Kudo Tsunoda’s job is to dream. And dreams don’t always become reality right away. Specifically, the Microsoft executive’s job is to dream up all the reasons people might want computer-generated objects to coexist with the real world. He’s part of the team behind Microsoft’s HoloLens, a marvel of technology that allows the wearer to see …

Art is subjective, but this sculpture called “Stormtrumper” is objectively terrifying. It seems appropriate that Star Wars is the muse in this political art piece about Donald Trump, considering how in the films, the Clone Wars started with an emperor who knew how to influence the masses while also impressing the Intergalactic Banking Clan. Artist Greg Dietzenbach even quoted Jedi …

Federal regulators voted Thursday to expand a $1.5 billion phone subsidy program to bring broadband to the poor, recognizing the necessity of Internet access for work and education. Enlarge Image The FCC commissioners (left to right): Ajit Pai, Mignon Clyburn, Tom Wheeler (chairman), Jessica Rosenworcel and Michael O’Rielly. FCC In a 3-2 vote, the Federal Communications Commission approved expanding the …

Do you ever wish you should just show a customer service person your acting-up phone instead of trying to laboriously describe the problem and then try to fix it yourself? A new feature for Samsung+, a customer service app you can download on compatible Galaxy phones and tablets, now grants remote access to the very people who can troubleshoot your …

Buying more Doritos at the simple push of a button sounds like an awfully dangerous idea. Let’s hope Amazon knows what it’s doing. Last year, the e-retail giant introduced Dash buttons, which are small, Internet-connected buttons that people can click to purchase household goods like paper towels or detergent through Amazon. That announcement was just before April 1, 2015, and …

The first thing some people want to do with a brand new gadget is tear it open. The good folks at iFixit and Chipworks did just that with the 4-inch iPhone SE, which went on sale today. They found the petite device looks like the iPhone 5S on the outside but packs the guts of the bigger iPhone 6S on …

Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and the Avengers aren’t the only superheroes willing to stand up for us mere mortals. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl are ready to punch their way through the bad guys with snazzy costumes and witty comebacks in an new reboot from Legendary Digital Studios. This “Electra Woman and Dyna Girl” reboot stars YouTube sensations Grace Helbig …

You’ve got lots of options to stream music into your home. I’m not talking the streaming services (Spotify, Pandora, Tidal, etc.), but the technology to get music from your phone to a speaker or to multiple speakers around your home — or both. There are hundreds of speaker options that let you do this, but just as not all the …

Sometimes it’s not what you say that matters, but what you don’t say. That seems to be the case with the latest transparency report from the popular community site Reddit. Released Thursday, the report documents the number of requests the website received in 2015 from governments around the world seeking information on users or the removal of content, as well …

Microsoft is making sure its new Web browser can be part of the war on Internet ads. At its Build conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, Microsoft outlined improvements to the new Edge browser it introduced with the Windows 10 operating system last year. High on the list is technology that will let you customize the browser’s behavior, for example, …

Whenever a new iPhone goes on sale, folks tend to act like it’s a religious holiday. There are the rituals of waiting outside stores in snaking lines and getting high-fived by hordes of excited Apple retail employees after making a purchase. These customs happened predictably every year since 2007 — that is, until Thursday, when the iPhone SE launched. Technically, …

“I’m gonna be an engineer!” “I’m gonna be a lawyer!” “I’m gonna be the nation’s No. 1 investment banker!” When little girls excitedly proclaim their future professions anything seems possible. That is, until they start playing the fictional board game “The Glass Ceiling.” In this Comedy Central parody video posted Wednesday, we see happy girls get a reality check when …

At its Build conference on Wednesday, Microsoft did something that made my jaw drop. It wasn’t the HoloLens augmented reality demonstration. Or the Cortana digital assistant. Or the push to build other bots. It was the announcement that Microsoft is bringing to Windows a developer-oriented tool that’s central to two rival operating systems, Linux and Apple’s OS X. You needn’t …

We’ve all read a disappointing superhero comic and thought we could do a better job if only given the chance. For those who may have missed it, DC Entertainment announced March 25 that it’s created a new Talent Development Workshop for writers and artists hoping to get their feet in the door of the company that’s responsible for the very …

You may not choose to dissect your new $600 Oculus Rift VR to see what makes it tick. But anyone who needs to go inside to make repairs shouldn’t find the effort overly taxing. Released this week, the first consumer version of Facebook’s Oculus Rift virtual reality headset immerses you in a 3D world where you can play games, explore …