Tired of your $10,000 anatomically-correct sex doll just lying there? Well, now RealDoll, purveyors of alarmingly lifelike silicone sex partners — and apparently not movie buffs — plans to give them personalities. According to the New York Times, R…
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The original number-pushing puzzle game, ‘Threes,’ goes free
Threes is a deceptively simple puzzle game. You slide numbered tiles across a 16-slot board, combining twin numbers to rack up the highest score possible. It seems like something timeless, like it should have been next to the crossword puzzle in The …
A game told me I don’t have what it takes to be a good Uber driver
Think you have the behind-the-wheel skills to cut it as an Uber driver? Well, the transportation company has a way for you to find out: a mobile game. UberDRIVE is an iOS title that not only offers a glimpse at a day in the life of an Uber driver, bu…
New net neutrality rules will take effect tomorrow
Nothing will stop the new net neutrality rules from taking effect on Friday now. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has just tossed out the telecom industry’s request to block key net neutrality regulations while the lawsuit…
Google’s plan to fix big cities starts with Sidewalk Labs
Google wants to do more than just simplify privacy for its users and put autonomous cars on the road, it wants to “improve city life for everyone.” Cofounder Larry Page writes on G+ that with Mountain View’s Sidewalk Labs, the company intends to do j…
T-Mobile customers can use iOS 9 beta’s Continuity over cellular
The Continuity feature that allows you to continue text convos and calls across devices used to require those gadgets to be on the same WiFi network. With the iOS 9 beta, though, the functionality can be used over cellular and T-Mobile is the first t…
Websites can use Apple’s pressure-aware trackpad in OS X El Capitan
Apple’s pressure-sensitive Force Touch trackpad isn’t tremendously useful in typical Mac software, but it might just get a new lease on life in OS X El Capitan. The new operating system’s development tools let websites define what happens when you ma…
Watch D’Angelo, Alabama Shakes and more perform at Bonnaroo
Manchester, Tennessee’s annual music festival is set to take place this weekend, and thanks to Red Bull, you can watch in your air conditioned living room. Bonnaroo’s livestream starts Thursday, June 11th and rolls through Sunday with performances by…
Barclays doesn’t support Apple Pay, but it’s likely to
Nearly a year after it launched, Apple Pay is coming to the UK. Most major financial institutions were included in Apple’s WWDC 2015 keynote, but there was one notable exception: Barclays. It’s a weird omission, particularly as Barclaycard, the bank’…
The machines that rose to DARPA’s robotics challenge
The robot apocalypse has been postponed. At DARPA Robotics Challenge in California, where the world’s best and brightest robots came to compete, the machines were far from invincible. They moved at a glacial pace, stumbled and slammed to the ground a…
NASA pushes back its latest flying saucer test
NASA’s not having an easy time testing the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator that should eventually put big payloads on Mars. The agency has scrubbed all test flights this weekend due to weather, and now won’t take the flying saucer-like balloon for…
Watch the US Navy test its electromagnetic jet fighter catapult
The US Navy’s next-gen electromagnetic catapult for aircraft carriers works! Well, OK, the military hasn’t exactly used it to launch an actual fighter jet yet, but a recent test has proven that it can handle 80,000 pounds of steel. The Navy has been …
Hackers in giant federal breach got 30 years of worker info
Just how bad was the hack that compromised the info of 4 million US government workers? Exceptionally bad, if you ask anonymous officials talking to Reuters. They understand that the Office of Personnel Management breach exposed data going as far bac…
Dear Veronica: Behind the scenes with Sirron Norris
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Amazon’s Fire TV is a hit among US consumers, says report
Its ability to do everything, from video-streaming to gaming, makes the Fire TV a solid home entertainment product. And people in the US are starting to take note of this. According to Strategy Analytics, an independent firm that researches the consu…