We’ve seen a bunch of airplane pilots making heart-stopping, death-defying crosswind landings, but that doesn’t make watching similar experiences any less scary, especially if you hate flying. A new video captured over the weekend in Dusseldorf, Germany, shows a huge Airbus A380, which happens to be the world’s largest passenger airliner, making such a landing.
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To some people, a stylus is a stylus. Of course, anyone who has used one of the nicer options out there knows that simply isn’t the case. The Apple Pencil that will launch alongside the iPad Pro later this year is a perfect example of a stylus that stands apart from most other options out there. Of course, before the Apple Pencil was even a glimmer in Jony Ive’s eye, there was the Pencil by FiftyThree.
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Apple made some big promises on how well iOS 9 will improve your iPhone’s battery life — but did it deliver? Wired has been running some tests on iOS 9’s Low Power Mode and has found that Apple’s newest iPhone software seems to deliver the goods as long as you have Low Power Mode enabled.
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With an easy to use interface and an abundance of $0.99 songs, Apple’s iTunes Music Store famously helped phase out illegal file sharing networks. In a similar vein, it appears that affordable video streaming services are slowly but surely putting a dent in the popularity of BitTorrent.
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The first iPhone 6s benchmarks are in, and they show that the new Apple smartphones are about as powerful as the new Retina MacBook, which is probably something not many people expected. Even so, monster iPhone 6s performance might pale in comparison to next year’s model, according to a new report that focuses on Apple’s iPhone 7 processor.
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The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus shouldn’t arrive at your door for a few more days – I sure know mine isn’t here yet – but a lucky customer from California has already received her rose gold iPhone 6s, and she posted a slew of unboxing images as well as the first benchmark test results. And yes, benchmark scores say Apple’s iPhone 6s brings insane performance improvements compared to last year’s models. In fact, the numbers suggest the iPhone 6s is as powerful as Apple’s 2015 12-inch Retina Macbook.
To make things even better, this early iPhone 6s arrival is a rose gold model, the brand new iPhone color Apple introduced this year, which has caused quite a stir so far.
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Email filters have existed forever. In fact, a few particularly annoying PR flacks probably would have driven me insane years ago had it not been for the ability to block their persistent pitches for clients whose products aren’t even close to being a fit for BGR. I’m sure everyone can relate — there are just always going to be some people you never want to hear from again.
Google has supported filters just like every other email provider out there ever since Gmail first launched. Today, however, the company announced a new feature that makes it very easy to instantly block annoying senders in just a few quick clicks.
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The iPhone 6s might not be the most impressive iPhone upgrade of all time, but 3D Touch is certainly one of the most intriguing additions to ever appear on an Apple device. Reviews on Tuesday pegged it as a revolutionary feature that will change the way we interact with our phones, but what does it actually do?
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Early this week, a tourist tragically fell to his death while posing for a selfie at the Taj Mahal in India. Earlier in the month, a man accidentally killed himself while trying to take an Instagram selfie of him holding a gun. What’s more, there have also been a few reported instances of tourists in Yellowstone Park being gored while attempting to take selfies with bison.
Sadly, these types of stories are far more common that you might ordinarily assume.
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Amazon is excited about the five Emmy wins that Transparent hauled in over the weekend. So excited, in fact, that it’s going to give customers an opportunity to purchase a year-long membership to Amazon Prime for just $67, down from $99.
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