Up to nine pregnant women in the United States have been infected with Zika while traveling abroad, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed today. Two of those women elected to get abortions after being diagnosed with the Zika virus, and one woman gave birth to a … | Continue reading
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit today overturned a $120 million decision that found Samsung had infringed on patents owned by Apple. As Reuters reports, the three-judge appeals court unanimously disagreed with the lower court's findings against Samsung.The case da … | Continue reading
There's no denying that Kylo Ren is angsty. The Force Awakens' entire plot essentially centers around his confused self-identity and the rejection of his parents' ideals. Honestly, although the movie's great, it still feels like it's missing a crucial line: "It’s not a phase, mom … | Continue reading
The fight between Apple and the FBI over the security protections on the San Bernadino iPhone has been fierce for the past few weeks, but it’s mostly been a PR battle thus far. From a legal and procedural standpoint, only two things had actually happened until yesterday: the FBI … | Continue reading
Even if Apple loses its high-profile legal fight with the FBI, San Bernardino county law enforcement isn't expecting any fresh leads. In an interview with NPR's Morning Edition, San Bernardino sheriff Jarrod Burguan said that he thinks the phone at the center of the litigation ma … | Continue reading
You may have heard rumblings on your social media platform of choice about Ted Cruz and the Zodiac Killer, and how the two might be one in the same. You probably have questions, especially if you were born after 1975.To help, I'd like to answer each question have you have individ … | Continue reading
Apple CEO Tim Cook has lately been offering more and more hints that the Apple Car might possibly be a real thing. At the very least, he's fueling speculation that the company is planning a big play in the auto industry. Speaking at today's shareholder meeting, Cook took a break … | Continue reading
IBM's attempts to showcase Watson in TV commercials have been a bit less impressive than the computing system's Jeopardy wins. They usually involve a renowned figure awkwardly carrying on a short conversation with Watson, like this Bob Dylan spot or a brand-new one featuring Ridl … | Continue reading
The Oscars are almost here, and your annual Oscar party is near at hand. You’ve got your fresh outfit, hors d’oeuvres, and cans of champagne. You even sent out paper invites to your friends. It’s a tradition you dive into with abandon, tweeting about the dresses on the red carpet … | Continue reading
Like Hollywood itself, the Oscar statue's sparkling exterior conceals its no less meritorious, but certainly less glamorous interior: britannia metal. Or at least that was the case until this year, as the Oscars will make the switch to bronze, shunning the mighty britannia after … | Continue reading
Apple may have landed on a name for its upcoming revamp of the iPhone 5S: the iPhone SE. According to 9to5Mac, Apple has chosen to to drop "5" from the new iPhone's name and go entirely with letters. It had previously been rumored that the phone would be called the iPhone 5SE, to … | Continue reading
Virtual reality has traditionally been about transporting you to new worlds and making you believe you’re really there. It’s the immersion element, known as "presence" in industry lingo, that makes VR feel like magic. So it was refreshing to see Dragon Front, a new VR game in dev … | Continue reading
The snooze option has become one of the best features of email apps on our smartphones. It basically amounts to "I don't want to deal with this right now, so show it to me again sometime later." That simple concept has proven massively helpful when trying to keep your inbox under … | Continue reading
AT&T is suing Louisville, Kentucky over a new law that would make it easier for companies like Google Fiber to install gigabit internet networks throughout the city. The law, which was passed last week, would allow companies installing equipment on utility poles to move around th … | Continue reading
The long and bumpy road to the 88th annual Academy Awards is almost at an end, and Sunday's telecast of the ceremony is look to be just as interesting for what goes down on stage than on the actual awards outcome — maybe more so. With many prominent filmmakers and actors opting o … | Continue reading
Swiss Army Knife creator and watchmaker Victorinox has partnered with Acer to create the INOX Cybertool, a smart watch attachment for a traditional watch. The Cybertool clips on to any Victorinox INOX watch (it won't work with other traditional watches) and won't cover up the wat … | Continue reading
Watching Amazon's original shows like Transparent and Mozart in the Jungle typically requires a subscription to Amazon Prime, but as of today, there's an exception to that rule. As Recode notes, the company is letting anyone watch season three of The Fashion Fund — so long as the … | Continue reading
While most video games have a story to tell, the best tales are actually told by the players themselves. It's one thing to play an online shooter; it's another for someone to regale the time they randomly lobbed a grenade across the stage and won the game with half a point of lif … | Continue reading
There are auto shows, and then there is Geneva.This is the show of the state of the automotive art, a place where car companies flex their muscles and give us a sense of what it looks like when both engineering and design are pushed to the jagged limits of present-day technology. … | Continue reading
Samsung phone owners will get the first new set of emoji since the S5 when the company releases the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge next month. Get ready, taco fans, unicorn lovers, and volleyball players because the release on March 8th will include all the emoji you’ll need to communicat … | Continue reading
Popcorntime.io, probably the most popular iteration of slippery movie piracy app Popcorn Time, is back — sort of. Earlier this week, part of the team apparently behind popcorntime.io announced a comeback, four months after being shut down and hit with a lawsuit from the MPAA. Lik … | Continue reading
The Flint water crisis did not begin on April 25th, 2014, when the city switched its water supply from Detroit’s system, tapping Lake Huron to its own on the Flint River. That tragic mistake was the culmination of a much longer ongoing disaster, one caused by greed, politics, inc … | Continue reading
Apple has just made a big — and timely — hire, recruiting a developer behind encrypted messaging app Signal, perhaps best known for being Edward Snowden's chat app of choice. The developer, Frederic Jacobs, confirmed the news on Twitter:I'm delighted to announce that I accepted a … | Continue reading
If you have a decent gaming PC and you are torn between console or computer for Far Cry Primal, these screenshots should make the decision for you. Far Cry Primal is already available on consoles, but won't arrive on PC until March 1st. I've spent a couple hours touring the Windo … | Continue reading
At a brief online event today, Nintendo unveiled the next big Pokemon games: Sun and Moon. The two releases will be coming to the Nintendo 3DS in holiday 2016, and are the first major entries in the series since Pokemon X and Y in 2013. The titles for the games actually leaked ou … | Continue reading
Welcome to Nomineering, where we take a weekly look at the news and stories behind the most lavish, high-budget spectacle the film industry has to offer: Oscar season. No matter how you feel about them, awards are one of the key ways to gut check what Hollywood itself thinks is i … | Continue reading
The first US uterus transplant was performed at the Cleveland Clinic on Wednesday, doctors announced yesterday. The operation — which has been performed in Sweden before — is a treatment that allows women who were born without a uterus or who have a uterus that no longer functio … | Continue reading
Time's (basically) up: how many Oscar films did you manage to see this year? I made it through five of the eight best picture nominees, plus another five features that show up elsewhere in the list. Which, really, should be enough to let me argue with people even though I haven't … | Continue reading
The biggest winner of Mobile World Congress 2016 wasn't a phone or a phone manufacturer, but a phone chip manufacturer: Qualcomm. Having endured a rough time in 2015 due to heat and power issues with its Snapdragon 810 flagship-class processor, the American chipmaker has returned … | Continue reading
Facebook will bring its live video streaming service to Android phones within the next week, the company announced today. The Android rollout will begin with users in the US, before expanding to other countries. The Facebook Live feature, which allows users to broadcast live vide … | Continue reading
I’m delighted by what LG’s done with its new modular G5 flagship. While the rest of the smartphone industry is busy churning out slightly better rectangles each year, LG created something new which could be an epiphany instead of a commodity. But I’m still not sure it’s the phone … | Continue reading
The Indian city of Mumbai has established 16 no-selfie zones in an effort to curb a spike in selfie-related incidents. As the Associated Press reports, the ban applies to areas that police consider particularly dangerous, including parts of the coastline that are not protected by … | Continue reading
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has the highest approval rating of CEOs from the biggest tech companies in the United States, according to polling company Morning Consult, beating out Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, and Larry Page. But despite this positive opinion for its boss, Zuckerbe … | Continue reading
Just over half of Americans believe that Apple should unlock an iPhone owned by one of the San Bernardino terrorists, according to a poll published today, while 33 percent think it should not cede to the FBI's demands. The poll, conducted by the Washington, DC-based firm Morning … | Continue reading
Nintendo has cut its operating profit forecast for the current financial year by 34 percent, following a third-quarter sales slump and a recent surge in the yen's value. The Japanese gaming company had previously expected to make an operating profit of ¥50 billion in the year end … | Continue reading
The executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation — the group that maintains Wikipedia — has resigned, shortly after leaked documents suggested the nonprofit organization was quietly building a "transparent" search engine to compete with Google. Lila Tretikov's resignation was a … | Continue reading
At a loony debate tonight filled with yelling and schoolyard attacks, CNN asked a few of the remaining Republican candidates if they would side with Apple or the FBI in the government's fight to hack an alleged terrorist's iPhone. They're all on team FBI, and it was a mess.Marco … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced it’s discontinuing efforts to offer developers an easy way of bringing Android apps to Windows 10. The decision confirms rumors from back in November that the company was considering killing the idea. Codenamed Project Astoria, the Android app porting in … | Continue reading
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Pluto's polar region is dotted with a diverse range of frozen canyons, valleys, and pits, a new NASA photo reveals. The uneven topography is showcased in the latest enhanced color image taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which flew by Pluto in July of last year. Contin … | Continue reading
Netflix's upcoming anime series, Perfect Bones, will be the first original program from the streaming service to air in 190 countries simultaneously, the company announced today. The 12-part show will be produced by anime studio Production I.G and directed by Kazuto Nakazawa, who … | Continue reading
Apple is trying to prove that the FBI's request to hack the iPhone is "unduly burdensome," so today it laid out in more detail what it would take to comply. The company had said it would have to create a custom OS in order to help the FBI break into the iPhone 5C previously belon … | Continue reading
Just a day after news spread that that Nissan Leaf's NissanConnect app could be compromised by hackers to control fan settings (potentially draining the battery) and download logs of past drives, Nissan has pulled the functionality, saying that it is "looking forward to launching … | Continue reading
Airbnb renters apparently weren’t the only one cleaning house before guests arrived — the company did the same last year just one month prior to publishing listings data. In a letter addressed to New York state legislators and Airbnb users on Wednesday, the company admitted to sl … | Continue reading
Creed director Ryan Coogler, along with Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretton and writer Chinaka Hodge, is working on a new TV show called Minors. The fictional series will explore the lives of children who grow up within the juvenile detention system, Variety reports.Mino … | Continue reading
The theme song for Fuller House has made its way to the internet shortly ahead of the television show's premiere on Netflix. The tune is a cover of the original Full House theme, "Everywhere You Look." Grammy-snubbed pop star Carly Rae Jepsen does her best with a song that's both … | Continue reading
The best album released this month revolves around an admitted egomaniac. He’s the kind of guy you either love or love to hate, and he spends the entire record grappling with fame, faith, family, fidelity, drugs, and their impact on his mental health. It’s a tonally incoherent re … | Continue reading
NASA’s priorities are vulnerable to new presidential administrations, but a bill debated today in Congress could make it more difficult for the White House to alter the agency’s long-term goals. The bill is called the Space Leadership Preservation Act, and it’s designed to give … | Continue reading