Uber Rewards is rolling out
Did you blow enough money on Uber to get Diamond status? A lot of users are finding out tonight as Uber rolls out its rider loyalty Rewards program to San Francisco and a slew of other cities. The feature calculates how much you’ve spent on Uber and Uber Eats in the last six months and […]
Man walks on a frozen lake in Russia
A man filmed his amazing walk across the world’s deepest frozen freshwater lake in Russia. The crystal clear ice allowed the man to film a clear view of the coral, stones and fish at bottom of the lake. He even walks across cracks which have started to appear at the bottom of the lake and […]
Barcelona beat Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain to £65m capture of Frenkie de Jong from Ajax
Barcelona have confirmed the signing of Ajax and Holland midfielder Frenkie de Jong. The 21-year-old has put pen to paper on a five-year deal at the Nou Camp after interest from a host of top European clubs, including Manchester City and PSG. He will see out the season in Amsterdam before joining up with his […]
Man rents $1,500 apartment for daughter's cats
A California man who couldn’t keep his daughter’s two cats in his apartment came up with a solution — renting them their own $1,500-a-month apartment. Troy Good, 43, said he recently moved into a new apartment where he discovered he wasn’t allowed to keep Tina and Louise, the cats he adopted for his now-18-year-old daughter, […]
Is this the Motorola RAZR with folding display?
The Lenovo’s Motorola RAZR remake with a folding display.The Wall Street Journal reported that Motorola is intending to relaunch the RAZR as a $1,500 foldable screen smartphone next month. Although the RAZR name does not appear anywhere on Motorola Mobility’s registration, the design bears an uncanny resemblance to the iconic handset, right down to the […]
Police seek volunteers to get drunk for training exercise
A Pennsylvania police department is seeking volunteers willing to “drink hard liquor to the point of inebriation” for a training exercise. The Kutztown Police Department said in a Facebook post it is seeking three volunteers to help with a training event designed to teach officers how to administer Standardized Field Sobriety Tests during suspected DUI […]
World's largest dragon boat built in Cambodia
A Cambodian team broke a Guinness World Record by building a dragon boat that’s nearly as long as the Statue of Liberty is tall. Guinness said the Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, Prey Veng and Prey Veng Provincial Administration in Cambodia teamed up to use traditional methods to build a dragon boat measuring 286 […]
Xiaomi’s folding phone is the best we’ve seen so far
Xiaomi’s folding phone has been revealed in a teaser video from the company. Xiaomi co-founder and president Lin Bin has posted a nearly minute-long video to Weibo today, detailing the double folding phone. Both sides of the device can be folded backwards to transform it from a tablet form factor into more of a compact […]
US singer chris brown arrested in Paris on suspicion of rape
US singer Chris Brown has been arrested in Paris on suspicion of rape, French police say. A 24-year-old woman alleges that the star assaulted her in a hotel suite in the city earlier this month. She reportedly told police that the pair met at a nightclub in central Paris, close to the Champs-Elysées, before they […]
Leaked image shows off three variants for Samsung’s Galaxy S10 lineup
Samsung will hold its next Unpacked event next month, where it’s expected to show off a “fully functional” version of its foldable phone, along with the next iteration of its Galaxy lineup, Galaxy S10. A new leaked image from Evan Blass shows off three versions of the phone, the S10E, the S10, and the S10+. […]
Facebook is reportedly testing solar-powered internet drones again with Airbus
Facebook last year grounded its ambitious plan to develop a solar-powered drone to beam internet across the world, but the company isn’t done with the concept, it seems. The social media giant is working with aeronautics giant Airbus to test drones in Australia, according to a new report from Germany’s NetzPolitik. Using a request under […]
Microsoft to end Windows 10 Mobile updates and support in December
Microsoft is planning to end support for Windows 10 Mobile devices in December. While Microsoft revealed back in 2017 that the company was no longer developing new features or hardware for Windows 10 Mobile, security and software updates have continued. These security updates will now cease on December 10th 2019, and devices will be unsupported […]
Google Maps will now display speed limits for Android, iOS apps
For the last couple of years, my wife and I have relied on an ancient Garmin GPS for long road trips, in part because it had a useful feature that Google Maps lacked: speed limits. We might end up switching soon, because Google has begun rolling out the feature to Google Maps on iOS and […]
Google starts pulling unvetted Android apps that access call logs and SMS messages
Google is removing apps from Google Play that request permission to access call logs and SMS text message data but haven’t been manually vetted by Google staff.The search and mobile giant said it is part of a move to cut down on apps that have access to sensitive calling and texting data. Google said in […]
