Gadget News

Do you want to know whether or not US officials have ever forced a company to decrypt data to aid in an investigation? So does the Electronic Frontier Foundation. The civil liberties group has sued the Department of Just...

Marissa Mayer and Firefox: can the marriage last? Photo of Marissa Mayer by Fortune Global Forum on Flickr. Who stands to lose if Yahoo is sold — besides of course Marissa Mayer, who will probably …

Google's Safe Browsing Site Status checker lists, well, Google.com as a partially dangerous website, a Reddit user has discovered. It warns that "some pages on this website redirect visitors to dangerous [ones] that inst...

Samsung has released a new, pinker version of the flagship Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. But don't call them Rose Gold--that's Apple's color! Instead, they are something totally different called "Pink Gold."

Thermal vision might have been made popular by Predator, but infrared imaging is useful for humans as well as mutant aliens. Specifically, giving firefighters hands-free thermal vision could save lives, as well as making...

The app platform wars has never really disappeared. Although we do see more developers targeting both iOS and Android now, parity in terms of the number and quality of apps is far from becoming reality. And App Annie's 2...

Where information from warzones used to trickle in, the internet has brought a flood of user-generated media. And though there are some tools available that can quickly parse through that data in real-time, they mostly w...

Facebook is rolling out group calling in Messenger across the globe, the company has announced. The feature allows a group of individuals, whether friends, colleagues, or others, to all participate in the same call, expa...

The new $20 bill will feature a portrait of Harriet Tubman - civil rights activist and freedom fighter. This was announced by United States treasuring secretary Jacob J Lew, who also outlined plans for new $10 and $5 not...

Volkswagen and the United States have reached a deal, according to sources, and that deal involves an offer on VW's part to buy back nearly half a million diesel cars that feature emissions-cheating features. Say the sou...

In this day and age, it does seem as though the family, while staying together under the same roof, does seem to have individual lives of their own that are separate. People hardly play board games with one another anymo...

Ahead of the launch of Star Fox Zero on Wii U, scheduled for April 22nd, Nintendo this week teased an animated short with ties to the game's story. Titled Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins, the film will be premiering wor...

Basically, Google would really like it if there were more movies about computer scientists that weren't just a collection of every nerd cliché. Can you write good? Google will actually pay you to write a good script.

When you're out exploring the city on a warm summer's day you need something to carry all your stuff, but a heavy backpack hanging off your shoulders isn't ideal. Adidas' Yohji Yamamoto-designed Y-3 Sport Backpack wants ...

While we've heard rumors about Sony's plans to release an updated PlayStation 4 for some time now, yesterday we heard the most concrete evidence of it yet. Thanks to a few different sources, the guys over at Giant Bomb w...

It's not completely outside of the realm of possibility that Limp Bizkit, a screaming band of white working man messiahs , would put on a show at a random gas station as a 4/20 gag. Unfortunately for thousands of confuse...

People leave memories in the most unexpected ways and when you run into them, you want to hold onto it forever because you don't know when you'll ever get it back. Here's a sad but touching short film about a son re-disc...

Two things became apparent after the end of the Spring 2016 Smartphone Glut. One: Android is still a second-class citizen when it comes to gaming, and two: smartphones are in a ridiculously boring place.

Can we pause for just a minute to commend the fine people of Brooklyn for approving such a good-looking building as the new tallest structure in their fair borough?

Starting this year, Comcast's Xfinity TV subscribers will be able to watch their cable subscription's content through a channel on their Roku player, sidestepping the need for Xfinity's set-top box. The option will roll ...

If you were burned by Volkswagen's emissions cheating and don't think that $1,000 in credits and gift cards will cut it, we have good news for you... maybe. Die Welt sources understand that VW has reached a settlement de...

There are many different situations in which one would make use of a microphone, and when it comes to mobile devices such as notebooks or a Skype-enabled smartphone, the microphone surely comes in handy to let you carry ...