Insane Man Stings Himself With the Second Most Painful Insect on Earth

The tarantula hawk is neither a tarantula nor a hawk—it’s a very big, very mean desert wasp. And of course someone on the internet decided to get stung by one.Read more...

Sprint Offers $20 Unlimited Data Plan for Tablets

Sprint is now offering an unlimited data plan exclusively for tablet users. For only $20 per line per month with AutoPay, customers can experience unlimited mobile streaming video, online gaming and streaming music, and 4G LTE for most everything el…

Netflix offline viewing coming before year-end?

Spotify for tvOS has Been ‘Down Prioritized’ According to Spotify Project Leader

Spotify, the leader when it comes to streaming music services (for now), doesn’t have any plans to bring its services to the Apple TV 4 and tvOS anytime soon. Continue reading →

Open-source storage that doesn't suck? Our man tries to break TrueNAS

FreeNAS's 2003-looking grown-up sibling examined Review  Data storage is difficult, and ZFS-based storage doubly so. There's a lot of money to be made if you can do storage right, so it's uncommon to see a storage company with an open-source model d…

Apple Pay picks up 24 more US banks & credit unions plus British Airways bookings

Apple on Tuesday added another 24 banks and credit unions to the list supporting Apple Pay in the U.S., filling in an increasingly small set of coverage gaps. British Airways, meanwhile, introduced limited support for the the platfo…

Researchers accidentally turn carbon dioxide into ethanol

Science has a long and storied history of looking for one thing but finding something better instead. Penicillin, radioactivity, science boxes...I mean microwave ovens -- all of these discoveries came in the the search for something else. O…

Twitter's troll problem likely killed Disney's bid

The last few months have seen many reports about massive companies like Disney, Verizon, Google and Microsoft purchasing Twitter, which continues to struggle with questions about its value and utility. Disney ultimately pulled out, and a ne…

Clinton campaign considered Tim Cook and Bill Gates for VP

One of the nuggets of information to come from the Podesta emails leaked by Wikileaks is a correspondence that lists business and tech leaders as potential running mates for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. If you're running against …

Tim Cook was potentiele running mate Clinton

Apple-CEO Tim Cook stond op de lijst met potentiële running mates van Hillary Clinton. John Podesta, chef campagne van de Democratische kandidaat voor de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen, vermeldde Cook in maart in een e-mail. WikiLeaks heeft de h…

Apple’s retail chief Angela Ahrendts on turning stores into town squares

Apple’s retail chief Angela Ahrendts has spent the past two years revamping the technology company’s retail stores...

Apple to Introduce New Macs at October 27 Event

Apple will introduce new Macs at an event that's set to take place on Thursday, October 27, reports Re/code. The event will be held "at or near" Apple's Cupertino campus instead of in San Francisco, suggesting it will perhaps be at the company's Tow…

New MacBook Pros (coming Oct. 27?) reportedly going all in with USB-C

We’re halfway through October and there are still no new MacBooks in sight, though according to a Tuesday report from Recode, Apple is announcing its new laptops at a media event near Cupertino on Oct. 27—two days after Apple's quarterly earning…

Misfit puts Fossil's analog fashion sense in its new Phase fitness band

Watchmaker Fossil bought fitness tech company Misfit a year ago, but the company’s influence hasn’t yet been seen in Misfit’s products, which are super-basic activity trackers designed to look like jewelry. But Misfit’s latest product, the Phase…

31% off Roost Smart 9V Battery for Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarms, 2-Pack - Deal Alert

The Roost Smart Battery mimics the form of a 9V battery, installs in minutes, and lasts for more than 5 years. Using your home's WiFi, Roost will communicate when it's running low on power, so you can take action to avoid those dreaded middle-of-…

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Apple CEO Tim Cook Could’ve Been Hillary Clinton’s Vice President

U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s Vice President running mate could’ve been Apple CEO Tim Cook. Mr. Cook is on a list of potential running mates John Podesta, Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman, presented before Tim Kaine was …

QuickBooks Online adds Apple Pay on the web support for paying invoices

Following the launch of Apple Pay on the web with macOS Sierra late last month, Intuit today added the feature to its popular QuickBooks Online service. That means that invoices sent using the software can now be paid using Apple Pay: more…Filed u…

Comment: Something is wrong when an Apple fan steps outside the Apple ecosystem

I love the Apple ecosystem. It’s not perfect by any means, but I’d say that the vast majority of the time it lives up to Steve’s famous ‘it just works’ promise. It’s the main reason that I have two Macs, an iPad and an iPhone. So when a big Apple f…

Sprint wants to give your iPad unlimited data for $20/month (and a few strings attached)

Sprint wants to attract more iPad customers with its new $20/month unlimited data plan for tablet users. As with most carrier deals, there are a few strings attached. You have to purchase the cellular iPad from Sprint, have at least one phone line …

New MacBook Pros (coming Oct. 27?) reportedly going all in with USB-C

We’re halfway through October and there are still no new MacBooks in sight, though according to a Tuesday report from Recode, Apple is announcing its new laptops at a media event near Cupertino on Oct. 27—two days after Apple's quarterly earning…