Mark Zuckerberg is totally fine with you being the product
In an extensive look at how Facebook wants to help people in emerging markets access the Internet (and turn them into Facebook users) with help of …
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Awesome interactive chart shows the cost of building every iPhone and Galaxy phone
Since Apple and Samsung are the most important players in the smartphone business — two fierce rivals bound by a complex supply partnership and engaged …
How to fix the most annoying problems with OS X Yosemite
As a relatively new version of Apple’s desktop operating system, Yosemite is understandably imperfect. In the past, we’ve covered how to fix the frequent WiFi …
Electric companies should be terrified of Elon Musk’s revolutionary batteries
Although oil prices have been plummeting recently, the future of energy is likely still from renewable sources such as solar power, if only because they …
You’ll be stuck with Windows 8 until at least next summer
A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the release of Windows 10 next year, although it seems that we’re going to have to wait until …
Dozens of execs fired or demoted this week after Samsung’s profit plummeted 60%
Samsung’s third quarter was nothing short of a disaster. Pressure at the high end of the smartphone market from Apple and at the low end …
Five of the best classic games available on the iPhone and iPad
For gamers, one of the most exciting trends on the App Store is the increasing availability of classic console and PC games on mobile devices. …
We’re hiring!
It seems like just yesterday that BGR launched as a small spin-off from a sporadic column on Engadget, but we celebrated our eighth anniversary earlier this …
The coolest thing you’ll see today: GoPro video gets up close and personal with lions
GoPro’s line of action cameras have allowed people to capture fantastic high-definition footage of things that would have been impossible to record even a few …
This guide has everything Google wants you to know about Android 5.0 Lollipop
So after months of waiting, your phone has finally received the Android 5.0 Lollipop update. You’re anxious to start messing with it, but you’re not …
Samsung denies cheating you with cheaper recycled AMOLED smartphone displays
Samsung has been recently accused of using recycled AMOLED displays in Galaxy smartphones on certain sites, where an alleged former employee said the company is …
Mark Zuckerberg is yet another person who doesn’t understand Apple
As you’ve probably read by now, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took some shots at Apple in an interview with Time where he defended his company’s …
How to easily recover deleted photos on the iPhone 6 and other iOS 8 devices
iPhone 6 users and everyone else operating an iOS 8 device who have mistakenly deleted pictures from their smartphones and/or tablets should know that there’s …
New ‘Christmas Shopper Simulator’ game lets you destroy a mall and ruin Christmas
With the holidays fast approaching and plenty of Christmas shopping left to be done, people are often under a tremendous amount of stress during this …
Watch this incredible footage of NASA’s Orion spacecraft launch
NASA took a big step toward bringing people to Mars this week, although it will still likely be at least another 20 years before we …
9 awesome paid iPhone apps that are free for a limited time (save over $100!)
You can expect plenty of great iPhone and iPad apps to go on sale now that the holiday season is officially here, but digging through …
You absolutely must check out these hilarious new Moto 360 commercials
Motorola’s Moto 360 smartwatch is one of the most exciting Android Wear devices available in stores, and the company released four new short ads this week …
Here are 20 stunning wallpapers that are perfect for the iPhone 6 Plus
Apple’s new iPhone 6 Plus is much more popular that some pundits thought it would be. In fact, it took less than a month for …
How to save a ton of money when you buy your next iPhone
Smartphones are expensive. It’s an inescapable part of living in modern day society, but there are ways to significantly decrease the price of your next …
This is the next awesome feature coming to Google’s Inbox app
If a team of engineers at Google is to be believed, the company’s new Inbox app is the future of email and it will eventually …
A huge leak may have just revealed the Galaxy S6’s monster specs
Various reports have claimed that Samsung is designing its next-gen top Android handset from scratch in an attempt to reinvent its flagship smartphone, as the previous …
The hottest Samsung Galaxy phones won’t be upgraded to Lollipop until early 2015
Even though some Galaxy S5 models have already started receiving the Android 5.0 Lollipop update much earlier than anticipated, Samsung apparently revealed that most hot Galaxy …
Here are the next two phones set to receive Android Lollipop updates
HTC on Thursday announced that its 2013 and 2014 flagship devices will be updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop starting on December 5th (around noon), but there’s …
The latest big leak in the Sony hack is a huge file directory for passwords… called ‘Password’
Sony Pictures recent data breach might be the biggest yet even though it might not affect as many people as recent credit and debit card …
This awesome iOS keyboard does something that SwiftKey, Swype and others can’t
With so many third-party iOS 8 keyboards to choose from these days, standing out can be a huge challenge for anyone who’s not an established …
iPhone 6 sneaks into Yahoo’s top 10 searches of 2014
As has become the trend, celebrities dominated the charts in Yahoo’s yearly ranking of top searches for 2014. Jennifer Lawrence, Kim Kardashian and Miley Cyrus are unsurprising …
Use this clever Moto X trick to turn on your voice commands without saying a word
One of the things we liked the best about the second-generation Moto X was the way Motorola thoughtfully added a small number of software features …
Amazon CEO inadvertently explains why even the Fire Phone was a better idea than Windows 8
Amazon’s Fire Phone is without a doubt this year’s biggest mobile flop but Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos isn’t too worried about it. The reason, he …
Of course the NSA spied on people who were working on better phone encryption
The NSA’s far-reaching powers have been further detailed in an extensive report from The Intercept, which reveals that the agency has conducted an advanced spying operation …
How Microsoft might get you to care about Windows Phone
It’s impossible to argue that Windows Phone has been anything close to a success at this point but that doesn’t mean Microsoft should give up …
