Uber Offering Helicopter Rides to Rich New Yorkers
Uber is offering a new service that lets customers literally fly over traffic jams. The notorious startup this week began promoting helicopter rides to—where else?—the Hamptons during Fourth of July...
View ArticleUpcoming Japanese Horror Film Promises 4D Mobile Experience
An upcoming sequel to the Japanese horror film series Ringu (best know in the U.S. for its America adaptation, The Ring) will offer the first ever 4D smartphone experience thanks to a mobile app that...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher “Jobs” Movie Gets a Poster and Tagline
The first movie poster for upcoming Steve Jobs biopic Jobs leaked online today, revealing an almost unrecognizable Ashton Kutcher decked out as the Apple co-founder in his classic round glasses,...
View ArticleBeats Wants to Partner With AT&T to Launch Daisy Streaming Service
Beats Audio is hoping to partner with AT&T when it launches Daisy, a streaming music initiative slated to go live this fall. Executives from both parties have allegedly met on numerous occasions;...
View ArticleWeekend Project: 5 Cloud Data Backup Services
One of the most painful moments of computing is when you realize you’ve lost “everything” on your trusty gadget. Whenever you experience data loss (e.g., mechanical, software, or theft) you go through...
View ArticlePatients Show No Sign of HIV Virus After Bone Marrow Transplants
The scientific community has reportedly made the biggest breakthrough yet for treating the HIV virus. Following a bone marrow transplant at the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women’s Cancer Center in Boston,...
View ArticleThere’s Now An Instagram Trailer for Ashton Kutcher’s Jobs Film
Ashton Kutcher’s Jobs movie has already received a proper trailer and poster, and now it’s colliding with one of today’s more polarizing social networks. Fitting, no? In what is apparently the first...
View ArticleNFL Quarterback Dons Google Glass During Practice
One of the cooler aspects of Google Glass is its ability to record video at will. Put it in the right hands, and it has the potential to change how the world experiences everyday mundane tasks, or...
View ArticleHyperloop Design Coming August 12, Musk Says
Elon Musk is the CEO of Tesla and the founder of fledgling space transport company SpaceX, but he’s clearly not satisfied yet. The inventor and entrepreneur previously hinted at an ultra-fast mode of...
View ArticleGoogle Allegedly Working on New Online TV Service
Everyone agrees TV is broken. And some of today’s biggest companies aim to fix that, from Intel to Apple, and now Google. According to a Wall Street Journal report, the search giant has allegedly...
View ArticlePayPal Mistakenly Gives Man $92 Quadrillion
They say your chances of winning the lottery is just as good as if you hadn’t purchased a ticket at all. I wonder what the chances are of someone suddenly getting $92,000,000,000,000,000 from PayPal?...
View ArticleGuy Makes Amazing Real Life Wolverine Claws
Out of the many superhero powers dreamt up by the comic world, Wolverine’s are perhaps the most badass. His animal-keen senses are cool, as are his enhanced physical capabilities. But its his metal...
View Article97-Year-Old Makes Incredible Art Using Microsoft Paint
Given the digital tools consumers have access to today on smartphones and tablets, and even computers, a program like Microsoft Paint, which many people likely toyed around with to waste time, can...
View ArticleGoogle Working on Real Time Language Translation Technology
Google is well known for working on future tech in its secretive labs, stuff we hear about and stuff we don’t. Google Glass and Project Loon often come from one specific wing of mad Google scientists,...
View ArticleAshton Kutcher Spent 3 Months Learning to Walk Like Steve Jobs
At a special screening yesterday of JOBS, Ashton Kutcher answered questions from the audience, discussing his transformation into Steve Jobs and what it taught him about Apple’s visionary founder and...
View ArticleWeekend Project: How to Clean Your Laptop
Time: 5-15 minutes Cost: Free to $20 Difficulty: None Like many users, I use my laptop fairly regularly. I use it daily for work and occasionally for some gaming, which usually prompts my wife to ask,...
View ArticleBuffalo Gear: Canary Is A Smart Home Security Solution
Whether you’re going on vacation or staying out late for dinner and a movie, keeping tabs on your home is essential for peace of mind. We never suspect anything will happen while we’re away, but...
View ArticleRevamped Zagat Website Gets Android and iPhone Apps
Google rolled out a massive update today for Zagat—which the search giant acquired in 2011 after its $500 million bid for Yelp was rejected—introducing a new website as well as mobile apps for Android...
View ArticleWeekend Project: Tidy Up Your Cords With These Cool Tools
Cord decluttering can be a monumental task, especially if your workspace looks anything like above. Here are a few of our favorite cord tidying tools: Plug Hub Price: $24.99 Quirky’s website claims...
View ArticleNew Trailer and Clips for the Upcoming Jobs Film Play Up the Drama
No matter how much research Ashton Kutcher put in to walking like Steve Jobs, there is still a lot of ground for the actor to cover when it comes to pulling off his personality. Up until now those...
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