A buried knife was found at O. J. Simpson's estate during construction work, though no one is sure exactly when, TMZ reports. Though the construction worker gave it to a nearby police officer, that cop chose to keep the knife at his own house — and did so for years. It didn't com … | Continue reading
Microsoft is today rolling out a new Windows 10 update to its "fast ring" testers that's largely focused on Cortana, the operating system's built-in personal assistant. First, Cortana is expanding its list of supported languages to include Spanish (Mexico), Portuguese (Brazil), a … | Continue reading
"I'm making a music video. 'Peeno Noir: An Ode to Black Penis.'" So begins one of the most purely joyful viral music hits of last year, a song written for Tituss Burgess' character on Tina Fey's Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. At first glance, an ode to male anatomy might not seem lik … | Continue reading
Tinder is encouraging users to share profiles they come across with friends. The company announced today that it's testing a button that lets users text a link to a profile, instead of grabbing a screenshot. The link expires after five clicks or 72 hours. Once the text is sent, t … | Continue reading
Lady Gaga will return for American Horror Story's sixth season, The Hollywood Reporter reports. In an interview with the New York radio station Z100, Gaga confirmed she'd be heading back to Ryan Murphy's campy horror series, but she wouldn't give any details about what form that … | Continue reading
Three weeks ago, I walked into the always-crowded Lego Store straddling Manhattan's Madison Square Park. I was alone and I was on a mission, so I sort of chameleoned into "dad casually shopping for his young child's birthday" mode. It was a misguided effort to blend in amongst th … | Continue reading
Google today confirmed that it will remove some search results from all of its sites starting next week, if those searches are made within the European Union.In 2014, an EU court decided that Google must comply with requests to remove some search results, in a decision that becam … | Continue reading
Microsoft is planning to unveil its universal Xbox apps later this month. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge that the software giant will detail a number of apps and plans to open the platform to developers at the Build conference in San Francisco … | Continue reading
Strong evidence suggests the mosquito-borne Zika virus is causing infants to be born with birth defects — and a lab model provides clues on how it happens. The virus is capable of infecting the cells that form the brain's outer layer, making them more susceptible to death and pre … | Continue reading
DARPA has awarded a contract to Aurora Flight Sciences to develop the agency's newest unpiloted vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. The new "X-plane" concept (no, not that X-plane) will reach speeds of 400 knots and carry cargo loads of at least 40 percent of the plane' … | Continue reading
Photos of HTC's next major smartphone, reportedly called the HTC 10, have surfaced on the web today. Unlike Samsung and LG, HTC didn't unveil its latest flagship at Mobile World Congress last month, so this is our first good look at what the company has been working on. OnLeaks i … | Continue reading
Passes to the first-ever Panorama festival are now on sale. General admission for all three days starts at $369, and VIP weekend packages are available in addition to transportation and layaway options. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Games often age poorly. More so than any other form of entertainment, games change at a rapid pace, and new innovations can make older titles feel downright archaic, to the point they’re no fun to play. That’s why a modern remake of a game like Final Fantasy VII is such a huge un … | Continue reading
The first episode of I Am Cait’s upcoming second season might contain more drama and meaningful dialogue than the entirety of its first batch of episodes. That’s less a slam against the first season than an observation: E!’s smallest, most unconventional reality show had to spend … | Continue reading
Barnes & Noble has notified its users that it will shut down the Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store on March 15th. The company sent out an email to users and developers on Thursday explaining that third-party app sales and in-app purchases would soon cease to work … | Continue reading
Someone at Google Maps clearly loves video games. In the past the company has snuck Pac-Man and Pokemon Easter eggs into its mapping service, and today The Legend of Zelda is joining in as well. It's a small change, but a tiny, pixelated Link now replaces the little peg typically … | Continue reading
Actors Matthew Goode and Matthew Rhys have mashed the fictional film The Trip and the reality television series Top Gear into a pulp, extracted the juices, mixed the fluids into a rich blend, stored the liquid in a temperature-controlled basement, and bottled the final product. I … | Continue reading
The Oscars are over and there isn't a new Star Wars movie for nearly a year, so it's probably time to start looking at all the other stuff heading to theaters. Only a few really high-profile movies had trailers come out this week, but those trailers really got people talking — Gh … | Continue reading
YouTube channel Burger Fiction is honing the art of the supercut. Videos like "Ever Best Visual Effects Winner. Ever." and "Every Jason Statham Punch. Ever," are goofy, viral fodder created with the TLC generally reserved for headier fare. Its latest video, "Cursing Without Cursi … | Continue reading
Look at this octopod. Just look at it. In theory, octopi are cute. In reality, octopi are like scary spiders-of-the-sea. But this guy — this guy’s an exception. He's different.The new octopod, discovered by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration's Okeanos Pod, is a whole … | Continue reading
A $3 million vide game tournament is happening right now in Shanghai, China, pitting 16 of the best Dota 2 teams against each other. But what, pray tell, does any of that mean?Dota 2 is an immensely popular video game that mixes elements of many genres, from sports simulation to … | Continue reading
Snapchat is expanding its partnership with Major League Baseball to include new features that bring users even closer to the field. The campaign will kick off with a special Spring training event on March 11th. Snapchat says for that day, users will have "unprecedented access" to … | Continue reading
The biggest problem with Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is baked into the price of admission: It's a film about how the war in Afghanistan affects one middle-class white American. The film is based on the memoir The Taliban Shuffle, by former Chicago Tribune South Asia bureau chief Kim Ba … | Continue reading
France's lower house of parliament yesterday passed an amendment that would levy penalties against technology companies that do not provide access to encrypted data during terrorism investigations. The amendment, which has the support of right-wing politicians but is opposed by t … | Continue reading
Excited about the new LG G5 (and Friends) and Samsung Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge? Yeah, us too. By now you’ve probably seen all the specs, read all the hands-on articles, and seen the side-by-side comparisons. It’s going to be a tough choice.Buy the G5 in April and you’ll get what's … | Continue reading
In an op-ed for The Guardian this morning, Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney has launched a withering attack on Microsoft and its Universal Windows Platform (UWP) initiative in Windows 10. "Microsoft has built a closed platform-within-a-platform into Windows 10," says Sweeney, "a … | Continue reading
Facebook has overhauled its UK tax structure and is "set to pay millions of pounds more in tax in the UK" as a result, according to the BBC. Like Google, Facebook makes the majority of its revenues through the selling of ads, and also like Google, it is responding to increasing p … | Continue reading
Sony has a new R&D project called the Future Lab Program, an effort to involve customers in the design process for eventual products. The program will "share concept prototypes with users while still at the development stage, and look to them for inspiration, leveraging their fee … | Continue reading
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey has poured water on the idea of his Rift virtual reality headset supporting the Mac by saying that Apple doesn't make any computers powerful enough to run it."That is up to Apple and if they ever release a good computer we will do it," Luckey tells Sh … | Continue reading
The iPhone at the center of the ongoing legal battle between Apple and the FBI may hold a "dormant cyber pathogen" that could cripple San Bernardino, according to the county's District Attorney. Michael Ramos' court filing ascertains that the iPhone, provided to San Bernardino sh … | Continue reading
Kendrick Lamar's new album, Untitled Unmastered, is available now on iTunes, and should be arriving on Apple Music, Tidal, and Spotify very soon. Spotify leaked information on the album earlier today, including its name and ambiguous eight-song track list, which features the word … | Continue reading
Grammy-winning artist Kendrick Lamar will release a new album tonight, according to Spotify. The streaming service leaked information about Lamar's new record earlier today, titled Untitled Unmastered, detailing its track listing and album art. Not to be left out, rival service T … | Continue reading
Donald Trump has reassured America about his alleged hand size. At an officially sanctioned Republican presidential debate tonight, Trump responded to provocative remarks made by Senator Marco Rubio earlier this week. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Tumblr is removing Crystal Castles from the lineup of its 79 Cents SXSW event after the band's history and suitability for the event was called into question. The feminism-themed event is named after the gender wage gap in the US, and it features an all-female lineup, feminist ar … | Continue reading
The US Chamber of Commerce plans to sue the city of Seattle over a law that allows Uber and Lyft drivers to unionize, according to a report today from Reuters. The Chamber, a pro-business and anti-labor American lobbying group, would be wading into the growing debate over the rig … | Continue reading
Nintendo detailed the American releases of a handful of Japanese role-playing games (JRPGs) during its Nintendo Direct presentation this afternoon, news that'll surely excite US fans who have been waiting for them with bated breath.Atlus' music-RPG fusion Tokyo Mirage Sessions #F … | Continue reading
Locally stored data on Amazon Fire devices is no longer encrypted. Anyone who upgrades their Kindle Fire, Fire Phone, Amazon Fire HD, or Amazon Fire TV Stick to Fire OS 5 will have local information left vulnerable to cyber attacks and stored in plain text. Amazon forum members f … | Continue reading
The fantastic rhythm action series Rhythm Heaven is getting the video game equivalent of a greatest hits album. Today Nintendo announced the next game in the series, called Rhythm Heaven Megamix, which brings together the best levels from each game in the series, including the Ga … | Continue reading
Nintendo's offbeat Paper Mario series is returning to home consoles later this year. As the name suggests, Paper Mario: Color Splash is about returning color to a monochrome world. How do you add color to the world, you ask? It's simple: hit things with a magic paint hammer. That … | Continue reading
Super Nintendo favorites Pilotwings, Super Mario World, and F-Zero will be available for download from the Nintendo eShop beginning today. The SNES downloads will be limited to New Nintendo 3DS and New Nintendo 3DS XL, meaning Nintendo 2DS and original Nintendo 3DS hardware won't … | Continue reading
Macklemore & Ryan Lewis are on track to sell roughly 50,000 copies of their new album This Unruly Mess I’ve Made, a total that seems unremarkable until you put it in the right context. Their first-week sales are being dwarfed by those of The 1975, the ambitious British pop band w … | Continue reading
Amazon’s Fire Phone may have been a surprisingly auspicious failure, I keep thinking as I watch the expansion of Alexa, the company’s cloud-based virtual assistant.Artificial intelligence is the future, specifically, voice-controlled AI that allows you to interact with a multitud … | Continue reading
Instagram has decided to block links in user profiles to private messaging apps Telegram and Snapchat. The change was made quietly and first publicly noted by Telegram's official Twitter account only yesterday. No other social networks appear to be affected, meaning you can still … | Continue reading
A 1970's Czechoslovakian sci-fi comedy imagined the selfie stick four decades before the accessory became the weapon of choice for chill parents on vacation. Reddit user ZaHuBa posted a GIF of the fictional gadget, which appears early in Zabil Jsem Einsteina, Panove. The tiny cam … | Continue reading
Today saw the deadline for amicus briefs in the heated iPhone security trial, and dozens of companies took the opportunity to file in support of Apple. Twitter, Reddit, Github, Ebay, and CloudFlare submitted a brief with 12 other startup companies, emphasizing the values of priva … | Continue reading
Scarlet Witch may be appearing in Captain America: Civil War on May 6th, but for some reason the new Avengers superhero is absent from the latest toy lineup. The first trailer for the Disney Infinity play set includes Black Panther, Ant-Man, Vision, an updated Captain America, an … | Continue reading
If you've ever sat around wishing you could hear what the deepest parts of the ocean sound like, then your strange but valid desires can finally be satisfied! Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, Oregon State University, and the US Coast Guard have c … | Continue reading
At his best, Kevin Spacey has always been a terrifying embodiment of all that is wrong with humanity. The actor's most iconic roles — Academy Award-winning turns as a slick criminal in The Usual Suspects and a pathetic shell of a man in American Beauty, and especially his chillin … | Continue reading