PSA: You Should Make Travel Plans Now To See 2017's Rare Solar Eclipse
As of today, we are exactly six months out from the biggest astronomical event of the year. On August 21, a total solar eclipse will be visible in the United States for the first time in 99 years and...
View ArticleThis New Google Chrome Scam Is Scary-Easy To Fall For
Another day, another scary way to get hacked. Haven't we had enough?The Next Web reports that hackers are targeting users of Google Chrome with a new scam that's incredibly easy to fall for. Those...
View ArticleInstagram Just Announced Its Biggest & Most Controversial Update Yet
Photo: Courtesy of Instagram.Single photo Instagram posts are now OG. Instagram slideshows are officially here to change the game as you know it.Starting today, Instagram users will be able to combine...
View ArticleHere's How To Use Instagram's New Slideshow Feature
Photo: Courtesy of Instagram.Any second now, your Instagram feed will start filling up with people eagerly testing out the app's new album feature, which lets you combine up to 10 photos and videos...
View ArticleApple Park Will Open In April — & We Are Dying To Go
Photo: Courtesy of Apple.Soon, those iPhone-inspired toilets you heard about earlier this month will start flushing. Today, Apple announced that Apple Park, the company's new campus, will open this...
View ArticleHere's Why You'll See Red Xs All Over Facebook Today
Expect to see your Facebook feed taken over by red Xs tomorrow. Members of Congress, celebrities including Ashton Kutcher, and others will change their profile photo for the End It Movement's "Shine A...
View ArticleIs This The Selfie Phone To Beat All Selfie Phones?
Are you the type of person who takes a hundred selfies a day and plays around with all the Snapchat filters? Ain't no shame in your game. For your filtering pleasure, the new Meitu T8 smartphone can...
View ArticleThe New Planets Already Have Their Own Google Doodle
Well, that was fast.Yesterday NASA and the European Space Observatory (ESO) announced that they had discovered seven Earth-sized exoplanets orbiting the TRAPPIST-1 dwarf star outside our solar system....
View ArticleWhat Your Day Looks Like When You Work At Google
Last month, a Google Doodle celebrating what would have been the 98th birthday of Japanese-American civil rights activist Fred Korematsu went viral. What made this particular Doodle so powerful was its...
View ArticleHow To Watch The Oscars Tonight
Photo: Richard Young/REX/Shutterstock. If you haven't already watched this year's Oscar-nominated films, you'd better get on it, stat. This Sunday, the red carpet will be rolled out at the Dolby...
View ArticleApple Speaks Out About Trump's Rollback Of Trans Students' Rights
Apple is taking a stand against President Trump's decision to lift the Obama-era protections for transgender students.On Wednesday, the administration rolled back federal guidelines that allowed trans...
View ArticleLyft Throws Subtle Shade At Uber, Announces Its Largest Expansion Yet
If you hopped on the #DeleteUber bandwagon, Lyft has your back. Today, the company announced that it is coming to more than 50 new cities and four new states. That brings the number of cities where you...
View ArticleThis Grandma's Texts To Her Granddaughter Are Peak Cuteness
We know the expression "all the feels" is tragically overused. (What is a "feel"? And how can you have all of them simultaneously?) But we'll make an exception here. Because these grandma texts are...
View ArticleThese Are The Best Uses Of Instagram's New Slideshow Feature
It's been just over 24 hours since Instagram launched its new slideshow tool, allowing users to upload up to 10 photos and videos to a single post. While opinions about the feature have (as expected)...
View ArticleThese Gadgets Will Solve Your Most Frustrating iPhone 7 Problem
When Apple first announced the loss of the headphone jack with the new lightning connector-only iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, the change felt monumental, especially for those with a favorite pair of wired...
View ArticleThis Woman Discovered Something Very Alarming About Your iPhone's Lock Mode
Your smartphone's lock mode is the grown-up version of a security blanket. Behind that passcode and thumbprint, your photos, personal info, and everything else you store on your device is safely tucked...
View ArticleTwitter Is Making It Harder To Swear At Trump & Pence
Search for "fuck Trump" on Twitter, and you'll get thousands of results. But some people have been reporting messages from Twitter notifying them of "potentially abusive activity" after posting...
View ArticleGoogle Has Had Enough With Internet Trolls — & Here's What They're...
Google is attempting to tackle one of the most hostile places on the Internet: comment sections. This week, the search engine announced a new project called Perspective in collaboration with Jigsaw, a...
View ArticleThese Artists Are Celebrating The Oscars In The Coolest Ways
Come Sunday, Instagram is sure to be full of galleries looking at the best red carpet fashions. But in preparation for the 89th annual Academy Awards, Instagram artists are already filling their...
View ArticleStop What You're Doing & Go Change Your Uber Password Right Now
"Cloudbleed" is the term being used to refer to an Internet security nightmare. Yesterday, Cloudflare, a web performance company that provides security services to hundreds of thousands of domains such...
View Article