Gadget News
CrazyHorse Leather iPhone X Wallet Case
The Gadget Flow - 4 Oct 2017 15:00
Serve and protect your smartphone with the CrazyHorse Leather iPhone X Wallet Case. Using ultra-luxurious leather, this case combines premium materials to give you foolproof protection. The iPhone X Case interior feature...
Okay, Maybe This Microsoft VR Thing Won't Suck
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 00:42
VR, like that one cousin on Facebook, can be hard to love. The potential is there, and you have all these fond memories--mainly rooted in cool science fiction books you've read, but in reality VR is pricey, buggy, and ki...
Hands-on with the Pixel 2 and 2 XL: One's nice, one's not
Ars Technica - 4 Oct 2017 23:58
Google makes two totally different phones that give off totally different impressions.
The Google Pixel 2 XL vs. the original Pixel XL: What's changed?
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 23:41Two more iPhones split at the seams [UPDATE: now 3]
Slash Gear - 4 Oct 2017 23:38
It would appear that a couple more iPhone 8 Plus phones have opened themselves up for want of a bigger space for a battery. These two units add on to the two we reported last week, both of which within the the first week...
Mice Are Evolving to Survive Life in New York City
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 23:35
Spend enough time in New York City, and there won't be much that can surprise you. Two-hour lines to get a donut? Yeah, that makes sense. Mummified bat corpses in the alley behind the local church? Of course, that's wher...
Batman: White Knight Is Telling a Dark Story About Police Brutality
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 23:30
The idea that Batman is the true source of the evils that plague Gotham City isn't exactly new, but it's one that DC's comics have largely left unexplored, leaving fans to debate it among themselves. In Sean Murphy's Bat...
Google Clips hands-on: Not just a camera, but a photographer too
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 23:20
I'm not trying to gush too much, but I'm far, far more excited for the Pixel 2's camera than I thought I'd be. What's really bonkers to me, though, is that Google saw fit to squeeze its AI-powered photography tech into a...
Australia's cats kill more than 1 million birds every single day
Slash Gear - 4 Oct 2017 23:18
Ordinary cats in Australia kill more than a million birds every single day, according to a newly published study. The findings were made by researchers from the Threatened Species Recovery Hub of the National Environment...
What Does Twitter's Biz Stone Think His Job Is?
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 23:05
"I definitely spend way more time reading tweets than writing tweets," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 2011. Back then, his company was enjoying praise for its (largely accidental) role in he...
Comcast's low-cost wireless service might be a success
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 23:01
The wireless carrier battles have been heating up recently, as reports of a Sprint and T-Mobile merger intensify, which would allow the third and fourth largest cellular carriers in the US to better compete with the like...
Build Your Own RPGs With Humble's Newest Bundle
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 22:49
Humble is mostly known for selling games, but today, they're selling stuff to help you make those games yourself.
New York Times offers new subscribers a free Google Home
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 22:44
The New York Times has been upping its tech game recently in hopes to keep subscription numbers up in an age of free internet news. It made digital access free during the 2016 election, bundled free Spotify accounts this...
Panasonic's CaloRieco machine figures out the calories in a meal
Slash Gear - 4 Oct 2017 22:25
At CEATEC 2017 in Japan, Panasonic has shown off a prototype machine it calls CaloRieco (“Calorie co”). The machine looks like a cross between a 3D printer and a microwave, but it is neither — it is a machine that ...
Google Pixelbook first impressions and Pen hands-on: High End Again
Slash Gear - 4 Oct 2017 22:05
The new most extravagant Chromebook comes from Google, and it’s called the Google Pixelbook. Much in the same vein as the Chromebook Pixels that’ve come before it, this Pixelbook is a high-performance piece of machin...
Scientists Genetically Engineered Moss to Smell Like Patchouli and It's Amazing
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 22:05
Moss, in case you were not already aware, is a pretty freaking amazing plant. It does not have roots, allowing it to grow in unlikely places like bits of rock at the top of a glacier or on lifeless, barren fields of lava...
Google Pixel 2: By the numbers
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 22:00
Google really turned on the new product firehose during its Pixel 2 event in San Francisco on Wednesday. We saw two new phones in two new sizes and five new colors, an updated Google Home, a pincushion-shaped "Home Mini"...
Google Home Mini hands-on: Smaller, cheaper, subtler
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 21:51
Google's most adorable product launch today is definitely its puck-sized Home Mini. No more imposing cylinders with AI voices, it's much, much, smaller and just less "tech." At $49, it'll square up against Amazon's Dot, ...
Yellowstone Supervolcano Is Experiencing Its Longest Earthquake Swarm on Record (But Calm Down)
Gizmodo - 4 Oct 2017 21:45
Do not lose sleep tonight, the world will not end as the result of some enormous supervolcano eruption in Yellowstone National Park any time soon. But there is a whole lot of other interesting stuff going on there--so ma...
DelivAir concept uses drones to deliver packages straight to the customer
Slash Gear - 4 Oct 2017 21:39
Cambridge Consultants has unveiled DelivAir, a newly developed delivery drone concept that aims to deliver small packages directly to the recipient. Whereas other concepts have drones delivering packages to the customer�...
Voyage tests its self-driving cars in retirement communities
Engadget - 4 Oct 2017 21:39
Online learning company Udacity decided to redirect the engineers it's training into a new spun-off self-driving tech company, Voyage, back in April. Now they're starting to test their autonomous technology with folks wh...
Untitled Goose Game lets you ruin someone's day (as a goose)
Slash Gear - 4 Oct 2017 21:33
Video games are a wonderful thing, aren’t they? They open up windows to unlimited worlds, allowing us to become characters and explore settings that real life doesn’t allow. In addition to living out fantasies as a f...