Beyoncé led the way yesterday in asking her fans to convert their sorrow and anger at recent police brutality into democratic action by petitioning their state and national lawmakers for change. Today her husband, Jay Z, is joining the effort by releasing a song he says he never … | Continue reading
Fruit Ninja is part of the classic casual iPhone game canon — your finger becomes a katana ready to slice through watermelons as fast as you can keep up. But in case you felt like that just wasn't immersive enough, Halfbrick Studios has now released a virtual reality version for … | Continue reading
Printers are ugly. Big time ugly. They also haven’t changed much over time. It’s not like we went from a cuddly soft printer to a more industrial one — they’ve always looked cold and unlovable. A man named Ludwig Rensch envisioned a new kind of printer that challenges old standar … | Continue reading
Just one day after US Attorney General Loretta Lynch closed an investigation into Hillary Clinton's email practices without bringing criminal charges, the State Department says it is reopening a separate inquiry, accorded to The Associated Press. The internal investigation is onl … | Continue reading
BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg knows a few things about self-aware animation featuring Will Arnett, and he'll be putting those skills to good use working on the sequel to The Lego Movie. Variety reports that Bob-Waksberg will be tackling a rewrite of the film, takin … | Continue reading
Beyoncé has published an impassioned plea on her website, asking her fans to contact legislators and representatives and express their anguish about police brutality. She makes reference to Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, two black men who have been shot and killed by police … | Continue reading
Concussions can have a lasting impact on the structure of the brain months after the initial injury, according to new research. These changes can linger long after clinical symptoms — such as dizziness and impaired balance — have disappeared. The study could help scientist better … | Continue reading
With its highly anticipated second season set to premiere in less than a week, Mr. Robot sent its fans into a frenzy one last time by showing off what's ostensibly a scene from the new season on the show's Facebook page. After quickly recapping the first season's climactic hack o … | Continue reading
Mobile dating app Bumble is now also a professional networking app. A new section called BumbleBizz, announced today, will connect people interested in building business connections when it launches this fall. While it uses the same swiping system as Bumble (or similar apps like … | Continue reading
Gigabyte has spent the past few years trying to catch up to Razer and its flagship gaming laptop, the Blade. Razer practically invented the thin-and-light gaming laptop category with the Blade in 2013, and since then it’s slowly evolved into a great laptop for both productivity a … | Continue reading
Lara Croft is returning to theaters: Variety is reporting that the reboot of the video game adaptation will debut on March 16th, 2018, with Ex Machina star Alicia Vikander taking on the title role.Vikander signed on to play the character in April, with Norwegian director Roar Uth … | Continue reading
A Nissan dealer in Spain just sold a car over Twitter — a first for an automotive brand in Europe, Nissan said this week. Twitter user Raul Escolano used the hashtag #compraruncocheportwitter ("Buy a car on Twitter") to challenge automakers across Spain to sell him a car solely u … | Continue reading
Nextbit hopped on Periscope and Facebook Live a few minutes ago to announce the beta of its web interface for photo backups. That's a cool new feature, but perhaps the most interesting part of the broadcasts was hidden in the background: Continue reading… | Continue reading
Star Trek and American Horror Story actor Zachary Quinto is planning to executive produce and star in a TV series about biohackers. Deadline reports that the hour-long drama Biopunk will be based on a 2011 book of the same name by journalist Marcus Wohlsen, chronicling the work o … | Continue reading
The Tiny1 is a camera from TinyMOS billing itself as the "world’s smallest astronomy camera". It uses a proprietary noise-reduction algorithm the company says will allow for improved image quality in low-light environments, and an augmented reality star map that can be overlaid o … | Continue reading
Facebook is being investigated by US tax authorities over whether the company has possibly undervalued its asset transfers to its Irish subsidiary by billions of dollars. Law.com first reported the news of the investigation.The investigation is part of an examination of Facebook' … | Continue reading
The killing of Alton Sterling at the hands of police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has sparked national outrage after a video showing the incident was posted online Tuesday night. That video was the result of an organized effort by local activists, who use smartphones to monitor and … | Continue reading
I'm a thirty-something father of two, so even though I signed up for Snapchat a few years back, I didn't spend much time using the app. I struggled to understand it, didn't see many friends engaging with what I posted there, and more or less resigned myself to the fact that I was … | Continue reading
More than 340 light years away, a giant planet is trapped in a dance with three stars. It’s a unique world, where suns rise and set three times a day, and where one year lasts more than half a millennium. It’s so bizarre that the existence of such a place was thought to be imposs … | Continue reading
A team of scientists have developed a robot that mimics the motion of a stingray by using the cardiac muscles from a rat mounted on a stingray-shaped skeleton. The robot, detailed in a study published in the journal Science, is a wonderfully weird hybrid of biological and mechani … | Continue reading
Barclays launched three contactless payment options for its bPay mobile payments system last year, including a NFC sticker, a wristband, and a key fob. It later eventually caved and started supporting Apple Pay nine months after it launched in the UK. It’s not done with its bPay, … | Continue reading
Google is working on safeguarding Chrome against the potential threat of quantum computers, the company announced today. It's doing so by implementing post-quantum cryptography in an experimental version of the browser, the company announced today. While there exist hardware defe … | Continue reading
Asus has released a new all-metal convertible ultrabook called the ZenBook Flip UX360. The 13.9 mm thick laptop weighs in at 2.9lbs and employs a fanless design, which likely contributes to its stated 12 hours of battery life. Here are some more specs:13.3-inch Full HD touchscree … | Continue reading
Lyft is launching a luxury ride service called Lyft Premier to compete with Uber Black.Though Uber is the 800-pound gorilla in the ride-sharing world, Lyft is no slouch either. And Uber’s most luxurious offering is the original Uber Black car service. For years, Lyft hasn’t had a … | Continue reading
I grew up with only one fear: the fear of getting a haircut. For many years I was a shy child that didn't like to talk to people, including my barber. I just let her do what she did last time, too timid to chime in about what I didn't like. I'm talking about the bowl cut! All the … | Continue reading
I downloaded Pokémon Go last night like a dutiful citizen of Pallet Town (Bushwick is the Pallet Town of New York, okay), and had to catch my breath at the first opening screen. Standing before me was an unfamiliar — but not unwelcomed face, a prematurely graying man with an expe … | Continue reading
Amazon is making its Echo speaker a little more convenient to use for the millions of Spotify and Pandora listeners out there. You can already play music from streaming music services by speaking commands like "Play ______ on Spotify." If you forget to add the "on [service name]" … | Continue reading
For a government agency, NASA has a notably off-color sense of humor. Whether they're making horrifying youth recruitment music videos, inviting boy bands on a field trip to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, releasing film parody mission posters, or rifling through the Interna … | Continue reading
Over the weekend, Donald Trump tweeted a picture of Hillary Clinton next to a six-pointed star and piles of money, calling her the "most corrupt candidate ever." Soon after, a lot of people pointed out that this evoked some common anti-semitic tropes, and that the image had previ … | Continue reading
BlackBerry announced plans to discontinue its Classic phone yesterday, and following that news, multiple media outlets reported that the phone’s discontinuation spelled doom for physical keyboards. Those reports are false, of course, but BlackBerry Senior Vice President for Globa … | Continue reading
If you're eager to check out the next version of iOS 10, you'll have a chance to do just that starting today. Apple is opening up its beta of iOS 10 to the public, letting anyone with an iPhone check it out (that likely means Apple Watch owners will be able to try out the beta of … | Continue reading
Rich Miner, Android's cofounder and a general partner at Alphabet's venture capital arm GV, now has plans to step down and start an education company within Google. Miner told Fortune that the company is being built at Google because of the company's pre-existing education assets … | Continue reading
The next version of macOS, Sierra, will be made available in a public beta sometime today. We previewed it here, and though the headline feature that most people will be talking about is Siri on the desktop, the fact that it can also automatically back up your most important file … | Continue reading
As new messaging services proliferate and our phones get clogged with notifications, Walt wonders if we're actually better off than when we just had email. And is the dream of a unified inbox dead? Will the promise of not-yet-real merch lure Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai into solvin … | Continue reading
Samsung will give every participant in the 2016 Olympics a customized version of its Galaxy S7 Edge smartphone. The Galaxy S7 Edge Olympic Games Limited Edition features the five Olympic Ring colors, and the Olympic symbol will be prominently featured in key apps like contacts, d … | Continue reading
Be ready to have your New Year’s celebrations last a second longer. Literally. Timekeepers at the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS), which keeps track of the world’s time, announced yesterday that an extra second will be added on December 31st. Aro … | Continue reading
We’re really excited to be working with the Toronto International Film Festival on a three-day event called POP showcasing some of the most inventive VR creations... and it’s coming up very soon — Friday, July 15th through Sunday, July 17th at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. T … | Continue reading
Star Trek has long been a franchise that pushes cultural barriers, and in the upcoming film, Star Trek Beyond, it’s poised to push past another with its first openly gay character. Mr. Hikaru Sulu, the helmsmen for the USS Enterprise, will be depicted as being gay, according to J … | Continue reading
You can call it Lavazza intervention. The espresso company and coffee sponsor of all the Grand Slam events this year (the US Open, Wimbledon, Roland-Garros, and the Australian Open) will be letting tennis fans print photos on their cups of coffee through a Ripple Maker, which pri … | Continue reading
AMD concluded the month of June by releasing the Radeon RX480 graphics card, which quickly shot up to the top of reviewers' recommendation lists for GPUs around the vital $200 to $250 bracket. Seemingly ahead of schedule, Nvidia is rushing out word of its anticipated response, th … | Continue reading
It’s a strange coincidence, hearing two different cast members of Mr. Robot describe Sam Esmail in these near-identically enigmatic terms. As the show’s creator, showrunner, and — as of season two, debuting in two weeks — director of its every episode, he exercises a degree of co … | Continue reading
When HTC announced its new Desire 530 smartphone at Mobile World Congress this year, it's telling that the device's stand-out feature was its paint job. The 530's low-end components won't turn any heads, but HTC hopes its "micro-splashed" exterior — the industrial equivalent of f … | Continue reading
Audible is expanding outside of audiobooks in a big way. It’s launching a new service today called Channels, which offers short-form news and podcasts for people who’d rather not listen slowly through an entire book.Channels will include spoken recordings of news from The New Yor … | Continue reading
Hundreds of years from now, today’s DVDs, web servers, and flash drives will all be long dead. But one copy of a music video — for alternative rock band OK Go’s song "This Too Shall Pass" — could still be playing. The Rube Goldberg-inspired video is part of a 202-megabyte cache o … | Continue reading
A few weeks ago new rumors emerged that Apple might kill the headphone jack in its next iPhone, and the tech sphere did its damnedest to convince Apple it's a mistake. The Verge's Nilay Patel made an excellent case for why this move would be user-hostile and stupid, citing the in … | Continue reading
Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room, eager to talk about intelligence. I was at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the company’s CEO was touting the company's progress in building more intelligent apps and services. Each morning, he told me, he puts on a Hol … | Continue reading
Have you ever been on the receiving of a curious look from a goat? It's a pretty unsettling experience, not least of all because of the animal's unusual rectangular pupils (an evolutionary adaptation that literally lets them spot predators out the corner of their eye). However, n … | Continue reading
MMA promoter UFC says it's the first organization to offer a streaming pay-per-view event in 4K. This Saturday, MMA fans in the US and Canada will be able to stream UFC 200 in ultra HD resolution on select Sony TVs. Would-be viewers will need the UFC's app, a 2015 or 2016 Sony 4K … | Continue reading