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Jawbone as we knew it is no more. The tech company that produced Bluetooth earpieces and wireless speakers before betting everything on fitness tracking has entered into liquidation proceedings, according to a new report from The Information.Co-founder and chief executive Hosain Rahman has reportedly started a new company, Jawbone Health Hub, that will primarily focus on health-related hardware products and services. Many Jawbone employees have joined Rahman at the new business, which The Inform

Jawbone as we knew it is no more. The tech company that produced Bluetooth earpieces and wireless speakers before betting everything on fitness tracking has entered into liquidation proceedings, according to a new report from The Information.The Verge has independently confirmed that the report in The Information is accurate, however a representative from Jawbone declined to comment.Co-founder and chief executive Hosain Rahman has reportedly moved onto a new company, Jawbone Health Hub, that wil

In the latest escalation of its global legal fight with Apple, Qualcomm is asking the US government to ban new iPhones from coming into the country. It also wants sales halted on iPhones that have already made their way in.
Qualcomm says that Apple is violating six patents that have to do with extending a phone’s battery life. None of the patents are essential to a standard, Qualcomm says, which means it isn’t required to license them — as it is with the other patents the two c

“Anyone can fly the Skycar,” the headline on the January 1991 cover of Popular Mechanics blared, teasing the possibility of a future where everyone could own their own “flying car.” That dream never came to fruition, but the original Skycar can now be yours to own. Moller International, the company that built the iconic vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft, announced today that it is putting the M400 Skycar up for sale on eBay. Just don’t expect to use it f

Today, Vice President Mike Pence gave a lengthy speech about the future of US space policy, in which he provided no concrete details about what the administration’s agenda for space will look like. During a visit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Pence made it very clear in his speech that the US would “once again lead in space,” but didn’t say what that actually meant.He didn’t mention any new additions to NASA’s leadership team either, which m

Over the past 24 hours, Instagram users have been unable to log in, blaming the service for possibly deleting their accounts without providing any real explanation. Reports of these incidents filled Twitter and Facebook. When Instagram tweeted this today, users flooded the account demanding to hear why their Instagrams were randomly shut down.
My account was deleted, please answer us— Rhéa (@ashelia) July 6, 2017We don't care, give us our accounts back. We worked too hard to have it

Putting all of its other skills and tricks aside, we must never forget that one of Amazon’s primary objectives with the Echo (and Alexa) is to make it dead simple and convenient for you to continually buy more stuff from Amazon. You can place an order in seconds and track it to your doorstep — all just with voice. Echo speakers and the Echo Show can already track incoming deliveries. Just ask “Alexa, where’s my stuff?” And ahead of the company’s made-up holida

If you’ve got a 4K Samsung smart TV with access to the Samsung app store, you can now stream Steam games to your TV to play directly on the big screen with the new Steam Link app that’s now out in beta, via Engadget.Just like the Steam Link set top box, the Steam Link app allows for users to stream games from their Steam libraries to play on a Samsung smart TV, assuming they have a strong enough network connection to pull it off. According to PC Gamer, the app works with the Steam Co

France is considering banning the sale of all petrol and diesel vehicles by 2040, the country’s environmental minister said Thursday, according to multiple reports. It’s unclear, however, whether this proposal is an official position of French President Emmanuel Macron’s new government, and if so, how it will be implemented. But it’s a sign of France’s desire to be a leader in sustainable energy after the departure of the US from the Paris climate accord.Nicolas Hul

More than 100 YouTube creators have signed an open letter to the FCC calling on the agency to keep strong net neutrality protections.Letter represents major YouTube creators
“Our rapidly growing industry employs hundreds of thousands of people and yet it barely existed more than a decade ago,” reads the letter from the Internet Creators Guild, which represents online video makers. “As creators in this fast-moving industry, changes to the existing Net Neutrality rules would have

Motorola just sent out a mysterious invite with a date, July 25th, and a location, New York City, saying “you won’t want to miss this.”
The gif uses the hashtag #hellomotoworld which is only notable for being used by no one else in the world except some Twitter fans.Leaks of the Moto X4 and other models slated to hit shelves in late 2017 have already circulated the Internet, showing the X4’s dual cameras and I68 water-resistant aluminum case. Moto X4 will reportedly be th

Ava DuVernay will write and direct an upcoming limited series about the Central Park Five for Netflix, The Hollywood Reporter reports. The series will mark DuVernay’s second project for Netflix, after the 2016 documentary 13th, which earned an Oscar nomination.
The Central Park Five refers to five men — Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, and Korey Wise — who were wrongly convicted in 1990 of assaulting and raping a female jogger, Trisha Meili, in Ma

Everyone has those moments when it feels like nothing is working out, like no one around you is competent at their jobs, like you just want to give it all up. Well, for news anchors those moments can happen on live TV.
Doug Fernandez of KOAT Action News couldn't help but express his irritation after a glitch in the broadcast. He thought he was handing it off to a reporter on the scene, then maybe it looked like they didn't have that story. And when the reporter chimed in, poor Doug lost it.&nbs

We all know there are too many Spider-Men. Since the dawn of time, or since 2002, or since 2011, or 2015 — Presidents have come and gone, MySpace fell, iPods were literally invented, but Spider-Man and the Spider-Men remain our constants.
In honor of Tom Holland's first solo outing as Spidey, and in honor of the many Spideys that came before, here's a full list of Spider-Man movies to watch, based on how you're feeling. A Spidery for every emotion!
SEE ALSO: The Evolution of Spider-Man
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Forget the iPhone 8 and Galaxy Note 8.
RED, the company that makes professional digital cameras for shooting Hollywood movies, is making a holographic phone called the Hydrogen.
SEE ALSO: 6 reasons why the OnePlus 5 is the Android phone to get
The company is touting the Hydrogen as the "world's first holographic media machine" and says it doesn't require glasses to see the supposed holograms.
The 5.7-inch phone runs Android, and pre-orders are available in two tiers: It costs $1,595 for the "Tit

Listen to Andreas Koukorinis, founder of UK sports betting company Stratagem, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that soccer games are some of the most predictable events on Earth. “They’re short duration, repeatable, with fixed rules,” Koukorinis tells The Verge. “So if you observe 100,000 games, there are patterns there you can take out.”The mission of Koukorinis’ company is simple: find these patterns and make money off them. Stratagem does this eithe

France's environment minister Nicolas Hulot just announced an ambitious goal aimed at curbing climate change: Stopping the sale of all gasoline-or-diesel-powered cars by 2040. 
On Thursday, Hulot — a former nature documentary narrator in the vein of David Attenborough — announced the government's plan, which still must go through several steps before it is enacted.
"We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040," Hulot said during the speech, according t

Even from the safety of your vehicle, a charging bear is nothing to mess with.
Cody Kunau and his friend Samantha were driving to the Yakutat Lodge in Alaska for dinner when they encountered a large grizzly bear on the side of the road. As they approached the animal, it quickly scurried across the road and into the woods. 
"This is a somewhat normal occurrence for here," Kunau wrote. "Usually, the bears run off and catching a close up glimpse is hard. We slowed our vehicle down to where we

Game of Thrones' direwolves have been as unlucky as the Stark family so far — over the course of the past six seasons, we've lost Lady, Grey Wind, Shaggydog and Summer, and we haven't seen Arya's wolf Nymeria since the second episode of Season 1, when Arya sent her away to protect her from being killed by the Lannisters after biting Joffrey. 
But that could change in Season 7 — at Con of Thrones this past weekend, sound designer Paula Fairfield revealed that the show will featur

A new website called Spoil Your Enemies will anonymously send TV show spoilers to six of your enemies in exchange for $2. Just pick the show, pop in six phone numbers, and enter your payment info. The site sends you an email if the spoilers have been successfully delivered and a sad message with a thumbs-down emoji if they haven’t.
Spoilyourenemies.xyz only offers a limited set of seasons for a handful of shows like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, and Arrow. A sidebar invites visitors t

The next World Cup, set to be hosted in Russia, is still a year away, but Facebook and Twitter are already gunning to purchase video rights from exclusive rights holder Fox Sports, according to a report from Bloomberg today. Given the global audience of the event, and its rising viewership here in the US, both social media giants are eager to fashion themselves as the destination for game highlights. Both companies are reportedly prepared to pays tens of millions of dollars, Bloomberg reports.Fa

Obama administration photographer and expert shade-thrower Pete Souza is back and he's got his sights set on Russian president Vladimir Putin, a day ahead of the much-anticipated meeting between Trump and Putin.
SEE ALSO: Pete Souza just burned Trump (yet again) on Instagram before Comey's hearing
It's not just a throwback photo of Putin that makes this one so 🔥🔥🔥. It's those extra lyrics (from The Who) that Souza throws in for good measure.Happened to hear this song toda

T-Mobile just raised the price on its T-Mobile One Plus unlimited data plan by $5, which now makes the add-on to the company’s base One unlimited plan $10 extra per month. That fee is on top of the $70 / month price for a single line that the One plan costs, making the new total $80 / month, instead of the previous $75 monthly fee.That’s a shame since the One Plus is really the “good” unlimited data plan from T-Mobile. It adds unlimited HD video streaming instead of throt

We’ve known for a while that Nintendo would be using a separate smartphone app for online communication for the Switch, and now we know when the first version of that app will be available: July 21st, right alongside Splatoon 2.As announced alongside new Splatoon 2 details during today’s Nintendo Direct announcement, the Nintendo Switch Online app will offer a “SplatNet 2” service within the overall app, which will provide private lobbies, voice chat, stat tracking, and m

Hulu just got a bit cooler. 
In case you're still debating whether you want to fork your money over to yet another subscription service, Hulu made its service more tempting by striking a new deal with HBO and Cinemax. 
SEE ALSO: Here's how they make the 'Game of Thrones' music so spine-tinglingly epic
Conveniently just ahead of the premiere of HBO's Game of Thrones on July 16, Hulu users can now add HBO and Cinemax as two separate premium add-ons to their Hulu subscription. 
But d

Google’s latest virtual reality app lets users build colorful 3D models in VR, and it’s out today for free on the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive. Google Blocks is supposed to be intuitive enough for newcomers to use, but full-featured enough to support making artistically compelling models, like the ones Google has collected in an online gallery. Users can export objects and make them viewable online, or they can put them in 3D scenes inside and outside virtual reality. On Google’s s

Overwatch’s latest hero has just been announced, and it’s none other than Doomfist, a character players have been eagerly anticipating since his first mention dating all the way back to the game’s original cinematic trailer.Doomfist — real name Akande Ogundimu — wields the eponymous cybernetic glove. He is an Assault-class hero working for the villainous Talon organization, a group that also includes the skull-faced mercenary Reaper, sniper Widowmaker, and hacker So

What happens when you mix Jurassic Park and lingerie? Hold on to your butts — you're about to find out.  
Canadian photographer Kissy Spicer teamed up with her friend Nicole Stein for a ~sensual~ photoshoot that's sure to make you say "rawr." The clever boudoir shots, which feature Stein in an unwieldy dinosaur costume, were taken as a gift for Stein's fiancé, Chris.Kissy told Mashable that the photoshoot was a combined idea between the two friends.
"We're in a mom group togeth

Donald Trump was given a taste of his own medicine when it came time to shake hands with the first lady of Poland.
SEE ALSO: Macron annihilates Trump in the most awkward handshake battle of all time
Donald and first lady Melania were greeted by Polish President Andrzej Duda and his wife, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, on Thursday, during Trump's trip to Europe. 
Things seemed to be friendly enough, until it came time for the handshakes. (It's always the handshakes.) And let's just say the Polish fi

Doomfist has arrived.
The 25th Overwatch hero Doomfist was revealed today: a super-strong, gauntlet-wielding offense character who uses his mechanical fist to devastating effect. He's available to play on the PC's public test region today, and will be coming out on all platforms in the coming weeks.
SEE ALSO: Blizzard reveals what Doomfist has been up to in 'Overwatch'
Here's a gallery of the gloriously villainous Doomfist (whose real name is Akande Ogundimu): Although Doomfist's whole thi

The Super NES Classic Edition is almost everything we could have ever asked for — except that it only plays about 20 games and you'll have to wait until Sept. 29 to get your hands on it. 
SEE ALSO: Super NES Classic is real and it's out in September
Luckily for rabid Nintendo fans, there's an easy way to revisit the glory of your favorite 1990s games much sooner than September. All it requires is a Raspberry Pi, a bundle free software, a gaming controller, and a couple of free hours.&

Starting today, Uber’s new in-app tipping option is being rolled out in 100 cities in the US and Canada, including major markets like New York City, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. After downloading an updated version of the app, riders will be asked whether they’d like to leave a tip when rating their driver at the end of a trip. Likewise, drivers will be prompted to choose whether they want to accept tips after updating their own apps.The inclusion of in-app tipping is a major reve

From The Walking Dead to dead men (and women) walking.
Robert Kirkman's Thief of Thieves is the next Skybound comic to get the video game treatment. The publisher's interactive arm has partnered with Rival Games to tell a story about Celia, protégé of the comic's master thief, Redmond (aka Conrad Paulson).
SEE ALSO: 'Stranger Things' is going where no Netflix show ever has: Comic-Con's Hall H
Fans of the comic know that Celia is introduced early on, via flashback, as a wannabe thi

High-end cameramaker RED has just announced a premium smartphone called Hydrogen One, and the headlining feature is something the company is referring to as a “holographic display.” A buzzword-filled press release for Hydrogen One says that the 5.7-inch display somehow uses nanotechnology to “seamlessly [switch] between traditional 2D content, holographic multi-view content, 3D content, and interactive games.”It all sounds like some sort of mix between the gimmicky visual

TV networks have figured out how to game the Nielsen ratings system. It’s as easy as playing dumb, literally. On days when programmers know their viewership will drop, like on holiday weekends or during sporting events, they “accidentally” misspell their show’s name on the nightly Nielsen lineup, according to The Wall Street Journal.Over the Friday of Memorial Day weekend, for example, NBC aired NBC Nitely News instead of its usual NBC Nightly News so the holiday drop in

Microsoft announced its new 4K-capable Xbox One X console at E3 this year, but Halo wasn’t even mentioned on stage at all. While it was never likely that a full new Halo would be ready in time for the Xbox One X later this year, 343 industries is revealing today that it plans to update Halo 5 with 4K support. The update will be available later this year, and 343 promises “more to share on this front as we get closer to release.”
It’s not clear how 343 will hit the 4K reso

You know the rules: here on the internet we give every animal in creation at least one shot at being “the best.” So far we’ve tried dogs, cats, pigs, bats, raccoons, foxes, and bears, and I think you’ll agree it’s about time we stopped futzing around with mammals and tried out the most dominant animal on earth: the beetle. Particularly, this very good stag beetle named Spike, who loves to draw and eat jelly.
Spike got his first brush with fame after a tweet from own

I can't believe this has to be said in 2017 but please please please be considerate to food service employees.
SEE ALSO: Twitter reportedly explores the idea of a fake news button
Earlier this week, Twitter user Josh Williams tweeted a picture of his baffling Chipotle order. He thought he was just a smart dude, sharing out a helpful lunchtime hack.Started asking the folks at Chipotle to individually package my ingredients so I can assemble it all at home.Am I weird? Or brilliant? pic.twitter.com

Microsoft revealed today that it plans to cut up to 3,000 jobs as part of a reorganization process that will see the software giant focus its efforts on the cloud. The layoffs are expected to primarily impact Microsoft’s sales force, and around 10 percent of the company’s total sales staff will be let go. Rumors had suggested these cuts would take place, and it’s traditional for Microsoft to reorganize its businesses at this time of the year, just ahead of its new financial yea

While most members of the Beyhive are impatiently awaiting the first peek at Blue Ivy's newest twin siblings, please allow us to take a moment to revel in the 14th anniversary of the greatest Beyonce headline of all time, courtesy of the New York Times. 
SEE ALSO: People are saying Jay-Z's new album is a response to Beyoncé's 'Lemonade'It's hard to believe there was a time when the world didn't wait on everything Bey does or says with bated breath. This headline is a reminder that ev

Pokémon Go is celebrating its first birthday this month with discounts on items and something for fans of the original Pokémon TV show: Pikachu, donning Ash's hat.
SEE ALSO: 'Pokémon Go' is branding Pokémon caught by cheaters
Starting today and running through July 24, Pikachus found in the wild will be wearing Ash's hat from the first season of the Pokémon anime. Pikachu was the very first Pokémon that the show's protagonist caught and has stuck with hi

Guitar maker Fender has just debuted Fender Play, a new guitar lessons web platform and iOS app aimed at getting beginners hooked with visual, bite-sized tutorials. New users can sign up for a free, 30-day trial at the Fender Play website. After that trial, you’ll have to pay $19.99 per month to keep learning.
This is not the first digital tool Fender has introduced for playing guitar (others include Riffstation, which displays chord tabs for your favorite songs, and a guitar tuner app), b