Mr. Robot is a show built on hacks. The mother of all hacks serves as the big cliffhanger at the end of the show's first season, and nearly every plot development leading up to it was nudged along by some kind of exploit. It’s rare to get through an episode without at least one d … | Continue reading
Donald Trump gave a series of surprisingly inoffensive answers to fans in his Reddit "ask me anything" session tonight. After a press conference filled with off-the-cuff and sometimes bizarre comments, his visit to Reddit stronghold r/The_Donald was marked by conspicuously anodyn … | Continue reading
There are a lot of places you might expect Ford to innovate and improve in its Super Duty pickup truck. Things like increasing the towing capacity or torque, or stuffing the thing full of cameras to make backing up easier. Forget all that.The biggest innovation in the 2017 Super … | Continue reading
Samsung Electronics has published its full second-quarter earnings, confirming earlier guidance that indicated the company's strongest profits in over two years. Revenue was 50.94 trillion won ($45.2 billion), up 5 percent on a year ago, while operating profit was 8.14 trillion w … | Continue reading
Wikileaks has released a cache of voicemails taken from a hack of the Democratic National Committee, in a publication it has dubbed The DNC Recordings. The release comes just days after a much larger publication, which included 19,000 emails from the top DNC figures as well as cr … | Continue reading
There's an entire digital cottage industry sprouting up around Pokémon Go, the explosively popular augmented reality game that has people hitting the streets scouring for imaginary pocket monsters. Naturally, the most common of these third-party products revolve around maps that … | Continue reading
For a self-proclaimed socialist, Jeremy Peter "Pegg" Green knows how to game capitalism. The New York-licensed attorney and artist purchased the domain ClintonKaine.com for $8 in 2011, according to a report from ABC affiliate KSAT, and is willing to sell it to the Democratic nomi … | Continue reading
Eddie Redmayne has just signed on to star in the upcoming adaptation of The Last Days Of Night. The film with the same name is about the epic clash between industry titan George Westinghouse and inventor Thomas Edison over one question: who invented the lightbulb?It's set to be r … | Continue reading
Netflix has just renewed a big handful of shows, and announced a smaller handful of new ones. The most exciting renewal is probably Maria Bamford's Lady Dynamite, a sitcom that's not only funny and absurd, it also offers a sharp and vulnerable portrayal of mental illness. Netflix … | Continue reading
One of the best and darkest science fiction shows ever created is coming back — soon. Netflix announced today that it will be releasing a new, six-episode season of Black Mirror on October 21st.Netflix announced the release date with a cryptic tweet from the show’s official Twitt … | Continue reading
High-end audio company Beyerdynamic announced three new earbuds this week that it imagines will be affordable and reliable options for people who use their phones to listen to music. The cheapest pair in the Byron series will sell for $54, and the most expensive model — the BTA — … | Continue reading
Facebook posted its second quarter earnings for investors today. The social media giant reported $6.44 billion in revenue and $2.05 billion in profit. That’s a 59 percent increase over the $4.04 billion in revenue during the same period last year. Its monthly active users now num … | Continue reading
Apple recently sold its billionth iPhone, the company announced today. During a meeting at Apple's Cupertino headquarters this morning, CEO Tim Cook made an appearance to celebrate the major milestone. "iPhone has become one of the most important, world-changing and successful pr … | Continue reading
Xiaomi has announced the RedMi Pro, its first smartphone with a dual-camera setup. The RedMi Pro features a 13MP Sony IMX258 sensor along with a 5MP Samsung sensor on the rear of the device, which Xiaomi says will produce DSLR-quality photos. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Amazon is ordering its starry F. Scott Fitzgerald adaptation The Last Tycoon to series after a successful June pilot run, according to Deadline. The '30s period piece stars Matt Bomer as Monroe Stahl, a fictionalized version of the real-life precocious movie mogul Irving Thalberg … | Continue reading
Peep Show, the weird, cynical British comedy starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, will return in a new form on American TV. Variety reports that Starz is developing an American version of the show stateside. Like the US version of The Office, Starz's Peep Show will be an enti … | Continue reading
A group of researchers have identified a gene implicated in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a disease that attacks neurons in the brain and spinal cord. They identified the gene using funds from the... | Continue reading
The hardcore Pokémon Go players out there know that once you reach level 20 in the augmented reality mobile game, the difficulty curve starts getting much steeper. How steep? Well, to go from level 19 to 20 requires 25,000 experience points. To go from 20 to 21 requires twice as … | Continue reading
Netflix has put out a first trailer for Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, the much-loved series' four-part revival. It's been almost a decade since Gilmore Girls ended its seven-season run, and this trailer offers the one thing fans want the most: more of the show's wonderfully … | Continue reading
Now I’m no economist, nor do I have a business degree from a fancy college, but I assume a basic formula to be true. Lego + a popular intellectual property = cute meta-brand that makes yachts full of easy money.Lego Star Wars. Lego Batman. Lego Harry Potter. The evidence is plent … | Continue reading
The vapor from electronic cigarettes contains two previously unidentified chemicals that can cause cancer, according to a new study. The new research, published in Environmental Science & Technology, also shows that levels of harmful chemicals vary between e-cigs.Researchers in t … | Continue reading
If you made a Google search for "presidential candidates" this morning, you would have found an unusual result. As of this morning, the top bar of results displayed Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and Green Party candidate Jill Stein — with Donald Trump and Libertarian candidate … | Continue reading
Glow, a fertility-tracking app founded by a well-known Silicon Valley technologist, warned users today of a privacy loophole that may expose personal data. The company said its "connect a partner" feature, which lets the app user give access to a partner, might have made some of … | Continue reading
Craftsman is planning to release a new Pro Series of tool storage units this October that’ll lock with a physical key, like most other toolboxes. They’ll also be modernized with a companion app and Bluetooth, so they can be unlocked remotely. The app lets you set up a proximity l … | Continue reading
SpaceX’s upcoming Red Dragon mission — the company’s plan to send one of its Dragon capsules on Mars in 2018 — is estimated to cost around $320 million, Space News reports. That’s according to NASA representative Jim Reuter, who spoke at a meeting of the NASA Advisory Council in … | Continue reading
For anyone who has played Life is Strange, the game’s television influences are clear. It’s like a mash-up of Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but with time travel. And now it will be getting a live-action series of its very own: publisher Square Enix has … | Continue reading
Blu Products is back with another cheap smartphone, the $99 Blu Studio Touch, and it's one of the rare smartphones to come with a fingerprint sensor with a price tag under $100. The rest of the specs are average for a low-end smartphone in 2016 (as you would expect): Continu … | Continue reading
Believe it or not, some of us are carrying drug-resistant bacteria around in our noses; these colonies make infection more likely. But scientists have discovered a new weapon to use against these bugs — and it also lives in your nose.It may be years before the new compound comes … | Continue reading
The upper atmosphere above Jupiter’s Great Red Spot — the huge storm that has been raging for centuries on the gas giant — is much hotter than anywhere else on the planet. New research published today in Nature suggests that movement of the massive storm in Jupiter’s lower atmosp … | Continue reading
Chinese tech firm LeEco made its biggest splash on American soil yet yesterday with the announcement that it's acquiring Vizio, the biggest US maker of TVs, for $2 billion. You might not be familiar with the name, but in LeEco's short history the ambitious company has achieved on … | Continue reading
For 10 years the New York Botanical Garden has devoted time and resources to the Amorphophallus titanum, a single towering flower that when in bloom smells like a rotting corpse. Today garden guests may be able to catch a whiff of that rare stench, as the flower is expected to bl … | Continue reading
Donald Trump says that if Russians were behind the security breach that made tens of thousands of Democratic National Committee emails public, he hopes they’ve also hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server. In a press conference, Trump responded to a question by saying that … | Continue reading
Even if you’ve only seen an episode or two, it’s not hard to spot the influences of Netflix’s new show Stranger Things. It’s all so very 1980s: the tight-knit group of young boys pulled from Stand By Me, the synth-heavy soundtrack of a John Carpenter film, the suburbia-meets-sci- … | Continue reading
Last year, visitors to a wide range of gambling sites started reporting unusual behavior. Strange text windows would pop up, offering users special access codes for third-party gambling sites. Links would appear with new affiliate tags, an almost unnoticeable difference that coul … | Continue reading
HBO is ending Project Greenlight, the movie-making reality show spearheaded by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck that ran for four seasons across HBO and Bravo. Its first three seasons aired between 2001 and 2005, and the show laid dormant for a decade before being revived by HBO for a … | Continue reading
We figured a red Nextbit would be announced sometime soon, and today we got our confirmation. The company behind the Robin phone (still so pretty!) confirmed that a red version of the phone will go on sale today on Nextbit.com. This summer "ember" edition will cost $299. The spec … | Continue reading
Two years after Apple launched its Family Sharing feature for iTunes apps and content, Google is finally doing the same thing with a feature it’s calling Google Play Family Library. Like Apple's plan, it's free, works with up to six different accounts, and lets you share movies, … | Continue reading
Sennheiser has announced the PC 373D, its latest headset for PC gamers featuring 7.1 Dolby Surround Sound and a copious amount of velvet. The new flagship headset comes with a noise-canceling microphone and what Sennheiser is calling an "optional noise reduction algorithm." There … | Continue reading
When longtime fans think of Star Trek, they conjure up creator Gene Roddenberry’s original utopian vision: a collectivist, multicultural future where money is no longer needed, and characters are happy to go on exploratory five-year missions for no reason other than their own nee … | Continue reading
A few weeks before Halloween 2015, the IAmSteelberg account launched on Instagram with a bundle of photos a novel art form: the VHS box. Steelberg redesigns the grimy 1980s movie sleeves for recent genre films. The project is a charming cultural ouroboros, a nostalgic repackaging … | Continue reading
At the very top of a tall glass building, in a room overlooking Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, a group of entrepreneurs are working on new ways to get vaccines to the people who need them most. They’ve come here from all over the world, and they’ve all launched pilot projects in poo … | Continue reading
It's almost time again for the official Mr. Robot Digital After Show hosted by The Verge, and we hope you'll join us tonight at 11:28PM ET as we recap episode 4 and chat with Mr. Robot writer and Technology Producer Kor Adana. In tonight's episode we'll see Elliot grow closer to … | Continue reading
Nintendo has announced that it will release its Pokémon Go Plus wearable in September, not the end of July as originally planned. The news went out in a tweet this morning, and according to an email posted by Nintendo Life, Nintendo is contacting people who already ordered the de … | Continue reading
Microsoft is launching yet another iPhone app today: Microsoft Pix. While the default camera app on the iPhone takes great automatic photos, Microsoft thinks it can do better. Described as a "smarter camera app," Microsoft Pix uses artificial intelligence to improve photos by adj … | Continue reading
Mike Aldred was hired by high-end appliance maker Dyson in 1998 with the goal of creating a robotic vacuum. Aldred was familiar with founder James Dyson’s legendary perfectionism, but even that didn’t prepare him for the task that lay ahead. For the next 18 years he worked this s … | Continue reading
What company in 2016 advertises a phone as having a touchscreen? BlackBerry does. Now, I know it's because the Canadian mobile granddad distinguishes between its keyboard and touch devices, but does that really need to be on the box?BlackBerry is this week introducing its second … | Continue reading
Apple today finds itself in the unusual position of having not one, but two consecutive quarters of slumping iPhone sales. The company’s stock price, however, has gone in the opposite direction, rising in response to Apple outperforming direr expectations. Those traders aren’t cr … | Continue reading
Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney launched a scathing attack on Microsoft and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) back in March. Sweeney argued that Microsoft is turning the PC into a walled garden and that game developers must fight against it. In a new interview with Edge maga … | Continue reading