You’ll probably never choose to take apart your 9.7-inch iPad Pro , after learning about the obstacles encountered by the folks at iFixit. Released this past weekend, the new $599 iPad Pro is similar in features to its 12.9-inch cousin except for the 9.7-inch screen size used in the regular iPad lineup. Sales of the …

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The Start menu in the first major update to the Windows 10 operating system will sport at least a couple of changes, and Microsoft wants your feedback. The Start menu has been a source of controversy since Microsoft took it away with Windows 8 and then brought it back with Windows 10. Users are often sensitive to even minor tweaks, …

Amazon is trying to get more people to shop with it even when they aren’t on Amazon.com. In hopes of growing its young Amazon Payments business, the Seattle e-commerce giant on Monday introduced its new Global Partner Program, which provides tools and support for Amazon Payments to e-commerce services companies, such as Shopify, that help manage retailers’ websites. The program …

There are a lot of microSD cards to choose from, but not all of them will work with your Android phone or tablet. When you’re choosing between SDHC and SDXC, or a Class 10 and UHS-I Class 1, here are a few tips to help you make sure you’re choosing the best one for your device and your needs. Capacity …

Attention all bookworms: The next top-shelf Amazon Kindle e-reader is about to arrive. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos on Monday revealed in a tweet that the new Kindle is “almost ready,” with details coming next week. Likely to coincide with Bezos’ tweet, the whole current line of Kindle devices went on sale on Amazon.com for the company’s Prime membership customers, with …

You’ve seen Sheryl Sandberg’s photo on the cover of Fortune, Forbes and Time. Now you can see her through the eyes of Annie Leibovitz. While the famed photographer is known for placing her subjects in bold poses, sometimes draped in snakes and diamonds, she opts for a more familiar setting, an office, for the Facebook chief operating officer and author …

Amazing. From major upsets leading to millions of busted brackets online, to Villanova’s improbable shot at the buzzer to beat North Carolina 77-74 for the national title, this was possibly the craziest NCAA basketball tournament ever. Who didn’t think that Monday’s title game, arguably the greatest college basketball game ever, was headed to overtime? When Carolina’s Marcus Paige hit an …

Let’s go back in time to August 31, 1987. Madonna and Whitney Houston were burning up the pop charts. Mobile phones were the size of bricks and few people were even thinking about the Internet. That was the day that Quick.com was registered. All these years later, it’s up for auction to the highest bidder. According to auction house Heritage …

Hydraulic presses are hot on the Internet right now. People can’t get enough of watching objects like bowling balls, alarm clocks and bubble wrap suffer under massive amounts of pressure. The latest show on the YouTube Hydraulic Press Channel involves a Lego minifig and a red brick. The Lego stood there bravely for a moment as the metal cylinder descended …