Netflix has announced that its first-ever original German television series will be a "family saga with a supernatural twist" called Dark. According to Netflix, the show will time-hop between present day and 1986 as it explores the story of two missing children in a small German … | Continue reading
Xiaomi just announced its latest flagship, the Mi 5, and we got a chance to sit down with vice president Hugo Barra following the phone's introduction. Barra is the company's public face, having previously served as one of the leaders on Google's mobile team, and he exudes both t … | Continue reading
Former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has settled a lawsuit and formally apologized for assaulting show producer Oisin Tymon, the BBC reports.The BBC declined to renew Clarkson's contract last year after an "unprovoked physical and verbal attack," where Clarkson swore at and punch … | Continue reading
Google may be about to take a new approach to smart TVs. According to Variety, Google is working with Vizio to build Chromecast-like streaming into its new TVs. There would be no on-screen apps or interface — instead, you'd just be able to send streaming video and music, among ot … | Continue reading
Mortal Kombat, a series so wrapped up in hidden treats and in-jokes that one became a canonical character, is still being excavated for secrets decades after release. Late last year, secret menus were discovered in the first four Mortal Kombat arcade games. This week, footage of … | Continue reading
NASA has ordered five more missions from SpaceX to resupply the International Space Station, in a new deal that was signed in late December, Space News reports. That means the company will make a total of 20 cargo trips to the ISS for NASA under its original resupply contract — e … | Continue reading
Only Yesterday couldn't be more appropriately named. The intimate, spare drama from Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli first premiered in Japan in 1991, and in the 25 years since has somehow never seen an American release until now. But its familiar tale of finding your place in a fa … | Continue reading
The sky has fascinated humans for generations — we’re pretty sure it was a major pastime of people long ago to stare up at the stars and think about life. Naturally, present-day humans honor the sky with time-lapse videos. Filmmaker Chris Pritchard recorded 4K footage in thousand … | Continue reading
The worldwide wearable tech market, which includes fitness trackers and smartwatches, grew a staggering 172 percent last year, shipping 78.1 million units, according to a report today from research firm IDC. The growth was driven by the popularity of lower-cost trackers from comp … | Continue reading
It's pretty terrible when a hard drive crashes and loses your data, but Google says that manufacturers should stop worrying about it so much in the future. That's because most spinning hard drives will soon be used for cloud storage — not personal storage in laptops or mobile dev … | Continue reading
Personal rapid transit — a mass transportation network that could carry passengers straight to their destinations in small private cars — has a long, fascinating, and often troubled history. But the first (and so far, only) PRT project in America has been running almost continuou … | Continue reading
Ocean acidification is making it more difficult for coral reefs to grow, a study shows for the first time. Though scientists have speculated for the last decade that more-acidic seas have been harming coral, it took a dose of antacids for them to figure it out for sure.Over the c … | Continue reading
Apple's legal fight with the FBI has made the company very unpopular with some law enforcement groups, and that's now beginning to translate to office budgets. In a memo sent to staff on Sunday, the Maricopa County attorney's office announced it would no longer purchase iPhones f … | Continue reading
Ask supporters of Donald Trump what they like about the Republican candidate and you'll hear it's his ability to say what's on his mind. He has no filter. He's not beholden to corporate interests. He hates and maligns and stereotypes freely. He is not politically correct. So it m … | Continue reading
Amazon is partnering with Macklemore and Ryan Lewis to live stream an intimate hometown show the hip-hop duo is playing in Seattle this Friday night. Macklemore and Lewis are playing the show to celebrate the release of their new LP This Unruly Mess I've Made, and Amazon is takin … | Continue reading
One way to sell a smartwatch these days is by making the device smart in only one way. Whether it has basic fitness and sleep tracking or pings you with select smartphone notifications, the goal is to strip away almost everything in favor of a classic-looking timepiece with one o … | Continue reading
Google Fiber is heading close to home for its next location: San Francisco. Google announced this morning that it intends to bring its fast gigabit internet to "a portion of San Francisco," specifically to apartments, condos, and affordable housing units. Details on exactly where … | Continue reading
Gmail for Android is making it a bit easier to add some flair to your email text and quickly respond to calendar invites with a single tap. Today, a new update for the app will add support for rich text formatting — bold, italics, underline, etc. — so you'll have extra tools at … | Continue reading
SpaceX will be attempting one of its famous Falcon 9 rocket landings following a launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida this afternoon. The rocket's target is yet again a drone ship at sea, but SpaceX doesn't have high hopes that the vehicle will stick the landing this time. Still, … | Continue reading
For FBI allies, "unlocking" has become a useful word. The latest salvo came in a New York Times opinion piece on Tuesday, in which NYPD commissioner William Bratton and a coauthor weighed in on Apple’s legal fight under the headline "Why Apple Should Unlock an iPhone." The proble … | Continue reading
Samsung's two new smartphones and LG's one phone with a clique of Friends accessories have stirred up most of the hype and excitement around Mobile World Congress this year. It's actually been a terrific show for improved industrial design from all manufacturers, and we've seen m … | Continue reading
Santigold's third LP 99¢ drops this Friday, and today the Philly singer and producer shared a video for her single "Can't Get Enough of Myself." The premise is simple enough: Santigold travels around a city with a fluffy little dog, generally unable to get enough of herself. But … | Continue reading
Facebook has finally upgraded the Like button with Reactions, an emoji-like tool that expands how we respond non-verbally to posts that don't warrant a comment, but would benefit from the least impactful acknowledgement available. Unlike familiar emoji tools for GChat, Slack, or … | Continue reading
The American public might be on Apple’s side in its war with the FBI. An Ipsos poll conducted for Reuters found that 46 percent of Americans support Apple’s opposition to the FBI’s court order demanding it subvert its iPhone security. Thirty-five percent disagreed with the compan … | Continue reading
Siri is on the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple TV, and now it may finally be headed to the Mac. 9to5Mac reports that Apple is adding Siri into the next version of OS X, which should arrive later this year. Apple reportedly plans to add a Siri button in the Mac's menu bar, be … | Continue reading
Last fall Google announced Accelerated Mobile Pages — an open-source project to speed up the mobile web by changing how web pages are built and displayed. The project, which followed similar efforts from Facebook and Apple, promises to result in pages that load four times as fast … | Continue reading
Half a century after its heyday, the Alden StaRRcar clearly wasn’t made for its world. It looks like a white flatiron with wheels or a sleek, plastic bullet, dwarfed by the regal sedans of 1960s Detroit. It belongs in one of Buckminster Fuller’s domed cities, a vehicle for travel … | Continue reading
The Academy Awards are only days away, and most of Hollywood is preparing for the movie industry’s biggest night, as onlookers wait patiently to find out who will take home the Academy’s highest honor. But thanks to the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, this year’s award season has bee … | Continue reading
The latest trailer for Uncharted 4: A Thief's End isn't focused on the series' iconic action set-pieces, but instead provides a deeper look at the game's story and the beautiful world it takes place in. A Thief's End once again stars series hero Nathan Drake, and it takes place a … | Continue reading
Todoist, a to-do list manager used by more than 6 million people, is getting a series of nice upgrades today across a number of its apps. The iOS app is keeping its design but has been "almost completely rewritten," the company says, and will now let you add tasks and view your u … | Continue reading
Formula One cars will have partially closed cockpits starting in 2017, confirming weeks of rumors about the change. The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, which runs the popular open-wheel racing series, announced the news today in a statement.The change will be made as a … | Continue reading
After more than a year in development, Facebook's expanded Like button "reactions" are now coming to a News Feed near you. For the first time, you'll be able to react to friends' posts with something other than a gesture of pure positivity. Long press on the Like button and you'l … | Continue reading
See that bizarre rear window that's hinged on its side? The window you'd expect would peer into a 562-horsepower twin-turbo V-8? Yeah, things are a little different here.What you're looking at is the McLaren 570GT, a (slightly) softer version of the 570S coupe that debuted last y … | Continue reading
Not often, but sometimes a company sends me a product to play with that helps me see the future more clearly. It just happened again after Netatmo sent me its Welcome video camera — a one-year-old device that arrived at my house only yesterday. Welcome has one feature that sets i … | Continue reading
As part of LG’s range of peripherals for its new G5 flagship smartphone, the company has created a lightweight virtual reality headset: the LG 360 VR. Like Samsung’s Gear VR, it’s powered by a smartphone. But unlike the Gear, it doesn’t use your smartphone’s screen as a display. … | Continue reading
European companies have been selling powerful surveillance technology to a secretive government intelligence agency in Egypt, according to an investigation from Privacy International, a London-based watchdog organization. The report, published Wednesday, sheds light on how Finnis … | Continue reading
One of the biggest names in China's smartphone market has come to the world's biggest mobile show to debut its next flagship, the Mi 5. Today, Xiaomi introduces itself to a global audience on the Mobile World Congress stage as it details its latest top-of-the-line Android smartph … | Continue reading
Spotify this week announced that much of its data will be moved from its own servers to the Google Cloud Platform, marking what is seen as a major coup for the search giant. As The Wall Street Journal reports, Spotify's music files will still be hosted on a storage service from A … | Continue reading
Xiaomi has officially announced the Mi 5, its latest flagship device, at events in Beijing and Barcelona today. The Mi 5 follows the Mi 4 launched 18 months ago. It is a 5.15-inch smartphone with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 processor, up to 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage, a 3,000m … | Continue reading
Jean-Claude Van Damme will star in an upcoming comedy pilot for Amazon, the Hollywood Reporter says, in which he'll play a fictionalized version of himself who secretly works as a black ops operative. Jean-Claude Van Johnson will cast the Belgian action star as a famous actor who … | Continue reading
Uber has launched a motorbike service in Thailand, marking the first time that the company has offered rides on two-wheeled vehicles. The service, called UberMOTO, launches today as a pilot program in Bangkok. In a press release announcing the pilot, Uber said the new service is … | Continue reading
Apple will argue this week that the issue of whether it should assist the FBI in accessing a locked iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters should be decided by Congress, rather than the courts, the AP reports. According to documents detailing Apple's upcoming arguments … | Continue reading
Sony will soon reveal more about PlayStation VR, its upcoming virtual reality headset for the PlayStation 4, after months without saying much about the platform. The company is holding a PSVR-focused event on March 15th at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco; the show … | Continue reading
Buzzy Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi is making its first major appearance at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year. The company is set to unveil the Mi 5, its latest flagship smartphone, in what it calls a "Global Launch Event." Could that naming, along with the event's … | Continue reading
The sequel to monster movie Pacific Rim will be directed by the executive producer and head writer of Daredevil, Deadline reports. Steven S. DeKnight will helm Pacific Rim 2, his first ever directing gig after creating TV series Spartacus, and helping to to make Netflix original … | Continue reading
Getting cargo to the International Space Station is expensive and difficult — that's a huge part of why there's been so much buzz over commercial space flight operations like SpaceX. So if I were an astronaut living on board the ISS, I'd like to think I would pick my personal pos … | Continue reading
Boston Dynamics has a long history of producing terrifying robots, and its scientists have a long history of kicking, taunting, and teasing them. That ill-advised practice continues in the company's latest video, showcasing its next generation Atlas droid, a bipedal bot capable o … | Continue reading
Microsoft may have just purchased SwiftKey, but today it's releasing a new Android keyboard of its own. It's called the Hub Keyboard, and it provides quick access to your Office files, your local clipboard, your contacts, and a translation tool. Continue reading… | Continue reading