Drop the plug and forget the mat — the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday approved a wireless gizmo that lets people charge their smartphones and other devices from up to 3 feet away. The Energous Corporation’s Watt Up device lets users charge…
It’s going to be a long winter for Apple’s legal team. The Silicon Valley titan is now facing at least eight US class-action suits after it admitted it intentionally slows down older iPhone models to prevent excessive wear and tear on their…
Tesla is likely to deliver about 5,000 Model 3s in the fourth quarter, KeyBanc Capital Markets analysts said Wednesday, far below the brokerage’s estimate of 15,000. The numbers indicate that the electric carmaker may still not be out of its self-described “manufacturing…
OKCupid wants people to get real about finding love. The dating website announced it will no longer allow playful and wacky usernames like “AFunnySassyGirl,” “Superlonelyman” or “DoritoprincessXo” to be used on its site, instead requiring subscribers to use real names. “Ahead of…
Texture, the app that has been described as the “Netflix of magazines,” is on the block, The Post has learned. The app, which was launched in 2010, allows customers unlimited access to a slew of monthly magazines for $9.99 per month or…
Downtown Brooklyn recently got its first Apple store — and now has its first class-action suit against the tech giant for slowing down performance on older iPhones. see also Following three suits filed in federal courts in Illinois, Los Angeles and Northern…
The summer of 2017 was pretty special for lots of people living in North America. On August 21st, a total solar eclipse was visible across a huge swath of the United States and anticipation for the event was huge not only among…
International health officials are set to classify excessive video-game playing as a mental health disorder — and parents who gave out games as gifts this year may want to take note. The World Health Organization is in the process of finalizing the…
Amazon’s Echo Dot speaker may be the first hit product that literally sells itself. The Seattle-based web giant said Tuesday that its Prime members helped boost its holiday sales to record levels by buying stuff with the Alexa voice assistant that powers…
So much for iPhone X-stasy. Shares of Apple and its Asian suppliers took a tumble on Tuesday following reports that sales of the company’s newest smartphone could miss expectations in the first quarter. Apple is slashing its sales forecast for the iPhone…
NEW DELHI — India’s capital launched a metro train with driverless technology Monday, though officials said it would operate with a driver for at least a year or two. Prime Minister Narendra Modi took an inaugural ride on a short section of…
Tesla boss Elon Musk went on Twitter to take suggestions for ways to improve his fleet of electric vehicles — and ended up revealing plans for a Tesla pickup. The tech tycoon had initially taken to the social network on Tuesday to…
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A team of college students is getting attention from internet companies and Congress after developing a browser extension that alerts users to fake and biased news stories and helps guide them to more balanced coverage. The plug-in, “Open Mind,”…
Uber has agreed to sell its US auto-leasing business Xchange Leasing to startup car marketplace Fair.com, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The net book value of Xchange Leasing’s more than 30,000 vehicles was about…
December 25 was a day packed with gifts, good food and family time for millions of people on Earth. Believe it or not, things weren’t all that different for astronauts floating some 250 miles above our planet on the International Space Station…
Inflatable, tacky and comically proportioned, sex dolls used to be funnier than they were sexy. However, the times are changing and the humble blow-up doll has been replaced with ultra-realistic, AI-infused sex robots that can cost over $10,000. One particularly high-tech sex…
Et tu, Siri? A British theater-goer’s loud iPhone turned one of Shakespeare’s most famous tragedies into a comedy of errors. After Edward Stone, playing Cassius in “Julius Caesar,’’ delivered the line, “Sirrah, what news?’’ Siri thought he meant her. “Sorry, I did…
Workers protesting current conditions at local warehouses serving Amazon and other retailers will soon find the work much more highly paid and less stressful — with much better benefits and working conditions, predicts one expert, Michael Hicks. But a massive amount of…
Julian Assange’s Twitter account has returned after mysteriously vanishing early Christmas morning. It wasn’t clear whether Twitter suspended the WikiLeak founder’s account or whether the serial leaker deleted it himself. Twitter hasn’t commented on the outage. A posting later Monday morning showed…
Julian Assange’s Twitter account is missing. The controversial WikiLeaks founder’s account mysteriously went dark early Christmas morning. It wasn’t clear whether Twitter suspended Assange’s account or whether the serial leaker deleted it himself. A message on @JulianAssange said simply: “Sorry, that page…
Astronomers in Chile are tracing the fastest star ever detected — and it’s zipping around a black hole in the Milky Way at 18 million miles an hour. The accelerating star, S2, is 15 times larger than the sun and is traveling…
Apple has been slapped with a series of lawsuits since it admitted Thursday that it deliberately slows down the performance of older iPhones in order to save battery juice. Three class-action complaints, brought by customers in Illinois, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio and…
If you are wondering why those last-minute online gifts didn’t arrive, they may be sitting in a New Jersey warehouse, while workers use delays as leverage to get better working conditions from Amazon and other e-tailers, The Post has learned. Amazon and…
Fresh on the heels of his own initial coin offering, Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne had harsh words for latecomers to the exploding cryptocurrency space. “I’d put it this way: If they don’t already have a bunch of blockchain developers and if they…
A space satellite launch sparked a brief UFO scare in Los Angeles Friday night after startled viewers gawked at an unidentifiable streak of light soaring across the night sky. Observers flooded Twitter with pictures and videos of the strange vessel and they…
CHICAGO — Scott Judd trained his camera lens on the white dot in the distance. As he moved up the Lake Michigan shoreline, the speck on a breakwater came into view and took his breath away: it was a snowy owl, thousands…
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday will step down as executive chairman of the search giant’s parent company, Alphabet Inc. Schmidt will remain on the board and serve as “a technical advisor on science and technology issues,” Alphabet Chief Executive Larry…
Facebook’s “fake news” flags are a flop, the social network admitted on Thursday, saying it is halting its short-lived effort to mark disputed news stories. The red flags backfired by drawing attention to the misinformation and sometimes even reinforcing deeply held bogus…
Facebook is getting a growing number of requests for data on the social network’s users from US government entities, according to the company’s latest transparency report. The report, which was previously called the Government Request Report, covers the first half of 2017….
Eric Schmidt shocked Silicon Valley with a surprise announcement Thursday that he’s stepping down as executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. The 62-year-old tech tycoon — who, according to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, was originally tapped as CEO in 2001 to…
