How to downgrade (or update) to iOS 10.2

The Most Common Terminal Commands Worth Knowing for the Raspberry Pi

While the Raspberry Pi’s operating system is Linux, that doesn’t necessarily mean you should go out and memorize every Linux command. The Pi is a different type of computer that’s used for different kinds of projects, so the most useful commands dif…

Conservative groups ask President Trump to terminate FCC lawsuit over Qualcomm patent licensing

A coalition of conservative leaders and groups are furious over what they call the Federal Trade Commission's...

Seven years later, many are still asking the wrong questions about Apple’s iPad

When Apple’s iPad was first announced seven years ago today, some people wondered whether...

Meet Alo, A Phone Concept From The Future

Have you ever wondered about a “post-iPhone” future? Well, French designers Jerome Olivet and Philippe Starck have one possible answer. It involves a metal and resin device they call Alo, and it’s meant to be a voice-only smartphone with built-in ar…

Memory loss: Toshiba will sell off chip biz

Hardware dump will help pay costs from failed energy venture Toshiba says it will sell off its memory semiconductor business as it looks to recuperate from the write-off of losses to its nuclear power business.…

Memory loss: Toshiba will sell off chip biz

Hardware dump will help pay costs from failed energy venture Toshiba says it will sell off its memory semiconductor business as it looks to recuperate from the write-off of losses to its nuclear power business.…

Did you know? The FBI investigated Gamergate. Now you can read the agents' thrilling dossier

Yes, we're being sarcastic. We're always sarcastic The FBI has released documents detailing its inconclusive investigation into threats made by online gamers against several women that started in 2014, particularly media critic Anita Sarkeesian and …

You Can Fit $20M in a Mattress (And the Week’s Other Lessons)

We're proud to bring NextDraft—the most righteous, most essential newsletter on the web—to WIRED.com. The post You Can Fit $20M in a Mattress (And the Week's Other Lessons) appeared first on WIRED.

Apple CEO Tim Cook meets with Sen. Orrin Hatch, lunches with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner

As President Donald Trump settles in at the White House, Apple chief Tim Cook this week visited Washington, D.C., to meet with Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch and take a dinner with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.

Windows 10 finally displays download progress for purchased apps

Turns out that Game Mode and streaming via Windows 10's built-in Beam app were only the tip of the update iceberg. A post on the Windows 10 blog also details a handful of extra additions for folks in the Windows Insider program.

Study shows Uber created some new taxi jobs, but hurt wages

One of the taxi industry's biggest complaints against its competition at ridesharing companies like Uber in Lyft is the idea that these newcomers have been siphoning away jobs from regularly employed taxi drivers. According to a new study o…

Iodine’s Birth Control Reviews Help You Pick the Best Method for You

With so many options for contraception, choosing the right one can be difficult. Iodine has a new comparison tool that includes survey results to help you figure out when the perks of a method beat the downsides.Read more...

The FBI's Colossal Failure Investigating GamerGate

A member of Reddit GamerGate hub KotakuinAction filed a Freedom of Information Act request for documents pertaining to the FBI’s investigation of the online movement which they received last month. Now those documents have been made public, and amid…

A Freak Mumps Outbreak Strikes Washington State

A mumps outbreak in Washington has health officials concerned over how to keep the disease contained. The state reported on Wednesday that there have been 278 confirmed and probable cases of mumps across five different counties since October. Now, t…

NASA Just Launched a Stunning Tribute to the Apollo 1 Disaster

On January 27th, 1967, three NASA astronauts—Roger Chaffee, Virgil “Gus” Grissom, and Ed White—perished in a fire that erupted in the Apollo 1 command module during a preflight test. Though it was set to be the first crewed Apollo mission, the craf…

Dating App Creates Service for People Who Are Too Lazy to Make Dates

These days there isn’t much we can all agree on, but here’s a perennial truth: online dating isn’t easy. If you’re looking for love and haven’t found any luck on Tinder or similar platforms, the dating app Hinge is testing a new service for the onli…

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Introducing The Upgrade, a New Podcast from Lifehacker, All About Upgrading Your Life

The Lifehacker podcast is back, and it’s called The Upgrade! It’s a whole new format, but the same great tips and tricks to help you live your best life. Whether you were an avid listener to the old Ask Lifehacker podcast, or never knew we even had …

Apple patent describes Liquidmetal housing for electronic devices

Electronic devices are provided with a protective housing having one or more housing components...

How to Unlock Mac with Apple Watch

Mac users with an Apple Watch can unlock their Mac by simply wearing their watch, thereby bypassing the need to enter a password at the boot and login screens. This great feature makes logging onto and unlocking a Mac remarkably easy and quite fast …