Most people think of Uber as a cheaper and more convenient alternative to taxis… but that’s not always the case. Local Fox affiliate WGHP in Colorado reports that one Uber customer got charged a whopping $539 bill just for an 18-mile ride on Halloween night. And while this sort of massive charge sounds like it was a mistake, it turns out that it’s all part of Uber’s pricing scheme.
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One of the most consistently hilarious features on Conan has been dormant for the past several months, but Clueless Gamer has finally returned alongside the launch of Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. Conan O’Brien got the chance to play through the opening of the latest Call of Duty, and as you might expect, he found plenty to poke fun at, from Kevin Spacey’s lifeless eyes to the the lack of crosswalks in the future.
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We have written at length about Android 5.0 and the star of the Lollipop show, which is undoubtedly Google’s new “Material Design.” Much more than just a new user interface, Material Design is a set of best practices that are designed to help third-party app developers (and Google’s internal app teams) build apps that emphasize usability and consistency.
For users in the near term, the beautiful new look of Android 5.0 and apps that follow Material Design guidelines are the best thing about Google’s new design language. But as was covered in a recent interview, Googlers have revealed another important reason that Material Design is so great.
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Google is the most widely used search engine in the world — but are you using it to its full potential? Business Insider has put together a quick video of essential Google tips and tricks, and while some of them are pretty obvious — who doesn’t know to use full quotations to look up exact phrases at this point? — some of them were new to us and thus will hopefully be new to you as well.
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BGR reviewed the brand new Nexus 9 tablet on Monday and we didn’t beat around the bush. While we recommend you read the full review for a closer look at the good and bad aspects of Google’s new Nexus 9, we basically called it the best Android on the market for a number of key reasons. Google and HTC did a tremendous job of building a premium tablet with solid materials, great specs and the perfect size to make it both portable but still great for watching videos and being productive.
And now, despite the fact that the Nexus 9 was released just yesterday, you can already buy a brand new one for just $199 — which is an incredible half off the tablet’s regular price.
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On Monday, SamMobile came forward with the first information on “Project Zero,” purported to be the codename for the Galaxy S6. According to the report, the next flagship Android device from Samsung is expected to receive a complete redesign, possibly in response to the company’s declining revenue and profits in recent months.
It will be months before we see the finished product, but SamMobile published a second report on Tuesday that appears to outline the specs of the upcoming feature phone.
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Following the eight awesome paid iPhone and iPad apps we shared with you on Monday — several of which are still free if you hurry — BGR has a great list of another eight paid iOS apps on sale today. This new batch would normally cost $32 to download, but all of the apps are currently on sale for free for a limited time. Looking for some nifty iOS 8+ keyboards and widgets but don’t want to pay big bucks for them? You had better move quickly before these limited-time sales come to an end.
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It seems like reports of major security breaches hit the news on a weekly basis these days. As our digital world continues to expand and more things are done online, an increase in the volume of security breaches is inevitable. To compound matters, it’s not just big firms that are targets. As malware continues to get more complex, hackers target individuals with attacks that are shockingly sophisticated and difficult to defend.
Of course, there are ways to fight back against hackers who lurk around every virtual corner of the Internet.
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It’s one thing to read a specs sheet and imagine how big Google’s Nexus 6 phablet is, but it’s another thing to see it up close and compare it with other recently released flagship phones. Droid Life has put together a new video that compares the Nexus 6 not just with one rival Android device but with several, including the recently released Droid Turbo, the 2014 Moto X, the LG G3, the HTC One (M8), the Galaxy Note 3 and the Galaxy S5. Long story short: The Nexus 6 is significantly more massive than all of them.
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A report from Business Korea warns that Apple might be facing a huge potential iPhone 6 Plus recall, not because it bends — something that is a problem for many buyers, even though the company tried its best to minimize its seriousness — but because of a different kind of issue that might be affecting the 128GB iPhone 6 Plus model. A few days ago, various reports claimed that 128GB iPhone 6 Plus owners have discovered a strange type of error affecting their devices, particularly ones that store very large libraries of apps: the device would constantly crash and reboot, with Apple not being able to fix the issue.
Now, this new report says there may be a memory defect affecting these 128GB iPhone 6 Plus units, specifically with the “controller IC of triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash” memory.
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