Tyson was not among those of you unreservedly cheering the implications of Jeff Bezos’s tweet last week announcing that the Amazon founder’s private …
Amazon’s 10 best Cyber Week deals of the day include a drone, big HDTVs and more
Reports over the past couple of days have estimated that Amazon completely crushed the competition when it comes to Cyber Monday sales, and it’s easy …
Man films himself stealing a Porsche, then gets found trapped inside after crashing it
It’s always fun writing about stupid criminals as long as they don’t kill or seriously injure anyone. And The Guardian brings us the delightful story of a …
10 best HDTV deals available at Walmart for Cyber Week
After more than two solid weeks of nonstop deals coverage, Cyber Week 2015 is finally coming to a close. This Friday will signal the end …
What happens to your body when you stay awake for 72 straight hours straight
Back in college, I remember staying up for over 30 hours straight during finals week in a naive, misguided and ultimately foolish attempt to maximize …
Verizon is giving customers free Star Wars-themed Google Cardboard VR viewers
As 2015 comes to a close, we find ourselves looking ahead to the new year and all the technology it’s sure to bring. At the …
The absolute worst ads of 2015
It’s actually been a reasonably decent year for ads, as there hasn’t been anything as godawful as 2013’s creepy Galaxy Gear ad or Sprint’s tragicomic …
The LA City Council just confirmed everyone’s worst fears about license plate data collection
Everyone remember the film Minority Report that revolved around people with psychic abilities who used their powers predict crimes so that cops could arrest perpetrators before they could commit …
How Hitler failed to assassinate Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill in one single hit
Everyone knows that the Allies tried to kill Adolf Hitler, but the Nazi leader managed to escape virtually unharmed in one almost-successful attempts. What’s not that …
Privacy groups say Google has rigged Chromebooks to track students
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission on Tuesday alleging that Google is collecting student data from Chromebooks used …
Amazon’s 12 best Cyber Week deals of the day for Wednesday
Cyber Week continues, and the deals being offered by various retailers across the web aren’t getting any less attractive. In fact, waiting to do some of …
Watch a makeshift tank survive a terrifying EF-4 tornado
Our fascination with terrifying storms might come to an end one day, but today is not that day. Thanks to nostalgic Imgur user CaineArgentin, we were …
Walmart’s best Cyber Week deals for Wednesday, December 2nd
As we work our way through Cyber Week 2015, new deals are becoming increasingly difficult to find. Although this shouldn’t come as much of a …
Can you really get a Linksys Wireless N Wi-Fi router for $14?
When some people set up their home Wi-Fi networks, they spend thousands on top-of-the-line gear that will beam full-strength Wi-Fi signal to every nook and …
Watch someone use Netflix on a 100+ inch HDTV that appears out of thin air
While Microsoft’s HoloLens won’t start shipping to developers until early next year — and it’ll be a costly $3,000 when it does — the augmented …
The cynical math behind Comcast’s data caps
I’ve observed in the past that Comcast’s data caps look specifically designed to discourage cord cutting and the revelations that Comcast has created its own IP …
Mark Zuckerberg and wife promise daughter to donate 99% of Facebook shares to charity
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Pricilla Chan vowed to donate 99% of their Facebook shares during their lifetime to charitable projects that will be managed …
We wish these hilarious Black Friday ads were real
Black Friday has come and gone and Cyber Monday is already on a year-long hiatus. Suffice it to say, the last few days have been exciting …
Christmas might be ruining your home Internet service
There are many possible explanations of why you’re currently having problems with your home Wi-Fi connection, including a rather unexpected one: Your Christmas lights.
‘Hoverboard’ catches fire, ruins home while charging
Marty McFly would not approve of this item. Lafitte, LA resident Jessica Horne and her 12-year-old son were in for a surprise last week when …
What it’s like inside an Amazon warehouse on Cyber Monday
Unless you have far more self-control than the vast majority of Americans, there’s a good chance that you bought something on Amazon at some point in …
Target’s Cyber Week deals of the day for Tuesday, December 1st
After weeks of endless ads, commercials and articles leading up to Black Friday 2015, the most notorious shopping day of the year is finally over. …
Viral video shows how to crack a Master Lock using a $10 tool you can buy anywhere
Executives at Master Lock can’t be happy with some of the videos that have gone viral on YouTube this year. Earlier this year, I wrote …
Is Apple working on its own version of Microsoft’s incredible HoloLens project?
We’re used to seeing plenty of Apple patents that describe all sorts of technologies and services that might be someday used in future iPhone, iPad, …
