Since it launched in July 2015, UK banks have steadily begun adopting Apple Pay. All of the big name institutions are on board -- including Barclays, Santander, HSBC and Natwest -- but there have been some notable exceptions. Today, The Co-…
Lees meerThe final piece of the Defenders puzzle will be slotting into place on March 17th, 2017. We've known about the Iron Fist TV show for some time, and was finally greeted with a teaser trailer at San Diego Comic-Con. The Marvel superhero is an…
Lees meerNext time you need to find a group to help you through Destiny's latest raid, you won't have to venture outside your Xbox One. That's because the Looking For Group feature teased at E3 is starting to roll out to Dashboard Preview Program me…
Lees meerWith its enormous user base and built-in end-to-end encryption, WhatsApp has some major advantages over rival messaging tools. In the hyper-competitive digital marketplace of 2016, however, only one feature truly matters: the ability to draw little …
Lees meerAn app called Musical.ly that lets you lipsync songs is very popular amongst tweens and teens, and one of its stars, 15-year-old Jonas Bridges, went viral after making a music video with what appears to be his dying grandfather in the background.Re…
Lees meerEverybody keeps spilling the beans on Google's upcoming Pixel phones. After a UK retailer and a Canadian carrier posted about them early, it's now Verizon's turn. Gizmodo has spotted listings of the upcoming devices on the carrier's Enterpr…
Lees meerA 14-year-old girl visiting Universal Studios Florida was hospitalized on Saturday after another visitor’s e-cigarette device malfunctioned, “shooting a ball of flame” at the girl, CNN reports.Read more...
Lees meerAny gamer can benefit from a good headset, whether to stay in clear contact with their teammates during an intense raid or to keep the noise down while their spouse is asleep. But some cans are loud in a different way, boasting garish desig…
Lees meerOkay jokers, listen up. Maybe you think dressing as a psychotic clown seems like jolly good fun. Maybe you see it as some larger commentary on the macabre absurdity of human existence. Maybe you didn’t have to sleep with the lights on for an entire …
Lees meerLast night, Bell, a Canadian phone company, accidentally posted a preorder page to Google’s super secret phone project, the Pixel. Then the British phone store Carphone Warehouse leaked even more pictures. Now it appears Verizon also accidentally po…
Lees meerWatching seven levels of humans stack themselves on top of each other is obviously a little bit absurd but it’s also pretty damn impressive. They’re 40 feet in the air and the only thing preventing the humans on top from smashing the humans on t…
Lees meerDamn. Here’s a view of Hurricane Matthew from the ISS and it is truly frightening to see, because the storm seems to stretch itself all over the planet and the eye is so well defined. The category 4 hurricane’s impact on Haiti could be catastrop…
Lees meerThe next step of the 2016 Presidential election? Apparently, domain squatting. Wired reports that after Hillary Clinton's campaign declined to buy a domain consisting of her last name combined with that of her running mate, the owner sold i…
Lees meerGoogle has hired one of the key personnel in Amazon's hardware division, according to The Information. The Big G has apparently signed up David Foster (no, not the composer) to head up the development of its Pixel phones and fill a new posi…
Lees meerIn what should come as a surprise to absolutely no one, Amazon reviews are often deeply biased because the product in question was given to a reviewer for free or at a discount. These handouts have a tendency to artificially inflate product ratings.…
Lees meerWhen our family visited Disney World in the 1990s, my parents always insisted that we visit the Hall of Presidents for a little “education” on our vacation. The attraction is a stage show with audio-animatronic presidents, and every time this great …
Lees meerIt lived a short, pathetic, inconspicuous life, and now it’s probably going away forever. Microsoft has pulled listings of its fitness tracker—the Band 2—from its online store. In a statement given to ZDNet, the company says it has sold existing inv…
Lees meerBest Buy has agreed to pay $3.8 million for “knowingly [selling] and [distributing] 16 different recalled products from 2010 through 2015,” according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Commission says Best Buy sold recalled products abou…
Lees meerA legacy fan of the Madden sports game franchise made a disturbing discovery: In its latest version, Madden NFL 17, the evening sun is in the east, the absolute wrong side for it to set anywhere on planet Earth. It only happens during games…
Lees meerAs SpaceX’s investigation of a Falcon 9 rocket explosion on September 1st drags into its second month, rumors are flying that this may have been more than a random technical failure. According to a Washington Post report, SpaceX is considering the…
Lees meerWhen the very first Roku launched in 2008 , the bulky box had a clunky interface that only played Netflix. How far we’ve come. That initial idea ended up spawning an entire genre of streaming devices and set-top boxes that have basically helped cha…
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