Twitter has been in a state of flux ever since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk paid out $44 billion to take over the social media site in October last year. Big changes are still happening, including a new overhaul of Twitter’s longtime verification system that once awarded blue check marks to notable accounts — including …

Caviar, a Russian company that adds luxury embellishments to phones, lives to wow its customers with over-the-top adornments. Sometimes that “wow” is followed by a “what?!” Behold the Credo Christmas Star Diamond iPhone 11. The $129,000 (£98,000, AU$188,000) iPhone is made with a gold pattern radiating outward from a large diamond, which lingers above a Christmas nativity scene depicting baby …

And you thought we couldn’t sink any lower than “belfies.” That collective groan heard ’round the world Tuesday came after Apple coined the term “slofie” to describe a slow-motion selfie feature for the iPhone 11.  Now playing: Watch this: See Apple’s new ‘slofie’ mode in action 0:55 Apple highlighted the new iPhone’s ability to take slo-mo selfie videos with the …

I’m in awe. I like to think I have pretty good reflexes, but I don’t think I could top the sheer power, grace and accuracy YouTube user sirsammy 15 displayed by catching a flying cell phone during a roller-coaster ride.  Sirsammy 15 is Samuel Kempf of New Zealand, as identified in an article by Stuff. Kempf posted a video on …

The latest and greatest iOS 13 and newly christened iPadOS arrived for public beta testing this week. Too bad my crotchety old iPad will never know the joys of a modern Apple operating system, just as it will never again stream a Hulu show. I stared in mild shock. What?! I had just tapped on the Hulu app icon on my …

We expect a lot from our phones: communications, internet access, entertainment. A man in New South Wales in Australia seems to have discovered an extra bonus feature of his phone: the ability to stop an arrow.  Here’s the story from the New South Wales police, complete with lots of “allegedlys.” On Wednesday, a 43-year-old man pulled into his driveway in …

Apple unveiled its new flagship smartphone on Wednesday, the iPhone XS Max, but not everybody loves the name, with online critics calling it lazy, uninspired and stupid. On one hand, you can understand why Apple went this way. It’s added an “S” to iPhones before and this new phone is the bigger-screened sequel to the super fancy iPhone X. It’s …

MoviePass is going through a rough patch right now after raising prices and limiting new movies in an attempt to stay in business. Chagrined subscribers who were used to all-you-can-watch plans aren’t thrilled. If they thought problem-solving specialist Elon Musk might be able to help, then they’re out of luck. Buzzfeed writer Samir Mezrahi tweeted to Musk on Tuesday asking, …

Sarin nerve gas is one of the most frightening chemical weapons ever created. The odorless gas can kill within minutes.  Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have come up with a simple way to detect and identify nerve agents like sarin and VX, a substance implicated in the death of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s half-brother in …

What’s in a color?  You can buy an Apple Magic keyboard with a numeric keypad for $129 (£129, AU$179), but it comes in the company’s usual shade of silver with white keys. Boring. Truly classy Mac owners want the rarest of animals: a space-gray keyboard, trackpad and mouse that only comes bundled with a $5,000 iMac Pro. For that, they’ll …