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Apple users, it’s here—the final, stable, built-for-the-regular-public version of iOS 8 has arrived. Back up your stuff so you don’t lose everything, and then go get that fresh new software! For your over-the-air update, just go to Settings > General > Software Update to download the latest OS. We will also post direct download links…
iOS 8 is coming soon. (Hands in the air emoji!). Updates are great, but they’re almost always buggy, which means you should back up your stuff before you load up the new platform. Here’s a refresher on how: iCloud Make sure you’re connected to Wi-Fi. Go to Setting. Select iCloud. Select Storage & Backup. Tap…
Do you find yourself obsessing over the latest tech? Does owning the newest model smartphone or tablet feel like a need more than a desire? Well, as you can see in this comic strip from 1919, your anxiety about having the Latest New Thing is actually nothing new. In fact, you’re continuing a long tradition…
After a weather delay just long enough to push the launch window into the drama of rockets blazing across the night sky, the United Launch Alliance successfully send CLIO into orbit tonight. If you’re wondering what CLIO is, you’re not the only one. Top image: It took braving swarms of bugs to capture the fiery…
3D printers are far from a perfect technology at this point, but one of their most glaring issues is that their printing capacity is limited to the size of the machines. The print head on a 3D printer can only travel so far, which is why moving it onto a wheeled platform that’s completely mobile…
Our multi-million dollar fleets of Predators and Reaper drones are quickly becoming the exception rather than the rule. As UAV technology continues its breakneck advance, the cost of producing even high-performance ISR drones is plummeting. This new UAV, for example, is so inexpensive and quick to create that it’s practically disposable. Dubbed the Razor by…
iOS 8 is almost here for your iPhone and your iPad. A shiny new operating system is fun, but you probably have some questions. Here are the answers you need. Should I upgrade to iOS 8? If your device can support it then yes! iOS 8 brings a whole bunch of new features like a…
Relax, guys. That fireball from a few weeks ago? You know, the “rocks with glowing red and orange streaks” that everyone noticed one night? Experts agree it was just a Russian spy satellite breaking up over the Rockies. Everything’s fine, nothing to see here. The fireball was seen the night of September 2nd, according to…
Facebook is reportedly testing an app codenamed “Moments” so people can share posts with a smaller circle of friends. TechCrunch reports multiple sources have confirmed the existence of this app, including one who has seen a live internal version. Here’s what they know so far: The product is currently being “dogfooded” by Facebook employees to…
Every month, the bills get paid on time. The emails get answered, and any orders filled. Which, for HeavensGate.com, is positively extraordinary. Because as far as the public is aware, every last member of the suicide cult died 17 years ago from a cocktail of arsenic and apple sauce. A few stayed behind, though. Someone…
Apple has made it so that that iOS 8, which goes out to the public today, will work on iPhones reaching all the way back to the venerable 4S. Which is good! But as Ars Technica found out the hard way, subjecting your elderly iPhone to new software may not be worth it. At least…
At last, it’s done. The biggest spaceship size chart ever created is now complete and fully operational. 4,268 x 5,690 pixels of technological terror that includes everything from the smaller Star War ships to EVE. According to its author, Dirk Loechel, this is the last update. It’s epic. The last update For real this time:…
If you roll your eyes when someone claims that inhabiting a massive luxury RV counts as “camping,” you’re not going to like this. As if showers, giant TVs, and microwaves weren’t already overkill enough, a bunch of crazy German automakers have created what is possibly the world’s first motorhome with a convertible roof, letting you…
Our friends of In Saturn’s Rings have a new teaser for their incoming 4K IMAX grand tour of the Universe, made using millions of high definition photographs taken by telescopes and spacecraft. There are no 3D models in these videos. Just photos, animated by 67 volunteers from all over the world. According to Val Klavans,…
Jason Paul and his team show their parkour skills in this cool set up that looks like a real-life 8-bit video game. Watching this I started thinking on Mario. He is not an overweight plumber would have enough stamina to survive a run in this scenery—not even with the help of magic mushrooms. SPLOID is…
There’s a flag in the latest Chrome for Android release, spotted by OMG! Chrome, that let’s you view quick results beneath the search bar before you’ve finished typing. It can give celebrity facts, capital cities, sunset times and more in record time, and help you cheat more effectively at the next pub quiz. Enter chrome://flags…
Details about two new upcoming Kindle readers have leaked online. A German website first pointed out that information about the next generation of Amazon’s e-readers had appeared on the German version of Amazon’s website. It’s gone now, but not before revealing that there will be two new types: an upgraded “basic” version, and a new…
Remember Horizon, the brilliant little iOS app that let you shoot horizontally-oriented videos no matter what angle you were holding your smartphone? It’s finally available on Android, ensuring your Moto X isn’t going to pollute YouTube with horrible portrait-oriented videos. Do the world a favor and download it, after all, it’s free. [Google Play Store…
It seems like everybody is racing to build the platform that will transform all of our homes into smart homes. But the blunt truth is that nobody’s really in the lead, and a few contenders are still on the sideline. Logitech, however, is gunning for the victory with its new Harmony Living Home system. Harmony…
The idea of floating in orbit, protected from the void by mere inches of material, is one we’ve grown pretty blasé about over the years. But it’s a terrifying, marvelous, sublime thing—and a new exhibit of rare NASA photos attempts to remind us of that fact. Earlier this year, Gizmodo’s Jordan Kushins wrote about an…
