By Sarah Buhr Cobalt is a private aircraft manufacturer launching its first two models today. The fully-certified Co50 Valkyrie and it’s experimental version, the Valkyrie-X, are available for pre-order starting today. Valkyrie is super sleek and built for speed. It’s the fastest in its class (single piston engines), with the ability to travel up to…

By Nate Ralph Relive the battles of “Star Wars” in Battlefront. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Joshua Goldman Thanks to its modular design and bundled handgrip, Yuneec’s smooth-flying Typhoon Q500 4K quadcopter can capture nice aerial photos and videos and handheld shake-free shots. …read more Source:: cnet Cell Phones

By Drew Olanoff The internets lit up today when someone posted a photo of a cop talking to someone in a self-driving car. Yep, it got pulled over. Why? According to Google, it was going too slow. According to the original poster, the Mountain View police officer didn’t get the memo on these things patrolling…

By Nick Pino After 20 years, Nintendo has plans to re-release the original Pokémon games in all their nostalgia-inducing glory. The company announced during its Nintendo Direct that it would bring Pokémon Red, Blue and Yellow to the Nintendo 3DS eShop on February 27, 2016, exactly two decades after their initial North American launch. If…

By Michelle Fitzsimmons If you have a Nintendo nut on your gift list, listen up: The House of Mario has teased a few choice Wii U and 3DS deals to look forward to this holiday season. The most enticing bundle revealed during its Direct broadcast today is a Super Smash Bros. and Splatoon for Wii…

By Farrha Khan While a whole new Zelda game has yet to get a name or launch date (though we do know it is happening), Nintendo has announced The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess HD remake is real and ready to launch on the Wii U early next year. “Ready to roll with Midna again?…

By Matthew Lynley Watchmaker Fossil Group said today it would acquire Misfit, which creates various wearable and sleep trackers in addition to a health-tracking platform, for $260 million. Sonny Vu, CEO of Misfit, will serve as Fossil’s CTO. Misfit makes devices like the Shine, a wearable fitness and sleep tracker that costs $99 that the…

By Parker Wilhelm Xbox One backwards compatibility The Xbox One has undergone so many changes and updates that it seems almost irreconcilable with the console that launched two years ago. But it’s actually quite surprising how we got here, given Microsoft’s early Xbox 180s. Microsoft once pitched the console as an online-only system that might…

By John McCann Introduction and design The tricky second album. That’s probably the best way to describe the OnePlus 2. After the surprise success of the OnePlus One there were big expectations for its successor, so has the fledgling Chinese brand delivered? OnePlus has dubbed its new phone ‘the 2016 Flagship Killer’, a claim that’s…

By Matt Burns CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And we’re sending a huge contingent to the show again this year and want to see your gadgets, toys and products. TechCrunch cares…

By James O’Malley Introduction Xbox One gamers have something to be smug about this week: Rise of the Tomb Raider hits the shelves exclusively on Microsoft’s console (though we expect it will be coming to the PS4 when Microsoft’s brown envelope to Square Enix is emptied of money). The game is a sequel to the…

Is your Samsung Galaxy S5 Active still on Android 5.0? You can now have it updated with Android 5.1.1 as AT&T is rolling out the version beginning today. …read more Source:: TechTimes.com – Smartphones

By Natasha Lomas The Cyanogen flavor of open Android is getting a little carrier love in Europe, with Spain’s Telefonica launching its first handset powered by the mobile OS today, the BQ Aquaris X5, on its Movistar carrier brand. Read More …read more Source:: TechCrunch Gadgets

By Jordan Crook Eyefi, the makers of cloud-connected mobile SD cards for photographers, has today announced the acquisition of OkDoThis. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. OkDoThis is an app that launched back in the summer of 2014 that was meant to inspire photographers to take creative pictures through challenges. The challenges on…