The Federal Trade Commission announced today that AT&T will pay $105 million for hiding extra charges in cellphone bills. The best part of the news? $80 million of it will go back into the pockets of people bilked by AT&T. Read more…
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AT&T Will Repay $80 Million In Shady Phone Bill Charges
The dirty little secret of GPU marketing is that laptop graphics chips are never as powerful as you’d think. Think you’re going to run a game maxed out at 2K resolution with the GeForce GTX 880M in your laptop? Think again—even if it’s no trouble for a desktop-grade GTX 780. Read more…
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 980M: A Graphical Leap For Gaming Laptops
It’s the Star Trek -inspired future we were promised—walls that glow and change color, perhaps with just a gentle voice command. And it’s finally (almost) possible thanks to a series of advances in OLED sheets. This new lighting solution also uses half as much energy than existing fluorescent lights. It is, however, pretty expensive. Read more…
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OLED Wallpaper Could Be the Future of Lighting
One great way to get adventurous folks amped up about scaling landmarks is to make the act of being way-the-heck-up-high even freakier. The Eiffel Tower is the latest to get a stomach-flipping glass floor 187 feet above the teensy little people on the pavement below. Read more…
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The Eiffel Tower Is The Latest Landmark To Get A Glass Floor
Ice cream is a dish best served cold, but liberating it from its carton is an exercise in bent spoons and throbbing wrists. Kickstarter’s Michael Chou spent years striving for the perfect solution, and here it is: The Midnight Scoop , shaped to engage your most powerful arm muscles in the quest for deliciousness. Read more…
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Obsessed Engineer Devises The Perfect Scooper for Rock Hard Ice Cream
As part of Yahoo’s ongoing mid-life crisis, the company very quietly announced today that it’s killing off the original internet directory that gave the company its name. Read more…
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Yahoo Very Quietly Kills Off Yahoo
Maglev trains have been promised as the future of public transport since about forever, but high-speed magnetic levitation systems are rapidly gaining a serious reputation — something Japan’s public demonstration of its high-speed maglev system is only going to help. Read more…
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Japan Tests Its New 500kmph Maglev Train
I’ve tried practically every version of the Oculus Rift VR headset, from some of the original duct-taped prototypes through to the latest DK2 developer kit and the Samsung Gear VR. Nothing I’ve seen prepared me for the new Crescent Bay demo. I just tried one of the best games I’ve never played . I want more. Read more…
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I Tried The New Oculus Rift, And It Blew Me Away All Over Again
San Francisco’s current tech-led boom has seen slick new housing high-rises pop up all across the grid, but Bay Area urban renewal in the 1970s had a very different look. Photographer Dave Glass is a native of the city’s Western Addition, and snapped these images of Victorians being driven around town like massive domestic trailers almost 30 years ago. Read more…
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So This Is How You Move a Neighborhood of Houses Across San Francisco
Amazon — king of selling stuff on the interwebz — just paid a cool $4.5 mil to buy the rights to the .Buy top-level-domain, beating out Google in the process. Read more…
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Amazon Beat Google to Buy the .Buy Domain Name for $4.5 Million