One of the nicest upgrades you can buy for a modern iPad or iPad Pro is the Apple Pencil. It’s a sleek, elegant pressure-sensitive stylus that turns Apple’s tablets into one of the best portable creative tools on the market. The only problem? It’s not a cheap upgrade, adding an extra $100 to $130 on …

Few gaming laptops look as nice as Razer Blade notebooks — they’re slim, sturdy, undeniably sleek and powerful to boot. They’re also typically expensive, often pushing $2,000 for the base model. Today — as spotted earlier by The Inventory — you might not have to pay that much: The 2020 Razer Blade 15 is currently listed for $1,750 on Amazon, …

If you live anywhere east of Texas, you might be familiar with the high-pitched buzz of periodical cicadas. And this year, depending on where you are, you can expect to hear plenty of it. Blame all the excess noise on the “Great Eastern Brood” of cicadas  commonly referred to as “Brood X” that are emerging from underground by the trillions for …

If you want to talk to your grandmother on messaging app Telegram and she doesn’t have a smartphone, she’ll need to get one. She’ll need to learn how to use iOS or Android. How to manage notifications. You could teach her all of that — or you could just build her a 1900s telephone switchboard that does nothing but send and receive …

Ferrofluid was invented by a NASA engineer in an attempt to develop a method for manipulating rocket fuel in zero gravity — but you probably know it as that cool black liquid that morphs into entrancing shapes when you put it near a magnet. If you get really close up to a pool of ferrofluid under the influence of a …

The Xbox Series X may already have limited access to Discord’s multi-platform voice chat service, but don’t expect it to replace Xbox Live chat anytime soon. Negotiations for a Microsoft acquisition of Discord have ceased, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Reports that Discord was seeking a buyer surfaced in late March, with Microsoft being named as the potentially interested …

It’s an obsession that sweeps the nation every year. It destroys diets, breaks New Year’s resolutions and wreaks havoc on wallets everywhere. That time has come once more: It’s Girl Scout Cookie season. Getting your hands on a box of Thin Mints or Samoas has never been that difficult — but the Girl Scouts Cookie program has come a long …

Every time I pick up a new smartphone, tablet or gadget, I suddenly develop a mild case of sadism. “I bet I could snap this thing in half,” I think to myself. I never do, but that overwhelming urge to bend expensive technology in on itself never goes away. At CES 2019, I finally encountered a gadget that could bend …

Samsung’s tried to tease us with a glimpse of the future at its developer conference last November when it quickly showed off a tablet that would bend over backward to fit in your pocket. But two days later, it was shown up by another folding device: The Royale FlexPai. The foldable phone is currently available in China and is currently the talk …

CES is right around the corner — which means we’re spending the days leading up to the show neck deep in rumors and leaks. We’ve already been given a sneak preview of what might be the Galaxy S10. Now, we’re getting a look at something different: a bigger, bolder foldable tablet. That really folds. Can’t speak to the authenticity of …