Two volunteer paleontologists have found one of the largest T. Rex skeletons ever. The new specimen is especially notable because the 2,500-pound skull is mostly intact, making it only the 15th complete skull in the world. It has a cutesy name — "Tufts-Love Rex," after the peopl … | Continue reading
Samsung is hailing the Galaxy Note 7 as "the smartphone that thinks big," and their latest ad showcases it as an all-purpose portable office. | Continue reading
Blackberry files a pair of complaints against South Florida's Blu Products, alleging the economy handset vendor violated over a dozen IPs. | Continue reading
From Sono Motors in Munich comes the 'Sion' solar powered car. Boasting a 155 mile range and only a $17,000 price tag, the prototype is bound to be gaining attention and capital to back its crowdfunding venture on Indiegogo. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Tech, Crowdfundi … | Continue reading
Some Snapchat users are experiencing outages. While the app works just fine for some editors here at TNW, I’m unable to log in, and Snapchat has confirmed the disruption on Twitter: Downdetector indicates the problems started around 2:09 PM ET. The outage map suggests it’s pretty … | Continue reading
Tech companies copy off of each other. That has always happened, and always will happen. Still Motorola is apparently not happy about Samsung (and LG’s) new always-on displays. The company tweeted this out yesterday: In what galaxy is it okay to steal competitor phones’ cool feat … | Continue reading
Your airplane snaps are about to get a whole lot cooler.Snapchat just added a new type of filter to its lineup: altitude. The new filter joins the speed, temperature, time and battery life filters as one of Snapchat's dynamic filters, which show real-time data based on your curre … | Continue reading
An increasing number of customer complaints about broken modules and phone issues on the LG G5 suggest modular phones may not be as awesome as they sound.One Reddit user (via Android Authority) says he's on is fourth Cam Plus camera module. Another user said he was on his sixth G … | Continue reading
Early this morning, Frank Ocean did what we’ve been waiting for him to do for four years now: he released a new album. But it wasn’t the release we were expecting. Instead of the previously announced Boys Don’t Cry (which will reportedly drop this weekend as a separate project, u … | Continue reading
Yeah, you could pick up TekServe’s 35-piece Mac museum (now $29k), but can you really call yourself an Apple fan if you don’t own an Apple-1? That earliest of Apple paraphernalia is about as rare as they come, but if act fast (and drop a boatload of money), you can snap one up no … | Continue reading
This week on our flagship audio experience, our cast of tech luminaries Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, Paul Miller, and Dan Seifert break down new unlimited data plans and what they really mean for the consumer. Dan also details the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 after reviewing it this week a … | Continue reading
Pretty legit images and specs of GoPro’s Hero 5 leaked this morning, and one of the standout features appears to be voice control. Shortly after that we got our hands on an unfinished version of the user manual, which offers even more detail about the camera, including all the th … | Continue reading
Apple today started rolling out the sixth public beta of iOS 10, the next version of its mobile operating system. The release comes four days after Apple released the fifth public beta, making it the shortest gap so far between public beta releases for iOS 10. Apple first unveile … | Continue reading
A group of Japanese financial institutions are looking to create a platform for real-time currency exchange services. | Continue reading
Get ready to waste more time on your phone. An MIT spin-out, SolidEnergy Sytems, has developed a new kind of "anode-free" lithium-metal battery that is smaller and has double the energy capacity of most of the lithium-ion batteries that power today's smartphones (including Apple' … | Continue reading
The Pokémon Company, what is going on right now. How is it possible that one of the new pocketable monsters you created for Pokémon Sun/Moon is actually a pile of sand?? Look: What are you doing to me? Do you think this is okay? Here’s what the sand blob evolves into when hit wit … | Continue reading
Huawei's Honor 8 smartphone is set to be the company's first handset to land in the US powered by its in-house Kirin 950 SoC. Here's why that's important. | Continue reading
US Cellular is beginning to set up Samsung 'store-within-a-store' models that put the Korean tech titan's products on display in a dedicated location. | Continue reading
The LG V10 is receiving more and more complaints of a bootloop issue that sounds similar to the one that affected the LG G4 earlier this year. | Continue reading
Call me Chris Plante. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me in material reality, I thought I would take about a little and see the internet part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off … | Continue reading
This morning, in the first of our twice daily bitcoin price watch pieces, we noted that the week so far had given us plenty to go at, and that this meant we were net up on the markets heading into the final session. We also noted that if we didn’t have too rough a trading … Conti … | Continue reading
This week: Sitemaps don’t affect rich snippets, a couple of famous companies get back to the basics, and WordPress 4.6 includes a broken link checker. | Continue reading
The UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has supported the inclusion of bulk collection powers contained within the controversial Investigatory Powers bill. Read More | Continue reading
Earlier today I wrote about some leaked images of GoPro’s upcoming Hero 5, as well as some specs that came from an allegedly leaked user manual for the camera. Now we’ve actually gotten our hands on a PDF file of that manual. While most of the feature specs were already covered b … | Continue reading
Apple keeps releasing new iOS 10 beta ahead of the final iOS 10.0 release in September. The company just issued the seventh beta for both developers and public beta testers — public beta’s version number is one digit behind, so it’s public beta 6, but it’s the same version. Head … | Continue reading
Look out phone scammers. Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Samsung and Microsoft are coming for you. The big names are among 30 tech companies that have joined up to form the Robocall! Strike! Force! (our exclamation points).Others notable names on the list include BlackBerry, LG, … | Continue reading
Chainalysis has stated that ransomware arrests will soon take place targeting cyber criminals behind ransomware attacks. Rise of Ransomware Attacks Over the past six months, ransomware attacks have become an issue to government, business and healthcare organizations. In January, … | Continue reading
If you’ve been following this blog, you know I’ve been doing a fair amount of trail run races over the past few years. I love them because they give me a training goal and they keep me disciplined throughout the year to balance work with getting out in the woods to do something I … | Continue reading
The next entry in Samsung's Galaxy C series is reported to be the Galaxy C9. This China-based smartphone should one-up the previous Galaxy C5 and C7. | Continue reading
A backpack with a full desktop computer in it might sound like a slightly silly idea, but as we’ve written before, it’s actually an incredibly useful invention for VR. Alienware, Zotac, and MSI have all shown off self-contained backpacks that can be used with the HTC Vive, and co … | Continue reading
What does the future of Cadillac look like? The Escala, the company’s new concept car, holds the answers. The Escala is on show publicly for the first time at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance this weekend, and reveals a car that takes its name (Spanish for ‘scale’) to heart, … | Continue reading
Many of today’s fashion applications are targeted toward women, but a new app from Looklive wants to help men look great, too, without needing to be a fashion expert. Instead, the company – which is now also available as an iOS application – lets men shop the looks from their fav … | Continue reading
Soon cars, drones, phones, and almost anything with a battery are about to get a boost from a new MIT spin-out, SolidEnergy Systems. The company promises to double the battery life of basic lithium ion batteries and will also offer smaller batteries with the power of bigger cells … | Continue reading
Not sure how to take a screenshot on your new Galaxy Note 7? Wondering how to turn off mobile data or insert a new SIM card? Check out our Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Beginner's Guide for help! | Continue reading
The Chin Men Theater in southern Taiwan’s Tainan is bringing a little bit of the spectacle and style of the classic movie-going experience into the modern age. The three-story theater is a favorite among the city’s residents, even though it mostly plays second-run films that have … | Continue reading
When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses. MySQL founder Michael “Monty” Widenius and his co-founder David Axmark, however, came … | Continue reading
Automatic is back with a new version of its connected car adapter, and this time it doesn't need to be connected to your phone over Bluetooth to work. The Automatic Pro comes with free 3G connectivity for five years, and can track your vehicles location and status anywhere you go … | Continue reading
Ah, college. A time for co-ed dorms, tailgate parties and — oh right, studying. But who says campus life can’t include work and play. This fall, the two will join forces, thanks to a slew of fun and innovative products on the market. Forget the highlighters and spiral notebo … | Continue reading
Apple is simplifying the branding of its retail chain by completely getting rid of the "Store" part of Apple Store. From now on, the company's stores will simply go by "Apple" followed by the location of that specific store. For example, only a couple days ago, Apple opened the d … | Continue reading
It’s no secret, I love Markdown. But when it comes to collaborating with someone, Google Docs, Quip, Pages on iCloud.com and Word on Office.com are all rich-text editors. Meet Canvas, a real-time Mardown editor on the web and now on iOS. With this editor, I can see myself collabo … | Continue reading
Supporters of an alternative implementation of the ethereum blockchain are beginning to mobilize and galvanize support. | Continue reading
Guest post by Monica Corton (@momusing) Via The Guardian: Rock band Queen have lodged the latest protest against Donald Trump after the presidential candidate played the band’s famous anthem We Are the Champions at the Republican National Convention. “An unauthorized use at the R … | Continue reading
Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigned Friday morning amid reports of his connection to pro-Russian political forces in Ukraine. WSJ Washington bureau chief Jerry Seib joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero to discuss what this means for the future of the campaign. Ph … | Continue reading
Think your only career options involve sitting at a desk in an office? Think again. When it comes to many professions, offices are outdated. People simply don’t need a brick-and-mortar headquarters for their jobs, and are better served working remotely, wherever that may b … | Continue reading
Pandora's long awaited real subscription music service is almost here. The Wall Street Journal reports that the company is in the process of finalizing agreements with record labels for an on-demand music service that would challenge Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play Music, Tidal … | Continue reading
As a taller-than-average person, I frequently have people tell me "I bet you’re good at basketball." I’m not. I’m terrible at basketball. I can jump high enough to dunk, but when it comes to any real-sports-playing context, I’m essentially useless. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Ransomware attacks are surging, claiming victims like Dave Winston, crew chief with Circle Sport-Leavine Family Racing. What are these digital attacks and why are hackers using them to hold data hostage? Photo: Joe Chisholm for Circle Sport-Leavine Family Racing | Continue reading
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is no stranger to the stage at Disrupt, but his job’s gotten a lot bigger in recent months with the acquisition of Yahoo. So Armstrong will be with us again at Disrupt SF. He’ll be joined by his boss Marni Walden, Verizon’s executive vice president and presi … | Continue reading