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Samsung’s Huge Galaxy View Is the Take-Anywhere TV You Never Knew You Wanted

It’s a remarkable feeling when you find a gadget that makes no sense yet feels so right. The Galaxy View, an 18.4-inch portable touchscreen TV, is one of those gadgets. And it promises remarkable things. Seemingly the size of a pizza box, the Galaxy View is difficult to place in a single category. Samsung calls…

The Wonder Woman Movie Could Have More Batman Than We Were Expecting

Elizabeth Henstridge teases the future of Simmons’ relationship with Fitz on Agents of SHIELD. Captain America: Civil War merchandise reveals details about Cap’s new costume. Plus, a tense clip from Doctor Who, a sinister image from Jessica Jones, and news about Game of Thrones’ huge battle. Spoilers Now! Wonder Woman Chris Pine has confirmed his…

GE’s New Connected Lightbulbs Automatically Adjust for Healthy Living

It’s well known that lighting affects your mood. Now, GE is launching a new line of connected LED lightbulbs aimed at healthy living. The new line, C by GE, works without a hub and automatically changes the temperature of the light based on time of day. The C by GE connected bulbs come in two…

China Is Ending Its One-Child Policy

China is to scrap its one-child policy, first implemented in 1979, according to reports from the state-run new agency Xinhua. The news emerges at the end of a four-day meeting of China’s ruling Communist Party. All Chinese couples will now be abbe to have two children, not just one, according to the news agency. The…

Huawei Now Has an Old Apple Creative Director on Staff

Huawei has a fine track record of borrowing from Apple’s designs. You can perhaps expect the Chinese manufacturer to produce even more iPhone clones though—because it now counts an old Apple Creative Director as a member of its staff. Verge notes that the former Apple employee Abigail Sarah Brody has updated her LinkedIn profile to…

This Gorgeous GPS Satellite Is Ready for Tomorrow’s Launch 

This golden slice of visual perfection is a Global Positioning System IIF-series satellite. It underwent final encapsulation inside its four-meter diameter protective payload fairing on October 21st at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The U.S. Air Force and its mission partners are scheduled to launch this satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V…

Bosch Has a Pedestrian Avoidance System It Wants to Put in Real Cars By 2018

Bosch has announced that it’s been working on a system that can detect and help avoid pedestrians that step out in front of cars, and it hopes to fit it to production vehicles as soon as 2018. The Engineer reportsthat the system, developed at Bosch’s R&D centre at Renningen in Germany, isn’t fully autonomous, but…

Here’s What Public Safety Agencies Think About Automated License Plate Recognition 

Law enforcement agencies around the country have been all too eager to adopt mass surveillance technologies, but sometimes they have put little effort into ensuring the systems are secure and the sensitive data they collect on everyday people is protected. Case in point: automated license plate recognition (ALPR) systems. Earlier this year, EFF learned that…

The BBC has announced that iPlayer is headed to Apple TV “in the coming months.” That’s all we have to go on so far, but it’s certainly good news.

OnePlus X Is a $250 Phone That’s Shockingly Good-Looking

I’m a big fan of cheap phones, an obsession that’s been well documented. I’ve tried the Moto G, Nexus 5, and OnePlus One, and have loved them all. I’m completely convinced that a great smartphone and an expensive smartphone are not mutually exclusive. The new $250 OnePlus X is proof. Yes. That phone pictured above…

Restoring a Ship’s Hull Still Looks Like Something From Centuries Past

It looks like ribbons of paper peeling off the surface of the wall—but in fact Seaman Jorge Ortiz here is prying copper sheet away from the hull of the USS Constitution as he helps restore the ship. The USS Constitution, which first launched in 1797, is lined with 3,400 sheets of copper, so it’s a…

Apple TV Will Get Siri Support for Apple Music Early 2016

Apple has confirmed that the new Apple TV will support Siri for Apple Music sometime early in 2016. A report by Buzzfeed, including a conformation by Apple, reveals that you’ll be able to use Siri to sift through songs and albums when an update for the set-top box rolls out “at the beginning of next…

Google Photos is getting a feature that enables you to hide a specific individual from under the People tab—which means you can suppress those images of your ex that you’d rather not have to look at.

Australian Court Holds Google Responsible for Linking to Defamatory Websites

The South Australian Supreme Court this week found that Google is legally responsible when its search results link to defamatory content on the web. In this long-running case, Dr Janice Duffy has been trying for more than six years to clear her name and remove links to defamatory material when people search for her using…

Maybe Vodka Filtered Through Meteorites Will Actually Taste OK

Outer Space Vodka doesn’t actually come from outer space. It comes from Iowa, which is about as far as you can get from space without burrowing into the Earth’s core. But there are still compelling reasons to buy this vodka: firstly, the bottle, which is ideal for scaring small children or impromptu Halloween costumes; secondly,…

Detonating Avalanches With Explosive Drones Isn’t as Dumb as It Sounds

The concept of dropping sticks of primed dynamite from drones near a ski resort is guaranteed to give any OSHA inspectors second thoughts and a dry pen. But considering the way things are currently done, armed flying robots would be a serious safety improvement. Avalanche control—which, for the most part, means using explosives to safely…

There’s Primordial Oxygen Leaking From Rosetta’s Comet

Comet 67P is full of surprises, from complex organic molecules to miniature space weather systems. Now, in an astronomical first, scientists have discovered molecular oxygen in the space rock’s tenuous atmosphere. And it may be a relic from the birth of the Solar System. “This is the most surprising discovery we have made so far,”…

Google’s Internet Balloons Are Floating Over to Indonesia

Google’s Project Loon is a grandoise project to bring internet to the third world via large party balloons. Last time we’d checked in, it was flying 20 balloons over Australia; now, it wants to put 20,000 over remote parts of Indonesia. In an announcement today, Google confirmed that it’s teaming up with three of Indonesia’s…

GoPro’s Experimental Drone Footage Looks Pretty Damn Good

GoPro is developing a drone. That much we know; what we don’t is how much it will cost or what it’s like to fly. What we do know, however, is that the footage looks pretty darn great. In a YouTube video, GoPro has shown off some demo video from its prototype quadrotor. The emphasis is…

Carly Fiorina Blames Office Politics for Getting Canned from HP

In tonight’s GOP presidential debate, Carly Fiorina was asked about her disastrous tenure as HP’s CEO. Her response: She was fired due to office politics, not because she was bad at her job. Fiorina pointed out that Tom Perkins, the man who voted to fire her, had changed his tune and publicly stated that her…