By Tim Stevens Microsoft is looking for love, your love, and it might just get it. Also, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk gets more money, and BlackBerry CEO John Chen makes a ridiculous request. All that and more in this look back at the week in tech.
Instead of a more traditional push-button on/off switch, this five-inch …
By Charlie Osborne Researchers with Google’s Project Zero security team say they’ve found three flaws with high severity that have yet to be patched.
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By Rich Trenholm Sophie Turner, Tye Sheridan and Alexandra Shipp take over as younger versions of the mutant superheroes.
In 2014, President Obama travelled a bewildering over 188,000 miles—at least according to the …
Found in the northwest corner of Greenland, the Leidy Glacier faces a barrier as it meets the Olriks Fjord that it feeds into: rock. This image shows how, even for a giant, hulking slab of ice and rock, the path of least resistance is often the most favorable.
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By Chris Mills
If you’ve always looked longingly over the Fence of Babel at all those foreigners making jokes that you know would be funny, if only you could understand them, then fear not: Twitter has harnessed the power of the internet’s second-best translation tool into its service.
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This month, anyone in Finland who buy a lactose-free skimmed milk drink called Eila at the supermarket will buying the world’s first carton made entirely out of plant-based plastics—right down to the cap.
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By Chris Matyszczyk Technically Incorrect: CEO Satya Nadella now says Microsoft’s aspiration is for Windows to be loved. Here’s the underlying reality of Microsoft’s relationship with the world. In, well, romantic terms.
By Darren Orf
This week, Google polished off the last remaining Google Play edition smartphone in its online store, The HTC One (M8). The device has been scrubbed from the “devices” main page, but you can pull up the smartphone …