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There’s a good chance that you’ve never even heard about Nextbit, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to the new smartphone the company will unveil next month. The startup was founded as the developer of a little-known cloud-based tool for Android users but has
Spotify has been facing pressure from record labels to kill off its free, ad-supported streaming service for a while now, but it looks likes the company is finally going to cave in. While the free option shouldn’t be disappearing anytime soon, you can expect some new restrictions to be added i
While it sucks that we still have to wait an unspecified amount of time for a Snapdragon 820 unveiling, Qualcomm is giving us some smaller unveilings to snack on in the meantime. Earlier today the company announced the Snapdragon 212, 412, and 616, three slightly improved versions of last year’
Mozilla announced in a security-related blog post last night that a Firefox user in Russia has discovered a bug in the web browser that allows hackers to steal sensitive files from your computer. The good news is that most Firefox users don’t have to worry about the bug because the files that
You can ask your web browser to send “Do Not Track” requests to the websites you visit, but this doesn’t really do anything of substance. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants to change this, however, and has joined forces with a coalition of companies and privacy experts
Body cameras have become an important topic of discussion amid the string of police brutality cases we’ve seen over the past year or two, and Richard Stallman has his own proposal for how body cameras should be used by police officers. One of the most important people in the tech world, Stallm
With half a TRILLION dollars poured into the F-35’s development over the past decade or so, it’s exciting to hear that the fighter jet is finally ready for combat. Those of you who’ve been waiting to see your tax dollars put to use will be pleased to hear that the United States Mar
Sharp has been struggling in the Americas for some time now, but rather than pushing through its financial losses and hoping that things turn around, the Japanese company has decided to abandon North and South America entirety so that it can focus on products that are still successful in these marke
Yahoo’s new messaging app wasn’t widely discussed when it first launched earlier this month because, at the time, it was exclusive to Hong Kong and Taiwan, but now that the app has expanded to a handful of Western nations, it’s about time to take a look at it. Known as Livetext, th
Checking your smartphone while you’re laying in bed can be such a hassle, I mean you actually have to reach all the over and grab it. This is where Nintendo thinks it can be of assistance as the company has patented a new “quality of life” device that will project everything that o
Xiaomi is joining forces with Uber in some of its markets to offer its customers super-speedy crowd-sourced deliveries. Uber simply takes its existing army of drivers and turns some of them into couriers. By doing this, people in Malaysia and Singapore can order a Xiaomi smartphone online and have i
Tell me when this starts to sound familiar: BlackBerry is laying off some of its employees. Yeah, we’ve heard about the struggling handset maker cutting jobs more times than we can count, and the excuses remain the same. BlackBerry claims that this is being done in an effort to make itself mor
Easily the biggest complaint that people had with the OnePlus One was the stupid invite system. Things are better now, but for months after the smartphone was released, getting your hands on an invite was a rather difficult and annoying task. Fortunately, OnePlus won’t be making the same mista
Many gamers could argue for hours about which MOBA is better, Dota 2 or League of Legends, but one thing that Dota 2 undeniably has over League of Legends is its ability to raise a massive prize pool for its official tournament. Known as The International, this year’s Dota 2 tournament has set
Content is the name of the game in the streaming market, and Netflix is paying billions of dollars to ensure that it has the best AND the most original content. With popular shows like Daredevil and House of Cards already in its arsenal, Netflix is expecting to spend somewhere around $5 billion on o
For those of us with tons of different passwords for tons of different accounts, password managers like Dashlane are a lifesaver because they remember all these passwords for you. The problem is, you still need to remember one password, which is the master password that unlocks your Dashlane account
Man, I must admit that I’m seriously enjoying watching all of this Reddit drama unfold. A few days after the company decided to fire on of its key executives, Reddit’s CEO decided to step down, and now just a few days after THAT, yet another key executive has left the company. Having spe
Samsung won’t be losing its position atop the smartphone market anytime soon, but the signs of the company’s eventual demise are pretty clear. Despite how massively successful the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge have been with their record sales, the company is still reporting its seventh consecut