Articles by Mashable from April 2017

Merriam-Webster defines its new word, "sheeple," as those who are "easily influenced." I'm sure plenty of groups of people qualify as said "sheeple." I, for example, am easily influenced by any s...

In our latest installment of "No, really, Zuck is honest-to-god not running for political office," we find Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg taking a ride around South Bend, Indiana, with Mayor Pete Buttigie...

Yik Yak has been on its last legs for a while, and now the end is officially here. The anonymous, location-based messaging app that rose to popularity in 2014 will "begin winding down" over the n...

In Austin, Texas a small shop called "Switched On" sells and repairs a wide range of synthesizers. Michael Stein, composer of the Stranger Things theme, used to fix synthesizers at this shop. Read mor...

Edward Snowden felt a little bit of vindication Friday. People said speaking up isn't worth the risk. Today, we can see they were wrong. Blow the whistle, change the worldhttps://t.co/GfwPn2ICYX&...

Yik Yak has been on its last legs for a while, and now the end is officially here. The anonymous, location-based messaging app that rose to popularity in 2014 will "begin winding down" over the n...

Merriam-Webster defines its new word, "sheeple," as those who are "easily influenced." I'm sure plenty of groups of people qualify as said "sheeple." I, for example, am easily influenced by any s...

In our latest installment of "No, really, Zuck is honest-to-god not running for political office," we find Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg taking a ride around South Bend, Indiana, with Mayor Pete Buttigie...

With the fallout from the ill-fated Fyre Festival still unfolding and Amazon's slightly creepy new Echo, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps. SEE ALSO: Inside the exclusive, ste...

Edward Snowden felt a little bit of vindication Friday. People said speaking up isn't worth the risk. Today, we can see they were wrong. Blow the whistle, change the worldhttps://t.co/GfwPn2ICYX&...

Which shower speaker should you buy? We put three to the test to find the best one out there. Up for review: the Memorex Bluetooth Splash-proof Speaker, the UE Roll 2, and the Altec Lansing H2O. Read ...

Yik Yak has been on its last legs for a while, and now the end is officially here. The anonymous, location-based messaging app that rose to popularity in 2014 will "begin winding down" over the n...

In Austin, Texas a small shop called "Switched On" sells and repairs a wide range of synthesizers. Michael Stein, composer of the Stranger Things theme, used to fix synthesizers at this shop. Read mor...

Edward Snowden felt a little bit of vindication Friday. People said speaking up isn't worth the risk. Today, we can see they were wrong. Blow the whistle, change the worldhttps://t.co/GfwPn2ICYX&...

Yet another fear among scientists and climate activists has become reality in the era of Trump.Years of research and data about carbon emissions, other greenhouse gases, and more was hidden from the U...

The NSA's spying program is still vast, but it's now a touch more restricted.The agency has long collected texts and emails sent to and by Americans if those electronic communications contained the na...

All is not well in Google Play. A group of researchers has determined that hundreds of apps in the store have a gaping security hole that potentially allows hackers to implant malware and steal d...

Tesla Model 3s have yet to ship to customers, but that doesn't mean they're not already on California roads. An observant passerby spotted a blue Model 3 in the wild on April 27 being driven near...

Alexa is always there for those of us with Amazon's AI-enabled speakers, but when she speaks, sometimes it's hard to tell that she really cares. We're not saying we need to all fall in love with ...

'Jetfoiler' can fly over water. This surfboard uses hydrofoil, which can lift up the board out of the water when you lean back. It also uses an electric motor to propel yourself. This surfboard can go...

The NSA's spying program is still vast, but it's now a touch more restricted.The agency has long collected texts and emails sent to and by Americans if those electronic communications contained the na...

You'll never want to drive on regular roads again after you watch Elon Musk's slick video of his futuristic underground transportation tunnels.The tech mogul revealed the video at the TED conference i...

Jimmy Wales may be the reason you survived college, or book club, or a date. Wikipedia, which he cofounded along with Larry Sanger and others, has more than 5 million articles, just in English. In a s...

Twitter's public earnings call on Wednesday revealed the unthinkable: growth.The company added 9 million monthly active users in the most recent quarter, shattering Wall Street expectations. What caus...

If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, then you know there are two things that are incredibly important: liberal emoji use and knowing how to put Twitter's search tool to good use. Now, the service's ...

Tesla Model 3s have yet to ship to customers, but that doesn't mean they're not already on California roads. An observant passerby spotted a blue Model 3 in the wild on April 27 being driven near...

Dubai boldly brands itself as "The Future City," with space age architecture, next-level tech hubs, and paradigm-shifting transportation systems — so it's only fitting that the resurgence of sup...

Got yourself a new Samsung Galaxy S8? Have you noticed the new virtual on-screen home button seems to move?Good news: You're not losing your mind, and you're definitely not seeing things.SEE ALSO: You...

Jimmy Wales may be the reason you survived college, or book club, or a date. Wikipedia, which he cofounded along with Larry Sanger and others, has more than 5 million articles, just in English. In a s...

Apple's self-driving car looks to have finally hit the streets.Evidence that the company is finally kicking its long-rumored auto project into full gear has mounted over the last month. With state cle...

Samsung's latest flagship phone seems to be holding up better than the now-discontinued Note7 in the "don't go up in flames" department, but the Galaxy S8 isn't completely devoid of issues. First...

Snapchat's pitch to big brands has been the same for a while — the opportunity not just to reach its coveted, young audience but to also boost viewership on other platforms.New data shows that S...

If you spend a lot of time on Twitter, then you know there are two things that are incredibly important: liberal emoji use and knowing how to put Twitter's search tool to good use. Now, the service's ...

The general consensus is that supersonic passenger flights died with the Concorde. Think again. A startup called Boom is bringing it back to life with faster and quieter aircrafts, but with cheap...

Were you on Team #DeleteUber but never actually deleted the app? Or are you just now realizing that Uber is a company full of many damning problems?Well, you're in luck. Uber is making it easier for y...

Got yourself a new Samsung Galaxy S8? Have you noticed the new virtual on-screen home button seems to move?Good news: You're not losing your mind, and you're definitely not seeing things.SEE ALSO: You...

When The New York Times reported the popular inbox-cleaning app Unroll.me was providing anonymized user data to Uber as part of the ride-hailing company's bid to crush competition from Lyft, the backl...

On Thursday, Apple officially opened its brand new retail store in Dubai's Dubai Mall. While plenty of photos of the unopened store surfaced on social media, Apple has now shared some official ph...

There will be a time in the future when everyone will be sick of "boring" puns in relation to Elon Musk's new Boring Company. Alas, that time has not come yet. And how can you blame us, when what...

It shouldn't come as a surprise that allowing for a privacy invasion might just result in one's privacy...being invaded.On Friday, Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner Andrew Colvin admitted t...

Instagram has fixed a glitch that re-notified everyone you've ever tagged in a photo, when you re-activate a disabled account.The company said it got rid of the issue via email on Thursday, a day afte...

Google's Assistant will soon be in a lot more places.The company is opening up its Assistant to developers who want to incorporate the digital helper into their own hardware, Google announced. SE...

We've been led to believe that teens are always on their phones or glued to some sort of screen. SEE ALSO: The 'digital wellness lady' is on a mission to make you unplugBut a study out Thursday s...

When it comes to the gadgets we use the most, sometimes a little extra transparency can go a long way — just think about how long it took for us to find out what went wrong with the Galaxy Note ...

Those ugly white borders on Snapchat Stories may soon be a thing of the past.A recent update made a small but significant change to how photos uploaded to Stories from Snapchat's Memories will appear:...

Google is honestly so boring. SEE ALSO: Google's plan to root out hateful videos with artificial intelligenceYes, they're an incredibly successful company with so many awesome things happening in...

UPDATE: April 27, 2017, 5:52 p.m. EDT This story has been updated to include Uber's confirmation of the original report.Anthony Levandowski, the embattled head of Uber's self-driving car program, has ...

Star Trek fans, this is the game you've been waiting for. Ubisoft has created a virtual reality, cooperative multiplayer experience that let's players work together to command a Federation star ship. ...

'Archelis' by Nitto is a leg brace designed for professions who work long hours, standing on their feet, that supports your glutes as you bend your legs.  Read more...More about Convenience, Long...

Aggressive, sharp-cornered gaming laptops are back in style.While most PC makers have been content with chasing Apple with sleek laptops that sport unibody builds, soft corners, and minimalist designs...

Chloe Bridgewater is only 7 years old but she's already getting paid to test products for a computer company. Her new side hustle comes only a few months after she wrote a letter asking "Google b...

Microsoft definitely wants you to upgrade its sparkly new Creators Update for Windows 10 — unless you have a old PC.The company began rolling out the software update a few weeks ago, giving Wind...

When it comes to United States Senate email accounts, you'd think the powers that be would enact a basic security feature that even Yahoo Mail and AOL have down.Shocker: You would be wrong. SEE A...

Amazon Echo and Google Home are duking it out for the crown as the top smart home hub in homes everywhere, making Alexa and Assistant household names — but a very familiar ringer might soon ente...

The rumors that Amazon is working on a version of its Echo smart speaker that has a display have been swirling for about a year, but nothing has come to fruition yet. Now, just a day after Amazon...

Phones are no longer simply "smart" — they are equipped with everything you need to navigate modern life. And they’re only getting smarter — the artificial intelligence (AI) that we ...

Acer held its annual global press conference in New York City on Thursday and once again vomited a boatload of new laptops, gaming laptops, all-in-one PCs, and even a new generic fitness-focused smart...

In the future, charging your iPhone could be as seamless as getting in range of a Wi-Fi signal.Apple was recently granted a patent for a system equipped to harness the wireless signals emitted by rout...

The social change-driven organization Games for Change is expanding from video games into virtual reality with the VR for Change Summit at its annual Games for Change Festival this year, featuring VR ...

Swipe right on Snapchat on any given day and you might stumble upon a custom geofilter designed for someone's special occasion, be it a birthday, wedding or even a promposal. But have you ever wondere...

Samsung is flying high again. The Galaxy S8 and S8+ are gorgeous, appear to have very safe batteries, and they're selling really well.Things couldn't be any better for the Korean electronics giant aft...

April's almost over, so where the hell is Kim Kardashian's next phone, the BlackBerry KEYone? Originally slated to launch by the end of this month, the Android-powered KEYone, will now arrive in ...

What do you get when you put an almost 4-foot high backpack on someone that's barely 5'2"? A lot of screaming, balancing and wobbling. SEE ALSO: Google's Street View Gets Stunning Imagery fr...

What do you get when you put an almost 4-foot high backpack on someone that's barely 5-foot-2? A lot of screaming, balancing, and wobbling. SEE ALSO: Google's Street View Gets Stunning Image...

Name the number one problem with smartphone cameras. If you picked "nighttime photos," we agree: While smartphone cameras have improved by orders of magnitude in the last decade, due to the constraint...

You're in your bedroom, about to do something private. First, make sure you shut the door, close the blinds, oh, and remember to turn off your newly purchased Amazon Echo Look. SEE ALSO: The...

Okay, we all know we really shouldn't text and drive. But temptation is strong and sometimes getting back to someone right now feels more important than anything else.It's not, of course, but it's a f...

If Amazon has its way, the skies could soon be buzzing with drones, carrying our online purchases directly to our doors. But today's drones can only travel so far — so what happens when you...

The Galaxy Note 7 will never die. Samsung has been planning to release the volatile Note 7 again as a refurbished device since March, but now we know more about the zombie phone's relaunch. ...

Returning from a digital sabbatical during which you disabled your Instagram account? Get ready for a blast from the notifications past, courtesy of a tagging glitch.I recently temporarily disabled my...

Returning from a digital sabbatical during which you disabled your Instagram account? Get ready for a blast from the notifications past, courtesy of a tagging glitch.I recently temporarily disabled my...

This is the Light Phone and it was designed to help you disconnect. You can leave your smartphone at home and still send and receive calls using your existing phone number. Read more...More about Soci...

Forget your stack of dusty old cookbooks and your worries about gunking up your phone with messy hands while you struggle to follow directions in the kitchen. Google Home will help streamline your coo...

You're in your bedroom, about to do something private. First, make sure you shut the door, close the blinds, oh, and remember to turn off your newly purchased Amazon Echo Look. SEE ALSO: The...

Smartphones have become lifelines for refugees around the world. Now, a powerful new app will show you how crucial the technology is by taking over your phone's operating system and transforming it in...

If Amazon has its way, the skies could soon be buzzing with drones, carrying our online purchases directly to our doors. But today's drones can only travel so far — so what happens when you...

The 'RGB Shades' are meant for those that want to stand out and also want to learn about programming. While they come with preset designs, you can program it yourself to suit your unique personal...

There soon will be one less ride-hailing app to choose from for those still boycotting Uber. Gett, one of the largest players in the New York ride-hailing market, has acquired Juno for $200 milli...

Spotify announced Wednesday that it has acquired Mediachain Labs, a Brooklyn-based startup, to help better attribute songs on the music streaming platform to artists and rights holders. Mediachai...

How do I look? Just ask Amazon's new fashion-selfie-focused Amazon Echo Look.Amazon quietly unveiled the new voice-activated, hands-free camera on Wednesday that it's pitching as the first "artificial...

The Google co-founders just love to work on secret futuristic transportation projects.This time, it's Sergey Brin — but instead of glorified water speeders flying cars, like the Larry Page-funde...

A newly-tested artificial womb could change the way doctors care for babies born prematurely, according to new research. The new study, published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications, det...

This is the HiSmile Whitening Kit. It's basically a teeth whitening system designed for millennials. It comes in a neatly designed box and includes three gel syringes, a rubbery mouth tray, LED l...

Twitter is growing. Twitter. Is. Growing.The service has been mostly flat or shrinking for months, but not this past quarter. In the first quarter of 2017, Twitter’s Daily Active Users rocketed ...

President Donald Trump is fairly vocal on Twitter. You could say he's a power user, and he's been one for quite some time.SEE ALSO: Twitter reveals its employees have equitable pay on #EqualPayDayBut ...

It's only a matter of time until Instagram joins Facebook's billion-user club.The company announced Wednesday the photo sharing app has reached 700 million monthly active users, up from 600 million in...

Returning from a digital sabbatical during which you disabled your Instagram account? Get ready for a blast from the notifications past, courtesy of a tagging glitch.I recently temporarily disabled my...

Twitter may be having its best day ever — or at least, in a while. Wall Street (Twitter's worst enemies who have dropped the stock price to all-time lows) expected to see slow user growth a...

Let's call this an intervention: Soylent, it's time for a rebrand. On Monday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration posted a product recall message from Soylent related to 890 boxes of Soylent 1....

Smartphones have become lifelines for refugees around the world. Now, a powerful new app will show you how crucial the technology is by taking over your phone's operating system and transforming it in...

The 'RGB Shades' are meant for those that want to stand out and also want to learn about programming. While they come with preset designs, you can program it yourself to suit your unique personal...

There soon will be one less ride-hailing app to choose from for those still boycotting Uber. Gett, one of the largest players in the New York ride-hailing market, has acquired Juno for $200 milli...

"Hey dude, where's my car" — never again will you have to utter these words, courtesy of a new Google Maps feature that lets you save your parking location on a map. Originally launched as ...

Even though its launch date is likely September, we've already seen plenty — no, strike that, we've seen an enormous amount — of iPhone 8 concept images and videos. But for some reason, mo...

Lawyers in the US are claiming that headphone and speaker company Bose, is secretly collecting information about what users listen to when they use its bluetooth wireless headphones.Edelson, the lawye...

Dejian Zeng may have built your phone. Or at least worked on it, anyway. The second-year masters of public administration student at NYU Wagner spent six weeks last year working in a Chinese fact...

After Connie Dabate was killed in her Connecticut home, just two days before Christmas 2015, her obituary described her as "beloved wife and best friend of Richard Dabate."Fast-forward more than a yea...

After Connie Dabate was killed in her Connecticut home, just two days before Christmas 2015, her obituary described her as "beloved wife and best friend of Richard Dabate."Fast-forward more than a yea...

In the perhaps not-so-distant future, NFL players will be able to monetize intimate data about their body. The NFL Players Association recently closed a deal with Whoop, a wearable tech company t...

I’m at a New York City heliport in a waiting room so packed with people that the obviously overwhelmed staff are struggling to move through the crowd to check everyone in. While the staff of Bla...

Virtual reality as we know it today didn't exist in the 19th century, but what if it did? What if, alongside the monocles, pocket watches, and snuffboxes of proper gentlemen of the time, there existed...

A woman in Wisconsin said her Fitbit exploded on her wrist, causing second-degree burns and prompting her to get up and move for all the wrong reasons. Dina Mitchell told ABC News in an email she...

Uber is in the limelight again for another employee horror story after one of its engineers died by suicide. The employee's family alleges that workplace stress and racism contributed to a declin...

NYU Wagner student Dejian Zeng spent six weeks working undercover in a Chinese iPhone factory as part of a joint project with 'China Labor Watch.' Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Vid...

Facebook is listening. No, not to your phone calls — probably. They are listening to publishers. And yet, publishers are still wary of the technology company's power and its ability to help them...

After a long, confusing, fake news-filled 2016 election in which Donald Trump became President of the United States, Barack Obama was one of the many people to take shots at Facebook's role in spreadi...

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have used waste glass bottles and a low-cost chemical process to create nanosilicon anodes for high-perform...

Here's one way to curb phone addiction. A Japanese company has created an iPhone case to help parents stop their kids from becoming too addicted to their phones.SEE ALSO: iPhone App Shrinks Your ...

Uber's flying car plans are coming together — and it looks like it won't be taking to the skies alone.The company's aspiration to build an urban air transportation network took a major leap on T...

The 'Sprimo Personal Air Monitor' can plug into your iPhone and show you what you're breathing in. It detects the volatile organic compounds in air then shows the results in a color and number sc...

Apple has nearly 500 stores around the world. Now those retail spaces will double as education centers.On Tuesday, the company unveiled "Today at Apple," a new in-store program of educational sessions...

Smartphones are inching closer and closer to becoming pure slabs of glass. Just look at Samsung's Galaxy S8 and its "infinity display" which covers 83% of the front or the LG G6's "full vision" displa...

Google's self-driving car company Waymo just opened up a pilot program in Phoenix, Arizona, letting people get free rides in its driverless minivans. The program, Waymo said in a blog post Tuesda...

Just when you think the iPhone rumors are circling the drain of confirmation, a new one crops up to throw a wrench in the machine. One of the most consistent news nuggets included in just about e...

No, you will not one day take a flying car to work. Flying cars — thrust back into the spotlight thanks to the unveiling of Larry Page's Kitty Hawk Flyer — have long resided in the re...

This Kitty Hawk Flyer is different from other ultralight personal aircrafts – it could be the first commercially available hovercraft by the end of this year.It's designed to be so user-friendly...

Virtual Reality brings people with chronic pain to new places and changes their world.After digging into the video above, fly your own jetpack and take to the skies. Go on a VR journey in the latest e...

An Instagram bug affecting some users is preventing them from temporarily disabling their accounts, TechCrunch reports. "Disabling" on Instagram works similarly as on Facebook, meaning that the accoun...

We'll have to wait a bit longer for the new Carpool Karaoke.The spinoff from CBS' The Late Late Show with James Corden, which was scheduled for an April launch on Apple Music, has been delayed, accord...

Google just took another step in its quest of finding the next billion users in India. The company on Tuesday announced improvements to and expansion of Google Translate to better serve the non-E...

The winners of Hollywood's growing move to virtual reality will be the hardware and software companies that strike deals with major studios, like Nokia, which announced it will film Star Wars VR conte...

The makers of FaceApp are backtracking after users accused the popular face-morphing app of racism.According to the company, the app will "transform your face using Artificial Intelligence in just one...

"You've got unlimited time and resources, you can build anything in the world you want with your compression — anything at all, what's it gonna be... 3... 2... 1... go!" shouts billionaire douch...

On April 13, the U.S. Digital Service, a unique government office most famous for salvaging Healthcare.gov, put out the welcome mat.It was a meaningful tweet for the agency responsible for pulling in ...

Rangers at Grand Canyon National Park understand search and rescue is part of the job. They ran 293 such operations last year. But none of those used drones in an attempt to find missing hikers.Park o...

The Galaxy S8 was finally available for general purchase last week — but the flagship broke sales records before shipping a single unit.  Pre-orders for the S8 and S8+ were up 30 percent fr...

Drivers aren't too happy with Uber — that's not news.SEE ALSO: All the details of Uber's 'PLEASE LOVE US AGAIN' phone callBut one driver is taking advantage of a previously unknown business prac...

Developed by ‘GEN Corporation,’ the ‘GEN H-4’ is a personal helicopter that's steered using a control bar. It reaches speeds up to 55 mph, and can fly for up to an hour. Read m...

We'll be testing out some of the most innovative tech for your bathroom in our new series, The Lav Lab. Read more...More about Review, Reviews, Lavatory Laboratory, Lav Lab, and Dory Greenberg...

'Sagaya' restaurant in Tokyo, Japan partnered with teamLab to create an interactive dining experience. Customers can watch their food come alive right before their eyes. When a dish is served, th...

Snapchat has curated snaps about life in Baghdad to create an Our Story to go live Monday afternoon.That's Snapchat-jargon for the mobile storytelling app opening up a geofence around Baghdad and enco...

UPDATE: April 24, 2017, 2:39 p.m. EDT Instagram reps have confirmed that the service outage has been fixed.You're not alone: Instagram went down shortly this afternoon on both web and mobile. Believe ...

Charging a Tesla is about to get a lot more convenient. The Palo Alto-based electric car manufacturer announced today that it intends to double the size of the Tesla charging network by the end o...

Captioning your Instagrams is one of the biggest struggles of the digital realm. Instead of coming up with something witty, smart and zeitgeisty every time, we're left racking our brains for something...

iOS users can now ask Siri to read them their latest WhatsApp messages, Macrumors reports. Last year WhatsApp added support for Siri with the ability to send messages and place WhatsApp calls. Us...

Bad news, Samsung fans: Your favorite new flagship might just be one drop away from a spiderwebbed screen. Independent phone insurer SquareTrade put the brand new Galaxy S8 through its extensive ...

What's circular, black, and has 17 integrated cameras?No, it's not that drone that keeps flying by your yard (but seriously, what is that?) — it's the latest entrant into the ultra-hot 360-video...

Google co-founder Larry Page has reportedly been working on a flying car project for some time now — and today, the world finally got its first official look.The Kitty Hawk Flyer made its debut ...

The Galaxy S8 and S8+ just launched, but that doesn't mean Samsung's resting on its laurels, popping bottles over how pretty its newest smartphone is.As always, work on next year's flagship phone begi...

This is getting serious: While Apple-related rumors are never to be fully trusted, we now have nearly every credible source and leaker chirping in unison that Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 might be one or...

Britain is at the forefront of driverless vehicles technology with autonomous shuttles and self-driving cars being tested in the streets of London. SEE ALSO: Timeline: The future of driverless ca...

Once upon a time, Facebook did not support GIFs. In fact, there was a time when Facebook supported the file format and then took that support away.Developers tried to hack it. One group succeeded, in ...

Rob Spence is a documentary filmmaker who became blind in one eye in his childhood.Spence replaced his eye with a tiny camera that records live video and now he calls himself an 'Eyeborg.' Read more.....

With this hack, you can unlock a mode on YouTube that changes the layout and the background. Read more...More about Studio, Mashable Video, Dark Mode, Youtube, and Tech...

Like so many other modern, urban-dwelling twentysomethings, I've dedicated more time than I'd like to admit to dating apps. I've spent hours upon hours meticulously swiping through profiles, searching...

Remember this date in history: April 24, 2017, The New York Times launched on Snapchat Discover. “All the news that’s fit to print” will be transformed into an edition on Snapch...

A digital wave is currently sweeping India. And none other than its government is the biggest change-agent. After actively pushing for a cashless economy last year, Modi's 'Digital India' bus is ...

Ladies and gentleman, we have entered the next stage of the iPhone 8 rumor cycle. Instead of concepts, diagrams and design leaks, there are now photos of an actual device. Well, almost. Prolific ...

Great news, Samsung fans — you might not have to deal with red-tinted phone screens forever. 🙄In response to complaints from early Galaxy S8 owners who claimed their device screens looke...

Virtual reality may have just got the shot of confidence it needed to break into the mainstream. On Friday, IMAX held its latest earnings conference call and it came with an unexpected bit of new...

Iceland's mother tongue has a major tech problem.Many new computer devices do not understand Icelandic, a unique descendant of the Old Norse language filled with ultra-descriptive words such as Hundsl...

Greasy, crumb-covered hands are a problem of the past for gamers. The 'Wype' hand rag is a quick any easy way to clean your hands. Whether eating popcorn or potato chips, the 'Wype' lets you get back ...

Travis Kalanick, Silicon Valley's bad boy CEO, once had a very uncomfortable confrontation with Apple CEO Tim Cook, who is a grown-up. Back in 2015, Uber tried to disguise the fact that the compa...

When it comes to alleviating some of the world's most pressing problems, perhaps we should look to the skies.The word "drone" might inspire images of counterterrorism strikes and the future of package...

Virtual reality artist Teek Mach takes you into her beautiful 3D paintings. Experience a world that can only come to life in VR.After digging into this video, fly your own jetpack and take to the skie...

Yes, those 360-degree videos you see sometimes on YouTube and Facebook are purty, not just because they're new and shiny, but because they're more immersive than even the most stunning two-dimensional...

There are no second chances in life, but there may be in email. While this is of little consolation to those wishing they could hit "undo" on semi-recent national events, Gmail's Undo Send featur...

'Travelmate' is your new best friend to travel with. It can follow you wherever you go, whether it be standing vertically or horizontally. It can also carry things for you and charge your phone. 'Trav...

Just a couple of days after releasing its new NikeLab version of the Apple Watch, Apple is leveraging the device's reputation as a fitness tool to join in the Earth Day festivities. Early Saturda...

The 'Miimo' robot from Honda will do your least favorite summer chore for you. It mows your lawn. The device was designed with safety in mind. It's equipped with sensors that force the blades to ...

It's been a busy week: Samsung and Google partnered on special version of Google Play Music and White House staffers' favorite secure messaging app might not be that secure. Oh, and Facebook wants you...

Apple's secretive self-driving car project just got a little less mysterious. The Cupertino-based company was granted a permit by the California DMV to test cars on public roads in April, but the...

Welcome, lab rats of the future.Google wants 10,000 of you in the United States to be their test dummies for four years so they can understand a lot more about health and the human body. And by Google...

Mercedes-Benz is giving drivers an even smarter luxury experience and adding some AI assistant power to its newest vehicles.All Mercedes-Benz models from 2016 and 2017 are now compatible with both Goo...

Can anything typed into a smartphone really be considered private?That question is at the heart of a lawsuit alleging that a messaging app beloved by White House staff isn't as secure as it claims to ...

Greasy, crumb-covered hands are a problem of the past for gamers. The 'Wype' hand rag is a quick any easy way to clean your hands. Whether eating popcorn or potato chips, the 'Wype' lets you get back ...

'Lilium' created an all-electric two-seater flying car that’s capable of vertical takeoff and landing. It has a range of 185 miles and reaches speeds of up to 185 mph. Read more...More about Rea...

Any gamer knows that reaction time is crucial. A split second can make or break a game, separating the winners from those doomed to be on potato chip and soda duty; you need to be 100 percent present ...

Facebook clearly has big, long-term ambitions, and this week we learned just how big. At its annual F8 developer conference, the company let us take a peek into its future technologies, some of t...

Take a moment to imagine the childhood lives of Bill Gates' three kids. You're picturing joyful children leaping and lounging upon heaps of all the coolest and newest tech, right? Shockingly, you're w...

Google has partnered with Samsung, the world's largest Android smartphone maker, with a special version of Google Play Music, the two companies announced on Friday. Samsung previously launched its own...

If you don't have the time to learn a new language, you can typically depend on apps to help bridge a communication gap. For next level intra-language conversations in real-time, though, you might nee...

The Possible: "Hoverboard"If you could have just one superpower, what would it be? For Alexandru Duru, the answer was obvious: the ability to fly. That’s why he founded Omni Hoverboards, which h...

Can anything typed into a smartphone really be considered private?That question is at the heart of a lawsuit alleging that a messaging app beloved by White House staff isn't as secure as it claims to ...

Samsung has a winner on its hands. The Samsung Galaxy S8 and its big brother, the S8+, are two exquisite slabs of glass-covered technology. Instantly lust-worthy devices, yet both are nearly upended b...

The hottest thing in Silicon Valley is coming soon to ... well, pretty much everything.Augmented reality is shaping up to be the next big digital gold rush, and consumers should ready themselves for t...

Once a part of science fiction, jet packs have exploded onto the scene as a realistic possibility for military and commercial uses.After digging into the video above, fly your own jetpack and take to ...

Elon Musk is about to become a CEO of another company. Yes, the guy who's already the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX will take on lead duty at a new company called Neuralink, which (ultimately) aims to merge...

The day has come: after a pre-order period that ended yesterday, Samsung's new flagship phones — the Galaxy S8 and the Galaxy S8+ — are now available for purchase in four markets: the U.S....

The hottest thing in Silicon Valley is coming soon to ... well, pretty much everything.Augmented reality is shaping up to be the next big digital gold rush, and consumers should ready themselves for t...

Elon Musk is about to become a CEO of another company. Yes, the guy who's already the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX will take on lead duty at a new company called Neuralink, which (ultimately) aims to merge...

Virtual reality seems cool, but what can you actually do when you're in it? Quite a lot, it turns out. On April 18, Facebook released a social VR experience called Facebook Spaces. Paired wi...

The Apple Watch just got a sporty boost of refined style, courtesy of Nike.NikeLab, the sportswear company's creative arm for exclusive collaborations with top designers and fashion labels, just annou...

Turns out headphones might be as good at picking up information as they are at sending music into your earholes. An Illinois man filed a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday that claims his Bose Quiet...

Uber is in a reputation crisis thanks to its toxic workplace culture for women and the #DeleteUber campaign that's been running for months.The company has outwardly been working hard to get over all t...

Trust us: you don't really want a real life hoverboard — at least not in the first few iterations of the future tech.Sure, you've probably been impatiently waiting for the day you'd finally be a...

If you're looking for a more convenient hookup, you might just be in luck. A new line of super high-tech green vending machines debuted at the NAMAOneShow this week — and by "high" and "gre...

Movie fans and tech geeks alike have long shared a common dream: a chance to ride on Marty McFly's hoverboard, just like in Back to the Future Part II. When the date portrayed in the movie, Octob...

We had a first look at Facebook's new VR Oculus app called Facebook Spaces. Take selfies with a virtual selfie stick, draw 3D pictures, make video calls, and more. Read more...More about Mashable Vide...

Well, that's pretty amazing.Lilium Aviation dropped a video showing the successful test flight of its all-electric flying car—aka vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype, per The Verge...

When Netflix signed on for Girlboss, it probably sounded like a great idea. Feminism, fashion, and San Francisco? We were about to have our first female president, so what could go wrong? When th...

If you're looking for a more convenient hookup, you might just be in luck. A new line of super high-tech green vending machines debuted at the NAMAOneShow this week — and by "high" and "gre...

While fingerprint sensors may be the reason for a delay in the new iPhone, that technology isn't holding back MasterCard from rolling out new credit cards with fingerprint technology. SEE ALSO: T...

Google Home may finally have a solution to children "hijacking" the device to buy stuff.Google Home now supports up to six different accounts on one device and can distinguish between the voices of di...

I’m laughing. While watching an Apple video. That’s not normal.A typical Apple promotional video has a type: Clean, dispassionate, slightly British (thanks Jony Ive) and self-congratulator...

Google Play is rolling out an update to make it easier than ever to get rid of apps you never use. As Android Police reports, the new layout to "My apps & games" is giving users more organiza...

HTC was once the maker of some of the best Android phones on the planet. It still makes solid phones, but after a few uninspiring models and several years of financial troubles, the brand lost a lot o...

Last week, Dennis Mitzner, an Israeli tech journalist, published a blog post on his website claiming an overemphasis on social justice had "contaminated" tech journalism.He grumbled about how a press ...

How much abuse can Samsung's Galaxy S8 take? In most cases, the question is mostly an academic one, as the vast majority of users won't expose their phone to potential damage beyond a few drops and pe...

Apple's enormous new campus in Cupertino, dubbed Apple Park, is now nearly completed and expected to open later in April. And while we certainly don't lack drone footage of the spaceship-like, ci...

Six-inch, foot long, toasted bread or multi-grain, you can now order it all and pay for it through Facebook Messenger.Subway and partner MasterCard announced this week the immediate availability of a ...

Facebook is working on a way for Instagram to work offline on Android.At a session at Facebook's F8 developer conference on Tuesday, titled "Building Offline Experiences for Instagram," a software eng...

Facebook is coming for you. With the social media giant's F8 conference in the rear-view mirror, it is now more clear than ever that what we think of when we think of Facebook — messaging, ...

Augmented reality is the future because it's a lot more socially acceptable than virtual reality. That was the surprising message from  Chief Oculus Scientist Michael Abrash at F8. During hi...

Augmented reality is the future because it's a lot more socially acceptable than virtual reality. That was the surprising message from  Chief Oculus Scientist Michael Abrash at F8. During hi...

How do you spot a phishing scam when the URL looks perfectly legit? An old phishing technique has recently popped back up in the news, and it has the potential to fool some folks no matter how ma...

Frankenstein.It's all I could think as I listened to Facebook's VP of Engineering Regina Dugan speak about skin and brain interfaces.SEE ALSO: Everything you need to know about what Facebook announced...

A French presidential candidate is trying to squeeze in all the rallies he can before the first round of voting begins in a matter of days — and the best way to do that is to be in multiple plac...

Instagram Stories might be beating Snapchat at its own game, but it’s not without its faults.  Most glaringly, it includes one of Facebook's most grating features: live video. Live broadcas...

Virtual reality just got a bit less, well, virtual. On the second day of Facebook's F8 conference in San Jose, the company unveiled two new cameras that have the potential to change the way peopl...

The world needs more heroes, even if those heroes are solar-powered water wheels.Mr. Trash Wheel, the googly-eyed, trash-gathering water wheel that's been keeping Baltimore Harbor clean since 2014, re...

Toyota launched a robotic leg brace, the Welwalk WW-100. The motorised device is designed to help partially paralysed people, such as stroke patients. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Mobility,...

Day 1 at Facebook's annual F8 conference was filled with enhancing the present. Day 2 was all about setting the vision for the future, and things got weird. The company also stated a new goal to "crea...

Sony has a brand-new flagship camera, and it's looking to take the top position as the go-to shooter for professional photographers in every walk of life.Right before Sony unveiled the latest in its A...

What if you could talk through your skin? What if you had a mouse you could control with your brain?These are just two of the mind-blowing questions Facebook's Regina Dugan posed to the audience at th...

Facebook took a few minutes during the second day of its developer conference F8 to remind us that it's still trying to connect the entire world — not just to each other, but to the internet.
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Augmented reality is the talk of the town at F8, but that doesn't mean you'll see the tech any time soon. As Mark Zuckerberg made clear in his lofty keynote talk Tuesday, AR is the future. But he...

People on the autism spectrum are getting the support and skills they need to break into the tech industry. And it's all thanks to a new program for autistic people, by autistic people.A new startup c...

Looks like Samsung's not out of the woods quite yet.After the explosive Note7 debacle of 2016, the newest Samsung phones have a lot to make up for. Unfortunately, early Galaxy S8 users have already fo...

Facebook's F8 conference comes to an end today, and boy oh boy, are these announcements big and also unique.Facebook has been on a roll lately, inventing features and products that are in no way just ...

If the Apple rumor mill is heating up, it must mean that a new piece of iPhone information has leaked, in this case the iPhone 8. And this one is a biggie. A new schematic drawing for what appear...

Samsung wants to up your selfie game.Two new investor notes from reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI give new insight into Samsung's 2017 performance, 9to5Google reports. Kuo predicts that the Galaxy...

Love the art crime cool of graffiti writing but hate the pesky getting arrested thing? We have a solution: virtual reality graffiti, complete with a spray can you can wield with none of the messy aero...

One small flight for drones has the potential to be one giant step for science ... just ask researchers at Oregon State University.A group of scientists at the university recently captured rare footag...

The brain interprets irony or sarcasm conveyed by an emoji in the same way that sarcasm is conveyed verbally, according to a new report from researchers at the linguistics department of the University...

On Tuesday, Facebook doubled down on its commitment to pushing social media into virtual reality ("doubling down" is literally the language they used). Stalking the stage at F8, Mark Zuckerberg, ...

Lynk & Co — Geely's new car brand that tries to completely redefine the way we buy and use cars — gave us a glimpse of how all this newness actually looks on the road in October 2016, ...

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. That's the vibe in Instagram "pods" — secret communities trying to fight the platform's algorithmic timeline, one like at a time. SEE ALSO: Your ...

Now that Amazon has put its content catalog in place for Prime Video users in India, the company is ready to expand its ecosystem.SEE ALSO: After bagging Shah Rukh Khan, Netflix nears deal with Aamir ...

Xiaomi, the Chinese electronics manufacturer that was once considered to be China's Apple, has had a bit of a rough year. Its global market share shrunk considerably, and its VP of Global Efforts Hugo...

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours. That's the vibe in Instagram "pods" — secret communities trying to fight the platform's algorithmic timeline, one like at a time. SEE ALSO: Your ...

Facebook just took a big step forward in its bid to make virtual reality more social.The company released Facebook Spaces at its F8 developer conference Tuesday, a new app for Oculus Rift that lets yo...

Every day, there are countless seconds that slip by that could probably be put to better use.A set of new apps from researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (...

Facebook’s big augmented reality announcements at its F8 developer’s conference in California are the clearest sign the next iPhone will have built-in AR hardware.SEE ALSO: Everything you ...

Facebook’s big augmented reality announcements at its F8 developer’s conference in California are the clearest sign the next iPhone will have built-in AR hardware.SEE ALSO: Everything you ...

President Donald Trump was in Wisconsin on Tuesday, but his words probably resonated most in California. He announced a plan to overhaul an American visa program that brings tens of thousands of ...

Good news for people with old or used Macs. Apple updated several Mac and iOS apps—including iMovie, Numbers, Keynote, Pages and GarageBand—to make them free for all users, MacRumors ...

Mark Zuckerberg cares about a few things: his family (including his dog Beast), live video and VR, and destroying Snapchat. SEE ALSO: No assholes allowed at Facebook's big conferenceThe 32-year-o...

Facebook just showed the world some big plans. CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off its F8 developer conference with a new mission focused on community, some obvious movie references, and tons of dad jokes....

In many ways, Mark Zuckerberg is like your dad.He insists on ever-increasing control of your internet experience.He tells bad jokes.At Facebook's F8 developer conference held Tuesday held in San Jose,...

Google just made becoming Superman in virtual reality a lot easier. How so?  The search giant finally answered the requests of many VR users by opening Google Earth VR up to Oculus Rift user...

Convincing the human eye to believe virtual reality objects are real has been achieved through high-end headsets and immersive software experiences, but what about the other senses? Will VR ever be ab...

Facebook is ready to give you and your friends a new place to hang out — in VR. Still, for some reason, there will be selfie sticks.The newest "platform" from the social network, Facebook Spaces...

Facebook is making its Messenger bots a lot more useful. Today, at its F8 developer conference, the company introduced a new type of Messenger bot that allows people to access developers' bots in...

Facebook has created a new empire over the last six months. It has nothing to do with Snapchat or even virtual reality, and it's not just about video.SEE ALSO: Facebook wants your boss to let you use ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg had a lot of products to announce as he kicked off this year's F8, the conference for developers and other entrepreneurs who use Facebook in their products, but he first w...

What started as fun and games has turned into big business. Esports is one of the fastest growing trends in the world, and investors have taken notice.Investment group ‘aXiomatic’ have don...

What started as fun and games has turned into big business. Esports is a fast-growing business, and investors have taken notice.In fact, investment group ‘aXiomatic’ has done more than ooh...

During the opening moments of this year's F8 conference, Mark Zuckerberg began showing off the company's augmented reality strategy, and it's looks pretty damn amazing. Announcing Facebook's new ...

The fast-growing industry of esports, with its large youth audience, has caught the attention of wealthy investment groups from the traditional sports world.'aXiomatic' is one such group, consisting o...

When you're browsing online at work, you might sometimes feel like you're engaging in borderline criminal activity – but hey, at least you're not an actual prisoner while you're booking your nex...

reMarkable is a "paper tablet" and features a “canvas” display that looks and feels like real paper. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, E Ink, and Inventio...

Sexting is a scary business. The idea of sending out an intimate photo of your genitals to someone you quite fancy is terrifying. And, sometimes a simple 🍆  just won't cut it.Behold the "...

Is it possible to create illusions in a world where technology makes anything possible?It's the question tech-magician Marco Tempest asks and answers in his mesmerizing mini-drone swarm video.Tempest,...

FOLLOW US LIVE ON THE GROUNDFacebook’s biggest event of the year is about to get underway. The company’s F8 developer conference kicks off Tuesday at 10 a.m. PT when Mark Zuckerberg will t...

Virtual reality is fun, but it isn’t always easy. The headsets that immerse you in fantastic worlds and experiences also cut you off from the outside world. Since the more affordable headgear, l...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 is good enough to make people forget the Note7.Beautiful, thin, and wrapped in glass, it’s a handset that elicits ooh's, ah’s and requests for more time with it. That...

The folks over at iFixit make it their business to take the shiniest new phones and gadgets and do exactly what you hope you won't have to do with them: take them apart and poke around to see just how...

There's been an enormous influx of iPhone rumors lately, which is saying something given how constantly the iPhone rumor mill churns.With so many swirling around, the consensus appears to be that Appl...

While the world debates about whether Instagram is killing Snapchat or not, Tumblr has been quietly launching updates to its niche and loyal user base. The latest and biggest by far is Cabana, a new a...

The computer keyboard just got an old-school reinvention. Thanks to the the 'Qwerkywriter,' you can now standout in the crowd.The keyboard connects with most Bluetooth-enabled devices.  Read more...

Snap Inc. is a camera company, and on the day of F8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, they want to remind the tech industry, Wall Street, and their loyal users of that mission. Snapch...

A new data project immediately hits you with a simple yet devastating message on its homepage: "The issue of modern homelessness is broad and complex, affecting too many of our neighbors and communiti...

I grew up in India and moved to New York City four years ago, but I’ve always had family all around the world. In spite of having high-speed internet, access to Skype, Yahoo Messenger and numero...

Facebook will soon kick off one of its biggest events of the year: its annual F8 developer conference. In addition to the annual updates on the number of users across platforms, the company is expecte...

Google Earth has been reborn.Google unveiled a completely redesigned Google Earth and it does away with the single worst thing about the previous version of the software. Out now for desktop and Andro...

If you're thinking of buying the entry-level Tesla Model S, we've got good news for you: Not only is it cheaper, it also comes with some free extras. The changes, which went live Monday, are as f...

If you're thinking of buying the entry-level Tesla Model S, we've got good news for you: Not only is it cheaper, it also comes with some free extras. The changes, which went live Monday, are as f...

A shiny new iPhone is expected on the device’s 10th anniversary—but a new report hints there could be delays.  One of the features expected in the upcoming iPhone 8 is a fingerprint s...

The U.S. Marine Corps is reportedly testing an innovative new way of getting care packages to its troops in the field: disposable drones.The Tactical Air Delivery gliders, as they're calling them, wou...

Samsung's digital assistant Bixby is here to help, whether or not you want it to. In fact, Samsung is so sure that you're going to love the groundbreaking power of Bixby that it preemptively bloc...

The art of binge-watching has already been perfected by TV addicts. But this weekend, a new kind of binge-watching took place—setting a  Guinness World Record for the most time spent watchi...

'Earmo' can take your temperature in one second. Just put it in your ear and click the button. You can swipe up and down to compare previous temperatures or connect to the mobile app to record tempera...

Over the past couple of years, Microsoft has made a real name for itself in the high end. The Surface Pro and Surface Book are powerful-yet-portable PCs that have found real momentum in the market. An...

WhatsApp may finally make it less painful to change your number.Since WhatsApp is tied to your phone number, changing numbers can be a huge hassle. Users do everything from add dozens of friends to a ...

It's that time of year againFacebook is gearing up for its biggest event of the year.The company's F8 developer conference is set to kick off Tuesday and there will likely be no shortage of news comin...

Some dude at Coachella stuffed 100 stolen phones in his backpack but forgot people can track those things. Police arrested New York resident Reinaldo De Jesus Henao, 36, on Friday after several p...

April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. It doesn't come a moment too soon: A troubling new study has found that a terrifyingly high amount of drivers still use their phones behind the wh...

MiniDive condenses traditional, clunky scuba diving gear into a tiny tank and harness so users can swim more freely. Read more...More about Scuba Gear, Minidive Pro, Real Time Video, Real Time Video, ...

To keep contraband out of prisons, the United Kingdom wants drones out of the sky.The nation announced a new "squad" on Monday that will trace captured drones back to their owners – something li...

Not content to rip off just Snapchat, Instagram is going after Pinterest, too.The Facebook-owned app is adding a new feature that lets users save individual posts into collections. Love flowers? Or ga...

Warning: The above film contains graphic images.We may not often stop to think about it, but for every piece of horrific content that makes its way onto social media, someone has to watch it to determ...

Last Thursday, a friend from out of town asked if I had a connection to get us and four friends tickets to the Knicks versus the Wizards basketball game for that night.There's options for that. I coul...

'Contour' by Slickwraps is a desktop mobile 3D printer that prints mobile cases onto the phone itself. Read more...More about 3d Printed, Phone Case, Real Time Video, 3d Printer, and 3d Printing...

In about 24 hours, Mark Zuckerberg will take the stage at Facebook's annual developer conference, F8. In his many updates about the company he'll no doubt bring us up to speed on Facebook's progress i...

India's push for a digital, cashless society is well-documented by now. After last year's currency ban, the country has pushed cashless transactions in every sphere of citizen life — from p...

About 25 years ago, Apple released what was considered by some to be the most elegant personal computing interface available at the time, MacOS 7.0.1. Apple's System 7 interface hasn't aged as we...

It's been a busy week: Elon Musk confirmed that the Tesla Semi truck is coming soon, Instagram announced reaching 200 million daily active users on stories and Messenger reached 1.2 billion, so it's u...

The second-generation Boosted Board is an electric longboard with two motors attached to a belt-drive system. It can go 22 mph and is easy to use. Read more...More about 2017, Review, Reviews, Electri...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 blends beautiful design and performance effortlessly, but how much safer is its battery compared to the Galaxy Note 7?In January, Samsung announced it would implement a new "8-poin...

A couple of years ago we told you about a future project from startup SpaceVR that would send virtual reality cameras into orbit in order bring back immersive space video to VR users on Earth. On...

Easter Sunday is just hours away, and since it's 2017, and we're apparently living in the future, Microsoft has unveiled the first ever augmented reality Easter Egg hunt. The game was unveiled th...

Burners, furries, book lovers, bots, cuties, pizza lovers — there's a place for everyone in the federated Mastodon universe.And if there isn't yet, there soon will be. SEE ALSO: Bye, Twitte...

If you own a broke down iPad 4, things are looking up for you.  According to an internal memo obtained by 9to5Mac, Apple's been telling repair staff at Apple Stores and authorized service provide...

Just in time for the rise in global military tensions, Russian officials have released video that's sure to calm fears all around: a death dealing humanoid robot that shoots handguns. SEE ALSO: B...

After months of anticipation and daily leaks, Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ finally arrive on April 21. The S8's got arguably the most beautiful screen ever put into a phone, packed into a sleek, e...

New software updates are great for your phone — they patch security holes and bugs and add new features — except when they break a core feature, like your phone's fingerprint sensor.Accord...

Shadow Brokers' big Windows gotcha moment for millions of Windows users around the world looks more like a "not so fast."Hours after the hacking group, which apparently supports President Donald Trump...

Shadow Brokers' big Windows gotcha moment for millions of Windows users around the world looks more like a "not so fast."Hours after the hacking group, which apparently supports President Donald Trump...

The machines that heat your food are not doubling as spies, the director of the CIA confirmed this week.Mike Pompeo poked fun at White House counsellor Kellyanne Conway Thursday for her widely mocked ...

"Okay Google, what is the Whopper burger?"Burger King decided to run a 15-second TV ad that posed that question, which would then remotely trigger peoples' Google Homes to read out loud an edited Wiki...

"This is not a drill."So warned Edward Snowden in an April 14 tweet addressing the latest dump of NSA hacking tools by the hacking group known as the Shadow Brokers. And, if the response of the securi...

Parents, they just don't understand. Right?Well, yes and no. A new survey shows that when it comes to emoji, most seniors totally do get it. Except, that is, with one tiny eggplant-styled excepti...

Looks like Apple's finally stepping on the gas. We've now got confirmation that Apple's gearing up to make a big move in the auto industry.Cupertino's been granted a permit to test self-driving cars i...

Las Vegas is about to set up vending machines to dispense clean needles, free of charge.The machines will be designed to make equipment more readily available for intravenous drug users, who can pass ...

If you tend to binge YouTube late at night, I have good news for you.SEE ALSO: This YouTuber is the realest damn thing to happen to 'beauty vlogging'Reddit users have discovered a new "dark mode" on Y...

Google's own version of LinkedIn — or maybe Greenhouse? or Jobvite? — is almost here. The tech company debuted a new sign-in page for Google Hire, an as-yet-unspecified service that's...

Google Photos continues to blow away the competition.The two-year-old service is easily the best free way to back up and store all of your photos and videos. But what's better than all the storage you...

Parents, they just don't understand. Right?Well, yes and no. A new survey shows that when it comes to emoji, most seniors totally do get it. Except, that is, with one tiny eggplant-styled excepti...

Streaming videos in your room just got a whole lot less lonely. Binging for hours on Netflix has long been an inherently isolating experience: You're solo, it's late, and you definitely should ha...

Las Vegas is about to set up vending machines to dispense clean needles, free of charge.The machines will be designed to make equipment more readily available for intravenous drug users, who can pass ...

The world of iPhone rumors is in flux. Early reports that the iPhone 8 (if that's what it'll be called) will basically be a slab of uninterrupted glass on the front have now given way to rumors that i...

Amid the outrage over that United incident, a familiar scenario is playing out in in the App Store.Not satisfied with 1-star Yelp reviews, a flood of glorious memes, and actual IRL protests, furious p...

Here we go again.For the second time in a little more than a month, Facebook is being criticized for not quickly removing images that may be illegal. SEE ALSO: Facebook is turning into a confusin...

Slack just got a new feature and it's one old-school instant messaging fans will appreciate.The workplace chat app added a new feature that lets you set a "status" so you can tell everyone at your org...

The tweet made me angry.I realized that most of this guy’s recent tweets were pissing me off. It was a shame, really, since I admired his work and was a long-time Twitter follower. But this was ...

'suitX' creates flexible exoskeleton suits that can be adapted for a variety of different workplace tasks. Read more...More about Body, Engineering, Technology, Science, and Labor...

When IndyCar champ Tony Kanaan takes the wheel of his race car, his performance depends on more than just driving skill. Forces of up to 5 Gs — five times the force of gravity — push on hi...

With Tesla gearing up production on its highly anticipated Model 3, CEO Elon Musk just made it clear his company is more than capable of multitasking. SEE ALSO: Tesla owners drop serious cash on ...

While there have been enough "pragmatic optimizations" (as Apple Chief Design Officer Jony Ive calls them) — like the iPhone 6's protruding camera bump and ugly antenna bands, and the iPhone 7's...

Easter is just around the corner and Pokémon GO is celebrating with a limited-time Eggstravaganza.No, you don't get any free eggs, but between April 13 to April 20 there will be double XP as well...

Think only heavyweights like Samsung and LG can create smartphones with nearly no bezel? A new Chinese company called Maze Mobile is set to challenge that notion, with an upcoming smartphone that's pr...

Four out of five Australian executives agree that technology development is no longer a linear process, but is happening exponentially. In the Accenture Technology Vision 2017, the overriding message ...

Cloud computing giant Salesforce has achieved two big feats: net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in its direct operations, and a "carbon-neutral cloud" for all its customers.The San Francisco firm on Th...

Now Instagram's just rubbing it in.In case the Facebook-owned company hadn't already made it abundantly clear that burying Snapchat under an endlessly growing pile of lookalike products was its top pr...

United just can't catch a break from its terrible, horrible, no good, very bad PR nightmare.In the past few weeks alone, United Airlines has found itself at the center of numerous controversial storie...

When IndyCar champ Tony Kanaan takes the wheel of his race car, his performance depends on more than just driving skill. Forces of up to 5 Gs — five times the force of gravity — push on hi...

Genesis, Hyundai's luxury sub-brand, has unveiled yet another concept car — an ultra-fancy SUV with a hydrogen fuel cell hybrid powertrain and an enormous, 22-inch curved OLED display inside.
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With Tesla gearing up production on its highly anticipated Model 3, CEO Elon Musk just made it clear his company is more than capable of multitasking. SEE ALSO: Tesla owners drop serious cash on ...

The CEO of Chinese electronics maker Huawei raised eyebrows this week when he publicly trashed smartwatches. “I am always confused as to what smartwatches are for when we have smartphones,&...

Newcomer Lucid Motors has generated quite the buzz since it announced its Air electric car late last year.The California-based company's EV, which also has an autonomous driving system, has been bille...

If amusement park rides don't scare you anymore, this one will speed up if you're too calm.The Neurotransmitter 3000 is a 7 metre (23 foot) machine that paces itself based on your biometrics.SEE ALSO:...

Two hundred years from now, medical tricorders like the ones depicted in Star Trek will be as common as tongue depressors. They’ll be unremarkable, mobile tools on our SpaceX starships shuttling...

Facebook is at war with Snapchat. That we know. SEE ALSO: Facebook tests a big change that for once isn't a Snapchat ripoffBut what's unclear is how the public — not just you Mashable reade...

Toyota is putting some of its car research into helping people walk again.On Wednesday, the company launched a robotic leg brace, the Welwalk WW-100. The motorised device is designed to help partially...

Amazon can now operate its digital payments service in India after receiving a Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) license from the country's federal bank. This marks the entry of Amazon in a highly...

Life these days is on a fast pace. Whether it's chores, or just getting things checked off your laundry or shopping list, all help is welcome. Turns out, Google now has a new app for that.SEE ALSO: Go...

We’ve seen politicians sunk by not-so-private tweets. But one of the most recent political scandals saw former Alabama Governor Robert Bentley taken down by his own texts.  The politician, ...

Personal computing, phones, watches, and ... diabetes?Cupertino-based Apple has over its 41-year lifespan successfully disrupted the former, but it may be about to revolutionize treatment for the latt...

What's more annoying than a selfie stick?Selfie drones, which are rapidly becoming more affordable, lighter, and easier to use—and, as of April 12, available in Apple stores around the country.&...

Life these days is on a fast pace. Whether it's chores, or just getting things checked off your laundry or shopping list, all help is welcome. Turns out, Google now has a new app for that.SEE ALSO: Go...

The Vitali smart bra measures physical and mental health by monitoring breathing and heart rate variability with fabric sensors. Read more...More about Yoga, Excercise, Inventions, Kickstarter, and Vi...

Developer Scotty Allen used to be an engineer in Silicon Valley, but now he's spending his time traveling the world making things. Allen is currently spending his time in Shenzhen, China, where he mad...

The 'Sobro' coffee table was designed to be the life of the party. It has everything you will ever need within reach from the couch, like Bluetooth speakers, USB and power outlets, and even a refriger...

India's Silicon Valley, Bangalore, was a startup darling just two years ago, but now its star appears to be dulling.Don't get us wrong, Bangalore has a lot going for it — Amazon and Uber have of...

There's firm, tough leadership, and then there's ... whatever this is. Calling one of your company's newest high-profile releases essentially useless probably isn't the best way to boost team mor...

NASA is celebrating Earth Day with pieces of Earth instead of cake. But you don't have to wait until April 22 to get your own slice. The space agency is handing out planetary adoption certificate...

There are so many aspects of our lives that are being revolutionised every day — so why are we still making video for horizontal screens? We’re long past consuming content on horizontal sc...

Hey parents, great news! Thanks to Amazon's latest product you can feel slightly less guilty about leaving your child alone with technology instead of spending time with them.The company's new Parent ...

Google Home wants to help book your next flight. You can now find flights and track their pricing directly with your voice via the connected speaker.Google announced the feature, which is already part...

The New York Auto Show is filled with shiny, jaw-dropping production cars (hi Dodge Demon!) to ogle, but no vehicle has sucked me into its tractor beam quite like Lexus' LIT IS sedan.Created in collab...

Paella is universally acknowledged to be pretty damn tasty. But, lately, food enthusiasts have been fighting a battle to make the paella emoji more authentic. A battle they've just won. SEE ALSO:...

No one ever said you had to go by the book. In a world where everyone’s doing a slight variation on the same thing, you’ve got to hand it to the companies that challenge the way people do ...

Microsoft can't wait for mid-May.The Windows creator and Surface propagator is just weeks away from its three-day developer's conference in Seattle, but that's not stopping it from hosting a consumer ...

Calling all hackers — Nintendo is offering up a whole bunch of money to security-savvy Switch owners that can find vulnerabilities in the company's latest console. Finding and submitting a big s...

Facebook Messenger may still have its fair share of haters but, chances are, even they are still using the app. The service now counts more than 1.2 billion monthly active users, Facebook announc...

Dodge is ready to take the title of the world's fastest production car — and it's not content to just zoom through the line with the quickest time. The automaker's primed to wrestle the top...

Motorola's upcoming Moto C looks to be the company's most affordable phone yet.Since Lenovo's acquired the company back in 2014, the future of the Motorola brand didn't look good, but now it's making ...

Students in Switzerland have developed a prototype called Scewo, a wheelchair that can climb stairs by incorporating three components of traction. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Vid...

Shocker: for the highest salaries, go to Google. Glassdoor put together a list of the 25 companies that pay the highest salaries in the United States, and the results aren't that surprising. Most...

There are so many aspects of our lives that are being revolutionised every day — so why are we still making video for horizontal screens? We’re long past consuming content on horizontal sc...

I noticed something a bit strange as I was scrolling through my Twitter feed last weekend: I was being bombarded with unicorns. #BelieveinYOUnicorns was a top trending topic, and, after poking ar...

Bixby, Samsung's smart assistant and one of the most important features in the company's new flagship, the Galaxy S8, will be a little late for its own launch, at least in the U.S.The company told Axi...

Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have created 'aeroMorph,' a technology that turns flat paper into 3D shapes through inflation.The shapes are designed in a software program, then exported to a heat-sea...

Google's new video to promote the Pixel phone in India is quite popular with 15 million views across Facebook and YouTube.The film starring popular Indian writer-columnist Mrs. Funnybones focuses on t...

He plays on an Xbox, navigates his way using a GPS and knows when to turn the lights off — but life wasn't always this easy for David Woodbridge.Woodbridge, who lost his sight when he was 8 year...

Your doodles are about to get a whole lot better.Part of Google's new A.I. Experiments collection, AutoDraw is like an AI-powered Microsoft Paint. The app combines conventional doodling with art from ...

Fitbit's primed to finally break out of the fitness tracking vertical with a smartwatch built for mass appeal — but the company's apparently having a hard time even bringing a device to the star...

Snapchat or Instagram Stories?It's the eternal question of the social-media age, and the cast of HBO's Silicon Valley is wrestling with it just like the rest of us. SEE ALSO: 5 Ways HBO's 'Silico...

Facebook Messenger just made it easier to send friends money.The app now allows users to exchange money within group messages, Facebook announced. The feature is live now on desktop and Messenger's An...

I haven’t grilled a steak indoors in 15 years. Good beef means high heat, open flames and fast reflexes. You don’t cook a steak for 45 minutes, you give it four searing minutes on each sid...

Grow the Microsoft Edge browser, expand Windows 10 and keep building cool devices. That’s was Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore’s job before he stepped away from Microsoft in October of 2015,...

Qualcomm's striking back at Apple.The chipset maker announced on Monday it's countersuing Apple in response to a lawsuit from earlier this year.It's yet another case of pure corporate drama that you, ...

What more do we have to do to keep our smartphones locked to prying eyes — and fingers?Practicing basic phone security is already too much to ask for far too many people — and now, a  ...

'Open Bionics' is creating beautiful prosthetics for amputees. The bionic arms make these amputees look superhuman. Not only are these works of art, they're also affordable costing a fraction of ...

Yeah, so this isn't good. What if the very act of tapping your smartphone's passcode was all it took to expose that code to hackers? Are you sitting down right now? You should probably sit d...

With a rumored release date of September, 2017, these iPhone 8 rumors will keep us all wondering what Cupertino has in store.  Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, ...

The end has finally come for one of the world's most hated pieces of software, Windows Vista. As of Tuesday, April 11, 2017, Microsoft will no longer be supporting Windows Vista, the company anno...

An editor at a South Korean gaming site called Daily Game was near a subway station in Seoul on Friday night when he heard a scream. He moved toward the noise and found a man assaulting a woman, ran t...

An editor at a South Korean gaming site called Daily Game was near a subway station in Seoul on Friday night when he heard a scream. He moved toward the noise and found a man assaulting a woman, ran t...

When Cindy Wu was a student at The University of British Columbia, she began to suffer from depression. One thing that helped improve her health was yoga. "It was like a cure for me," the former mecha...

The Xiaomi Mi 6 is coming soon. The company will be launching its next flagship on April 19 in Beijing, according to a post on Xiaomi's Facebook page.SEE ALSO: Google is destroying Apple in the a...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced to the world in a mere 6,000 words earlier this year  that he was going to take understanding his country, and the factions within it, seriously. Now, ...

With a rumored release date of September, 2017, these iPhone 8 rumors will keep us all wondering what Cupertino has in store.  Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, ...

Search giant Google rolled out an artsy surprise for Indian users by paying a tribute to "pioneering artist" Jamini Roy on his 130th birth anniversary. It created a beautiful horse doodle inspired by ...

The only camera on a phone that's ever mattered has always been the one on the back. That's how it's been for years.But increasingly, the camera on the back isn't the one people care about the most, o...

Flying cars are the future, right? In the 1960s, the world imagined a future in which anyone could afford to take a drive above the scenery, but the technology simply never got there. Now, Slovak...

Teens. They know what's up. In this case, what's up just so happens to be the percentage of U.S. teenagers planning to own an iPhone in the very near future. SEE ALSO: Trying to protect teen...

A good rant can go a long way—unless Twitter's short posts and impossible threading cramp your style.SEE ALSO: Neil deGrasse Tyson unleashes hot fire on Trump in angry tweetstormThat's where Sto...

Ford just introduced a supercharged hybrid for police that can handle intense pursuits, even through flooded intersections and over curbs. The Police Responder Hybrid is the first of its kind, ac...

While the long arc of air travel undoubtably bends toward misery, passengers were just offered a brief glimmer of hope.The Federal Communications Commission decided on April 10 to reverse a 2013 propo...

To folks at the cybersecurity firm Symantec, the hacking group they call "Longhorn" has always seemed like a state actor. The group has hacked 40 "targets" in 16 nations, according to Symantec. L...

Airing is a tiny device that could replace large, disruptive sleep apnea machines. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Snoring, and Science And Technology...

Make some room in the cruising lane, Tesla: Cadillac's Super Cruise is ready for action.The long-developed product, coming as an add-on feature for the 2018 CT6 sedan, will jockey with Tesla's Autopil...

Designed in Paris, 'Spartan' boxers protect your privates from the harmful radiation emitting from your cell phone and other devices.Silver is woven into the fabric to create an electromagnetic shield...

Mastodon is a new Twitter-like open source app designed to give users a safe place for online niche communities to thrive on their own. Read more...More about Social Network, Social Networks, Real Tim...

You may have been under the impression that Google's AlphaGo had already publicly beaten the best human Go player in the world. You would be like me, and you would also be wrong.AlphaGo, an artificial...

People love using macOS for plenty of reasons: its simple navigability, its built-in suite of creative-minded tools, and y'know, the whole Apple fanboy thing. But the OS's perceived security remains o...

'MAX Motor Dreams’ by Ford combines lights, sounds, and movement to mimic a car ride for your little one to get a good night's sleep. Read more...More about Real People, Real Time Video, Cool, I...

The Halfbike has completely reimagined the traditional bicycle with a large fixed front wheel and two smaller back wheels on a flexible truck. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, ...

The iPhone 8 rumors keep getting crazier.A new report from Israeli tech site The Verifier claims the iPhone 8 will come with a "Smart Connector," similar to the three-pin connector on the iPad Pro, wh...

Google's next Pixel phone might have a curved display, and the company wants LG to make it, a new report claims. According to South Korea's ETNews (via ZDNET), Google wants to invest 1 trillion w...

Airing is a tiny device that could replace large, disruptive sleep apnea machines. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time, Snoring, and Science And Technology...

Once upon a time, Facebook was just a website for college students to connect. If Facebook gets its way, it'll be the go-to solution for all companies, especially small businesses, to run their operat...

Is sticking your head in the sand still frowned upon if you discover a buried mini Nintendo NES while you're down there? How about a rad keyboard styled like it was yanked straight off a vintage ...

Humans need hugs. Little humans, otherwise known as children, even more so. This is scientific fact, supported by countless hugs...er...studies, and the need for human contact is evident at every...

Indian telecom operators are finally feeling the need for speed.SEE ALSO: India's prime minister wants everyone to tell their friends about this appFor years, carriers in India have been criticised fo...

It's hard picturing how a hotel room could feel just based on pictures alone, but Expedia's got a futuristic solution for you.The travel giant is working on offering virtual reality versions of its li...

Think you could safely tell the difference between Russian, Hindi, Spanish and Telugu? The Great Language Game is the place to test that theory. The online guessing game has yielded a ton of data...

LG's recently announced flagship phone, the G6, has a glass front and back — not a design you would associate with durability. However, the company claims the phone is extremely sturdy, and is n...

Ideally, Tesla would like you to have a completely new roof that doubles as one big solar panel. But if for some reason you can't or won't go that route, the company now offers an alternative: Tr...

"Hello, my name is Bill Gates, super nerd. Join me as I use these technology goggles to take you into the feeeeeewchaaaaah!" Of course that's what the co-founder of Microsoft was thinking when he...

Back in August, when Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were still fighting for the presidency, a hacking group called the Shadow Brokers released secret NSA hacking tools. At the time they claimed...

Leaving your pet alone at home doesn't feel good, but now you can keep an eye on your furry friend and play fetch with them, too.The 'Pebby' is a sturdy, remote-controlled ball that you can control fr...

For autistic children, everyday interactions can be hard to decode. Socializing is often stressful, and expressing needs and emotions can be a struggle.But innovative tech solutions have come a long w...

The couple behind the pins that said "I love you" in American Sign Language, made for the Women's March in January, are back with a new pin raising money for science and research.Ahead of the "March f...

Apple's latest killer iPhone accessory, AirPods, are great earbuds and appear to be getting more popular by the day — but they really only let you do one thing: connect to your phone for wireles...

It was that moment in time, right after Uber CEO Travis Kalanick had defended his choice to be on President Trump's business advisory council which inspired this tweet: @Uber do you have any sham...

It doesn't happen often that your douchey hipster aesthetic leads to functional delight. Then, comes along the Penna Bluetooth keyboard. This amazing wireless keyboard has all the old-world ...

Samsung only just showed off its sleek new Galaxy S8 last week —and the phone won't even get to the public until it starts shipping on April 21—but that hasn't stopped Samsung's fanatics f...

A Connecticut woman's life was saved after her Fitbit detected an alarming rise in her heart rate. She immediately went to the hospital where doctors told her she had a deadly blood clot in her lungsT...

The Qube tent has redesigned the traditional camping shelter to pop up quickly and connect via tunnels to multiple other tents. Read more...More about Inventions, Indiegogo, Design, Hiking, and Access...

Babies are not to be reasoned with.Ford Motor Company knows this, and is here to help you trick your precious little one into slumbery submission. Just how will a car manufacturer do this, exactly?SEE...

Fixing any broken phone is a hassle, but if you have an iPhone, you really only have one safe option: repairing your device using an Apple-certified technicianIt ain't cheap. You can take your ma...

The Easter Bunny has a gift for Tesla owners: a simple way to find Easter eggs hidden in the electric car's interface.That's at least what Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at with a tweet Friday.Feature com...

The Easter Bunny has a gift for Tesla owners: a simple way to find Easter eggs hidden in the electric car's interface.That's at least what Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted at with a tweet Friday.Feature com...

Work sucks. Who among us hasn't had a moment of relief at the office wasting a few minutes of company time planning how best to spend that precious vacation? The numbers back it up, too—acc...

Adidas is using 3D printing to create super fly kicks of the future.On Friday, the company unveiled Futurecraft 4D, its latest 3D-printed sneakers, made possible through a partnership with Carbon R...

Skype Translator, the communication platform's real-time voice translator, just reached a new milestone. Microsoft announced on Thursday that Skype Translator is adding a 10th language: Japanese.SEE A...

You can do just about anything with your smartphone—if you've got a free hand or two, of course. Sure, there've been great strides in accessibility features for those who can't control thei...

Microsoft won hearts far and wide last fall with its all-in-one Surface Studio touchscreen desktop PC. The beefier Surface Book, not so much.What people really wanted was a new Surface Pro, but Micros...

Apple did something unusual this week: It admitted it dropped the ball with the trash can-looking Mac Pro and announced plans to release a new Mac Pro and new iMacs... next year.It's the most un-Apple...

Apple announced a new iPad a few weeks ago. Did you even notice? I wouldn't blame you if missed it. There wasn't any big event, or a keynote, and people definitely weren't waiting in line for it.Apple...

Microsoft came to the tablet party late, but it's taking home the centerpiece: A J.D. Power award for U.S. Tablet Satisfaction.Seven years into the tablet wars (which have arguably diminished to a ski...

In 2017, you don't buy a pricey new premium phone, unbox it, and spend hours admiring its beautiful industrial design. No, the cool thing to do now is to drop it until it's all smashed up, and then po...

Skype Translator, the communication platform's real-time voice translator, just reached a new milestone. Microsoft announced on Thursday that Skype Translator is adding a 10th language: Japanese.SEE A...

Facebook! It's a confusing mess these days.The network, in its efforts to become a bit more social again, has drowned users in new features, tests and other distracting knickknacks — and for per...

Could flying around in an aircraft one day be cheaper than owning your own car? Uber thinks so.The ride-sharing giant says it hopes for Uber Elevate, its new "on demand air transportation" system R...

Google has launched a new feature on Search and News which shows a "Fact Check" label for certain links, indicating whether a third-party fact-checking organization has found the story factual or not....

It's no RoboCop, but this autonomous patrol bot is going to be seen more and more often around Singapore.Ademco, a local security services company, recently launched a rent-a-robot service, in respons...

It's no RoboCop, but this autonomous patrol bot is going to be seen more and more often around Singapore.Ademco, a local security services company, recently launched a rent-a-robot service, in respons...

We've seen plenty of renders and concept images of what the next-gen iPhone might look like, and we'll see plenty more before it's actually launched this fall. But this new render comes from the ...

There's a new player in the autonomous trucking game, and it's coming out of the gate with some big claims.  Swedish transportation company Einride announced its global launch with news that it's...

There's a new player in the autonomous trucking game, and it's coming out of the gate with some big claims.  Swedish transportation company Einride announced its global launch with news that it's...

Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is not the product of a Silicon Valley start-up.Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a pote...

Mastodon, that giant cartoon mammal that's been rampaging across the internet this week, is not the product of a Silicon Valley start-up.Instead, the social networking app that's been touted as a pote...

Have you ever wanted to message your friends about the consistency of your bowel movements, but strained to find the right words?Well it's time to sit back and relax, as a new animated poop-emoji keyb...

Don't worry, Tesla Model S owners: you're still number one in Elon Musk's heart. The luxury electric automaker has focused a lot of energy on producing the affordable Model 3 for entry-level seda...

Two drones will buzz above a sea of 30,000 runners at this year's Boston Marathon. They'll hover more than a football field's distance above the starting line during the race, which takes place o...

Remember Clippy? Microsoft's ill-fated early attempt at a digital assistant? Facebook sure does. And, if the recently launched M Suggestions is any indication, the coders at the social media gian...

When you're struggling to find a 4G LTE connection after a nasty storm in the future, you might be able to depend on some extra air support for coverage — at least if you're on Verizon's network...

Microsoft’s brand of mixed reality is coming to cheap PCs before the end of the year.Affordable mixed reality headgear costing roughly $300 will be arriving this year —consumer models are ...

Circular runways are a radical redefinition of airport layout. They're designed to deal with increasing air traffic, allowing for multiple aircraft to takeoff and land simultaneously. They're the...

The 'Pela' phone case is made with a flax-based material. It's biodegradable and good for the environment.So now you can feel a bit better knowing that your phone case won't end up in a landfill. ...

Colours can have a powerful effect on your senses, your mood, and your overall sense of wellbeing. While vibrant reds and oranges are full of energy, colours like blue and green can have a more soothi...

Mastodon, the upstart anti-Twitter that everyone is talking about has one glaring problem.You can't delete your account.SEE ALSO: Bye, Twitter. All the cool kids are migrating to Mastodon.In reality, ...

It takes certain credentials to become a verified human in this world—unless you're on Mastodon, that is.While Twitter makes its little birdies fly through hoops to earn that exclusive verificat...

Elon Musk's literal (transportation) pipe dream, Hyperloop One, just hit another critical milestone: The first Hyperloop test track—or really, test tube—is finished. The 1,640-foot lo...

Twitter is working to renew its relationship with developers.Wait. We've heard this one before.SEE ALSO: Jack Dorsey wants to 'reset' Twitter's relationship with developersBack in October 2015, Twitte...

Creativity is a shared urge. We all have it, but many stumble on the execution. It’s why we’re not all pro photographers, musicians and movie makers. If you simplify the tools and put...

Robots are coming for our jobs, and Justin Trudeau is ready. The prime minister of Canada answered a question on Quora this week about how governments, especially Canada's, should prepare for aut...

The name, the price, and the look are all still a mystery, but we do know one thing about Microsoft's souped-up 4K Xbox with the cool "Project Scorpio" codename: It's a beast of a machine.A peek insid...

Don't worry, Tesla Model S owners: you're still number one in Elon Musk's heart. The luxury electric automaker has focused a lot of energy on producing the affordable Model 3 for entry-level seda...

The Stad Ship Tunnel project is the first tunnel of its kind. It's a project by the Norwegian government to move ships away from its violent coastline waters and through the Stad peninsula. Eight mill...

Remember Clippy? Microsoft's ill-fated early attempt at a digital assistant? Facebook sure does. And, if the recently launched M Suggestions is any indication, the coders at the social media gian...

After I tried out AirPods at Apple’s big launch event last September, I said I couldn’t see a future where they become as ubiquitous as their white-cabled earphone predecessors.That future...

It took them 29 and a half years, several consoles and two revisions but finally Nintendo has fixed a typo on The Legend of Zelda.SEE ALSO: Here's a super nerdy analysis of the music in 'Zelda: Breath...

India's online music streaming space has a new entrant, and it already looks pretty attractive. Google Play Music All Access, which features ad-free music streaming, is now available to residents...

Did you ever imagine that reporting a street crime to the cops could land you in privacy trouble?Well, if you're in India's Silicon Valley, it's definitely possible. SEE ALSO: Change this securit...

A fitness tracker could be more useful than just helping you shed weight — the data it's collecting about your body could go as far as saving lives.73-year-old Patricia Lauder from Connecticut n...

Remember the dreaded "error 53?" Apple apologised for the bug in early 2016, when it turned out its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus smartphones were being bricked if the user had the home button repaired somewher...

Love is a mystery. But for a growing number of people, it's a mystery based not in the vagaries of human emotion but rather in the ones and zeros of proprietary software. SEE ALSO: Your Tind...

The future of American domestic flight could be electric — or, at the very least, a hybrid.  Aviation startup Zunum Aero emerged from stealth mode and announced a bold plan to bring hybrid-...

Do you find planning casual social meet-ups too straightforward?Have you ever wanted to get together with friends, but longed for a way to make that process complicated? Not "complicated" like you jus...

In intelligence parlance, a tear line is a mark on a sensitive document where all the information below that line has been cleared for release — the not-so-secretive background info. Now Tearlin...

Just a week after the one-year anniversary of the Oculus Rift's consumer debut, the HTC Vive is celebrating a similar birthday with the launch of its Viveport subscription service. The easiest wa...

Facebook Stories are... well, they're a lot. The feature is the latest and most drastic step in the Snap-ification of Facebook and its properties, as Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp have all a...

It's barely been five months since Google Home arrived to take over homes and there are already whispers of version 2.0.According to a report from The Information, Google's working on an upgraded vers...

Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 is reportedly facing delays—but at least it may be less expensive than we thought.There have been several reports that the upcoming 10th anniversary iPhone could cost u...

Nostalgia has been all the rage among electronics enthusiasts these days, from this Windows 98 "smartwatch" to Nokia's revamp of the classic 3310. But here's a nostalgic effort that goes above and bey...

The 'UPRIGHT GO' is a tiny wearable that sticks on the square of your back. It vibrates when you're slouching, reminding you to sit upright.There's also an app, of course, that tracks your improvement...

Do good things come to those who wait?If the rumors regarding production problems for Apple's iPhone 8 are true, we may all be waiting a long time to find out. According to a report from the Chin...

Facebook Stories are... well, they're a lot. The feature is the latest and most drastic step in the Snap-ification of Facebook and its properties, as Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp have all a...

In trying to remain relevant, Moto — the tech company that brought us the beautiful Razr — did something super awkward and embarrassing instead.Moto, formerly known as Motorola, decided it...

So this is the end, Cassini.The NASA spacecraft, which has spent the last 13 years orbiting Saturn and shining new light on both that planet and its moons, is preparing for its last hurrah as it spins...

Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 is reportedly facing delays—but at least it may be less expensive than we thought.There have been several reports that the upcoming 10th anniversary iPhone could cost u...

Revenge porn is one of the most insidious problems on social media and the internet at large — and Facebook is now taking new steps to fight it on one of the world's largest online platforms.
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Epicenter, a Swedish co-working office, is offering its members an implantable RFID microchip that can unlock doors and operate office machinery.   Read more...More about Standalone Featured, Mas...

William Shatner couldn't find me on Mastodon.This was a problem.I couldn't even find you https://t.co/keNUC3IOYd— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) April 5, 2017Mastodon stomped onto the scene t...

You already go to YouTube to watch funny cat videos, the latest music videos, and movie trailers, so why wouldn't you go there to watch live TV?For $35 a month, YouTube TV bundles together over 40 liv...

If you're happily plunging into the world of smart home appliances, take heed: These devices can sometimes be remotely disabled, and something as easy as getting in or out of your own garage can sudde...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 and S8+ aren't lacking in performance. Equipped with the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 chip and 4GB of RAM, they're easily going to be two of the most powerful phones available wh...

They're probably not as glamorous and spectacularly futuristic as self-driving cars, but autonomous shuttles have some interesting near-future applications that shouldn't be easily dismissed. SEE...

The 'UPRIGHT GO' is a tiny wearable that sticks on the square of your back. It vibrates when you're slouching, reminding you to sit upright.There's also an app, of course, that tracks your improvement...

Lyft is working to make its rides more accessible. The ride-hailing company this week joined with the National Federation of the Blind for a partnership that promises to increase awareness of bli...

Australian-based construction company, Fastbrick Robotics, has created a prototype that can print a brick house from the ground up in just two days. 'Hadrian X' is due to be released commercially by t...

There have been many e-bikes, but this may be the 'smartest' of them all. With lots of features integrated directly into the bike, the 'Volta' by Pure Cycles is designed to make your ride easier. Read...

SpaceX made history last week, and now you can relive that historic moment over and over.We already know that Elon Musk's SpaceX successfully launched and landed a reused rocket, the first time in its...

Paid Content By the 2017 All-Electric Chevrolet Bolt EVWith its innovative battery technology and long range per charge, The Chevrolet Bolt EV is as practical as it is groundbreaking. And with its aff...

The world of Huawei phones is a confusing one. The company has a couple of flagship lineages under its Huawei brand name — the smaller Huawei P, the larger Huawei P Plus, and the also-larger Hua...

It was only a matter of time.After dual rear cameras became the de facto standard for flagship phones, some manufacturers, like Oppo, Vivo and LG, started introducing phones with dual selfie cameras.&...

YouTube's new app for India's flaky internet market is finally here. A beta version of YouTube Go app, first unveiled last year, has gone live on Google Play, the company says.Google plans to rel...

In May, a group will gather in Tahiti to discuss building floating cities off the French Polynesian coast. That's right. The men of the Seasteading Institute (and something suggests, it will be m...

People who want to know everything about their pets have a powerful new tool. SureFlap, based in the UK, already makes a line of products connected to pets' implanted microchips. Now it's putting...

Governing is hard. Predicting what the, ahem, disjointed members of Congress are going to do on any given day is even harder. So why not give your noggin a little rest and let artificial intellig...

In the battle between a massive prehistoric beast and a fluttering bird, we all know what's destined to come out on top. But in the case of Mastodon, a social network with the potential to take o...

Yosemite National Park is home to hundreds of black bears and the park is hoping to keep the creatures wild and away from humans and their food.That's the thinking behind the California park's new sit...

On Sunday evening, Ethan Klein, one half of the immensely popular YouTube channel h3h3Productions, posted a short video titled "Evidence that WSJ used FAKE screenshots." It went out to over 3.7 m...

One of Apple's latest innovations could be making its way to even more keyboards. A newly granted trio of patents shows Apple might be working to bring its Touch Bar tech to more devices than jus...

Look out, Uber: Mercedez-Benz is working with a new partner to fill future city streets with autonomous robo-taxis.Daimler, the parent company of Mercedes-Benz, has teamed up with major automotive sup...

It's bad when a security researcher finds a critical security flaw in your software. But when he finds about 40—all of them critical? Well, then you might consider rewriting the entire thing fro...

This tiny button device from Revolar can alert a user's designated contacts when they're in danger and provide GPS location tracking. Read more...More about Real Time Video, Real Time Video, Real Time...

Look, I don't know what else to tell you: We're getting closer and closer to doomsday and people much smarter than I agree. In January, the Science and Security Board at The Bulletin of the Atomi...

Soon, your phone's cracked screen may have its own healing factor.Scientists from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Riverside have developed a self-healing material that has...

Smart home assistants are becoming more useful, but there's something missing from our AI hubs from Amazon and Google. Sure, it's fun to call up Alexa or Google Assistant with nothing but a word  ...

Diego Valdes is a mechanical engineer and  an avid cosplayer. He recently spent seven months building an animatronic helmet of the ninja cyborg, Gray Fox, from the the classic 1998 video game, Me...

On Sunday evening, Ethan Klein, one half of the immensely popular YouTube channel h3h3Productions, posted a short video titled "Evidence that WSJ used FAKE screenshots." It went out to over 3.7 m...

This electric skateboard has a few tricks under the hood. Extra pivoting wheels gives the rider the ability to slide and carve like a snowboard. Read more...More about Snowboarding, Leiftech, Real Tim...

While the rest of the esports industry looks toward the future, the East Coast fighting game community in Brooklyn, NY, enjoys the treasures of the past.This community-run, old school Street Fighter t...

Chris Hardwick might be the literal host with the most, and now he's bringing The Awesome Show to NBC. The six-episode series, announced Tuesday by NBC, will focus on science and technology, which are...

Pity the Mac Mini. It's not Apple's most powerful Mac, nor has it ever been a design triumph. A dozen years after Steve Jobs launched it, there's never been a memorable Mac Mini ad campaign.It's the o...

Let’s face it. The sound systems in your garden-variety LED HDTV are aural disappointments, which is why soundbars have become necessities.Even though TV manufacturers know their sets will proba...

Sorry guys, but it looks like Samsung may not launch its long-rumored foldable "Galaxy X" phone this year after all.A new report from The Korea Herald now says Samsung's pushing plans to commercialize...

Richard Browning has founded Gravity Industries to re-imagine manned flight with the development of his 'Daedalus' flight suit. Read more...More about Gravity Industries, Tony Stark, Real Time Video, ...

In the nearly 35 years since the dawn of the Macintosh computer, Apple has not been what you would call open. The famous veil of secrecy fell on Apple in 1984 for the first Macintosh desktop computer ...

Adobe and Google have partnered to launch the second leg of an open-source project which aims at providing a unified typeface for the 1.5 billion people in East Asia. SEE ALSO: Divorced couple st...

A 31-year-old AI engineer has married one of his robot creations.Zheng Jiajia, who used to work for Chinese telecoms giant Huawei, held an informal wedding ceremony for himself and his robot wife in H...

The screen on at least one version of Apple's upcoming iPhone will be curved in some way — if you believe a new report that claims Apple has ordered 70 million OLED screens from Samsung. Ni...

Amid demonetization in India late last year, mobile wallet apps such as Paytm and MobiKwik emerged as the big winners, reporting astronomical growth. But the biggest challenger yet is about to join th...

Who’s winning the race to bring self-driving cars to the masses? Sorry Elon, a new report doesn’t even have Tesla in its top 10 — instead, auto industry stalwart Ford finished f...

There's nothing quite like a clean slate — especially one that's pre-populated with a generous helping of algorithmically generated spam.Perhaps realizing that the News Feed has over the years m...

You know when your significant other begs and pleads for you not to break up with them? Maybe even going so far as to threaten to wreck your stuff—or worse? That's what Imagination sounds like i...

The new MacBook Pros dropped a weight class and gained a Touch Bar, but they also killed the beloved MagSafe charger. Instead of a charging port that gently breaks away when tugged (or tripped ov...

Final Fantasy XV was in development for 10 years. Hundreds, maybe thousands of people across six different game development studios helped created it. Yet its camera — a fundamental part of the ...

Remember when you couldn't scroll through your Instagram feed without seeing an image from Prisma, the app that uses AI to make photographs look like paintings? Well, we're ready to go in the opp...

The home smart hub war is currently split into two camps: Google vs. Amazon. That means it's Alexa vs. Google Assistant, Echo vs. Home. Both systems have their pros and cons, but as the tech has evolv...

Netflix introduced movie and TV show downloads on iOS and Android last year, and now the feature is making its way to Windows 10 PCs, making it the first time users can watch Netflix shows offline on ...

Hey, Microsoft: it's time to step down from the internet throne and hand the crown over to Android. The latest internet usage data from StatCounter, an independent web analytics firm, found that ...

Thanks to drones, we now have footage of a nearly completed Apple Park — Apple's brand new 175-acre campus in Silicon Valley, envisioned by the company's late co-founder, Steve Jobs.Back in Febr...

Phones are about to get exciting again.Underdog phone maker HTC is reportedly planning to release a new flagship phone (possibly called the HTC U or HTC Ocean) with sensors built into its edges that'l...

After skipping the iPhone 6S, Apple finally gets to sell iPhones again in the largest smartphone market in Southeast Asia.This is because the San Francisco technology giant has committed to a $44 mill...

In recent weeks, some users have started noticing a rocket-shaped icon in their Facebook mobile app. The icon, positioned right next to the main news feed icon, gives you a different type of news...

Even the man who helped head Donald Trump's data operations during the 2016 election doesn't think the White House is the place to be these days.Speaking at an advertising event in Sydney on Monday, C...

Bike-sharing firm Mobike now has a way to reach the 900 million people who use China's largest messenger app, WeChat.Mobike has been officially integrated into the chat app, allowing users to book a r...

Tesla's Model X SUV is catching up to its sedan-sized sibling, the Model S.According to Tesla's production and deliveries report for the first quarter of 2017, the company hit a new deliveries record,...

GOQii, India's No. 1 health and fitness startup, is now a case study on the famed Harvard Business Publishing platform, a subsidiary of Harvard University that brings out books, magazines and leadersh...

We built the internet, we got online porn. We invented haptic engines that can automatically convey a remote sense of touch, we got teledildonics.Technological advances and the shifting of sexual boun...

GOQii, India's No. 1 health and fitness startup, is now a case study on the famed Harvard Business Publishing platform, a subsidiary of Harvard University that brings out books, magazines and leadersh...

Facebook's new "Stories" update is here, and it ruins the best part about the entire social network: Mindlessly plumbing your friends' lives without fear of getting caught.When you watch a friend's St...

Facebook's new "Stories" update is here, and it ruins the best part about the entire social network: Mindlessly plumbing your friends' lives without fear of getting caught.When you watch a friend's St...

The Energy Observer is the first ship to run on hydrogen gas and will sail around the world to promote the development of renewable energies. Read more...More about Renewable Power, Renewable Energy, ...

If it looks silly and appears within 24 hours of April Fools' Day, it's a fair target. Therefore, our latest object of scorn is the hipster-ready augmented reality concept device called the MonoLens.&...

What came first, the face or the emoji? Okay, there's a clear answer here — but Facetune's new Memoji app by Lightrick lets you make photos and selfies look more like classic emojis.Forget the r...

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may not be the best comedian among tech moguls, but he's pretty good at making fun of himself. That's why it surprised no one on Saturday when he tweeted out a ...

April Fools' Day is the only "fake news" day that's almost welcomeAlmost. And one of the longstanding masters of the tech prank, Google, is at it again with a fresh batch of trickery. This year, ...

In a year when every day feels like a cruel joke, it isn't really the time for April Fools' Day. Maybe brands subconsciously realize that, because their April Fools' Day pranks this year are pret...

If it looks silly and appears within 24 hours of April Fools' Day, it's a fair target. Therefore, our latest object of scorn is the hipster-ready augmented reality concept device called the MonoLens.&...

What came first, the face or the emoji? Okay, there's a clear answer here — but Facetune's new Memoji app by Lightrick lets you make photos and selfies look more like classic emojis.Forget the r...

Want to mess with your friends on April 1st? Get creative and hack into their phones.  Read more...More about Technology, Tech, Trick, Tricks, and Iphone Hack...

The Energy Observer is the first ship to run on hydrogen gas and will sail around the world to promote the development of renewable energies. Read more...More about Renewable Power, Renewable Energy, ...

Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk may not be the best comedian among tech moguls, but he's pretty good at making fun of himself. That's why it surprised no one on Saturday when he tweeted out a ...

Internet service providers are in an awkward spot. After getting all dressed up for the sell-your-data dance, it turns out they'll be staying home. Or so they claim.Reuters reports that represent...

Pour another one out for online privacy. Then do a half-assed job of mopping it back up with a virtual private network. In what is only the latest assault on the right not to be creeped on, both ...

After months of daily leaks, Samsung finally announced its next flagship Android phones, the Galaxy S8 and S8+.Do the new phones live up to their hype and can they restore confidence in Samsung after ...

Internet service providers are in an awkward spot. After getting all dressed up for the sell-your-data dance, it turns out they'll be staying home. Or so they claim.Reuters reports that represent...

Pour another one out for online privacy. Then do a half-assed job of mopping it back up with a virtual private network. In what is only the latest assault on the right not to be creeped on, both ...

The 'Gamers Outreach Foundation' is a charity organization that aims to bring some fun back into the lives of children in the hospital.Through a project called 'GO Karts,' which provides mobile gaming...

From the department of Things That Would  Make A Terrifying Black Mirror Episode: Connecticut lawmakers want police to be able to arm their drones with lethal weapons.This would be a United State...

One of the most prevalent rumors about the upcoming iPhone 8 is a switch from LCD to an edge-to-edge OLED display — but that might not be the only new addition that could make the colors on the ...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 has a nifty new feature that lets you unlock the phone using your face. It's fast and works really well, unlocking the phone almost instantly.But how secure is the S8's face recogn...

Internet service providers are in an awkward spot. After getting all dressed up for the sell-your-data dance, it turns out they'll be staying home. Or so they claim.Reuters reports that represent...

Twitter just lost what is arguably its most iconic feature: the egg avatar. SEE ALSO: Inside Twitter's decision to keep Periscope and abandon everything elseSince 2010, when you signed up for Twi...

Yeah—I'm a business and tech reporter, who reports on social media networks. And in order to do the job correctly, it's on me to maintain a degree of objective remove. That said: I'm not a repor...

This wearable could represent the future of dating. 'Ripple' sends an alert down your spine when it senses someone is hitting on youBut, let's get real here, all eyes will be on you regardless when yo...

I know, I know, April Fools' Day has gotten so over the top, few pranks are actually funny (especially when they come a day early.) Sometimes, your best bet is to stick with the basics, like a go...

Snapchat wants you to watch more Stories, so it's making them easier to discover. The app on Friday released the ability (in specific cities) to search for Stories with the nifty search bar they ...

April Fools' Day is upon us again — and for the past two years, Google has rolled out a fully playable version Pac-Man on its Maps app and web service to transform the standard street-view into ...

If your Facebook News Feed is looking a bit more colorful recently, there's good reason: The company is thirsty for your precious personal content.Facebook has been rolling out a new way to post statu...

Samsung this week launched a long-awaited, much leaked, hugely important phone: The Galaxy S8 and its larger sibling, the Galaxy S8+. And though there's a lot to like about the phone, its spec sh...

Tony Stark and his amazing Iron Man flight suit, an impressive piece of wearable tech designed and built by Stark alone, is a near-perfect Marvel comic-book confection — just the kind of thing t...

The 'Gamers Outreach Foundation' is a charity organization that aims to bring some fun back into the lives of children in the hospital.Through a project called 'GO Karts,' which provides mobile gaming...

Your phone is your lifeline. It’s the first thing you look at when you wake up in the morning and the last thing you cling to before you go to sleep. It’s how you check in with friends ...

Smartphones are capable of some spectacular things these days. They've replaced cameras, planners and, in some cases, personal computers.These little machines can tackle a lot. So much, in fact, you p...

Smartphones have completely altered the way many of us look at the world. Everything you need to know, discover and share now lives right in the palm of your hand.Having this much technology at your f...

Virtual reality films are fun to watch, but there's a ton of work that goes into creating them. We sat down with Here Be Dragons to understand the effort behind their films.After digging into the vide...

Google just released its latest service to the world: a website that could help you get fit all while filling empty fitness studios around the world.  SEE ALSO: Now that SXSW is over, here was, f...

Samsung's Galaxy S8 has a nifty new feature that lets you unlock the phone using your face. It's fast and works really well, unlocking the phone almost instantly.But how secure is the S8's face recogn...

Yeah—I'm a business and tech reporter, who reports on social media networks. And in order to do the job correctly, it's on me to maintain a degree of objective remove. That said: I'm not a repor...

This wearable could represent the future of dating. 'Ripple' sends an alert down your spine when it senses someone is hitting on youBut, let's get real here, all eyes will be on you regardless when yo...

I know, I know, April Fools' Day has gotten so over the top, few pranks are actually funny (especially when they come a day early.) Sometimes, your best bet is to stick with the basics, like a go...

Apple is taking further steps to foster the developer ecosystem in the world’s fastest growing smartphone market. The Cupertino-based company today opened a new App Accelerator in Bangalore...

All aboard the Samsung Galaxy S8 train!After years of trying and failing to get anyone to care about Windows Phone and then Windows 10 Mobile, Microsoft's finally making a smart move in mobile: It's p...

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...

Leave it to Twitter to spend almost a year testing a new feature only to have everyone instantly hate it.That's what happened with the service's latest update, which changes replies so they don't coun...