Articles by Mashable from March 2017

Would you believe it if Lyft rolled out an actual, physical product to hail a ride? A one-use wearable, giving you streamlined access to all the service's cars at the lyft (lolz) of your thumb?You sho...

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is doing a lot of backpedaling these days. But when it comes to planning meetings at strip clubs and proposing a service for randomly sharing dick pics? The CEO remains a...

Imagine you're walking down a highway when you suddenly find the keys to a vault full of personal information. Now imagine you find nearly 14 million keys and vaults, all belonging to people who went ...

If it seems like your family members living in key swing states were more swept up in anti-Hillary Clinton fake news than others during the 2016 election, Russian trolls may have been involved.SEE ALS...

BioLite’s line of compact wood-burning stoves generate power to charge your devices and emits 90 percent less toxic emissions than traditional open fires. Read more...More about Portable Stove, ...

Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey is leaving Facebook.The company confirmed his departure in a statement, saying the 24-year-old Oculus creator "will be dearly missed." SEE ALSO: Oculus Rift promise...

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. And of course, very often these days, crowdfunding campaigns, too.You might've recently come across a link or eight for two different GoFundMe campaigns...

We now have documented proof that the Samsung Galaxy S8 is more than just fast — it's like, gigabit fast.T-Mobile dropped a video showing the brand new Samsung flagship being put through its pac...

The single worst thing about the Galaxy S8 is easily its relocated fingerprint sensor. Whoever thought it was a smart idea to put it right next to the back camera should get a slap on the wrist becaus...

Call 911 if you want help. Call 911 a hundred thousand times simultaneously from iPhones around the country if you want to jam up the 911 system. Until recently, a design in the iPhone opera...

It's great to see Samsung's Galaxy S8 include a standard 3.5mm headphone jack (unlike some other phones).But the future of music listening is undoubtedly wireless, which is why it's also great the Gal...

Worldview wants to take tourists into space. Watch as we take the skies (and space) and learn what it means to be a space tourist.After digging into the video above, feel free to see what it's like to...

Apple's new iPad is thin, powerful—and a nightmare to fix when things go wrong.iFixit, a website and store famous for its detailed repair guides, unveiled its teardown of the new 9.7-inch iPad T...

Jack Dorsey runs two big, well-known businesses (Twitter and Square), but he doesn't think one of them needs to be profitable, despite how much Wall Street would like it. SEE ALSO: No, Twitter sh...

It's now possible to squeeze in a few extra characters on Twitter. Beginning now, usernames will no longer count toward the service's 140-character limit, Twitter announced. The change also means...

It's ridiculous, really, that there's anything to complain about ride-hailing apps that give us the power to summon our own personal chariots directly to our front doors—but hey, the system ain'...

Voodoo Manufacturing is the world's first robot-operated 3D-printing factory that leaves menial and labor-intensive work to robots, while humans concentrate on the creative work.It sees the future of ...

Hotel chains aren't really cool. They have cool stuff to offer, like free wi-fi and swimming pools, but if you're a young traveler on a budget, you might be looking more to services like Airbnb. ...

The smartphone industry is tough. Phone makers, we imagine, sometimes feel like they're surrounded by sharks. Which is why an underwater unboxing video of Samsung's new Galaxy S8, with sharks swimming...

If you live in a big city like London, then you might be aware that the air is slowly poisoning you.SEE ALSO: China's big, beautiful, green 'vertical forests' will suck up toxic smogOne of the biggest...

Of course the new software update for Tesla cars has a hidden feature. Of course, it's a sketch pad. And of course, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the feature with a drawing of what appears to be ...

Well, that was fast. One day after Samsung's big Galaxy S8 reveal, the phone is now available for pre-order at Samsung's website and all major U.S. carriers. We already knew the pricing for both ...

Is Samsung's Galaxy S8 too beautiful for you, with its sleek lines and huge, nearly bezel-less screen? Samsung's got a fix in the way of the 2Piece cover, an indescribably ugly two-piece cover for the...

There are two ways to log in on websites: try to recall the email address and password you registered with —  or simply hit the "Facebook Login" button. The convenience of the latter u...

Apple is making more moves to clean up its App Store. After cracking down on outdated apps, the company is now placing restrictions on how developers describe their apps. Apple is now rejecting u...

Tbones fancies himself a dancer.Oh, and his opinions about women have long been a bit retrograde. This, and so much more, can be gleaned from Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's old Twitter account. The h...

So perhaps you've already been entranced by the bevelled edges of the Samsung Galaxy S8 and marvelled at its inclusion of a headphone jack — among other things.The phone's release is a big test ...

Tesla's new Autopilot just got even smarter, faster, and even closer to realizing its self-driving potential. The carmaker's Autopilot system for HW2 enabled-vehicles is being released incrementa...

Android is dominating app stores but Apple is still beating Google in one extremely important metric: revenue.Cupertino made nearly twice as much money from its App Store in 2017 as Google did from Go...

Planning that lunch meeting just got a bit easier on your iPad if you're a die-hard Google user.Yes, you can finally say goodbye to Apple's calendar and download Google Calendar optimized for the iPad...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 is packed full of awesome new features like the new larger screen, face recognition and Bixby AI assistant. But there's one pretty killer feature on the phone Samsung didn't bother...

Samsung's big Unpacked event in New York City today was focused squarely on unveiling the new Galaxy S8, but there was a specter hanging over the proceedings: the explosive legacy of the Galaxy Note 7...

Republicans in the House of Representatives voted yesterday to allow internet service providers to sell your private data—like your web history—without your knowledge. Republicans in the S...

The Oculus Rift celebrates its one-year anniversary this week, following its commercial debut on March 28, 2016. Happy birthday, Oculus, your growing pains are showing. But the awkward baby steps...

Samsung Galaxy S8's in-box headphones look pretty nice. How nice? Well, for one, they're from a recognizable brand, which pretty much put Apple's EarPods to shame by default—though that's a...

Samsung's commercial for the Gear VR is quite something. With Elton John's "Rocket Man" playing in the background, the video tells the inspiring story of an ostrich that tries to fly—and feature...

'Guess we shouldn't be too surprised that the what's going to be world's largest factory...continues to get larger. Tesla's Gigafactory, a gleaming white structure amid the muted browns surroundi...

Samsung announced the much awaited Galaxy S8 on Wednesday and here's the most important part: emoji. Not just any emoji—the new phone comes with Samsung's own version of Android 7, which feature...

Google is rolling out its Translate app in China in a first-wave effort to reestablish a foothold in the world's most populous country. The internet titan has been largely absent from China for t...

You use your smartphone 24/7 — but when was the last time you really stopped to appreciate its less..sexy aspects? We rave and worship over screen resolution, biometric scanners and high-po...

Samsung revealed their newest 'Gear VR' headset, designed for the Galaxy S8. The biggest change to the device is the inclusion of a motion controller. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time...

At long last, Samsung has put the Galaxy S8 rumors to rest.At its unveiling event on Wednesday, Samsung rolled out its latest flagship phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+, along with some other super cool n...

Samsung frenzy is spreading, and while the Galaxy S8 and 'Gear VR' controller steal the show, the 'Gear 360' camera has also received some upgrades.The camera records in true 4K resolution and can str...

"RIP Periscope," creators and analysts have been crying. Twitter's decision to introduce going live in its main app, release an API and increase the presence of the app throughout Twitter — let ...

The 5.8-inch Samsung Galaxy S8 is a lot of screen and, because of that, it maybe has a tad too many biometric options — meaning you can unlock your phone in maybe too many ways with your hands a...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is finally here, and it already looks like Samsung's best phone yet. After months of leaks upon leaks, we finally have an official first look at the new phone, AI assistant ...

'Beer Bottle Sand Machine' by DB Export Beer pulverizes empty beer bottles to create artificial sand that can help alleviate retreating shorelines. Read more...More about Industrialization, Global War...

Buzzfeed got trolled in court. The website's been embroiled in a lawsuit with a Russian tech executive since early February, a spat that stems from Buzzfeed's decision to publish a dossier of unv...

When this all goes awry and our few surviving ancestors trace back the origins of the robot revolution, they'll find this moment as a major milestone of The Before Time: robots delivering pizza. ...

There's a lot to like about Samsung's newly announced Galaxy S8 and S8+, like the gorgeous "Infinity" displays, faster performance, improved selfie camera. Hell, there's even a headphone jack!But can ...

Samsung unveiled its 'Gear VR' and 'Gear 360.' Here's a closer look at the new tech.  Read more...More about Technology, Tech, Samsung Gear Vr, Samsung Vr, and Smartphone...

One of the coolest features from the Galaxy Note 7 (RIP) is back and better on the Galaxy S8 and S8+.I'm, of course, talking about the Note 7's iris scanner. Samsung introduced the iris scanner on the...

The new Galaxy S8 and S8+ from Samsung look stunning, and offer new features like facial recognition and a more powerful processor. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Vr Camera, Vr Headsets, Vr He...

German designer Markus Kayser built his 'Solar Sinter' machine as a university project. He wanted to challenge how we approach the process of making things in a world dominated by shortages. The ...

With 400 million machines now running Windows 10, it's proving to be an ascendant operating system, and the disastrous Windows 8 is barely a spec in Microsoft’s rear-view mirror.Even though Wind...

Will the new Samsung Galaxy S8 be good enough to make us forget the exploding phone jokes? We'll find out soon.Samsung has had a rough go of it since the end of last year. Between exploding phones, wa...

Remember when U.S. President Donald Trump called for a boycott of Apple products after the company refused to help the FBI gain access to San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook's iPhone?"What I think you ...

Handheld game consoles are a nice present for your kid (and you, and everyone). But you know what's an even better present? A game console that teaches you about programming, electronics and Arduino.&...

It seems like you truly can find the answer to everything online.Qingming Festival is the one day a year where many Chinese people visit cemeteries to pay their respects to their ancestors, typically ...

We don't know, exactly, what the interior of Tesla's Model 3 will be like, but prototype vehicles we've seen so far had a large center screen instead of a standard instrument cluster facing the driver...

Go ahead and assume that everything you do online is being tracked and sold without your knowledge. The House voted on Tuesday in favor of erasing a rule that would prevent internet service provi...

If Silicon Valley is the land of self-congratulatory BS, then Lyft President John Zimmer just made a play for the crown. As his ride-hail company continues to benefit from the ongoing struggles o...

We know self-driving cars are the inevitable future of transportation — mostly because all the companies looking to profit from it can't stop hyping the technology. A slick ad from Swedish ...

Elon Musk wants people to willingly implant electrodes in their brains so they might upload and download thoughts, and he's building a company to make it happen. This is Musk's latest technologic...

Two new apps won an international technology competition to help Syrian refugee children learn, play and cope with trauma.The mobile games Antura and the Letters and Feed the Monster received top hono...

Finally, an update that actually gives you storage space back. Apple launched its latest software update, iOS 10.3, on Monday. The update comes with new features like "Find My AirPods," but users...

Apple rolled out the new iOS 10.3 update Monday — and if you took the plunge and upgraded to the new OS, you might have noticed your iPhone is running a bit more quickly and smoothly than it did...

Twitter has opened up another place for video ads, the buzziest online advertising sector, as it looks to find more revenue for its flight to profitability this year. Starting Tuesday, select par...

Five years ago, Josh Begley, a data artist and editor at The Intercept, created a straightforward news app for iOS. It sent a push notification to your device each time a U.S. drone strike was reporte...

Some things are better left dumb.Flip flops, for example, sure seem like one of those things. A few straps and a comfortable sole is all you really need to get the most out of the poolside footwear, b...

Generally, smartwatches aren't worth the time it takes to charge them. But when Huawei handed me a review unit of their new Huawei Watch 2, which has pretty much all the tech you can stuff into a...

Grindr might be your go-to place for a date, but it will now also hook you up with some hot #content too. The dating app has just launched an LGBTQ online magazine in an effort to establish itself as ...

As the old saying goes, where there's smoke, there's fire... and, these days, probably an explosive Samsung product or two. One of the company's stores in Singapore mall AMK Hub caught fire early...

Thanks to the annual SXSW Conference and Festivals​, the brain power emanating from Austin in the middle of March was almost palpable – it seems like everywhere you turned in this Southern...

Attention iOS users: If you haven't already updated your device(s) to iOS 10.3, do it ASAP.While iOS 10.3 doesn't come with any major new features outside of Find My AirPods, it does include one major...

The Rotating House prototype is designed by British architect George Clarke. It weighs 3.5 tonnes and stands 14 feet tall.Clarke wanted to utilize every inch of the space, turning one room into four. ...

In 2011, Airbus revealed its vision for the future of flight, as seen from the passengers' perspective. It imagined a plane body that's self-healing and transparent, with zones replacing cabin classes...

The Xperia Touch from Sony is a portable projector that uses infrared light and camera capture to display visuals and read interaction. Read more...More about Standalone Featured, Mashable Video, Draw...

Tinder is finally breaking free of its app.The company is beginning to test a new web-based version of its service that allows people to access Tinder from a browser, rather than its mobile app. Calle...

Undoing man's folly is, sometimes, a robot's work.Unwittingly introduced to the Atlantic Ocean over a quarter of a century ago, the lionfish, which is native to the Pacific, is responsible for an ecol...

Microsoft has admitted to giving information to British authorities after the Westminster Bridge attack. SEE ALSO: WhatsApp says it won't create an encryption backdoor, and that's a good thingIn ...

After years of creating Snapchat clones in standalone apps, Facebook is now taking a new approach — and it's one that might actually work.Following months of testing, the social network is now p...

The creators of the most hated font on the web have spoken out with words of love. In an interview with the Guardian, former Microsoft font designer Vincent Connare said he's proud of Comic Sans ...

Tinder is finally breaking free of its app.The company is beginning to test a new web-based version of its service that allows people to access Tinder from a browser, rather than its mobile app. Calle...

Undoing man's folly is, sometimes, a robot's work.Unwittingly introduced to the Atlantic Ocean over a quarter of a century ago, the lionfish, which is native to the Pacific, is responsible for an ecol...

For Truecaller, an app that offers real-time caller ID and spam protection, the past two years have been nothing short of a rollercoaster ride. On one hand, the eight-year-old service continues t...

Kindle has never been cheaper. Nearly all models in Amazon's lineup of e-readers are currently on a special discount for Prime members, and the deals are as good or better than the ones Amazon ha...

If a botnet comprised of Ikea smart home devices ever knocks out the internet, at least you'll know it's been done with Swedish efficiency.On Tuesday, the homewares company announced it would be conti...

Now you can explore Donald Trump's office in 360 degrees. Just don't expect to find him there. SEE ALSO: Fox News gets trolled after alerting the world that Trump was 'working' all weekendOn...

It's hard out there for a keyboard jockey. Thankfully, Night Shift is here to save the day (er, night). Spending long hours staring at a computer has its ill effects, one of which being that...

Sometimes fashion just trumps function. If that means cracking open your brand new red iPhone 7, voiding the warranty and potentially breaking it? Then so be it. Because when it comes to rep...

More than a decade after Andy Rubin sold his Android mobile operating system to Google, he's back in the mobile phone game. SEE ALSO: A new update will finally kill the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 once...

Faraday Future's had a hard time getting its Tesla rival on the road. This isn't going to help. The electric vehicle company halted talks with the government of Vallejo, California, on Friday to ...

Fitness trackers have historically been kind of, well, ugly. That changed last year with the Fitbit Alta, a sleek device that compromised a bit on fitness functionality.The company's back with an upgr...

As if we needed more proof that Tony Stark, we mean, Lex Luthor, we mean Elon Musk, is really worried about robot overlords. The Tesla and Space X CEO is so worried he wants to figure out a way to kee...

It's something that's come to be reviled, the very thing that may have cost America a presidential election — fake news.And the horrible phenomenon that's been called out by everyone from former...

Thanks to a pretty cool new feature on Facebook, you can now send direct messages to your elected representatives. Just go to your "Settings" tab and enter your address to see a list of your reps and ...

Wow, Wall Street actually likes Snapchat. A bunch of banks unleashed their feelings — or rather their sophisticated reports — on the company named Snap Inc. on Monday. And it was pret...

The Halo World Championship took place this past weekend at the ESL Studios in California. Twelve teams battled for $1 million, but one team stood head and shoulders above the rest.OpTic's lineup clin...

Time to update your Apple devices!It's that time of year again. Apple has released iOS 10.3 to all users today as a free update that can be downloaded over the air or via iTunes (for whoever does that...

Sometimes being popular gives you the power to do what's right.WhatsApp, the widely used messaging app, is about to find out how much leverage one billion users gets you. The Mountain View-based ...

Good news, mermaids and mermen: Your emoji are officially coming this year.Unicode, the organization that standardizes characters across devices, released its final list of 2017 emoji on Monday. There...

Uber's self-driving car program has had a rough time of it lately, but the company isn't going to let anything keep it off the road for long. An autonomous Uber vehicle was involved in a high-pro...

Snapchat needs to make more money, sure. But even more than that, the now-public company needs to attract more advertisers — even to its lower cost ad options — in hopes of turning them in...

NATO wants more data-sucking surveillance drones.The alliance is buying five Global Hawk surveillance drones, according to The Wall Street Journal. They'll be based in Italy, and the first one will be...

Samsung still isn't ready to give up the ghost of the Galaxy Note 7—you know, the phone with those batteries that had the unfortunate tendency to explode. Seriously. Even while news broke t...

You never have to be interrupted by your friend's floating head again.Chat Heads were introduced several years ago on Facebook Messenger for Android. The feature uses profile pictures of the people yo...

If you've ever waited for a webpage to load, took a lap around the office while your computer rendered 4K video or watched in dismay as your favorite video game stuttered to life, you know that comput...

Why can't Jared tweet?Jared Kushner, son-in-law and Senior White House Adviser to President Donald Trump, is, according to The Washington Post, leading the brand new White House Office of American Inn...

Just when you thought dating couldn't get any harder, a super-exclusive dating app for the crème de la crème of "ambitious intellectuals" is about to land in London. SEE ALSO: Can this ...

The last remaining Galaxy Note 7 phones that haven't been returned will finally be put out of their misery.Samsung's planning to issue a software update that'll disable remaining Note 7 phones from ch...

The recently introduced rule that prohibits some electronics devices from passenger cabins on flights originating from certain countries was prompted, among other reasons, by a plot to hide explosives...

Another day, another new feature for Facebook Messenger.The latest? A new location-sharing feature called "live location" that allows you to share your real-time location inside of a chat for an hour ...

Sponges and magnets could soon be two of the bases for an alternative and potentially transformative approach to effectively clean up oil spills. Read more...More about Sponge, Magnet, Laboratory, Mit...

Home Secretary Amber Rudd has called for tech companies that provide "completely unacceptable" end-to-end encrypted messaging services to work with law enforcement. SEE ALSO: UK targets WhatsApp ...

Google has quietly launched a new section on its Play Store, offering one app that normally costs money for free every week. Called "Free App of the Week," the section is only available to U.S. u...

Augmented reality and virtual reality are still in their infancy in terms of non-gaming applications, but a new tip hints that Amazon may be about to change all that. We already know that Amazon ...

The UK government wants there to be "no place for terrorists to hide," and that includes on encrypted messaging services. The company first on its agenda? WhatsApp.Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Sh...

The UK government wants there to be "no place for terrorists to hide," and that includes on encrypted messaging services. The company first on its agenda? WhatsApp.Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Sh...

SXSW is 10 days of fun. Many of colleagues (I see you Brett Williams) teased me (on Slack) for having a "great time with all the work down there."But, hey, it's actually work. Attending panel after pa...

Need somewhere to sit but don't have the space for more furniture? Check out the 'Ollie Chair,' which can transform from a chair to a hanging art piece in just seconds. Read more...More about Real Tim...

This week was full of tech newsApple launched a (RED) iPhone, we heard Instagram is adding bookings to the app and Elon Musk just teased Tesla's next car. It's a lot, so you may have missed some of th...

Okay, now the Samsung Galaxy S8 leaks are just getting ridiculous.We're just days away from Samsung's big reveal, so, naturally, we've pretty much seen the entire phone at this point.Now, thanks to an...

Here we go again. Following the tragic deaths of two children in Pennsylvania caused by a hoverboard fire earlier this month, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) just announced the...

'Casabots' creates robots to help restaurants with food prep. Their first robot, "Sally," makes salads. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Small B...

Uber's very bad, not-at-all-great 2017 just got a whole hell of a lot worse. But this time, somehow, the problem isn't human interactions in the workplace, but self-driving cars on the road. On F...

'Rosie' by Maidbot is an autonomous floor cleaner that provides safe and cost-efficient automated solutions to the hospitality industry.  Read more...More about Bathroom, Hotel Room, Carpet, Auto...

Since the dawn of time, solitary lovers (more accurately, lusters) have kept the erotic spark alive by sexting. Trading flirty notes and then much more explicit pics makes loneliness a little more man...

'Rosie' by Maidbot is an autonomous floor cleaner that provides safe and cost-efficient automated solutions to the hospitality industry.  Read more...More about Bathroom, Hotel Room, Carpet, Auto...

Since the dawn of time, solitary lovers (more accurately, lusters) have kept the erotic spark alive by sexting. Trading flirty notes and then much more explicit pics makes loneliness a little more man...

Quick: if you had to pick one app that had the-best-year-ever in 2016 what would you pick? Pokémon Go? Super Mario Run? Instagram? How about Bitmoji?That's right, the Snapchat-owned app for ...

Plastic is soooo yesterday. Wells Fargo, being the hippest bank to allegedly open more than 2 million fraudulent accounts in its customers' names, knows this. And so, as of March 27, the San...

Please, everyone: don't ever, EVER just blindly follow directions from randos you follow on Twitter.Certain groups on the social network (read: teens) have tweeted this month to encourage followers wi...

This spectacular U-shaped concept skyscraper from Oiio studio could be built in New York City. Read more...More about Standalone Featured, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, and Real Time Vi...

So it appears that some Uber recruiters are aware of the sexism problems at the ride-hailing giant. After Mashable published an interview with senior software engineer Kamilah Taylor, who publicl...

When you first think of gamers, 'social' might not be the word that comes to mind. But 'Meltdown' esports bar is just that: a social gathering place built specifically for gamers.Esports fans can watc...

Google is streamlining its messaging apps - or so they say.Hangouts will no longer support SMS texting, the company announced along with several other updates in a blog post on Friday. As previously r...

Tesla's solar roof tiles will be available for preorder starting next month—but there's no official press release available from the company sharing the exact details of the release. Instead, we...

Do you live and breathe Samsung? Are you a true Samsung fan, or just a casual?OK, now that we have that cleared up, let's take a look at this stunning — nay, breathtaking — nine-second vid...

Google is working on a new social app that lets users edit photos in small groups, says TechCrunch. SEE ALSO: Google pledges $11.5 million to racial justice innovators across the U.S.Apple announ...

You know what feels better than hanging up on a robocall? Never getting the call in the first place. Starting April 5, T-Mobile ONE customers will have the opportunity to enable a new feature tha...

Cosmologist Stephen Hawking spoke in Hong Kong on Friday — only he wasn't actually present for the speech. The world-renowned physicist actually gave his speech live via hologram for the 90...

Uber is failing at step one: Admit you have a problem. SEE ALSO: Why sexual harassment scandals like Uber's are bound to persist in techThe latest example comes via a tweet from Kamilah Taylor, a...

Two senators are trying to defend your future cars from hacks. Ed Markey and Richard Blumenthal (of Massachusetts and Connecticut, respectively) recently reintroduced the SPY Car Act, which aims ...

Earlier this week, a sketchy group of hackers announced a bold claim: they had access to hundreds of millions of Apple emails, and then, threatened to wipe user data from 200 million iCloud accounts i...

Welcome back to another week of MashTalk. On this week's podcast, the Mashable tech team breaks down the new electronics restrictions that'll affect passengers flying to the U.S. and UK from select Mi...

It's about freaking time. GIFs could finally be coming to more places on Facebook. The social network plans to start testing a new GIF button in comments, Facebook confirmed Friday, meaning prope...

Soshees created this animatronic pup that reacts any time you get a social media notification. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Gadgets...

Quick: if you had to pick one app that had the-best-year-ever in 2016 what would you pick? Pokémon Go? Super Mario Run? Instagram? How about Bitmoji?That's right, the Snapchat-owned app for ...

A year ago today I wrote an article about Foursquare relaunching their app Swarm.I don't have these launch dates memorized nor do I keep a tab of all the stories I write. I know this because of Facebo...

A little voice came on the phone and introduced himself as Roman. The four-year-old boy had touched his mom's thumb to her phone and used Siri to call for an ambulance. His mom, he said, was "clo...

The Nintendo Switch is back on Amazon, baby!Well for now, at least. SEE ALSO: You'll have to wait to play old Nintendo games on your SwitchNintendo's newest gaming console is back in stock on Ama...

Plastic is soooo yesterday. Wells Fargo, being the hippest bank to allegedly open more than 2 million fraudulent accounts in its customers' names, knows this. And so, as of March 27, the San...

For Tesla fans, the company's next highly anticipated electric car — the Model 3, slated for release later this year — can't come soon enough.But CEO Elon Musk is already thinking about th...

Man oh man, what a wild week it’s been in Las Vegas. From Penn & Teller taking the stage to show an eager audience how magic is done to learning about the ways brands reverse engineer data t...

Please, everyone: don't ever, EVER just blindly follow directions from randos you follow on Twitter.Certain groups on the social network (read: teens) have tweeted this month to encourage followers wi...

This spectacular U-shaped concept skyscraper from Oiio studio could be built in New York City. Read more...More about Standalone Featured, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, and Real Time Vi...

So it appears that some Uber recruiters are aware of the sexism problems at the ride-hailing giant. After Mashable published an interview with senior software engineer Kamilah Taylor, who publicl...

Amazon has taken another small autonomous step toward drone delivery. The company completed its first public United States delivery using one of its Prime Air delivery drones at a robotics confer...

When you first think of gamers, 'social' might not be the word that comes to mind. But 'Meltdown' esports bar is just that: a social gathering place built specifically for gamers.Esports fans can watc...

A man in Hong Kong has built the world's first instant twin lens camera that's made with Lego. The camera uses the Lego bricks to encapsulate the lenses, the preview screen and the instant film, ...

Google is streamlining its messaging apps - or so they say.Hangouts will no longer support SMS texting, the company announced along with several other updates in a blog post on Friday. As previously r...

Apple's online store is currently down, but we don't expect any surprises when it comes back at exactly 11:01 a.m. ET (8:01 a.m PT). Instead, the company's new PRODUCT(RED) iPhone, as well as the new ...

Apple's online store is currently down, but we don't expect any surprises when it comes back at exactly 11:01 a.m. ET (8:01 a.m PT). Instead, the company's new PRODUCT(RED) iPhone, as well as the new ...

After its "anti-Uber alliance" with India's homegrown cab-hailing service Ola, along with two others, Lyft is now tapping into the country's technology talent.The U.S. firm has reportedly acquired Pun...

Farmers have another tool to help them in the field.With smartphones in hand, tech-savvy farmers are able to fly heavy duty drones out to do everything from crop dusting to surveying the health of the...

Great news, iPad owners: Failbetter Games' wonderfully words-heavy roguelike Sunless Sea is now something you can buy in the App Store.The game sends players off to explore an underground ocean where ...

The CIA has put quite a bit effort into figuring out ways to hack Apple devices.That's the takeaway from the latest batch of documents dumped by WikiLeaks. The so-called "Dark Matter"documents, p...

Why give something away for free if you can charge for it?The Twitterverse was set aflame this afternoon with news that the company is considering creating a premium service for its power users. Fortu...

Apple has responded to the latest crop of WikiLeaks documents that allege the CIA had a number of projects meant to compromise Apple products. "Based on our initial analysis, the alleged iPhone v...

Bonita Stewart, Google's vice president of global partnerships, says the tech industry barely talked about diversity when she joined the company around 10 years ago. On Thursday, she announced a deal ...

Finally, some peace and quiet on social media. Twitter rolled out some new muting options today, which will allow Android and web users to hide selected words, phrases, hashtags and even emoji fr...

Along the northwest Australian coast lies a dinosaur highway.With the Indian Ocean eating away at the rock, the red cliffs of the Kimberley have revealed hundreds of prehistoric footprints. Two-legged...

Paranoid? Who's being paranoid?Following the Wikileaks March 7 Vault 7 data dump, which allegedly details a host of CIA hacking tools, people have started looking at their internet-connected devices w...

With the latest dump of WikiLeaks data called "Dark Matter" we get to see how (allegedly) deep the CIA's affection for British TV goes. The documents, released Thursday, contain  more detail...

NewWind has designed a generator with 63 micro wind turbines that look like leaves on a tree. The company wants to encourage sustainable living in urban environments with its quiet, aesthetically plea...

Samsung is poised to finally reveal the long-awaited Galaxy S8 next week But we’re more excited to see how Samsung will follow up the spectacular failure of last year's Galaxy Note7 — you...

Box CEO Aaron Levie isn't one to keep his mouth shut, providing often witty commentary on Twitter, at conferences and on television about Silicon Valley and the state of the industry.SEE ALSO: What CE...

WikiLeaks' latest document dump allegedly shows the CIA has devoted a lot of time to going after Apple products. The leaking organization released another dose of documents on Thursday that detai...

Kids are not to be trusted. And now, thanks to Uber for teens, they don't have to be.The scandal-plagued ride-hail company announced Thursday a new program allowing parents to add teenagers to a "fami...

You don't need to have a full-time job yet to be worried about robots taking it. The 15-year-old son of  Cathy Engelbert, CEO of consulting firm Deloitte, is already thinking about automatio...

Forget the iPhone 8 (or "X" or "Edition" or whatever it'll be called) that's coming later this year. As tech obsessors, we want to know what Apple's cooking up in its secret Cupertino labs for the fut...

When was the last time you actually watched a movie on DVD? Maybe like, 2014? You probably still have a dusty stack of plastic boxes sitting on a shelf somewhere, though, doing little more than t...

Instagram just announced a major change to how it deals with posts that contain sensitive content. The app will soon begin to blur out photos and videos that have been deemed "sensitive." Users w...

It’s day two of the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas and it's time to reflect upon everything we’ve learned in the past 24 hours. The opening song used to introduce John Mellor, Vice President of...

Miles Soloman is a 17-year-old taking part in a very cool project that gives students across the UK the chance to work on data taken directly from the space station. SEE ALSO: Ask This Astronaut ...

A Japanese company is using prefabricated plastic to assemble rotating dome houses in just days. The entire structure rotates to either have the windows face or oppose the sun depending on the weather...

Facebook Messenger just got two new features that might look a little familiar. And no, it's not because Snapchat had them first. Instead, the company is taking two features straight out of Slack...

Apple has acquired Workflow, a popular productivity app that lets you automate tasks on your iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The terms of the acquisition, which was first reported on by TechCrunch,...

Android Wear 2.0 is really starting to make its mark on the fashion world. Fossil, which has carved out a space in the wearable market with its fashion-first Q line of smart and connected watches...

Contrary to popular belief, smartwatches — especially ones running Android Wear — aren't really totally dead.While the majority of phone makers have taken a break from releasing new AW sma...

Google's video calling app Duo and messaging app Allo will soon get some oft-requested features. Google announced the changes to its communication apps, as well as some upgrades of other apps in ...

Five-year-olds and particle physics don't usually go in the same sentence together.But the guys that made Angry Birds is trying to change that with the launch of Big Bang Legends, its new game that in...

Apple is not getting any special treatment from the Indian government. Despite the company’s imminent plans to begin manufacturing iPhones in the country, the Indian government remains comm...

Indian state governments are joining technology giants and central government in pushing internet connectivity to more people. The latest instance of this comes from the eastern Indian state of B...

The ebb and flow of a city may feel entirely unique, but it turns out there are universal laws that may govern the chaos of your commute.A team from the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institu...

The FBI quietly developed a facial recognition network that allows law enforcement to identify people in the United States without their knowledge.Now lawmakers want to know why the agency didn't tell...

Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly said that live video is the future of Facebook, but what if that future is terrifying and full of violence?What happens when one of the largest proponents of live video ...

One ambitious startup is aiming to put passenger planes powered by electricity in the air within the next decade. Or, perhaps more realistically, in the next 20 years — depending on battery tech...

LinkedIn is trying to make its home feed more useful.The professional network introduced a new feature Wednesday called "trending storylines," which surfaces a personalized feed of news stories based ...

In 2015, three scientists sent an anguished note to the journal Conservation Letters. Anti-shark paranoia was settling over Western Australia, and the state government had issued a controversial ...

Apple's ruby red iPhone 7 will soon be available around the world. Each Special Edition (Product) RED iPhone 7 and 7 Plus shows with its color that the purchase of the phone helps generate funds for t...

Though new emoji won't hit iPhones until June, Emojipedia has the mock-ups to tide us over. Weirdly, there are elves.New for 2017, this year's fresh crop of icons will expand its people offerings to i...

There's no nice way to say it: The new travel restrictions on electronics suck, and they're going to make flying more of a pain in the ass for passengers.If you're flying to the U.S. from the affected...

Google's biggest Android problem remains a huge issue but it's slowly improving.At least that's the takeaway from Google's Android Security Year in Review, the latest update on the company's ongoing p...

Search the internet about how to pack your laptop in checked luggage, and you'll find a recurring theme: don't. But, in light of the new electronic device restrictions being implemented for fligh...

When a man suspects his sperm isn't hitting home runs, the only way he can be certain is to go to a lab to get tested. You know the scene as a Hollywood gag: a man walks into a closet-sized room ...

Apple announced a new red iPhone Tuesday — the latest in the company's decade-long partnership with (RED) to combat HIV and AIDS. If you've got several hundred dollars to spare, you're in l...

When the term “Artificial Intelligence” gets thrown around, images are immediately conjured of fire-spewing killer robots playing chess against a post-apocalyptic backdrop. And when they a...

Google's biggest Android problem remains a huge issue but it's slowly improving.At least that's the takeaway from Google's Android Security Year in Review, the latest update on the company's ongoing p...

This is 'PUFFER' and the tiny bot could represent a big leap in scientific advancement for NASA. It's designed to get to hard-to-reach areas that large rovers can't reach. 'PUFFER' has even been teste...

Magic Instruments let you skip taking expensive lessons and learn to play music with a simple app. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Magic Instru...

Traveling to Western, English-speaking countries is getting more difficult by the hour for passengers from Muslim-majority nations. According to reports, the Canadian government may follow the Un...

Facebook is rolling out its new tool against fake news. SEE ALSO: Facebook is cracking down on hoaxes in your News FeedThe feature, announced in December is the result of collaboration with "thir...

What's better than a OnePlus 3T, which gives you high-end features and performance for only $440? A matte black OnePlus 3T.The startup phone maker announced on Wednesday plans to sell a "Midnight Blac...

Smart home systems are supposed to make our lives easier and safer — but some of the most popular connected security cameras could make your place an easy target if your neighborhood is visited ...

Diversity and inclusion shouldn't be political, but in 2017, it is. Software company Atlassian came out on Wednesday with one of the first surveys about diversity to be published under the Trump ...

When a man suspects his sperm isn't hitting home runs, the only way he can be certain is to go to a lab to get tested. You know the scene as a Hollywood gag: a man walks into a closet-sized room ...

The whole turn-your-phone-into-a-desktop-PC concept isn't quite dead after all.When Microsoft tried to turn your phone into a desktop PC with Continuum, it ultimately failed because, well, Windows 10 ...

2016 was the "defining year for Instagram," says James Quarles, Instagram's VP of Business. The Facebook-owned app got a new interface (black and white), a new logo (bright colors) and a new prod...

LastPass, an online service that keeps your passwords safe behind one master code, isn't nearly as secure as it should be right now. According to Google's vulnerability researcher Tavis Ormandy, ...

As a chronically late person, one of my worst habits is telling people I'm late to meet that I'm "just around the corner" when in reality I'm not even close (five blocks counts, right?) But those...

'Brixo,' a startup created by physicists, created chrome-coated bricks that can conduct electricity and breath life into your old Lego constructions. It has already raised over $1,300,000 in one of it...

Give your Facebook news feed one last long, indulgent scroll. It's going to be a much busier, more ridiculous place very soon. Facebook is rolling out the capability for all members to broadcast ...

Magic Instruments let you skip taking expensive lessons and learn to play music with a simple app. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Magic Instru...

The annual Adobe Summit in Las Vegas has become a destination for digital marketers looking to transform their business – click by click, content by content.    In a packed room n...

Remember when tablets were just about content consumption and fun? Now being a portal to digital good times isn’t enough. People are doing real work on these devices. It’s mostly AppleR...

The SkinVision app photographs, analyzes and tracks changes in moles to help detect signs of skin cancer. Read more...More about Cancer From Tanning, Dermatologist, Abcd, Real Time Video, and Real Tim...

Uber executives, on a phone call with reporters Tuesday, seemed to imply that the social media campaign #DeleteUber had not affected their business's bottomline. The New York Times then reported,...

Facebook is rolling out its new tool against fake news. SEE ALSO: Facebook is cracking down on hoaxes in your News FeedThe feature, announced in December is the result of collaboration with "thir...

Chicago police are looking for up to six men who reportedly sexually assaulted a 15-year-old and live-streamed the attack on Facebook. 40 people watched the live video and not one reported it to ...

When was the last time you used a dedicated video conferencing room over a video call on Skype, Slack, or FaceTime?This realisation has seemingly hit Cisco Systems, which is pushing a new "smart" whit...

When the Earth is the focal point of your work, it’s inevitable that the subtle details and nuances of the planet will make their way into your research and influence the direction of the outcom...

Read receipts, the small confirmation that lets you know your friends on Facebook Messenger have seen your message(s), are supposed to be a good thing for everyone.But they can also be a great source ...

Lost amidst the red iPhone and death of iPad Air hoopla was Apple’s latest attempt to turnaround its education market:A $299 iPad.Apple didn’t lead with that news and the pricing for the n...

What would you rather fight? A hundred duck-sized horses or a horse-sized duck?It's the question that has plagued Reddit for years, and today it stumped the next likely member of the Supreme Court of ...

Wait a minute — was Apple cool before the scruffy and talented dreamboat Milo Ventimiglia tweeted about it being cool? I mean, I think it was but I honestly can't even remember anymore.All I kno...

The next version of Android, known only as "O" (for Oreo, perhaps?), is here ... but only for developers.Like last year when Google announced Android Nougat out of the blue, months ahead of its I/O de...

Boarding an airplane is one of those times you realise just how vital laptops are to modern life. If yours was left behind in a checked bag at some airport terminal, you'd be rendered somewhat useless...

Feeling heartburn? Just type ❤️🔥.Zocdoc, an online service that helps you find doctors and schedule appointments, has revamped its search to be more user-friendly. It's calling t...

It's that time of year again, when people who have never dribbled a basketball suddenly start foaming at the mouth with NCAA basketball bracket fever, and now they can obsess over the game in virtual ...

Apple's lost control of its product line. The company now offers 17 different iPads thanks to a new group of 9.7-inch devices announced on Tuesday—and boy, that's really too many iPads.SEE ALSO:...

A group of hackers claims it has access to over 300 million Apple email accounts — and they say they're ready and willing to wipe the user data from hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts if Ap...

Facebook's big F8 Developer Conference is right around the corner — and if you're planning on heading to San Jose to attend in person next month, Facebook has a clear message for you: don't be a...

Twitter revealed that it has suspended hundreds of thousands of accounts in an effort "to combat violent extremism."  So why does the service still feel like it's chock full of extremist assholes...

Parts of Instagram could soon work offline.The company is experimenting with offline experiences for users in countries that have low bandwidth, according to a session description on the agenda for Fa...

The 'Shortcut' keyboard was designed to to fix all the problems gamers face with normal keyboards, such as strain on the wrists and hands.Unlike the rigid form of the traditional keyboard, this keyboa...

Makerarm is a robotic tool with various abilities. Users can operate wirelessly from any smart device. Read more...More about Makerarm, Desk Robot, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, and Wireless...

It's that time of year again, when people who have never dribbled a basketball suddenly start foaming at the mouth with NCAA basketball bracket fever, and now they can obsess over the game in virtual ...

'Exo-Glove Poly' was developed by SNU Biorobotics Lab to assist people with limited hand function perform basic tasks with ease. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Limited Hand Mobility, Daily Tas...

The latest Trump travel madness? A device ban. And not just a device ban! But a device ban for certain flights, from certain countries, for certain devices. It's insane. But we're gonna unpack it for ...

A group of hackers claims it has access to over 300 million Apple email accounts — and they say they're ready and willing to wipe the user data from hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts if Ap...

Sheryl Sandberg has a new date on her calendar: April 24. On Tuesday, Facebook's chief operating officer shared on Facebook (where else?) that her new book Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Re...

There are currently no emoji for people who don't identify as male or female — but that could change very soon.Unicode's draft emoji list for new emoji releases contains three gender inclusive e...

Running out of storage on your iPhone? Besides deleting a whole bunch of stuff and using weird weird tricks to free up storage, there's now another easy way to get back precious digital space...if you...

I often draw comparisons between DJI and Apple. Though one makes phones and tablets and the other drones, they each have reached a design plateau in their respective categories and the updates they no...

Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) announced this morning that it's begun building the first full-scale passenger pods for its super-fast tube travel network. The company has agreements in pl...

Now you can catch 'em all on your Apple Watch.Not to be confused with Pokémon Go for Apple Watch, a new project by developer Gabriel O'Flaherty-Chan turns your Apple Watch into a mostly functioni...

After several years, Apple finally has a full-sized new iPad that won’t require Indians to break the bank. Much like other places, the newly introduced iPad is affordable in India. The base...

Live video on Twitter's about to get a bit more professional. On the occasion of its 11th birthday, Twitter just announced the ability for broadcasters to use professional cameras and editing sof...

Anyone who has ever been a caregiver for an aging loved one is well acquainted with the anxieties that accompany such a role: Is Nana safe while home alone? Is mum’s bedroom warm enough in the m...

Rhythm Shoes can track steps via motion sensors and provide haptic feedback to help users learn choreography. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and M...

Along with announcing all new red iPhones, Apple is also giving the 4-inch iPhone SE a small, but very welcome, upgrade.Starting on March 24, the iPhone SE will be available with twice as much storage...

'Joto' is a connected drawing board that features a super precise robot arm, which translates virtually anything you want into real ink.Upload the artwork or text to the app and the robot arm will tra...

Apple is finally giving India a decent iPhone it can afford. The company today announced that the newly introduced 32GB variant of the iPhone SE will start at Rs 27,200 ($415), down from the Rs 3...

The smart lamp 'Lampix' will transform your work and party life.  Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Surface, and Technology...

Exactly one year after it launched the 9.7-inch iPad Pro, Apple has refreshed its tablet lineup with a new iPad in that exact size.This isn't the Pro or the Air 3, though; it's just called iPad, and i...

Yes, you can buy a ruby red iPhone 7 and feel pretty damn good about it, too.Apple is finally bringing iPhone into the (RED) fold a decade after it first started producing special edition, red-clad de...

Quick: you want to make a casual, shareable video that's longer than 60 seconds, what app do you use? If you're drawing a blank (besides your phone's stock camera app) then you may have just made...

Here's another reason never to leave your house again: Amazon has launched Alexa voice shopping through its Prime Now service, which offers fast, free delivery in select cities in the U.S.So, if you'r...

Ever wish you could record a Snapchat video with no hands? Good news: it's not only possible, it's easier than you may think.While there's no official way to enable hands-free recording in the app its...

India's largest private bank has rolled out a multi-language mobile banking app for rural customers. The app, Mera iMobile (my iMobile), supports 11 Indian languages (Hindi, Punjabi, Gujarati, Ma...

A lot is happening in India’s telecom space. While on one hand, country’s second and third largest telecom operators are joining hands to become the largest local carrier, two other major ...

One rule of hiding something is to put it somewhere no one would think to look.In the case of admitted Islamic State member Samata Ullah, that meant hiding data in a cufflink. SEE ALSO: India's d...

The same dad who rigged an HTC Vive and Ricoh Theta 360-degree camera to let his daughter explore her dollhouse is at it again. This time, the VR dad has cranked up the tech-meets-cute factor by intro...

It's so easy to forget where you parked your car, especially on a city street or in a huge mall parking lot, but Google Maps is here to save the day.SEE ALSO: Google Maps is getting better at helping ...

Snapchat's confusing—just ask the producers of E!'s Keeping Up With The Kardashians. Or, uh, us. So, okay—we've got a Snapchat mystery on our hands. Or a conspiracy theory. Or just......

The last time Guess tried to make a smartwatch, it was pretty lame. Now, the company is taking another swing, this time with a full-blown smartwatch that could rival other fashion brands worming into ...

We're still getting used to the immersive magic virtual reality offers, but a new experiment from Disney Research pushes the technology into another realm: interaction with real objects while in VR.A ...

If you're not a fan of Facebook's bubble-based chatting experience, we have some bad news: your mobile News Feed might soon be even more Messengerized. Facebook looks to be testing text bubbles i...

Police in Minnesota want to solve a crime by combing through Google search history. Officers in Edina, a city of around 50,000 people, got a warrant compelling Google to divulge information about...

Get ready for something new out of Cupertino.Rumors of new Apple releases coming this month have us anxiously awaiting official updates, but the company hasn't announced a launch event for the press l...

You've already heard all about the iPhone 8's front — it's rumored to have an OLED display with curved edges that dominate the entire front and no home button — but we may have just learne...

Charging your phone should be easy — just plug it in and forget about it. Unfortunately, there's a lot of bad advice out there that is actually doing more harm than good. Let's debunk it, s...

'Remidi' are smart gloves that will let you play an infinite number of sound combinations.  Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Entertainment, and Music Tech...

Instagram just made a pretty significant change to its live videos. While live videos will continue to disappear from the app after the stream ends, broadcasters can now opt to save the clips to their...

No one likes losing things. Especially when you've worked on them every single day for a year and a half. But that's the reality college student Amy Strawser is currently facing, as she lost a 571 day...

Ralph Nader notwithstanding, presidential elections in the United States pretty much come down to two people. There's a Republican candidate and a Democratic one. That's how it works. When one wins, t...

Germany plans to use voice recognition software to verify the many asylum applications it receives — but the technology is far from perfect, experts warn.SEE ALSO: This chatbot helps refugees cl...

We know that Tim Cook loves augmented reality. He loves it so much that he declared the technology might be as big as an idea as the smartphone. Now, a new report from Bloomberg sheds some light ...

Google Glass died in 2015. And while there have been numerous rumblings about a second-generation version, it has yet to materialize in any official capacity.But, as it turns out, Glass isn't complete...

Good news for all you clumsy Apple lovers out there: You now have a little bit longer to take the plunge to insure your shiny new iPhone. Apple just extended the window for iPhone owners to opt-i...

FBI Director James Comey believes President Donald Trump tweets unsubstantiated information. Earlier this month, Trump fired off a series of tweets accusing former President Barack Obama of wiret...

Esports culture has a language of its own, but there is no term more important or more well known than this one. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, an...

Looking for another terrifying 2017 moment to keep you up at night? We can't imagine why, but here ya go: Jeff Bezos in a giant mechanical robot suit. Woo!The filthy rich Amazon CEO and Oscars attende...

Samsung has a new voice. And it has world-changing ambitions.In the upcoming Galaxy S8, users will find an extra button on the left side of the phone, just below the volume controls. Pressing it will ...

Some people build tunnels to deal with traffic, others reinvent the car.Hum Rider is that vehicular reinvention and, perhaps, the answer to all your traffic congestion frustration. It looks like a sta...

In 2015, Google launched Project Sunroof, a map that shows which houses have enough sun exposure for solar panels to be a viable energy source. However, the original map was very limited, covering onl...

Airbnb has launched its Trips platform in India starting with the national capital of Delhi. With this, the service has now expanded to five Asian cities, the others being Seoul, Tokyo, Singapore and ...

Qualcomm is having another go at making a dent in the affordable handsets market, and its latest bet is bringing 4G LTE capability to feature phones.The chipmaker announced on Monday a new line of chi...

Curious about the Samsung Galaxy S8? Let us direct you to all the leaks, leaks, and leaks.We're just over one week away from the actual launch of the flagship smartphone, and still, the leaks keep com...

Zelda fan Allen Pan has taken home automation to the next level. Pan set up his home so that different automations are triggered when he plays tunes from the Nintendo 64 hit Zelda: Ocarina of Tim...

One of the coolest additions to the iPhone 6S was Live Photos. The moving pictures inhabit the space between GIF and video but act more like something out of the wizarding world of Harry Potter, givin...

With news that Netflix is changing up reviews, Google Home is playing unwanted ads and Spotify is hinting at premium-only albums, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.We've kept up fo...

In our Uber-powered world, people call upon strangers to take them wherever their typing fingers take them. For Uber, riders are in control of Points A and B—drivers are glorified chauffeurs.
...

For Facebook, Snapchat isn't an app to be feared. It's a feature to be absorbed.The world's largest social network  relentlessly taunts Snap Inc., their much-smaller competitor, known mostly...

Before Kanye West gets to the White House, first, we'll have to survive the robot apocalypse brought about by his A.I.-powered doppelgänger. No, this isn't science-fiction. It's a very real ...

The tragic fire ignited by a malfunctioning hoverboard that claimed the life of a child last week just took another. Now, a federal investigation has been launched to look into the deaths. Accord...

Think you know Snapchat inside and out? Think again.With so many frequent updates, Snapchat's now more feature-packed than ever before. And honestly, who the heck can even keep up with them all?SEE AL...

It looks like WIkiLeaks' promise to work with tech companies to fix their security vulnerabilities may come with a few strings attached after all.In a move that's surprising to exactly no one, WikiLea...

Facebook constantly tweaks its user experience to give its members what they want, but the latest update is sure to drive pop-up haters, i.e. everyone, up the wall.  We spotted a new feature Frid...

If there's anything the lovable nerds in Silicon Valley have taught me, it's that compression technology is indeed sexy.Who am I kidding? It's not, but compression technology is very practical.Take Go...

The Ember travel mug is temperature-controlled and can be managed from a smartphone app via Bluetooth connection. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, a...

Uh oh, looks like President Donald Trump might have another thing to add to his growing list of cybersecurity worries.On Thursday, a laptop computer containing private information was stolen from a Se...

Google, well-known for hiding Easter eggs in its apps, has a little treat for those of us with an uncontrolled tab-opening habit.SEE ALSO: New version of Chrome is much easier on your laptop's battery...

Google Motion Stills is a must-have app for iPhone fans with troves of Live Photos — and it just got even better.The image editor already makes Live Photos less jarring by stabilizing shaky back...

Paqsule is a smart bag that cleans its contents through a UV-C light and O3 activated oxygen system. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Technology...

There's a lot to like about the LG G6. After trying out the whole modular phone thing with the G5 last year, LG's returned this year with a more practical premium phone that fits a 5.7-inch display in...

'Airbus' and 'Italdesign' have revealed a passenger capsule that can either attach to wheels and drive like a car, or be lifted up by a drone helicopter. All of this is based on traffic conditions, co...

What do Cookie Monster, Bert, Grover and Cory Booker have in common? They were all on Mashable's Twitter Live show at SXSW!On this week's MashTalk podcast, the Mashable tech team recaps the highs and ...

You may not know this, but a great deal of our data about the human mind is based on a relatively small but intensively studied population: First-year undergraduate university students.There has long ...

Instead of looking at your messages, to-do lists and emails on your phone screen, have a robot draw them. Joto, a connected whiteboard with a mechanical arm and a pencil, can you help you out wit...

Uber wants to take us to a future where self-driving cars are ubiquitous and human drivers are irrelevant. However, if newly leaked documents are correct, the company's autonomous vehicles struggle to...

A new patent filed by Sony could let you charge a smartphone by sucking precious energy from a friend's device.The patent describes a way to wirelessly transfer power between devices using near-field ...

Even if you don't follow Donald Trump online, these digital activists have a way for you to block the president on his favorite platform.Yup, that would be Twitter — the president's preferred me...

If by some unfortunate twist of fate, you have the misfortune of still using a PC with Windows Vista, I have some bad news for you. Microsoft just revealed that it's finally ending support for th...

This infrared heater was designed for esports pros, and it will keep your hands toasty whether you're gaming or writing an essay.The design allows you to aim the heat at each of your hands, while ever...

Google is working on another experimental messaging app, this time in the audio space. The new app, Supersonic Fun Voice Messenger, is the second app to come out of Google's Area 120 incubator th...

It's a tale as old as time: You ask your $129 voice-controlled, in-home digital assistant about your day and it answers with an ad for Disney's Beauty and the Beast remake. The stuff of fairy tal...

Nvidia wants to drive your car.The company, known for its mobile chips and graphics tech, announced partnerships with Bosch, the largest automotive supplier in the world, and PACCAR, a major truck man...

It now seems more likely than ever that the next version of iOS will kill hundreds of thousands of apps.The company's latest iOS beta comes with fresh warnings that outdated apps "will not work with f...

Amazon's digital assistant just landed on iOS, and it's giving Siri a run for its money.You can now talk to Alexa via Amazon's official shopping app. The update dropped Thursday for many users, and it...

Being Instagram famous isn't all it's cracked up to be, even when you're a super-famous celebrity.In a new Vogue interview, singer and actress Selena Gomez, who is also the most-followed person on Ins...

Space exploration takes centerstage in the upcoming sci-fi game Mass Effect: Andromeda, which gives a nod to some of humanity's space pioneers, including SpaceX.Polygon first noticed a model of a Spac...

China added another brick to the Great Firewall by blocking access to social media site Pinterest, making it harder for citizens to share recipes, memes, and whatever else Pinterest is used for. ...

WhatsApp users have spoken, and their message is clear: They still want to update their Status via text just like the good ol' days of away messages on AOL Instant Messenger. Last month, the Face...

'Eko Core' is a digital stethoscope that amplifies body sounds by 40 times, allowing for better medical screening.  Read more...More about Mashable Video, Heart Attack, Medical Test, Medical Equi...

Productivity tablet wars, begun they have.When Samsung unveiled its new 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S3 tablet last month, it was clear Samsung designed it to take on Apple's 9.7-inch iPad Pro, a tablet that c...

Stepping up to the counter to order a Big Mac is so yesterday.McDonald's is finally getting with the modern times and has started pilot testing a mobile app that lets customers place food orders with ...

What if Mark Zuckerberg's Internet-famous Puli, Beast, could fit in the palm of your hand and only bark or wag his adorable little tail when you get a Facebook like?That's not a Facebook founder fever...

The Da Vinci Surgical System is a set of four robotic arms that are controlled by a surgeon, mimicking and miniaturizing their hand gestures. It allows for more precision and dexterity, while red...

Productivity tablet wars, begun they have.When Samsung unveiled its new 9.7-inch Galaxy Tab S3 tablet last month, it was clear Samsung designed it to take on Apple's 9.7-inch iPad Pro, a tablet that c...

India's on-demand streaming service Hotstar, which bills itself as a no-censorship platform, edited out a segment from the Last Week Tonight show this week. The show, hosted by John Oliver, had a...

What if Mark Zuckerberg's Internet-famous Puli, Beast, could fit in the palm of your hand and only bark or wag his adorable little tail when you get a Facebook like?That's not a Facebook founder fever...

A Chinese city's police department is arming itself with more than 20 drone-jamming rifles to crack down on illegal drone flights.SEE ALSO: Use Jedi mind tricks to command this dronePolice in Wuhan, c...

The Shins frontman James Mercer didn't set out to make an app. A heavy Instagram user, he simply wanted something to make a quick photo collage. But not the kind that just plops a few photos into a gr...

Amazon Echo and Google Home can make you feel like you’ve stumbled across a genie: say what you want and, like magic, it appears on your doorstep. That's both cool and convenient — until i...

No, I don't like strapping a smartphone to my face to enjoy virtual reality. And I don't blame you if you don't want to either.  But if you look at the reported sales numbers for mobile headsets ...

Pornhub, yes, that Pornhub, plowed the streets of Boston. Why? Well, it certainly makes for a good pun. The definitely not-a-plow company reportedly sent branded plows to New York, New Jerse...

With sensational news stories like the CIA leak and personal data seizures at international borders, everyone should have plenty of reason to be smart about their phone security, right? Eh, maybe...

Earlier this week, sketchy-looking app  Facezam caught the internet's attention, and whipped up some controversy. It was all just a hoax engineered by a marketing company looking to score some vi...

South by Southwest Interactive's claim to fame includes being the place where companies like Meerkat, Foursquare and Twitter have gotten their start.Unfortunately for SXSW, most of those companies hav...

Is wearing Apple AirPods at a concert normal? Probably not. But it made sense at last night's Apple Music party. Kind of.So goes the music portion of SXSW, which has traditionally involved Pandor...

Surprise, surprise. Facebook is copying a Snapchat feature yet again.After debuting Facebook Stories — its near identical clone of Snapchat Stories — in Ireland earlier this year, the comp...

Google's got a new tool for parents: Family Link, a way for them to keep tabs on what their kids are doing on their devices, especially for those younger than 13. It has a good framework of parental c...

Google has its eye on your kids.The tech giant is opening up its many online services to kids under 13 with a new tool called Family Link: an app that lets parents carefully manage the content on thei...

The connected home is finally starting to come together harmoniously, and it's all thanks to Amazon's Alexa.iRobot announced it'll add Alexa voice commands to its Roomba 900 series robot vacuums for U...

Over the past two weeks, the scientific journals Nature and Nature Biotechnology published innovative studies about asthma, melanoma and Parkinson's disease. But all three had something more in common...

Another major hack, another Russian spy story. This time the focus is on the massive 2014 hack of Yahoo! that resulted in the collection of information about 500 million usersAccording to the Was...

Thousands of Twitter accounts — including major verified ones like Duke University, Reuters Japan, BBC America, Forbes Magazine and Amnesty International — have been compromised with a swa...

The Home Office has made it clear that it doesn't want its staff to post negative tweets about Donald Trump. In an email sent to the staff working at the department's digital data and technology ...

Volvo is building an electric vehicle, and, somewhat surprisingly, it's not going to cost a ton of money. According to Automotive News, Lex Kerssemakers, CEO of the luxury car maker's USA arm, to...

If there's one complaint about Chrome that keeps popping up lately, it's that Google's web browser — once a lightweight alternative to the much slower Internet Explorer and Firefox — is a ...

Is the pen mightier than the keyboard?Yes, according to two Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) scientists, who say that using a pen triggers the brain in a way that makes it more re...

Uber has been weathering quite a storm lately, but the ride hailing company wants to remind you: It also builds technology, and not just sexism scandals.On Wednesday, Travis Kalanick's beleaguered sta...

Google Maps is like our digital third eye, allowing us to see practically every swath of the Earth's surface. Now the mapping tool can take us underground, into the fiery depths of a volcano.As of Wed...

Got five minutes to send a few texts?If so, you could get in contact with your senator or congressperson — by fax. A new service called Resistbot, which launched on Wednesday, allows Americ...

As if flying weren't stressful enough.A passenger warning has been issued after a woman's headphone batteries appear to have exploded on a flight from Beijing to Melbourne.SEE ALSO: The father of the ...

If the coming app-pocalypse is real, then nearly 200,000 apps aren't long for this world. A whopping 187,000 apps could die with iOS 11, according to new research from app analytics company Senso...

So you got into law school? Congratulations, it's time to start thinking like an engineer.Universities around the world are introducing classes that train students in the use of legal software, assist...

Subtlety is so last year.Sometimes you just want to be more, well, specific. After all, what's a late-night booty call without the explicit promise of feasting on some eggplant?Gay dating app Grindr u...

Microsoft is coming for Slack. On Tuesday, the company announced its chat app, Teams, has rolled out to all Office 365 customers worldwide. SEE ALSO: Google is Slackifying HangoutsLike Slack...

Instagram and Snapchat are basically the same thing now, with one major difference: Everyone you know is on the first, and not the second. SEE ALSO: Hillary Clinton Snapchats an empowering video,...

There's never a dull moment on the internet, especially if you're a teenager with jokes to make and time to spare. Don't like that Snapchat filter that turns you into a dog? Get lost in random Re...

Next time you're whining about the ~struggles~ of trying to capture the perfect winter Snapchat to add to your story, think of Adrian Ballinger and Cory Richards — two badass mountaineers who us...

So you got into law school? Congratulations, it's time to start thinking like an engineer.Universities around the world are introducing classes that train students in the use of legal software, assist...

Why does a TV need to look like a big black rectangle in your living room when it's turned off? It doesn't have to be that way.That's the premise of Samsung's "The Frame" TV, which the company announc...

Google's parent company is trying to make complex tech jargon easier to understand. Alphabet's Jigsaw group launched a new project called Sideways Dictionary, which uses wacky analogies to explai...

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can pay...We know, those aren't the exact words to Corey Hart's classic ear worm, but they fit perfectly with Visa's latest mobile payment pilot: Payment Sunglasses....

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can pay...We know, those aren't the exact words to Corey Hart's classic ear worm, but they fit perfectly with Visa's latest mobile payment pilot: Payment Sunglasses....

For undocumented immigrants, signaling for help during a raid or roundup now only takes the push of a virtual "panic button."A new app called Notifica, designed for undocumented immigrants feeling thr...

While the rest of the world is wondering if virtual reality really is the next big platform, billions are being invested in the space, which means people are already chasing those very real dollars.Bu...

What have you Googled recently? Anything weird? Maybe something personal? Thanks to a recently discovered flaw in Google's mobile messaging app Allo, the contents of your search could have been served...

Wikileaks says its trying to help. The group tweeted on Tuesday that it had reached out to Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla and "MicroTik" (we're assuming they meant MikroTik) to talk with those...

To hack into your Samsung TV, the CIA isn't breaking into your house. They're hacking it when you order on Amazon. That's what Edward Snowden pointed out during an interview on Tuesday with The I...

Subtlety is so last year.Sometimes you just want to be more, well, specific. After all, what's a late-night booty call without the explicit promise of feasting on some eggplant?Gay dating app Grindr u...

Now you can keep your conversations private, annoy your coworkers and look like Bane — all at once.The gadget that makes it all happen is called Hushme. It bills itself as the "world's first voi...

Check out the chess board above—looks wrong, right? If you’ve ever played chess, you know something's amiss, here. For one thing, someone chose to exchange a pawn for another bishop i...

Will we ever be able to have Apple-designed virtual reality adventures using our iPhones? The tech giant's approach to VR has been cautious and quiet compared to peers like Google and Samsung, wh...

HanDrone comes with a smart wristband that translates gestures into altitude, direction and speed commands. Read more...More about Gestures, Flick Of The Wrist, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, and S...

On a scale of one-to-please-don't-do-this-to-me, how absolutely pumped are you to read about yet another sketchy government email scandal? And yet, here we are.This time, it ensnares newly-appointed S...

Sending money to your friends just got a whole lot easier.Gmail is bringing the ability to send and receive money as an email attachment to your Android phone via Google Wallet, the company announced ...

The Amazon Echo is the gadget that keeps on giving.Amazon quietly updated its smart speaker with support for connecting to Bluetooth—a feature that the smaller and cheaper Echo Dot has had since...

I wear my sunglasses at night so I can pay...We know, those aren't the exact words to Corey Hart's classic ear worm, but they fit perfectly with Visa's latest mobile payment pilot: Payment Sunglasses....

Ever since leaked images showed us the terrible placement of the fingerprint sensor on the upcoming Galaxy S8, we've been trying to figure out why Samsung would make such an awful, user-hostile design...

EverBlock are life-sized modular plastic blocks that allow you to create almost anything. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Real Time Video, Apartment, Diy, and Decorate...

Just because you can retrofit a modern day device to run an outdated, classic OS, should you?Yes. The answer is always yes. There's now a video making the rounds of good ol' Windows XP chugging a...

Why pick sides in the eternal conflict between iOS and Android?Eye is an iPhone case that contains a fully independent and functional Android phone. The product is currently being crowdfunded on Kicks...

VICE is creating more for Snapchat, the app known for puppy filters, disappearing messages and also its wealth of original programming. VICELAND, the Brooklyn-based media outlet's TV channel, wil...

It was just a matter of time.After the dual rear camera became the norm for smartphone flagships, it's apparently time for the number of selfie cameras on phones to double as well. Oppo's next sm...

Three-sixty videos are okay but you know what's makes them way way better? Watching them on a giant motion-sensing dome. Seriously.After trying out Sony's "Immersive Space Entertainment" concept I can...

The TAG Heuer Connected was possibly the most luxurious, expensive smartwatch to launch on the Android Wear platform — so the iconic Swiss watchmaker decided to up the ante for its Android Wear ...

VICE is creating more for Snapchat, the app known for puppy filters and disappearing messages and also its wealth of original programming. VICELAND, the Brooklyn-based media outlet's TV channel, ...

We already know that Samsung's Galaxy S8 will be nearly all screen on front, so what's actually on that screen will be pretty important. Now, SamMobile has posted screenshots of the Galaxy S8 lau...

You really have to stop sleeping next to your phone.Another smartphone's battery has exploded — this time belonging to a Samsung Note 4, that blew up in the middle of the night in Guizhou, south...

Netflix is about to make it much more convenient for Indians to pay for its monthly subscription. The on-demand video streaming service will soon integrate the Paytm mobile wallet service as a pa...

Three-sixty videos are okay but you know what's makes them way way better? Watching them on a giant motion-sensing dome. Seriously.After trying out Sony's "Immersive Space Entertainment" concept I can...

Here are some words to live by: Don't make data-collecting vibrators. Better yet, don't connect sex toys to the internet at all.Standard Innovation, the maker of digitally-enabled vibrator the We-Vibe...

Have you noticed anything different about your Facebook account today? No? Squint and look just a little closer. Based on a scattering of tweets, Facebook appears to be testing out new fonts acro...

Money keeps pouring in from companies trying to perfect the self-driving car.Like, a ton of money. The latest eye-popping transaction: Intel announced Monday that it was buying Israeli company Mo...

Over the weekend, Kellyanne Conway talked some nonsense about microwaves. Which has put us in the unfortunate position of defending her nonsense."There was an article this week that talked about how y...

South Korean manufacturer Samsung makes a wide assortment of electronics: TVs, washing machines and cellphones are just a few. Unfortunately for their customers, as John Oliver was quick to point out ...

Here are some words to live by: Don't make data-collecting vibrators. Better yet, don't connect sex toys to the internet at all.Standard Innovation, the maker of digitally-enabled vibrator the We-Vibe...

PAID CONTENT BY OLAYOlay's Skin Advisor allows beauty enthusiasts to shop smarter, simpler and more effectively about for their skin needs learn more here Between Monday 27th February and Thursday 2nd...

'Brikawood' is shaped into boards and spacers that interlock to make building a house easy and fast. Read more...More about Bricks, Wooden Bricks, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, and Diy...

'SmartBird' by Festo is a robotic bird that can easily take off, fly and even land all by itself. Read more...More about Aerodynamic Engineering, Real Time Video, Smartbird, Flying Robot, and Robot Bi...

Apple fans have some good news to start out the week. The company is expected to announce a host of new products shortly, further fleshing out the iPad, iPhone, and even the Apple Watch ecosystems.Wor...

If you're the betting type, you might want to put some money on the next iPhone beating up on Samsung in the latest battle in the war for smartphone supremacy.We still haven't (officially) seen the Ga...

Sean Spicer ventured out to his local Apple store this weekend but found out that being the mouthpiece for a highly controversial president means having to take some guff when you're in public. S...

Watching videos with your friends just got a lot more fun — or interactive, at least.Uptime, a new app from Google launched Monday, is designed to let you watch online videos with groups of peop...

"We are committed to building a community where people can feel safe making their voices heard." That's how Facebook's deputy chief privacy officer opened his public policy announcement on Monday, in ...

For 10 days in March, Austin becomes an interactive playground for inquisitive and tech-savvy folks from all over the world. During the SXSW Conference and Festivals​, big ideas about digital te...

GIPHY's on a mission to put its irresistible GIFs everywhere—so it just added yet another new way to shake up your messages and apps with more movement than ever. Yes: GIPHY-powered sticker...

Controversy machine, couch-sitter, and presidential aide Kellyanne Conway is back in the fight after addressing accusations that the Trump campaign was wiretapped, as the president alleged during an e...

By now, we've seen enough photos and videos of the belated Samsung Galaxy S8 to have a very good idea of what the phone will look like, and its specs aren't exactly a secret, either. But most of ...

Pandora's done forking its lunch over to Spotify. The popular internet radio service is going on-demand with a new "Premium" subscription service announced Monday.Users will be able to pay $9.99 a mon...

If you reduce the notion of a boat to its simplest purpose, it is a vehicle designed to keep you from getting wet. Which is why Bugatti's new yacht, which comes with a jacuzzi and a fire pit, mak...

After Google exited China seven years ago, it might finally have a way back in.A senior Chinese lawmaker has revealed that Google Scholar — Google's search engine for academic literature —...

Good posture makes you stand taller, breathe better, and will save you from looking like the Hunchback of Notre-Dame.But slouching and hunching is all too easy when you're sitting at your computer or ...

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should.That's my takeaway after playing a game of "tag" while wearing a head-mounted display at SXSW. I was at Sony's "Wow Factory" exhibit where the company dem...

Despite product recalls and repeated warnings from government officials over the past two years, some people are still using unsafe hoverboards.Now a child from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, has died as a...

On Sunday, the New York Times published a story on Evgeniy M. Bogachev, described as "the most wanted cybercriminal in the world," full of details about the hacker's crimes, plots, some incredible tid...

The battle to bring car ride-sharing, electric vehicle support and autonomy to the world will be fought a city at a time.Cities have the local knowledge, they’re “the landlords for the env...

I've said this many times: Huawei makes great phones. They're built to last and their software won't cause you many headaches after you get used to it. All the Huawei phones I've tested in the last co...

Hot doesn't even begin to describe the NIO EVE, a self-driving electric concept car straight out of a sci-fi movie that's packed from top to bottom with every buzzy new technology imaginable.Chinese e...

The wait for Google's connected Levi's jacket is almost over. Nearly two years after first teasing Project Jacquard, the company's experiment to weave technology into clothing, the first garment ...

Floating just inches from my face was a semi-translucent brain. It was, this being Austin, missing a few pieces. To my left floated the frontal lobe. I reached out with my virtual left hand, tapped it...

We never tire of seeing amazing new footage from the International Space Station (ISS), but it would be even better if most of us could get a VIP ticket to visit. Well, now we can, thanks to virt...

What's more of a time-suck than spending all day writing email? You could probably name a few things like vacuuming, getting lost in subreddits, and browsing through Instagram. But still, nothing...

Tom Cruise lied and told me I'd feel like I was floating in zero gravity.OK, Cruise didn't really lie to me IRL, but he did in VR, after I strapped on an Oculus Rift VR headset and sat down in a Posit...

With the latest WikiLeaks dump, Mark Zuckerberg's announcement of his second child  and tech companies celebrating International Women's Day, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps...

With the latest WikiLeaks dump, Mark Zuckerberg's announcement of his second child  and tech companies celebrating International Women's Day, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps...

Snapping your friends is now a bit more whimsical. If you're an Android user, that is. An observant member of the Twitterverse noticed that Snap Inc. has rolled out a new feature further integrat...

Editor's Note: A representative from Mashable's Branded Content team attended the Olay panel on a Global Skin Analysis Program at Mobile World Congress and gave a firsthand account of the ev...

Tesla lovers might have to wait until later this year for a shot at a ride in the electric carmaker's first crack at an "affordable" sedan, the Model 3, but the prep for its release is ramping up....

New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker is maybe possibly going to be a presidential candidate at some point in our lives, although who knows, because getting straight answers from a politician is hardly a thing ...

When you really need to beat traffic, do you ever wish your car could just take flight and soar above the streets right then and there? Airbus offered antsy commuters a tantalizing look at a mult...

What would any kind of Silicon Valley outing be without ping pong and a heaping side of sexism? We may never know.Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Uber CEO Travis Kalanick both recently attended ...

Collecting and evolving Pokémon in Pokémon Go is a lot of fun, but the competitive side of the popular mobile app is lacking. Developer Niantic recognizes that.Pokémon Go's gym feature ...

AT&T announced Friday it will offer an unlimited data option for its contract-free GoPhone users, so even more people have a shot at taking advantage of the unlimited data plan arms race between t...

When WikiLeaks dumped a plethora of CIA documents this week, it revealed just how many of our devices are vulnerable to hacking. Scary, sure—but should Apple and Google say thank you to Assange ...

If you're the type of person who immediately updates their iPhone to the latest version of iOS every time new software drops, here's a friendly warning: Hold off a moment and back up the files on your...

Trolls thrive on Twitter—but a new update may hit 'em where it hurts.The social network deployed previously announced features Thursday that give users more control over the notifications they r...

Facebook just scored something big in live.The social networking giant will livestream regular season matches of American soccer through a partnership with Major League Soccer and Univision Deportes, ...

We rarely go to the bank anymore. Our main interaction with these money-tending edifices is through the tiny money-spitting mouths of ATMs. But we miss the human interaction. It's unlikely we'll ...

Pikachu can't recharge your phone any more.The electric-type Pokémon — and the world's most recognisable electric rodent — is now the face of the latest battery-related product recall...

Now we know Elon Musk is a betting man.Yesterday, Tesla's Vice President for energy products Lyndon Rive (who is Musk's cousin) said the company could build enough battery storage capacity with its Po...

If only true, unadulterated unlimited data was a real thing. But as a consolation, T-Mobile customers this week were surprised with a 2GB increase from 28GB to 30GB each month as the threshold be...

What good is owning a car if you can't actually drive it?Some Tesla owners across the country are asking themselves that very question after collisions sent their electric vehicles to the shop —...

If you were asked to guess the words people use when they're most at risk for suicide, you'd be right to think of obvious nouns and verbs like die, overdose and, yes, the word suicide itself. So ...

If there's one thing that's predictable about President Donald Trump's tweets, it's that he'll eventually commit a few typos. But it's what happens after these typos that has one Congressional committ...

Google is making massive changes to Hangouts.After what feels like years without significant updates, the company announced a total overhaul of the messaging app. In an effort to make Hangouts more bu...

Cars that can "talk" to each other are ready to hit the open road. Cadillac announced its 2017 CTS sedan will be the first car in the U.S. market to include a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communicati...

One baby's cool. You know what's really cool? A billion babies. But two works, too. And when 1.86 billion active users isn't enough, sometimes, you just have to grow your audience the old fashion...

John Nolan is an animatronics visionary, known for having created the terrifying baby Voldemort for the Harry Potter films. Now he's teamed up with National Geographic for Big Cat Week to create ...

Wikileaks mastermind Julian Assange says he wants to help tech companies block the CIA's hacking techniques. "We have decided to work with them, to give them some exclusive access to some of the ...

Google's not going to let Apple get all the new, shiny campus glory in Silicon Valley. On Tuesday, the City of Mountain View gave the tech giant the go-ahead to begin construction on its newest buildi...

Uber finally addressed its latest controversy — but don't expect it to offer any apologies. The New York Times last week reported Uber's use of Greyball, an internal tool meant to determine...

Gboard is giving some overdue TLC to its Android users.Google announced several new features for its keyboard app Thursday, including GIF and emoji suggestions, all of which finally catch Gboard up to...

When you want to stay in the know and keep your ear to the ground on the newest innovations within the mobile industry, you go to the Mobile World Congress (MWC). This year, the MWC took place in Barc...

Apple's 2016 MacBook Pro is a sleek, beautiful machine, but it's not cheap. The cheapest new MacBook Pro, the one with just two USB-C ports and no Touch Bar, starts at $1,499. There is now a way ...

Figuring out what to wear is such a drag that some smart people don what amounts to a uniform each day. Steve Jobs did it, Dean Kamen does itThis woman did it.SEE ALSO: Dodge baggage fees with this ja...

Move over Apple and Google, the next smartphone to make buzz in India could be from superstar Salman Khan — or that’s the plan.The 51-year-old Bollywood actor’s Being Human charity i...

That little pocket camera made to shoot the night sky is nearly ready.The Tiny1 from Singapore startup TinyMOS blew through its Indiegogo fundraising campaign in July last year to raise nearly $430,00...

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks released a large trove of documents, allegedly containing CIA hacking tools and security exploits for all major software platforms, including Android. Now, Google has public...

Currently, most of the virtual reality developer brainpower is being directed toward creating amazingly immersive games (and to a lesser extent, film and non-gaming interactive experiences). But when ...

Elon Musk's home battery is returning to Australia for a second round.The new Powerwall 2 has about double the capacity of Tesla's original Powerwall, and will roll out from April. Vice President for ...

A team of IBM researchers just created the world's smallest magnet using a solitary atom — and if that wasn't enough of a challenge, they packed it with one bit of digital data for good measure....

Twitter cofounder Biz Stone is joining Pinterest.Pinterest announced Wednesday that it's acquiring Jelly, the Q&A app Stone founded in 2013. Both Stone and cofounder Ben Finkel are joining Pintere...

There's no such thing as total privacy in the United States, but it's a vital part of being an American. That was the somewhat convoluted message from FBI Director James Comey on Wednesday as he spoke...

The facts may or may not be legit, but either way, you should be upset with WikiLeaks for giving them to you. That's the message coming out of the CIA following yesterday's massive "Vault 7" inte...

Among the more than 7.5 million tweets related to International Women's Day, tech companies showed up, too, and released their statements of solidarity and appreciation for the gender that they, for t...

Kerv, a new smart ring now available in the UK, promises to bring purchasing power directly to your finger. Smart devices with instant purchasing capabilities aren't exactly revolutionary—p...

Google's computer vision technology is now so good it's able to find specific objects within a video or group of videos.During the company's Cloud Next event in San Francisco Wednesday, Google unveile...

Beautiful. Unethical. Dangerous.That’s how Lucius Fox described Batman’s hacking wizardry in part two of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy, The Dark Knight.In the film, the caped cr...

Over the past few months, Mark Zuckerberg has dropped a number of hints that Oculus would only be part of Facebook's strategy to tackle immersive video and virtual reality. On Wednesday, the comp...

The CIA would really like to know how its documents ended up on Wikileaks. As reported, Wikileaks published a massive trove of information on Tuesday, and the CIA, along with the FBI, is now inve...

The people in charge of the most important tech products in the world don't have much in common with many of their customers. Many are rich, American, white — and, of particular import today, ma...

XPlotter is a three-in-one plotter that can draw, engrave and even do laser cutting making it perfect for any DIY projects. Read more...More about Engravings, Cats, Kickstarter, Inventions, and Diy...

To celebrate International Women's Day, Snapchat released a series of filters featuring three prominent women from history: Rosa Parks, Frida Kahlo and Marie Curie. The problem? Marie Curie's filter i...

Hugh Forrest sounded like he just did a spit-take on the phone. I was telling him how I wanted to explore South by Southwest Conference (SXSW), the music, film and interactive event that kicks off Mar...

Twitter has gifted all the women — and all the men — of its service a special emoji in honor of International Women's Day. Whenever a user tweets with the hashtag #SheInspiresMe, #Wom...

We've been kicking around rumors about the next, supposedly "deluxe" iPhone for quite awhile now, so we have an idea about what we might see when Apple finally unveils it, presumably in September R...

On March 29, Samsung's going to finally — officially — announce its next flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S8, and by all reports it will be glorious.The Galaxy S8 will be one of the...

2.9 million babies die each year in their first month of life. Safely and practically administering vital medicine to infants is a global challenge — especially in certain countries where access...

Worried how the recent trove of secret CIA documents affects you and the phone you're currently using?With regards to that particular set of bugs, (which describe numerous vulnerabilities in both Goog...

Snapchat is making its own contribution to International Women's Day with, what else, a set of new animated lenses.The app updated its lenses with three new offerings for the occasion: animated lenses...

If we had to pick a walk-out song to the new Major League Baseball-approved wearable the Whoop Strap, we'd go with "Whoomp! (There It Is)" by Tag Team because close enough.The tracker will be one of t...

Think you know everything about Tinder? Guess again. The company is testing a secret version of its app called Tinder Select, a invitation-only service reserved for some of the app's more influen...

Wednesday's Google Doodle features a lot of firsts: The first Turkish woman to compete in the Olympics. The world's first computer programmer. Those heroes would be Halet Çambel and Ada Love...

The New York Fire Department has been messing around with a new drone for months. On Monday, it finally put the gadget into action.SEE ALSO: Drone captures mesmerizing footage of water overflowing in ...

The LG G6 is sitting pretty. This year, smartphones are expected to become little more than big, bezel-less screens, and LG's new flagship has a head start on Samsung's Galaxy S8, which will laun...

Searching the planet just got a whole lot easier. Global forecasting company Descartes Labs released a demo search engine that allows users to scan the entire globe to find specific types of obje...

Meal-replacement company Soylent's target demographic is male, 18 to 34 years old, and apparently needs the help of a woman-themed chatbot to figure out how to eat. The Los Angeles-based com...

Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 might have burned up in a fiery ball of flames, but don't you worry because the Galaxy Note 8 will literally be great.According to the folks at ol' reliable SamMobile, the code...

If you own a smart device or connected TV and found yourself alarmed by Tuesday's reports of CIA hacking, you need to start asking difficult questions about the companies you'll spend money with in th...

Land Rover built an SUV that does double-time as a drone launch and landing pad. The vehicle is meant to help with search-and-rescue operations, and will soon be a part of the Austrian Red Cross....

When you see an orangutan play a projected video game you have some thoughts: "Animals, they're just like us!" and "How long till she's playing Halo?"It's hard not to compare the reactions of animals ...

Apple is reportedly working on a "revolutionary" new camera for the upcoming iPhone 8 — and the tech giant has a new patent that might help make that system a reality.    The pate...

If you look away from this Rubik's Cube-solving robot for even a second, you'll miss history. The Sub 1 Reloaded cracked the notorious puzzle in just 0.637 seconds earlier this year, smashing its...

Too busy to call your doctor's office? Well now you can simply shout at Alexa from the comfort of your couch for slightly similar results.Amazon's helpful, know-it-all bot is working with WebMD, aka a...

Windows, once the undisputed king of operating systems, is facing a new contender for the throne. StatCounter, a web analytics company, found that Android came very close to matching Windows' mar...

Are you ready for this? Instagram just copied yet another feature from Snapchat.Instagram updated its apps Tuesday with a new "geostickers" feature in Stories that is nearly the same as — you gu...

I've got a little secret: I haven't seen ads in my Instagram feed in more than a year.You're probably wondering how that's even possible. Honestly, I'm not exactly sure why it works, but it does, and ...

When Apple launched the iPhone 7, it began to officially phase out the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but now a new variant of the three-year-old iPhone is landing in a few places. Who is it for? A ...

A new coding technique could make it possible to condense your entire digital library onto a microscopic hard drive.Except the hard drive won't consist of metals and plastic. It will be made of DNA.Sc...

Do you want healthcare or a smartphone? That was the choice posited by Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Tuesday morning. His comments made it seem as though smartphones are an extravagance. ...

Get all your tears and frustration out now because it's only a matter of time before your favorite smartphone follows Apple and drops the headphone jack.Though it sure looks like Samsung's Galaxy S8 w...

On Tuesday, WikiLeaks published a massive trove of unverified documents it claims came from "an isolated, high-security network situated inside the CIA's Center for Cyber Intelligence."The documents, ...

While the waves are still being felt from Tuesday's huge document dump by WikiLeaks focusing on CIA hacking techniques, we now know what Edward Snowden, the world's most famous whistleblower, thinks o...

Wikileaks dumped a huge cache of CIA documents and files this morning in the first of a series of Vault 7 leaks, and in doing so, showed the world the agency's horrible taste in memes. The whole ...

WikiLeaks' sudden dump of secret CIA documents includes a lot of detail on the exact methods the agency has been allegedly using to hack various devices. One of the more colorful descriptions is the t...

WikiLeaks has published a trove of files it says are linked to the CIA's hacking operations — which apparently includes efforts to hack into cars. SEE ALSO: WikiLeaks document dump alleges ...

If you, for one, are ready to welcome our new Russian overlords, there's good news: you can get one of those new-fangled throwback Nokia 3310 phones with a gold-encrusted Vladimir Putin face.SEE ALSO:...

2017 is the year tech will change the way we interact with the world around us. Augmented reality is the emerging tech that’s slowly disrupting our lives. Perhaps you spent a good chunk of last ...

They're building a tube in the desert.After some delays, lots of controversy and maybe a little concern about the longevity of the enterprise, HyperLoop One, the next-gen transportation company, is bu...

If the CIA wants to peer inside your digital life, it'll find a way, no matter what you've done to protect yourself. That's the basic message inherent in a trove of documents dumped by WikiLeaks ...

You can now count on the Google Translation app to settle your dinner-table debates over popular Hindi dialogues and what they actually mean. Google says it has improved the way its namesake tran...

'PooPerch' hangs under your toilet paper holder and provides a convenient, safe space for your phone.  Read more...More about Mashable Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Real...

Smart thermostat Nest is about to get a lot more secure. The company just added an important security feature that you should enable if you care about keeping your IoT-enabled home safe: two-fact...

We are well into 2017 and the situation hasn't got any better, so here comes the routine alert from world-renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking that we're all gonna die — and it's all o...

Tired of being interrupted? A new app claims it may be able to help.Called Woman Interrupted, the app uses your smartphone's microphone to analyze conversations and track how many times men interrupt ...

Now that I know about Sonos Playbase, I wonder if Sonos was spying on me. SEE ALSO: Study: People who listen to music out loud have more sexWhen the company announced Playbase Tuesday, it noted t...

Back in 2015, hidden in a tiny soundproof room at CES in Las Vegas, a demo for a cops-versus-giant robot game called Showdown blew me away. At one point, I watched in amazement as fully rendered,...

If you're a fan of Pokémon, you just might see a familiar face Volkswagen's first fully autonomous concept vehicle.The ride is called Sedric (as in self-driving car), and let's be real, it looks ...

Residents of New York City are on their way to having new oversight of their police department's counterterrorism operations, which often includes surveillance. A new settlement filed Monday woul...

The troll's post is coming from inside the house. Possibly even your house, in fact. A joint research project out of Stanford and Cornell Universities has determined that internet trolls are not ...

One of the biggest expectations we have for the upcoming iPhone 8 is an edge-to-edge OLED screen—but if a new supply chain rumor is true, that's just the first step in Apple's master plan.A rece...

You've never seen a snake quite like this one.Justin Kobylka spent eight years breeding pythons until he was finally able to create this mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind white ball python with three orange-...

You don't have to push a button to send a signal. Services like Twitter keep tabs on your behavior even if you aren't prodding your touchscreen to "like" or "retweet" things, and they use all that pre...

If there's one Facebook rumor that absolutely refuses to die, it's that a dislike button might someday appear on the site.No matter how many times Mark Zuckerberg says he will never, ever make one, at...

Everyone who's ever worked in a modern office has experienced the pain. You sip your coffee, read your emails, finally settle in and start being productive when that coworker rolls up to your desk. Yo...

Apparently, no one learned a damn thing from the infamous Democratic National Committee (DNC) email hacks that marred Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign because several liberal groups are no...

Waiting sucks! But it looks like you'll have no choice but to suck it up and wait a little longer for Samsung's highly anticipated Galaxy S8.Noted phone leaker Evan Blass says his trusted sources have...

For a brief moment, the personal data you gave to Verizon, AT&T and Comcast was protected from their corporate whims. But last week, new Republican Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit ...

A little-known data firm that claimed to have played a key role in last year's U.S. presidential election is being targeted in an inquiry about the misuse of personal data during last year's Brexit re...

'Tech Tats' are temporary and use ink that conducts electricity. They are fitted with small sensors and trackers that turn them into tiny smart devices.So far the tech can measure temperature, which c...

A new discovery could pave the way for batteries that last longer—and won't explode.The breakthrough comes from a team of engineers led by John Goodenough, the co-inventor of the lithium-ion bat...

Google has revealed the most popular apps and games in its Play Store and the top picks aren't surprising at all.To commemorate the fifth anniversary of its Play Store, the company released a series o...

Baxter the robot is blushing. It made yet another embarrassing mistake by placing a spray paint can in the wrong bin. A moment later, the big, red bot makes the right choice, placing a bundle of wire ...

Refugees struggling with asylum applications can now use a chatbot to get free legal aid in the US, Canada and the UK.DoNotPay, created by London-born Stanford student Joshua Browder, started out as a...

 I’d never really considered the myriad applications of artificial intelligence (AI) until I took my seat at the OLAY panel at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The subtle ways that AI is...

If the Galaxy S8 leaks keep coming in at this rate, there won't be anything left for Samsung to announce at its big March 29 launch event.The latest leak potentially reveals what it'll be like to use ...

"Uber is a really good company."It's not something we're hearing lately with all the talk around #DeleteUber, the sexism in the workplace and the questionable behavior of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick....

There is a secret language to office furniture. The design, the size, the placement — they all communicate something. In most cases it's simply, "This work is sending me to sleep, please kill me...

Next up from Fitbit: Tech that will help you hit your fitness goals without ruining your style.The activity tracking giant gave fashionistas some love in 2016 with the introduction of the Alta, a slee...

There is a secret language to office furniture. The design, the size, the placement — they all communicate something. In most cases it's simply, "This work is sending me to sleep, please kill me...

I don't want to alarm anyone, but if Google Home is to be believed, Barack Obama is planning a coup.SEE ALSO: Google Home Super Bowl ad caused some Google Homes to go bonkersWith Trump making unfounde...

I don't want to alarm anyone, but if Google Home is to be believed, Barack Obama is planning a coup.SEE ALSO: Google Home Super Bowl ad caused some Google Homes to go bonkersWith Trump making unfounde...

I don't want to alarm anyone, but if Google Home is to be believed, Barack Obama is planning a coup.SEE ALSO: Google Home Super Bowl ad caused some Google Homes to go bonkersWith Trump making unfounde...

Vice President Mike Pence's email controversy is growing. Pence is demanding the Associated Press take down the private email address of his wife, Karen, after the AP published it, in a report de...

Vice President Mike Pence’s embarrassing use of an AOL email account is just another painful reminder of something that should be crystal clear to everyone: this administration doesn’t und...

Besides stopping the spread of fake news, a dislike button is probably the feature Facebook users ask for more than anything. And despite years of rumors, we've never gotten one. But now, we migh...

Here is a fun thing that happened: On Jan. 31, the military sent a 450-pound mostly autonomous machine into the sky, and— according to a Stars and Stripes report on Thursday—lost it. ...

With the clearest images of Samsung's Galaxy S8 yet, WhatsApp reportedly testing new features for businesses, and Korean messaging giant Line introducing its own assistant, you may have missed some of...

Former President Barack Obama wasn't impressed by the United States' missile defense systems. They constantly missed incoming blasts in practice, to say nothing of how they might fare in the face of a...

If the government wants your data, they're probably going to get it — one way or another. As many are belatedly realizing under the administration of Donald Trump, Fourth Amendment protecti...

Welcome back to another week of MashTalk. On this week's podcast, the Mashable tech team recaps the best gadgets from Mobile World Congress 2017, discuss Snap Inc's IPO, and debate whether Apple would...

T-Mobile is, if nothing else, super thirsty. From one-upping Verizon's unlimited data plan via tweetstorm from CEO John Legere to its BDSM-tinged, slightly NSFW Super Bowl Twitter feud with, again, Ve...

In the future, your beer will be delivered by by robots that look like big beetles out to set up a golf course. Virginia became the first state in the union on Wednesday to legally allow robots t...

Hey! Did you know that 68 percent of the people who work at Apple are dudes? That tech darlings like Uber have rampant sexism problems? And that only 4 percent of CEOs in the Fortune 500 are women?
...

Listen up, Tesla fans. Your favorite carmaker's Autopilot is a super-smart marriage of high tech hardware and software that provides one of the best semi-autonomous driving experiences currently ...

If at first you don't succeed, go to elaborate lengths to trick and evade regulatory authorities trying to bring you down. That appears to be the maxim at Uber, if a new report is accurate.Investigati...

The pieces of the Galaxy S8 puzzle are finally coming together. We're already pretty sure this is what Samsung's Galaxy S8 will look like when it's announced on March 29, and now we may know how ...

Amazon reportedly has new tech in the works that could let you talk to anyone in any room in your house. Yes, Amazon just re-invented the intercom, only this time it's going to be built into the Echo....

Google Photos, the company's much-loved photo storage app, is introducing yet another way to improve your snapshots without any hassle. The company announced a new "auto white balance" feature on...

Some people won't plan a trip without combing through travel sites and hitting up friends familiar with the area. If Facebook has its way, soon you'll be able to do both without ever leaving its app. ...

Nostalgia tech seems to be all the rage lately. There's the recent re-launch of the Nokia 3330, which comes with the much-beloved game Snake. Then there's a wireless keyboard that looks and feels...

Oh, how the tables have turned.Vice President Mike Pence — aka one of the people who made a huge stink about Hillary Clinton's private email scandal during the 2016 campaigns — has now fou...

Android game developers will soon have a new tool to lure more players to their games.At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco this week, Google announced a new feature called "Playables," w...

If there was ever any doubt that Google would release a successor to the Pixel and Pixel XL, its best smartphones ever, you can now lay those fears to rest and sleep easy at night.Speaking with Androi...

This is the first residential house 3D-printed onsite with a mobile printer. It only took 24 hours and costs $10,134. The company, Apis Cor, hopes that this can provide an alternative to traditio...

Virtual Reality is evolving fast, but are we evolving along with it? We asked a scientist to see how our brain works in VR. After digging into the video above, feel free to see what it's like to ...

Yelp will soon be able to tell you about a new aspect of restaurants and businesses that is often overlooked: whether its restrooms are gender inclusive.The company is rolling out a new feature that w...

Every time you click to book a ride on the Grab app, the machinery that clicks in the background crunches some serious numbers to pair you with a driver.It's "staggeringly complex," as Grab's head of ...

This is the first residential house 3D-printed onsite with a mobile printer. It only took 24 hours and costs $10,134. The company, Apis Cor, hopes that this can provide an alternative to traditio...

As we start to 3D-print everything — including houses, of all things — it's pretty impressive that a company built one in just 24 hours.Located in Russia, this 400-square-foot home (37 squ...

Is it acceptable to drink fine Scottish whisky from a flask? Well, if you're using the new Flask 2, a crazy-expensive, over-engineered flask created by watch maker Urwerk and whisky maker Macalla...

This is Mike Pence: Former governor of Indiana, Vice President of the United States, Chili's patron and AOL user. It's that last bit that seems to have gotten him into trouble, as The Indianapoli...

Facebook is testing a secondary News Feed in the beta version of the app on Android. Some users have noticed a similar feature being tested on iOS in early January.In the latest beta update, the curre...

With the downfall of Pebble late last year, it looked like the wearables market could be in trouble. Nope. It hit an all-time high with 33.9 million units shipped in the fourth quarter of 2016, g...

Peter Thiel's surveillance company Palantir is reportedly finalizing the digital framework for a potential mass deportation operation, should President Donald Trump decide to go that route.The company...

Amazon has finally revealed the cause of the lengthy outage that disrupted service to dozens of internet services for hours — and it's pretty embarrassing.The cause, according to the company, wh...

Perspective sometimes requires taking a step back. The FBI is trying to figure out who recently knocked down more than 100 headstones at a Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia. This followed an incide...

Kudos to Snapchat AKA Snap — it looks like the company has pulled off a successful IPO without a massive technical glitch or the bottom falling out from under it. It's even managed to penetrate ...

While it's not clear if anyone still uses it—a poll from Droid Life suggests maybe not—Google announced three new features for its messaging app Allo on Thursday. The app now includes GIF ...

Uber just doesn't know when to quit. And Susan Fowler Rigetti is ready. The former Uber engineer whose explosive blog post detailed alleged sexual harassment and HR negligence at the company, cla...

Calm down, Apple fans. We're probably not going to lose the Lightning connector — not with the iPhone 8, at least.The Wall Street Journal dropped a bombshell on the tech world earlier this week ...

The Possible: "Speed Machine"For the past 100 years, world records have been broken at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. After receiving a postcard from the Flats when he was a boy, Keith Copeland fo...

Is Elon Musk smarter than a fifth grader? In some respects, sure. But apparently not when it comes to advertising. On Wednesday night, Bria, a fifth grade "green fan" of Musk's company, Tesla, bl...

Apple's far-flung concepts for a future iPhone seem to be inspired by a famous snack food. The company's latest patent filing, brought to light by AppleInsider, describes a bold new build with a ...

Transgender teen Gavin Grimm has received the backing of dozens of corporations — including heavyweights like Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Twitter — have signed on to a "friend of the cour...

The spokeswoman for President Trump's attorney general Jeff Sessions has reportedly used her personal Gmail account for a statement to the media. SEE ALSO: After Elizabeth Warren is shut down, pe...

Twitter is teaming up with two of the biggest esports organizations in the world to live stream more than a dozen esports events as well as original esports content including a 30-minute weekly show.T...

That has got to be the most intense way to clean a power line.Chinese companies have engineered an fiery way of removing trash that hangs from power lines. They're literally torching them with flame-t...

The fastest cars in the world race every year on the salt flats of Bonneville. We took a look into the science of creating these cars.After digging into the video above, feel free to see what it's lik...

By combining a modular, motion-capped car, a 360-degree camera and some real-time work from Unreal Engine 4, Chevrolet created an impressive short film featuring two augmented reality cars racing agai...

India’s major IT firms have long required their employees to give a three-month, "non-negotiable" notice before leaving the company, but they could be soon forced to change that. SEE ALSO: ...

Netflix just got a whole lot less chill. The popular video-streaming service has published a detailed instruction guide for making your own Netflix-themed personal trainer. Like, in the get-off-t...

It’s 2017, and we're still stuck with email clients that refuse to accept attachments going north of 25MB. Gmail is changing that. Well, sort of. Google has announced that it is doubling th...

WhatsApp might be working on a business feature for small enterprises that will soon pilot in India, its biggest market, according to reports. WhatsApp for Business, a version of the app, will he...

Amazon's Alexa may be up against big competition. South Korean internet giant Naver, which runs Line, Japan's biggest messaging app, unveiled on Wednesday its own AI virtual assistant. SEE A...

Singapore is keen to start using drones and unmanned aerial vehicles to inspect its extensive underground subway tunnel network.The transport regulator put out a request for companies on Wednesday to ...

When Amazon's cloud computing service failed on Tuesday, more than half of the internet's top 100 e-commerce websites were affected. Which site didn't get burned? Amazon.com, of course. The ...

Paid Content By DB Export If you hadn’t noticed, New Zealanders really give a damn about the environmentThey care for their rivers and lakes, half the country’s a national park and they th...

There's a handful of apps that every techie in Silicon Valley has on their phone: Google Maps, Lyft (#DeleteUber), Slack, Facebook, and Twitter.But scroll past that first screen, and somewhere in thei...

There's about to be some drama in the group chat.Godotify is a simple app you can use to mess with your friends. All you have to do is download it on your computer and let it run in the background. Th...

Samsung's big Galaxy S8 unveil is still a month away so, naturally, it's time for leaks to kick into high gear.We've now gotten what seems to be our best look yet at the phone thanks to a series of ne...

While the early weeks of the Trump administration have been marked by a stormy relationship with the media, the White House press office has managed to institute at least one promising initiative.The ...

Constant innovation. It's a well-known motto of the pizza industry.Oh wait. It's not. But with the recent influx of pizza news, it kind of feels like it is. And now Pizza Hut has up and changed the ga...

Oculus is drastically reducing the price of its Rift virtual reality headset and Touch controllers to a combined cost of $600 — $500 for the headset and $100 for the controllers — the comp...

Clippy is backAgain.SEE ALSO: Switch storage limits take Nintendo gaming back to the '90sThe world's most infamous paper clip is back in the form of a Chrome extension called Clippy Everywhere! Once i...

Unless you're a member of the deaf community or a big fan of foreign films, you probably never think about how drab your default subtitles are. You just queue up your device, press play on your favori...

Can Facebook use all that it knows about us to help stop someone from dying by suicide?It's been more than a rhetorical question since January, after a video, pulled from the social media platform Liv...

Apple is about to commit infanticide against the iPhone 7.The device—which is great, and just a few months old—will likely be blown to unrecyclable smithereens by the upcoming iPhone 8, if...

Facebook copies Snapchat, and Spotify copies Tidal. The top music streaming service is planning to introduce lossless audio — or CD-quality music — to subscribers for a higher monthly...

‘Braeön’ is a lightweight plastic ribbon that’s as strong as steel. It can be styled into several different useful shapes like a splint or even a mouth guard. Read more...More a...

You know the drill by now: A website was hacked, personal information may have been stolen, and now a company will have to make promises about the future of its cybersecurity. The target this time? Fo...

Attention drone operators: Watch your aim with those things or you could end up in behind bars.Yeah, we're serious. Paul Skinner, a 38-year-old Seattle man who accidentally knocked a woman unconscious...

Marcellus has lived on the streets of Philadelphia for more than four years, and he wants you to know that being homeless isn't easy."It's, like, waking up hungry. Going to sleep hungry," he says in a...

Google's latest patent suggests the tech giant might be developing something to give Spectacles a run for their money. Granted Tuesday, the patent describes "a hat and a camera system for the hat...

Foursquare's transformation from fun consumer app into serious behind-the-scenes business is taking another step forward.The location app is rolling out a new platform open to all mobile apps that wil...

'I LOCK IT' could make locking your bike a whole lot easier. It uses Bluetooth to lock and unlock your bike. It even has an alarm that goes off when it senses someone tampering with your bike. Read mo...

The Ripple Maker can print text and images on your coffee. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Real Time Video, and Food Art...

Yes, there was no Samsung Galaxy S8 and yes, its absence was felt. But even without it, Mobile World Congress — the largest mobile show of the year — was anything but boring. This yea...

Plenty of top-flight headphones have noise-cancelling features to help listeners tune out the rest of the world. Now, a new set of brain-hacking headphones, Mindset, is taking everything a step furthe...

Just a few metres into my journey in Nissan's LEAF electric car, the autonomous vehicle swerved towards the kerb. It wasn't exactly the start I was expecting. But to be fair to Nissan, my dr...

There are no secrets. It's a hard truth Samsung is learning over and over again as one micro-leak after another appears to tell us every little detail of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 smartphone.SEE ...

Another day, another string of Twitter updates aimed at curbing abuse and harassment. The company just detailed a new set of changes to reduce harassment on its platform. Among them: users who re...

Imagine a Twitter in which, get this: Your reports of abuse get a response from Twitter. You can mute certain phrases from your feed.And: No. More. Twitter. Eggs.Well, that Twitter is coming...

The audio and music streaming landscape in India is heating up. Slowly yet surely. Saavn, termed "India's Spotify" by Billboard, just rolled out its Artist Originals (AO) program that will concep...

The audio and music streaming landscape in India is heating up. Slowly yet surely. Saavn, termed "India's Spotify" by Billboard, just rolled out its Artist Originals (AO) program that will concep...

Snap Inc. has been playing with dronesThe New York Times reported Tuesday that the company has worked on building its own drones, citing three people "briefed on the project who asked to remain anonym...

Nostalgia is cheap, but it gets us every damn time.Nokia's reboot of the classic 3310 sent people in an unprecedented fervour when it debuted at Mobile World Congress on the weekend. Turns out people ...

Every once in a while I have to log into a website I haven't been to in, say, a year. I type in my username and password, hit enter, and the internet yells at me. Wrong password. OK, I say, and t...

Your lights automatically flipping on when you walk in the door. Checking who's at the front door without getting up off the couch. Starting your coffee before you get out of bed. There's a reaso...

Apple likes to rip the band-aid off cleanly. No half measures, just a sharp and briefly painful leap to the next thing. That’s how it was with the dearly departed 3.5 mm headphone jack on t...

In today’s harsh political climate, there's no shortage of abuse and trolls — which is why it's great that Google released a new tool to combat hateful speech on the internet. It's ca...

Does everyone have the legal right to access social media, regardless of past sins? The Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday on the constitutionality of a North Carolina law barring convicted ...

Last summer, when Facebook tested its huge drone, the right wing fizzled out and it smashed into the Arizona desert. So, you know, could have gone better. But it was round one, and the company now bel...

Predator drones will no longer haunt the sky above parts of the Middle East and Africa, though another type of drone will take their place.MQ-1 predators and other military drones have launched hellfi...

Instagram appears to be gearing up to bring a dose of transparency to what its users are promoting. A new tool, spotted this week but not yet widely available, would let advertisers tag a partner in I...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, the cloud computing service that backs many major sites and services, including Netflix, Airbnb, Giphy and 148,213 other sites, suffered a disruption on Tuesday, bringing...

A new smart holster design could make police body cameras more responsive in the moments they're needed most: when an officer draws their firearm.  TASER, the company behind the stun guns used by...

Nostalgia is cheap, but it gets us every damn time.Nokia's reboot of the classic 3310 sent people in an unprecedented fervour when it debuted at Mobile World Congress on the weekend. Turns out people ...

Boston Dynamics have finally revealed the highly anticipated 'Handle' robot. We all got a sneak peak of its capabilities after a video was leaked online. But now we are getting a fuller picture o...

When you think of artificial inteligence, Pinterest is likely not the first tech giant that comes to mind.The company is hoping that will soon change. Pinterest is launching a new group within its org...

Weird doesn't even begin to describe the Protruly Darling.Billed as the world's first "VR mobile phone", the Darling and its built-in 360-degree "VR" camera is the type of phone you'll only find from ...

Today, Netflix streams to TVs, computers, tablets, phones, game consoles and more—but what about in the future?During a keynote at Mobile World Congress on Monday, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said...

Making your own smart device just got easier.Raspberry Pi is celebrating five years since the launch of its original ultra-cheap DIY computer by announcing a new one, the Raspberry Pi Zero W. The Zero...

All those rumors that the next iPhone or Samsung will be all screen in the front have a problem: No one's really sure how to do that. You'd need to remove or redesign the camera lenses, the sensors an...

OK Apple, we get it: You really want to move our TouchIDs straight into our iPhones' displays.The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) granted Apple yet another patent Tuesday that focuses on new po...

A new report in the Wall Street Journal signals that Apple could be making a huge change for its upcoming iPhone 8 models: ditching the Lightning port, a mainstay since the iPhone 5 released in 2012.&...

The glimpses we caught of Boston Dynamics' astounding Handle robot earlier this month didn't tell even half the story.The cutting-edge robotics company officially unveiled the 6.5-foot-tall Handle on ...

Before there was Candy Crush or Pokémon Go, there was only one game everyone played on their cellphones: Snake.The game's concept is simple: Maneuver a snake around the screen as it grows longer ...

Car makers usually present their new wares at the Geneva car show, which takes place in early March this year. But Peugeot changed all that when it brought its new concept car, the Instinct, to the Mo...

Somebody hold me because my obsession with credit card-sized gadgets is getting just a little out of control.Days after discovering the Kado Wallet phone charger, I've now found a phone — a rath...

In the nether regions of the "NEXTech" area of Fira Gran Via, the enormous venue in Barcelona where Mobile World Congress is taking place, I've learned that graphene is important. Among the sever...

In the nether regions of the "NEXTech" area of Fira Gran Via, the enormous venue in Barcelona where Mobile World Congress is taking place, I've learned that graphene is important. Among the sever...

Moving beyond smartphones, laptops, and accessories, Chinese technology giant Xiaomi made a foray into the processor business, joining companies such as Apple and Samsung that use self-designed proces...

If you laugh at how older people use computers, this 81-year-old from Japan is going to set you straight.Masako Wakamiya is making the news for an app she created to show people the correct way to pla...

As if you needed another reason not to put an internet-connected microphone in your child's bedroom. A California-based toy company selling "a message you can hug" reportedly exposed over 2 milli...

Amazon's Alexa could soon be a lot smarter.The company is working on a new feature that would allow its voice-enabled assistant to distinguish between different voices, according to a report form Time...

Mozilla is trying to get back into mobile. The company acquired Read It Later, the developer of bookmarking app Pocket, in what Mozilla called its "first strategic acquisition." SEE ALSO: Si...

Facebook's reactions just turned one and the company is finally revealing how its revamped like button impacts your News Feed.It turns out the company weighs reactions — love, haha, wow, sad and...