Browsing Category: Tech News

  • This water bottle can remove 99% of water-borne bacteria (and it's on sale)

    There are a bunch of factors that can affect your H20 consumption. Maybe your day is so busy that, unless you have a glass or reusable bottle on hand, you simply forget to drink water. Or perhaps you spend your days outside or in areas where the water quality is questionable. Either way, those glorious …

    April 15, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Get access to thousands of gorgeous stock photos for less than $20

    Get a lifetime subscription to Stock-Graphics on sale for just $19 and gain access to some 13,500 images and 2,900 vectors. Once you purchase a subscription, simply scroll through a range of categories, icons, or designs, and download whatever your heart desires.  SEE ALSO: This is not your parents’ camera tripod Stock-Graphics lets you download …

    April 15, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Samsung's latest smartphone can't connect to the internet. Like, at all.

    Well, here’s something you don’t see announced often (or ever, for that matter): A smartphone that can’t connect to the Internet. That’s right, Samsung’s new Galaxy J2 Pro (it ain’t a “pro” anything if it can’t go online) is intentionally designed to have no way to go online. And nope, we haven’t slipped into a …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Mission accomplished, Trump boasted. Not so fast, Twitter replied.

    Donald Trump can’t catch a break, mostly because Donald Trump is extremely bad at being President of the United States. Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning with a triumphant message after U.S., French, and British precision strikes hit key targets in Syria on Friday evening. “A perfectly executed strike,” he boasted, ending the message …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Starbucks faces social media backlash over tepid apology for alleged racial profiling

    Cell phone video captured a bewildered man at Starbucks this week asking Philadelphia police why they were arresting his two black friends.  Onlookers said there didn’t appear to be a reason for the arrest. The men were simply sitting at the coffee shop, waiting for their business associate — the aforementioned bewildered man — to …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Medium pokes fun at Mark Zuckerberg's congressional testimony in the best way possible

    It’s been a very long week for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Dude survived over 10 hours of Congress grilling him on the Cambridge Analytica scandal that has rocked the world. But is his skin thick enough to brush off all the jokes derived from his canned statements? I guess we’ll find out. SEE ALSO: Mark …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Android P might rip off the iPhone X's gesture controls

    The endless cycle of Android copying iOS and vice versa doesn’t look like it’s ending anytime soon. In an blog post on the official Android Developers Blog, Google accidentally included a screenshot of a navigation bar interface that ditches the well-known layout of “back, home, recent apps” with a little bar that bears a strong …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • U.S. boxer wearing 'border wall' shorts gets pounded by Mexican opponent

    Mexican boxer Francisco Vargas crushed the border wall on Thursday night. His opponent, U.S. boxer Rod Salka, donned shorts  reading “America 1st” that were embellished with a brick wall design, a clear reference to President Trump’s desire to construct a formidable border wall between the U.S and Mexico, and have the latter nation pay for …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • Removing Richard Spencer from Facebook is a gesture, not a fix

    After a long month and an even longer week for Facebook, the social network is taking publicity-friendly steps to scrub hateful views from its platform. Two pages associated with the prominent white nationalist Richard Spencer were removed on Friday. Both the National Policy Institute, an organization that favors a white ethnostate, and Altright.com, Spencer’s online …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel
  • When will tampon users stop shaming pad users?

    For far too long, people who use menstrual pads have been doubly stigmatized: first for their periods, and second, for their feminine hygiene product of choice. “Why do you want to wear an adult diaper?” tampon loyalists will ask. They are confident that their hygiene product is the superior one. They believe those who choose …

    April 14, 2018 | by Raheel