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Apple wants to destroy your wallet and kill your credit cards with Apple Pay, its new mobile payment system. With a new iPhone or the Apple Watch, you’ll be able to ditch your cards and pay for stuff at more than 220,000 merchants by tapping your device. That is, as long as you trust Apple.…
Okay, this is kind of hilarious. The new iPhone 6 has burst mode for selfies. Hello narcissists! Burst mode, for the uninitiated will take several photos with one push of a button. This joins a number of other features that make the iPhone 6’s camera better than ever. The lens is the same with an…
Amongall the other goodies being packed into the brand new iPhone 6 and6 Plus, the phone comes bearing the newest generation of Apple’s M chip—the M8. And it might finally turn the iPhone into the fitness tracker we’ve been waiting for. The new sensor should be able to know whether you’re running, riding your bike,…
You’ll be able to call people using your WiFi connection on the iPhone 6, so when your WiFi is working better than your reception is (all the time?) you’ll have an alternative. And Apple’s WiFi received a speedy upgrade: 802.11ac WiFi in the iPhone 6, or three times faster than the previous generation. But that’s…
The new generation of iPhones isn’t only increasing in size but speed as well. Apple just announced its next-generation A8 processor that will be baked into the iPhone 6 and most likely future iPad Airs. Apple confirms rumors that the A8 has over 2 billion transistors and is 13 percent smaller, 25 percent faster, and…
Thebigger, badder iPhone is finally here. But don’t worry, it does indeed have a mode for your itty bitty baby hands. In other words, you should be able to use all 5.5 inches just fine.
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This is it. Apple just announced the iPhone 6—andthe iPhone 6 Plus—a sleek sliver of aluminum that comes in two sizes. The screen on the smaller of the two measures 4.7-inches diagonally, and depending on the nature of your needs (and the size of your hands) it might just be the perfect phone for you.…
Welcome to September, Guardian. The fall release season kicks off today with one of the biggest sci-fi games of the year hitting shelves, as well as the latest in all things video game hockey. Preparing a trip to The Tower, or readying your wallet for the spending season? Talk shop in Tuesday Game Room! What…
The 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus is Apple’s biggest iPhone to date. It’s one of two new iPhones the company is introducing today, and the Plus means, obviously, that this is the biggest iPhone 6. Here’s what you need to know about Apple’s massive smartphone future. iPhone Finally Goes Big Apple’s original iPhone was a groundbreaking…
I love these simple, beautiful print ads for Faber-Castell Aquarelle pencils, which you can use to draw normally or, like the slogan says, “just add water” to make those beautiful watercolor effects. So pretty. Editors note: If you like to draw and you have never tried the Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle, get a box. I…
Bingewatching good shows is now a beloved American pastime, and Chromecast is a fantastic enabler. Now Netflix is decreasing the minimal effort needed to just keep streaming; that “Post-Play ” option that automatically starts the next episode will be rolled out for iOS and Android users navigating their queue from their smartphone to their TV.…
Science and electrical engineering types might have a list of practical uses for superconductors a mile long, but the rest of us really only care about how they can make things magically levitate. Just imagine if a company like Lionel revealed a levitating train set available in time for the holidays, the demand for Cabbage…
Remember all those amazing things graphene can supposedly do? Well, the wonder material is starting to do them. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland recently developed a graphene-based sensor thatlets people see through walls. Obviously, they want to make goggles with it. The new sensor is remarkable for its ability to detect…
This galaxy looks like our own Milky Way, except for a pair of spiral arms emerging out of the galactic plane. That one anomaly is enough to radically change the evolution of NGC 4258, as powerful jets are generating shockwaves driving gas right out of the galaxy and slowing star growth to a crawl. Top…
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While GPS has enabled a degree of autonomous function in many modern maritime vessels, ships are very much unable to steer themselves upon the high seas—or even navigate out of the harbor. But, like a naval Knight Rider, this new “smart” search and rescue boat could soon be patrolling your local shores, all by itself.…
At school, we were all taught that volcanoes—just like the one rumbling away in Iceland—erupt when narrow jets of magma are forced outwards from the core of the Earth. It’s a compelling enough story that it’s appeared in textbooks for decades—but it’s also, apparently, completely wrong. So, the theory we all know and love goes…
Pro athletes lead a very luxurious life, with trainers ensuring they’re always in top physical shape. But they still travel in cramped airplanes that weren’t designed for seven-footers. Teague design firm and Nike have come up with a solution: a super-luxurious concept jet that caters to a team’s every need. First and foremost is space.…
New York in the years after World War II was a city more prosperous and more modern than anything the world had seen—and it spawned a whole culture unto itself, distributed in newspapers, magazines, and advertisements. This was the era of Madison Avenue Men, and Mac Conner was their illustrator. Conner is the subject of…
