How To Stop Using Up All of Your Mobile Data Each Month HOTLITTLEPOTATO/Getty Images You know those texts from your carrier informing you that you’ve almost blown through your mobile data allotment? Of course you do. You receive them every month. Which means it’s time to make some changes. Sure, you could switch to an unlimited …
Inside an Epic Hotel Room Hacking Spree Almost exactly five years after seeing the first demonstration of Cody Brocious’ Onity hacking tool, I meet Aaron Cashatt face to face in the fluorescent-lit, cafeteria-style visiting room of the Cibola Unit of the Yuma State Prison Complex. Under his orange jumpsuit he’s bulked up from prison-yard weightlifting and …
Harvey Shows Progress on Emergency Communications Since Katrina The damage done by Hurricane Harvey is, as the National Weather Service, tweeted ominously over the weekend, “unknown & beyond anything experienced.” Rain continues to fall over the water-soaked region of Southeast Texas where the category 4 hurricane made landfall Friday night. It’s a living nightmare already drawing …
Bungie’s ‘Destiny’ Characters Were Born to Be Cosplayed There are a million and one reasons cosplaying is a fine art. It requires not only time, patience, and resources, but also a very specific skill set that can include everything from expert wig selection to carpentry. The folks at videogame developer Bungie understand this struggle. That’s why …
What Are the Odds of Another “500-year-old” Flood? Super-soaker Hurricane Harvey has already dumped 9 trillion gallons of water on Texas and may leave even more before it backs up to the Gulf of Mexico. Starting as a category 4 hurricane as it made landfall on Friday night, Harvey, which has since been downgraded to …
YouTube’s Redesign Makes It Easier to Watch All the Videos Once upon a time, YouTube was simply the place you went to watch a cat play the keyboard, or upload the video of your child, stoned out of his head after the dentist, having an existential crisis in your backseat. In the 12 years since YouTube …
Google Joins the Augmented Reality Party with ARCore Augmented reality is a thing, and everyone in tech seems to agree that it will soon become a very important thing. But what do people want to do in AR? What kinds of products and services do they need? What platforms will they use? What do developers need …
Google Joins the Augmented Reality Party with ARCore Augmented reality is a thing, and everyone in tech seems to agree that it will soon become a very important thing. But what do people want to do in AR? What kinds of products and services do they need? What platforms will they use? What do developers need …
Netflix’s 20th Anniversary Is Nice, But It Doesn’t Matter A few years ago, one eagle-eyed YouTube user uploaded a true internet find: a 1998 DVD-Rom ad for a new service called NetFlix.com. Over a swell of stringed instruments and a parade of movie posters from Raging Bull to Twins, the new DVD rental company explained itself …
Netflix’s 20th Anniversary Is Nice, But It Doesn’t Matter A few years ago, one eagle-eyed YouTube user uploaded a true internet find: a 1998 DVD-Rom ad for a new service called NetFlix.com. Over a swell of stringed instruments and a parade of movie posters from Raging Bull to Twins, the new DVD rental company explained itself …