A three-mile-wide asteroid just slipped by Earth, but its next pass will really be one for the books
It’s Monday, and since you didn’t die in a fiery apocalyptic hellscape over the weekend that means that the massive space rock named 3200 Phaethon …
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Amazon’s upcoming Digital Day sale was just announced: Here’s everything you need to know
You have one week left to finish your Christmas shopping, although it’s likely you won’t find some of the most coveted gifts of the year in …
The US government spent $22 million to investigate UFOs, but won’t tell us what they found
Do aliens exist, and have they visited Earth? That might sound like a question that conspiracy theorists mull over in obscure chatrooms and internet forums, …
Something strange happened to me when I picked up a Tesla Model X
Tesla is the most talked-about car company for so many reasons. What began as a small startup has grown into a massive company with a …
The wireless speakers that replaced my sound bar dropped to their lowest price ever
Back in October I told you about a pair of Bluetooth speakers that I used to replace a sound bar in a room where a …
Best Buy’s 20-day doorbuster sale is almost over, but today’s deals are the best yet
Retailers really turned up the heat this year when it comes to holiday deals. “Black Friday” started about a week early, which meant there were …
New patent may show us some features Samsung has planned for the foldable Galaxy X
Samsung seems very serious about foldable phones, with the first smartphone that features a foldable design seemingly set to launch next year. The Galaxy X …
New rumor offers some exciting news about Samsung’s boring Galaxy S9 upgrade
If you ask smartphone users about the one problem area they’d most like to see improved, most of them will answer battery life. Longer battery …
AirPods will be impossible to find for the rest of the year
With the busy holiday shopping season still in full swing, Apple’s AirPods will be extremely hard, if not impossible, to come by. Though it seemed …
Bloomberg: Galaxy S9 announcement set for late February
A report from Korea a few days ago said the Galaxy S9 will be unveiled in late February at MWC 2018. Bloomberg now corroborates the …
You can finally change the Google Assistant hotword on your Android phone
If you like talking to Google on your Android phone, you should know the feature now supports a different type of hotword, in addition to …
Teslas used for commercial purposes like Uber are no longer welcome at Supercharger stations
As the number of Tesla vehicles on the road higher continues to grow, the wait time at many Supercharger stations across the world has gone …
The 7 best free iPhone games of the week
As the holiday season is finally in full swing, many of you are probably traveling, preparing to travel or back at home with very little …
This tool tells you if your favorite movies have been ruined by a sex scandal
Ever since the Harvey Weinstein revelations, we’ve seen more and more stories detailing sexual abuse in all sorts of places, especially the entertainment business. Day …
Meet the researchers who used TV episodes of CSI to train artificial intelligence
Federal lawmakers want to have a say in defining artificial intelligence. Researchers are now using TV shows to feed the predictive capability of an AI …
How on Earth is this top-rated sound bar only $43?
UPDATE: The sound bar we recommended is now sold out since so many of our readers jumped on this great deal. The good news is …
10 new movie trailers you need to watch from this past week
It’s that weekend of the year, movie fans! It’s Star Wars, a movie many of you already have tickets for. Yes, you need to see …
Buy an Xbox One X and get ‘PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds’ for free
Just a few short days after PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) launched on Xbox One, Microsoft has found a way to use it to incentivize consumers to buy …
MIT just created living plants that glow like a lamp, and could grow glowing trees to replace streetlights
The modern world has been reinventing our relationship with energy for some time now. Cars are turning away from fossil fuels and relying ever more …
‘Pokemon Go’ introduces the first Generation 3 Legendary Pokemon
Now that the floodgates have opened and the Generation 3 Pokemon have begun to appear in Pokemon Go, it was only a matter of time …
Chrome will finally let you mute autoplaying videos
Autoplay videos are the new pop-ups of the internet: ugly, irritating, and completely useless for selling things. But that hasn’t stopped them from popping up …
Researchers thought this furry little marsupial was extinct for 100 years, until it came to find them
It’s obviously not often that scientists get good news regarding regionally extinct creatures. Once an animal has been seemingly wiped from its natural home, the …
How to check if your identity was stolen to help kill net neutrality
Yesterday, in a stunning (but inevitable) defeat for proponents of the open internet, the FCC voted 3-2 to repeal the Obama-era net neutrality rules that …
The iPhone X isn’t selling as well as everyone hoped, one expert claims
In the first nine months of the year before the iPhone X’s launch, analysts worked themselves into a tizzy debating whether or not the iPhone …
Google Flights gets a major upgrade right before the holiday season
You’re playing with fire if you still haven’t booked a flight for Christmas or New Years yet, but in its latest incarnation, Google Flights will …
Our favorite mesh Wi-Fi system is back in stock and discounted again on Amazon
The AmpliFi HD (High-Density) Home Wi-Fi System went on sale for Black Friday, and we covered it a few times since it’s by far our …
Is this Microsoft’s foldable Surface gadget?
We’ve been talking a lot about foldable phones lately because Samsung is supposed to unveil one next year. The Galaxy X, they call it, and …
‘Alien probe’ asteroid is dead quiet, but is that good news or bad news?
A couple of months back, a really, really weird asteroid flew through our Solar System. It looked nothing like any object humanity had ever spotted …
9 paid iPhone apps that are free downloads today
Yesterday’s post covering the day’s best paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free was a great one, and there are still a few …
There are two Sonos speakers left at Black Friday prices
Sonos had a Black Friday blowout this year, with deep discounts available on every speaker in the company’s entire catalog. From the entry-level Play:1 to …
