Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced prototype versions of the car Thursday night at the company's Los Angeles design studio. Tesla Motors says buyers reserved more than 115,000 Model 3 sedans on Thursday, the first day orders were taken. With a starting price of $35,000, the Model 3 i … | Continue reading
Researchers have grown a type of complex, hairy skin tissue in the lab for the first time. The fluorescent skin was implanted in living mice, and although its use in humans is a long way off, scientists think the lab-grown tissue could one day help burn survivors and people with … | Continue reading
For better or worse, it’s April 1st again. Happy April Fools’ Day! The day when up becomes down, cats become people, and the Internet loses its collective mind for about 24 hours. As is tradition, we’re digging up all the best, worst, weirdest, and most ill-planned April Fools’ j … | Continue reading
Less than 24 hours after Tesla opened up pre-orders for its “affordable” Model 3 vehicle, CEO Elon Musk said the company has already received 198,000 deposits and counting – valuing at least $7.5 billion worth of potential sales. Model 3 orders at 180,000 in 24 hours. Selling pri … | Continue reading
Anticipation for Tesla’s new “affordable” electric car reached fever pitch in the build up to the big unveil yesterday, with 115,000 people having paid $1,000 to get on the list to buy a Model 3 shortly after it was unveiled yesterday. After a full day taking orders, Elon Musk ha … | Continue reading
I love April Fools' Day. I agree the annual day of pranks and goofs has become a shallow excuse for brands to cloyingly plea for our attention, but sometimes that desperation can transcend into genuine humor. You get the sense, on April Fools' Day, that a certain set of people re … | Continue reading
Over the past 40 years, Apple has created several game-changing devices that have shaped the way the world thinks about technology. Along the way, the company also released special editions of a few of its products – some of which were easy to buy back in the day and a couple tha … | Continue reading
It’s clear that public markets don’t always share Silicon Valley’s sunny optimism at IPO time. One recent and much-discussed example is flash data storage company Pure Storage, which raised $425 million in its highly anticipated IPO but then fell back to earth on the first day of … | Continue reading
The LG G5 has sold at three times the rate of its predecessor the LG G4 on its opening day in South Korea. The LG G5 sold 15,000 units in one day and is expected to hit 10 million globally. | Continue reading
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took the stage in front of a hooting crowd of fans and clients Thursday night to reveal the Model 3. The company said it secured about 135,000 reservations during the first day of ordering. Photo: Tesla | Continue reading
Twitter marked its tenth birthday last week by giving us all something fun – a delightful little animation when you ‘liked’ a tweet. As soon as the big day was gone, so was the animation. And I want it back permanently. Every time I ‘liked’ a tweet that day it felt like a little … | Continue reading
Most smartphones are beautiful, smooth and shiny, but that can be a problem when they slip from your hand and shatter into a zillion expensive pieces. Now, OnePlus, known for its sandstoned, textured smartphones (see OnePlus One and Two), has decided to make everything drop proof … | Continue reading
The tidal wave of April Fools Day gags has arrived. And rather than let myself be drowned in a sea of misery, I have decided to grab my board and ride the surf of inanity in the hopes that I can get into the spirit of the day. After all, some people worked really hard […] | Continue reading
For the first time ever, you can visit Pornhub.com during work and not worry about being spotted by your boss. That's because the site is currently called Cornhub, and its front page features nothing but corn videos. SEE ALSO: The ultimate roundup of British April Fools' Day 2016 … | Continue reading
Not all April Fool's Day jokes are entirely well thought out. Take Gmail's Mic Drop feature, which actually cost some people their jobs before the joke feature was pulled from the email service. | Continue reading
Yes, we know what day it is, but really: Google Photos now lets you search using emoji. Try it yourself. The company announced the news in a blog post on Google+ last night, explaining (in emoji also) that sometimes "searching with a full word just doesn't cut it," and you need t … | Continue reading
Always wanted to hang out with Heston in his restaurant? Or take centre stage on a LGBT Mardi Gras float? Your time has come, you lucky thing.On Friday, amid the dirty swamp of April Fools' Day jokes, came a new offering from Australian broadcaster SBS. The channel has launched a … | Continue reading
It’s past midday on April 1 in some parts of the world, so already we’re seeing some of the inevitable glut of April Fools Day announcements from tech companies. There looks to be one (surprising) early loser: Google. Read More | Continue reading
From genuinely funny to cringe-worthy, from totally believable to totally crazy, April Fool’s jokes are coming in thick and fast. Google alone is responsible for about a hundred. Without further ado, here’s a roundup of the tech-related pranks we’ve spotted so far. | Continue reading
OK, we admit it: Wearing only gray t-shirts and blue jeans can get a bit tedious. On the other hand, you never have to worry about choosing the right outfit again!That's what H&M's new "Mark Zuckerberg" collection is all about: No choices. Just like you have no choice but to use … | Continue reading
A Pimm's take over of Big Ben, Mumsnet's space mission and telepathic ordering technology from Deliveroo are among the stories that have conveniently landed in our inbox on April Fools' Day... | Continue reading
With the release of the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, it's a very serious few weeks for virtual reality. So it's the perfect time to lighten up with Google's latest April Fools' Day product: an all-new VR headset that truly lives up to the medium's promise. That's Google Cardboard Pl … | Continue reading
By now, we all know that Google doesn't mess around on April Fools' Day — especially when it comes to some of its most loved services.This year the company has outfitted Pegman, the orange stick figure from Google Maps, with some new '70s attire and groovy disco dance moves.See a … | Continue reading
Here we go again. It’s April Fools’ Day, and like every year, Google is doing its best to outdo itself. This is the first year the company is doing so under its new Alphabet parent company, so we’ll see if that has any impact. But if the jokes are anything like in previous years, … | Continue reading
Acclaimed metroidvania Axiom Verge is coming to Vita on 20th April, developer Tom Happ has announced.North Americans will receive it one day earlier on the 19th.The side-scrolling sci-fi throwback launched last year on PS4, PC, Mac and Linux. If you already own the PS4 version, y … | Continue reading
We’ve finally hit that day on the Internet where nothing is real and everything is terrible, but sometimes some cool pranks come along that we wish existed in real life. Take Gmail’s ‘Mic Drop’ — a new tool to let you respond to an email and never hear a reply ever again. It’ll e … | Continue reading
Today is the Tesla Model 3 pre-order day: the time when us plebes will finally be able to have an electric car within our price range. But as people queue up and throw money down to get a taste of the future, they’ll have to do so with a catch. They probably won’t actually see th … | Continue reading
Proving that there is no concept that people with too much money and time on their hands can’t smother to death in a desperate bid for your love and admiration, the annual parade of April Fools’ fake products has arrived a day early to torment us and make us briefly forget how mu … | Continue reading
Kevin Hart is gearing up to serve comedy all day, every day. Canadian-American entertainment company Lionsgate announced today that it is entering a partnership with Hart's company Hartbeat Digital to launch Laugh Out Loud — a video-on-demand service just for comedy content.Hart … | Continue reading
You thought yesterday’s Build 2016 keynote was long? Day 2 was no different. If you didn’t sit through the entire keynotes for both days, here’s a quick recap of what you missed on this second half of the conference. All about Azure Today, we’re starting Microsoft’s cloud computi … | Continue reading
Are you fluent in MongoDB? Well today is your lucky day. Microsoft’s NoSQL document database service DocumentDB now supports drivers for MongoDB. So if you were using existing MongoDB tools and libraries, now you can use them with DocumentDB and take advantage of Microsoft’s clou … | Continue reading
President Obama will meet with world leaders over a two-day summit aimed at stopping nuclear proliferation. WSJ's Jerry Seib discusses what to expect from the summit. | Continue reading
Rihanna just released her video for "Kiss It Better," the second single cut from her new album ANTI. It's following in the footsteps of "Work," the smash-hit Drake collaboration she released back in January, and it's being released alongside another new single, the DJ Mustard-pro … | Continue reading
I quite enjoyed Rope Racers [Free] in my review last week, and in fact I’m still playing every day. Flying through each level via ropes and trying to beat nine other people to the finish is incredibly fun, but unfortunately the game has just about every free-to-play mechanic you … | Continue reading
Life can fall into a familiar routine when you have a full-time job, but what is that routine like when your full-time job happens to be in space? Continue reading… | Continue reading
Microsoft had lots to share in its day 1 keynote at Build yesterday, from bots to augmented reality. What will the best brains in Redmond have for us today? Follow along with our liveblog below. Live Blog Microsoft Build 2016 Day 2 | Continue reading
Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference in San Francisco this week and after focusing on Windows, Xbox, HoloLens, and Cortana yesterday, the company will shine the spotlight on its cloud and developer tools today. You can watch the live stream right here. Read … | Continue reading
Sprint is still trying all the tricks it can to get back into the game, but the carrier's latest is something we haven't seen before. Customers can now get access to Amazon Prime as a monthly add-on for their contract for $10.99. You get everything you'd normally get from Prime ( … | Continue reading
On the first day of its Build developer conference, Microsoft confirmed that it will bring ad-blocking capabilities into its Edge browser. The feature will be available in the next version of Edge, along with support for extensions — which it included in a preview build earlier t … | Continue reading
We’ve been at Microsoft’s Build conference all day, getting up close and personal with the latest and greatest from Microsoft. With announcements about Xbox, Cortana, Windows 10, new developer tools, the introduction of a Bash shell to Windows (!), cool new API tools for develope … | Continue reading
Ever since college, the way that I've been told to study computer science was to avoid Windows for writing code. In class, we used Ubuntu, a flavor of Linux to complete our assignments. Students who showed up to class on the first day with a Windows laptop (myself included) were … | Continue reading
Build 2016 has one clear takeaway: Cortana is what matters, at least for now. At almost every product or service announcement at this morning’s keynote, Microsoft made a point to mention that it would also work with Cortana. At a deep dive event for press later in the day, Micros … | Continue reading
If you were to take a really serious, old-school iPhone launch day with big lines in front of Apple Stores, but substitute a $35,000-plus giant gadget in place of a phone, you'd get Tesla Model 3 pre-order day. It's getting real out there. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Hannah offers a peek into the world of a Brafton Video Producer. | Continue reading
Satya Nadella, chief executive of Microsoft, had a pretty tame keynote on the first day of Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco. He sometimes danced near controversy, emphasizing topics like privacy, but he never challenged these issues head on. There were plenty of issues … | Continue reading
Microsoft has just wrapped up its two and a half hour keynote at its annual Build conference in San Francisco. Here’s a recap of what the company discussed in its kickoff. Anniversary update Starting off the event, Microsoft announced that 270 million devices are running Windows … | Continue reading
Bitcoin price decline continued all day, and pattern analysis shows $400 (Bitstamp) is a likely target during the coming 24 hours. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? Join now and receive a $29 discount using the … | Continue reading
It's hard to believe we've been celebrating Pencil Day for 158 years now, but for some people, it's better than Christmas. If you're looking for some great iOS games to play while you partake in Pencil Day festivities, you're also in luck as the iOS gaming gods have blasted the A … | Continue reading