What do the weather report, birthday cards, and a voice assistant have in common? Nothing beyond the fact that they're all coming at you in this edition of the best iPhone apps of the week. Read More >>
Feel like building something? With this batch of the iPad apps of the week, we'll help you do that, whether it's a new song or a new Utopia. Read More >>
It's an action-packed weekend with the start of the Six Nations and the Super Bowl. We're thinking of you in this round of the best Android apps of the week. Read More >>
There's a Google specifically for GIFs now. Giphy is a great and noble cause, and we hope it gets better some day. But as it stands now, it's humorously awful and painfully slow. Read More >>
You're so beautiful. That is, at least according to Simple Human's newest sensor mirror that automatically lights up when it sees your face. Read More >>
GitHub is an exceptionally popular open-source community where any developer can find code for pretty much anything. But there's a problem — some of that code contains extremely offensive racist, sexist, and homophobic, language. Read More >>
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"To be fair, at least in this country, Software development is a pretty lucrative career. As a developer I'm already on the average UK salary and I'm o..." More »
Engadget has spotted an application for Google's Project Glass approval from the FCC in the US. It gives us a closer look at the heads-up display, and it might mean we aren't far from the release of the Explorer Edition developer units. After all, Google held its first hackathon last weekend in San Francisco, with another scheduled for this weekend in New York. Read More >>
Never been to the Grand Canyon? No problem, virtual hiker — Google can be your guide with new interactive, 360-degree imagery of the world-famous monument. Read More >>
If you're using Chromium on Windows, you can now get a notification centre. The feature's just in the developmental stage right now, but it could lead to some neat creations with Chrome that tie it closer to the Android operating system. Read More >>
Call Notes is an Android app that lets you pull up annotations you've made in your contacts while you're on a call. Because what good are those digital flashcards if you can't see them when you actually need them? Read More >>
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"I brought my phone outright so as long as it takes me to save up enough money to buy a new one!
Trouble is there is a new car and a new surfboard a..." More »
Galileo was the first to think to use a pendulum as a time keeper in 1637. An actual clock using the precise weighted mechanism was patented in 1656 by Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens. Roughly 350 years later, Christian Kim has reinterpreted the classic ticker with the modern Pendulum clock for Zwilling. Read More >>
BlackBerry unveiled Alicia Keys as its new spokesperson, but turns out she's been posting from her iPhone. Seems a little dubious, but we'll see. Read More >>
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"This is one example of why Blackberry will fail. I was a huge BB10 fan as I love Qt, Cascades and C++ (and QNX). I was at a Carphone Warehouse at 9am ..." More »
Starting today, RIM is rebranding itself as simply BlackBerry. With the official name change, you can say so long to all your RIM-related innuendo. Read More >>