Deal: Save up to 30 percent off HTC purchases today
HTC is running another one of its “Hot Deals” today, which offers a tiered selection of savings across its entire…
Sony targets IoT with acquisition of chip company Altair
Sony has reached an agreement to acquire chip company Altair Semiconductor for $212 million in a bid to strengthen its…
Microsoft Open Sources Its Artificial Brain to One-Up Google
The company has open sourced the AI it uses to power speech recognition in its Cortana digital assistant and Skype…
New VR Film Perspective 2: The Misdemeanor Drops You in the Middle of a Police Shooting
A new virtual reality experience debuting at Sundance lets users experience all sides of an officer-involved shooting—including the victim’s. The…
The Urban Design Lesson Hidden in Blizzard 2016
Heavy snow and plowing patterns create “sneckdowns”—a traffic calming device many would like to see made permanent. The post The…
The Entrancing Beauty of Freezing Soap Bubbles
Pawel Zaluska captures the whimsical magic of soap bubbles crystalizing in mere moments. The post The Entrancing Beauty of Freezing…
The Hip New Way to Complain to a Business: Facebook Messenger
People really do want to talk to companies via Facebook’s text message-style Messenger app, according to the first businesses to…
The Neurologist Who Hacked His Brain—And Almost Lost His Mind
Neurologist Phil Kennedy set out to build the ultimate brain-computer interface. In the process he almost lost his mind. The…
Marvin Minsky, A.I. pioneer and Turing award winner, dies at 88
Marvin Minsky, a professor emeritus at MIT who pioneered the exploration of the mind and its replication in a computer,…
Update: BlackBerry Priv is now available on T-Mobile
Update, January 26: The BlackBerry Priv is now on sale on T-Mobile. Going for a full retail price of $720, the…