In our in-depth OnePlus 2 review, we discussed how impressive OnePlus’ work has been so far. This small startup has managed to create a mid-range smartphone that outshines many high-end Android phones where design, build quality and sometimes even performance are concerned. Most impressively, the OnePlus 2 can be had for less than half the price of many of the phones it bests.

When OnePlus released the OnePlus 2, the company said that it planned to launch a second new phone before 2015 was over, and now we know exactly when that new phone will debut.

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Apple’s iPhones have consistently been able to outperform rivals from the competition without necessarily matching their hardware. The primary “culprit” is Apple’s custom AX chip design that’s miles ahead of the competition. However, the same chips got Apple in legal troubles, as the company has apparently been using energy-efficiency technology in A7 and A8 processor that was patented way back in 1998 by the University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

WARF sued Apple in early 2014, with a jury finding that Apple has infringed the technology described in the patent. The iPhone maker now faces damages of up to $862.4 millions, though they’re yet to be determined.

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We live in an age of technological marvels, from the computers we carry around in our pockets to the connected homes we live in, but there’s hardly time to sit back and admire our achievements when another one is just around the corner.

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Sharing links on the Internet is already exceptionally simple, but a small group of developers has found a way to take even more steps out of the process. Officially released late last month, Shove is a browser extension for Chrome that allows users to instantly open tabs on one another’s browsers without any prompts or warnings.

Terrifying, right?

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We’ve all been there before: We’re packing up luggage to go on a trip when we suddenly realize our zipper doesn’t close properly anymore. What to do? Thankfully, we stumbled upon a quick 3-minute YouTube video on Tuesday that gives us a simple explanation for why zippers stop closing and what we can do to fix them ourselves with only a pair of pliers.

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Quentin Tarantino’s new western is launching this holiday season, and the famed director cut two different versions of the movie, one to be shown to a limited audience, and one set for a wider release – the latter is probably the version most of us will see.

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An interesting project hit Kickstarter not too long ago, offering buyers a breakthrough innovation in shaving. The sci-fi Skarp razor supposedly packs a laser that’s able to give users an even better, closer shave. The project had a $160,000 goal but recently blew past $4 million in pledges from interested consumers. However, Kickstarter soon took notice of the product’s popularity, and after investigating it further, the company decided to ban it.

Is the Skarp razor just vaporware?

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You may not realize this, but every time you ask Google Now a question, Google makes a recording of it and keeps it stored in its vast trove of information it stores on you. The Guardian’s Alex Hern recently discovered how to access his entire archive of voice recordings from his Google Now sessions and he felt a little unnerved to hear himself ask questions at times when he wasn’t exactly sober.

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