Mario Aguilar

Google Photos: Free Unlimited Photo Storage With Automatic Organization

Here’s Google Photos, Mountain View’s big shot at making your enormous photo collection usable. It’s unlimited photo and video storage, plus some smart design and brains to make a huge number of photos manageable. It launches today on Android, iOS, and desktop. Like Flickr, this is supposed to be a a home for all the…

HBO Now Is Coming to Google Play, Alright

After just a few months of “exclusivity” with Apple, HBO Now will be available to Android devices through Google Play. Woohoo more GoT everywhere. The first big announcement at Google I/O is a content play: HBO’s streaming video service, which is basically identical to HBO Go, gives you access to all the goodness on HBO…

Amazon Lazy People Same-Day Delivery Service Is Now Free In 14 Cities

Amazon Prime subscribers will now get free same-day shipping on “over a million” items in 14 metropolitan areas. It’s practically Seamless for stuff. Amazon’s been tinkering with same-day shipping for a while now, and the free same-day offering is the natural evolution, especially as Walmart just launched its own cut-rate Amazon Prime competitor. There are…

Devs Are Already Using the Apple Watch’s Hidden Port To Charge It Faster

Developers just illustrated that the Apple Watch’s six-pin accessory port is not only capable of charging the wristable—it actually charges it faster than the inductive charger. When we shared first shared news of the the hidden port a while back, we told you about Reserve Strap, a startup that is developing a $250 battery strap…

Visual Shazam Exists Now—To Sell You Junk

Shazam is expanding to the visual world. Now you can use your phone’s camera to scan the Shazam logo on printed media. Shazam will then load up some other “content.” Who asked for this? In its purely audio form, Shazam is magic. You’re in a bar, you hear a song, you want to know what…

Fast and Furious’ Justin Lin Directs Live Action 360 Video For Google

Following on last year’s beautiful animated short “Duet,” Google just pushed out a sweet little short from Justin Lin, best known as the director of several films from the Fast and Furious franchise. “Help” is a 360 video is available through the Google Spotlight Stories app, a project of the Advanced Technologies and Projects (ATAP)…

Apple Data Center Building In Mesa, Arizona Catches Fire

A Mesa, Arizona building owned by Apple, Inc. Caught fire today. The fire is reportedly out, according to multiple source, but you can still see the smoldering building and firefighters working the scene in images from the likes of NBC 12. The building looks suspiciously like the building that was subject to some Apple news…

Here’s Facebook’s Little Red Book: A Guide to Zuckerbergian Truth

Facebook, like many Silicon Valley giants, has a mythology that’s used to indoctrinate workers. To help spread this ancestral origin story, Facebook enlisted its in-house print shop to publish a book of cultish aphorisms to guide inductees towards the light. Several photographs of the book are published on the portfolio website of Ben Barry. Barry…

Crazy Rumor: Kanye Might Dump Jay Z’s Tidal to Launch Swish on Beats

Here’s a ludicrous rumor we’re going to explore because the thought of Kanye West and Apple and Dr. Dre doing something together makes me want to throw a cartoonishly large old-time cash register off a building just to watch millions float away in the wind. Some music weblog called “Hits Daily Double” says there is…

Why Chrome Uses So Much Freaking RAM

Google Chrome is a fine browser, but that goodness comes with a number of foibles that make us want to tear down walls and run to Firefox. But as Lifehacker points out, there’s a good reason that Chrome eats up so much damn RAM—and there are solutions to help you get around it. https://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-1702537477

Skrillex Made Some Expensive, Pointless Phone Cases With Google

Skrillex and Google have “teamed up” to bring a new line of Live Cases that juice your phone with new features. The new Live Cases have gaudy sci-fi designs straight from the mind of the electronic musicstar. The cases have built-in NFC chips that talk to your phone and unlock new features: “live wallpaper” that…

HBO Go Finally Comes to Fire TV For Comcast Subscribers

Last year, Amazon’s excellent Fire TV got access to HBO Go, the crown jewel of VOD services. Or it did, assuming your cable provider was anything but Comcast. If you had Comcast, you were inexplicably screwed. No longer! It’s incredible that it took this long, but HBO Go is finally available on the Fire TV…

Adblock Browser Righteously Fends Off Ads on Your Android Phone

Completely essential browser extension Adblock Plus is plowing forward on its quest to keep bothersome ads out of the web with a new browser for Android devices. The new Adblock Browser is in beta, and currently available for direct download from this Google+ page. (It hasn’t been approved by Google just yet, but you should…

Tweetsnow show up in Google search results on mobile devices. Twitter and Google reached a deal to work together earlier this year, and they’re making good on it now. One step at a time, though: Tweet search still doesn’t work on your desktop or any language but english.

Verizon’s Just the Latest Big Evil Media Conglomerate Waiting to Happen

Verizon’s $4.4 billion bid for AOL isn’t just another whimsical moment in web investment weirdness. It’s serious. The deal creates a huge media-communications giant, just like huge evil media conglomerates before it — and, if you consider the facts, it’s possibly worse. What the hell did Verizon just buy Though you probably remember AOL as…

How Avengers: Age of Ultron‘s Skull-Crunching Sounds Were Made

Avengers: Age of Ultron is the kaboom, smash, crunch action movie of the moment. Check out this short documentary about how the sonic magic was made. The new SoundWorks Collection doc goes deep with Ultron’s Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer Christopher Boyes, of legendary Skywalker Sound. Boyes elaborates how he and his team evolved…

Easily Add GIFs to Your Gmail With This Slick Chrome Extension

Giphy’s great new Chrome extension builds an animated image search engine right into your editor. I’m freaking out. Every party invitation email needs a GIF, and who wants to go to the trouble of doing a Google image search to find the perfect one. Ugh. The Labor. It’s pretty simple: After installing the extension, you’ll…

The Writer Behind the Weirdest Tech Erotica You’ve Ever Read

Have you wondered what it’s like to get fucked by the Apple Watch? Canadian erotica master Leonard Delaney did. Delaney is the author of “Invaded By the iWatch,” a 4000-word yarn about a young woman, Christie Aackerlund, who walks out her door one day to find a new “iWatch” sitting on her stoop. She puts…

The Moto X Just Got a Fun New Gesture That Turns on the Flashlight

An Android 5.1 update is rolling out to the 2014 Moto X. It adds a new gesture that turns the the flashlight on and off. To do it, simply “chop twice.” That sounds weird, but makes more sense when you look at this GIF: Motorola’s software gestures are probably the coolest features on one of…

Amazon’s Drone Delivery Patent Just Feels Like Trolling At This Point

The idea of receiving your Amazon delivery from drone is fanciful. It’s a total impossibility for the foreseeable future, sure, but Amazon just scored a patent for drone delivery system anyway. Originally filed in September 2014 the USPTO just granted Amazon a patent for an “Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Delivery System,” in which UAVs are, ahem:…