New Apple recycling program will pay you for your old gadgets
Apple cares about the environment and it really, really wants the world to know it. The company is making its renewed efforts to be more …
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T-Mobile’s ‘Uncarrier’ attacks don’t stop AT&T from posting strong earnings in Q1 2014
AT&T has come under a constant barrage of criticism from rival T-Mobile over the past year but so far it hasn’t affected the carrier’s bottom …
Did you miss last week’s blood moon? Check out this awesome time-lapse photo
Last week’s rare blood moon eclipse was amazing, but it also took place in the middle of the night so most people in the U.S. …
AT&T spearheads a $500 million venture to kill cable and take on Netflix
AT&T knows that it can’t beat over-the-top content providers such as Netflix and Amazon, so it figures it might as well join them. AT&T announced …
Video: Tim Cook explains how Apple will make everything ‘better’
Apple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t have the same reputation as a “visionary” that late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs had but that doesn’t mean he won’t …
Comcast says its customer service does a great job ‘way more than 99%’ of the time
Comcast received the dubious honor of being named the “worst company in America” earlier this month, and it regularly receives poor rankings in customer satisfaction …
Apple takes a huge shot at Samsung in latest print ad
Over the past few years, Samsung built a smartphone empire by creating a massive handset portfolio spanning all sizes and price points, and by spending …
Steve Jobs may finally get his wish: 2014 could be the year HTML5 starts to kill Flash
Late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs famously went on a tirade against Flash back in 2010 when he said that the video technology was on borrowed time …
Galaxy S5 price already slashed in world’s third largest smartphone market
Samsung’s brand new flagship Galaxy S5 smartphone is barely a week old but it has already seen a substantial price cut in the third largest …
Video: Apple introduces ‘the best office building in the world’
Apple is taking innovation to the office space with Apple Campus 2, a development that will house some of the tens of thousands of Apple …
Netflix officially comes out against the Comcast-TWC merger
In addition to news on possible price increases, Netflix on Monday also officially took a stance against the proposed $45 billion merger of Comcast and Time …
Netflix plans to increase prices by up to 25% for new subscribers
If getting unlimited streaming for $7.99 per month sounds like a deal that’s too good to be true, that’s probably because it is. The Wall …
AT&T in talks to bring 1Gbps Internet service to 21 new metro areas
AT&T is signaling that it has plans to aggressively expand its 1Gbps Internet service offering. Following an announcement earlier this month that it was in …
Video: Meet the incredible wireless charger that can power 40 smartphones at once
If there’s anything cooler than wirelessly charging your smartphone, it’s wirelessly charging 40 smartphones at the same time. GigaOM points us to an experimental wireless …
Fall of an icon: Nokia’s device division to be officially acquired by Microsoft on Friday
The end of an era is fast approaching. Microsoft announced on Monday that it will finalize its acquisition of Nokia’s devices and services division on …
Samsung: Apple’s patented software features are as trivial as cup holders in a car
An expert witness called by Samsung on Friday to testify on its behalf in the second U.S. Apple vs Samsung trial challenged an Apple witness …
Ex-Microsoft engineer invents a new machine to help you brew the perfect batch of beer
Home brewing is rewarding but it’s also often fraught with peril — if you don’t thoroughly sterilize all of your equipment or if you drop …
Watch this incredible video of Elon Musk’s reusable rocket in action
One of the problems with space travel is how wasteful it is — the rockets that help propel space shuttles into the atmosphere fall off …
New Samsung transparent displays blur the line between virtual reality and the real world
Although Samsung often gets tagged as a copycat in the realm of smartphones, the company really does produce some remarkable innovations, particularly in the realm …
Research shows it’s ‘blind luck’ that asteroids haven’t destroyed a major city yet
Well, here’s something happy to think about as you head into the weekend. Phys.org brings us word that three former NASA astronauts are going to …
Ex-Apple CEO Sculley admits the very obvious: Forcing Jobs out was a mistake
It’s safe to say that former Apple CEO John Sculley has some regrets in his career. In an interview with The Times of India, Sculley …
HTC scores a major coup against Samsung, hires the man behind its killer ad campaigns
Is HTC finally, at long, long last, going to get a decent marketing campaign? The Wall Street Journal reports that HTC has officially brought on Paul …
You can see exactly where your Facebook friends are in real time, but only if they let you
Facebook on Thursday took the wraps off of a new feature that, depending on your perspective, is either incredibly cool or incredibly creepy. For this …
Time Warner Cable launches Hotspot 2.0: Log in once, then never again
It looks like Time Warner Cable just simplified the Wi-Fi hotspot once and for all. Gigaom reports that Time Warner enabled Hotspot 2.0 capabilities across …
New poll shows Google’s Glass, robots and self-driving cars are tough sells
According to a recent survey, Americans are excited for futuristic technology that you might see in a sci-fi novel, but are anxious about how we’ll …
Verizon sends email on customer’s behalf without telling him as part of sleazy PR campaign
Sleazy astroturf campaigns are nothing new in the corporate world but Verizon may have just taken things to a whole new level. Ars Technica reports …
Why now is the time to buy as much Apple stock as you can
Apple’s stock has been stuck in the doldrums for some time now, as people lament the death of Steve Jobs, the supposed lack of innovation, …
Hackers make Siri vastly more useful by modifying it to control Nest, Spotify
Siri is getting a lot of competition from Google Now and Microsoft’s Cortana these days, but some young hackers have just made Siri much more …
One-time Bitcoin king Mt. Gox nears the end of the road
Sorry, Bitcoin fans: You’re never, ever, ever getting all your precious pieces of cryptocurrency back from Mt. Gox. The Wall Street Journal reports that Mt. …
Microsoft is giving Cortana Google Now-like powers
In addition to creating its own voice-based virtual assistant that can stand its ground against Siri and Google Now, Microsoft appears ready to offer even …
