When you hear all the arguments in favor of bringing back airships — that they’re safe, efficient, economical — the prospect sounds appealing, even logical. But when you actually see one in person, it’s hard to think of anything apart from how fantastical and surreal they look. C … | Continue reading
After the first 20 minutes of Apple’s iPhone SE and iPad Pro launch event yesterday, I was enamored with the world’s most valuable company for the courage it was showing. Starting off his presentation with talk of privacy, environmentalism, and health, CEO Tim Cook was addressing … | Continue reading
Google this week announced that it is working to bring high-speed internet to Cuba, one of the world's least-connected countries. In a blog post published Monday, the company said it is bringing Chromebooks, Cardboard virtual reality kits, and other Google products to the Museo O … | Continue reading
The New Horizons spacecraft is now almost 300 million kilometers past Pluto, but the probe is still providing us with valuable information about the dwarf planet. The newest discovery: Pluto may have once been home to lakes and rivers filled with liquid nitrogen. Scientists say t … | Continue reading
Major French news outlets have launched a campaign against ad-blocking software, with some forcing users to uninstall the programs before accessing their sites. The week-long campaign was organized by GESTE, an association of online publishers, with participants including newspap … | Continue reading
Life is full of mysteries, but the naming convention for Apple's tiny iPhone is no longer one of them. Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of marketing, confirmed the name to journalist Jason Cipriani last night. The SE stands for "Special Edition" bringing an end to the g … | Continue reading
US preorders for PlayStation VR start at 10am ET on Tuesday March 22nd — that's in about eight hours, just to be clear — but PS4 owners who've already amassed a collection of PlayStation peripherals may want to hold off a week. That's because Sony has reversed course on its decis … | Continue reading
Facebook is dropping support for BlackBerry's mobile operating systems, which will force BlackBerry owners to use the social network's mobile website if they'd like to access it on the go. Lou Gazzola, BlackBerry's senior marketing manager for developer relations, announced the n … | Continue reading
Andy Grove, who fled from Nazi and Soviet oppression to become one of the most powerful business leaders in the global tech industry as the chairman and CEO of Intel, died on Monday. He was 79. The cause of death was not reported, though Grove was a longtime sufferer of Parkinson … | Continue reading
Mozilla is laying off a portion of its Connected Devices team, which worked on Firefox OS and Firefox phones before recently shifting over to more experimental products. When asked about layoffs by The Verge, Mozilla's senior vice president of Connected Devices, Ari Jaaksi, confi … | Continue reading
Apple's monthlong legal odyssey is now officially suspended, after a magistrate judge approved the FBI's request for continuation earlier this afternoon. The FBI now has until April 5th to test a method that the bureau says could potentially unlock the phone without Apple's assis … | Continue reading
Apple is coming dangerously close to losing control of how consumers make sense of its mobile and tablet lineup. The culprit: the company's ever more complicated naming scheme for its proliferating product lines. With today's announcement of a new 4-inch iPhone, called the iPhone … | Continue reading
Following the Flint water crisis turned national scandal, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder called for stricter lead-test regulations—but without giving any specifics about what they might be. Continue reading… | Continue reading
The FBI just filed a motion to delay Tuesday's hearing in the San Bernardino iPhone case, claiming that an "outside party" may be able to help it break into the phone without Apple's help. The motion comes after weeks of escalation tension in the case with Apple, the FBI, and oth … | Continue reading
At today's announcement, Apple, as it sometimes does, gave prominent stage time to the future of the planet. After an interlude from CEO Tim Cook, Lisa Jackson, Apple vice president of environment, policy, and social issues, stepped on stage to make an announcement: 93 percent of … | Continue reading
Gawker Media has been ordered to pay an additional $15 million to Hulk Hogan, on top of the $115 million in damages that were announced on Friday. The company's founder, Nick Denton, has also been ordered to pay $10 million, while former site editor-in-chief A.J. Daulerio has to … | Continue reading
Ahead of this week's New York International Auto Show, Ford, Shelby, and Hertz have announced the Mustang Shelby GT-H, basically a souped-up Mustang GT — complete with the 5-liter V-8 — that you can rent just like you would any other rental car. (Except, you know, it's not really … | Continue reading
Kesha is appealing the February denial of an injunction she filed against former producer Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald late last year, one that would've allowed her to continue her musical career with a different label while their legal dispute is being resolved. The terms of Kesha … | Continue reading
Apple introduced the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro today. While the devices come with some new features, they also stick to what we've come to expect from the brand. They both come in rose gold.Now, I didn't think much about rose gold until Apple introduced it to the world … | Continue reading
It’s been just over a month since a court ordered Apple to break security measures on the San Bernardino iPhone — and for most of the time since, the company has been scrambling to keep up. In the days after the order, Apple was slammed with bad press from cable news and other ou … | Continue reading
Apple today announced the 4-inch iPhone SE, which is essentially an iPhone 5S with 6S specs and a new low price of $399. For many people, that alone will be sufficient reason to be excited, but the iPhone SE has significance that stretches far beyond its modest dimensions. This p … | Continue reading
Steve Jobs was often praised for returning simplicity to Apple's product lineup, and Jony Ive has practically written epistles about the topic. So you can imagine how Twitter handled today's iterative announcements of the iPhone SE and the 9.7-inch iPad Pro: Continue reading … | Continue reading
Apple's event might have skipped the Mac, but the company didn't completely forget about OS X today. A new update for El Capitan has been released that fixes a bug in Safari that stopped Twitter's t.co links from opening in the browser. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Apple’s new iPad Pro is the twelfth iPad to be released since the original debuted back in 2010, and it borrows features from two of Apple’s existing tablets. The new iPad Pro has the size and weight of the iPad Air 2 — 9.7-inches, which Apple notes is by far the most popular of … | Continue reading
Election years have always proven to be fertile ground for The Daily Show, as Jon Stewart and his Peabody Award-winning band of satirists poked fun at the absurd characters, stump speeches and gaffes that populated America’s unique brand of democracy. But in 2016, Jon Stewart isn … | Continue reading
The new 9.7-inch iPad Pro announced today is perhaps the perfect iPad, or at least the closest Apple has come yet. It's got four speakers built in, has a killer screen, works with the Pencil, and yes, there's even a great camera (with a bit of a bump). All of that tech, which col … | Continue reading
To be honest, I'm kind of impressed with how fast Adam Sandler puts out new movies. Ridiculous 6, his last feature, was just released in December, and today Netflix is announcing that he's almost done with another one.Netflix posted a teaser for Sandler's next film today. It's ca … | Continue reading
Genetic testing company 23andMe has created a new tool to help researchers using Apple’s ResearchKit integrate genetic information. Soon, ResearchKit developers can use the new module to upload the genetic data of participants who have had their genomes sequenced through 23andMe, … | Continue reading
You can now see what Batman vs Superman would have looked like had it been produced by Tim Burton in 1995. This fan trailer, posted by Screencrush, recuts Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, adding VHS artifacts and the classic Batman score.I am still hopeful the real Batman v Su … | Continue reading
When Apple announced the iPhone 6, the camera bump was its secret shame. Eventually, people got used to it, even embraced it — after all, lots of smartphones have camera bumps on them. But the bump has shown up again, this time on the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Understandably, Apple … | Continue reading
You either want an Apple Watch, own an Apple Watch, or are so uninterested in the idea that you never care to touch one. If you fall into those first few camps, today was a pretty good day. Apple dropped the price of the cheapest Apple Watch to a much more manageable-sounding $29 … | Continue reading
Apple today announced a much-anticipated addition to its 9.7-inch tablet lineup — except the new device isn't called the iPad Air 3. Instead, the company is classifying the tablet, the first in Apple's flagship size group since 2014's iPad Air 2, as an iPad Pro. It's just a littl … | Continue reading
Overwatch isn't just the next game from Blizzard, it's also the company's first new property in close to two decades. And the company that brought us worlds like Azeroth and Sanctuary seems intent on making sure its latest creation is equally as memorable. Ahead of Overwatch's la … | Continue reading
Apple went plus-size, and then it went small. The company's iPhone event on Monday brought the reintroduction of the small phone screen with the new iPhone SE. The four-inch screen isn't underrepresented on the inside, however. Its hardware is more like a mixture between the iPho … | Continue reading
Apple's newest iPhone looks just like the old iPhone ... from 2012. The iPhone SE is a four-inch smartphone utilizing the same design as the iPhone 5, yet with upgraded innards putting it on par with the performance of the iPhone 6S. It's meant to appeal to customers who have lon … | Continue reading
The new iPad is just called the iPad Pro. Or perhaps it's the iPad Pro 9.7-inch, sort of like the MacBook Pro gets identified by its screen size. That naming is a signal: Apple wants you to think of these like computers now. You think of them in terms of screen size, not in terms … | Continue reading
When Apple introduced its 9.7-inch iPad Pro at its event in Cupertino today, it also nixed the iPad Air from its lineup.The iPad Air, which ranged in price from $399 to $579, is gone, but the iPad Air 2 remains, ranging from $399 to $529.The new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, which starts at … | Continue reading
Well, it's a small iPhone.That's what I can tell you about the new iPhone SE, which essentially takes the powerful processor from the iPhone 6S and puts it into a 4-inch design. Apart from the new rose gold color, it's almost completely indistinguishable from the iPhone 5 or (now … | Continue reading
Apple just announced the iPhone SE, a 4-inch phone with the guts of an iPhone 6S that looks a lot like the 5S. So, naturally, Apple has apparently discontinued the iPhone 5S. The 5S has been replaced by the SE on the iPhone hub of the Apple website, and the old URL that brought y … | Continue reading
Apple has been busy rounding out its iPad line-up today, adding not only a new 9.7-inch iPad Pro, but a new memory option for the 12.9-inch model, taking its maximum storage up to 256GB. For this amount of memory, though, you need to pay top dollar — $1,099 to be precise. (There' … | Continue reading
It's been an unusual Apple event, starting off with talk of privacy, environmentalism, and health, but once Apple got into its usual product launch groove, it couldn't resist burning its nearest and dearest competitors. In announcing the iPhone SE and new iOS 9.3 update, Apple no … | Continue reading
Meet Liam, Apple's friendly project (and not at all a One Direction member) designed to take apart your old iPhone for recycling purposes. He's not terrifying at all.Liam comes out of Apple's new environmental initiative. The robot is able to detect parts within the device and st … | Continue reading
Apple said today that there are now over 1 million apps designed for the iPad. It's a big milestone that speaks to just how robust the app ecosystem is around Apple's tablet, and suggests that it isn't slowing down. The App Store itself only hit 1 million apps overall in in late … | Continue reading
Kevin Hart has become a Hollywood punchline for his willingness to appear in multiple mediocre comedies each year. But today, the comedian gained a powerful ally.At this afternoon's Apple event, CEO Tim Cook revealed a fondness for the hardworking actor. Explaining how Siri voice … | Continue reading
Apple just announced a new, 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro, which means the company also announced a new accessory: a smaller Smart Keyboard. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announced the news during Apple's event this afternoon in Cupertino, CA.The V … | Continue reading
The Apple Pencil will work Apple's new 9.7-inch iPad Pro. Like the larger iPad Pro, Apple is really pitching this smaller model as a tool for content creation, and being able to use a stylus for art and design is, naturally, a big part of that. As with the other Pro, the stylus c … | Continue reading
Apple has just announced a new iPad Pro, a smaller version of its iPad Pro tablet released last year. The new iPad Pro has a 9.7-inch display and weighs less than one pound. The new Pro is the same size as the iPad Air 2, which Apple says is the most popular size of iPad use.The … | Continue reading
Apple's latest iOS 9.3 update will be available today. While it's only a minor release, it does have a surprising amount of features for iPads and iPhones. The biggest addition is a new Night Shift mode that shifts the color temperature of the display based on the time and locati … | Continue reading