Samsung has made a Batman-inspired Galaxy S7 Edge
Samsung has made a Batman-inspired smartphone ... really. In true ludicrous Samsung fashion, it's called the Galaxy S7 Edge Injustice Edition, and it features the superhero's logo in gold on the back. The...
Called the Galaxy S7 Edge Injustice Edition
Delta built the more efficient TSA checkpoints that the TSA couldn't
Delta Airlines paid for and installed a pair of "innovation lanes" at its hometown airport in Atlanta. The lanes are much better designed than the standard security checkpoints found at airports around the...
get through the line faster
Vietnam blocked access to Facebook during Obama visit this week
The Vietnamese government restricted, and sometimes outright blocked, access to Facebook in the country from Sunday to Wednesday of this week during President Obama's visit, say two activists groups who...
To shut down anti-government protests
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May 26, 2016
Samsung has made a Batman-inspired Galaxy S7 Edge
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May 26, 2016
This might be Lenovo's new Droid
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May 26, 2016
Samsung announces the Galaxy C5 and C7
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May 26, 2016
Is that colored E Ink?!
Spelling is a sport, and its athletes dab too
About 22 years ago, ESPN made the fateful decision to air the later rounds of the Scripps National Spelling Bee contest on TV. In including the act of spelling difficult-to-spell words in front of an...
Spell hard, dab hard
This might be Lenovo's new Droid
Lenovo has a big event coming up on June 9th, and one of the things we might see then (or shortly thereafter) is a new lineup of Droids. VentureBeat reporter Evan Blass leaked an image showing what appears...
Check out those bronze accents
Blue Origin will intentionally crash its spaceship during the next test flight
Blue Origin is planning the next test flight of its reusable New Shepard rocket, but CEO Jeff Bezos just revealed a twist: the empty crew capsule, which sits on top of the rocket, will crash-land on...
On purpose, an accident
HTC is developing its own virtual reality game for the Vive
HTC is developing a virtual reality game for its Vive headset called Front Defense, and the company plans on demoing it at the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan next week. Little is known about the...
A shooter called Front Defense
Google wins Oracle copyright fight over Android code
Today, a jury in California's Northern District federal court declared that Google's use of copyright-protected code in Android was fair use, freeing it of any liability. Oracle, which controls the...
The API was found to be fair use
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May 26, 2016
Spelling is a sport, and its athletes dab too
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May 26, 2016
Jake Gyllenhaal as a furious ferret enthusiast is the best thing I will ever see in my miserable life
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May 25, 2016
Why is there an iPhone in this 350-year-old painting?
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May 25, 2016
The best and worst of the internet's uninspired Hodor jokes
Justin Bieber and Skrillex are getting sued over Sorry
Indie musician Casey Dienel (aka White Hinterland) is suing Justin Bieber, Skrillex, and the team of co-writers behind Bieber's 2015 mega-hit "Sorry" over the song's resemblance to Dienel's "Ring the...
Listen for the resemblance
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MSI built a computer into a backpack so you can walk around in VR
Do you wish you could take a computer with you everywhere — maybe one in a form factor that was easy to carry around? Like in, say, a backpack? MSI has been brilliant enough to put these desires together...
Maybe one day computers will be tiny enough to fit inside of backpacks
Theranos hit with second class action lawsuit, one day after the first
Theranos was hit with a second class action lawsuit today — one day after an angry customer filed the first.
"The company will vigorously defend itself." Brooke Buchanan, Theranos
Happy birthday to NYC’s awesome, overlooked aerial tram
The Roosevelt Island Tram, which connects the Upper East Side of Manhattan to Roosevelt Island in the East River, turned 40 this week, which means that for 40 years it has operated as New York City's most...
Google's Nexus 9 tablet has been discontinued
Just days after the end of the Nexus Player, Google is saying goodbye to another piece of hardware: the Nexus 9. CNET reports that HTC, which collaborated on and manufactured the flagship tablet, said it...
There's still the Pixel C
Twitch’s new 'clips' feature lets you share your favorite streaming moments
The next time you see an amazing goal while watching Rocket League on Twitch, you'll be able to easily share it with your buddies. Today the streaming service is introducing a new feature called "clips,"...
Rolling out soon for everyone
Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay a massive internet cable across the Atlantic
Facebook and Microsoft announced a partnership today to lay the highest-capacity subsea internet cable to ever cross the Atlantic Ocean, starting with hubs connecting Northern Virginia to Bilbao, Spain....
A 4,100-mile cable capable of 160 terabits per second
FenSens makes it easy to add parking sensors to your car
If you've ever tried to add parking sensors to your vehicle, you know it's not a particularly easy endeavor. Most of the cheaper systems don't work well and the good — and very expensive — setups can...
No complicated installation process
Here's why that 'leaked' Gear VR controller makes no sense
Earlier today, the Czech site Samsung Mania published what they claimed were leaked renders of a new controller for the Samsung Gear VR headset. The accessory would be made by Samsung's partner Oculus and...
Please, just don't
The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2016
At I/O this year, Google displayed its vision for a more ubiquitous and conversational way of interacting with technology. Its Assistant is chattier, answering natural language queries with a more human...
Uncharted 4 finally learns to pace itself
I finished Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in just under 13 hours spread across four sessions. That required me to sit on my sofa doing the same thing for several hours on end, which I almost never do with...
Extended sequences in which nothing explodes at all
Hyundai models are getting Android Auto and CarPlay with a DIY update
Hyundai just announced a bunch of updates to some of its 2015, 2016, and 2017 models that let owners add support for Android Auto and CarPlay at no additional cost — and even better, there's no trip to the...
No dealer trip needed
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Apple considered buying Time Warner, but it never got serious
Apple's Eddy Cue floated the idea of a massive acquisition of Time Warner during a meeting with one of the latter company's executives. That's according to a new report from the Financial Times, which...
Tim Cook wasn't involved in talks
NASA's attempt to inflate expandable habitat fails
This morning, the International Space Station was scheduled to deploy its first ever expandable module starting at 5:30AM ET. But the attempt seems to have failed and NASA called off the operation for...
The inflation process could be resumed as soon as tomorrow
The 8 biggest new features in Android N
Android N may not yet have a name, but we already know a lot about it. Google has been iterating on its ubiquitous mobile OS far more publicly than usual, issuing a couple of developer preview versions...
Keyboard themes!
The Little Prince will debut on Netflix on August 5th
The animated adaptation of the beloved French novella The Little Prince is finally coming to the US thanks to Netflix. Entertainment Weekly reports that the film will land on Netflix and in theaters on...
A great movie in Netflix's collection
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Dish's portable DVR is available today
Dish has finally released its portable DVR, the HopperGo, after announcing it at CES back in January. The HopperGo allows Dish subscribers to transfer content from their set-top box — in this case from the...
The HopperGo
Is this the smart flip phone of my dreams?
Anna Wintour and Rihanna told me flip phones are back, and wow do I want one. The snag with my dream, though, is that I can't navigate New York without a GPS in my pocket at all times. If only I had a...
It definitely folds
Tonight's SpaceX rocket launch: start time, live stream, and what to expect
Update 7:26PM ET, May 26th: The launch has been postponed at least 24 hours because of a "glitch in the motion of an upper stage engine actuator," according to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
SpaceX will attempt...
The company tries to stick another sea landing
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If you have a VR headset and an empty warehouse, it's your lucky day
As we get used to the idea of consumer virtual reality, we shouldn't forget that architecture firms, construction companies, and research institutions are way more hardcore than you and your paltry living...
Also $15,000
ZTE launches VR headset for its new Axon 7 smartphone
It is a law that in 2016 you cannot release a phone without also releasing a complementary VR headset, and ZTE isn't about to break any rules. Alongside the announcement of its new Axon 7 smartphone today,...
A new competitor to the Gear VR
ZTE's Axon 7 has high-end specs and design with a budget price
ZTE is today announcing the Axon 7, the successor to last year's Axon flagship. The Axon 7 continues on with the original Axon's goal of high-end specs and materials at a wallet-friendly price. The new...
Cheap, but not cheap
What exactly does a Wi-Fi-connected Brita pitcher do?
One of the amazing and brilliant and utterly bizarre things about the Internet of Things is that ordinary consumer things are becoming connected things. This includes objects like refrigerators, t...
Plane makers could learn from the cramped and claustrophobic Hyperloop
When the most recent renderings of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies' planned Hyperloop carriage appeared earlier this week, the reaction was mixed. Large touchscreen windows promise to simulate the...
Opening the loop
Lenovo: Motorola acquisition 'did not meet expectations'
It's rare to see much self-criticism in a company's quarterly financial report, but Lenovo hasn't been shy about it today with its disclosures around its mobile business group. "Integration efforts did not...
Taking a long hard look in the mirror
