This might be what the iPhone 8 looks like… if we’re lucky
In case you haven’t heard about it by now, Apple is making a special iPhone this year to mark the device’s tenth anniversary. The iPhone …
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Amazon officially announces Echo Show with touchscreen for $229.99
Two years after launching the Echo and kick-starting the smart speaker craze, Amazon is back with a brand new version of one of its most …
‘American Idol’ is coming back, but this time it won’t be on Fox
Just one year ago, American Idol — one of the longest-running competition shows ever to grace network TV — closed its curtains for the final time. …
Google has a new OS that may one day kill Android, and this is your first look at it
Google currently has two operating systems out in the wild, Android and Chrome. But we keep hearing that a third OS is in the making …
Amazon Echo Show with touchscreen to launch today for $229.99
After cutting its teeth as an online bookseller, Amazon has quietly become one of a small handful of trendsetters in the consumer electronics business. The …
FCC website hit hard for its plan to kill net neutrality
Trump’s FCC wants to kill net neutrality, and we knew that ever since the new chairman, Ajit Pai, took office. But with an initial vote …
Scientists accidentally created a new blue, and now Crayola has to find a name for it
Colors are one of those bits of childhood knowledge that you acquire when you’re barely old enough to form coherent sentences. Once you learn the …
Qualcomm’s 660, 630 chips bring high-end performance to mid-range phones
On Monday evening, Qualcomm revealed the new Snapdragon 660 and 630 mobile platforms, bringing performance previously reserved for high-end, flagship devices to more affordable mid-range …
Gorgeous new video shows colossal plasma columns dancing on our sun’s surface
The sun — you know, that big, life-giving star that is more or less responsible for our very existence here on Earth — is one …
iPhone 8 release will propel Apple to new heights
With the iPhone still Apple’s primary way of making money, it’s no surprise that Wall Street analysts and investors view iPhone sales as the most …
This brilliant water pitcher will order a new filter on its own as soon as it needs one
Sometimes you look at a new “smart” product and think to yourself, does that reeeeeeally need to be connected? This, however, is not one of …
Scientists discover that Earth was basically one big ‘Waterworld,’ without Kevin Costner
Long before Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper battled it out on the open seas in the mid-90s dystopian sci-fi flick Waterworld, the Earth really was …
Niantic just made a major change to stop Pokemon Go cheaters
Last month, Pokemon Go developer Niantic confirmed that it was “working to add functionality to stop spoofing” in the game, which allows cheaters to fake …
T-Mobile quietly killed one of its longest-running promos
Back in 2013, T-Mobile started a promo to give cellular iPads a lifetime of free service. Buy an LTE iPad from T-Mobile, and the network …
Apple may soon become the world’s first trillion-dollar company
Buoyed by the forthcoming release of the iPhone 8, shares of Apple have been on an absolute rampage lately. Over the past few months, Apple …
‘Alien: Covenant’ review roundup: Building on the best parts of ‘Prometheus’
In spite of its numerous flaws, Prometheus ended up being both a critical and financial success for director Ridley Scott and 20th Century Fox. Moviegoers …
AT&T’s new promo will knock $200 off your new Galaxy S8
The Samsung Galaxy S8 might be the best Android device ever to honor humanity with its existence, but that doesn’t mean everyone is willing to …
Let’s hope Comcast and Charter don’t make a wireless network
A report in the Wall Street Journal says that Charter and Comcast are teaming up to make some kind of play in the wireless market. Before you …
Amazon’s ugly touchscreen Echo might be launched tomorrow
Last week, a grainy photo of a 1990s Skymall teleconference device started doing the rounds. According to the site that leaked it, the thing is …
Why Apple is going to make an Echo killer
Apple is making a Siri speaker competitor for the Amazon Echos and Google Homes of the world, and the iOS-based product might be unveiled as …
This video of Tesla’s Autopilot software in action is what the future of driving looks like
Last week, Tesla began pushing out a software update to vehicles sporting the company’s next-gen Autopilot hardware. The latest update provides some gradual and yet …
Samsung may have lied about how fast the Galaxy S8’s storage really is
The Galaxy S8 is a phone that’s supposed to double down on quality, since it’s the first flagship to come out after last year’s Galaxy Note …
Watch: John Oliver explains how you can help save net neutrality (again)
Nearly three years ago, John Oliver dedicated an episode of HBO’s Last Week Tonight to the topic of net neutrality. The open internet was under attack …
Apple is now worth $800 billion for the first time ever
Freshman economics students will tell you that something is only “worth” whatever other people are willing to pay for it. In the case of Apple …
10 best paid iPhone apps on sale for free today
We ended last week on a high note, and now we’re starting this week off on another high note. We dug through hundreds of paid …
Go watch the new ‘Blade Runner: 2049’ trailer right now
Blade Runner is finally getting a sequel, and if you’re anything like me, you’re probably nervous that Hollywood is about to ruin one of the best …
This top-secret spaceplane just returned to Earth, and nobody knows what it did up there
There’s plenty of manmade devices floating around in space, and between communications satellites, weather-monitoring cameras, and exploratory spacecraft like Cassini, the general public is kept …
Two headlining iOS 11 features may have just leaked
Remember the good old days when it seemed like every new iOS feature worth knowing about leaked in the months and weeks ahead of WWDC? …
Leak reveals a new version of the Galaxy S8 that’s about to launch
We can’t see the future, but if had to make a guess, we would say that the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ will be the …
Stephen King’s new ‘It’ trailer will give you some serious Stranger Things deja vu
Set in the 1980s, Netflix’s sci-fi horror TV series Stranger Things was one of the best shows to come from the streaming giant last year. The series will …
