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There are different kinds of usefulness. There’s the convenient kind that makes life a bit easier but isn’t actually that big of a deal, and then there’s the kind that can legitimately help you in an important way. All of those sensors that get packed into smartphones tend to be th
Ancestry.com has spent the last two decades reading people DNA in order to help them learn about their family history, but now it wants to find a more constructive way to use those reading skills. That’s why the company has been trying to get the FDA’s permission to use people’s DN
The fact that modern GPS satellites are accurate to within about 11-12 feet is already really impressive, but that margin of error is still wide enough to occasionally cause problems in dense urban areas, which is why Mitsubishi Electric wants to take satellite accuracy to the next level. The Tokyo-
Exercising is one of those things that we all know we should be doing more often, but only a handful of us actually do so. I’d like to say that I can never find the time to do exercise, but the reality of the matter is that I’m too lazy to exercise, and the few times that […]
It’s common for companies to expand to new markets and diversify, but this may be the craziest diversification we’ve seen in a while. A sketchy report out of China suggests that Pepsi, of all the companies, is working on its own smartphone. It’s almost guaranteed that the company w
Amazon took a crap on Etsy’s stock price yesterday morning when it announced Homemade, a new online store for artisanal goods that’s going to be competing directly with Etsy. As the name implies, Homemade guarantees that all of it’s products are homemade, in contrast to Etsy, which
I could sit here for hours talking about all the issues that plague Reddit, but if you use the website yourself, then you’re probably already painfully familiar with them. The good news is that Reddit is also familiar with these issues, but rather than address them directly and risk changing R
Meerkat and Periscope are the only non-gaming live streaming apps of note at the moment, but YouNow wants to change that by taking a rather unique approach to live streaming, and it now has $15 million in funding to help achieve that goal. What makes YouNow so unique is that it focuses heavily on so
Testing out a virtual reality headset would be enough to make my day by itself, but doing that AND getting to be a part of one of the world’s first virtual reality marriage proposals would be on whole other level of awesome. That’s what Kelly Tortorice got to experience last week when sh
Now that YouTube is encroaching on Twitch’s territory with YouTube Gaming, it’s the perfect time for Twitch to do the same to YouTube. Twitch CEO Emmit Shear has announced that, starting sometime next year, Twitch broadcasters will be given the ability to upload pre-recorded videos, whic
LeTV isn’t a name that many people outside of China are familiar with, but that might change soon. The company has a new smartphone that’s expected to launch before the end of the year, and from what we can see in these leaked specs, the device will be setting the bar pretty high for nex
When we first heard about the new Fossil smartwatch a few weeks ago, there wasn’t much in the way of information, but the Texas-based fashion giant has started revealing details in a series of recent teasers. There’s actually going to be a few different versions of the device, which is t
In order to get people excited for the BlackBerry Priv (previously known as the Venice), BlackBerry CEO John Chen gave BNN an exclusive first look at the device. The problem is, this is BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone, and it’s clear from Chen’s awkward fumbling that he’
2016 is shaping up to be the Year of Virtual Reality, because pretty much every virtual reality headset worth noting is expected to launch sometime during the year, including the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. However, whereas those headsets are going to be gaming-centric and really expensive, Samsun
We can add this report from the Taipei Times to the ever-growing list of rumors that Xiaomi is working on its own laptop. The report quotes Richard Lee, the chairman of one of Xiaomi’s smartphone manufacturers and one of the largest laptop makers in Taiwan, who expects Xiaomi to launch its fir
Smartphones and tablets have taken massive chunks out of the handheld console market, something that Nintendo is painfully aware of, but it looks like even the livingroom console and PC gaming markets are being affected as well. At least, that’s what a new report from the NDP Group seems to su
Meizu isn’t a brand name that many in the West will recognize, but it has the potential to be. The Chinese smartphone maker has released a bunch of excellent products this year, which have helped to build up its reputation in the premium market, but there are a few things holding the company b
The virtual reality market is still in its infancy, which is why so many companies are practically tripping over each other trying to establish a dominant position in the market. Tech companies like Facebook and Google have been especially interested in virtual reality, and have been investing billi