Stop us if you’ve heard this story before: you’re driving along when a light comes on in the dash on your car. Your service manual doesn’t help at all, so you take a day off of work and bring your car into the dealer… only to find out that the mysterious light on your dash only came on because you forgot to put your gas cap back on after you filled up earlier that week. The cost of your little mistake: Falling behind at work, and $150 for two hours of labor at your car dealer.

With the ELM327 OBDII Car Auto Diagnostic Scanner Adapter Reader from PWOW, you’ll never have to deal with scenarios like this again.

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The final version of Android 6.0 Marshmallow will be released in the coming months and we expect the newest Nexus devices will be the first ones to receive it. Meanwhile, Android device makers will take their time updating to Google’s latest and best mobile operating system, and a new report indicates that Samsung will deliver Android 6.0 builds for its flagship Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Note 5 handsets only early next year.

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Here’s a treat for fans of super hero movies. Jim Carrey decided to have some fun with his friend Hugh Jackman this week when he posted a picture of himself on his Twitter page playing Wolverine, the iconic member of the X-Men who is also one of Jackman’s best-known roles. As you can see in the photo above, Carrey had a rather unorthodox Wolverine outfit that replaced the character’s famous metal claws with kitchen table silverware. But then things got even better.

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Love them or hate them, selfie sticks are a thing and Amazon is doing a lightning deal for one. This is of course a limited time deal that will last until 9PM EST tonight. But if you act right now, you’ll see Amazon is taking 67% off the AngLink Compact Selfie Stick.

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Advanced 3D printing technology lets us quickly create various objects, including real buildings and cars, but one of the most unusual uses for 3D printing might be creating glass objects by using a unique 3D printer model. Scientists from MIT have already figured out how to put molten glass through a 3D printer and have released a video that shows the mesmerizing process of creating objects using this particular material.

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When there’s smoke there’s fire, and when it comes to rumors surrounding Apple’s alleged plans to develop an electric car, there’s a whole lot of smoke.

Following up on a recent report that Apple is already scouting locations to test drive whatever type of mysterious vehicle it’s working on, Reuters is now reporting that Apple has hired yet another notable auto industry veteran to its fledgling and secretive car development team.

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Samsung is reportedly working on a tablet so big that it may even make Apple’s rumored 12.9-inch iPad Pro seem minuscule by comparison. According to SamMobile, the company that popularized the phablet is now hard at work on a tablet with a gargantuan 18.4-inch display.

Based on information obtained by the site, the rumored tablet will sport a TFT LCD display with a resolution of 1920 x 1080, an octa-core 64-bit 1.6GHz Exynos 7580 processor, 2GB of RAM, a respectable 32GB of storage, and to top it all off, a microSD card slot. Rumored to run Android 5.1 Lollipop, the device will reportedly feature an 8 megapixel rear facing camera and a front facing 2.1 megapixel camera.

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Interstate 420-mile markers are apparently such popular trophies among stoners that some states have decided to take a unique and unexpected measure to stop the theft of these signs. Rather than replace the mileposts as soon as they’re stolen, Idaho decided to take a different course of action that might be more efficient. Enter the 419.9-mile mark seen in the image above!

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When Lucasfilm decided to reboot the Star Wars film franchise, the Expanded Universe was decimated in its wake. Dozens of books, games and comics that many fans had accepted as canon were suddenly struck from the timeline, leaving only the movies and a few select projects as official relics of Star Wars lore.

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While it’s understandable that Android OEMs these days feel they have to be creative when it comes to finding new ways to make money, they also have to be careful that they don’t overstep their bounds and significantly annoy their user base. Earlier this month we saw that HTC had started serving some One M8 and One M9 users ads in their notification centers, which is something that didn’t go over very well among Android diehards. After all, if you’ve already paid hundreds of dollars for a phone, why should that phone spam you with marketing you didn’t ask for?

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