Did you get a shiny Gear VR headset as a gift? If so, you already have something new to try with it. Oculus, Samsung and Uninterrupted are launching Striving for Greatness, a 12-minute Gear VR "experience" that shows what training is like for baske…
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The fate of a Picasso is in the Internet’s hands
Each holiday, Cards Against Humanity runs a mystery gift club, in which subscribers pay $15 in exchange for… uh… mystery gifts. This year, the presents included socks, socks and socks, as well as a year's membership to NPR and giving a week off t…
DraftKings and FanDuel sue to keep operating in Illinois
Online fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel are striking back at Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan who asked that the sites (and similar services) be banned in the state because she believed they were unregulated illegal gambling. Both co…
JINS’ subtle smartglasses turn into sport-centric sunglasses
JINS' fatigue-tracking smartglasses have a new running-obsessed relative: the Meme MT. At the Japanese glasses makers' flagship store in Harajuku, JINS is offering free trials for anyone interested, but perhaps hesitating on that 19,000 yen ($160) pr…
‘Super Mario Galaxy’ lands on the Wii U Virtual Console
Nintendo has ported Super Mario Galaxy, one of the most popular Mario Bros games of all time, to its Wii U Virtual Console and will release it on Thursday, December 24th for $20. SMG joins other gravity-defying 3D Mario platformers on the Wii U conso…
Full-body TSA scans are mandatory for ‘some passengers’
The Transportation Security Administration was under pressure to establish rules regarding airport body scanners, and well, the Department of Homeland Security's weighed in. Now the Advanced Imaging Technologies (AIT) using Automatic Target Recogniti…
California approves Flywheel’s attempt at modernizing taxis
Flywheel's plan to bring taxis into the 21st century just got the all clear. California regulators have approved TaxiOS, the smartphone-based Flywheel platform that lets cabbies ditch their clunky conventional meters in favor of GPS and other modern…
Oracle settles charges that it misled you on Java security
Oracle's Java software is known for creating its share of headaches, but security is arguably the biggest. For one thing, upgrading to the latest version of Java Standard Edition didn't always remove every old version — up until last year, it'd lea…
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sticks the landing on its return
SpaceX's last flight in June ended with its Falcon 9 rocket breaking up shortly after launch. When the rocket is meant to be recoverable after launch, you can see why this would be an… issue. CEO Elon Musk tried to improve his odds, this time aroun…
Web status code tells you when sites are censored
With a few exceptions, web status codes are meant to indicate errors. A 404 page shows up when you tried to reach content that wasn't found, for example. However, there's now a code for those times when that absence is all too intentional. The new…
Court says ridesharing for flights is illegal
If you had hopes that the FAA's ban on ridesharing flights would be reversed… well, you're in for a disappointment. A Washington, DC court has ruled that pilots need commercial licenses for these services to work. You're a carrier in that case, n…
With this self-drying jacket, your Marty McFly costume is complete
A startup called Falyon has created a jacket that'll match those Back to the Future kicks perfectly. It doesn't only look like Marty McFly's jacket from the movies, you see, it can also dry itself inside-out by circulating high-pressure air internall…
The Beatles may hit streaming music services by Christmas
The Beatles haven't exactly been in a rush to embrace the online music world — there's iTunes, Rock Band and that's about it. However, they might be making up for lost time. Billboard sources claim that the British pop rock legends will make their c…
FAA confirms that drone registry info will be public record
The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Friday afternoon that information logged in its fledgling UAV registry will be searchable by the general public — just not initially. In an email to Forbes, an FAA spokesperson stated, "Until the drone r…
SpaceX’s next rocket launch is on schedule for Sunday
We're eagerly awaiting SpaceX's next launch of a Falcon 9 rocket, and CEO Elon Musk tweeted tonight that it "will aim to launch Sunday." This is also the company's first attempt since a rocket exploded shortly after takeoff in June, and another faile…