Samsung’s Note 7 Debacle Keeps Getting More Expensive

What’s the cost of designing and selling an smartphone that catches on fire? If you’re Samsung, it’s US$5.3 billion. The electronics maker is now estimating its losses for dealing with the Galaxy Note 7 debacle will climb well over its earlier proje…

Hands-on: Apple Watch Nike+ special features in action ahead of October 28 release [Video]

Apple has teamed up with Nike to create the running-focused Apple Watch Nike+. The special version of the new Series 2 models includes extra benefits like unique band designs and colors, Nike watch faces, and integration with Nike’s specialized run…

Listening to This Dude Narrate His Scary Ride Down a Narrow Ridge Is Hilarious

Claudio Caluori is a hilarious mountain biker who’s scared of heights. So it’s pretty perfect to force him ride a wild course filled with narrow ridges, scary slopes, and insane jumps. Read more...

Kotaku Overwatch Players Are Photobombing The New Halloween Mode | Jalopnik Don’t Vacuum Gasoline (W

Kotaku Overwatch Players Are Photobombing The New Halloween Mode | Jalopnik Don’t Vacuum Gasoline (Watch And You’ll Understand) | Vitals It Doesn’t Matter When You Eat | io9 The io9 Guide to Essential Horror Films Directed by Women |Read more...

Two Undiscovered Dark Moons Appear to Be Hiding Near Uranus

After re-examining data acquired by the Voyager 2 spacecraft, astronomers have detected wavy patterns in two of Uranus’s dark system of rings—patterns that may be indicative of two undiscovered moons.Read more...

US government bans Samsung’s Note 7 from all domestic flights

Macy’s is the First U.S. Department Store to Host Apple Section

There are some retailers out there, like Best Buy, that have dedicated sections to Apple products. But department stores, at least in the United States, haven’t had the pleasure. Continue reading →

Health Data Importer Gives You Manual Control Over Importing Your Health Data on iPhone

iPhone: If you like to use Apple’s Health app, you’ve probably noticed there’s no good way to import or export your data. That’s fine for most people who use iCloud to restore their device, but if you prefer to set up a new iPhone instead, it loses …

Future MacBooks Could Have Context-aware E Ink Keyboards

There’s been talk that Apple plans to add a slick OLED strip of touch-sensitive controls to upcoming MacBooks. Now sources claim that they may get a killer keyboard upgrade, too. What kind of […] The post Future MacBooks…

Friday 5: Focus peaking on the iPhone with Mavis & four other unique apps to check out this weekend [Video]

Welcome to the first edition of Friday 5. This is a feature post that I plan on airing regularly to briefly highlight five apps each week. These don’t necessarily have to be new apps or popular apps, but are releases that contain at least one notab…

Typinator 6.11

Maintenance release for the text-expansion tool resolves several bugs. ($€24.99 new, free update, 8.0 MB) Read the full article at TidBITS, the oldest continuously published technology publication on the Internet. To get a full-text RSS feed, help s…

This Short Film Made By Pixar Animators in Their Spare Time Is Damn Good

Pixar animators Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj made this short film Borrowed Time over the past 5 years, and it’s fantastic. The story is set up as a classic Western but then makes a pretty heavy turn and becomes a story about forgiveness. Bas…

All Galaxy Note 7 Devices Are Now Banned From US Flights: Report

The FAA will be banning all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones from any flight in the United States, according to a new report from Bloomberg.Read more...

How to restrict iTunes, iBooks, Apple Music Connect, and more with parental controls for iPhone and iPad

Parental Controls, also known as Restrictions, let you manage which features, apps, and content your kids can and can't access on the iPhone or iPad. That includes the iTunes Store, which sells music, movies, and TV shows, the iBooks Store, which …

The FBI served Google with a secret subpoena

Tucked into Google's latest bi-annual transparency report, the search behemoth quietly revealed that it received a secret subpoena from the FBI sometime during the first half of 2015. While the subpoena itself wasn't necessarily out of the …

How to Use Picture in Picture Video Player on Mac

Picture in Picture mode is one of the more useful features available in the latest version of MacOS, essentially it allows you to pop open a little hovering video player that is unobtrusive as it floats over the screen. This is great whether you’re …

Report: Salesforce, last remaining company in acquisition talks, pulls out of bid for Twitter

After reports that Google, Apple, and the Walt Disney Company have pulled out of the running bid to acquire Twitter, the company’s plans to conclude negotiations before their Q3 earnings have been looking a lot less likely to happen. Today that dre…

Watch a Teddy Ruxpin Get Hacked Apart to See What Makes Him Work

When it first came out, Teddy Ruxpin was an expensive toy. And yet, kids lucky enough to have one but curious how he worked wouldn’t dare incur the wrath of their parents by tearing Teddy open. The folks at YouTube’s What’s Inside?, however, happily…

Early App Store Search Ads adopters seeing $0.40 CPA and 49.4 percent conversion

Best Smart Lights for Your Home

The Hue White and Color Ambiance A19 Bulb Starter Kit (3rd Generation) is the best smart lights for your home. They allow for a wide range of options and work seamlessly with Apple's Siri and Amazon's Echo. Rene Ritchie has been covering App…

Xbox Elite controller opens up games to people with disabilities

AbleGamers program director Craig Kaufman knows he's done his job when a kid comes running up to him on a busy convention show floor and screams, "I can stab people now!" "And I'm like, you shouldn't yell that in public -- but it's excitin…