... so, yeah, smart shades. We are currently living in an era of smart devices; smart windows, smart fridges, smart TVs et cetera. IKEA looked upon this and thought ”why not shades?”. In response, TRÅDFRI manufacturers, known largely for their smart lighting systems, have come up with the aforementioned smart shades. KADRILJ and FYRTUR ...

And people wonder why I take care when typing... Two young criminals from the US, Luke Rance (19) and Brandon Kerrison (21), have been caught by the police when attempting to sell their product. Interestingly, their selling spot was located next to the public library - look what all those books do to people. When searching through Rance's living place, ...

Zuckerberg's company has just filed a patent for a tech that might allow them to correctly foretell our future actions. The goal of this rather dark-sounding technology is to be able to give us more personalized ads (want to buy a book? Maybe this one. Want to go out? Maybe there), but it is difficult to not think of any other, less benevolent ways ...

Some time ago Qualcomm has sued Apple for illegally using its patented energy conservation tech in its iPhone 7 and 8 smartphones. Recently, German courts have ruled in favour of the plaintiff: it was court's decision that Apple remove the aforementioned smartphones from its German stores. For now, iPhone 7 and 8 can still be bought at Apple's partner ...

Samsung's Galaxy S Lite line has always had relatively small batteries, and the company is seemingly keeping to that course, despite the users' protests. As revealed by the certification of the SM-G970 model, which most probably is the Galaxy S10 Lite, the device will sport a somewhat humble 3100mAh accumulator. In the era of 4 and 5 thousand mAh batteries, ...

American space probe New Horizons has recently sent NASA the pictures of a very particular space object. Dubbed Ultima Thule, it is the most distant space body found yet. The rather atypical thing, which official name is a ”contact binary”, has also been given a nickname ”Snowman” for its shape. It is placed 6.5 billion kilometers ...

Evan Blass strikes again, this time delivering us a video depicting an alleged folding Xiaomi smartphone. Blass himself has stated that he is not assured of the video's authenticity, but who would pass such an opportunity? Worst case scenario, we will all get disappointed and go on; best case scenario, this is our first look at the upcoming foldable ...

The mystery surrounding the Galaxy S10 is slowly dispelled as more and more info about it gets public. We already know some of its specs, and have seen a number of renders depicting the device. Now, thanks to @EVLeaks, we can put our filthy paws on what is supposed to be a real look of the smartphone. Unit depicted in the picture is said to be the ”normal” ...

Bird Box is the latest, and seemingly very popular, Netflix production (as well as a blatant ripoff of Quiet Place, but shh). Popularity of the flick with Sandra Bullock as the main cast gave birth to a brand new Internet craze. Called ”Bird Box Challenge”, its gimmick is easy to figure out - it has people trying to go about their daily ...

Device with a codename SM0M105F/DS has recently been spotted in the FCC listings. As it turned out, the listing contains quite a lot of information regarding the device's specifications. It looks like Samsung is cooking up yet another solid mid-ranger: - Exynos 7870 CPU, 1,6 GHz, 8 cores, - 3GB RAM, 32 or 64GB ROM, - Mali-T830 MP1 GPU, - 3400 ...

The unfortunate accident took place in India. 60 years old denizen of a Netavalgarh Pachhli village went to bed with his Jio smartphone in his pocket. When he woke up at night to go to bathroom, the phone exploded - man's wife, who saw the whole thing happening, described it as ”flames covering his clothes”. Injured, the man was hospitalized ...

Heh, okay, yet another reason to not move from Google Chrome... In an attempt to stay afloat, Mozilla has decided ona move that might be good for it but creates a bad precedens for all of us - namely, it now allows advertisements to show in Firefox' home window, as shown in the screenshot above. Ads will be shown on every platform, from Windows to macOS ...