After months of anticipation, the first trailer for Paul Feig’s reboot of Ghostbusters has landed online, and it is great, effortlessly evoking the sensibility of the 1984 original, while still confidently establishing its own unique take. The jokes land, the scares look scary, a … | Continue reading
When Chinese journalists complained on one of the country’s largest social networks that the government had changed their editorial, they found themselves censored a second time. The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that a former employee in Weibo’s censorship department … | Continue reading
This week fans of Pokemon are celebrating the 20th anniversary of the series. If you've followed the creature-collecting games from the original Game Boy to the Nintendo 3DS, this GIF, embedded below, will pluck your heart strings like Meowth plucks an electric guitar.What I dig … | Continue reading
Yes, I may be inside a soundstage in Hollywood, California, stationed in front of a flat-screen with a PS4 controller in my hands. Hello Games senior producer Suzy Wallace may be explaining how I can mine crystals from the surface of this procedurally generated, neon planet to ad … | Continue reading
Today we learned that No Man's Sky is finally launching on June 21st, and if you're really excited for the space sim, you might want to check out the special edition of the game, which comes with an incredibly cool metal spaceship. The package, which will cost you $149.99, featur … | Continue reading
We knew the much-hyped, open-world space exploration game No Man's Sky would be coming In June, and now we finally have a date: June 21st. Hello Games and Sony have announced the release date, with Hello Games planning to release the PC version simultaneously alongside its PlaySt … | Continue reading
This week, the duo talk privacy and security pertaining to technology. With two-factor authentication and Apple not giving a backdoor to phone encryption, should you feel safe keeping your data in the cloud? Let our experts go into detail about this issue and clear things up.We l … | Continue reading
I'd thought the weirdest part of Samsung's Gear VR promotional blitz would be William H. Macy having a VR fantasy about hawking Samsung phones. Nope! It's the part where Samsung partnered with Six Flags to have people wear Gear VRs on literal roller coasters.If you visit one of n … | Continue reading
I get asked about Sonic a lot. Usually a friend or family member who hasn't played video games since the Sega Genesis will drunkenly corner me at a barbecue or holiday party, and ask, with their index finger at my chest, "Whatever happened to that chili dog-munching hedgehog, any … | Continue reading
The Geneva Motor Show this year was a return to form for one of the most indulgently excessive exhibitions of human engineering. Cheap oil has made huge engines trendy again, and the luxury sports coupes that dominated the Detroit Auto Show have now been joined by future classics … | Continue reading
At least one Formula One team has started running practice laps with a new partially protected cockpit. The Scuderia Ferrari team attatched the "halo" safety device to the cockpit of Raikkonen's car this morning preseason testing in Barcelona, and it's the first time it's ever be … | Continue reading
Apple has launched a Twitter account dedicated to providing customer support. The account went live 8AM ET this morning, and within about 20 minutes started responding to customers' requests for help. It's already fielding questions about Apple Music, Apple IDs, and enabling smar … | Continue reading
Director Paul Feig has been slowly teasing his new reboot of the '80s classic Ghostbusters: a proton pack here, the new Ecto-1 there, the triumphant first shot of the four new female leads, in all their ectoplasm-kicking glory... and now it's time for the first trailer. It starts … | Continue reading
When Amazon first unveiled the Echo, its smart speaker with the Alexa virtual assistant, most people didn't know what to do or expect from the thing. And not surprisingly: Amazon had given no hints or advance notice that it was even releasing the tubular speaker. In the time sinc … | Continue reading
The X Prize Foundation has brought J. J. Abrams aboard — to document the race to send the first privately funded lander to the Moon. Abrams is producing a documentary web series, called Moon Shot. It will feature nine of the 16 teams in the Google Lunar X Prize competition, highl … | Continue reading
Amazon usually wants to make shopping on its site as easy as possible for people, but that's definitely not the case with one of its newest gadgets.At launch, Amazon is only selling the new Echo Dot speaker through Alexa, its voice assistant. That means you already have to own a … | Continue reading
Last month Amazon started allowing its Alexa voice assistant to control smart home thermostats. Now, Amazon's virtual assistant will be compatible with two major brands: Honeywell and Google-owned Nest. Both companies' Wi-Fi-connected thermostats, which are usually controlled by … | Continue reading
Amazon's newest hardware product might look like a compressed version of the tall Echo speaker, but its place in your home will likely be very different. Today the company unveiled Echo Dot, which is basically an Echo without the big speaker housing. Instead, you either plug the … | Continue reading
Let's be honest, the Geneva Motor Show is a beauty contest above all else. None of the cars here move, very few are ever allowed to even make a sound, and the majority of press coverage is built around their appearance. This is why every new car here has to look new, and it's als … | Continue reading
This week I've been kicking the tires of the finest, most exclusive, and most exotic cars at the Geneva Motor Show, and I've spotted two emerging trends: cheap oil is bringing huge gas guzzlers back into fashion, and Google's Android Auto is falling behind Apple's CarPlay. Androi … | Continue reading
Amazon and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are making a film about the rise of the Ku Klux Klan. The film, titled K Troop, is still in the early phases of development, but Amazon has secured the rights to the movie and Gordon-Levitt will produce it, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Gord … | Continue reading
Google today announced new initiatives aimed at curbing the spread of the Zika virus in Brazil and Latin America with enhanced mapping data and more detailed online information about the mosquito-borne virus.In a blog post published today, the search giant announced that it has p … | Continue reading
Multiple short bursts of radio waves have been found coming from a single location far beyond the Milky Way Galaxy, Cornell astronomers have discovered. It's the first time researchers have found these enigmatic "fast radio bursts" to repeat, indicating that the waves are coming … | Continue reading
While humans and squirrels alike are known for their skills on water skis, the record time for fastest ski was set by a beetle.That’s right, as it turns out, waterlily beetles can "water ski," too — on their claws. A team of scientists led by Manu Prakash, a professor and researc … | Continue reading
Since last year, Hyundai has been trickling out news about the Ioniq — the hybrid it hopes can dethrone the Toyota Prius.Now we've seen it in person at the Geneva Motor Show. The car is unique in the industry because it uses three different powertrains on one platform: hybrid, pl … | Continue reading
Sony is dropping the price on all three packages of its PlayStation Vue streaming TV service by $10, the company announced today. It's also adding ESPN, Disney, and ABC channels after a content deal was first announced back in November. With the new price drops, which will impact … | Continue reading
Last week, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) confirmed that it's planning to introduce semi-closed cockpits in Formula One starting in 2017. But today, in a new issue of Auto (the federation's trade publication), the FIA finally showed off a real-world version o … | Continue reading
The €2.4 million Bugatti Chiron will make money for Bugatti, and thus, parent company Volkswagen, according to Bugatti President Wolfgang Dürheimer during an interview with The Verge at the Geneva Motor Show today."We did our homework in every dimension," says Dürheimer. "This ca … | Continue reading
Over the last year and a half a number of prominent voices in the Bitcoin community have been warning that the system needed to make fundamental changes to its core software code to avoid being overwhelmed by the continued growth of Bitcoin transactions. There was strong disagree … | Continue reading
Verizon is forming a joint venture with Hearst to develop content for millennials to watch on their smartphones, according to The New York Times. The newly formed Verizon Hearst Media Partners will launch RatedRed.com, a channel for "millennials from the heartland" that will offe … | Continue reading
Voice calls are coming to Slack, and they begin rolling out in beta today. Testing will start in Slack's desktop apps and in Chrome. Someone with administrative privileges has to enable them, but once they're turned on, a phone icon should appear throughout the app, allowing anyo … | Continue reading
The Wintergartan Marble Machine, built by Swedish musician Martin Molin, is unlike anything I've ever seen before. Comprising 3,000 wooden pieces, and using 2,000 marbles, the elaborate music-box looks like a loom met a cotton gin and the two started making beautiful music togeth … | Continue reading
Of all the virtual reality headsets out there, the HTC Vive feels most like what science fiction visionaries promised us in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Yes, every single product evokes the same set of comparisons: jacking into the Matrix, hanging out on the Holodeck. These are always wron … | Continue reading
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly gave his first post-flight interviews in Kazakhstan today, after wrapping up a 340-day stay on the International Space Station. Kelly has only been back on Earth for a little over 12 hours now, but the former ISS commander briefly discussed what it's li … | Continue reading
Google today released an experimental payments app called Hands Free, a service that lets you pay for items in stores without taking your phone out. The iOS and Android app relies on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and location services to determine when you're nearby a participating retailer … | Continue reading
Uber announced today that it was expanding its carpool service to the East Bay cities of Oakland, Berkeley, and Alameda, in a bid to appeal to residents who want to use the ride-hail service to commute to work in San Francisco. UberPool, in which riders pay a cheaper fare to shar … | Continue reading
Alphabet executive chairman Eric Schmidt will chair a new advisory board for the Department of Defense, according to a statement from the department released today. The Defense Innovation Advisory Board will comprise up to 12 people from the private sector, meant to use their exp … | Continue reading
Washington's Museum of Flight has been restoring the very first Boeing 727 for years, a tri-jet airliner that hasn't flown in a quarter century. The aircraft, tail number N7001U, is making its very last flight today — a "ferry" flight, where the plane was made just airworthy enou … | Continue reading
Republicans have been nipping at Tom Wheeler's heels since he won the net neutrality fight, but he's not worried. Speaking to The Verge, Wheeler shrugged off the idea that he received "some kind of secret instructions" from President Obama. "[That idea] been around for more than … | Continue reading
In the afterglow of Super Tuesday, one question is on the lips of wonks and commentators across the nation: Did we just witness Chris Christie's soul pry open the governor's lips and escape, discarding his flesh like a human locust shell? And if so, is Chris Christie's soul, at t … | Continue reading
YouTube is launching a global production program and partnering with the United Nations in an effort to highlight and support women's voices across the platform. The video networks will invest in videos created by female filmmakers through the global YouTube Spaces program, which … | Continue reading
The blood-red Italian sports car in front, the super expensive one that goes really fast, is a Lamborghini. In spite of being Ferrari's signature color, red is also a standard option from Lamborghini, the other Italian super sports car manufacturer with a glorious history and a p … | Continue reading
The use of electronic cigarettes on commercial airplanes is now banned under a new rule finalized by the US Department of Transportation, which applies to all domestic and foreign carriers with flights scheduled to and from the US. The ban applies to all e-cigarettes, including e … | Continue reading
Apple is testing a small change to iOS that'll remind people with a company phone that their company may be watching. On Reddit, user MaGNeTiX posted screenshots of a new message that showed up on their iPhone after updating to the latest iOS 9.3 beta. On the lock screen, a perma … | Continue reading
Researchers have found a new way to hijack some police drones, as first reported by Wired. The attack was developed by IBM researcher Nils Rodday, who will present his findings at the RSA conference this week. By exploiting vulnerabilities in a drone's telemetry system, Rodday wa … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will each give keynote addresses at this year's SXSW, festival organizers have just announced. The yearly festival, which features live music, film screenings, and hosts the tech industry, begins next week in Austin, Texas.Pres … | Continue reading
The Department of Defense is inviting hackers to look for vulnerabilites in its network, analyze the security of its public-facing webpages, and attempt to break into its systems. The program, "Hack the Pentagon," is the federal government’s first bug bounty program and will be m … | Continue reading
Here's a tip if you want to listen to Kanye's The Life of Pablo but your free trial on Tidal has expired: Go to Pornhub. The album is streaming there (click with caution, unless you're in a relaxed environment). The stream has apparently been up for around five days already, but … | Continue reading