Bitter old rivalries from the Star Wars universe apparently don’t apply when it comes to the political strategies of Ukraine’s Internet Party. Darth Sidious, aka Emperor Palpatine, was reportedly just elected to a seat on the city council of Odessa, Ukraine’s fourth largest city. And not even the arrest of Chewbacca on Election Day could …
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Not the actual Pepsi phone. Pepsi What bold branding times we live in. Shortly after announcing that it will make a limited amount of the fictional drink Pepsi Perfect to celebrate ” Back to the Future Day” on October 21, Pepsi has confirmed it plans to release a smartphone. “Available in China only, this effort is similar to recent globally …
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Wednesday might be a good day to call in sick and go cross something off your bucket list — you know, just in case it’s your last chance. According to the E-Bible Fellowship, there is a “strong likelihood that October 7, 2015, will be the end of the world.” That’s right. You may never watch another football game, see another …
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Enlarge ImageiPhone, pwned. Video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET We’ve seen many an iPhone and iPad destroyed in the name of torture testing, including via molten lava and falling…from space. Now, we’ve witnessed the most visceral owning ever of both an iPhone 6S and an iPhone 6S Plus by nothing more than a dude and his bare hands and feet. The …
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When the world is faced with the horror of a Facebook outage, luckily there are other social-media sites for sharing our collective grief. And so it was that Twitter momentarily got transformed into a worldwide stream of freak-outs and one-liners Thursday morning. Facebook.com showed an error message for an estimated millions of users worldwide, starting around 9:45 a.m. PT and …
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Enlarge Image CBS News video screenshot by Eric Mack/CNET You can avoid the throngs taking to the streets of Washington, Philadelphia and New York this week to glimpse Pope Francis and still experience his historic visit at home via the wonders of virtual reality. But not without enabling one of the most tone-deaf marketing promotions I’ve seen since the great …
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In the gadget torture-testing world, when you’ve already dropped an iPhone 6 thousands of feet, frozen and smashed an iPhone 6 Plus with a sledgehammer and ended an Apple Watch’s time with a rifle, all you can do to top it off is literally take your game to a much higher caliber. More torture tests Yes, someone put an Apple …
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We were warned last year, people. And yet here are we are again. It seems enough of us have been ignoring the common-sense advice to stop taking selfies with large, dangerous wild bears in the background that one popular Denver-area park has taken the serious measure of closing to the public. “We’ve actually seen people using selfie sticks to try …
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Enlarge ImageiPad goes big. You like? Apple It has been a big morning in San Francisco, where Apple unveiled the brand new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus, as well as the big new iPad Pro and a long overdue update to the Apple TV set-top box. It’s a lot to process, even for gadget geeks like us, and we …
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A year ago we got an early peek over the fence at Apple’s huge new spaceship-inspired circular campus building under construction courtesy of an intrepid drone pilot. Twelve months later, another unmanned aerial spy reveals just how much progress has been made. This latest video from YouTuber Duncan Sinfield gives us a tour of “Campus 2” in Cupertino alongside audio …
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