If you’re sitting on the fence about what phone to buy, Samsung is offering a new deal with its current flagship: a free 256GB microSD card with every Galaxy S7 Edge or Galaxy S7. The card is the Samsung 256GB microSD EVO+ memory card that retails for $250. With the Galaxy S8 rumored to be …
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If you have a Barnes & Noble Nook 7 tablet, you might want to get on this straight away. The company has issued a recall notice for the power adapter that ships with the tablet. Although the company doesn’t specify the reason on its website, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission is a little more forthcoming. “The power adapter casing …
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The latest Insider Build of Windows 10, the option that allows Windows 10 licence holders to sign up for early builds, is addressing a long-standing problem with the operating system. Namely, it will allow you to put off software updates, effectively putting an end to the controversial decision to force automatic updates on Windows 10 users. Under the new build, …
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You think you’ve crafted the perfect Tweet. You hit the big blue button to set it live — only to realise you’ve made an “unpresidented” typo. Editing is something many of us would like to see on microblogging social network Twitter, and as it turns out, CEO Jack Dorsey would too. On Thursday, he asked Twitter users to come at …
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Actor Tom Arnold is keen to get a hold of President-elect Donald Trump’s tax returns by any means necessary, it seems. On Thursday, he stepped up to Twitter to challenge “gamers” to get past a WordPress portal to obtain the documents that Trump has refused to release. In a Tweet not half an hour later, he posted a picture of …
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Google is trying to do away with CAPTCHA. Well, not quite. It’s trying to make CAPTCHA an undetectable user experience with a new system called Invisible ReCAPTCHA, which uses algorithms to determine whether you’re human or not, without any interaction required from you at all. This isn’t the tech giant’s first foray into streamlining CAPTCHA, or Completely Automated Public Turing …
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Now playing: Watch this: Galaxy Note 7 fires may be to blame on tight battery 1:31 Samsung is having some trouble identifying what went wrong with the Galaxy Note 7, which earlier this year was recalled due to a high number of battery explosions, but someone else believes they have the answer. Manufacturing engineering company Instrumental has performed a teardown …
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The future looks grim for the rhinoceros. Just 29,000 rhinos now exist in the wild, down from half a million at the beginning of the 20th century. Look closer, and the numbers become even more disheartening. The western black rhino was officially declared extinct in 2011. Three of the five remaining species aren’t far behind: Just 58 to 61 Javan …
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The best thing to do if you get an email that’s obviously an accident? Stay the heck away from the “Reply All” option. Employees of the UK’s National Health Service learned this the hard way after a “test” email was mistakenly sent to 840,000 of them, the BBC reports. According to a Tweet from NHS employee Olly Benson, the email …
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In a full-page ad taken out in major US newspapers on Monday, tech manufacturer Samsung has offered an apology for the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone, which was fitted with a faulty battery, leading to an unprecedented number of the devices exploding. In September of this year, Samsung issued a full recall; now it’s promising to fully investigate the phone, Korea …
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