Gadget News

I must admit I didn't know much about Android One before coming to IFA 2018. I had assumed it was some form of software or set of specifications for midrange phones, although a lot of people around me were also confusing...

NASA would really prefer that Mars astronauts produce their materials on Mars, but that's not so easy when resources we take for granted on Earth are hard to get on the Red Planet. The administration has an idea as to ho...

As the recent revelation over Google's background tracking of your location shows, it's not as easy as it should be to work out when apps, giant tech companies and pocket devices are tracking your location and when they'...

You don't have to wonder how Canon will respond to Nikon's Z-series mirrorless cameras (and by extension Sony) -- many of the details now appear to be out in the open. Nokishita and Canon Rumors have posted leaked detail...

Tech support scams are seemingly as plentiful as ever, and Google is taking some strict measures to prevent those fraudsters from showing up in its ads. The search firm has begun "restricting" tech support ads worldwide,...

The LEGO remote controlled Batmobile is an exercise in beastly looks, battery-powered rumbling motor action, and a new Batman. For some, the new Batman minifig for August of 2018 is enough incentive to own. Even without ...

As the merchandising behemoth that is action figures has grown over the years, the market has split into two groups--the kids-focused smaller figures that trade articulation for oversized accessories and kooky action fea...

A Google engineer discovered a vulnerability in the third-party system controlling access to doors across its campus in Sunnyvale, California, and took the opportunity to prove that he could bypass any RFID keycard-opera...

Lenovo has a flexible version of its most popular business ultrabook, the ThinkPad X1 Yoga. As the name suggests, the X1 Yoga brings the X1 lineup’s robust business features to Lenovo’s flexible Yoga design, enabling...

Many of us would like nothing better than to plonk our bodies down in our favorite chair when we return home, kick back and relax — preferably with our favorite tunes playing in the background, of course. Music is food...

Valkyria Chronicles 4 will be available on the Switch, but what if you never played the original and want to brush up on your WWII-inspired turn-based strategy? Don't worry, you're set. Sega has confirmed that the origin...

Jacqueline Pearce, best known to sci-fi fans as the glamorous and calculating Servalan on the cult British space drama Blake's 7, has died at the age of 74.

The Samsung Galaxy S10 is a key device in the history of Samsung’s most popular smartphone. Over the course of the last decade, the company’s utilized Google’s Android to take command over a large portion of the sm...

I was recently informed of the existence of something called the "Uncrustable," a soft hunk of bread type-thing filled with peanut butter and jelly. Uncrustables are not new--the Uncrustable "sandwich" was invented in 19...

Sony is perhaps the last bastion of smaller smartphones. Or at least, it used to be. For years now, Sony has been making "Compact" versions of its top-tier handsets that are more or less flagships in their own right. Eac...

With the continued rise of eSports comes a greater focus on the kind of PC gaming accessories we're using. If you're a pro gamer, your mouse and keyboard suddenly become just as important as the hardware inside your PC, ...

Venmo is an app that should be simple and transactional. Instead, it's thorny and oftentimes awkward to navigate. It's truly wild that a self-professed "digital wallet" stirs up so much drama.

I know what you're thinking: Why should you care about a bunch of phones you might never get to buy? Well, in addition to feeding your FOMO, it's also worth learning about technologies available elsewhere in the world. T...

11,000 years' worth of artifacts went up in smoke as the 200-year-old National Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro--one of the largest collections in the Americas--burned down in a massive firestorm on Sunday night.

Since it snapped off the Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017, the trillion-ton iceberg known as A68 has spent most of its time stuck in the mud. Now, new satellite data reveals that the 'berg made its biggest move yet over t...

Western intelligence allies are presenting a united front in their fight against encryption. The "Five Eyes" countries (US, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand) have issued a Statement of Principles indicating that the...

The Nun, a prequel delving into the antagonist first introduced in The Conjuring 2, comes out September 7--just the latest project spawned by the spooky franchise (lest we forget, a third Annabelle movie is now in the wo...