There’s a strange chip lurking beneath the surface of Apple‘s 3.5mm headphone adapter for the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. iFixit, which routinely conducts teardowns of popular gadgets, partnered with Creative Electron to examine an X-ray image of the dongle included with every new iPhone. The scan, accompanied by a closer look at the guts …

2016 is set to be a very big year for Google phones. The search giant just announced two new Pixel phones to compete with the Apple iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy models. But if you’re in the market for a new phone this November with the latest Google tech, you may have a hard decision ahead. Remember the Lenovo Phab2 Pro, …

If you get a new Google Pixel or Pixel XL phone, you’ll never run out of storage for photos and videos. At the company’s event on Tuesday, Google announced it will offer all owners of the Pixel phones unlimited photo and video storage at full resolution. Now playing: Watch this: Hands-on with Google’s Pixel and Pixel XL phones 2:03 You …

Amtrak just expanded route coverage in the Transit section of the Apple Maps app to include all of the United States. That means Amtrak lines will now show up as an option (along with subways, buses and ferries) if your itinerary is in the path of a relevant train. The train routes are only displayed if you search a city …

Now playing: Watch this: Pixel phone, Chromecast Ultra, Andromeda: What’s next… 2:04 Expectations for Google’s October 4 event in San Francisco were already big. And then Hiroshi Lockheimer, the company’s Senior Vice President in charge of Android, Chrome OS and Google Play tweeted this: So what will be so big that it will be reverberating almost a decade from now? …

It’s been a few weeks since the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus went on sale, which means some owners are already sick of carrying around the headphone adapter. And unless you’ve picked up a pair of Lightning headphones for yourself, you’re probably either hating the dongle life right now or rigging some other ways to output audio from the smartphone. …

Google is extending its Google Express delivery service along the East Coast. In an announcement made on Wednesday, the company said its Northeastern coverage area will now include Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and West Virginia. Shoppers can use Google Express to order goods online using the desktop site …

Celebrities were swathed in silver for this year’s Met Gala celebrating “Fashion in the Age of Technology,” but designer Michael Kors is sticking with gold. Earlier this month the fashion house launched a line of luxury smartwatches with gold and stainless steel casings. Today it also announced a partnership with Fujifilm to bring Kors’s signature design, in gold, to the …

Director/writer Joss Whedon is back on Twitter with an important get-out-the-vote campaign wrapped in a video that satirizes traditional campaign commercials and features nearly all of his Avengers, James Franco, Keegan-Michael Key, Stanley Tucci and more. Whedon and friends make no attempt to hide their disdain for the Republican presidential candidate. The video calls Trump a “racist, abusive coward who …

HuffPost RYOT will soon debut two new virtual reality shows, set to launch this fall on the Hulu VR app for the Oculus Rift and Samsung Gear VR headsets. The first show is called “Virtually Mike and Nora.” It’s a VR comedy series written, directed and starring Nora Kirkpatrick from “The Office” and Mike O’Brien, a former cast member on …