Gulf Oil International has struck a deal with the Aguri Formula E team to bring one of the most iconic racing liveries to the all-electric racing series. Gulf will be the team’s title sponsor for the rest of this season, starting with this weekend's race in Mexico City. Both team … | Continue reading
If you live on the continental United States, you got cheated on last night's spectacular solar eclipse, which was visible mostly over Southeast Asia and the Pacific Ocean. But never fear, the Himawari Satellite is here!Check out the total solar #Eclipse2016 via the Himawari Sate … | Continue reading
Today, President Obama announced a new broadband initiative called ConnectALL, aimed at providing broadband to underserved areas. The initative aims to bring broadband access to another 20 million Americans by 2020, building on previous goals set by the National Broadband Initiat … | Continue reading
Sygic, a GPS app that stores maps on your smartphone for offline use, announced today that it has added 88 new maps to its portfolio, allowing the developer to now brag that it's app "is now available to users in every United Nations recognized state." That means Sygic's user fri … | Continue reading
From the beginning of Apple’s fight with the FBI, there’s been an inconvenient question: why can’t the NSA just break into the San Bernardino iPhone? We know from Edward Snowden that the agency has eyes nearly everywhere, amassing data in transit and developing exploits to break … | Continue reading
Real-life Tony Stark and SpaceX/Tesla/SolarCity head honcho Elon Musk did not attend a secret Republican meeting to discuss toppling Donald Trump, he says in a tweet.That the tweet is far from the most absurd thing to come out of this election cycle is a testament to how bizarre … | Continue reading
The Most Dangerous Writing App, from developer Manuel Ebert, is a writer's block tool with a twist. The free web app lets you jot down words of any fashion in timed increments ranging from five minutes to an hour. If you stop typing, however, all progress is lost. It's meant to s … | Continue reading
Google just announced that a preview of its next version of Android, known as "N" for now, is now available for developers. The preview is packed with new features, including split-screen multitasking and new notification management, but there are other, smaller features that mig … | Continue reading
The Coachella music festival is beefing up its VR programming with a new app and a custom Google Cardboard headset, one that's being shipped out to this year's attendees in the "welcome boxes" containing their tickets. The Coachella VR app will allow Cardboard and Gear VR owners … | Continue reading
Well, this was unexpected. Starting today, Google is making a developer preview of the next version of Android, codenamed "N," available for Nexus devices. That's much, much earlier than ever before — Google usually waits until its IO developer conference.It's also going to be mu … | Continue reading
Expect to see new faces on your Facebook in the future. The social network has purchased popular face-swapping app MSQRD, built by Belarusian startup Masquerade, with the app offering a range of features including live video effects for selfies and the creepy-sounding "celebrity … | Continue reading
Why wouldn’t you want an entire Windows computer on tiny little stick? As someone who uses a MacBook day in and day out, the idea of $159 Intel’s Compute Stick, a Windows 10 PC shrunken down to the size of a tiny plastic rectangle, really pulls me in. Take it anywhere, plug it in … | Continue reading
10 Cloverfield Lane opens this Friday, and the "blood relative" to Drew Goddard's 2008 found footage film Cloverfield has taken the Bad Robot mystery box to the next level. Two months ago the first trailer for the John Goodman-starring thriller dropped pretty much out of nowhere, … | Continue reading
Women who gave birth to babies with birth defects in Brazil last year were often in their first trimester during the Zika outbreak, according to a report released yesterday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The finding provides evidence that getting infected w … | Continue reading
The first preview build of Android N will be released to the public today with new features including a native split-screen mode, according to a report from 9to5Google. Citing an article from Ars Technica that was pulled after publication, 9to5Google says that the preview version … | Continue reading
AP has obtained surveillance video from inside the Mountain View public transit bus at the time it was struck by one of Google's autonomous Lexus RX SUVs, the first time one of the company's self-driving cars has been directly responsible for a crash on public roads. In the video … | Continue reading
AT&T's DirecTV will produce its first-ever live 4K broadcast next month for golf's Masters Tournament. And it's a bit bigger than that; this'll be the first time US viewers will be able to tune into a live UHD broadcast — period. It'll be available through the satellite provider' … | Continue reading
It’s still early in 2015, but Oxenfree is already one of the most striking games of the year. While it looks like a traditional point-and-click adventure game, with its 2D world and painterly visuals, it’s actually an inventive twist on interactive storytelling that puts dialog a … | Continue reading
Use of the recently-banned drug meldonium among top athletes is "alarmingly high," according to new research published online by the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Tennis player Maria Sharapova admitted earlier this week to taking meldonium, leading to a provisional ban, but … | Continue reading
Listen, Chrome extensions are a fun way to reinterpret the internet through a lens of in-jokes, be it one that auto-converts cloud to butts or another that "blocks" unproductive sites with aggressive motivational phrases. But they can also be a curse to those who publish words on … | Continue reading
NASA plans to launch its next mission to Mars in 2018, two years later than expected, the space agency said today. Called InSight, the mission was originally supposed to launch this month, sending a lander to the Red Planet. But the project was put on hold indefinitely after a le … | Continue reading
Writer-director Jeff Nichols enjoys his mysteries. His down-to-earth movies Shotgun Stories (2007) and Mud (2012) both deal specifically with unfathomable choices, and the people dutifully struggling to make sense of them and live with the fallout. But Nichols’ strange, winning 2 … | Continue reading
Two years ago, John Oliver called Tom Wheeler a dingo.The host of Last Week Tonight had set his sights on the then-raging net neutrality debate, acerbically calling out broadband providers like Comcast and Verizon for their throttling antics and intense Congressional lobbying. Mi … | Continue reading
Leaked images of Huawei's next flagship smartphone, the P9, have suggested that the device will have a rear-facing dual camera system. Now, invites from the company to an event in London on April 6th have hinted at the same setup, using the hashtag "#OO" and the slogan "change th … | Continue reading
DeepMind’s dramatic victory over legendary Go player Lee Se-dol earlier today is a huge moment in the history of artificial intelligence, and something many predicted would be decades away. "I was very surprised," says Lee. "I didn't expect to lose. I didn't think AlphaGo would p … | Continue reading
Amazon is about to lease 20 Boeing 767 aircraft, according to Reuters, confirming months of speculation that the online retail giant is building up an air-delivery service. The planes are being leased by a company called Air Transport Services Group Inc. Rumors of Amazon's involv … | Continue reading
Imgur, the image sharing and hosting service, is shifting its focus from its desktop website to its suite of mobile apps, where the company is now seeing a majority of interactions. The transition... | Continue reading
I’ve just returned from a weeklong snow holiday in the Austrian Alps where I performed a casual survey of action cameras. It didn’t require much scientific rigor because the mountain was absolutely dominated by hundreds of boxy little GoPros. I only saw two outliers: a lone Cont … | Continue reading
An artist who painted a picture of Donald Trump with a micropenis has been repeatedly banned from Facebook for posting the image online. As Motherboard reports, Los Angeles-based artist Illma Gore posted the image to a feminist Facebook group on February 10th, and it quickly circ … | Continue reading
Intel said late Tuesday that it is buying Replay Technologies, an Israeli company that helps sports broadcasters show a panoramic view of the action.Financial terms were not disclosed. Intel also wouldn’t say how many employees Replay has, but said the team will continue to be le … | Continue reading
Microsoft is currently testing a new version of its Authenticator app for Windows 10. Twitter user WalkingCat discovered the app, named "phone sign-in beta." It appears the updated app will allow Windows 10 users to unlock their machines over Bluetooth, simply tapping the machine … | Continue reading
In a lengthy, funny, mildly resigned statement made to Chicago’s LGBT weekly Windy City Times on Tuesday, The Matrix and Sense8 co-director Lilly Wachowski came out as a transgender woman, under the teasing headline "SEX CHANGE SHOCKER — WACHOWSKI BROTHERS NOW SISTERS!!!""There’s … | Continue reading
The UN's aviation agency has announced new regulations that will allow for airplanes to be tracked in real-time, two years after the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) governing council adopted the measures on T … | Continue reading
Less than a year after it introduced the ability to automatically upload photos from your hard drive, Flickr is removing the feature from free accounts. Flickr users will now need to pay a monthly subscription fee to Flickr Pro to use the Flickr Uploadr desktop tool, a move that … | Continue reading
A huge milestone has just been reached in the field of artificial intelligence: AlphaGo, the program developed by Google's DeepMind unit, has defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol in the first of five historic matches being held in Seoul, South Korea. Lee resigned after about t … | Continue reading
Blue Origin, the private space travel company founded by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, is planning to take its first paying passengers into space as soon as 2018. Bezos told journalists visiting Blue Origin's Washington state headquarters that groups of up to six tourists at a time migh … | Continue reading
Hilton is testing an artificial intelligence-powered concierge robot for its chain of hotels in the US through a partnership with IBM's Watson program. The automaton, called "Connie" after company founder Conrad Hilton, can already be found in the Hilton McLean hotel in Virginia. … | Continue reading
The Broadway run of Nerds — the musical "dot comedy" about the rivalry between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates — has been canceled after a major investor dropped out. The news is the latest setback for the production, whose final form has been ten years in the making, after an early ve … | Continue reading
In 2004, a fire tore through the Yankee Air Museum in southeast Michigan, damaging or destroying thousands of historical aviation artifacts and eight priceless historical aircraft. The museum was left without a permanent facility, relegated to a small 40,000-square-foot space at … | Continue reading
Google is trying to make planning vacations less of a hassle. To do that, it's launching a new feature today called Destinations on Google that's meant to help you figure out where to go, when to go, and what to do there; it'll also help you get cheap flights and hotels. Con … | Continue reading
On the night of January 14th I was staying up a little later then I probably should have been, when I saw an alert come across my phone: Paramount had just uploaded a trailer for something called 10 Cloverfield Lane. The existence of a film related to writer Drew Goddard’s found- … | Continue reading
Drone technology is advancing faster than laws can keep up, but as UAVs get better, so too do we get better at knocking them out of the sky. We started by simply punching, shooting, or grabbing them as they flew by, but quickly moved on to more outlandish countermeasures — specia … | Continue reading
A number of prominent technology leaders — among them Mark Zuckerberg, Reid Hoffman, Ron Conway and Max Levchin — have signed on to a brief supporting President Obama’s executive actions on immigration, currently on hold pending a Supreme Court hearing. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Google intends to address some recurring issues with the Nexus 5X in a software update this month. On Reddit, a Google community manager writes that a coming update will attempt to fix issues leading to "slow [and] sluggish performance," as well as problems with Wi-Fi and Bluetoo … | Continue reading
Amazon has been using the stories of fired warehouse employees who committed theft in video clips as it attempts to dissuade current employees from stealing from the company, according to a report from Bloomberg. The company plays video clips on a flatscreen TV in its warehouses … | Continue reading
Maersk announced today it has made the first official drone delivery to an undocked ship, as reported by G-Captain. The test took place near the Kalundborg port in Denmark, and saw a small drone dropping a parcel more than 15 feet to the deck of an unmoored tanker. The initial pl … | Continue reading
The sixth season of Game of Thrones begins on Sunday April 24th, and this new trailer has us fairly trembling with excitement. Set to the melancholic strains of James Vincent McMorrow's "Wicked Game," it promises a difficult future for the main characters, including the imprisonm … | Continue reading
Microcephaly is "now only one of several" birth abnormalities associated with the Zika virus, Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said during a press conference today. Fetal death, placental insufficiency, fetal growth retardation, and injury to a fe … | Continue reading