House Of Cards Season 3: Watch the revealing new trailer here
Netflix accidentally released the third season of House of Cards a few days ago, before realizing what it has done and pulling the highly anticipated show. With less than two weeks to go until the popular TV series is supposed to actually be released, the company posted a new teaser video that offers a revealing glimpse into what the Underwoods will have to deal with this season.
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Upcoming Apple Watch isn’t the wearable Apple wanted to launch (with exclusive details!)
With the highly anticipated Apple Watch slated to launch in April, a number of interesting tidbits regarding the device’s development process are slowly but surely starting to trickle in. Late on Monday, the Wall Street Journal provided a heretofore unpublished account surrounding some of the grand ambitions Apple initially had for the Apple Watch that were eventually scrapped.
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Apple Pay hits its first major hurdle
Apple Pay is a product that has thus far seemed to mirror many successful products Apple has launched before it. As was the case with the iPod, iPhone and iPad, Apple was not the first company to enter this emerging category. Mobile payment systems have existed in various parts of the world for more than a decade, in fact. Instead, Apple took its time to launch the best product it could build, not the first product it could build, and the result is a terrific user experience that is gaining acclaim and traction in these early days.
Now, however, it appears as though Apple Pay has hit the first major hurdle it must overcome on the road to widespread adoption.
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One of NSA’s most precious spying tools was just uncovered
Spy agencies have some very smart tools at their disposal for their surveillance and data gathering operations, many leaks have revealed so far, but Russian security agency Kaspersky Lab has uncovered one of the most important such cyber weapon available to the NSA, Reuters reports. According to the company, a country which it decided not to identify, but which the publication confirmed to be the U.S., has been able to sneak malware in a critical part of a computer, which practically made it possible not only to spy on a variety of targets with ease, but also bypass any security measures, and reinfect the machines over and over.
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The unthinkable: Would Apple really consider buying Tesla?
Apple doesn’t typically make flashy acquisitions, which was why its big buy of Beats last year came as such a surprise. Nonetheless, Internet entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis makes the case that the stars are aligning perfectly for Apple to make its most massive acquisition yet: A $75 billion buy of electric car maker Tesla that he thinks will happen within the next 18 months.
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The Onion designs an Apple car that would make Jony Ive wretch
While we’ve seen a prototype for Apple’s first driverless car, we’re going to assume that the final version of the vehicle will look a lot more stylish than the clunky minivan that’s been spotted on Bay Area roads recently. The Onion has decided to pitch in with its own Applemobile concept and we’re 100% certain that Jony Ive will never use it for inspiration.
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Video: Meteorologist hilariously freaks out during super-rare ‘thundersnow’ storm
Meteorologists tend to be a little bit strange by nature but we don’t think we’ve ever seen one get quite so excited about unusual weather as The Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore did this past weekend.
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How to find out if the NSA and GCHQ spied on you
Following the many Snowden leaks that revealed some of the advanced mass data collection practices employed by spy agencies including the NSA and GCHQ, a collection of privacy advocates including Privacy International, Bytes for All, Liberty and Amnesty International has just won a major case against these practices.
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Things just GOT REAL: Video evidence released in case of LG exec allegedly sabotaging a Samsung washing machine
Welcome to the weird and wild world of South Korean consumer electronics giants. While Apple and Samsung’s court battles are certainly the most widely publicized, LG now finds itself in Samsung’s sights for an entirely different reason: According to Samsung’s allegations, LG executive Jo Seong-Jin, and two other LG employees intentionally damaged a Samsung washing machine in a German store.
The evidence supporting Samsung’s case was compelling enough that an indictment has been issued, and now some of the most damning evidence may have come to light. LG on Monday released some video evidence it claims exonerates Jo, however Samsung says that the evidence has been tampered with.
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Like the new lightsabers in Star Wars: The Force Awakens? Thank Jony Ive
While Jony Ive has never designed a futuristic space weapon before that didn’t stop J.J. Abrams from asking his advice for how lightsabers should look in the upcoming film Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The New Yorker’s huge profile of Ive contains a section where it’s revealed that Ive gave Abrams some feedback for how to improve the design of lightsabers and we can see that Abrams seems to have taken some of his advice.
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