This one app could solve your most frustrating home Wi-Fi problems
So you’ve just set up your home Wi-Fi network but for some reason you’re having trouble getting your PC to connect to the network. It …
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You only have one week left to claim ‘cramming’ refunds from Verizon and Sprint
Did you get overcharged by Sprint or Verizon for subscription services that you never signed up for and never used? If so then you should …
Verizon, longtime enemy of net neutrality, may soon exempt its video app from data caps
Verizon has spent a tremendous amount of money and other resources over the years lobbying against net neutrality. It should be no surprise then that the …
MIT researchers have figured out how to make solar cells with old car batteries
Here’s a clever technological breakthrough that could help the environment in two ways. MIT announced this week that some of its researchers have figured out …
Microsoft is doing so many things well – so why is it still flailing at smartphones?
Microsoft is doing a lot of things right these days and not just in the realm of enterprise software and services that have traditionally been …
Over 3,000 prisoners let out early thanks to software glitch
More than 3,000 prisoners in Washington State over the past 13 years have received the best Christmas gift they could have hoped for: Early freedom. The Seattle …
Leak reveals the next major feature coming to WhatsApp
Facebook’s $22 billion WhatsApp deal bought it the most popular messaging app in the world, and the service has continued to grow since the record-setting deal …
These Google-owned robotic reindeer are freaking out the Internet
Google in recent years has bought up a lot of different robotics firms and one of the most impressive of the bunch is Boston Dynamics, …
10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
It’s the night before the night before Christmas, so there’s plenty of stirring in everyone’s houses. But while the rest of your household is going crazy …
Google is testing a bold new idea for killing passwords
Google wants to see passwords die just as much as the rest of us do, which is why it’s spent years coming up with wild …
Stacked is a humpbacked iPhone battery case you might actually like
The new iPhone battery case I refer to as The Hunchback of Cupertino is a great move on Apple’s part. The company makes a killing selling …
YouTube says T-Mobile’s net neutrality-bending Binge On scheme throttles its videos
Even though T-Mobile’s Binge On program is the least objectionable of all carrier plans I’ve seen to exempt certain content from its own data caps, …
The Beatles arrive on 9 different streaming music services
The Beatles used a webpage that looks like it was designed in the late 1990s to announce their arrival in the twenty-first century. Beginning at 12:01 …
Forget ‘The Martian’, NASA wants to grow potatoes on Mars for real
Whether you’ve seen The Martian or not, you probably know of the sci-fi blockbuster starring Matt Damon is about a NASA astronaut who’s stranded on Mars …
Iranian hackers breached a U.S. dam’s network security, report says
Iranian hackers managed to breach the network of a U.S. dam at some point in 2013, a report reveals, raising concerns about the security of …
iPhone 6c leak claims Apple’s new 4-inch phone is coming in April
Is there still a market for smaller iPhones? I personally think there is but we won’t know for sure until Apple releases another four-inch iPhone. …
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk eyes city on Mars after successful rocket landing
SpaceX’s audacious vertical rocket landing on Monday lays a critical foundation for reusable rockets that could help humans colonize Mars, according to the company’s CEO …
Making your car autonomous could be as simple as mounting your phone on the dashboard
Ford and Google might be negotiating a major deal concerning self-driving cars, but there might be other ways to smarten up a vehicle without actually …
Jeff Bezos trolls Elon Musk’s Space X triumph, Twitter rips him apart
Following a few high-profile failures, SpaceX made history yesterday after it successfully launched a rocket into space and managed to bring the booster safely back …
Everything you need to know about the FAA’s new drone registration program
Yesterday afternoon, the FAA’s website for drone registration went live. While the process is seemingly straight forward, there are a number of caveats and exceptions to …
The one free iPhone and Android app you need to use if you care at all about privacy
If you’re a somewhat savvy Internet user, you surely know by now that a good VPN service is absolutely essential to ensuring that your privacy …
12 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today
Honestly, you deserve a treat after spending all that hard-earned cash on holiday presents for your friends and family. As always, BGR is here to …
Amazon’s 10 best deals of the day
What a world we live in. Christmas Eve is just two short days away, but there’s still time to order from a selection of thousands …
Watch the SpaceX staff respond to its historic rocket landing
A big step was made on Monday evening in the race to build space-bound rockets that can be used for multiple launches. As you have …
Apple tears apart proposed British anti-encryption law in written memo to parliament
No matter what some would say about Apple’s determination to encrypt its products, the company is not ready to go down without a fight in …
Google talking to Ford about self-driving cars
The next big thing in automotive will be self-driving cars – make that eco-friendly self-driving cars – and several companies are working on such consumer …
Boom! SpaceX finally nails a rocket landing
After a number of failed attempts at launching a Falcon 9 rocket and safely returning the booster back down to earth, Elon Musk and SpaceX finally …
Sleek iPhone 7 concept imagines life without the headphone jack
One of the biggest rumors about the iPhone 7 is that Apple is purportedly planning to completely ditch the device’s headphone jack and will instead …
10 paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free right now
Christmas is coming this week but today we’re giving you the gift of 10 paid iPhone and iPad apps that would normally cost a total …
What a longtime iPhone user thinks of Android after three weeks with the Nexus 5X
Earlier this month, I wrote about a longtime iPhone user who was converted to Android by the “magic” of the new Nexus 5X. Now another …
