This is how far you have to go to stop Facebook from learning you’re pregnant
If you’re pregnant and you don’t want to be subjected to countless ads reminding you of your pregnancy, then you may want to avoid using …
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Amazon’s same-day delivery service expands to three more cities
Amazon’s push to get packages to your doorstep as quickly as possible continues as Dallas, San Francisco and Los Angeles have been added to the list …
Watch this haunting footage of a Japanese ghost town abandoned in the wake of Fukushima
The effects of the disastrous tsunami in Japan that caused a catastrophic failure at the Fukushima nuclear power plant are still being felt to this very …
Here’s the latest major update on Google’s possible Fiber expansion
Earlier this year, Google announced that it was looking at expanding its Fiber service to new markets and that it was looking at 34 new cities …
Here’s how likely you are to lose your job to a robot
While increased automation will make our economy much more productive, it will also put a lot of people out of work. With this in mind, …
Passenger captures video as airplane’s engine bursts into flames
Air travel is stressful enough when everything goes according to plan — now imagine being on a plane and having one of the aircraft’s engines burst …
Here’s what the Apple-Samsung jury really wants to know after its first day of deliberations
The eight-person jury in the second Apple vs. Samsung patent case in the U.S. is already working on deciding who copied whom now that lawyers delivered …
AT&T eying DirecTV takeover in a move that could make it America’s top pay TV provider
With Comcast and Time Warner Cable fighting to merge, AT&T has no intentions of sitting idle. The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday night reported that AT&T …
T-Mobile adds more customers in Q1 than all other carriers combined, but swings to loss
T-Mobile on Thursday morning reported its results for the first quarter of the year, marking the first time the scrappy carrier added more than 2 …
Google won’t scan student Gmail accounts for ads any more
It looks like students will finally be free from the prying eyes of Google. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that Google will no …
Google and Netflix are considering an all-out PR blitz against the FCC’s net neutrality plan
More bad news for the Federal Communications Commission: It looks like the coalition that came together to kill the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) might …
TWC: Our network ‘works just as well’ as Google Fiber
In an apparent attempt to enrage even more disgruntled subscriber, Time Warner Cable CTO Mike Lajoie reportedly compared his company’s service with Google Fiber. DSL …
A Canadian town is living in fear that a nearby dead whale will explode any second
We’ve just found a new downside to owning beachfront property. The Smithsonian reports that a dead blue whale has washed up on the beaches of …
Spending all your money has never looked so good
Nothing has been made official at this point, but it’s pretty clear that Apple is working on a mobile payment product. Chief executive Tim Cook …
Facebook is taking a major step to give you your privacy back
Facebook has been the centerpiece of the online privacy debate for years, but the biggest social network in the world just unveiled a new policy that …
Why Apple’s decision to cut the MacBook Air price was genius
Apple is a company known for its great products, its past and current CEO, its great (and sometimes not so great commercials), and the way …
Here are all the crazy things Apple and Samsung’s lawyers said during closing arguments
The second major patent-based spat between Apple and Samsung is coming to a close in California. The jury now has to decide who copied whom as both legal …
How to download any YouTube video in seconds
YouTube changed the world, plain and simple. It made video an integral part of the Internet and it continues to give anyone and everyone a …
FCC chairman Wheeler is just as bad as we thought he’d be
Let’s assume for the sake of argument that former cable lobbyist and current Federal Communications Commission chairman Tom Wheeler isn’t a cynical shill for big …
Microsoft is creating a secret lab to develop wild Google X-style projects
Microsoft’s research arm has apparently gotten tired of seeing Google get all the headlines for doing wild projects such as self-driving cars and weather balloons …
European Commission warns Google and Samsung on ‘patent abuse’
The European Commission is once again cracking down on two of the biggest technology firms on the planet for patent abuse. The Associated Press reported …
Welcome to the handset business, Microsoft: Nokia’s phone revenue plummets in Q1
Microsoft’s acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services business was finalized last Friday but Nokia had one last gift for the new owner of its handset …
Microsoft readies huge OneDrive cloud storage bump
Microsoft on Tuesday announced that it will offer OneDrive for Business users a lot more cloud storage than they have had in the past, increasing …
Apple’s ‘dark days’ appear over (and they were never dark to begin with)
If there’s one thing sillier than analysts who think Microsoft is “doomed,” it’s analysts who think that Apple is “doomed.” Over the past couple of years, however, …
You can now take a tour of an incredible Amazon fulfillment center
Have you ever wondered what goes on inside the facility responsible for a majority of your Internet purchases? Now you can find out for yourself …
Here’s where you can email the FCC to complain about its new net neutrality proposal
A few days ago, we wrote about how you can save the Internet. The Federal Communications Commission has taken a great deal of heat over …
Samsung reports second straight profit drop: 5 key takeaways from Samsung’s Q1 earnings
Samsung on Tuesday reported its second consecutive quarter of declining on-year profits as growth of the company’s high-end smartphone sales continued to slow. The company posted …
Elop denies he was Ballmer’s plant at Nokia
As tempting as it might be to believe the Grand Elop Conspiracy theory, the man at the center of it all insists that it’s not …
There are 2.8 billion reasons to think Apple has something big up its sleeve
Yes, it’s a good bet that Apple will release at least one major new product category this year. Wall Street Playbook’s leading tech analyst writes over …
A visual history: The evolution of Google from simple search to Google Now
The world’s most popular smartphone operating system, self-driving cars, smart robots, and balloons that can deliver an Internet connection to remote areas are some of Google’s …
