The Galaxy Note 8 is Samsung’s latest flagship phone, and it’s been getting a warm reception despite last year’s issues with the Note 7. Samsung eventually canceled that phone because of battery fires, but the Note 8 seems to have a different issue: it’s freezing when owners try to make …

The Pixel 2 XL hasn’t had a smooth launch. The phone’s display has had various problems, including distorted or undersaturated OLED panels (our own Ryan Whitwam argued this was never a problem at all), a “black smear” problem, and a quickly appearing issue with burn-in that surfaced well before it …

Apple is famous for coming up with clever engineering tricks to cram more components inside a smartphone. The new iPhone X with its edge-to-edge display and compact front-facing camera cluster presented some unique challenges, though. As is tradition, iFixit has pulled the latest Apple gadget apart to see what makes …

A huge merger between Broadcom and Qualcomm could be in the works, with Broadcom acquiring the massive SoC manufacturer for an estimated $100B, Bloomberg reports. Broadcom and Qualcomm have been at loggerheads before, with the latter paying the former $891 million in cash from 2009-2013 after a judge ruled Qualcomm …

Want to exercise more, but lack motivation? An app called Lazy Jar, aimed at Fitbit owners, may be able to help. The app actually penalizes you a monetary amount if you fail to meet the fitness goals you’ve set for yourself, in terms of metrics like steps per week, miles …

Did WhatsApp go down for you earlier today? You weren’t alone. The Facebook-owned messaging service experienced a roughly hour-long global outage on Friday, which led to difficulties in accessing the app and sending messages to friends. While no online service is immune to the occasional hiccup, this outage was notable …

Meal prepping is all the rage of late, and for good reason: It saves time and money, while helping you stick to your clean eating plan and stave off hanger. Yet, if you’ve thought about embracing this healthy eating habit, only to be derailed once you realize the time and …

An international team of archaeologists, physicists and engineers has found a 100-foot (30 m) long space deep inside the Great Pyramid, or Khufu’s Pyramid, one of the oldest and largest monuments on Earth. A paper reporting this discovery is published in the journal Nature. Pyramids at Giza in Egypt. Image …

A new large species of giraffid being named Decennatherium rex has been discovered by Dr. Maria Rios from the National Museum of Natural History of Spain and co-authors. Reconstruction of the head of an adult female Decennatherium rex. Image credit: Oscar Sanisidro / Anja Cocoparisienne / Sci-News.com. Decennatherium rex lived …

Honeybees (Apis mellifera) have individually distinct biases in ‘left- and right-handedness’ when flying through obstacles, according to new research from the University of Queensland’s Brain Institute, Australia. According to Ong et al, honeybees have individual flying direction preferences. Image credit: Walter Bichler. “Our study showed that honeybees displayed handedness that …