What are your plans for the weekend? Thinking about buying a ticket to Marvel’s new flick, Ant-Man? Not a bad idea — I really enjoyed it — but before you run off to the theater, it’s probably worth watching this “exclusive” clip that Paul Rudd shared with Conan O’Brien earlier this week.
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It’s been a fairly boring season for iPhone-related leaks, most likely because the next-gen iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus will both look a lot like the devices that Apple released last fall. Nonetheless, Nowhereelse.fr directs our attention to new photos posted by Future Supplier that purportedly show the rear casing of the upcoming iPhone 6s Plus. Unsurprisingly, the device’s rear shell looks very similar to the iPhone 6 Plus, as you’ll see below.
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Apple might add solar charging features to its products at some point in the future, but we’re not quite there yet. Luckily for those iPhone 6 owners looking to charge their devices using the sun’s energy, there’s a crowd-funding project that’s taking Kickstarter by storm by promising to be the world’s thinnest and lightest solar charger in the world.
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Amazon set a new worldwide online sales record with its special 20-year anniversary Prime Day event. The retailer offered many discounts on plenty of a huge number of products on Prime Day to Amazon Prime subscribers, though many people complained about some of the items that received substantial discounts. Even so, Prime Day came with plenty of interesting tech and gadget deals and several of them are still available to buyers.
You might not be able to get the exact same Prime Day price for them, as Amazon has bumped up the prices slightly, but you’d still be saving a bunch of money by ordering them as fast as possible from Amazon – see some of these deals we’ve curated for you below.
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Every day, we make sure to highlight some of the best free apps on the App Store, but occasionally there’s a non-free sale worth highlighting. That’s the case this weekend as Apple has put 24 “amazing apps & games” on sale for $0.99 for a limited time.
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Dealing with spam offers from retailers is one of the more annoying components of managing email these days but for the most part you can make them go away by unsubscribing to them. Note how we said, “For the most part.” Ars Technica’s Jon Brodkin found himself on Best Buy’s official email list and he did the sensible thing most people do and tried to unsubscribe. It didn’t work. Then he tried complaining directly to Best Buy, whose representatives promised to remove him from the list. That also didn’t work. As a result, his inbox still looked like this after multiple complaints:
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During a recent airing of Fool Us, seasoned magicians Penn and Teller were positively blown away by a magician who executed some of the best sleight of hand you’ve ever seen. When you’ve been around as long as Penn and Teller have, well, let’s just say that they’re not the easiest people to impress.
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For as far as automotive technology has advanced in just the past decade alone, the frustration of dealing with a flat tire remains a problem that affects everyone. So while we now have cars that can switch lanes and parallel park all by themselves, we still haven’t stumbled upon a solution to eliminate flat tires.
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Gossip website Gawker regularly walks the fine line between entertaining, edgy content and completely unethical, sleazy trash. On Thursday, the website went way, way over that line by helping a blackmailer take revenge against a non-public figure because that person declined to abuse their power on the blackmailer’s behalf.
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More Android device makers are starting to remove from flagship devices the microSD slot that offered buyers in the past a way of increasing local storage on a smartphone or tablet, with this year’s Galaxy S6 family being one such example. As for Apple, the iPhone maker never offered customers access to expandable memory, aiming to improve both iPhone design and actual memory performance.
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