If you’re tired of lugging around both an external battery pack and a power adapter to keep your iPhone running, today’s your lucky day. Nomad (the company behind the ChargeCard) has started taking pre-orders for the NomadPlus, a 1,500mAh external…
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If you’re part of the ‘younger set with high income,’ you might like this purple potato
Potato breeding programs at Michigan State University and Texas A&M have been churning out modified spuds for the better part of a decade, if not longer, but thanks to A&M’s Creighton Miller, we now have a better idea of the ‘designer’ potato’s…
Evernote turns your prose into published books
Looking to get that novel you’ve been plugging away at in your “spare time” published with ease? Well, Evernote now offers an option for doing just that, thanks to a partnership with FastPencil. The note-taking and productivity repository allows you…
Instagram quietly (and slowly) launches Snapchat rival, Bolt
We knew Instagram’s effort to nab a bit of Snapchat’s thunder was imminent thanks to leaked promo banners, and now, the app has officially arrived… for some. Bolt, the filter-driven photo app’s own ephemeral messenger has hit iTunes and Google Play…
Airbnb launches dedicated portal for business travelers
It’s not that business travelers have chosen to shun Airbnb — in fact they make up a decent chunk of the short-term subletting business. But now the startup is making a concerted effort to lure those customers in with Business Travel on Airbnb. It’s…
Mozilla makes interim CEO’s job permanent
Mozilla must’ve really liked Chris Beard during his time as interim CEO because he is now the real, actual CEO of the company, “interim” prefix not required. Beard took over the reins of the firm in April after former CEO Brendan Eich stepped down…
Windows Phone’s next update will support smart cases and giant devices
Windows Phone 8.1 may have only just reached the general public, but it’s already in line for a surprisingly large update. Microsoft has posted developer documents (sign-in required) for Windows Phone 8.1 GDR1, a tweak that fills in a few key…
Gadget Rewind 2005: BenQ Z2
BenQ may not be a familiar name to some — at least not in the US — but its roots in the electronics industry date back to the ’80s. The company, formerly a division of Acer, was spun off in 2001 in an attempt to build a brand name for itself. With…
IRL: Taking HTC’s One M8 for a test drive
The original HTC One was one of my favorite smartphones from 2013, but it was easy to see why you’d pass it up in favor of an archrival like Samsung’s Galaxy S4 — it just didn’t have the battery life, camera quality or expansion to keep up….
The incredibly short story of the ‘post-PC’ era
The Pirate Bay makes it even easier to torrent on the go
Regardless of what you may be searching for on The Pirate Bay, it wouldn’t hurt to be doing so with style and ease of use. In consideration of this, the popular (and controversial) torrent-sharing property has launched a brand new mobile site,…
Cortana won’t sound like Cortana on UK Windows Phones
Now that Microsoft is rolling Windows Phone 8.1 out to handsets, users can now start chatting with its new virtual assistant, Cortana. Right now, she’s limited to the US, but the Cortana man at Microsoft, Marcus Ash, has tweeted that “barring an…
Apple reportedly releasing OS X Yosemite in October alongside 4K desktop and 12-inch Retina MacBook
Well, this is a timely rumor: Today is the day Apple opens up OS X Yosemite for public beta-testing, and now we’re hearing the final version of the OS will come out in late October. The report comes from Mark Gurman at 9to5Mac, who has a strong track…
Vodafone’s first own-brand 4G phones could struggle to compete
Last year we would’ve bet our lunch money on Vodafone being the first UK carrier to release an own-brand LTE smartphone. After all, we spotted a “Vodafone Smart 4G” picking up its roaming permit from the US communications regulator, and only a few…
Dropbox for Business lets you limit your coworkers’ access to shared files
Dropbox for Business is good for collaborating on files stored in the cloud, but it hasn’t had fine-grained permission control — not great if you have a sensitive project you’d rather not share with the folks in Accounts Receivable. You’ll be glad…