This super-tough Japanese flip phone is the first to meet 18 US military standards
It’s ridiculously solid, powered by a teeny Snapdragon 1.1GHz processor (it’s not like you need much grunt for a feature phone), and has a bunch of built-in apps for reading out data like temperature, altitude, navigation, tides and — wait for it — “activity level of fish.”

February 24, 2017 at 08:56AM
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Change Your Passwords. Now.
A massive memory leak from web services and security company Cloudflare may have exposed user data for thousands of sites using the service. In other words: it’s time to change your passwords.

February 24, 2017 at 08:56AM
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Woman Films Her iPhone 7 Spontaneously Combusting; Apple Is ‘Looking Into It’
​After Samsung’s explosion woes with the Galaxy Note 7, the last thing Apple wants is a fiery problem of their own, but at least one user has filmed what she says is her iPhone 7 Plus after it spontaneously caught on fire.

February 24, 2017 at 08:29AM
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Uber accused of ‘calculated theft’ of Google’s self-driving car technology
Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving car project, says former employee Anthony Levandowski stole secrets before founding Otto, the self-driving truck startup that Uber recently acquired.

February 24, 2017 at 07:09AM
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Why Nothing Works Anymore
People might think technology is becoming more precarious than it once was, but it’s actually just evolving. And it’s doing so separately from the needs of its human users.

February 24, 2017 at 06:37AM
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Treasure Trove of Internal Apple Memos Discovered in Thrift Store
Peeking inside a book bin at a Seattle Goodwill, Redditor vadermeer caught an interesting, unexpected glimpse into the early days of Apple: a cache of internal memos, progress reports, and legal pad scribbles from 1979 and 1980, just three years into the tech monolith’s company history.

February 23, 2017 at 01:16PM
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Building Animatronic Animals That Go Undercover And Infiltrate The Pack
We didn’t know that the uncanny valley applied to animals, but this video proves it most certainly does.

February 23, 2017 at 12:59PM
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Flame Throwing Chinese Drone Blasts A Net Entangled In A Power Line
We are both impressed and disconcerted knowing that flame throwing drones exist.

February 23, 2017 at 12:59PM
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Your next smartphone might run on something called LTE-U. Here’s what that means.
What makes it different — and also controversial — is the fact that LTE-U will share the same radio frequencies as WiFi routers and Bluetooth headphones.

February 23, 2017 at 11:55AM
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When Artificial Intelligence Progresses To A Certain Point, Will We Need To Give Machines Rights?
Most conceptions of rights are centered around a loose understanding of self-awareness. If your toaster becomes self-aware, do you owe it rights?

February 23, 2017 at 11:51AM
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