Samsung‘s about to “do bigger things.” The company on Thursday plans to hold its next Unpacked event — presumably the Galaxy Note 8 — at 11 a.m. ET on Aug. 23 in New York’s Park Avenue Armory.  The invitation provided to press showed the outline of a phone that looks similar to the shape of …

Click here to make believe you’re an astronaut. With Google Street View, you can now take an interactive 360-degree tour of the International Space Station — all 15 modules of the station and two visiting vehicles docked there. Google’s launching the tour to celebrate the 48th anniversary of the moon landing. The tour includes annotations highlighting important information as you …

The mobile word game Words With Friends is set to become a TV show, following the news that its publisher Zynga has partnered with MGM Television. The news was announced via a brief statement on Zynga’s investor website, stating “MGM Television and Zynga…today announced a collaboration to develop a new television game show based on Words With Friends. The show will …

After a push to dominate the wearables industry in 2014, Intel has reportedly eliminated its wearables division entirely.  Intel let go of a large percentage of its wearables division last November, an unnamed source told CNBC, and eliminated the group two weeks ago. Intel’s acquisition of the Basis fitness watch supposedly didn’t go as planned, so the chip maker will now stop …

Now playing: Watch this: What’s it like to use YouTube TV? We go hands-on 1:55 The free version of YouTube is an internet behemoth visited by 1.5 billion viewers worldwide each month, but the pay version, with more than 40 channels of live TV, is only available to a fraction of the US population. That fraction just got a lot …

The public is fired up about net neutrality.  More than 10 million comments have been filed at the Federal Communications Commission on a proposal to roll back  net neutrality regulations.  That’s more than twice as many comments as were filed two years ago when the FCC was considering the current rules. The Republican-led FCC introduced a proposal in May to roll …

Hey, remember Apple Clips? The square movie editor for social media launched in March, and according to Apple, it’s doing great so far, with millions of active users. Apple said Clips would get regular content updates over time, and the first update hits today: mostly, it’s Disney-powered. There are free Disney and Pixar characters and titles, which can be dropped …

Actions speak louder than words. Especially when that action is Nokia briefly “announcing” the rumored Nokia 8 on one of its official websites, before quickly taking it down again. Luckily, fans noticed Nokia jumping the gun and immortalized the moment in screenshots. That’s enough of a confirmation for us. The Nokia 8 represents the brand’s first-ever premium Android handset, and its best chance …

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If you’ve got an Android phone, you can now use Google‘s Motion Stills app for turning your crummy video into something more presentable. A year ago, Google released Motion Stills for iOS so iPhone customers could stabilize shaky video, shorten videos into a fast-forward version and create looped cimemagraphs that blur the boundary between still photos and moving videos. On …

Eager to take a peek at the upcoming Galaxy Note 8? We are too, and although the phone won’t be announced until next month there’s no shortage of unofficial renders to keep us satisfied in the meantime. The latest look comes from tech site BGR, which got its hands on leaked images that show off the Note from multiple angles. If …

Mozilla released Firefox 8.0 for iOS on Thursday, adding a dark mode to make nighttime reading easier on your eyes and the ability to scan QR codes from the browser. The new dark mode dims the screen automatically, Mozilla said in a blog post, though it doesn’t change white backgrounds to dark or make other more dramatic changes. The QR …

Nearly 30 years before the World Wide Web was invented, Marshall McLuhan predicted the web technology we have today, as well as its impact. A Canadian philosopher and professor who specialized in media theory, McLuhan rose to prominence in the 1960s with his theory that society is shaped by technology and the way information is shared. Google‘s Doodle on Friday …

Last week, I argued that the first generation of VR headsets might not be worth buying, even at half the original price. This week, two Facebook executives tried to convince me otherwise.  In an interview — leaning on a huge, ornate wooden table that would fit right into Game of Thrones — they explained that technological advancements such as eye …

PayPal is teaming up with both Chase and Citi to make it easier than ever to spend your money, the online payment service announced Thursday. PayPal already worked with JPMorgan Chase, the international financial institution, to an extent. Now, the companies have agreed to expand their partnership.  You’ll be able to use Chase cards to make purchases in brick and mortar …