Amazon is testing out a ‘Spotify for Books’ service
Amazon is about to change the way we acquire books once again. According to Gigaom, members of the Kindle Boards discovered a page on Tuesday which …
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Check out these wild Boeing 787-9 maneuvers you’ll hopefully never have to experience
Boeing has a new gigantic Dreamliner ready to fly you to a hot destination, Engadget reports, and the company decided to demo the longer 787-9 …
Apple agrees to pay $450 million to settle price-fixing suit
Apple on Wednesday agreed to a $450 million settlement to settle claims that the tech giant conspired with five book publishers in an effort to …
Guy who said BlackBerry would fold in 2013 says BlackBerry will fold in 2015
Back in 2012, 24/7 Wall St.’s Douglass McIntyre wrote that in the following year, BlackBerry would fold. The prediction that BlackBerry was on its way …
New site exposes the web pages people hide from Google
Following a ruling recently made by the European Court of Justice, Google was forced to create a system whereby European citizens can instruct Google to …
Ouch: Eight-month-old iPhone 5s outsold the Galaxy S5 in its first full month of sales
As Samsung’s recent second-quarter earnings pre-announcement made clear, the company’s smartphone business is facing some trouble right now. At the low end, Samsung is getting …
Apple’s enterprise deal with IBM: The dawn of a new era at Apple?
At the conclusion of this year’s WWDC, I remarked that the Apple of 2014 was starkly different from the Apple which had showed itself at …
Microsoft reportedly has a worthy iWatch rival in the works
Apple is widely expected to redefine the smartwatch business with its iWatch, a companion device said to include various sensors capable of measuring many health …
Shocker: Extensive new study says movie piracy isn’t that harmful to Hollywood
A new study looking at the relationship between movie piracy and Hollywood revenues has found that the mass illegal downloads movie studios complain about while …
Stephen Colbert rips into the silliest smart device you’ve ever seen
As a matter of course, we try to cover some of the most interesting crowdfunded and independently developed projects, whether they’re pitched to us or …
Google’s smart contact lenses will soon become a reality
Remember Google’s interesting diabetes-detecting smart contact lens project the company unveiled in early 2014? The smart lens technology that would offer users a simpler, non-invasive …
Apple just made a huge move that will bring iOS to more enterprise customers than ever before
Apple and IBM used to be the bitterest of arch-rivals in the personal computer market in the ’80s but now they’re teaming up to help …
A crazy idea for helping Comcast keep customers: Provide good service
By now, you’ve probably heard the ridiculous phone call between former Engadget editor-in-chief Ryan Block and a Comcast representative who refused to let him unsubscribe to Comcast’s service …
Hysterical video shows us what it would be like if Google was a guy
The next time you pose a ridiculous question to Google, like how many walruses you’d have to stack on top of one another to reach …
iPads and MacBooks may someday run for weeks on a single charge
Apple is reportedly working on a secret battery project with British fuel cell firm Intelligent Energy, Daily Mail has learned from “senior sources in the …
New report claims Apple will release three different iWatches
Is Apple taking a page from Samsung’s classic gadget spam playbook? G for Games points us to a new report from Taiwan’s Economic Daily News …
Forget smartwatches, this is the wrist-worn wearable you need
Smartwatches will probably take off at some point. Apple’s iWatch will definitely help and once that launch is behind us, Samsung will probably start to …
Comcast’s brilliant new way to retain subscribers: Refuse to let them cancel
Comcast didn’t earn its reputation as America’s Worst Company overnight — it took years and years of hard work. From offering customers ridiculously overpriced bundle packages, …
Thousands to lose their jobs as Microsoft prepares biggest ever round of layoffs
Microsoft will soon announce a massive round of layoffs, according to a new report from Bloomberg. Thousands of employees will be let go as Microsoft …
Samsung fights back against child labor, cuts off business with offending supplier
After conducting an investigation into China-based supplier Shinyang Electronics following accusations of child labor, Samsung has decided to suspend its business with the supplier. According …
Scientists have developed a black so deep it makes 3D objects look flat
Coating objects with a layer so black it makes them look like flat holes in reality is potentially important for developing stealth weapons. But we …
Violent criminals and disgraced politicians are begging Google to ‘forget’ them
In case you haven’t noticed, Google is not at all happy about having to sift through thousands of different takedown requests from citizens in Europe …
This cool ‘Coolest’ cooler just passed $4M on Kickstarter with more than a month to go
There are many interesting projects on Kickstarter, but few of them can say they managed to reel in more than $4.1 million. That’s more than 80 …
This is how you can get Verizon customer service to cater to your every whim
Have you found yourself frustrated by Verizon’s customer service? Well don’t worry, there’s now an easy way to get Verizon to cater to your every …
Samsung’s ‘Plan B’ already looks like a flop
The global slowdown in smartphone and tablet unit growth rates has been tough for a variety of vendors, from HTC to Apple. But for Samsung, …
Movie studios’ worst nightmare has just gotten even better for pirates
Popcorn Time, also known as Netflix for Pirates, also known as a nightmare for Hollywood and its fight against piracy, has just gotten better for users, …
Reality sinks in for Microsoft
Here’s one thing that’s interesting about Satya Nadella’s Microsoft: It’s no longer insisting that it can keep partying like it’s 1999. While Microsoft under former …
Man tries wearing smartwatches for a week, still finds them virtually useless
Is Silicon Valley deluding itself into thinking that smartwatches are going to be the next game-changing gadget? That certainly seems to be the case for …
Report says Apple ‘fanboys’ will make the iWatch an incredible success
The smartwatch market is dominated by Samsung, followed by Sony and Pebble, according to a mid-May Strategy Analytics report, but that may change as soon …
Netflix streaming on Verizon just keeps getting worse
So now we know why Verizon decided to come out and accuse Netflix of essentially choosing to make its own traffic slow on its network …
