For two weeks, the country has been steeped in debate over the Apple vs. FBI debacle, and today the two sides of the argument are going to state their cases before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing called "The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security and Priva … | Continue reading
SoundHound, the company known for its song recognition app, is branching out beyond music in a big way.Following months of private beta, the company has launched Hound, its new voice-enabled assistant app to rival Siri and Google Now.See also: Ask Siri to beatbox for you right no … | Continue reading
They say the dog is a man's best friend. Does that go for robot dogs as well? Or will they turn on their human masters, ushering in a new age of darkness for humanity? None of those questions are answered in the video below, but we do get to see how one real, flesh-and-bone dog g … | Continue reading
No matter who the next James Bond will be, he'll have one of the most unbelievably beautiful cars in the world in his garage.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Sure, the new Bugatti Chiron might be the new fastest car in the world. But … | Continue reading
With the (rumored) Apple March event fast approaching, the ever-active Apple rumor mill is turning into a news-churning frenzy. The two latest reports, courtesy of 9to5Mac and Japan's Macotakara, bring to light a (possible) new form factor for the iPhone 7 and a new, improved cam … | Continue reading
If you think the FBI’s case against Apple is a question of whether or not Apple wants to help prevent terrorism, you may be right, but probably not in the way you think.In conversations with technology and forensic science experts, including one who may have inadvertently contrib … | Continue reading
There are a lot of great ways to celebrate an anniversary, like taking a hot-air balloon ride, having a friends and family barbecue or maybe even going on a Hawaiian vacation.Instead of those things, though, for its 100th anniversary, Lamborghini built this: the Centenario. And i … | Continue reading
The conflict in Syria just got a little closer to home.Amnesty International Australia is using 360-degree video technology to bring the destroyed streets of Damascus and Aleppo to a screen on your face. Using a virtual reality headset and panoramic photographs shot by activists … | Continue reading
Honda Civics — save the tuned ones from the Fast and Furious franchise — have always flown under the radar.That's because they're mostly just nice, reliable and rather innocuous ways to get from A to B. However, as the Civic enters into its 10th generation, Honda is messing with … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON — A schism is emerging among family members of victims and survivors of the December's shootings in San Bernardino, California, with at least one couple supporting Apple in its battle against a federal court order to help the FBI hack into a shooter's locked iPhone.See … | Continue reading
Major League Baseball players are once again shaking off the winter and hitting the field in warmer climates for spring training. But this year Los Angeles Angels centerfielder Mike Trout is using a high-tech bat to learn more about his swing.Sports tech company Zepp has develope … | Continue reading
Netflix is cracking down on customers using virtual private networks (VPNs) to watch its content, and it doesn’t look like anyone is happy about it.Netflix is a region-locked service, meaning that different countries and regions have access to different TV shows and movies, as we … | Continue reading
The Internet lost a little piece of meme history over the weekend.Josh Holz, the 15-year-old high school student behind the crazy viral "Damn Daniel" video, had his Twitter account hacked Sunday. Though the teen has since regained control of his account, the attackers deleted the … | Continue reading
Now that almost everything in our lives has a smart variant, from our watches to our refrigerators, why not add water pitchers to that list?Brita has teamed up with Amazon to create the very first smart pitcher, the Brita Infinity Pitcher. The pitcher tracks the amount of water t … | Continue reading
A federal judge in the Eastern District of New York ruled Monday that the Department of Justice cannot force Apple to unlock a phone for the FBI. The decision hands Apple a potentially useful victory in its legal battle over iPhone security, though it came in a Brooklyn drug case … | Continue reading
One of Google's self-driving cars hit a public bus last month while it was in autonomous mode on a Mountain View, California, roadThe collision occurred on Valentine's Day and Google reported it to California's Department of Motor Vehicles in an accident report that the agency po … | Continue reading
While we haven't yet confirmed with Discovery News' worldwide network of apocalypse mythology scholars, we're pretty sure this is some sort of End Times omen:Fast food juggernaut McDonald's is rolling out a pilot program in Sweden that turns Happy Meal boxes into virtual reality … | Continue reading
Bruce Sewell, Apple's senior vice president and general counsel, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday about the ongoing battle between Apple and the FBI.His testimony will be part of a hearing titled "The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security … | Continue reading
Google is finally updating its Maps iOS app with one of the services most useful features.Google Maps on iOS will now allow you to add extra stops along your route without leaving the directions to your final destination. The feature first launched on Google Maps' Android app in … | Continue reading
Not having enough time to exercise is a common excuse — and the same goes for doing laundry. But a quirky new concept imagines a stationary bike that doubles as a washing machine, giving users the power to work out and clean their clothes at the same timeBWM, which stands for bik … | Continue reading
Not since the Concorde have commercial airline passengers been able to break the speed of sound. However, several designers and manufacturers are working to change that, including NASA. The agency announced Monday an award to Lockheed Martin to develop the first 'X-plane' design … | Continue reading
Technology has made our lives so much easier. We have instant directions at our finger tips, it has never been easier to find a date, and with a push of a button we can get food delivered directly to usBut could these modern miracles have solved the epic problems found in classic … | Continue reading
Right on schedule, HTC has opened up pre-orders for its Vive virtual reality headset and controllers on its website. The Vive will cost $799 in the U.S., £689 in the UK and €899 in Europe.The HTC Vive will ship on April 5, mere days after its closest competitor, the $599 Oculus R … | Continue reading
Snapchat debuted its web player just in time for the Oscars on Sunday night, giving everyone a nice behind-the-scenes look at the red carpet and the actual show.Snapchat.com is featuring a curated Live Story — the same one you can watch in its app — from Snapchat reporters, start … | Continue reading
You might think the super-wealthy have it pretty easy, what with their private islands, private jets and the ability to buy just about anything. But there's been one thing they've not been able to buy in awhile: an all-new Bugatti.In fact, it's been more than 11 years since the V … | Continue reading
Steve Jobs had a reputation for raking up speeding and parking tickets, but now the city of San Francisco is looking to track him down and reimburse him for overpaid fines.The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency owes the late Apple founder $176 in overpaid parking ticke … | Continue reading
A couple of years ago, we were treated to a fan-made take on a live-action Akira movie, and it was amazingNow the same director has returned with another cyberpunk short that is not only an original story, but even better than the previous filmSee also: Valentine's Day is also th … | Continue reading
No more guessworkMicrosoft HoloLens, the company's highly anticipated augmented-reality headgear finally has an official ship date: March 30th.This is good news for developers who started submitting applications to buy the $3,000 headset back in October of last year. Now, once th … | Continue reading
Even though Samsung's Galaxy S7 Edge is officially hitting stores on March 11, some customers who have pre-ordered the device are reporting their phone is on its way, or it already arrived. One Reddit user from Finland says he had received his S7 Edge on Saturday, claiming he rec … | Continue reading
Four years after launching the original Raspberry Pi, an ultra-cheap, barebones and tiny but surprisingly versatile PC, the Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the third major iteration of the same product.The Raspberry Pi 3 has a new, 1.2GHz, 64-bit, quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 proces … | Continue reading
In November, Tinder introduced the ability to include job and education information on Tinder profiles pulled from Facebook.Now, the company's released a list of the jobs that people are swiping right on (liking, for those of you who've never used the app) the most.See also: 100 … | Continue reading
I cringe every time I watch someone pinch-to-zoom on their smartphone’s screen right before snapping a photo. The seemingly simple act of zooming in on an object, despite what the screen on the phone displays at the time, almost guarantees the end result will be a pixelated, garb … | Continue reading
Imagine being able to draw or write with any color in the world, not just the color(s) of the ink that come with your pen.Say hello to the Scribble Pen, a smart pen with a special ink cartridge and scanner that can replicate any colorSee also: This 3D Printing Pen Lets You Draw S … | Continue reading
Fans waiting for new Apple goodies will have to wait just a wee bit longer.According to multiple sources, Apple will announce a new 4-inch iPhone and new 9.7-inch iPad on March 21 and not on March 15 as previously reported.See also: 12 awesome Instagram features you're probably n … | Continue reading
Even the most simple of weddings between two loving people can become an unwieldy hydra of stress and trauma. The best way to handle this is through open communication and agreeable boundaries, but that can be a challenge when your mother-in-law is threatening to wear leopard pri … | Continue reading
Australian lifesavers work hard to protect beachgoers from hazards such as dangerous rips and sharks, but they are about to get some extra help from the sky.On Sunday, Westpac, which sponsors the Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopter Services, announced it would be supporting a tr … | Continue reading
With just a day to go before the Oscars ceremony, Hollywood stars are swarming Los Angeles and the various sponsored pre-Oscar gift events being held in the cityBut during at least one such event, some of those celebrities were photographed cuddling up to one of the hottest gadge … | Continue reading
This week, Android Engineer Kenneth Mojica discusses features in the Beta release of Android Studio 2.0To get started, Instant Run is a huge time-saver and makes easy work of changes to your app. Mojica assures us that the new emulator is much faster and adds multi-touch support … | Continue reading
With Facebook rolling out its redesigned like button to everyone and all of the sweet gadgets coming out of Mobile World Congress, you may have missed some of this week's best new apps.See also: The 6 most important things you need to know about Facebook's ReactionsEach weekend, … | Continue reading
The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are Samsung's best smartphones ever, but how do they compare to the best smartphones out there?Samsung isn't re-inventing the wheel here. The Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge sport similar designs to the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, but with more refined details. For ins … | Continue reading
Now that Facebook Reactions are live for everyone, we share our thoughts on the positives and negatives of the new feature and how it fits into the larger Facebook landscape on this episode of MashTalk.See also: The 6 most important things you need to know about Facebook's Reacti … | Continue reading
Mobile app developers who wanted to easily port their apps from Android or iOS to Windows 10 devices were in luck when Microsoft announced it created tools to help with that transition last year. But now Microsoft is going back and dropping the Android bridge, focusing on just iO … | Continue reading
BARCELONA — The 2016 Mobile World Congress has officially drawn to a close, leaving event-goers and tech-watchers alike to take stock of prior days' excitement — the new flagship devices, strange new gadgets and tantalizing speculations about the futureHowever, a keynote talk fro … | Continue reading
Time and again, things we imagine as common knowledge are actually little more than myths and rumours in the tech world. Be it the industry of mobile gadgets, business strategies, BYOD or even the adoption of cloud. So, while many of you out there are experienced myth busters, t … | Continue reading
The year is 2016, and you still have a floppy disc-compatible A drive in your computer. You wouldn’t want to just let that go to waste, would you? But how do you put a 3.5-inch floppy to use when they only hold 1.4 MB of data?You throw an SD card in it, which conveniently fits ri … | Continue reading
The day has finally arrived: Mailbox, the once red-hot email startup, is no more. After nearly three years of helping us in our (often futile) quest for inbox zero, Dropbox has officially shut it down.Luckily, in those three years, email apps have come along way — thanks at least … | Continue reading
One of Apple's allures among fans is the company's attention to detail, which often makes its products just a little more thought-out than the products of its competitors — a hidden antenna here or a set of perfectly aligned slots there. A recent revelation shows this meticulousn … | Continue reading
Bad news for owners of the Nissan LEAF and eNV200 electric vehicles: the NissanConnect EV app (formerly called CarWings) has been disabled due to security concerns.See also: Sorry, Tesla: The world’s fastest electric car is made in... Croatia?Nissan deactivated the app on Wednesd … | Continue reading