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Samsung has teased on its Samsung Tomorrow blog that “the future of cameras is in a Samsung Galaxy smartphone.” The company started off the blog post with a rundown of how far its smartphone camera technology has progressed over the last 15 years and, while it didn’t name the Galax
From free two-day shipping to free movies and music, Amazon Prime offers subscribers quite a lot for its $99.99/year fee. It offers so much, in fact, that Amazon should be losing money for every Prime subscriber it has, so why does the company keep pushing the service so aggressively? Unfortunately,
There was a time when Fab.com was considered by many to be one of the hottest tech startups in the world thanks to its wildly successful flash sale-based e-commerce service. The startup managed to pull in hundreds of millions of dollars in funding in a ridiculously short amount of time because of ho
Remember a few weeks ago when some rumors that Samsung was looking to acquire BlackBerry popped up? Well those rumors were quickly dismissed by both companies but not before BlackBerry’s stock prices went through the roof. This made some regulators in the US and Canada a bit suspicious and now
With how many complaints I see that an app or other software isn’t being updated with new features as often as they should it reminds me how little people actually know about the developing process for these products. While massive companies like Facebook or Google don’t have much of an
One of the ways that companies like Facebook and Google are able to make their users OK with the fact that the companies gather vast amounts of data on them is by assuring them that none of this information can be used to identify them. However, even without things like names and addresses, research
The Pirate Bay has been reborn after nearly two months of downtime, but there have been some changes. One of the most notable changes s the absence of admins and moderators that, for reasons unknown, the website decided not to employ this time around. This has had the exceedingly annoying effect of
Four years into the drought that’s plaguing the Western US and it doesn’t look like it’ll be stopping anytime soon. Things are so bad, in fact, that there is actually going to be a satellite launched into orbit with the sole purpose of monitoring the drought and giving farmers and
A significant portion of the Internet is dominated by GIFs, including Reddit, the so-called “front page of the Internet.” The popular image sharing website known as Imgur that actually spawned from Reddit has helped make the sharing of GIFs much easier by offering an unobtrusive, lag-fre
Google acquired Waze for nearly a billion dollars back in 2013 so that it could gets its hands on the company’s unique combination of GPS navigation and social communities. One of the features of this service is that it can track the location of police officers in your area and many law enforc
HP is looking to fill in every gap in the tablet market, from affordable basic tablets, to high-end business tablets, to gargantuan 12.3-inch monsters. Known as the Pro Slate 12, this massive tablet and its smaller 7.9-inch Pro Slate 8 counterpart both look like over sized versions of the HTC One (M
Bringing high-speed internet to the people has become an important focus for politicians in this day and age, which is why New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a $1 billion plan that he hopes will bring high-spreed internet to every household in the state by 2019, something that he describes
A newly declassified report from the Department of Justice has revealed that the FBI actually had a significant role in the NSA’s email surveillance program. The 231-page study, which was obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shows us that the FBI started to review the NSA’
In this day and age, pretty much everyone takes selfies, or at least has taken a selfie at some point. While objectively there isn’t anything wrong with this, a new study conducted by the Ohio State University suggests that men who take a lot of selfies actually score higher in narcissism and
Some of the greatest public-private coalition achievements in the world can be found in Singapore, such as Block 71, which is a public co-working space that acts a central startup ecosystem for the city-state and houses somewhere around 250 startups. Now that model is being brought over to San Franc
Origin PC was one of the first third-party manufacturers to team up with Valve during the Steam Machine craze that promised to take the living room by storm and kill consoles for good, but as many of you are aware, that plan kind of collapsed on itself. Origin PC’s ambitions aren’t dead,
Netatmo wants to take home monitoring to the next level with its connected home camera system that will be compatible with both Android and Android Wear. The system will supposedly be able to recognize the faces of everyone in your household and will be able to inform you which of them is currently
Despite all of the talk about the death of PCs and the rise of mobile, PC gaming is still going strong, very strong actually. Steam, by far the most popular digital distribution service for video games on PCs, reached 8.5 concurrent users at the start of the year, a massive increase from the year pr