Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 16:00

For the second time in the past few months, Americans went to the polls and voted in a way that will have half the country scratching its heads. Kicking the classic boot, wheelbarrow, and thimble tokens to the curb, the ...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 06:23

Pretty much everything that's great about technology today is thanks to the microprocessor. Billions of them are manufactured every year and they are one of the many reasons you can read this fine website. But few people...
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 05:10

Spooky adventure game Oxenfree has made its way to mobile. Developer Night School's sidescrolling tale debuted on PC and Xbox One early last January, with a stop on PlayStation 4 last May that added, among other things, ...
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2017 23:55
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Today we’re going to run down a few of the best temporarily free apps currently up for download on the Google Play app store. A few prerequisites need to be fulfilled before they can appear on this list. These apps nee...
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 23:50

The new FCC chairman hasn't wasted any time getting down to business. That is, the business of burning consumer privacy and security to the ground. New Trump appointee FCC Chairman Ajit Pai has suspended the agency's con...
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2017 23:25

If you tend to play PC games in a cold house, a new Kickstarter campaign has the perfect solution for your no-doubt cold fingers: a small infrared heater that is positioned over a keyboard to keep your fingers warm while...
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 23:07

It's tough for streaming music services to stand out. Cosmetic differences aside, all of them offer virtually the same thing. Each major platform has the songs listeners want, for the most part. One method that services ...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 23:00

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first Star Wars film not to have an opening crawl. Gary Whitta, the first screenwriter on the film, did write one--but it was never actually in a script.
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2017 22:54

Uber has been testing semi-autonomous vehicles in a handful of cities for a few months now, but a new report suggests that its tests aren’t exactly going smooth. While issues are to be expected with any sort of testing...
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 22:37

The perpetrator who tweeted a seizure-inducing image to a journalist has been apprehended by the FBI. In December a troll sent Vanity Fair and Newsweek writer Kurt Eichenwald, who is epileptic, a flashing, auto-playing i...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 22:32

Anyone who's ever visited YouTube and ventured into the comments knows that the site struggles with how to deal with offensive content, and now it seems one of its content filtering features might have gone a bit too far...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 22:19

When you hit your car's turn signal stalk and that little arrow flashes at you on the dash, you always hear a rhythmic clicking sound in sync with that flashing arrow. Here's what that is.
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 22:07

WiFi has become essential to our everyday lives, which is why slow speeds piss us all off. Luckily, a PhD student in the Netherlands has come up with a potentially groundbreaking idea: using infrared rays to carry wirele...
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 21:38

It's been years since LG's G4 and V10 smartphones launched, but the people burned by a flaw that made those devices non-functional haven't forgotten. Four G4 and V10 owners filed a class-action lawsuit against LG earlier...
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2017 21:26

Earlier in the year, Hasbro revealed that Monopoly’s thimble was on its way out. Today, it’s being joined by two more tokens that have been determined to be no longer relevant: the boot and the wheelbarrow. Those wil...
Engadget - 17 Mar 2017 21:13

LG wants you to take a look at its upcoming G6 smartphone so badly that it's partnered with Sprint and Verizon to offer a fairly ridiculous deal. When you pre-order the G6, each carrier will give you a free big screen TV...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 21:10

A fertility clinic in Newcastle was just granted permission to start performing what's known as the 'three-parent baby' technique, a controversial in vitro fertilization procedure that prevents genetic diseases from bein...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 21:05

One of the most powerful telescopes ever built--NASA's James Webb Space Telescope--is set to make its big debut in 2018. But before it starts scouring distant galaxies, or searching for life around at TRAPPIST-1, the tel...
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2017 21:00

The 2017 Land Rover Discovery is more than just the latest family-friendly luxury SUV from the British brand. It also goes above and beyond when it comes to tackling off-road terrain that would have most other sport-util...
Coolest Gadgets - 17 Mar 2017 21:00

If you are a fitness buff who would like to keep track of your exercise regime while making sure that everything is on track to meet your performance standards, then you would probably eat the right stuff that suits the ...
Slash Gear - 17 Mar 2017 20:59

Netflix's star ratings will soon be a thing of the past, with the video streaming company planning to soon introduce new thumbs-up and thumbs-down ratings instead. Once those thumbs arrive, you'll no longer see the stars...
Gizmodo - 17 Mar 2017 20:54

Over the past week, the fanbase for YouTuber Jon "JonTron" Jafari has been forced to reevaluate how they feel about their favorite YouTuber.