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Home Depot is reeling after it confirmed this week that 56 million credit card users’ data was stolen from its payment database. Now, The New York Times says the home improvement store ignored security warnings from its own computer experts for the past six years. Yeesh. The Times spoke with former Home Depot cybersecurity employees…
This week’s tech news was absolutely dominated by the iPhone 6 and iOS 8 hitting the streets. We brought you all of that news, but we also dug deep into a wacky holodeck, the maddening search for the perfect air conditioner, a wet, naked soak in sensory deprivation, and more. Let’s review! The Online Legacy…
No, you still can’t buy a consumer version of the amazing Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, but it’s getting really, really close! Oculus just announced a brand-new prototype at the company’s Oculus Connect conference in Los Angeles, and they claim it’s a GIANT leap forward. While we don’t have full tech specs yet, it’s higher…
Oculus Connect, the keynote event for the makers and experimenters playing around with the amazing virtual reality goggles, is going on right now. What’s in store? Watch right here to find out. Watch live video from oculus on www.twitch.tv No matter what’s announced, we’ll be here updating you. Stay tuned for more!
Before X-Men: The Animated Series and its amazing theme tune graced our screens, Marvel attempted to set up an X-Men cartoon in the late 1980’s with Pryde of the X-Men – and now, a producer on the series’ pilot has put a set of original storyboards for it on eBay. Although Pryde of the X-Men…
The new iPhones have just hit the streets, and you know what that means: A million reviews comparing the Cupertino fruit stand’s newest smartphone to its toughest competition. Don’t waste your time. The Onion’s hilarious comparison is the only one you need to read. Once again, the internet’s gurus of piercing satire manage to get…
Are you still tracking your own packages, flights, and deliveries while tapping on your mobile device’s screen like a caveman? Not when we’re done, you won’t be. Here are seven simple steps you can take to turn Google Now into your personal digital secretary. Android users may already be well-familiar with Google Now’s powers, but…
AppleCare repair and replacement costs are out: Under Apple’s protection plan, new screen comes in at $109 for the iPhone 6, $129 for the 6 Plus; out-of-warranty battery replacement is $79; and broken phone replacement runs $299 for the 6, $329 for the 6 Plus. [AppleCare via iMore]
This week, people camped outside Apple stores for days anticipating the iPhone 6. But those line-waiters weren’t all frenzied Apple fans high on the joy of a new smartphone: As filmmaker Casey Neistat portrays it, many of the line-sitters were buying the new iPhone to immediately resell it on the black market. It’s hard to…
San Francisco’s current tech-led boom has seen slick new housing high-rises pop up all across the grid, but Bay Area urban renewal in the 1970s had a very different look. Photographer Dave Glass is a native of the city’s Western Addition, and snapped these images of Victorians being driven around town like massive domestic trailers…
Google’s free email service is great—tons of people use it. Google+ isn’t nearly as popular, even though new Gmail users have been forced to connect to a Google+ account for years. Now, Google’s making that social service integration optional. Finally. WordStream noticed yesterday that new Gmail sign-ups are no longer required to connect a Google+…
It may have taken him 6 episodes, but finally, Tuxedo Mask barely manages to be an active participant in this week’s episode of Sailor Moon Crystal, as the search for the Legendary Silver Crystal continues. Moon Prism Power, Re-Cap! Act 6 – Tuxedo Mask – is an enjoyable return to form for the series so…
Transport by sea has been a favorite of smugglers for centuries – it’s hard to patrol an entire coastline, and it’s easier to move a ton of stuff by sea than by land. In the future, though, getting your contraband through a port might be made exponentially more difficult by this tiny, ultrasound-packing submersible robot.…
I hate driving, I really do. I especially hate driving in Los Angeles. And even though I know it’s impossible and unreal for me to ever feel this cool driving (unless I turn into Ryan Gosling), this time lapse by Gavin Heffernan makes me want to get in my car and drive through Los Angeles…
Cineastas spent some time with Mike Whitehead and Finex Cast Iron Cookware Co. to give a glimpse of how Finex is trying to reinvent something that has existed for thousands of years: cast iron. I love the slow and considered process—and I love to imagine the delicious food that will be inside them. If you’re…
My favorite thing about these then and now type of videos that show what the world used to look like versus what it looks like now is not seeing what has changed but seeing how much has actually stayed the same. This video shows the 100 year difference at Alkmaar in the Netherlands. The video…
Before Ang Li made big blockbuster movies with CGI tigers and swordsmen flying on wires, he made small family dramas, the most mouthwatering of which is Eat Drink Man Woman. In the movie’s opening scene—famous among food porn connoisseurs—Mr. Chu prepares a sumptuous Sunday dinner for his three grown daughters. You don’t find the bright…
To no one’s surprise, Burger King’s all black burger looks like a disgusting turd in real life. Actually, it might be even worse than some turds. It looks like it tastes like ash. It looks like it’s made from burnt cardboard. It looks like it’ll bring death to anyone who dare eats it. Grub Street…
Constant access to Wi-Fi and LTE make it supremely easy for us to swap songs with each other. More often than that, we swap URLs. In parts of Saharan Africa where service is scarce, Bluetooth does the trick—which means that a booming culture of peer-to-peer MP3 sharing has sprung up, contained on the memory cards…
It used to be that, when you wanted to slap someone with a lawsuit, you’d have to hunt them down the old-fashioned way—on foot, just like mom used to do. But now, a Family Court official has ruled for the very first time in the United States (it’s already common practice in Europe) that yes,…
