Mark Zuckerberg is totally fine with you being the product
In an extensive look at how Facebook wants to help people in emerging markets access the Internet (and turn them into Facebook users) with help of …
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Electric companies should be terrified of Elon Musk’s revolutionary batteries
Although oil prices have been plummeting recently, the future of energy is likely still from renewable sources such as solar power, if only because they …
Dozens of execs fired or demoted this week after Samsung’s profit plummeted 60%
Samsung’s third quarter was nothing short of a disaster. Pressure at the high end of the smartphone market from Apple and at the low end …
We’re hiring!
It seems like just yesterday that BGR launched as a small spin-off from a sporadic column on Engadget, but we celebrated our eighth anniversary earlier this …
Mark Zuckerberg is yet another person who doesn’t understand Apple
As you’ve probably read by now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took some shots at Apple in an interview with Time where he defended his company’s …
Watch this incredible footage of NASA’s Orion spacecraft launch
NASA took a big step toward bringing people to Mars this week, although it will still likely be at least another 20 years before we …
You absolutely must check out these hilarious new Moto 360 commercials
Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch is one of the most exciting Android Wear devices available in stores, and the company released four new short ads this week …
iPhone 6 sneaks into Yahoo’s top 10 searches of 2014
As has become the trend, celebrities dominated the charts in Yahoo’s yearly ranking of top searches for 2014. Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus are unsurprising …
Amazon CEO inadvertently explains why even the Fire Phone was a better idea than Windows 8
Amazon’s Fire Phone is without a doubt this year’s biggest mobile flop but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t too worried about it. The reason, he …
Great deal: Get 97% off Spotify Premium for three months
Is there anything worse than when an awesome Spotify playlist is interrupted by an annoying commercial? Yes, plenty of things are worse, but it’s still …
Woz dispels one of the biggest myths about the early days of Apple
As far as early Apple lore goes, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak working furiously to build the first Apple I in Jobs’ tiny garage in …
South Park hilariously rips into PewDiePie and YouTube gaming commentary
It’s 2014. We ingest our games differently than we did ten years ago. Rather than reading a review, buying a game and playing that game from …
Video: Target manager quotes Lord of the Rings in the most epic Black Friday pep talk ever
Working in retail can be a pretty taxing job at times, which is why having a manager with a good-natured sense of humor can be …
After 7 years, Apple admits to forcefully removing music from iPods without users’ knowledge
Apple is on trial this month, having to defend against allegations that it broke antitrust laws and stifled competition in the music players and downloads …
Huge coalition forms to kill the Comcast-TWC merger for good
The merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable has never been popular and now a major coalition has formed to finally drive a stake through …
How viral video ‘Gangnam Style’ broke YouTube
Psy’s Gangnam Style music video is the most viewed YouTube video ever, breaking various records along the way. But the viral video also caused some …
Google’s brilliant solution to one of the Internet’s most annoying problems
If there’s one thing more annoying than overly complex password requirements, it’s barely legible captcha puzzles that websites use to determine whether or not we’re …
Jimmy Iovine tells the real story of how he convinced Apple to buy Beats
Apple’s decision to shell out $3 billion for Beats was one of the year’s most surprising deals, largely because Apple normally concentrates on smaller acquisitions …
AT&T wants to know why a town is building a 1Gbps network when it already offers 6Mbps DSL
Why is one bandwidth-hungry town building its own 1Gbps fiber network for its citizens when AT&T already offers them 6Mbps DSL? That’s the question AT&T …
Hundreds of deals still available in Amazon’s massive Cyber Week sale
Black Friday 2014 is long gone and Cyber Monday is behind us as well. Both of these major American shopping events brought record sales for retailers …
This is how unbelievably gorgeous Google.com would look with a Material Design makeover
The look of Google’s new Material Design is regularly praised by users and tech bloggers alike. In fact, we can’t remember the last time a …
One of Microsoft’s only mobile partners gives up, says nobody can make money with Windows Phone
Following the launch of the original iPhone in 2007 and Android in 2008, Microsoft found itself painfully behind the times with its mobile operating system, …
Walmart is still launching thousands of new Cyber Week deals – everything you need to know
Walmart on Tuesday announced that its 2014 Cyber Monday sales event was the company’s biggest online day in its history for orders. The company also …
The single best way to deal with awful Facebook trolls we’ve ever seen
Dealing with trolls is just a something you have to deal with when you’re online but there are times when they go far beyond the …
Google is ready to help you track Santa this Christmas
With a few weeks to go until Christmas, Google has put up its online Santa Tracker tool, offering users various tools to keep them entertained while …
Video: Watch Amazon’s little helpers get your orders ready for Christmas
Amazon, which already offered users a wide variety of deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, on Sunday announced more details about its eighth-generation fulfillment centers, …
This is the closest you’ll get to using the Apple Watch this year
As much as big consumer electronics companies would like you to think smart watches are already the next big thing, consumers haven’t really shown much …
The coolest thing you’ll see today: Animated GIFs explain how speakers make sound
Where would the web be without GIFs? People would need to distract themselves from school, work and life in general with annoying things like useful …
Here are some essential tricks all holiday shoppers should know
Black Friday and Cyber Week offer a great deal of savings but they’re also a time of potential peril as retailers will come up with …
Former Googler who helped build Google+ says he has no idea why Google+ exists
It’s nearly 2015, and I’m still not sure any of us know exactly what we’re supposed to be doing with Google+. The increasingly invasive social …
