Why We Love Listening to Sad Music

Music affects our brains in all kinds of wonderful ways. Upbeat music is great for working out and classical music can help you focus, but even sad music has its perks. Here’s why we love listening to sorrowful songs, and why they deserve to be on y…

Apple is screwing up HomeKit; here’s how they can fix it

 The real magic of the Internet of Things happens when devices work together. It will be magic when Siri, on your iPhone, can adjust your thermostat or confirm you locked the back door; when your door lock can tell your sound system you’re home and …

The Internet Gave Me $240 to Listen to Meghan Trainor's Entire Discography

Monday night, while blogging about a group of record labels suing Youtube-to-mp3.org who listed “All About That Bass” by Meghan Trainor as an example of a frequently pirated song, I pondered whether a song worse than Trainor’s hit single exists. Jo…

Porn Plays on Electronic Billboard During Traffic Jam [NSFW]

Around 1pm today in Jakarta, commuters were treated to an impromptu porn screening. Sadly, police were able to cut power to the jumbotron billboard after approximately five minutes.Read more...

Google's VR paint game 'Tilt Brush' will get multiplayer

Google's Tilt Brush debuted in September 2014 as a virtual reality painting experience -- immersion with the creative simplicity of MS Paint, as The Verge put it. They've added more in-game tools and hosted the odd art exhibit in the two-ye…

Apple threatens to pull No. 1 iMessage sticker pack 'Phoneys' for violating App Store regulations

Apple on Friday issued an ultimatum to Adam Howell, developer of sticker pack "Phoneys," saying he must fundamentally change the content of his top-selling iMessage App Store title or face removal.

Build a Portable Movie Theater In the Back of a Pickup Truck

The best part of camping for some people is getting out in the middle of nowhere and looking at the stars. For others, it’s just getting together with friends and having a good time. Over on Tested, Adam Savage goes for the latter and builds a porta…

See Apple’s huge new auditorium before it’s buried forever

Apple's new futuristic, UFO-shaped home continues to rise out of the California dirt as we can see in the video shot...

Apple Watch: How to enable and spice up watchOS 3 screenshots [Video]

Unlike previous versions of watchOS, the ability to take screenshots is disabled by default in watchOS 3. Screenshots are disabled due to the fact that the screenshot-taking shortcut overlaps functionality used by the Workout app. In watchOS 3, it’…

Pagolins, Earth’s Most Beautiful and Trafficked Creatures, Finally Get Protection

The pangolin is the only known mammal with scales. Pangolins are beautiful, precious little creatures, often likened to an artichoke with legs. According to NPR, they’re also the world’s most trafficked mammals. Luckily for these little cuties, the …

The Series That Broke Your Hearts Out of Nowhere

Earlier this week, we opened hailing frequencies and asked you, our beloved readers, about the books, comics, movies, games, and shows that you never expected would give you a sudden dose of the feels. We’ve compiled your responses, and here are the…

A Major Hurricane Just Developed Over the Caribbean

An ugly, dangerous storm is brewing out there. After a bout of rapid intensification last night, Hurricane Matthew has now achieved Category 3 status, packing 120 mph winds. It’s first major Caribbean hurricane since Sandy, and the strongest to deve…

Top Selling iMessage Sticker Pack Is Going Away Because Apple Hates Fun

The developer of a clever sticker pack for iOS has been told by Apple that he has to change how the stickers look and act or else the stickers will be pulled from the App Store.Read more...

Evidence is Mounting: Apple Will Convert the Macs to ARM CPUs

The time since most of the Macs have been updated can now be described as geologic. Is that because Apple doesn’t care about the Macs? Or, more likely, could we be in for another major architectural change? Evidence is mounting that Apple will aband…

Apple's Breaxit scandal: Frenchman smashes up €50,000 of iThings with his big metal balls

Fuming frenchie causes a oui bit of damage A French man has been charged after he stormed into an Apple store and smashed up iPhones and MacBooks using a metal ball that is more commonly used for the traditional game of pétanque.…

Cliff? What Cliff? I Don’t See Any Cliff.

From the DF Archive: ‘BlackBerry vs. iPhone’ in 2008

Swap to Non-Latin Keyboard Layouts in macOS Sierra With the Caps Lock Key

If you swap between a Western and a non-Latin keyboard layout on your Mac, like Hebrew, Chinese, Kannada, or others, you’d usually need to do so by clicking an option in the menubar. MacWorld points out you can set the Caps Lock key to easily swap b…

Google Maps Now Integrates Your Google Calendar Events

Android: Google’s rolling out an update to Google Maps on Android that integrates your Google Calendar events and Google contacts into Google Maps.Read more...

Android malware that can infiltrate corporate networks is spreading rapidly

An Android malware is spreading across app stores, including Google Play, and has the capability of stealing sensitive files from corporate networks...

Chinese state TV slams Samsung over exploding Galaxy phone recall discrimination

Chinese state broadcaster CCTV has lambasted Samsung for discriminating against Chinese consumers...