Athletes at the Rio Olympics have taken swipes at competitors from other countries. That’s not the only swiping going on. The 11,000-plus athletes participating in the 2016 Olympic Games are giving Tinder’s Brazil business a big boost, according to statistics provided by the dating app. Matches in the Olympic Village, where the athletes stay during …

Now playing: Watch this: Snapchat removes racially insensitive filter 1:20 Snapchat briefly introduced a lens it claimed was inspired by anime. However, a lot of people noticed that the resulting image looked kind of really, really racist. This is Snapchat’s second race-based controversy just this year. Back in April, the company introduced a Bob Marley lens that darkened the skin …

Tired of paying a small fortune every month for cable TV and Internet? Of course you are. Everybody is. The rates are ridiculous. Enter BillFixers, a service that promises to negotiate those rates on your behalf. I took it for a test-drive last week and was pretty surprised by the outcome. How it works I pay around $135 per month …

Now playing: Watch this: The Samsung Galaxy S7 Active failed our pool test 3:27 UPDATE: Since this story originally posted, we tested a fresh Samsung Galaxy Active, S7 and S7 Edge that Samsung gave us after fixing a flaw that caused some of the water-resistant phones to drown in water. All three phones survived the pool, which puts Samsung’s water-resistant …

Now playing: Watch this: How vinyl records are made 1:50 I fell in love with music at a very young age. I can remember sitting in my parents’ living room, listening to the crackle and pop that accompanied each new song, only to be replaced with a thumping drum intro or a sick guitar lick that seemed to leap from …

iPad users will finally get split-screen multitasking on iOS versions of Docs, Sheets and Slides, thanks to an update Google released Wednesday. The update allows users of recent models of the iPad Pro and the iPad Air 2 running iOS 9 to edit a document or spreadsheet while running another app at the same time on the other side on …

On your quest to catch them all, some Pokemon are impossible to find, unless you travel. This is because it seems some Pokemon only spawn in certain continents in Pokemon Go. These Pokemon are called Regional Rare Pokemon. Even though they may not be found where you live, you still need them to fill your Pokedex. Luckily, there is one …

Hey, this is kind of a funny-looking acorn. Hmm, nobody’s looking, what if I just grab it? Cool, mom didn’t notice and that obnoxious grabby-paws Rocky didn’t clue in. I’m off to the races! Related stories See what happens when you strap a GoPro to a cheetah Watch a dog wearing a GoPro happily chase after a drone Hmm, it’s …

Few of us feel sane after hours attempting to put together modernist Swedish furniture with confusing instructions and a simple piece of metal. But what if you tried to construct an Ikea dresser while under the influence? New YouTube webseries “Hikea” films regular people (who happen to be high) struggling to do just that. Related stories IKEA’s brilliant mockery of …

Sales of illicit drugs on the dark web have tripled since the feds shut down the online illegal-drug marketplace Silk Road in 2013, according to new research released this week. At the same time, revenue from online sales of heroin, cocaine and marijuana has doubled, according to a RAND study (PDF) conducted by the University of Manchester and University of …