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Buffy the Vampire Slayer premiered 20 years ago today at the dawn of the information age when humanity was grappling with a very big question — can nerds ever be cool?  Sarah Michelle Gellar and and her crew did their best to convince us. The conventionally hot outcasts who wouldn’t take any bullshit from demonsRead more

With the latest WikiLeaks dump, Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement of his second child  and tech companies celebrating International Women’s Day, you may have missed some of this week’s best new apps. We’ve kept up for you. Each week, we round up the latest app news, along with a few of our favorite new and updated apps,Read more

Google’s parent company is trying to make complex tech jargon easier to understand.  Alphabet’s Jigsaw group launched a new project called Sideways Dictionary, which uses wacky analogies to explain tech and cybersecurity jargon. Meant to be a “platform for finding and sharing helpful analogies to explain technological ideas,” the project consists of a Chrome extensionRead more

Google’s got a new tool for parents: Family Link, a way for them to keep tabs on what their kids are doing on their devices, especially for those younger than 13. It has a good framework of parental controls, but some of the tools lack much-needed detail. Still, most parents will enjoy is the wayRead more

Stepping up to the counter to order a Big Mac is so yesterday. McDonald’s is finally getting with the modern times and has started pilot testing a mobile app that lets customers place food orders with their phones for in-restaurant or drive-through pickup. As of Wednesday, 29 restaurants in Monterey and Salinas, California have begunRead more

Amazon’s digital assistant just landed on iOS, and it’s giving Siri a run for its money. You can now talk to Alexa via Amazon’s official shopping app. The update dropped Thursday for many users, and it provides answers to serious questions (“what is a black hole?”), along with terrible jokes (“Why did the chicken crossRead more