Health Apps Don’t Have to Do What They Say They Do

When an app says it counts calories, we assume it actually does. Same if it promises to alert you about interactions between drugs and supplements, or if it says it can tell you what’s going on this week in your pregnancy. But the makers don’t have to back up any of these claims. That’s because…

Samsung Officially Reveals Why the Galaxy Note 7 Kept Exploding

Samsung has finally revealed why the Galaxy Note 7 kept on catching fire, before being pulled from the market entirely late last year. A lengthy internal investigation and independent scientific analysis concluded that two separate flaws in the smartphone’s battery caused the device to significantly overheat. The first was a design flaw in the battery’s upper…

The Game Boy Is Being Brought Back From The Dead

The Game Boy officially retired over a decade ago and still remains to be today the most popular handheld gaming system to ever have released. If you still have a working original Game Boy, Game Boy Color or Game Boy Advance that is in good shape, then you are in luck. If you do not,…

Apple’s license to steal

In 2015, Ben Erez built an iPhone app called Breathe, which sent push notifications to users reminding them to pause and take a breath. It was a basic mindfulness exercise. Not a whole lot to it. Yet, in the high stress, “how many hours can I work before my body shuts down” world of Silicon…