Two of the most popular apps in the country right now owe their current popularity to an unlikely cause: hurricanes. The extreme situation faced by people affected by Hurricane Harvey and, now, Irma is causing some lesser-known apps to rise to the top of the App Store. SEE ALSO: … | Continue reading

So Equifax was hacked. Like, badly. But how to tell if you, personally, are affected by the massive data breach? There's a website for that — as long as you don't mind forking over even more information to Equifax. The credit reporting agency announced Thursday that private ident … | Continue reading

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.These earbuds on Kickstarter will transform the way you listen to music. Like, literally. The Swiss Audio earbuds can actually change the way you hear your music.Completely wirel … | Continue reading

Google wants to make it easier for people with wheelchairs to get around using Maps, so the search giant is asking its massive user base for some help.  Maps is launching a new initiative to encourage its Local Guides community to update locations around the world with new, detai … | Continue reading

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Coding, as cool as it is, went way over my head in college. If I had Algobrix as a kid, that may not have been the case.Image: AlgobrixThese futuristic Lego-like blocks’ true po … | Continue reading

College students that love binging TV shows and new music, rejoice: Spotify and Hulu are teaming up to offer a new streaming bundle deal for just $5 a month. Hulu's Limited Commercials plan will now be tacked on to Spotify's Premium student accounts, combining both streaming serv … | Continue reading

ICO, or Initial Coin Offering, is currently the most popular way to get your blockchain startup off the ground, period. According to a quarterly report by CoinDesk, blockchain-based startups were funded with a total of $797 million in the second quarter of 2017 alone. That's more … | Continue reading

Tesla is best known for its sporty all-electric sedans, but this month, we're slated to get our first look at something much bigger from the automaker: its first electric semi-truck. We've known Tesla has been working on an electric semi since at least July 2016, but outside of a … | Continue reading

'Copenhagen Wheel' is a electric motor that can help your basic bike reach up to 25 mph... while going up a hill.Invented by researchers at MIT, the wheel fits on almost any bike and is designed to seamlessly integrate into your urban commute. Read more...More about Startups, Tra … | Continue reading

What if there was a Mad Men-style retro TV show that focused on tech? And what if that show, a fictional drama, somehow got most of the beats right about the history of Silicon Valley during its rise in the '80s and '90s? Yeah, me too, I'd definitely watch. Well, you're in luck. … | Continue reading

Oh, no. First it was the colored statuses — those awful, ugly, often-gradient-based abominations that pop up in your Facebook feed now and then — but we thought at least our Facebook comments are safe. Well, not any more. It appears that Facebook is testing comments with colored … | Continue reading

So Facebook reportedly sold thousands of ads to a shady Russian company trying to influence voters around the 2016 U.S. presidential election. This much we know. What is less clear, perhaps, is just how big of a deal this is. Unfortunately, the answer is complicated. But nothing … | Continue reading

Love your iPhone 7, but wish it had a headphone jack? Guess what, you can totally add one — all it takes is some serious technical know how and a willingness to possibly destroy your phone in the process. That's at least according to one noted tinkerer, who figured out a way to i … | Continue reading

"No Alexa, I don't want to go into that creepy haunted attic. Let's try the basement, instead."Thanks to the BBC, the conversations you have with your smart speaker are about to get a whole lot, well, weirder. The British broadcaster is diving deep into the world of Google Home a … | Continue reading

In August we told you about transparent Nintendo Switch cases. Who knew that just a couple weeks later we would see our first atomic purple Nintendo Switch.SEE ALSO: Nintendo's detachable controller design draws accusations of patent infringementImgur user DanielBoone1294 shared … | Continue reading

Facebook really wants people to view Stories on its main app, so much so that the social network is now turning to Instagram to see if its teen-friendly app can get the feature to finally stick. Instagram is testing a new feature that allows people to share their Story directly t … | Continue reading

'Smile to Pay' is a new payment method implemented by Chinese conglomerate Alibaba in partnership with Alipay. The advanced system uses facial recognition to process payments. This could possibly signal a shift from using fingerprints to authenticate payments to using facial scan … | Continue reading

Just to let you know, if you buy something featured here, Mashable might earn an affiliate commission.Hello, friends. We’re here today with an important lesson in adulting. It might sound a little nuts, but: you need to own a vacuum cleaner. What, you say? But, I’m still young! I … | Continue reading

The now decade-old tool many have come to rely on to view the streets of the world from their desktops and mobile phones, Google Street View, just got a major upgrade. In fact, this is the first major upgrade to the Google Street View system in eight years. The changes promise to … | Continue reading

iOS 11 is coming next month, and it's going to be the mother of all releases.To prepare everyone, Apple has already started sending out notifications to iOS users through the Tips app inviting them to learn more about the various new changes coming in iOS 11.SEE ALSO: The 12 best … | Continue reading

If anything can compete with the excitement of finally seeing what the iPhone 8 (or X) looks like in person, it's our first experience inside Steve Jobs Theater at the all new Apple Park Campus.That's why this latest drone preview of the still-under-construction Apple Park Campus … | Continue reading

For about the last decade, if you walked into any phone store, you could reasonably expect to pay about $200 for a brand new iPhone — but those days are all but over. The iPhone 8, which is expected to launch at a special media event on Sept. 12, is widely forecast to have a star … | Continue reading

The world's best airport is getting an augmented reality upgrade.Passengers at Singapore's Changi airport could soon see shorter waiting times for their flights, with the airport's latest introduction of AR for its ground crew.SEE ALSO: Apple's already winning the augmented reali … | Continue reading

Facebook doesn't just want its AI-trained bots to know how humans speak—it wants them to understand our faces, too. In a newly published paper, the company's AI researchers detail their efforts to train a bot to mimic human facial expressions during a conversation. SEE ALSO: Let' … | Continue reading