Tag: gear

Lyft puts 30 self-driving cars to work in Las Vegas

If you're in Las Vegas, you can now experience what it feels like to ride in a self-driving car: Lyft

The Morning After: Gaming cheats are getting caught

Welcome to the end! Of this week. We get a vague due date for Tesla's next big project, the Model

Criminals used a drone swarm to disrupt an FBI hostage rescue

Drones are what you make of them. One person's wedding videographer is another person's drug mule. And while hobbyist drones

Robotic woks are the chefs in this Boston restaurant

Four MIT students who once built a soccer ball-kicking robot got together with a Michelin-starred chef to build a restaurant

‘Record Player’ app searches Spotify when you snap a pic of an album

Say you're at a record store and you come across an album that you'd like to listen to before you

Microsoft is making it easier to take screenshots in Windows 10

The next Windows 10 Insider preview build includes a lot of trial features -- including a new way to take

NPR and public radio group buy popular podcast app Pocket Casts

NPR, This American Life, WNYC Studios and WBEZ Chicago have teamed up to buy Pocket Casts, a cross-platform podcast app.

Anheuser-Busch will haul beer in Nikola hydrogen-electric trucks

The rivalry between Nikola and Tesla is only getting hotter... figuratively speaking. Mere months after ordering 40 Tesla Semis, Anheuser-Busch

Samsung Pay offers cash back on purchases from select retailers

Samsung announced a new Cash Back program for those making certain purchases through Samsung Pay. Within the Samsung Pay app's

Adobe offers schools Creative Cloud licenses for $5/year

Adobe has been slowly moving its apps and services to the cloud since 2013. If you use any of the

Stephen Hawking’s last paper has been published on multiverse theory

The last paper Stephen Hawking wrote before he died has now been published in the Journal of High Energy Physics.

Microsoft is fixing a Windows 10 bug that causes Chrome to freeze

Since the Windows 10 April update, some users have been dealing with frozen systems when they're running apps including Chrome

Google adds more Assistant features to Wear OS

Google brought its AI assistant to Android Wear 2.0 last year, and has been adding features like Routines and Custom

Samsung’s new camera sensor plays nice with phones besides the Galaxy S

Today, Samsung announced that the 16-megapixel ISCOCELL Slim 3P9 image sensor is now available. This image sensor is designed for

Toyota will test risky self-driving scenarios at a Michigan track

It's not enough to test self-driving cars in realistic conditions -- if they're going to avoid crashes, they need to

Instagram shopping is about to get dangerously easy

Last year, Instagram revealed an upcoming appointment-booking feature, another step towards the company's larger plans of becoming a shopping service

Wirecutter’s best deals: Save $70 on Samsung’s SmartThings Home Monitoring kit

This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter's independently chosen editorial picks, it may

Twitter warns all users to change passwords following internal bug

Twitter announced today that a bug allowed users' passwords to be stored internally without being masked. When things are working

Amazon lets every Alexa developer offer in-skill purchases

Now that it's easier to ask Amazon's Alexa follow-up questions, it's only natural that its shopping options are getting a

Google’s hacking protection tools now keep native iOS apps safe

Google's Advanced Protection Program can be extremely valuable if you're a high-profile hacking target who's willing to trade a ton

Sonos plans home theater event for June 6th

Sonos announced today that it will be hosting an event in June and its invite included the image below. While

Chrome learns to mute sites based on your web history

Right now, your web browser's response to auto-playing content tends to take one of two extremes: either it mutes everything

Developers would rather ignore Cambridge Analytica at F8

Facebook is ready to turn the page on the Cambridge Analytica user privacy scandal, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made that

Xiaomi is officially coming to the UK and Europe

In addition to filing what could be the world's largest IPO since Alibaba, Xiaomi is also spreading its wings and

Facebook is winning the augmented reality war

If it weren't for data privacy, fake news and hate speech taking up so much air time, this year's Facebook

Google Assistant now works with every major smart home device brand

Google's I/O developer conference is happening next week, and it'll be just about two years since the Google Assistant was

Amazon puts Seattle expansion on pause over tax proposal

Amazon is extremely unhappy over a Seattle tax proposal that would set it back between $20 to $30 million a

The Morning After: Most of us don’t mind the smartphone notch

The smartphone notch isn't going anywhere, MoviePass' movie-a-day plan is back and the latest Google Doodle comes with a VR

HTC will reveal its next flagship on May 23rd

In an interesting twist on the clichéd device tease, HTC has preempted an iFixit-style teardown by showing the back and

Nest’s Temperature Sensor is now available for $39

Don't worry if you missed out on pre-ordering Nest's Temperature Sensor last month -- it's now available for purchase, and

Samsung’s latest microSD card is beefy enough for your dash cam

Most microSD cards are perfectly fine for your smartphone. Your dash cam or home security camera, however? That's

Xiaomi’s Hong Kong IPO expected to raise at least $10 billion

Xiaomi's interest in listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange hasn't exactly been a well-kept secret, and following months of