The most annoying issue with the OnePlus 2 isn’t its lack of an NFC chip or microSD slot. It’s that the company still isn’t ready for a proper launch, meaning many fans looking forward to buying the handset will have to deal with an annoying invitation system yet again.
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Yes, that’s a police vehicle in the image above and it’s one of three such contraptions the SFPD has in its fleet of vehicles. We’re not looking at some mini version of a Batmobile or anything crazy like that. Instead, it’s a quadski that lets cops chase criminals both on land and on the water without switching vehicles.
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There are times when humanity inexplicably shoots itself in the foot. Remember when we thought it would be a good idea to use lead in paint and gasoline? Yeah, that wasn’t one of our best moments. Same deal when we created crazy financial instruments like synthetic collateralized debt obligations that helped blow up the world economy back in 2008. Humanity’s next own goal, however, could be its most catastrophic yet — yes, we’re talking about artificially intelligent weapons systems.
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Despite a number of usability issues, it appears that Apple Music is quickly catching on with consumers. Just about one month after its debut, music industry publication HITS Daily Double is reporting that Apple’s on-demand streaming service has already attracted more than 10 million subscribers.
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As typically portrayed in action movies, breaking into an ostensibly impenetrable safe often requires a world class lock-picker or, barring that, an array or C4 explosives positioned in just the right orientation.
But in the real world, surprisingly enough, defeating the security mechanisms on a top-notch Brinks safe can be done with nothing more than a USB stick and 100 lines of code. At the always entertaining Def Con Hacking Conference set to kick off in Las Vegas next week, researchers Daniel Petro and Oscar Salazar of Bishop Fox will detail how they were able to skirt around the defenses of the Brinks CompuSafe Galileo with relative ease.
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Uber is a true game-changer that reimagines the way we travel on a daily basis. The service truly could not be any easier to use, and millions of people around the world rely on it each and every day. Of course, Uber is far from perfect, and one of the bigger complaints users have pertains to surge pricing.
Well, there’s a free app that will help ensure you never have to pay surge prices again.
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A Christmas Story might be the one movie that most people associate with the Christmas holiday, but an entire generation is about to have a new go-to movie for the holiday season. Behold: The Night Before, starring Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie as three friends who set out to make this Christmas the most crazy, debaucherous, drug-filled Christmas of their lives.
From the looks of the hilarious trailer, they succeeded.
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AT&T is as mad as hell and it’s not going to take it anymore! The Hill reports that AT&T this week hit back at the Federal Communications Commission’s plan to fine the carrier $100 million for deceiving consumers when it throttled their “unlimited” data plans.
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It’s probably been a while since you last saw Top Gun, but you probably remember that movie’s famous scene featuring a duet of You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling. Tom Cruise still knows the lyrics to that song, and he unwillingly recreated the duet with Jimmy Fallon on Monday’s Tonight Show. You know, for Goose.
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Netflix and Marvel are engaging in an ambitious project to release several different series based on four different characters that will eventually culminate in a big team-up series featuring all of them working together. Daredevil was the first of these shows and it was a big hit among both critics and viewers. Per Variety, Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos told the Television Critics Association press tour on Tuesday that Netflix is planning to release a new series based on a different character every six months or so.
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