YouTube’s major redesign brings the service’s first logo change

YouTube has rolled out a major redesign to both its desktop and mobile apps, and alongside them you may notice that something seems a bit off. That’s because the logo, still so similar to the one we’ve always known, has just received its first ever change: the red rectangle is now located to the left of the word YouTube rather … Continue reading

The new Bentley Continental GT is more lavish and high-tech than ever

The Bentley Continental GT revolutionized the iconic British automaker’s allure, and now there’s a third-generation car to give it a complete makeover. Packing new styling, new technology, and a completely fresh W12 engine with a heady 626 horsepower, as Grand Tourers go it’s heavy on hand-crafting and light on subtlety. Not that such a strategy should come as a surprise … Continue reading

Star Wars TLJ Find the Force leaks all sorts of secrets

This morning a BUNCH of Star Wars: The Last Jedi info was data mined from the Star Wars “Find the Force” campaign meant for Force Friday. Included were a set of character tokens, all of the character hologram avatars, all of the scannable store posters, and a bunch more. Needless to say, what follows is certainly worthy of being called … Continue reading

Lomography Lomo’Instant Square Camera puts square images on film

Lomography is back with yet another instant camera, this one the Lomo’Instant Square Camera. As with past Lomography gear, the company is seeking funding for its product on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter, where it explains that this camera produces old school print images alongside some modern features, including an LED exposure counter and more. Lomography’s Square Camera features an expandable … Continue reading

Fight zombies on your street with 'Walking Dead' AR mobile game

How long would you last during a zombie apocalypse? Because let’s be honest, the chances are you’d be shuffling among the living dead in next to no time, no matter how good your baseball swing. But instead of waiting for the end of all humanity to pr…

Misfit delays its Android Wear smartwatch to October

Misfit said that its Vapor smartwatch would arrive this summer, but the season’s nearly over and it has yet to put the device on your wrist. What gives? Well, there’s been a delay… although you won’t have to wait too much longer. The company tells…

Uber gives free insurance to drivers in India

Uber’s reputations in India and the Philippines aren’t stellar, to put it mildly, but the ridesharing company is making amends in both countries. To begin with, it’s providing free insurance to its roughly 450,000 Indian drivers. As of September 1s…

Netflix engineers dream up a way to search your queue with Morse code

Netflix’s annual Hack Day event saw a host of funky projects this year, including a Redbox-style Netflix vending machine, a spooky new interface that makes eyes and heads of characters in thumbnails follow your cursor, an interface to track your bing…

Hurricane Harvey Response At Risk If Congress Misses Looming Deadlines

It’s not a good time for a government shutdown.

The Baby Was On Its Way. So Was The Hurricane.

“All I needed was her and my husband, and that big old bathtub.”