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Apple doesn't want to talk about the real use for the Apple Watch

By Josh Dzieza 337

Hands-on with the new 12-inch MacBook with Retina Display

By Dieter Bohn 567

Ellen Pao is finally testifying at Silicon Valley's trial of the year

By Nitasha Tiku 11

Hillary Clinton says she used private email as 'a matter of convenience'

By Adi Robertson 114

Apple's shareholders really want Tim Cook to buy Tesla

By Josh Lowensohn 158

Android Wear will get Wi-Fi support, gesture control in next software release

By Dieter Bohn 146

Apple's new ResearchKit: 'Ethics quagmire' or medical research aid?

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross 27

Amazon gives Kickstarter brands a new storefront

James Vincent March 11, 2015 08:14 am35 minutes ago 1

Amazon is launching a new storefront named Amazon Exclusives, where the retailing giant will curate product from little-known brands. In essence, this means the retailer is giving a number of buzzy gadgets...

Kickstarter is not a store, but Amazon is

Facebook removes 'feeling fat' emoticon under pressure from online activists

Amar Toor March 11, 2015 07:16 am2 hours ago 32

Facebook this week removed a feature that allowed users to tell their friends they're "feeling fat," in apparent response to an online petition that garnered more than 16,000 signatures. The "feeling fat"...

Bloated emoji "could reinforce negative body image" Facebook

Scientists prepare to wake Philae lander from its deep sleep in the shadows of comet 67P

James Vincent March 11, 2015 07:36 am1 hour ago 3

Starting tomorrow, scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) will attempt to make contact with the stricken Philae lander for the first time in nearly four months.

rise and sunshine

Apple’s taping over developer iPhone cameras in secret watch labs

Tom Warren March 11, 2015 05:54 am3 hours ago 7

Initial details on Apple’s strict rules for Apple Watch app development were revealed last week, but as the April 24th release date nears we’re starting to hear more about the bizarre secrecy surrounding...

What happens in WatchKit labs stays in WatchKit labs

The 9 biggest things from the Apple Watch and MacBook announcement

By Adi Robertson, Josh Dzieza, and Lizzie Plaugic 190

Hands-on with a (working) Apple Watch

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For Thunderbolt and Lightning, USB-C is very, very frightening

Vlad Savov March 10, 2015 09:05 am24 hours ago 291

The new MacBook represents Apple's vision for "the future of the notebook." That future is defined by thinness, lightness, and an almost total abandonment of external connectivity ports. Other than the...

The future is like the past: full of USB

Sony is closing its failed PlayStation Mobile platform

Sam Byford March 11, 2015 03:40 am5 hours ago 29

PlayStation Mobile, Sony's initiative to build a store for indie games and PlayStation classics that could be played on both the PS Vita handheld and certain Android phones, is coming to an end. No further...

No more games after July 15th

Don’t buy this millionaire’s terrible Star Wars house

Rich McCormick March 11, 2015 02:58 am6 hours ago 16

This $15 million mansion has a special Star Wars room, complete with a bed designed to look like one of The Empire Strikes Back's snowspeeders.

It's terrible.

The Incom T-47 airspeeder was originally a...

bed squadron

Scientists say people are terrible at remembering what the Apple logo looks like

Rich McCormick March 11, 2015 01:19 am8 hours ago 29

Apple's logo is a masterpiece of form. It's a refined, elegant shape that represents the computer brand without the need for words, and represents an expectation of quality. But, according to a UCLA study...

memory failure

The next iPhone could be pink and have a pressure-sensing screen

Sam Byford March 10, 2015 09:18 pm11 hours ago 102

Apple is planning to release new iPhones later this year with Force Touch-equipped displays, according to The Wall Street Journal. Force Touch was one of the key themes at Apple's event on Monday; the...

Mass production said to start in May
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Here are all the bands you can mix and match with the Apple Watch

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A NASA probe is orbiting a dwarf planet for the first time ever

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Valve's weird, old VR headsets are on display at GDC

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Up close with Lamborghini's even faster Aventador Superveloce

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The Quant F is an electric supercar powered by quixotic ambition

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Up close with Ferrari's latest supercar, the 488 GTB

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Audi's R8 sports car now comes with an all-electric option

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Bentley's EXP 10 Speed 6: up close with the future of British luxury

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Apple's Store App lets you check out Apple Watch sizes on your wrist

Josh Lowensohn March 10, 2015 07:21 pm13 hours ago 30

Remember when the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were announced last year, and people weren't sure just how much bigger they were? Crafty individuals came up with printable versions of the phones you could make at...

Not the strangest thing you've done with your iPhone

This is what the original Enterprise would look like in the new Star Trek movies

Kwame Opam March 10, 2015 06:27 pm14 hours ago 35

The original USS Enterprise (designation NCC-1701), designed in 1965, is a classic among Star Trek fans. So much so that when the designs for the revamped Enterprise in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot were...

"To boldly go..."

This LaCie hard drive is the first one made for Apple's new MacBook

Chris Welch March 10, 2015 06:14 pm15 hours ago 39

LaCie has always catered to Mac users with its line of external hard drives, and the company is wasting no time in building one designed for the do-everything USB-C port on Apple's new MacBook. Today LaCie...

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Jury finds Robin Thicke and Pharrell copied a Marvin Gaye song for Blurred Lines

Jacob Kastrenakes March 10, 2015 06:06 pm15 hours ago 46

Robin Thicke and Pharrell copied a classic Marvin Gaye song while writing their 2013 hit "Blurred Lines," a jury found this afternoon. According to the Associated Press, Gayes' children are being awarded...

Jury Says Lines Blurred Between Robin Thicke, Marvin Gaye Songs

Netflix had House of Cards' third season made in 6K

Jacob Kastrenakes March 10, 2015 05:30 pm15 hours ago 56

Netflix has been quick to support 4K streaming of its original content, and it looks like it's already thinking about the future. According to The Hollywood Reporter, season three of House of Cards was...

4K is so 2014

Apple donates over $50 million to improve diversity in tech

Micah Singleton March 10, 2015 03:57 pm17 hours ago 50

In an effort to improve diversity within the tech community, Apple is donating over $50 million to a pair of organizations working to get more women and minorities working in the tech industry. In an...

The money will be split between two organizations focused on diversity

The CIA helped develop planes that scrape cell phone data

Russell Brandom March 10, 2015 03:35 pm17 hours ago 4

The US may be using cellphone-sniffing planes to find suspects across the world, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. In November, the Journal revealed the US Marshal's secret program to...

"There’s a lot of privacy concerns."

The new MacBook may be the future, not the present

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Looking for a $10,000 luxury watch? Don't buy the Apple Watch Edition

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Watching HIV replicate in a living animal is now possible

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross 3

The rulebook for being a female investor: don't complain

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Meerkat is a little app that's turning live video into a big deal again

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Netflix engineers got House of Cards to play on the original NES

Chris Plante March 10, 2015 03:13 pm18 hours ago 19

Netflix now runs on an unmodified NES. For Netflix's Hack Day, employees Guy Cirino, Alex Wolfe, and Carenina Motion created a version of the Netflix app that runs on the original Nintendo Entertainment...

Frank Underwood would be pleased

Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, and other psychoactive drugs are temporarily legal in Ireland

Jacob Kastrenakes March 10, 2015 03:08 pm18 hours ago 16

Ecstasy, magic mushrooms, and other psychoactive drugs are currently legal to posses in Ireland following a court ruling that struck down a ban on certain substances, according to The Irish Times....

Emergency legislative session aims to reinstate ban

Tim Burton to direct a live-action Dumbo remake

Kwame Opam March 10, 2015 03:06 pm18 hours ago 14

Tim Burton has signed on to direct a remake of Dumbo for Disney. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will be a mix of live action and CGI, with a script written by Transformers franchise...

Who will Johnny Depp inevitably play?
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You can now design a custom Moto 360 using Moto Maker

Casey Newton March 10, 2015 01:37 pm19 hours ago 80

As expected, Motorola's Moto Maker website can now be used to customize the Moto 360 smartwatch. Visiting the Moto Maker site will let you design a smart watch with one of three finishes for the case: dark...

Google's beautiful new Calendar app is now available for the iPhone

Nathan Ingraham March 10, 2015 01:30 pm19 hours ago 80

Last fall, Google released a redesigned calendar app for Android, and said it was working on bringing it to iOS, as well. That day has come: for the first time, iPhone users have a full-fledged, official...

The new calendar app of choice for Google users

Hannibal Burress getting well-deserved show on Comedy Central

Kwame Opam March 10, 2015 01:02 pm20 hours ago 13

Hannibal Burress, the comedian who currently plays well-to-do dentist Lincoln Rice on the critically acclaimed Broad City, just got his own show on Comedy Central. According to The Wrap, the new weekly...

Burress' star is on the rise

The new IndyCars are the wildest-looking racing machines on the planet

Sean O'Kane March 10, 2015 12:48 pm20 hours ago 57

What you see above is not a spaceship, a new Transformer, or an ad for Gillette. It's what about half the field of this year's IndyCar season will look like — at least on road courses. It's a design that's...

Can crazy design help a struggling sport?
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Apple Watch and new MacBook announcement: all the news from Apple’s ‘Spring Forward’ event

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Where are all the Apple Watch games?

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The fast, furious, and futuristic cars of the Geneva Motor Show 2015

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Ferrari vs. Lambo: who won the Geneva beauty contest?

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The Quant F is an electric supercar powered by quixotic ambition

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The new Audi R8 looks the same as the old Audi R8, and that's okay

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All the news from the 2015 Oscars

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Birdman wins Oscar for best picture

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Eddie Redmayne wins best actor Oscar for portrayal of Stephen Hawking

Alejandro González Iñárritu wins best director Oscar for Birdman

Watch John Legend and Common perform Best Original Song Glory on the Oscars

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Kickstarter, Etsy, GameStop, and Marriott are getting behind Apple Pay

Chris Welch March 10, 2015 12:40 pm20 hours ago 16

More retailers are moving to support Apple Pay, with Kickstarter, Etsy, and GameStop the latest to join a growing list. With an update released yesterday, Kickstarter's iOS app now lets you crowdfund any...

Back Kickstarter projects with your thumb

Game of Thrones' fifth season will air simultaneously worldwide each week

Jacob Kastrenakes March 10, 2015 12:29 pm20 hours ago 38

Game of Thrones fans who don't live in the US will no longer have to worry about seeing spoilers before they can see the actual show: HBO said today that it plans to broadcast the show's entire fifth...

Non-US viewers may have to stay up late

Verizon FiOS drops The Weather Channel because there's an app for that

Chris Welch March 10, 2015 11:35 am21 hours ago 42

The Weather Channel just disappeared from Verizon FiOS channel listings. This morning, Verizon sent an email to all customers announcing that its agreement to carry the channel has expired — and isn't...

Your phone is better at weather than any TV

The Secret Service is training to knock dangerous drones out of the sky

Ben Popper March 10, 2015 11:26 am21 hours ago 8

Two weeks ago, we told you that the Secret Service was going to fly drones around Washington, DC — the start of some mysterious "exercises" on which it provided few details. Today the Associated Press is...

One little crash and everyone goes crazy

An app that will make parents Dungeon Masters of their child’s playground

Chris Plante March 10, 2015 11:16 am21 hours ago 3

Previous generations of parents viewed video games as time-wasters, but the medium has made recent inroads thanks largely to tablets and educational games like Metamorphabet and Minecraft. Video games have...

The Apple Watch has 8GB of storage but only 2GB for music

Micah Singleton March 10, 2015 11:13 am22 hours ago 68

Don't expect to store a ton of music on your Apple Watch. According to 9to5Mac, it has confirmed with Apple that the Apple Watch only has 8GB of storage, and only 2GB of that can be used to store your...

only 75MB of storage for photos

This is what the original Enterprise would look like in the new Star Trek movies

The new IndyCars are the wildest-looking racing machines on the planet

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Here’s what happened to the guts of Apple’s thinnest computer in less than 5 years

Derek Zoolander and Hansel just posed at a Paris fashion show

Jacob Kastrenakes March 10, 2015 11:04 am22 hours ago 26

With a second Zoolander film in the works and supposedly nearing a shoot date, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are doing what's necessary to get back in character. The duo walked the runway during Valentino's...

Zoolander 2 is coming next February

The line between good and evil blurs in the latest Daredevil trailer

Kwame Opam March 10, 2015 10:54 am22 hours ago 8

With Marvel's new series Daredevil one month away, Netflix just released a new trailer to remind everyone that this is a darker effort than Marvel Studios' previous outings. Here, Vincent D'Onofrio's...

"Another man's evil does not make you good."

Who will buy a $10,000 Apple Watch Edition?

Micah Singleton March 10, 2015 10:16 am22 hours ago 155

They actually did it.

The Apple Watch Edition will start at $10,000 and will go all the way up to $17,000, Apple’s most expensive consumer-focused product ever. It’s undeniably pricy, but Apple is...

This is Apple's Vertu

The long-delayed PlayStation 4 will arrive in China March 20th

Adi Robertson March 10, 2015 09:51 am23 hours ago 6

After months of delays, the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita are going on sale in China on March 20th, the company confirmed to Bloomberg. The former will cost 2,899 yuan (around $463), compared to $399...

Sony follows Microsoft into China with a cheaper console
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