Lincoln adds more pre-owned vehicles to its subscription service pilot

Lincoln announced this week that it's expanding the pilot of its subscription service. The company said late last year that it planned to launch such a service and while a small selection of 2015 models have since been available through Ford's Canvas...

The best wireless headphones

Music is a necessity while I'm working. If it's not tunes from Spotify, there's at least a podcast chattering on in my ear. Of course, if you don't want to bother those around you with what you're listening to, you need a good set of headphones. The...

Congress just legalized sex censorship: What to know

One week ago, the worst possible legislation curtailing free speech online passed and sex censorship bill FOSTA-SESTA is on its way to be signed into law by Trump. Hours after the announcement, everything from the mere discussion of sex work to clie...

Gadget Lab Podcast: What the New iPad Means for Consumers, and for Students

This week, we ask: Can Apple re-win the hearts and minds of educators?

Alexa's DVR controlls will finally let you record a show

For all the recent talk of using Alexa to control DVRs, there's been a conspicuous inability to record to a DVR using the voice assistant. That won't be a problem for much longer: Amazon has bolstered Alexa's Voice Skill programming kit with recordi...

Study shows social media echo chambers might actually be a good thing

A group of researchers, as part of a social experiment, paid liberals and conservatives on Twitter to follow a bot for a month that tweeted political views from the other side. Shockingly, rather than softening their own views or learning to understand the opposition, most participants dug in deeper. We’re not partisan out of ignorance, it seems, but because we fundamentally disagree. Social media echo chambers take a lot of grief. There’s a popular perception that people get stuck inside their own biased worlds and become oblivious to the ‘reality’ the opposing side understands. But perhaps they’re actually doing us…

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Where China’s Tiangong-1 Won’t Land (And Where It Still Might)

Large swaths of Earth are already safe from falling space debris.

VR exhibit allows the blind to ‘see’ art thanks to special gloves

Forget massive headsets. An art exhibit in Prague is helping blind and visually impaired users to touch artwork in virtual reality thanks to special gloves. The Touching Masterpieces exhibit offers visitors a series of 3D models of famous statues to “view” via haptic feedback in the gloves. The exhibit debuted last week at the National Gallery of Prague, where several users were allowed to test it: The project began with the work of Neurodigital Technologies, a Spanish VR startup working in tandem with the Leontinka Foundation for the blind and visually impaired, Geometry Prague, and the National Gallery. Neurodigital began…

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Sex cam site launches CockBlockchain to put the ‘ass’ in crypto-assets

Color me surprised: Adult webcam site CamSoda is the latest company to hop on the blockchain bandwagon. The company is launching CockBlockchain, a digital media exchange platform that lets you earn cryptocurrency by sharing your nudes – or any other photos for that matter. CamSoda VP Daryn Parker is comparing the initiative to a modern version of the popular game I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show me Yours. “What used to be a game of sexual exploration and a rite of passage, has turned into people duping each other with fake pictures or, worse, exploiting those pictures on the internet,”…

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Using cryptocurrency to fight spam is a terrible idea

Email spam have been increasingly becoming a menace, as more and more data breaches happen and end up leaking people’s email IDs. The trend has inspired many companies to build up solutions to fight the problem — one such popular solution has been to bounce emails that do not come from known email IDs. The way these services usually work is that the user whitelists the contacts they want to receive emails from. Other senders, who are not on the whitelist, receive an automated email, which allows them to choose from two options, ‘get whitelisted’ or ‘pay’. Most of these services…

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OnePlus teases PeiCoin cryptocurrency, ‘launching’ on April 1

OnePlus today announced it’s jumping on the blockchain train with the imminent launch of PeiCoin. The phonetically convenient cryptocurrency, named after OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, was created “exclusively for OnePlus users,” and will launch in April. April 1, that is. According to OnePlus, a few forum users will recieve beta access to the PeiCoin Wallet, which will only run on devices with OxygenOS (its custom version of Android). You’ll then be able to request and send PeiCoin directly to other OnePlus users. You can also receive tips by participating in the company’s forums, mine the coins on your own devices,  or…

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Dell’s new XPS 13 laptop is a tiny beautiful workhorse

Dell’s XPS 13 has been the darling of the Windows laptop world for a while now, thanks to sleek design, commendable performance and top-notch battery life – at a premium, of course. This year, Dell has updated the machine with several modern touches that will delight fans of the series – and perhaps annoy a few of them too. The latest iteration is faster, sexier, and more portable, and it’s easily one of the most desirable laptops you can buy for work and staying connected on the move right now. It’s also pretty pricey. I took it for a spin…

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Twitch lays off some employees as part of ‘team adjustments’

Twitch, the Amazon-owned live-streaming platform for gaming, laid off “several” people yesterday, Polygon first reported. It’s not clear how many people were let go, but according to Polygon, probably no more than 30 people were let go. Twitch has since confirmed the layoffs to TechCrunch. “Coming off the record-setting numbers shared in our 2017 Retrospective, […]

As marketing data proliferates, consumers should have more control

At the Adobe Summit in Las Vegas this week, privacy was on the minds of many people. It was no wonder with social media data abuse dominating the headlines, GDPR just around the corner, and Adobe announcing the concept of a centralized customer experience record. With so many high profile breaches in recent years, putting […]

Huawei says it’s still committed to the U.S., in spite of, well, everything

A funny thing happened the last couple of times I was briefed on a Huawei flagship product: news was breaking about some major roadblock for the company’s U.S. distribution plans. First it was AT&T backing out in the midst of CES and then it was Best Buy’s decision to drop the company just ahead of […]

Smugglers used drones to sneak $80 million worth of phones into China

China's Legal Daily reported today that officials in the country just shut down a major smartphone smuggling scheme. A total of 26 suspects were arrested in connection with the plot. The individuals allegedly used drones to string two cables between...