Articles by Mashable from January 2016

We've seen a couple of brute force anti-drone devices designed to snatch the tiny machines out of the sky, but Battelle's DroneDefender is one of the first to do it with an invisible beam delivered in...

With Facebook rolling out its live streaming abilities to everyone and Apple's next iPad getting a (rumored) release date, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: The 12 best i...

I felt like a real jerk, turning to my friend sitting in the passenger seat and admitting to him that I just wasn't that smitten with the 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT S.We'd spent the afternoon pushing the li...

We've seen a couple of brute force anti-drone devices designed to snatch the tiny machines out of the sky, but Battelle's DroneDefender is one of the first to do it with an invisible beam delivered in...

Do you know when you’re emotionally vulnerable?We’re used to hearing about "The Internet of Things." It infers that every object will be equipped with an Internet Protocol (IP) address to ...

I felt like a real jerk, turning to my friend sitting in the passenger seat and admitting to him that I just wasn't that smitten with the 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT S.We'd spent the afternoon pushing the li...

On Feb. 7, the Denver Broncos will take on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50. It will be an epic event — like it is every year — not just because a bunch of guys are going to bang hea...

Do you know when you’re emotionally vulnerable?We’re used to hearing about "The Internet of Things." It infers that every object will be equipped with an Internet Protocol (IP) address to ...

On Feb. 7, the Denver Broncos will take on the Carolina Panthers in Super Bowl 50. It will be an epic event — like it is every year — not just because a bunch of guys are going to bang hea...

Every year, when the Qatar Motor Show rolls around, we're presented with a new dazzling but certainly insane supercar. Thankfully, this year is no different.See also: End of an era: Land Rover Defende...

Let me ask you a question: What's better than one $4.5-million, 740-horsepower Lamborghini Veneno Roadster? The answer is two, of course.See also: End of an era: Land Rover Defender production stops t...

Samsung will likely unveil its next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S7, at Mobile World Congress next month, but we may already know what it looks like.Surprise, surprise: It'll look very simi...

Every year, when the Qatar Motor Show rolls around, we're presented with a new dazzling but certainly insane supercar. Thankfully, this year is no different.See also: End of an era: Land Rover Defende...

Let me ask you a question: What's better than one $4.5-million, 740-horsepower Lamborghini Veneno Roadster? The answer is two, of course.See also: End of an era: Land Rover Defender production stops t...

Remember Coin, the electronic card that promised to replace your credit cards, debit cards and rewards cards? Yeah, it was a flop, but LG is now reportedly cooking up a similar version of the all-in-o...

And now, for its most expensive act: Volkswagen might buy back some of the 575,000 cars affected by Dieselgate in the United States.Robert Giuffra, a lawyer defending Volkswagen against class-action s...

If you've ever uploaded a photo to Facebook or Instagram, chances are there are secret ASCII renderings of them out there, if you know where to look.Facebook has been creating ASCII art — that i...

Samsung will likely unveil its next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S7, at Mobile World Congress next month, but we may already know what it looks like.Surprise, surprise: It'll look very simi...

Today, Apple is known most for selling iPhones, iPads and Macs. But in the future, it could be known for selling cars and headsets for virtual reality and augmented reality.According to the Financial ...

Remember Coin, the electronic card that promised to replace your credit cards, debit cards and rewards cards? Yeah, it was a flop, but LG is now reportedly cooking up a similar version of the all-in-o...

This podcast will distract you from your creative process.In case you've been living under a rock, Kanye West went on a Twitter rant aimed at Wiz Khalifa and Amber Rose on Wednesday. Amber Rose got th...

And now, for its most expensive act: Volkswagen might buy back some of the 575,000 cars affected by Dieselgate in the United States.Robert Giuffra, a lawyer defending Volkswagen against class-action s...

The death of the Java plug-in is swiftly approaching as we move toward a plug-in-free Internet.Oracle announced its Java plug-in will be removed in the next development kit update, which does not yet ...

In this Ask A Dev, iOS engineer Eric Miller shares what it took for him to become a lean, mean, iOS and Swift development machine, as well as how he trains every day to stay that wayLike a prize fight...

In this Ask A Dev, iOS engineer Eric Miller shares what it took for him to become a lean, mean, iOS and Swift development machine, as well as how he trains every day to stay that wayLike a prize fight...

People are coming up with all kinds of crazy sports using drones, like drone racing. But a new one called "droneboarding" might just be the most ridiculous and awesome idea involving drones yet.Droneb...

Brave, the new web browser that removes ads and blocks third-party data tracking, is on its way to the public. After removing almost all “bad” ads from web pages, Brave will fill those spa...

As announced a few weeks ago, Apple today discontinued its ad-supported iTunes Radio. Trying to open it will now redirect you to Apple MusicIt's easy to see why Apple would prefer if you signed up for...

One afternoon in December, Giphy’s two dozen staff members gathered around a long picnic table in their Lower East Side Manhattan office for a year-in-review meeting. The multicolored Christmas ...

New Yorkers, rejoice: Starting 7 a.m. Friday, Uber is slashing its prices in New York City by approximately 15%The base fare for the company's UberX service has dropped from $3 to $2.55, and the per m...

Today is truly the end of an era. The last of the current generation Land Rover Defenders rolled off the assembly line today in Solihull, England, where the iconic 4x4 has been produced continuously f...

Though many of its competitors added some type of wireless charging to their smartphones, Apple never added the feature to its iPhone. But in 2017, according to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple migh...

Thousands waited in the rain for the opening of a new Apple store in Guangzhou on Thursday.The sheer turnout and enthusiasm of the Chinese public for Apple goods should reassure the company that its f...

If you're sick of your local television station screwing you around when it comes to Season 10 of The X-Files, then we have a legal workaround for you.You might already be familiar with the idea of an...

We've been waiting for a mass market Model 3 from Tesla for a while now. Turns out, we might get more than just an affordable all-electric sedan. And we might get a crossover version, too.See also: Fa...

Are you ready to live stream on Facebook?After rolling out first to celebrities and then to a relative handful of regular users, Facebook's live video streaming feature is now a part of everyone's Fac...

Snapchat just added a new feature that goes a long way toward solving one of the app's more annoying features.The company updated its app with a new feature that makes it way easier to add friends by ...

Google’s own domain was bought from under its nose for $12 in October, and Google just revealed how much money it paid to get it back.After seeing “google.com” available for purchase...

If you've not heard of the Aston Martin Vulcan, there's good reason. Not only did the bespoke British super sports car maker only ever produce 24, the car can't be legally driven on the street. So not...

According to Nick Pfitzner, the Tesla Powerwall is "a thing of beauty."Pfitzner, who lives in Sydney's Hills District, was one of the first homeowners in Australia to have the highly anticipated energ...

Facebook just flipped the switch on its live streaming feature in its iOS app.The social network is expanding its live streaming capabilities to all of its iOS users in the U.S. The company first bega...

If your iOS Chrome browser has been crashing a lot lately, fear not — Google is releasing an update to Chrome that reduces crashing by 70%.According to a Chromium blog post, the open-source brow...

Apple is recalling some of its two-prong AC wall plug adaptors designed for use in continental Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Korea, Argentina and Brazil.These aren't the power bricks themselves, but...

A Surface-branded smartphone could be coming soon.Reddit user nok4us noticed Microsoft now owns surfacephone.com; the URL redirects to the company's Surface website. Microsoft also snatched up surface...

Facebook is unstoppable: Quarter after quarter of growth and revenue success. A mobile profile that virtually every other tech company would die for. Lots of hidden innovation goodies that have yet to...

According to Nick Pfitzner, the Tesla Powerwall is "a thing of beauty."Pfitzner, who lives in Sydney's Hills District, was one of the first homeowners in Australia to have the highly anticipated energ...

Most sports fans try to ignore the ancillary marketing surrounding the games we love. It's unavoidable, certainly — no one is claiming not to see and hear those taglines and messages. But it's a...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but sometimes, a static image is no match for the expressive power of an animated GIFTinder has partnered up with Giphy to bring GIF support to Tinder's i...

PayPal is finally beginning to make money off of Venmo.The peer-to-peer payments app so popular among millenials can now be used to make in-app purchases, PayPal announced Wednesday. The company is in...

Not only will Apple introduce a new, 4-inch version of the iPhone this March, it will also show off a new iPad — at least according to a new report by 9to5MacThe details are fuzzy as always, but...

If you look past the fact that this concept car has red front tires and no side windows, it could be the next Opel GT sports car.See also: Faraday Future's 1,000-horsepower concept car should make Tes...

NEW YORK — The team behind Aereo is back after a huge setbackIts new mission: it wants to bring wireless gigabit Internet to the home.Dubbed Starry, the new startup has ambitious plans to disrup...

The DeLorean, a car immortalized by the Back to the Future film franchise, was relegated to the pages of history some 35 years ago when the original production came to a haltNow, however, it's getting...

Periscope will now let you live stream from certain GoPro cameras, that is, if you’re an iOS user. Sorry Android owners. Your moment will come somedayFull story: https://on.mash.to/1PSY9UkGet mo...

If you look past the fact that this concept car has red front tires and no side windows, it could be the next Opel GT sports car.See also: Faraday Future's 1,000-horsepower concept car should make Tes...

It's been a rough few months for TwitterWith a slumping stock price, a mass exodus of executive talent and no clear vision for its overall product strategy, Twitter seems to be a company in flux.For t...

If you've never quite been able to trust the American woman directing you to Mittagong via your smartphone, you're in luck.On Thursday, Google announced the Google app, and the Google Maps app on Andr...

Just one day after we highlighted Google's apparent interest in creating virtual reality hardware, the company came out on Wednesday to refocus attention on Google Cardboard by revealing some numbers ...

It's been a rough few months for TwitterWith a slumping stock price, a mass exodus of executive talent and no clear vision for its overall product strategy, Twitter seems to be a company in flux.For t...

What exactly does that little green lock that occasionally appears on your browser's address bar mean? It means security, and Chrome is making it easier for developers to see how to make their website...

NEW YORK — The team behind Aereo is back after a huge setbackIts new mission: it wants to bring wireless gigabit Internet to the home.Dubbed Starry, the new startup has ambitious plans to disrup...

The cable box — a staple of any household that pays for television since the late '80s — may finally be loosening its stranglehold on the way we consume TV. That is, if the Federal Communi...

The DeLorean, a car immortalized by the Back to the Future film franchise, was relegated to the pages of history some 35 years ago when the original production came to a haltNow, however, it's getting...

Add the New York City public transportation system to the growing list of facilities that have instituted a ban on hoverboards. New York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced on Wedn...

Periscope will now let you live stream from certain GoPro cameras, that is, if you’re an iOS user. Sorry Android owners. Your moment will come somedayFull story: https://on.mash.to/1PSY9UkGet mo...

While many onlookers have been pretty sure the death of Adobe's Flash Player is all but inevitable, a new report suggests that day could come a little sooner than expectedFlash, once ubiquitous in bro...

The ways we make purchases and conduct our financial business are changing every day and will continue to change perpetually as technology evolves.To better understand some of the top fintech trends a...

The iPhone is already known for having one of the best smartphone cameras on the market, but imagine the power of having not one but two rear-facing cameras to capture the shot you want.While we're ab...

Drones aren't just good for taking arial pictures of your neighborhood or accidentally crashing into trees. They can be used to inspect rural railroad bridges as well as monitor air quality, too.Edwar...

You may worry about a future in which robots will take your job, but in Japan, that future is already happening — and it's being led by SoftBank's Pepper robotOn Wednesday, the Japan-based telec...

China now has 688 million Internet users, a record figure. The new data for 2015 from the state’s China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) shows that’s not the only major mileston...

An easy way to record calls is finally coming to iPhone and it’s not an app, it’s a case.Just In Case, currently on Indiegogo, is an iPhone case that records your phone conversations and s...

Facebook users worldwide will soon have more options than the Like button to choose from when responding to posts on the site. Late last year, the company announced Facebook Reactions as a Like button...

NEW YORK — The team behind Aereo is back after a huge setbackIts new mission: it wants to bring wireless gigabit Internet to the home.Dubbed Starry, the new startup has ambitious plans to disrup...

Besides making sure your News Feed is optimized with, you know, important stuff, Facebook is working on a lot of other projects, some seemingly unrelated to social networking. One of them is in the fi...

Something weird happened on Jan. 8. Late in the afternoon that Friday, I pulled up Twitter to find nearly my entire feed tweeting about Peaches.Or, at least, that's what I initially thought. The buzz ...

The ways we make purchases and conduct our financial business are changing every day and will continue to change perpetually as technology evolves.To better understand some of the top fintech trends a...

The iPhone is already known for having one of the best smartphone cameras on the market, but imagine the power of having not one but two rear-facing cameras to capture the shot you want.While we're ab...

Drones aren't just good for taking arial pictures of your neighborhood or accidentally crashing into trees. They can be used to inspect rural railroad bridges as well as monitor air quality, too.Edwar...

You may worry about a future in which robots will take your job, but in Japan, that future is already happening — and it's being led by SoftBank's Pepper robotOn Wednesday, the Japan-based telec...

Apple's Safari browser was crashing for a lot of users early Wednesday, both on iOS and OS X, seemingly due to a bug related to Safari's search suggestionsThough Apple hasn't made an official statemen...

The problem: waking up with your sheets bunched up at your feet. The solution: smarter bedding.After a long struggle to find a reliable manufacturer, startup Need/Want is finally debuting its Kickstar...

China now has 688 million Internet users, a record figure. The new data for 2015 from the state’s China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) shows that’s not the only major mileston...

Facebook users worldwide will soon have more options than the Like button to choose from when responding to posts on the site. Late last year, the company announced Facebook Reactions as a Like button...

Besides making sure your News Feed is optimized with, you know, important stuff, Facebook is working on a lot of other projects, some seemingly unrelated to social networking. One of them is in the fi...

Google just can't keep itself from cutting its phones' prices. Mere weeks after reducing the original, $379 price of its Nexus 5X to $349, the phone's price has been even more severely slashed, down t...

There's no company that knows how to build retro cameras the way Olympus does.The new PEN F is quite possibly the most retro mirrorless digital camera the company has ever created. I dare say it's eve...

Microsoft just quietly launched yet another experimental iOS app.The company released News Pro, a new iOS app that uses Bing News to deliver personalized feeds of news based on your profession.At a ba...

Visitors to Malpe beach in the southern Indian district of Karnataka will now be able to surf the Internet along with the waves thanks to a free public Wi-Fi network set up by the Indian governmentSee...

Apple's Safari browser was crashing for a lot of users early Wednesday, both on iOS and OS X, seemingly due to a bug related to Safari's search suggestionsThough Apple hasn't made an official statemen...

Jaguar announced Tuesday evening that it will be unveiling the 200-mph F-TYPE SVR at the Geneva Motor Show in March.See also: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mercedes Unimog is for sale on eBay for $350,980Th...

Jaguar announced Tuesday evening that it will be unveiling the 200-mph F-TYPE SVR at the Geneva Motor Show in March.See also: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Mercedes Unimog is for sale on eBay for $350,980Th...

The virtual reality minds of Oculus Story Studio, the cinematic production arm of the Oculus Rift team, have taken the wraps off the studio's latest film called Dear AngelicaSee also: How virtual real...

In March 2001, the Taliban blew up the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, two of the tallest Buddha sculptures in the world. This horrific attack on an important and beautiful example of the pa...

You can now live stream with Periscope using a GoPro action cameraMashable's tech team tried it out and despite a mostly good, smooth experience, there's room for improvement.Before we even started Pe...

You no longer need to use the iPhone app to use Peach, the latest social app to go super-viral that was created by one of the Vine cofounders.Peach's founder has released an "unofficial" web version o...

Do you hate going to the gas station and wish the gas could instead come to you? Well, now there's an app for that.It's called WeFuel and it's pretty much what you imagine it to be. With the push of a...

Ford is recalling about 391,000 Ranger pickup trucks because the driver's airbag inflators can explode with too much force and cause injuries.The recall covers trucks from the 2004 through 2006 model ...

Iridescent cells in the flesh of giant clams could one day help scientists design more efficient solar panels, and television and smartphone screens that are easier on the eyes, researchers say.Giant ...

One of the most accepted drugs on the planet, caffeine, and its popular delivery method, coffee, just got a mobile tech boost that instantly makes it far more easy to get your java fixCrafted to look ...

The days of hoarding tabs is over for Firefox users. A new update to the browser allows websites to send you push notifications without the website open.Instead of keeping your email, social media and...

Good news, Firefox users: A new update to the browser allows websites to send you push notifications without having those websites open.Instead of keeping your email, social media and other website ta...

Traveling New York to experience the city's many epic museums isn't something exactly affordable, which is why a new online tour of the famed Guggenheim Museum will be a welcome addition to Google Str...

Your pet is a part of your family. Heck, your pet is a part of who you are as a person. So it's only natural to feel that nagging sense of guilt when you leave your home and leave your furry friend be...

Uber will start using smartphones to track its drivers as part of a pilot program to "verify feedback" from ridersThe program will use a smartphone's gyrometers, GPS and accelerometers to record data ...

We've seen our fair share of underwater drones before, but drones that are equally nimble in the air and beneath the water's surface are much more rareEnter Loon Copter: A drone that can fly, operate ...

It was a good run, Google Glass. An early wearable technology sensation, you were on nerdy heads everywhere and had even managed to invade less geeked-out spaces like fashion runways, TV shows and eve...

Periscope's iOS app will now support live streaming from GoPro cameras, Twitter announced on TuesdayThe update is available now and is compatible with Hero 4 cameras, though not the Hero 4 Session.See...

Motorola's Droid phones have always been geared towards utility. The original Droid catered to typing enthusiasts with a QWERTY keyboard that slid out and the Droid Turbo had up to 48 hours of battery...

When a Cadillac representative told the group of journalists that I was with — all present to be some of the first people in North America to drive the 2016 CT6 full-size sedan — that the ...

Apple's rumored, upcoming 4-inch smartphone might be small compared to today's flagship behemoths, but it won't lack power — at least according to a new rumor9to5Mac reports that the phone, whic...

Wouldn't it be nice if your car could simply pick you up in front of your house and drop you off at work, while you sip coffee and read the news in the back seat?While we're not quite there yet, a new...

Since the dieselgate scandal broke in September, Volkswagen executives and representatives have appeared publicly shocked and genuinely dismayed with the revelation that the then-largest global automa...

Seems Tesla is selling better in China than previously believed.Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk told Engadget that the upstart EV automaker is "doing reasonably well" in mainland China. It's doing ...

Former Governor of California and movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger might have popularized the Humvee for civilians, but dare I say there is no vehicle on the planet more "Schwarzenegger" than the Merc...

There's no longer any doubt that virtual reality is the next big interactive platform, and now it looks like you can add Google to the list of companies clamoring to stake an early claimThat's the ind...

Microsoft's assistant Cortana keeps getting smarter.Cortana can now send reminders for tasks based on the contents of your inbox, Microsoft announced Monday. The company also added new features that m...

Looking for a gold smartwatch that's not Apple-made, and doesn't have the Apple Watch Edition's $10,000+ price? Samsung's Gear S2 Classic New Edition might be a good optionThe high-end smartwatch, whi...

A Prius with a V8? Now, that's the craziest thing we've ever heard in awhile.However, that's exactly what Toyota and the APR Racing team have cooked up for the GT300 class of the 2016 Super GT racing ...

Believe it or not, this 1957 Ferrari could be worth $34 million.1950s Ferraris are worth a lot of money these days and, for the most part, the amount they fetch at auctions is quite puzzling. That's b...

There's no longer any doubt that virtual reality is the next big interactive platform, and now it looks like you can add Google to the list of companies clamoring to stake an early claimThat's the ind...

Women who work within the field of technology can be sources of inspiration to young people around the world. That's one fact that CodeGirl, a documentary about high school girls journeying through an...

For many years, New York City has been developing a “free” public Wi-Fi project. Called LinkNYC, it is an ambitious effort to bring wireless Internet access to all of the city’s resi...

For parents, knowing their child is safe can be one of their biggest worries. Parents of children on the autism spectrum may worry even moreBut tracking children may not be enough in an emergency.Ange...

Scientists in China say they used genetic engineering to create monkeys with a version of autism, an achievement that could make it easier to test treatments but that raises thorny practical and ethic...

Snapchat may soon be overhauling some of its fundamental features.New screenshots unearthed by some developers show a major redesign of Snapchat's "chat" screen, where users exchange text messages and...

Samsung is expanding its foray into virtual reality with the promise of a VR movie studio in New York City.Marc Mathieu, chief marketing officer of Samsung Electronics, announced the initiative at the...

Here's something the patriotic gamer never knew they needed: An Australian flag skin for their Xbox controller.If you plan on spending this Jan. 26 holed up playing endless rounds of the Mad Max video...

It's no secret that Apple is working on a car. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said he thinks the company is serious about building an electric car, and now the CEO of German car company Daimler, Dieter ...

Gamers and gadget hounds can now get their hands on the hotly anticipated Oculus Rift virtual reality headset: The Facebook-owned company announced the commercial release of its virtual reality device...

Jeremy Merrill lives underneath a flight path to LaGuardia Airport in New York. Merrill is a curious manAfter watching countless planes land at LaGuardia and wondering where they were flying from, the...

It's not often we get to see the surreal imagery of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki come to life, but thanks to a new startup, real life bonsai-style trees just got a lot more otherworldlyAir Bonsai ...

All signs point to Apple releasing a new 4-inch iPhone to replace the aging iPhone 5S. What will it look like? If a newly leaked image that's popped up online is authentic, it could look just like an ...

Weeks before LG is scheduled to unveil a new smartphone at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a leaked set of photos purports to show the company's upcoming flagship, the LG G5While not much to look ...

"There are no special tricks for photography. If I give you a Jimi Hendrix guitar, you won't be able to play like him. It is not about the gear," says award-winning photographer Sephi Bergerson, who t...

Looking for a gold smartwatch that's not Apple-made, and doesn't have the Apple Watch Edition's $10,000+ price? Samsung's Gear S2 Classic New Edition might be a good optionThe high-end smartwatch, whi...

Here's something the patriotic gamer never knew they needed: An Australian flag skin for their Xbox controller.If you plan on spending this Jan. 26 holed up playing endless rounds of the Mad Max video...

Like other forms of media, the podcast industry is largely dominated by white, male voices. Take a quick look at the top 10 podcasts in iTunes, and you’ll notice that only two are hosted by wome...

It's not often we get to see the surreal imagery of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki come to life, but thanks to a new startup, real life bonsai-style trees just got a lot more otherworldlyAir Bonsai ...

If you give a girl the opportunity to code, the tech industry seems to expect her to ask, “Where are the pink accessories?”When it comes to getting girls invested in coding, the tech space...

Who would ever guess that former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had the itch to make games?His first release, now available on iOS, is a very special game called Churchill Solitai...

Like other forms of media, the podcast industry is largely dominated by white, male voices. Take a quick look at the top 10 podcasts in iTunes, and you’ll notice that only two are hosted by wome...

With rumors swirling around a new 4-inch iPhone and Samsung's upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S7, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: 19 apps to reinvent yourself in 2016Each...

If you give a girl the opportunity to code, the tech industry seems to expect her to ask, “Where are the pink accessories?”When it comes to getting girls invested in coding, the tech space...

Although popular among celebrities, the Apple Watch still hasn't turned out to be a runaway hit with regular consumers like the iPhone. Nevertheless, there's been a great deal of interest around when ...

Who would ever guess that former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld had the itch to make games?His first release, now available on iOS, is a very special game called Churchill Solitai...

We've all been there. From awkward first dates to uncomfortable family dinners and boring meetings that just won't end, we've all been in a situation where we were silently willing our phones to ring ...

CES 2016 boasted more than its fair share of wearables, 3D printing, drones and home entertainment, but a category that seems to be infiltrating more floor space each progressive show is technology fo...

With rumors swirling around a new 4-inch iPhone and Samsung's upcoming flagship, the Galaxy S7, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: 19 apps to reinvent yourself in 2016Each...

Although popular among celebrities, the Apple Watch still hasn't turned out to be a runaway hit with regular consumers like the iPhone. Nevertheless, there's been a great deal of interest around when ...

In its quest to document the entire Earth, Google has been expanding Street View further into areas where streets don't go. The company announced over two years ago that it was looking for outsid...

We've all been there. From awkward first dates to uncomfortable family dinners and boring meetings that just won't end, we've all been in a situation where we were silently willing our phones to ring ...

CES 2016 boasted more than its fair share of wearables, 3D printing, drones and home entertainment, but a category that seems to be infiltrating more floor space each progressive show is technology fo...

In its quest to document the entire Earth, Google has been expanding Street View further into areas where streets don't go. The company announced over two years ago that it was looking for outsid...

Hyperloop is officially on step closer to reality. JumpStartFund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced Thursday that it has filed construction permit paperwork with Kings Count...

Hardcore productivity hounds have new Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 configurations to choose from.Microsoft announced on Friday its Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 can now be purchased with 1TB of sto...

Following the institution of the new drone registration rule from the Federal Aviation Administration, nearly 300,000 individuals have registered small unmanned aircrafts since Dec. 21.“The regi...

If you've been holding off on upgrading your iPhone 5S because the iPhone 6 and 6S are just too big, you may be in luck.Apple plans to show off a new 4-inch iPhone in March, according to a new report....

The first big winter storm of the year is making it's way up the East Coast, moving in on Washington, D.C., and the surrounding region, bringing with it up to 30 inches of snow.Whether you're in the a...

The arms race between Netflix and people who want to watch videos only available in other countries has begunLast week, Netflix announced its plans to crack down on users who use proxies or VPNs to ac...

Hyperloop is officially on step closer to reality. JumpStartFund’s Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced Thursday that it has filed construction permit paperwork with Kings Count...

The news that Nest thermostats leaked unencrypted user data has many people asking: Are smart home devices a security liability?See also: My favorite tech at CES was a smart fridge — but I'd nev...

Hardcore productivity hounds have new Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 configurations to choose from.Microsoft announced on Friday its Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 can now be purchased with 1TB of sto...

Humans just keep proving how bad they are at driving.A Nissan LEAF electric vehicle fitted with an autonomous driving system owned and operated by Cruise Automation, the company that produces a $10,00...

Microsoft has released a few small but helpful updates to its Office apps for iOS, including 3D Touch features and Apple Pencil compatibility.Word, PowerPoint and Excel apps on the iPhone 6S and 6S Pl...

The arms race between Netflix and people who want to watch videos only available in other countries has begunLast week, Netflix announced its plans to crack down on users who use proxies or VPNs to ac...

Apple is flexing its hiring muscle in the field of virtual reality. According to a new report from The Financial Times, the Cupertino giant has hired VR expert Doug Bowman.Before joining Apple, Bowman...

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump now has his very own programming language, courtesy of a group of Rice University computer science students.TrumpScript, which is based on the Python pro...

Apple's iPhone Smart Battery Case is ugly. It's also awesome.I had this epiphany as I read a ridiculous story about Apple's 18% stock tumble coinciding with the December 7 release of "The Hump."While ...

Reviewing the Bentley Mulsanne Speed is like turning a critical eye on the moon. That's because they're both gigantic, awe-inspiring things that are accessible to only the most elite of elites.Like th...

From today, Google has started offering free, high-speed Wi-Fi service in India's Mumbai Central Station in Mumbai. This kicks off the Internet giant's ambitious plan of setting up Wi-Fi at 400 train ...

The Apple Watch Hermès's online release is fast approaching, first picked up by Fashionista, so here's a breakdown on what differentiates the most stylish smartwatch released by Apple and its oth...

Our society is inching toward a future when the phrase "you code like a girl" will be a compliment of the highest orderBut there are significant hurdles before we get there. The statistics behind wome...

c. 1980Image: KEYSTONE-FRANCE/Getty ImagesIn 1963, French engineer Jean Bertin presented a 1/12 scale model of his idea for an Aérotrain, a jet-propelled monorail train which would float on a cus...

The Bentley Muslanne Speed costs over $400K, but do its individual parts equal much more than that?Read the full review: https://on.mash.to/1No0C7m Read more...More about Cars, Tech, Transportation, A...

The world recently discovered that one of Siri's hidden talents is that it can beatbox for you. Now, a video of three Indian musicians collaborating with Siri to create a catchy mashup with classical ...

With the East Coast bracing for a major blizzard, Google has updated the way weather forecasts appear for Android usersNow, when you search for weather conditions, the Google app surfaces much more de...

The capital of Sweden is an easy place to fly to and it feels almost "un-Swedish" to waste money on a taxi from the airport to central Stockholm when visitors are told the train is so efficient.Stockh...

The fact that Google is the default search engine on your browser is not a coincidence. It's a $1 billion deal between Google and AppleThat was the previously unknown revelation in a Jan. 14 court hea...

The Google Play Store is bigger than ever — but making money is still a challenge for Android developers.That's the findings of a new report from app analytics firm App Annie, which says Google ...

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has criticism coming from all sides for her management of the company since taking the top seat in 2012, but one thing everyone can probably agree on is that she knows how to p...

WeChat was born five years ago. Here’s our potted history of China’s most essential app.October 2010: In developmentIn a Tencent office in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, away from...

With self-driving cars dominating the tech conversation in recent months, it's no surprise that someone would eventually attempt to bring automation to parents sick of pushing their young child in a s...

Video: Armand Valdes, Loris RaveraTor, or The Onion Router, is a browsing tool used to surf the web anonymously. It's used by journalists, activists and privacy advocates as a means of evading prying ...

Facebook's iOS app is getting an update iPhone 6S users will appreciate: new 3D Touch actionsThe social network is beginning to roll out support for new "peek and pop" 3D Touch actions in its iOS app....

With all of the customisable tech available to us, there's no excuse for having the same old wallpaper that comes with your computer.In order to help inspire creativity in the new year, Mashable, Dell...

Brave may be the new browser that haters of intrusive online ads have been looking for — it claims to block ads, block third-party trackers and speed up browsing.One big caveat, though...

Innovating the shape and functions of smartphones and wearables has become pretty common in recent years, but somewhere along the way digital musical instruments fell out of the tech spotlightThat tre...

It looks like 2,000 characters is the new 140.Weibo, China’s microblogging platform that's often compared to Twitter, will reportedly expand its 140-Chinese-character limit on messages to as muc...

Drones can fly thousands of feet in the air or a foot off the ground. They can fly autonomously, avoiding obstacles and some can even follow you and take awesome selfies. But we've never seen a drone ...

Tor is the deep web's browser of choice, but how does it work exactly and should you use it? Read more...More about Tor, Tech, Videos, Deep Web, and Mashable Explains...

Apple announced Thursday it is opening its first iOS App Development Center in Europe. The center will be located at a partner institution in Naples, Italy, offering a specialized curriculum for stude...

LOS ANGELES — Passengers arriving at Los Angeles International Airport will be allowed to leave in an UberX car starting Thursday morning.LAX was a notable holdout against Uber's cheapest ride-h...

Hoverboards have been blowing up and causing dads to fall on their butts for months now, and at least one retailer has apparently decided to throw in the towel.Amazon has chosen to give full refunds t...

General Motors is officially now in the mobility market.GM announced Thursday morning that it has launched a new mobility brand called Maven that will work to connect international users with car shar...

Tesla Motors has filed a lawsuit against German auto parts supplier Hoebiger Automotive Comfort Systems, alleging the company failed to produce the falcon-wing doors for Tesla's Model X crossover.See ...

Waterproof and rugged cameras don't get prettier than Leica's new X-U.Aimed at adventurers and designed in collaboration with the carmaker Audi, the X-U is the first Leica camera that can be submerged...

A new, more detailed warning about hoverboards was issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on WednesdayThis time, in addition to reminding consumers that there is "no safety stand...

Traveling to the world's most historic sites via virtual reality is still not very common, but a rich interactive peek inside one of the UK's most exclusive structures proves that VR tours are definit...

Later this month, you'll have a chance to buy one of the two Fiat 500Ls that Pope Francis was driven around in during his visit to Philadelphia last September.See also: This motorcycle can transform i...

Nest has long been the darling of the smart home industry, but the company recently confirmed its web-connected smart thermostat, known for learning the behavior of owners and saving them money, had b...

Debating between a motorcycle and a jet ski? You can now have the best of both worlds.The Biski is the amalgam of the words "motorbike" and "jet ski," which Gibbs is combining into one vehicle. Grante...

The speed of your Chrome browser is about to go up. That's thanks to Google  rolling out a new data-compression algorithm, which will speed up your web browsing by reducing file sizes.Google empl...

In this Ask A Dev, Web Developer DJ Karasek gives developers a better idea of what makes Facebook React stand out from the front-end framework crowd (aside from its name)For starters, React allows you...

Technological innovation affects and changes the way we do pretty much everything — and the way we shop is no exception.In fact, technology has helped create the "Omnishopper" — a brand ne...

CES is a great place to see some super-advanced tech prototypes, but it's important to manage your own expectations — because a lot of gizmos don't exactly work as advertisedThis is true in real...

CES is a great place to see some super-advanced tech prototypes, but it's important to manage your own expectations — because a lot of gizmos don't exactly work as advertisedThis is true in real...

When you think of Google Docs, professional songwriting is likely not the first activity that comes to mind. That may change when you see this video from indie rocker Sad13 and hip hop artist Lizzo, w...

If you own a smartphone or laptop, you know all too well about the pains that come with using one. Your neck, your back and your shoulders suffer from long hours hunched over your device. You’re...

The weakest defense against the dark art of hacking is still you.This humbling fact was proven once again when 27-year-old CTO of Praesidio and weekend hacker Sean Cassidy unveiled a proof-of-concept ...

Apple on Wednesday released two updates to its collection of music creation tools for iOS. The goal is to make it easier for musicians and aspiring musicians alike to more easily create and produce ja...

With phone-centric tech trade show Mobile World Conference a month away, rumors surrounding Samsung's next flagship smartphone — presumably called the Galaxy S7 — are starting to pop up fr...

The Microsoft Surface success story has taken a bit of a twistMicrosoft will, according to Channelnomics Europe voluntarily recall chargers for the Surface Pro, Surface Pro 2 and Surface Pro 3. The po...

On Saturday, Koby Soto had a bad day and he has the data to prove itHis boyfriend of around one month broke up with him, which was traumatic enough, but when Soto, cofounder of Tel Aviv property manag...

On Saturday, Koby Soto had a bad day and he has the data to prove itHis boyfriend of around one month broke up with him, which was traumatic enough, but when Soto, cofounder of Tel Aviv property manag...

Going to the doctor's office is a loathsome experience for anyone, but the burden is compounded when you're struggling financially.With costly insurance often a gateway to adequate health services, lo...

Users of iPhones, iPads and iPods probably didn't give much thought to Tuesday's iOS update, which brings the mobile OS to version 9.2.1.According to Apple, the update contains "security updates and b...

Facebook’s campaign to introduce the Free Basics platform in India continues to sink deeper into troubled waters. A week after it questioned Facebook’s claim of having 11 million Free Basi...

The Megacopter, an aptly-named multicopter drone, has received the Guinness World Record for heaviest load lifted for a remote-controlled multicopter: 134.5 pounds.The aluminum and plywood drone has 4...

Your YouTube videos need never buffer again if Australia upgrades to a 5G mobile network.That high-tech future isn't too far off, according to Vodafone. The company's chief technology officer Benoit H...

Twitter experienced one of its biggest outages in recent memory Tuesday when its app and website went down for many users.Twitter, of course, is typically the first place people go to complain about a...

There's no two ways about it: Huawei is making some great smartphones these daysThe Chinese smartphone manufacturer — just like its Chinese rivals — once used to produce phones that had so...

Last year, Amazon announced its Dash Button, letting people order products from its site with the push of a button. By September, the button became available to all Amazon Prime customers for purchase...

Volkswagen is promoting its semi-autonomous Trailer Assist system with a pretty crazy stunt.The Norwegian arm of the German automaker cut a small car in half and constructed a plexiglass trailer aroun...

Privacy conscious Android users now have a new, extra secure, way to use FacebookFacebook's Android app now supports browsing via Tor, the social network announced Tuesday. The feature, which is still...

Some of the chuckles surrounding those burning hoverboard videos were silenced on Friday when a UK teen led two younger children to safety after a hoverboard erupted in flames, filling the home with s...

Good news, compact luxury EV buyers: America's third-best-selling electric vehicle, the BMW i3, might have a 120-mile range by this summer.See also: Report: Panasonic promises $1.6 billion toward Tesl...

Music plays a major role in setting the mood at a coffee shopStarbucks, which is never short on Michael Bublé, wants you to immerse yourself in the ambience even more.On Tuesday, the company anno...

Amazon's drone delivery service, Amazon Prime Air, is very real. And if the online shopping giant's aggressive plans pan out, the days of drones dropping off packages in your yard, minutes after you'v...

When it comes to making up passwords, we’re not doing so great as a society.Password management firm SplashData released its annual "Worst Passwords List," revealing that humans have remained ra...

Right as the Internet was aflutter with news of Netflix's secret categories last week, a browser tool called Super Browse was released to make viewing them a whole lot easier.Super Browse, a Goog...

LONDON — Humans have to be "very careful" over the next 100 years in the face of threats stemming from progress in science and technology, physicist Stephen Hawking saidThe 74-year-old Cambridge...

Earlier this month, Under Armour unveiled its first ever wristband wearable at CES 2016 alongside a collection of other tracking devices. It was a big and telling move for the company which traditiona...

I'm in Tierra del Fuego National Park, an archipelago at South America's tip that's shared by both Chile and Argentina, approaching a sign that says I've reached the "End of the World." Considered the...

Look at your phone, right above the screen. You probably see one or two black dots to the right or left of your selfie camera. Those tiny-yet-irritatingly-noticeable dots have been an unavoidable part...

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — The Tesla Australia WhatsApp group is in the middle of an in-depth discussion about eccentric Australian politician, Clive Palmer. Back in February, the Palmer United Pa...

Whatsapp has announced it will drop its subscription fee, making the service free for everyone. Even better, it won't start showing third-party ads to users, though it has an idea on how to better con...

Travelers, have you noticed that your iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus' battery percentage sometimes doesn't update when you change time zones, or when you change the time on the device manually?Well, in a...

Travelers, have you noticed that your iPhone 6S or iPhone 6S Plus' battery percentage sometimes doesn't update when you change time zones, or when you change the time on the device manually?Well, in a...

Things were going so smoothly. My LIX 3D Printing pen was sucking in reeds of filament and spitting out hot, soft-ish material from the tip. I was gamely trying to master 3D printing with the thin, me...

Things were going so smoothly. My LIX 3D Printing pen was sucking in reeds of filament and spitting out hot, soft-ish material from the tip. I was gamely trying to master 3D printing with the thin, me...

In addition to serving as your connection to Amazon's vast inventory of products, Amazon Echo can now also read your Kindle books to youAnd unlike Amazon's service Audible, which provides audiobooks f...

Microsoft's augmented reality headset called the HoloLens has already won over a number of fans eager to try the device, but details about how it works have been scarceHowever, a few more bits of info...

Rumors that Apple might drop the iPhone headphone jack have the tech world in a heated debate. Would it be a deal-breaker for potential iPhone buyers?See also: What it's like to be a VR porn star R...

Recently, I wrote that the 2016 Mazda Miata was all about connecting with the road. But, if I'm honest, the Alfa Romeo 4C Spider is, too.If the Miata is connecting with the road, it does so in a famil...

CodeGirl director Lesley Chilcott speaks about the social change she wants her new film, which premiered on YouTube and Mashable, to bring about in the tech industry.Watch the full-length film for fre...

With Apple previewing new iOS features, including a new Night Shift feature, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: The 12 best Android apps of 2015Each weekend, we round up a...

Nissan's seven-seater Rogue crossover has a great all-wheel drive system. It can't, say, climb a 45-degree snow-packed slope at speeds of 60 miles per hour. The Rogue Warrior can, however.See also: Ni...

Panasonic is doubling down on its investment both in Tesla and the electrified future of mobility.According to MarketWatch, the Japanese electronics company has promised up to $1.6 billion toward the ...

Have you ever wanted to watch a huge spinning wheel shoot off a glorious cacophony of fireworks? It's Friday, so here's to ending the week with a little bit of crazy.To celebrate reaching 2 million su...

iTunes Radio, Apple's ad-supported streaming service, will soon no longer be freeThe company plans to make the service part of Apple Music, which costs $10 a month, beginning Jan. 29, according to Buz...

The latest innovation in airplane safety might just be a detachable cabin, at least according to a Russian inventor who released his designs for the technology this weekTatarenko Vladimir Nikolaevich ...

After developing software for Bitcoin for five years, Mike Hearn has sold his coins and is backing out.In an article on Medium, Hearn details the multitude of reasons why Bitcoin has ul...

When it comes to tech, size is no indication of strength. As we march forward into a new year, we're celebrating the tiny technologies that are set for legendary things tomorrow: From a bumblebee back...

In this Ask A Dev, Android engineer Eric Brynsvold, recaps all the cool technology he saw at this year's CES and how it will shape the Internet of Things landscape for developersThere were connected c...

After developing software for Bitcoin for five years, Mike Hearn has sold his coins and is backing out.In an article on Medium, Hearn details the multitude of reasons why Bitcoin has ul...

Google Drive is a blessing to anyone who wants to collaborate on documents or organize their own work. But it can get to the point where there’s so much to keep track of that finding the right f...

This Saturday's fight between David "Hayemaker" Haye and Mark "The Dominator" di Mori in London will be the first boxing match to be broadcast live for virtual reality.Last year, Showtime released a 3...

It’s a New Year and a new you. At least that’s the idea, tackling 2016 with sound mind, body, diet and finances. You want to be smarter, look better and feel centered. That’s a lot o...

When it comes to tech, size is no indication of strength. As we march forward into a new year, we're celebrating the tiny technologies that are set for legendary things tomorrow: From a bumblebee back...

This Saturday's fight between David "Hayemaker" Haye and Mark "The Dominator" di Mori in London will be the first boxing match to be broadcast live for virtual reality.Last year, Showtime released a 3...

In our Edward Snowden era, we think of “mass surveillance” in terms of national security more often than in terms of local law enforcement. But one sort of technology used at the Fresno Po...

In this Ask A Dev, Android engineer Eric Brynsvold, recaps all the cool technology he saw at this year's CES and how it will shape the Internet of Things landscape for developersThere were connected c...

DETROIT — On the floor of the North American International Auto Show, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx pledged $4 billion over the next 10 years will be spent testing connecte...

DETROIT — On the floor of the North American International Auto Show, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx pledged $4 billion over the next 10 years will be spent testing connecte...

Google Drive is a blessing to anyone who wants to collaborate on documents or organize their own work. But it can get to the point where there’s so much to keep track of that finding the right f...

This Saturday's fight between David "Hayemaker" Haye and Mark "The Dominator" di Mori in London will be the first boxing match to be broadcast live for virtual reality.Last year, Showtime released a 3...

After recent incidents including the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 in 2013, the U.S. Department of Transportation released an audit report, saying overuse of flight automation cou...

It’s a New Year and a new you. At least that’s the idea, tackling 2016 with sound mind, body, diet and finances. You want to be smarter, look better and feel centered. That’s a lot o...

In our Edward Snowden era, we think of “mass surveillance” in terms of national security more often than in terms of local law enforcement. But one sort of technology used at the Fresno Po...

Sony's A7R II may be the darling of the camera world at the moment, but it doesn't mean other camera makers are standing still.Fujifilm's new X-Pro2 is a monster in its own right, even though it doesn...

DETROIT — On the floor of the North American International Auto Show, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx pledged $4 billion over the next 10 years will be spent testing connecte...

It’s a New Year and a new you. At least that’s the idea, tackling 2016 with sound mind, body, diet and finances. You want to be smarter, look better and feel centered. That’s a lot o...

DETROIT — Toyota is working to get data to and from your car as fast as and as safely as possible and satellites might be the answer.The Japanese automaker unveiled one of its flat-panel satelli...

If you had told me five years ago that General Motors — more specifically, Cadillac— was going to make a car like the ATS-V, I would have callously laughed at you in disbelief.That's becau...

In our Edward Snowden era, we think of “mass surveillance” in terms of national security more often than in terms of local law enforcement. But one sort of technology used at the Fresno Po...

We're only a few weeks into 2016, but we've already seen a few viral apps seemingly come out of nowhere and take over our Twitter feeds.One such app, Stolen, which seemed to go viral almost overnight,...

For all of its productivity superpowers, one feature Slack's communication platform lacks is voice and video calling features. Now Microsoft is using Slack to help change that.Microsoft introduced a n...

DETROIT — On the floor of the North American International Auto Show, Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx pledged $4 billion over the next 10 years will be spent testing connecte...

Some people buy Tesla's fast-accelerating electric vehicles not for their performance but rather for their eco-friendly, polar bear-saving powertrainsIronically, once these buyers have plunked down th...

The developers of f.lux have responded to Apple's recent iOS update that adds a feature called Night Shift, which makes it easier to use your iOS devices at nightIn a statement on their website Thursd...

After recent incidents including the crash of Asiana Airlines flight 214 in 2013, the U.S. Department of Transportation released an audit report, saying overuse of flight automation cou...

Sony's A7R II may be the darling of the camera world at the moment, but it doesn't mean other camera makers are standing still.Fujifilm's new X-Pro2 is a monster in its own right, even though it doesn...

Remember Peach?It was the super-hot, private social-networking app that launched almost a week ago. Everyone was downloading it and filling up other social networks talking about it. I had such extrem...

If you had told me five years ago that General Motors — more specifically, Cadillac— was going to make a car like the ATS-V, I would have callously laughed at you in disbelief.That's becau...

Foursquare announced Thursday that CEO and co-founder Dennis Crowley is stepping down from his role as CEO, becoming the executive chairman.The new CEO is Jeff Glueck, who has served as COO for the pa...

You know that moment when you lock eyes with someone across the room? You heart starts to race, and it skips a beat or two.Dating app Once knows this, too, and it wants to track your heart rate to hel...

Now that Netflix is in 190 countries, the company really, really doesn't want users to login using proxies or VPNs.In a blog post published Thursday, the company said that users will only be able to u...

Sony's A7R II may be the darling of the camera world at the moment, but it doesn't mean other camera makers are standing still.Fujifilm's new X-Pro2 is a monster in its own right, even though it doesn...

Some people buy Tesla's fast-accelerating electric vehicles not for their performance but rather for their eco-friendly, polar bear-saving powertrainsIronically, once these buyers have plunked down th...

Casting your Google Chrome browser to other devices is about to become a lot more simplistic. First reported by SlashGear, Google is testing out a new feature in the Chrome beta that forgoes the need ...

Windows 7 and 8 loyalists rejoice. Microsoft has released detailed instructions to turn off the insistent notifications about upgrading your operating system to Windows 10.The process itself is p...

Apple’s Live Photos are slowly making its way into the ecosystem of the Web. A few iOS apps like Tumblr and Facebook recently started supporting Live Photos. Other than those exceptions, you cou...

The annals of history are filled with the names of famous inventors. Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Nicola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright Brothers — all known for signature creation...

Instagram search is getting better — although the experience is still very different for different peoplePhotographer Anthony Quintano noted on Twitter that searching for someone in Instagram's ...

My favorite bit of tech at CES 2016 wasn't a 98-inch 8K TV or a car from the future, it was a fridge. Samsung's $5,000 Smart Family Hub Fridge.I'm not going to lie, I totally lust after this fridge. I...

DETROIT — Utility and luxury were both on display in full force in Detroit for the North American International Auto Show this week. So, too, were vehicles that dared to reshape and reimagine th...

My favorite bit of tech at CES 2016 wasn't a 98-inch 8K TV or a car from the future, it was a fridge. Samsung's $5,000 Smart Family Hub Fridge.I'm not going to lie, I totally lust after this fridge. I...

A new report has revealed personal computer sales are at their lowest in seven years with Apple being the only company to sell more PCs in 2015 than 2014. The report cites the lack of hardwa...

Although U.S. authorities have made headway in terms of regulating drone use, there's still no real standard way of stopping a drone once you find out one is illegally hovering over your home or busin...

Google Maps has a new trick up its sleeve: predicting your destination when you get on the road.The company will soon be updating its navigation app with a new "driving mode" that uses your location h...

Federal regulations regarding the implementation and operation of self-driving cars might be in the works.According to Reuters, Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx is set to be in Detroit Thursday t...

By now we seen a long list of burned hoverboards and even a few in the midst of exploding, but this is the first time we've seen one go up in flames while the owner is on itHoverboard owner Kevin MacL...

Google Cardboard's virtual reality apps may soon sound a whole lot better.The company introduced new tools for developers that Google promises will allow them to create more immersive and realistic au...

Although the virtual reality push, from gaming to movies to TV, is rapidly gaining momentum, Hulu fans will have to wait a little longer for the company's promised VR appThe VR experience tool that wa...

More than a million people visit the quirky, high-tech and massive Miniatur Wunderland — the world's largest, tiniest-scale model railway exhibit — in Hamburg, Germany each year, but now y...

Remember the 18-year-old who created that awesome website last summer to help people appeal unfair parking tickets?Well he's back, and this time he's gone one step further and actually created a robot...

Attendees at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will have the ability to experience the festival in a whole new way, thanks to some cutting-edge technology.Goldenvoice — the pe...

Apple CEO Tim Cook is still angry the Obama administration hasn't taken a firm stance on unbreakable encryption.Cook reportedly told White House officials last week they should "come out and say 'no b...

Facebook's Free Basics program in India, which it claims would help bring millions of Indians connect to the Internet on mobile, has hit rough waters with the Indian telecom regulator. Despite a multi...

We need to debrief after everything we saw at CES 2016.See also: The best tech of CES 2016On this episode of MashTalk, we recap all the noteworthy things we saw at CES 2016, including tech-savvy cars,...

Still wrapping your head around CES? Sorry, no time for that: The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona starts in late February, and announcements are already trickling inThe first major company to go of...

Apple's possibly-sentient personal assistant Siri can do a lot of things, but did you know she can beatbox?It's simple to try, provided you have an iPhone or an iPad: Just ask "Siri, can you beatbox f...

Attendees at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival will have the ability to experience the festival in a whole new way, thanks to some cutting-edge technology.Goldenvoice — the pe...

If the $379 price tag on Google's Nexus 5X smartphone was just a little too high for you, you're in luck: The starting price of the device has been reduced to $349The phone, which is unlocked and cont...

Facebook's Free Basics program in India, which it claims would help bring millions of Indians connect to the Internet on mobile, has hit rough waters with the Indian telecom regulator. Despite a multi...

DETROIT — Turns out, the first self-driving car you will ride in won't be one you own; it'll be one you order up on your smartphone from Lyft."The first mainstream deployment of autonomous vehic...

DETROIT — Turns out, the first self-driving car you will ride in won't be one you own; it'll be one you order up on your smartphone from Lyft."The first mainstream deployment of autonomous vehic...

Still wrapping your head around CES? Sorry, no time for that: The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona starts in late February, and announcements are already trickling inThe first major company to go of...

For most devout Instagrammers, having 1 million followers — let alone 8 million — sounds like a dream come true. But with great power comes a great pain, in the form of a zillion notificat...

If you were hoping to nab a cheap wearable any time soon, your friendly, neighborhood, knock-off dealer's supply might have just gotten pinched. An estimated $35,000 worth of counterfeit...

Apple's possibly-sentient personal assistant Siri can do a lot of things, but did you know she can beatbox?It's simple to try, provided you have an iPhone or an iPad: Just ask "Siri, can you beatbox f...

If the $379 price tag on Google's Nexus 5X smartphone was just a little too high for you, you're in luck: The starting price of the device has been reduced to $349The phone, which is unlocked and cont...

DETROIT — Turns out, the first self-driving car you will ride in won't be one you own; it'll be one you order up on your smartphone from Lyft."The first mainstream deployment of autonomous vehic...

Skype will soon be adding one of its most requested features.Microsoft will soon add free group video calls to Skype's iOS, Android and Windows 10 mobile apps, the company announced Tuesday. The updat...

For most devout Instagrammers, having 1 million followers — let alone 8 million — sounds like a dream come true. But with great power comes a great pain, in the form of a zillion notificat...

From teaching kids to code to expanding access the open Internet, the tech industry played a prominent role in President Barack Obama's State of the Union address on Tuesday night.One of the key quest...

DETROIT — Even Buick admits it: Most people under 30 have no opinion of Buick as a brand.Most carmakers would find that extremely distressing — especially one with such a long lineage. For...

If you were hoping to nab a cheap wearable any time soon, your friendly, neighborhood, knock-off dealer's supply might have just gotten pinched. An estimated $35,000 worth of counterfeit...

Apple still won't release the sales figures for its Apple Watch, a decision that has some wondering if the wearable device might be the company's first major misstepBut if a new report is to be believ...

Using your iPhone and iPad at night is about to get a lot easier on your tired brain.That's thanks to a new feature Apple previewed Monday called Night Shift, which will roll out as part of the upcomi...

It's not always talked about in polite company, but your body produces a lot of gases scientists know little about.A new smart pill, designed at Melbourne's RMIT University, could help us learn more a...

With all the new activity around virtual reality, it now appears that one of Silicon Valley's giants, Google, has decided to double down on the rapidly expanding platformSee also: Escape Helmet: How v...

It was bound to happenSnapchat, the vaunted unicorn and once controversial app known for teens up to no good, is officially for parents, tooWhile this has been true for some time, that Snapchat has fi...

DETROIT — Automakers have agreed to work on fundamental changes in their relationship with the U.S. government using the aviation industry as a model in order to get new safety technology to the...

A new wearable called Feel wants to be a high-tech mood ring for your wrist.Although it doesn't change colors like a traditional mood ring, the device by Sentio Solutions reads your current emoti...

LAS VEGAS — A sleek new device could help you charge your phone without an electric outlet.Swedish startup MyFC unveiled its cool technology, dubbed JAQ, at CES on Jan. 6. The device, which is s...

Google has announced the dates for its annual I/O developer conference.The event will take place May 18-20 at Shoreline Amphitheater, near the company's Mountain View, California, headquarters. The ev...

Amazon is trying to secure its place as the first stop for those who pre-order games.The company declared Tuesday that it would offer 20% off the price of a new game (which usually hovers around $60, ...

You might be surprised to know that we did not fly a drone over a car to make this video. The swirly, oddly mesmerizing video you see here is comprised of a four-camera system stitched together in rea...

Grindr has just taken a large Chinese investment for global expansion, but next to its main rival in China, it's puny.Grindr, a popular dating app for gay men, announced late on Monday that it sold it...

Volkswagen's plan to address the Dieselgate scandal in the U.S. just hit a wall.The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and California Air Resources Board informed the Volkswagen Group that the agenc...

Buying a car should be as easy as any other appliance, like a TV or refrigerator. But between all the different dealerships, makes, models and financing, it’s easy to spend a whole weekend, or l...

DETROIT — The North American International Auto Show kicked off this week, and with it has come several new and exciting luxury flagship cars from some of the leading global automakers.According...

DETROIT — Lincoln is reaching into its past in hopes of enriching its future here at the North American International Auto Show with the 2017 Continental flagship sedan... with a moniker full of...

The vomit comet has some competition."Galactica" is a new take on roller coasters from Alton Towers, the UK equivalent of Six Flags. It combines the 3.5 G thrills of an actual roller coaster with the ...

DETROIT — Acura just got a lot more interesting. That's because it's shown a new way forward for its future car designs in the form of the Precision concept unveiled Tuesday at the North America...

On the heels of learning that Lenovo will remove the Motorola name from all its new smartphones, the company has confirmed it will stop developing and selling the Moto G, Motorola's best-selling smart...

Update: Tuesday, 1:44 p.m. ET: Motorola has clarified that it is not killing off the Moto G and E devices; Xudong's statement was misinterpreted. A Motorola spokesperson provided the following stateme...

Pre-orders for Lily's smart camera drone have reached $34 million, equaling 60,000 units according to Forbes. The so-called "selfie drone" is slated to arrive this summer.After throwing Lily...

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer known for well-performing, low-cost devices, is betting that your two biggest qualms with smartphones today are high price and shoddy battery lifeIts latest...

That's all, folks: Starting Jan. 12, Microsoft no longer supports older versions of Internet Explorer, including IE 8, 9 and 10More precisely, this means Microsoft will no longer provide security upda...

Your Twitter timeline is about to get noisier.Live stream videos from Periscope will soon autoplay inside of tweets on Twitter's app and website, the company announced Tuesday. The update means you wi...

LAS VEGAS — CES 2016 got really weirdFrom watching virtual reality porn to LG's rollable display, there was plenty we saw around the CES show floor that made us scratch our heads.See also: The b...

If looking out the car window during an Uber ride is just too old school for you — and you've exhausted all other time-killing options on your smartphone — the company has a new way to kee...

As last week's CES proved, the automotive industry is fast merging with the technology industry, spurred on by increased competition and consumer demand more than anything else. Now one of the major p...

There’s no denying that Tinder users are analyzing each other on the basis of desirability. Are you worthy of a swipe right based on your looks and your profile?What you might not know, however,...

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is known for expressing some rather colorful opinions and far out predictions, but his latest might be his most interestingIn an Interview with the BBC, Musk confirm...

DETROIT — Honda's second-generation Ridgeline might be one of the safest, most refined mid-size pickups on the market. But you won't care about that. What you're going to like is its in-bed feat...

DETROIT — Audi surprised attendees of the North American International Auto Show with a new hydrogen fuel cell-powered concept called the "h-tron quattro" concept.See also: Nissan's Titan Warrio...

Attention, night owls: Apple will soon be making it easier for you to use your devices at night.The upcoming iOS 9.3 update will include a new feature called "Night Shift" that will change the colors ...

Many artists like to claim the mantle of being a cutting-edge artist, but the late David Bowie, a music innovator to be sure, quietly helped pioneer online music and social networks long before most m...

The vast amount of content on Netflix can get pretty unwieldy. Luckily, there's a secret, better way to browse the swaths of mediocre titles on the service to get to what you're really looking for.Net...

You know we're getting a little spoiled when the reaction to things like real hoverboards and self-parking cars are "yeah, we saw that coming." So it's really no surprise that a nearly transparent, ge...

iOS 9.3 may be Apple's most targeted release yet. While there are sure to be bug fixes, performance enhancements and other random feature updates, it appears the biggest changes will be all geared tow...

Promoted by Ford If you were to walk the floors of CES, who would you see? You'd see the usual characters – like eager, fresh-faced startups looking for a big break, or international tech behemo...

Amazon's planning to release a new portable version of its Internet-connected, voice-controlled Echo Bluetooth speaker, according to The Wall Street Journal.The smaller and cheaper version of the Echo...

We live in a time of unparalleled busyness — and every minute of the day is important to us. The good news is, technology is keeping pace with that trend, and it’s empowering us to make th...

Promoted by Visa After the success of their Bluetooth-enabled gramophone speaker, CEO and founder Pavan Bapu and his team at Gramovox set out to revolutionize another seemingly antiquated musical devi...

If you’re an Apple user who's thinking of switching over to team Android, making the change may soon be a lot less complicated than anticipated.Apple has agreed to develop a tool that allows use...

This story was updated at 5:56 p.m. ET to reflect Apple's comment.Apple debunked rumors on Monday that the company was developing a tool to help users switch from iOS to Android.The comments came afte...

60% of senior women in the tech industry say they've experienced unwanted sexual advances at work, according to a new survey.The survey, which focused on 220 women who held positions of power at a var...

Within the tech world, it's a known fact that women are outrageously underrepresented. Silicon Valley is notoriously full of white men, and even many of the giants of the tech corporate world reveal d...

Chatting on Facebook Messenger could soon become a lot easier for Mac users.Facebook has reportedly built a dedicated Mac client for Messenger, according to TechCrunchSee also: 10 hidden tricks to get...

Oculus fired 2016's first shot for virtual reality. Now it's HTC's turn.Pre-orders for the HTC Vive will open on Feb. 29, with orders shipping sometime in April. There's no pricing yet, but HTC c...

One hundred drones performing an amazing light show above an orchestra playing Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 just broke a Guinness World Record for Most Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) airborne simultane...

DETROIT — Just ahead of the debut of the Tiguan Active GTE concept, Volkswagen of America CEO Michael Horn announced the company had officially launched a Goodwill program for its 3.0-liter TDI ...

DETROIT — Just ahead of the debut of the Tiguan Active GTE concept, Volkswagen of America CEO Michael Horn announced the company had officially launched a Goodwill program for its 3.0-liter TDI ...

Apple Music is here to stayAccording to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple's music streaming service currently has more than 10 million paying subscribersSee also: Apple Music review: Loud, ...

DETROIT — Desert racing and daily driving are two automotive forms that rarely ever collide on the road. That's because uniting the two would be like combining UFC and filing your taxes. One is ...

The Consumer Electronics Show 2016 was completely overrun with things for people to ride and drive: Electric scooters and skateboards, hoverboards, autonomous manned drones, self-driving cars, and tri...

Eastman Kodak is bringing back an old-school film camera: the Super 8, popular for making home movies after it was launched 50 years ago. The photography pioneer, which stopped selling digital cameras...

Can Light's $1,699 L16 camera, which is about the size of three iPhone 6 Plus devices stacked together, really replace a DSLR and a bunch of lenses worth about $5,000? Read more in the full review: ht...

Apple Music is here to stayAccording to a new report from the Financial Times, Apple's music streaming service currently has more than 10 million paying subscribersSee also: Apple Music review: Loud, ...

Even as Facebook's Free Basics platform claims to connect India's villages by giving them free but limited Internet, a grassroots initiative aims to provide unrestricted Internet access for free. Four...

DETROIT — Chrysler, the brand that invented the minivan, is looking to remake the iconic family-hauler for 2017 with the all-new Pacifica. Although the exterior looks like a roundier version of ...

DETROIT — Chrysler, the brand that invented the minivan, is looking to remake the iconic family-hauler for 2017 with the all-new Pacifica. Although the exterior looks like a roundier version of ...

DETROIT — "Mobility" has become a buzzword in the automotive industry. It's not enough anymore to simply make safe, reliable cars anymore. Brands now have to also boast about their ability to ge...

DETROIT — "Mobility" has become a buzzword in the automotive industry. It's not enough anymore to simply make safe, reliable cars anymore. Brands now have to also boast about their ability to ge...

The Light Festival Lux Helsinki displays inspiring light artwork at the darkest time of the year in Helsinki, Finland. Artists from Finland, France, Belgium and Canada have their creative work display...

As investigations continue into numerous house fires caused by hoverboards, authorities are now looking into an incident in California in which a hoverboard apparently caught fire and destroyed a woma...

DETROIT — Where to begin with the all-new E-Class? Although it might have one of the least inspiring exteriors of the Mercedes-Benz lineup, it has perhaps the most awe-inspiring list of tech and...

DETROIT — With a one-two punch following its all-electric BUDD-e microbus debut at CES last week has followed up that friendly little concept with something decidedly more menacing at the Detroi...

Each of the thousands of products at CES 2016 comes with a tagline to describe what it does, and some of them can get a little strange. We picked out 20 of our favorites and let a company representati...

January is pretty much "car month" now.First, we rang in the new year with a slew of techie debuts at 2016 International CES in Las Vegas. Now, we head straight into the the North American Internation...

On Thursday, Facebook announced there are more than 800 million monthly active users on Messenger. While we can assume they're all at least chatting with each other, there's a whole lot more you can d...

With tons of new drool-worthy tech coming out of CES, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: The best tech of CES 2016Each weekend, we round up a few of our favorite new and u...

Elon Musk likes to talk about our self-driving car future, and on Saturday we got glimpse of just how close it is thanks to an update to Tesla's softwareThe company released version 7.1 of its softwar...

Nearly everyone seems to want an Apple Car, and those hopes were raised higher earlier this week when it was revealed that the Apple.car domain had been registered by the tech giantBut hold on a secon...

When Oculus Rift pre-orders went live Wednesday, plenty of people were scrambling to get their hands on a piece of virtual reality. While many have said 2016 will be VR's big year, it doesn't mean the...

LAS VEGAS — We’re deep into the golden age of Bluetooth speakers. Besides various sizes and power levels, you can also get speakers shaped like a jet engine, a zeppelin, or even a TIE figh...

LAS VEGAS – In the original Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger clicks one button on a remote control to transform the TV built into the wall of his futuristic apartment from a small-screen news...

How do you get girls excited about coding? An organization in the Bay Area aims to bring more women into coding with a groundbreaking contest. Read more...More about App, Girls, Social Good, App Devel...

LAS VEGAS — "CES might as well stand for 'car electronics show," one of the Audi technology chiefs joked during a roundtable this week at the 2016 International CES. "The entire North Hall was n...

LAS VEGAS –- After a few years of showing off less-than-impressive smart gadgets at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, companies stepped it up this year by showing off innovative, but also us...

LAS VEGAS — Of all the problems with Google Glass, the biggest one was social acceptance. No matter what they did for you, the device simply looked too dorky for the vast majority of the public ...

Image: National Media Museum/Kodak MuseumYou press the button, we do the rest.Kodak marketing sloganFor more than half a century after its invention, photography was the exclusive domain of profession...

LAS VEGAS — The man talking to me looks dapper in his grey suit. As we chat, he takes a smartphone out of his pocket and waves it over an enlarged button with gray markings on his left cuff.What...

LAS VEGAS — Probably the biggest surprise of CES 2016 was the return of vinyl.Both Sony and Panasonic announced new turntables, and not just for nostalgia’s sake. After a limited release t...

Peach, a new social app, is a new hotness. At least for today.Dubbed "a fun, simple way to keep up with friends and be yourself," the app is kind of like a cross between Twitter and Slack. After you c...

The latest L'Oréal makeover doesn't involve makeup at all. The cosmetics giant is taking its first step into wearable technology.L'Oréal's product isn't a bracelet, a watch or any kind of je...

If you spent any time on Twitter Friday, you probably heard about a new app called Peach.Created by a Vine cofounder, the app is "a fun, simple way to keep up with friends and be yourself," that every...

Humans will never stop inventing new ways to actually get people out of bedLeaving the comfort of a cozy bed is never easy, especially when that snooze button on your alarm is just far too easy to pus...

There are many ways to get a massage but they’re all stationary: you have to go lie down in a spa, or sit in a massage chair.How about getting a massage anywhere — on the way to work, in y...

In addition to gadgets and large electronics, a ton of accessories are showcased at CES every year. Smartphone cases that are extra elaborate always draw a lot of attention.In the end though, a lot of...

Apple has registered three domain names related to the auto industry, so start firing up the rumor mill.As spotted by MacRumors, the company has registered the domain names apple.cars, apple.car and a...

Not only does the newest Sleep Number "It" bed analyze how you sleep, it also keeps track of what you do during the day and tells you how to maximize your sleep experience.The new addition c...

Remember Project Tango, Google's 3D-sensing smartphones and tablets? It looks like the long awaited consumer version of the handset was just made official.Lenovo is working with Google to make the fir...

Promoted by FordVirtual reality and gaming technology have both evolved in amazing, unexpected and unprecedented ways in the past few years — and at a rapid pace. The innovation has been so ramp...

Fitbit, a leading name is the wearable fitness tracker market, has been delivered a class action lawsuit from three people on the grounds that the company's PurePulse Trackers do not accurately m...

Mashable's Sam Sheffer took the DJI Osmo X3, an all-in-one camera gimbal stabilizing system, out for a spin to test whether it is practical for vlogging. We shot this video at 1080p, 24 frames per sec...

When we think about birth control, we tend to think of women. But a German inventor wants to flip the switch on that discussion with his latest creation.Introducing the “sperm switch,” nam...

When we think about birth control, we tend to think of women. But a German inventor wants to flip the switch on that discussion with his latest creation.Introducing the “sperm switch,” nam...

Promoted by FordTypically, CES focuses on showy unveils and groundbreaking new technologies that make attendees "ooh" and "aah," as well as ask, "When can I buy it?"In recent years, fitness technology...

A Chinese company at CES was raided by the U.S. Marshals on Thursday for producing and selling a knockoff of a patented single-wheeled electric skateboard.Changzhou First International Trade's "Trotte...

Touchscreen everything and complete personalization. That's how Whirlpool imagines what your kitchen will look in just a few years.Read the full review here: https://on.mash.to/1OUNkAB Read more...Mor...

Gizmo 3D printers use a process called DLP (Digital Light Printing) to print 3D models, layer-by-layer in a vat of photo-sensitive resin. It's fast and very coolRead more in the review: https://on.mas...

Promoted by VisaMaxwell Bogue, Daniel Cowen and Peter Dilworth began a Kickstarter campaign in February of 2013 for the 3Doodler – the only 3D printing pen in existence. After the success of the...

Naughty America, one of the largest pornography production companies in the U.S., invited Mashable reporter Raymond Wong to try out VR porn in a Las Vegas hotel room. Things got really weirdRead more ...

Video: Rill Causey, Noah ThroopI've tried a lot of different virtual reality experiences. Some good, some extraordinarily amazing, and some terrible. But mostly good.I've never, however, tried VR porn...

The core of the OMbra is a small black box that tracks running performance indicators like distance, cadence, pace, heart rate and calories. The bra collects data about your workout and sends it direc...

Motorola owner Lenovo will stop using the Motorola name for its phones in 2016. Instead, the company will call its cheaper phones Vibe and its high-end devices Moto"We'll slowly phase out Motorola and...

Motorola owner Lenovo will stop using the Motorola name for its phones in 2016. Instead, the company will call its cheaper phones Vibe and its high-end devices Moto"We'll slowly phase out Motorola and...

The latest patent filed by Apple details the idea of using two cameras to simultaneously capture two different fields of view in the same direction. By taking two photos with different focal lengths, ...

They may one day deliver books and diapers to your front door, but for now, drones are being useful helping people rebuild after a traumatic start to the bushfire season in Australia.Australasian insu...

CES 2016 is shaping up to be an impressive show.Four days in and the Mashable team was once again on the ground finding the best tech from the show floor. From new robots and wearables to iPhone acces...

Video: Quincy LedbetterLAS VEGAS — Touchscreen everything and complete personalization. That's how Whirlpool imagines how your kitchen will look in just a few years.At CES this week, the company...

Video: Rill Causey, Quincy LedbetterLAS VEGAS — Can Light's $1,699 L16 camera, which is about the size of three iPhone 6 Plus's stacked together, really replace a DSLR and and a bunch of lenses ...

LAS VEGAS — Polaroid is obsessed with making cute cameras.The company's Cube action cameras are adorable. The newly announced Snap+ sticker printer camera is adorable. And so is the iZone.See al...

Warning: Minor spoilers for The Martian ahead.If virtual reality is going to reach a wide audience, it's going to need some killer contentOne of the first pieces of VR content out of the gate will be ...

Video: Rill CauseyLAS VEGAS — Fitness trackers are everywhere, and now you'll even find them under your clothes.Smart clothing company OM, known for making web-connected workout shirts, has been...

LAS VEGAS — YouTube will support the latest innovation in video — HDR or high dynamic range — Robery Kyncl, the company's chief business officer announced on Thursday at CES 2016.Kyn...

Mashable's Sam Sheffer took the Blink-Board electric skateboard from Acton for a test ride, and totally loved it. You can ride it forward up to 12 m.p.h, as well as backward. Also it has a 6 mile rang...

Las Vegas — Someday, a robot will cook you dinner and, if you're lucky, it'll be Chinese food.That's the promise of OneCook, a new robotic chef that can blend and cook ingredients and serve you ...

LAS VEGAS — If the Terminator owned a 3D printer, it would work like this.Gizmo3D printers use a process called DLP (Digital Light Printing) to print 3D models, layer-by-layer in a vat of photo-...

Video: Keith HopkinLAS VEGAS — If the Terminator owned a 3D printer, it would work like this.Gizmo 3D printers use a process called DLP (Digital Light Printing) to print 3D models, layer-by-laye...

Apple has joined the AI party.The Cupertino giant confirmed Thursday that it has acquired Emotient Inc., a startup that says it can read human emotions using artificial intelligence.The tech works by ...

Fitness apparel company Under Armour has announced the first sensor-filled sneakers that track your workouts without needing to tether to a smartphone.Read more in the review: https://on.mash.to/1mJnt...

BMW's latest idea is called the BMW i Vision Future Interaction Concept Car, which shows how you'll likely interact with self-driving BMW models in the futureRead more in the review: https://on.mash.t...

Prepare your pitchforks, it looks increasingly likely that Apple will indeed ditch the headphone jack on its next iPhone.Fast Company cites a source "with knowledge of the company's plans" as saying t...

How did Amy Schumer meet her new carpenter boyfriend? Maybe she was in the market for new living room furniture only to discover that Ben Hanisch had built not only the sturdy yet elegant rocking chai...

Promoted by FordOne of the most impressive and intriguing aspects of robotics is the sheer spectrum of functionalities of which today's robots are capable. Some, like the Sphero BB-8, are sheerly...

BlackBerry has no immediate plans to release a BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone.The company plans to release at least one, possibly two, new smartphones in 2016, both of which would run Android, Black...

While dozens of carmakers are unveiling autonomous concepts here at 2016 CES, showing things that one day may come to showrooms, Nissan has a more tangible announcement. It has said that it will "laun...

LAS VEGAS — Johnny Zhu doesn’t want to be photographed. He is a private man. At least that’s what the nattily-dressed 45 year-old CEO of Swagway tells me.Maybe he’s also just a...

Promoted by Ford Music has been a constant in the world since history can remember, and it shows no signs of ever going away. According to a 2014 Nielsen music study, Americans spend more than 25 hour...

LAS VEGAS — If you were hoping that the introduction of Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into your new car's dashboard would mean that the two tech giants would soon dominate all in-car infotainme...

One of Leonardo da Vinci's most stunning engineering plans is getting a decidedly chilly welcome to the modern world.Students in the frigid hinterlands of Finland plan to recreate one of the Renaissan...

Fitness apparel company Under Armour has announced the first sensor-filled sneakers that track your workouts without needing to tether to a smartphone.Read more in the review: https://on.mash.to/1mJnt...

Despite Facebook users' reluctance to have a separate app for Messenger, a lot of people are using it.Facebook announced Thursday that the service has more than 800 million monthly active users. In th...

Video: Armand Valdes, Loris RaveraIn a recent speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump said he would look into "closing up parts of the Internet" to fight ISIS. Well here's a fact that Trump may not be ...

Video: Armand Valdes, Loris RaveraIn a recent speech in South Carolina, Donald Trump said he would look into "closing up parts of the Internet" to fight ISIS. Well here's a fact that Trump may not be ...

Meet Olaf the boxer pup, who just wants to better understand the noises coming from his child owner's digital device. He's listening so intently!But like most of us, he grows frustrated after sev...

When I found this video of someone driving their Lamborghini through flood waters in San Diego, I assumed it would go poorly. Even as the video began to play, I was already saying aloud to myself, "Yo...

When I found this video of someone driving their Lamborghini through floodwaters in San Diego, I assumed it would go poorly. Even as the video began to play, I was already saying aloud to myself, "You...

Promoted by FordOne of the most impressive and intriguing aspects of robotics is the sheer spectrum of functionalities of which today's robots are capable. Some, like the Sphero BB-8, are sheerly...

LAS VEGAS –- There are hundreds of fitness apps and gadgets, but most of their intelligence is limited to the smart wearables you have on your body and the sensors in your phone. Under Armour an...

OK, this is weird. Normally, you'll see unknown watchmakers making cheap copies of well-known brands, but now a high-end Swiss watchmaker has made a very expensive, troll-like copy of the Apple WatchT...

LAS VEGAS — The annual Consumer Electronics Show once again ushered in a class of new giant TVs (this year: HDR), cameras (4K, of course) and a few outliers that brought in oooohs and ahhhs (we'...

In a recent speech, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared that he would "close up" certain parts of the Internet to combat the Islamic State (ISIS). While it seems highly implausible that he co...

The BUDD-e is a nod to VW's past as well as its future. Maybe the coolest thing VW has said about its new BUDD-e microbus EV concept is this: "BUDD-e is a mobile interface which connects the vehicle w...

NUA Robotics, an Israel-based company, has created a prototype for a smart suitcase that syncs with your smartphone via Bluetooth and follows you aroundRead more: https://on.mash.to/1JuVuDA Read more....

VR, by itself, as an immersive visual experience that lets you look in all directions is amazing. But when you add motion controllers that mimic your hands and fingers so that you can "touch" and inte...

CES is the tech world's big coming-out party for the New Year — a supersize circus of gadgetry that both follows major trends in tech and creates them. It’s never the same year to year, bu...

Sam Sheffer of Mashable checks out Olloclip's Studio camera accessory case for the iPhone 6, 6s, and Plus models. Studio transforms the latest iPhone models into more fully-featured cameras, including...

The biggest innovations in suitcases in the past year or two have been focused primarily on two things: Giving travelers the ability to track the location of their suitcase, and providing a backup bat...

Mashable's Sam Sheffer checks out a portable electric rideable with quite a lot to offer: 15mph top speed, 17 miles on a single charge, with about 2-3 hours of charging time. It is now available for p...

The Moff Band connects to the Pac-Man iPad app over Bluetooth. The Band's built-in accelerometer and gyro sensors track your arm's movements. The wearable is designed to promote a healthy and active l...

As of Wednesday, the cat is out of the bag: Virtual Reality headset Oculus Rift costs $599, and that's excluding the cost of a pretty pricey PC needed to run the thingWhile this is the first time the ...

The Ehang 184 is a giant but elegantly designed drone; according to the company, it can transport one person at approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) per hour on a roughly 23-minute trip. It can hol...

LAS VEGAS — Forget the Segway you knew. The next generation of this personal mobility device is smarter, smaller and, yes, cuter, than ever beforeIntel teased the bot at its CES keynote on Tuesd...

Watches appear to be following in the footsteps of cellphones: Their original purpose is the least interesting thing they can do, and Garmin's Tactix Bravo is the most intense in an eve...

The new young actors leading the Star Wars franchise into a new era have been lauded for their acting chops, but the breakout star of the film was a non-human with a flair for the dramatic: the BB-8 D...

Mashable is now three days into the International CES, but the innovation news hasn't slowed at allWhether it was drones of the future, shiny new cameras or impressive cars, Wednesday was filled with ...

Search your feelings and you'll realize that you've always wanted a Darth Vader car, you just needed to see one firstFormer late night host Jay Leno showed off the dark side of the Force on his YouTub...

LAS VEGAS — Last summer, I said HTC's Vive VR headset and not the Oculus Rift convinced me VR is the futureAfter trying out the consumer version of the Oculus Rift and a prototype of the Oculus ...

Double Robotics Double looks almost identical to the original Double telepresence robot, but has a number of critical improvements that could vastly improve the robot’s office utilityRead the fu...

The Moff Band connects to the Pac-Man iPad app over Bluetooth. The Band's built-in accelerometer and gyro sensors track your arm's movements. The wearable is designed to promote a healthy and active l...

The Ehang 184 is a giant but elegantly designed drone; according to the company, it can transport one person at approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) per hour on a roughly 23-minute trip. It can hol...

LAS VEGAS — When the cab dropped me off at the meeting location behind the Peppermill restaurant on grungy South Las Vegas Boulevard, I worried that I'd made a mistake.I'd cabbed out to the drea...

Watches appear to be following in the footsteps of cellphones: Their original purpose is the least interesting thing they can do, and Garmin's Tactix Bravo is the most intense in an eve...

LAS VEGAS — With millions of smartphone users watching video and streaming music on the go, the airwaves have gotten a little crowded. Fortunately, there's help on the way.The Federal Communicat...

LAS VEGAS — Intel's $150 Atom-powered Compute Stick was a great idea (an entire computer crammed inside of an HDMI stick), but it had real performance issues.Intel's new Core M-powered Compute S...

LAS VEGAS — The future of displays is rollability. Not just flexibility, but the ability to roll up your TV and store it away until you want to watch TV again."Imagine enlarging that size to a T...

You've probably never thought too much about how to quickly transport a 10-tonne plane engine, but Qantas has the answer.Just strap it to the wing of a Boeing 747.See also: Qantas named safest airline...

The new young actors leading the Star Wars franchise into a new era have been lauded for their acting chops, but the breakout star of the film was a non-human with a flair for the dramatic: the BB-8 D...

Just weeks after the announcing the formation of new rules governing the ownership of drones in the U.S., Federal Aviation Administration head Michael Huerta appeared at CES on Wednesday to offer more...

2016 may turn out to be the year of the bots.Facebook is reportedly working on a plan that would allow developers to build chatbots to run inside of Messenger. The news comes weeks after a report that...

The Moff Band connects to the Pac-Man iPad app over Bluetooth. The Band's built-in accelerometer and gyro sensors track your arm's movements. The wearable is designed to promote a healthy and active l...

LAS VEGAS — Ehang has a crazy, and maybe brilliant, idea. We just have one question first: Are you ready to fly inside a drone?The Chinese drone maker unveiled a high-flying 500 lbdrone, which i...

Promoted by FordDuring and leading up to CES, the tech space is abuzz with the latest on all that is new and shiny. Innovative, sleeker-than-ever devices will be unveiled to a hungry crowd, and t...

The Ehang 184 is a giant but elegantly designed drone; according to the company, it can transport one person at approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) per hour on a roughly 23-minute trip. It can hol...

Video: Quincy Ledbetter, Noah ThroopLAS VEGAS — When I was a kid, playing meant going outside, not staying indoors glued to a phone, tablet or TV.To get today's screen-obsessed kids up off their...

LAS VEGAS — Following the lead of, well, just about every other major automaker, including Volvo, Mercedes-Benz has finally revealed its new companion app for iPhone and Apple Watch here at the ...

LAS VEGAS — Following the lead of, well, just about every other major automaker, including Volvo, Mercedes-Benz has finally revealed its new companion app for iPhone and Apple Watch here at the ...

LAS VEGAS — You can't buy a whole lot of laptop for $200, but you can buy one that's decent enough to surf the web, stream HD video and bang out a report.Dell's new $199 Inspiron 11 3000 is one ...

LAS VEGAS — Aston Martin is known around the world as one of the coolest, sportiest and most luxurious brands. Although the interiors of its cars are all fitted with exquisite materials, they've...

Health monitoring veteran Withings introduced a $69 activity tracker called the Withings Go, a device filled with several features you’d typically find on higher-end modelsRead the full review: ...

An adorable new Fisher-Price caterpillar toy aims to teach kids the basics of codingRead the full review: https://on.mash.to/22KZN47 Read more...More about Robot, Toy, Coding, Tech, and Gadgets...

Nostalgia is always in, and countless times we’ve seen relics of the past resurrected for modern-day use — vinyl, polaroids, vintage filters.Now Eastman Kodak is bringing back an old-schoo...

You can be sure of one thing in tech: Sticker shock quickly gets people up in arms.When the pre-orders for the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset went live Wednesday morning, it was the first time th...

LAS VEGAS — Netflix CEO Reed Hastings announced Wednesday at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show that the popular streaming service has expanded into 130 countries more countries as a part of an ...

The unveiling of Oculus Rift pricing and pre-orders brought another unexpected revelation: the Oculus Remote.This little fella is packed into every Rift package, and it's there as an alternative to th...

Whether you're working at a tiny startup that first got funding mere months ago, or a gigantic organization that has been around for decades, the ability to print materials is obviously a crucial part...

While companies like Microsoft are showing off augmented reality tools like the HoloLens, which is designed for stationary users, a company called DigiLens has just unveiled a kind of mobile AR tool t...

Soon you'll no longer be able to pay for extra Snapchat lenses.The company plans to close its Lens Store, which allowed the app's users to purchase additional animated lenses for $0.99 each. The updat...

Soon you'll no longer be able to pay for extra Snapchat lenses.The company plans to close its Lens Store, which allowed the app's users to purchase additional animated lenses for $0.99 each. The updat...

It was only a matter of time before the humble webcam received an upgrade worthy of the modern times. Anyone can be a vlogger in 2016!Read out full review here: https://on.mash.to/1JtV6oW Read more......

Welcome to 2016, the year over-the-top live streaming gets realLast year, Sling TV made a big splash at CES with its $20 a month streaming plan.See also: Glasses-free 3D TV finally gets realThis year,...

High-end virtual reality for consumers is finally here, and the cost of entry is $599.Oculus Rift pre-orders opened on the company's at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m. ET, and with them came the long-awaited confir...

LAS VEGAS — In his third year delivering the CES keynote, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich finally let his hair down, sort of. He arrived without a suit, instead wearing a sweater, jeans and sneakers. H...

LAS VEGAS — Tim Baxter may not have the name recognition of Tim Cook, but at times, the president of Samsung Electronics America has a similar job.He steers the U.S. portion of a technology gian...

Video image processing chip maker Ambarella has taken their low-powered tech to the next level. Their new H2 board is capable of shooting 4K resolution at 120 frames per second (fps) — turning s...

Many of us have images of our parents putting headphones on mom’s pregnant belly, or of dad singing The Beatles nearby. However, a Spanish company claims this is simply not enough. Parents must ...

Keurig is showing off at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show its new Keurig Kold machine, a one-button carbonated drink dispenser. And the company is touting a few other new pod options, including ones...

It was only a matter of time before the humble webcam received an upgrade worthy of the modern times.Along with the attractive Blade Stealth Ultrabook, Razer announced at CES the Stargazer, a webcam s...

The world may live in fear of a robot uprising, but the real world of autonomy remains pretty mundane. There are virtually no robots taking office jobs, but a handful of telepresence bots are making w...

On Tuesday, Misfit released its latest wearable, the Ray Fitness and Sleep Monitor. And Wednesday, the company is announcing its first smart “hearable.”A hybrid audio-wearable device, the ...

LAS VEGAS — Sometimes you just want someone to hand you a cocktail after a long day. Keurig wants to be your bartender.Keurig, known for its K-Cup system that turns coffee pods into a fresh cup,...

LAS VEGAS — An adorable new Fisher-Price caterpillar toy aims to teach kids the basics of coding.The company is showing off at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show the Think & Learn Code-a-Pil...

Razer's meteoric rise from being a PC peripheral maker to being one of the most envied laptop makers in the world has been nothing short of insane. The base model Blade Stealth has a 12.5-inch QuadHD ...

When refugees arrive in Australia, everything is unfamiliar. The people, the language and the weather may all come as a shock, but one thing is probably universal: The smartphone.Settlement Services I...

The International CES has kicked into full gear and Tuesday was filled with some of the best gear we've seen yet.Whether it was monster TVs, elegant smartwatches or brand new sensor-laden gadgets, the...

The Chevy Bolt unveiled at CES 2016 is a game-changer. It's like driving the future. It's a Tesla Model 3 killer. It will be capable of traveling more than 200 miles on a single charge and it will cos...

LAS VEGAS — Let's get the cliches about the Chevy Bolt out of the way, shall we? The Chevy Bolt is a game-changer. It's like driving the future. It's a Tesla Model 3 killer.Now that we've cleare...

After a hoverboard caused a devastating house fire in Melbourne Monday, the powers that be in Australia have decided they're going to take a second look at these two-wheeled, non-hovering thingamabobs...

LAS VEGAS — Until this moment, BMW has been the only carmaker with production-ready gesture controls. However, Volkswagen just got into the touch-free game with the debut of its new 9.2-inch inf...

LAS VEGAS — Down, but not out, Volkswagen has officially unveiled at International CES a car that signifies its new way forward. Diesel is done (I hope) and, in its place, VW will focus on elect...

LAS VEGAS — 4K TVs may be cheaper than before, but they still lack native 4K content for consumers to watch on them.Sony's remedying that, kinda. At CES, the company announced Ultra, a new 4K st...

LAS VEGAS — Sony didn't have many new products to announce during its CES press conference this yearThere was a 4K camcorder (meh) and a couple of pairs of high-resolution headphones and earbuds...

Smartwatches can be hugely convenient tools when it comes to tracking runs and workouts. But the vast majority require that you also bring your smartphone along for the run or ride which, for some, li...

In all honesty, you could carry a laptop in just about any sizable tote, bag or backpack. But laptop bags should have a little more utility than your average accessory, whether that be extra security ...

LAS VEGAS — Fitness tracking is nothing new, but more companies are rolling out entry-level products this week at CES in an effort to convert the uninitiated. Cheap is in, and the options are ge...

LAS VEGAS — The best part of owning an Olympus Stylus Tough camera is that you never have to baby it. You can drop it, submerge it, freeze it, basically abuse it pretty hard and it'll most likel...

This year's CES is not only turning out to be focused in large part on virtual reality as a platform, but the supporting hardware behind the platform is welcoming a good deal of exciting new hardwareO...

LAS VEGAS –- Waiting for a pregnancy test to reveal a positive or negative result is a stressful 3 minutes for many –- not to mention the anxiety affiliated with tracking the best times to...

Despite a number of early warnings just before Christmas, the list of hoverboard fires continues to grow, with the latest major incident occurring in Van Nuys, CaliforniaIn this case, the device erupt...

Mashable's Sam Sheffer got hands-on with the new Orée Stylograph to see how easy it is to record handwritten notes with a smartphone app. Read more...More about Apps, Notes, Tech, Gadgets, and Mo...

LAS VEGAS — Let's get the cliches about the Chevy Bolt out of the way, shall we? The Chevy Bolt is a game-changer. It's like driving the future. It's a Tesla Model 3 killer.Now that we've cleare...

LAS VEGAS — If you thought the Tesla Model S would be the only EV driving itself around for the near future, well, you'd be wrong. Kia just got its license to drive fully autonomous Soul EVs on ...

After a hoverboard caused a devastating house fire in Melbourne Monday, the powers that be in Australia have decided they're going to take a second look at these two-wheeled, non-hovering thingamabobs...

A light pad turns on, a dog presses it with its paw and a dish pops out with a treat on it. It's the first "game console" designed specifically for dogs.The CleverPet Hub, on pre-sale at CES this...

LAS VEGAS — Down, but not out, Volkswagen has officially unveiled at International CES a car that signifies its new way forward. Diesel is done (I hope) and, in its place, VW will focus on elect...

LAS VEGAS — Samsung announced at its press conference at CES 2016 that it would make the Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic smartwatches compatible with iOS later this year.That of course means iPhone ...

At CES 2016 Mashable's Sam Sheffer tried out using the 3DRudder feet-based game controller to navigate through a 3D immersive world via Oculus Rift - overall a pretty awesome experience. Read more...M...

At CES 2016 we got to check out Cerevo's Tipron robot that can roll around the house shooting projections on your walls and ceilings.Read more about Tipron here: https://on.mash.to/1Pe9pKN Read more.....

Welcome to 2016, the year over-the-top live streaming gets realLast year, Sling TV made a big splash at CES with its $20 a month streaming plan.See also: Glasses-free 3D TV finally gets realThis year,...

In 2015, Sling TV basically won CES with its $20 a month subscription offering that gives users access to cable channels, including ESPN.The service — which includes access to channels such as C...

LAS VEGAS — The Samsung Gear S2 is Samsung’s best smartwatch by far, so it makes sense the company would want to dress it up a little. At CES, Samsung announced it would soon offer the Gea...

LAS VEGAS — For TVs, 4K is where it’s at right now, but Samsung just gave a peek at the world beyond. It’s called 8K, and Samsung’s just showed one of the world’s first &...

LAS VEGAS — The era of people talking to their appliances and the appliances answering back has begun.Samsung’s Family Hub Refrigerator, unveiled here at 2016, is the company’s lates...

LAS VEGAS — Modern cooks know how to use classic cooking implements to make 21st century delicacies. Not that there’s anything wrong with our stovetops and ovens, but aside from some digit...

LAS VEGAS — The best part of owning an Olympus Stylus Tough camera is that you never have to baby it. You can drop it, submerge it, freeze it, basically abuse it pretty hard and it'll most likel...

You only thought you knew what crazy gadgets you wanted in your kitchen. Now, one company at CES raised the stakes with a Fridge CamYes, you read that right. This device lets you check on the food in ...

If you think an app that helps prevent Alzheimer's disease sounds too good to be true, you were right. According to the FTC, that is.The makers of Lumosity, a self described "brain-training" app that ...

Umbrellas often top the list of commonly misplaced — and replaced — items.One company is trying to solve that problem with its Davek Alert Umbrella, which sports a Bluetooth chip designed ...

LAS VEGAS — Just because Hisense bought up Sharp's TV factories and rights to the brand name doesn't mean it's ditching its own brand.The Chinese multinational company took to CES to unveil 22 n...

LAS VEGAS — CES is a huge TV fest where brands jostle for attention in the "first" and "latest" categories.Sharp, of course, partook in the TV-sizing-up contest. The company announced 25 new TVs...

Casio on Tuesday announced the launch of the WSD-F10 Smart Outdoor Watch powered by Android Wear.Targeted toward the most adventurous of wearers, the watch shows Casio stepping further into the smartw...

LAS VEGAS — Toyota made known last November that it would spend $1 billion to found the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) charged with researching both artificial intelligence (AI) as well as robo...

Tobii has been learning how to track your eye movements for the last 15 years. A few years ago, the company added its eye-sensing camera technology into a prototype laptop. Now, at CES, the company sh...

LAS VEGAS — Qualcomm announced at CES Tuesday that the first smartphone to pack its flagship Snapdragon 820 processor will be the Letv Le Max Pro.Wait, who? If you’ve heard of Letv (pronou...

LAS VEGAS — Nikon's done playing second fiddle to Canon in the DSLR game.After months of speculation and teasing, the camera company finally announced the new top-of-the-line D5 DSLR at CES.The ...

Despite a number of early warnings just before Christmas, the list of hoverboard fires continues to grow, with the latest major incident occurring in Van Nuys, CaliforniaIn this case, the device erupt...

iHeartRadio announced at CES on Tuesday that it will be coming to new platforms, including the Apple TV and Samsung's Gear S2 smartwatch.See also: Magical gadget scans your food to reveal its nutritio...

LAS VEGAS — A few years ago it was 3D, then 4K, then curved screens, then quantum dot, and this year, it appears the latest TV trend is High Dynamic Range (HDR) processing.TCL, like every compan...

LAS VEGAS — If you thought the Tesla Model S would be the only EV driving itself around for the near future, well, you'd be wrong. Kia just got its license to drive fully autonomous Soul EVs on ...

LAS VEGAS — Samsung announced at its press conference at CES 2016 that it would make the Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic smartwatches compatible with iOS later this year.That of course means iPhone ...

At CES 2016 Mashable's Sam Sheffer tried out using the 3DRudder feet-based game controller to navigate through a 3D immersive world via Oculus Rift - overall a pretty awesome experience. Read more...M...

LAS VEGAS — Google's premium Nexus 6P now comes in luxurious goooooold!As previously reported, and made official at CES on Tuesday, Google is partnering up with Best Buy to sell the gold Nexus 6...

LAS VEGAS — Huawei is making one thing very clear at CES this year: security is a priority.After masterfully crafting the fingerprint-equipped Nexus 6P for Google last year, the Chinese electron...

LAS VEGAS — Monster, the company which originally launched Beats headphones, continues to chase the brand it once helped create.At 2016 CES, Monster extended its line of DiamondZ headphones with...

The 65-inch panel joins LG's new lineup of 4K TVs for 2016 with support for HDR processing. Blacks are truly deep blacks and not dark grays, and whites looked snow white and not the slightest bit yell...

At CES 2016 we got to check out Cerevo's Tipron robot that can roll around the house shooting projections on your walls and ceilings.Read more about Tipron here: https://on.mash.to/1Pe9pKN Read more.....

Capturing 360-degree video just got a little easier for non-professionals.The Vuze camera, debuting at CES in Las Vegas, is equipped with eight full HD cameras placed in a lightweight, square housing ...

LAS VEGAS — Apple isn't the only company that knows how to build an unbelievably thin and light laptop.The LG Gram 15, announced at CES on Tuesday, is possibly the world's lightest 15-inch lapto...

LAS VEGAS — CES is the place to be if you want to see the hottest new tech in store for the year. It's also the first place to see insanely oversized TVs that only the 1% will be able to afford....

LAS VEGAS — At IFA 2015, LG boasted about how combining an OLED 4K TV with HDR (High Dynamic Range) would create the ultimate picture quality.Two days before CES officially opened its convention...

Fashion trends come and go, but the Chinese have long kept to the tradition of being decked out in red during Chinese New Year.With the lunar new year just weeks ago, Apple is ready for the Year of th...

LAS VEGAS — The Polaroid Snap only just came out and Polaroid's already got a new version of its fun sticker-printing camera in the works.Announced at CES, the Polaroid Snap+ features a handful ...

LAS VEGAS — Fitbit — the king of tracking every step taken, each stair climbed and every hour snoozed — is at it again with its second attempt at a fitness watch. This time, its foc...

It pays to be an early adopter.Oculus VR is thanking the original backers of its Kickstarter project, which introduced the virtual reality headset to the world in 2012, by giving them each a final ver...

LAS VEGAS — A 10-minute shower can eat up to 50 gallons of water. Low-flow shower heads can cut that usage by half, but there aren't many tools for keeping track of water consumption as you show...

LAS VEGAS — Texting while driving was listed as the number one case of death among U.S. teens back in 2013. A recent Pew Research study said that 40% of all American teens claim to have been in ...

LAS VEGAS — It's been a little over a year since the Fossil Group said it was heavily investing in wearables like smartwatches and bracelets. We saw the first batch of its smart accessories debu...

New Year's resolutions often involve strengthening your abdominal muscles, but sex tech company OhMiBod has some other core muscles in mind.At International CES, OhMiBod featured two products to help ...

LAS VEGAS — BMW has lots of ideas for the future. And most involve its i8 plug-in hybrid sports carThe latest idea is called the BMW i Vision Future Interaction Concept Car, which shows how you'...

LAS VEGAS — Selfie sticks are so last year. To be fashionable in 2016, you need a wiggly, bendy little number named the Pic, which wraps around your hand and will take your close-ups for you.The...

LAS VEGAS — While cars are increasingly becoming more tech-savvy by the minute, motorcycles have been left in the proverbial dust. That is, until now. BMW debuted its laser headlight and head-up...

LAS VEGAS — Oculus Rift, you’re on notice.HTC — which has been teasing its own virtual reality headset for almost a year — has really delivered with its updated version of the ...

LAS VEGAS — Ask any selfie expert and they'll tell you the most challenging selfie to take is in the dark.Not to worry! Lenovo has you covered for all those late nights and bar crawls. The compa...

LAS VEGAS — Under Armour’s answer to getting in better shape lies within this box.The company revealed a smart fitness starter kit called HealthBox ($400) at CES on Tuesday, which features...

LAS VEGAS — My feet are wearing the future.At CES on Tuesday, fitness apparel company Under Armour announced the first sensor-filled sneakers that track your workouts without needing to tether t...

Canon delivered a full refresh to its line of digital camcorders at CES on Tuesday.The updates cover the camera maker's Vixia and PowerShot lines and boost the overall functionality of a range of shoo...

At CES 2016, Mashable's Sam Sheffer takes the EcoReco M5 Air for a ride. He ends up very much liking the experience — though the electric scooter is a bit heavier and a bit pricier than you migh...

LAS VEGAS — Car companies allowing owners to remotely interact with their cars by way of a smartphone app is nothing new. Allowing drivers to talk to their cars and control them by voice command...

Remember when we said the MacBook is the future of laptops? It seems HP is proving us right.It's just unveiled the EliteBook Folio G1 notebook PC, the thinnest notebook HP has ever made, at CES Tuesda...

Faraday Future, the upstart electric vehicle automaker that aims to build a series of 'rolling smartphones' to compete with the likes of Tesla just unveiled its first-ever concept car, and we're tingl...

At CES 2016 Mashable's Sam Sheffer tried on these headphones that are also a wearable. No tangles, no nonsense, super chill. Read more...More about Ces, Wearables, Headphones, Tech, and Gadgets...

LAS VEGAS — Yet another automaker has brought both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto into its dashboards. This time, it's Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA).See also: Ford SYNC adds Android Auto, more...

LAS VEGAS — Faraday Future just revealed its first-ever concept car, called the FFZERO1 on Monday night at the 2016 International CES.And for all the amazing things about the car — and the...

LAS VEGAS — Samsung's Portable T1 SSD blew us away last year with its minuscule size, incredibly fast performance and storage capacity of up to 1TB.Samsung's new Portable T3 SSD, announced at CE...

LAS VEGAS — In between the million of TVs, laptops, and wearables at CES are a whole bunch of weird gadgets, like Cerevo's Tipron robot.Tipron is a "transforming, Internet-connected projection r...

LAS VEGAS — Tobii has been learning how to track your eye movements for the last 15 years. A few years ago, the company added its eye-sensing camera technology into a prototype laptopNow, at CES...

LAS VEGAS — The Rinspeed Σtos is a self-driving Swiss concept car with its own drone designed for selfie-ing and flower delivery for loved ones. Clearly, it's fanciful, silly and not based ...

Introduced at CES 2016, The Force Band for BB-8 by Sphero is a wrist-wearable device that lets you put away your iPhone. Now you can have precise gesture control over the adorable monocular soccer bal...

LAS VEGAS — Faraday Future, the upstart EV automaker from Gardena, California that aims to build a series of 'rolling smartphones' to compete with the likes of Tesla just unveiled its first-ever...

LAS VEGAS — Texting while driving was listed as the number one case of death among U.S. teens back in 2013. A recent Pew Research study said that 40% of all American teens claim to have been in ...

The International CES doesn't officially open its doors until Tuesday but Monday already saw some big announcements from some of the show's biggest names.LG, Lenovo, Ford and dozens of others showed o...

LAS VEGAS — Selfie sticks are so last year. To be fashionable in 2016, you need a wiggly, bendy little number named the Pic, which wraps around your hand and will take your close-ups for you.The...

LAS VEGAS — If you like having both a laptop and tablet, 2-in-1 convertible laptops are great for streamlining the number of devices you have to carry around, but most of them are also thick and...

LAS VEGAS — Back to the Future's self-lacing Nikes look real lame compared to Digitsole's Smartshoe — at least when it comes to amount of tech inside.The "word's first intelligent footwear...

LAS VEGAS — Tech for babies is having a moment. There are smart onesies, toys designed teach toddlers to code and even web-connected diapers that alert parents when there's a new, um, downloadWh...

LAS VEGAS — Everyone knows that BB-8 stole the show in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But the tiny doppelganger toy from Sphero is no slouch in the real world, either. BB-8 by Sphero sold out las...

LAS VEGAS — Curious just how many carbs and calories are sitting on your dinner plate? A new gadget promises to reveal the nutritional value of your meal by scanning its chemical makeup.French s...

Have we reached the point yet where hoverboards are just not worth the risk?On Monday night local time, a Melbourne family lost their home after a hoverboard, which they said had been left charging fo...

LAS VEGAS — Forget everything you know about the personal drone market and get ready to meet this big, badass Disco drone. It's Parrot's still-in-the-project-stage consumer wing drone that is se...

LAS VEGAS — Smart home products aren't exactly sexy; no one is going to get all worked up over a web-connected light bulb or a door lock you control with an app. But anyone who's tinkered around...

Burning hoverboards are all the rage in recent weeks, but another battery-powered vehicle recently went up in flames in Norway: a Tesla Model S carA video of the flame-engulfed vehicle was posted by N...

LAS VEGAS — Samsung's Portable T1 SSD blew us away last year with its minuscule size, incredibly fast performance and storage capacity of up to 1TB.Samsung's new Portable T3 SSD, announced at CE...

Samsung may be bringing a few popular features back with its latest pair of flagshipsThe Korean company's upcoming Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge will be water resistant and come with a microSD slot, according...

LAS VEGAS — If you like having both a laptop and tablet, 2-in-1 convertible laptops are great for streamlining the number of devices you have to carry around, but most of them are also thick and...

LAS VEGAS — Ask any selfie expert and they'll tell you the most challenging selfie to take is in the dark.Not to worry! Lenovo has you covered for all those late nights and bar crawls. The compa...

Your bedtime ritual just got a little more NSFW.French startup E.Sensory is introducing Little Bird, a vibrator connected to erotic literature; it’s synchronized via Bluetooth to an e-reading ap...

LAS VEGAS — Back to the Future's self-lacing Nikes look real lame compared to Digitsole's Smartshoe — at least when it comes to amount of tech inside.The "word's first intelligent footwear...

LAS VEGAS — Wondering what you'll watch when you're in your self-driving car? Volvo and Ericsson are teaming up to create intelligent streaming for autonomous Volvo cars.See also: VW's new Beetl...

At CES 2016 Mashable's Lance Ulanoff got to check out Parrot's Disco Drone, which will fly longer than any of Parrot's previous consumer drones, going almost 45 minutes on a charge. It will also doubl...

Yahoo has axed its on-demand streaming service Yahoo Screen after just two years, Mashable has confirmed.The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based tech company launched the service in 2013 in hopes of competing wit...

There are a few certainties in life: The sun will rise in the east, The Bachelor will be everyone's favorite guilty pleasure and we'll see flexible displays at CES.LG is jumping head-first into the fl...

LAS VEGAS — Everyone knows that BB-8 stole the show in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But the tiny doppelganger toy from Sphero is no slouch in the real world, either. BB-8 by Sphero sold out las...

LAS VEGAS — Curious just how many carbs and calories are sitting on your dinner plate? A new gadget promises to reveal the nutritional value of your meal by scanning its chemical makeup.French s...

Volkswagen's response to its diesel emissions scandal has been grudging throughout — slowly announcing multiple recalls, running oblique ads — and now the Environmental Protection Agency i...

Volkswagen's response to its diesel emissions scandal has been grudging throughout — slowly announcing multiple recalls, running oblique ads — and now the Environmental Protection Agency i...

LAS VEGAS — Smart home products aren't exactly sexy; no one is going to get all worked up over a web-connected light bulb or a door lock you control with an app. But anyone who's tinkered around...

Oculus VR's trumpeting of the Oculus Rift's upcoming pre-order date seems a little premature for excitement, but it could mean virtual reality fans have headsets in hand in less than a month.While thi...

LAS VEGAS — Here's a scary thought: The air we breathe indoors can be five times as polluted as outside air, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Since most of us spend a considerab...

You can reserve your very own Oculus Rift headset starting on Jan. 6 when pre-orders go live.The pre-order process opens at 8 a.m. PT/11 a.m ET, and Oculus VR promises to share "everything you need to...

Last year was arguably when the USB type-C port began its trajectory as the port of the future. Thin and sleek, Apple and Google integrated it into the MacBook and Chromebook Pixel 2, respectivelyNow,...

Windows 10 had a good holiday.That's the prognosis from Microsoft, which reports that the latest version of Windows is now on 200 million devices. A good chunk of those were activated over the holiday...

LAS VEGAS — Toyotas of the future are about to get a lot smarter, more connected and more data-heavy. At the 2016 International CES, Toyota announced that it is teaming with Ford to deploy Livio...

CES 2016 is around the corner, which means it's time for thousands of tech reporters to make the annual trip to Las Vegas. Taking place during the week of Jan. 4, International CES enables startups an...

LAS VEGAS — Best known for its wild powered roller skates, Acton is now entering the growing electric skateboard market and hoping to cruise to success on the strength of an iPhone-based remote ...

LAS VEGAS — It took a few years, but people are finally embracing lightweight Chrome OS-powered devices where the documents and files are mostly stored in the cloud as opposed to locally.Acer ad...

LAS VEGAS — Hybrid tablet/laptop devices are still the talk of the town in the PC world.At CES, Taiwanese computer company Acer announced the Aspire Switch 12 S, a refreshed version of its 12.5-...

LAS VEGAS — Hybrid tablet/laptop devices are still the talk of the town in the PC world.At CES, Taiwanese computer company Acer announced the Aspire Switch 12 S, a refreshed version of its 12.5-...

LAS VEGAS — You really can't blame smartphone makers for not building Windows 10 Mobile phones, what with the platform's puny 1.7% worldwide market share according to the most recent Gartner num...

LAS VEGAS — Just last month, Ford added Siri to its SYNC-equipped cars. Now it's following up with even more connectivity at 2016 International CES: Android Auto and a slew of new apps.Just like...

Alcatel Onetouch is showcasing a slate of new products at International CES this week.The company, which brought us the well-received Idol 3 and Idol 3 4.7 smartphones last year, is launching its firs...

LAS VEGAS — Over the years, Lenovo's transformed the ThinkPad series of laptops from bulky to svelte machines that you'd actually be proud of using in publicAt this year's CES, the company unvei...

Now's the time everyone is making their New Year's resolutions. Some of us may want to lose weight, try meditation or wake up earlier. If you're Mark Zuckerberg, however, you want to code a virtual bu...

CES 2016 is almost here, and the massive conference can be an overwhelming experience for first-time attendees.Fortunately, we've rounded up some essential advice from conference veterans and Mashable...

Last week, we told you about some of the new technology Samsung plans to reveal at CES this week, including the hand-based virtual reality controllers called RinkNow video of that VR accessory in use ...

California is imposing new safety restrictions on "hoverboards," the (literally) hottest tech toy of the season.The new law, which went into effect Jan. 1, requires those riding one of the devices on ...

Technology advances not so much when it exhibits innovation, but when it becomes truly practical for everyday people. 2015 saw a lot of that as voice assistants started to show how they could live in ...

We all know Livestream, the service, but here comes Livestream, the camera: The Movi is the company's first venture into consumer hardware — a palm-size 4K video camera that lets you edit as you...

We all know Livestream, the service, but here comes Livestream, the camera: The Movi is the company's first venture into consumer hardware — a palm-size 4K video camera that lets you edit as you...

A New Year means a new start, and that goes double for the tech world, since the first week of January is when International CES takes place. The biggest technology show in the world is set to begin M...

Touch, the hand-held VR controller from Oculus VR, will not be shipping together with the first Oculus Rift units, which are expected to ship in the first quarter of 2016. Instead, Touch will become a...

Ready or not, the new year's here. And if you're like everyone else around you right now, you're coming up with some pretty ambitious resolutions. That's awesome. Also probably a little bit scary. Sur...

Ready or not, the new year's here. And if you're like everyone else around you right now, you're coming up with some pretty ambitious resolutions. That's awesome. Also probably a little bit scary. Sur...

When the clock struck midnight on the East Coast, the string of excited birds Google used to mark New Year's Eve finally got what they were waiting for.The green egg that had replaced Google's "L" in ...

When the clock struck midnight on the East Coast, the string of excited birds Google used to mark New Year's Eve finally got what they were waiting for.The green egg that had replaced Google's "L" in ...

Location data is revolutionizing the way brands reach their customers. From determining where consumers are most likely to shop during the holiday season, to identifying frequent business travelers wh...

Ah, New Year's Day in Australia. A time to huddle, miserably hungover, in front of three industrial-sized fans on a blisteringly hot summer's day.Some of you may have only had one or two perfectly rea...

WhatsApp went down briefly on Thursday, preventing some users from sending and receiving messages on New Year's Eve.According to DownDetector, a website that keeps track of service interruptions and o...

Apple prides itself on supporting old iPhones whenever it releases a new version of iOS, but did the company knowingly slow them down to get users to upgrade to the newest iPhones?Plaintiff Chaim Lerm...

Location data is revolutionizing the way brands reach their customers. From determining where consumers are most likely to shop during the holiday season, to identifying frequent business travelers wh...

WhatsApp went down briefly on Thursday, preventing users from sending messages on New Year's Eve.According to DownDetector, a website that keeps track of service interruptions and outages, the WhatsAp...

Apple prides itself on supporting old iPhones whenever it releases a new version of iOS, but did the company knowingly slow them down to get users to upgrade to the newest iPhones?Plaintiff Chaim Lerm...

Minecraft is all about the act of creation, but littleBits wants to help players forge into a new frontier: the real world.The DIY electronics company has developed a Minecraft mod like you've ne...

Volkswagen is very sorry about dieselgate and wants to be your buddy again ... kind of.The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicks off next week. In addition to a slew of cool new tech gadgets, som...

It's New Year's Eve, so it's time to indulge in some yearly traditions. Champagne at midnight, a few spectacular fireworks, and of course, Uber surge pricing.One of its more hated features, Uber has s...