Theranos will close labs and fire 340 employees
Theranos will fire 340 employees — about 40 percent of its workforce — in California, Arizona and Texas, as well as shuttering all its clinical labs and Theranos Wellness centers, the company said in a...
Samsung is buying the team that originally created Siri
Rather than create its own personal assistant for Galaxy smartphones, Samsung is just buying one. The company has announced it's acquiring Viv Labs, a startup formed by the creators of Apple's Siri...
Samsung now has an answer for Siri and Alexa
There's going to be a Gears of War movie
It takes most of its cues from action movies, so it's only fitting that Gears of War is being turned into a film. Universal Pictures is working on a movie adaptation of the video game series, Gears of War...
Gears in motion
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US regulators open investigation into replacement Note 7 that caught fire
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October 5, 2016
Mark Zuckerberg says he'll reveal 'something new' for Oculus tomorrow
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October 5, 2016
Panasonic's new wireless switch doesn't need batteries to turn on your lights
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Here's how you can make a laser toy to entertain your cat for hours
US regulators open investigation into replacement Note 7 that caught fire
Federal regulators are moving quickly to investigate the replacement Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that caught fire on a Southwest Airlines flight today, with the US Consumer Product Safety Commission "moving...
it's going from bad to worse
Bees trained by scientists can teach each other new skills
If you ask most people around the world their true desires, their answers will be the same: health, happiness, and to ride around in a chariot pulled by thousands of bees. Thankfully, scientists have...
Interesting bee-havior
Mark Zuckerberg says he'll reveal 'something new' for Oculus tomorrow
Mark Zuckerberg might be ready to take the Oculus Rift and virtual reality to new applications beyond video games. This afternoon, Facebook's CEO posted a photo of himself wearing the Rift (and Oculus...
This might be big
You can watch the first episode of Westworld online for free
HBO’s Westworld has a real chance to become the next Game of Thrones. It’s got high production values, a rich, twisty plot, and plenty of human depravity going for it. Of course, it’s just getting started,...
The hosts are waiting for you
Facebook apologizes for drugs, guns, and animals that appeared in Marketplace
After Facebook launched its new Marketplace feature — read: Craigslist competitor — on Monday, people quickly noticed that the service wasn't exactly being put to its intended use. Rather than used...
Or: the day Facebook took on the dark web
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October 4, 2016
Google kicked off its Pixel event with a Silicon Valley intro
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October 4, 2016
Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 is a literal bomb in this GTA 5 mod
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October 4, 2016
This candle smells like a new Mac
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October 3, 2016
This cute baby bat has better manners than most kids
Boeing CEO: the first people on Mars will arrive on a Boeing rocket
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is aiming to start a Martian colony within the next decade, but another rival CEO says his company will actually be the one to put humans on the Red Planet first. Boeing CEO Dennis...
Sorry SpaceX
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Fallout 4 and Skyrim are getting mods on PS4 after all
A month ago, Bethesda announced that it was abandoning plans to add mod support to the PS4 versions of Fallout 4 and the upcoming remastered version of Skyrim. Today, however, the developer says that both...
Was Yahoo's mass wiretap legal?
Yesterday, a very aggressive and very secret surveillance operation was abruptly made public. According to an exclusive Reuters report, Yahoo complied with a government order last year asking the company...
Blue Origin says its New Shepard passengers will get first dibs on New Glenn tickets
During the live broadcast of today’s New Shepard flight test, one of the hosts let slip some enticing info for anyone interested in flying with Blue Origin in the future. Apparently, the passengers who fly...
Like Amazon Prime, but for rockets
Fitbit claims its users cost their employers a lot less in health care — here’s why that study is flawed
People who used Fitbits cost their employer nearly 25 percent less in health care costs, according to a new study from Fitbit. At first blush this appears to be a tantalizing result for companies looking...
This nightmarish animated short based on Stephen King's The Long Walk took five years to make
It's like a perfect teaser for King's best novel.
Here's how you can make a laser toy to entertain your cat for hours
Figuring out how to keep pets entertained can be quite tiring. No, you don't really feel like playing catch with your dog after a long day at work, or dangling strings in front of your cat to stop them...
No need for buying new cat toys
Netflix just took another step toward getting its films into theaters
Next year, some of Netflix's original movies will have a debut home on the big screen. The streaming service just signed a deal with the theater chain iPic Entertainment that will give a same-day theater...
A 10-film deal
In the shadow of Luke Cage, Iron Fist better be relevant
Luke Cage debuted on Netflix last week, and the reception has been warm — in some quarters, even rapturous. It’s been called ambitious, complex, and resonant. It’s a perfect and necessary follow-up to J...
Iron Fist is yet another white billionaire superhero
With Pixel, Google wants to be another Apple
Today, Tuesday, October 4th is Google’s biggest hardware event, all the leaks will tell you, with everything from a pair of "by Google" smartphones to Google Home smart speakers, new wireless routers, and...
No more Nexus, it's all "made by Google" from here on out
Doctors successfully transplanted a uterus from a living donor in the US
The first uterus transplants from living donors have been attempted in the US, Time reports. Of the four transplant surgeries performed last month at Baylor University Medical Center, only one looks to be...
The first Google Tango phone will be released next month
The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro is set to be released in November, according to CNET. The smartphone is more widely known as the first device to run Tango, Google's augmented reality technology. Google's head of VR...
The Lenovo Phab 2 Pro
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Watch some of Steve Jobs' best interviews, five years after his death
On the fifth anniversary of Jobs’s death, we’ve compiled some of his D Conference highlights into the video above. (I also used the opportunity to ask Swisher and Mossberg about what it was like to host...
All Things Digital conference memories
After ravaging Haiti, Hurricane Matthew is headed to the US
Hurricane Matthew — a Category 4 storm — hit Haiti yesterday, flooding thousands of homes, destroying farms and crops, and killing livestock. The Haitian government has reported that five people have been...
Evacuations begin
How Alex Wells created the gorgeous artwork of a new edition of Asimov's I, Robot
The Folio Society has been producing high-end editions of classic literature for decades, and in recent years, it has branched into producing high-end editions of science fiction novels. The latest...
The three laws never looked so good
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Are you ready for your own personal Google?
Sometimes, it’s the little changes to language that give away a company’s ambition. At the unveiling of Google’s new Pixel phones yesterday, CEO Sundar Pichai started the event not by talking about what...
personal google vs impersonal
BuzzFeed vandalized by hacking group after exposing alleged member
A number of BuzzFeed posts were vandalized by hackers this morning in apparent retaliation for a story that claimed to expose a member of their group. The hacking group, which goes by OurMine, changed the...
Scientists win Nobel Prize in Chemistry for making tiny machines out of molecules
This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three scientists who figured out how to build tiny machines out of molecules. The machines, which include a nano-sized car, are invisible to the...
Blink's battery-powered security cameras join long list of devices under Alexa voice control
Blink’s lineup of battery-powered Wi-Fi home security cameras can now be controlled with Alexa-enabled devices like the Amazon Echo. This marks a first for Blink which I dinged last week for lacking an...
Watch Blue Origin test — and probably crash — its New Shepard rocket today
Blue Origin is all set to launch its New Shepard rocket again today from the company’s test range in West Texas. It’ll be the fifth time this particular vehicle takes flight, but the test will be anything...
The test will be anything but routine
PlayStation VR: nine launch games for Sony’s new VR platform
Next week, PlayStation 4 will become the first console to play virtual reality games with the release of PlayStation VR. Sony is a bit late to the VR game — both the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift launched...
Reviews of Thumper, Wayward Sky, Batman Arkham VR, and more
Amazon adds free ebooks to its Prime membership perks
Amazon has added a new perk to its $99-a-year Prime membership scheme: free comics, magazines, short stories, and ebooks. Announced today, Amazon Prime Reading gives US customers access to "over a thousand...
books, comics, short stories, and magazines
Ok Google, why is iCloud storage so expensive?
I’m feeling like a chump after yesterday’s Google event. I currently pay Apple $2.99 each month in return for 200GB of iCloud storage — space mostly allocated to my iCloud Photos library. But my free space...
China wants to build the world's biggest spaceplane
A Chinese company is building a spaceplane that would carry up to 20 tourists, according to a report from New Scientist. The government-backed China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology have designed two...
It would carry up to 20 people
15 Motorola phones will be updated to Android 7.0 Nougat
Motorola has published a full list of the 15 phones eligible for the upgrade to Android 7.0 Nougat, Google's latest Android release. If you've purchased a Motorola device over the past year then it's...
Last year's Moto G misses out