When the Roku Streaming Stick 3500R debuted at $49.99, it set the bar for value in the media streaming device market. For a penny under $50, buyers gained instant access to more than 2,000 channels packed full of any and every kind of entertainment you can imagine. It was truly a cord cutter’s dream, but that dream is about to get even better.

We’ve seen the Streaming Stick go on sale a few times in the past, but Amazon’s current sale drops the 3500R’s price to the lowest it has ever been — just $34.99 with free express shipping thanks to Amazon Prime.

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Cord cutting doesn’t only save you money — it saves you time as well. In fact, it turns out that Netflix may be saving you from having to watch an astonishing 160 hours worth of commercials every year. This estimate comes from streaming enthusiast site Cordcutting.com, which reached that number by looking at publicly available Netflix subscriber data.

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The nomination of Donald Trump has led to a lot of American interest in moving to Canada, although it’s unlikely that Canada is prepared to accept all the terrified refugees that will swarm across their border to flee a Trump presidency. That said, frightened Americans can take solace in the fact that there’s a new dating website that aims to hook us up with Canadians in the event of a Trump-related national emergency.

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We witnessed a historical cosmic moment on Monday. Mercury, strolling along its orbit between the Earth and the Sun, appeared as a tiny black dot on top of our galaxy’s star. The entire 7.5-hour event was live streamed online, with NASA posting regular photo updates of Mercury’s transit. And now, you can relive the whole thing by watching a fantastic time-lapse video that condenses the 7.5-hour journey into a 2-minute video.

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We’ve all probably spent an afternoon recreating superhero fantasies with plastic bricks. But for Lego customizer Minh Pham, building every single iteration of the Iron Man suits — and a basement armory to house them — is just another day at the, uh, office.

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The iPhone 7 is obviously one of the most hotly anticipated smartphones of the year, with multiple reports detailing its rumored design and features. After a leaked schematic of the 4.7-inch iPhone 7 suggested the phone will be the same size as the iPhone 6s, a new picture suggests the new iPhone might also correct some of the worst things about previous designs.

However, this new photo of a purported iPhone 7 dummy unit also seems to contradict some of the other rumors out there, leaving questions as to which line of reports is accurate, if any. If this dummy does turn out to be the real deal though, it could mean that this year’s new iPhone isn’t so new after all.

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While most topics in the tech world tend to engender impassioned debate, there’s one issue that everyone can unanimously agree on: tech scammers who prey on and take advantage of unsuspecting Internet users are the scourge of the earth. And while most people are familiar with scams that rely upon adware or ransomware, scammers have recently started using a new strategy that’s as clever as it is loathsome.

According to Malwarebytes Labs, a group of scammers who call themselves ‘Tech Kangroos’ have started putting up tech support webpages designed to look nearly identical to webpages from known software companies. In turn, when unsuspecting users undertake to seek out tech support help via search engines like Google or Bing, they’re naturally tricked into clicking on fraudulent websites. In short order, users are coerced and manipulated into paying hundreds of dollars for non-existent tech support.

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Do you remember Creative? In the early 2000s, the company had a brief period of being cool, as its Zen MP3 players were the anti-establishment alternative to the iPod. These days, the Singapore-based company mostly makes gaming headsets and computer speakers — nothing to do with smartphones, in other words. But thanks to a complaint filed against every big Android phone manufacturer, Creative has quietly declared war on Android.

The complaint is filed against a who’s-who of Android smartphones: Samsung, LG, HTC, BlackBerry, Sony, ZTE, Lenovo and Motorola. The issue at hand is music players: all the phones have ’em, and Creative has a patent it thinks is being infringed on. Specifically, all the phones are capable of “playing stored media files selected by a user from a hierarchical display.”

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This is easily one of the coolest things we’ve come across in a long time. The iPhone is a fantastic phone but regardless of how much you like it, everyone has to acknowledge that it really doesn’t shine when it comes to battery life. So you always have to make sure you’ve got a charger nearby, and now you can carry a charger with you everywhere you go without adding any extra bulk.

The LifeLink Apple Certified Ultra-Portable Cable is barely thicker than a credit card and it’s the same width, so it’ll fit right in your wallet and you won’t even know it’s there until you need it.

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Just a few episodes into the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones and viewers knew that they were watching something special. The show was an instant masterpiece, featuring a level of production and an attention to detail that made other top TV shows look like amateur hour. But by the end of the first season of HBO’s instant classic, fans came to another important realization: No one is safe.

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