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Copyright holders have been making examples of unfortunate Internet users who have allegedly shared copyrighted material for years, but most of these lawsuits have been directed at people using BitTorrent clients. However, the company that owns the rights to “The Cobbler,” a terribly-rat
It doesn’t look like ASUS is gonna slow its mobile expansion anytime soon. Even though we still have a couple of weeks to go before IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin) 2015, the company released a video on Facebook which teases another new smartphone and the successor to last year̵
You may not be familiar with Hipster Whale, but there’s a good chance you’ve heard about their smash hit mobile game: Crossy Road. This Frogger-esque mobile game has been one of the most popular apps on Android and iOS since it was released, and for good reason. There are no levels and n
Many people were disappointed when Samsung announced that the Galaxy Note 5 wouldn’t be launching in Europe, but rather than being forced to purchase the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, LG is suggesting that Europeans looking for a new high-end Android smartphone with a big screen just buy the LG G4. In
Figuring out how much RAM your PC needs is something that, as with most computer components, doesn’t have a very simple or straightforward answer, and the Internet isn’t much help. Some people claim that 4GB is perfectly fine even for gamers, some say 8GB is a bare minimum, and some say
Until drone deliveries become a reality, there’s no way for Amazon to deliver packages to your doorstep any quicker while remaining in the realm of affordability. Fortunately, the company appears to have a solution for customers that simply HAVE to have their package right now: pick it up your
Shortly after China announced that it would be installing “Internet police” in many of the tech companies and websites based in the country for the sake of security, Chines authorities announced that they have arrested somewhere around 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Int
There’s a new feature for Intel’s next-generation Skylake processors that’s definitely going to have privacy activists up in arms. In order for voice-activated Cortana commands to work for Windows 10 devices while they’re in a low power state, these new processors are equippe
Cheating on one’s spouse is one of things that you’re obviously going to want to keep very secret, which is why so many people are sweating over the recent Ashley Madison hack. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Ashley Madison caters to people looking to hookup with someone who
It’s common for people to focus so much on China’s growth that they forget about India, but the country is becoming much harder to ignore, especially where e-commerce is concerned. The e-commerce market in India is exploding right now, with foreign companies like Amazon pouring billions
As the “Amazon of China,” it’s only natural that Alibaba wants to expand its cloud division to better compete with the likes of Amazon Web Services. Ethan Yu, the vice president of the company’s cloud division, announced last night that Alibaba has chosen Singapore as the loc
The first Blackphone got a lot of attention when the Snowden leaks were still fairly new and people were more concerned about privacy than ever, but when the ultra-private, ultra-secure smartphone was actually released it received a collective “meh” from reviewers. It was a decent device
Marty Weiner, one of the founding engineers at Pinterest, has just joined the Reddit team as the company’s first-ever CTO. Having spent almost five years at Pinterest, Weiner says that his job at Reddit will be “building an engineering culture that will help with recruiting, expanding di
There are very, very few things that make me regret living in the United States, but Xiaomi is definitely one of them. A bunch of information on the Chinese company’s upcoming flagship smartphone was just released and I’m practically drooling. Known as the Mi5, the smartphone will report
Internet companies like Facebook, Google, Tumblr, Twitter, and Yahoo almost ended up in a standoff with the MPAA after the organization tried to use a lawsuit to force them to block services and remove links to a bunch of websites that operate under the MovieTube flag. The companies weren’t ha
Imagine working for a company that former employees have described as being a place “where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves” and where it feel like “you’ve got the CEO of the company in bed with you at 3 a.m. breathing down your neck,” apparently that’s wha
As we grow ever closer to the official announcement of Google’s next smartphones, new leaks of the two devices seem to come out every day. The most recent leak is for the LG-made 5.2-inch Nexus model, with the first-ever actual images of the device being shown, as opposed to the alleged render
I don’t know about you guys but I’m definitely looking forward to having my Amazon orders delivered to my doorstep via drone. Jeff Bezos is just as excited about bringing about these deliveries as I am about receiving them, but don’t expect it to happen anytime soon. The Amazon CEO
What’s the point of offering super fast Internet speeds if your monthly data cap is so low that you could technically hit it in a matter of hours? That’s what one curious Twitter user asked Jason Livingood, the Vice President of Internet Services at Comcast, earlier this week. His answer
One area where Firefox has always been a market leader is privacy, no other web browser comes close to achieving the same level of privacy options and extension, not to mention the fact that it’s open-source. Mozilla thinks it can do more though, which is why it’s now testing a new priva
Edward Snowden leaked so many documents that we’re still learning new things about government spying and corporate collaboration pretty much every day. The most recent revelation we’ve had is that AT&T has not only been much friendlier with the NSA than previously thought, the compan
Not much is known about BlackBerry’s next smartphone, codenamed Venice, but we do have an idea of what the device will look like. Some leaked images of the Venice have popped up on CrackBerry that show us that the device will be one of the sliders that BlackBerry is known for, but the on-scree
Nintendo has never had much luck with online multiplayer. Not only do its consoles have multiplayer platforms that are years behind PlayStation Network and Xbox Live in terms of features, the only first-party online multiplayer game that it has that’s decent is Super Smash Bros. That all chang
Hoping to mimic the success of apps like Meerkat and Periscope, Samsung has a new live streaming app that will allow users to broadcast their videos from their smartphone directly to YouTube. It looks like an interesting feature, my only complaints would be that there won’t be any way to post
Data centers are really expensive to maintain, which is why companies like Netflix that consume vast amounts of data prefer to use cloud-based systems. That’s why the company has announced that it will be shutting down the last of its data centers by the end of the summer, thus ending the proc
Security flaws are one of those things that Android users have unfortunately grown accustomed to, but the recent vulnerability known as Stagefright has taken things to an entirely different level. This vulnerability affects the vast majority of Android devices out there at the moment and allows hack
The Witcher 3 already had a surprisingly vibrant modding community considering that no official modding tools for the game had been released yet. Even so, CD Projekt Red promised well before the game launched that it would be supporting modders with official tools, and now the developer has finally
We have a good idea of what kinds of features Google’s upcoming Nexus smartphones will have, but what the two will look like is still a bit of a mystery. However, a well-known leaker that goes by the name of @OnLeaks has leaked some renders of the Nexus that LG is working on. While they aren&#
When an anonymous streamer wrote a Python script that allowed Twitch viewers to enter in commands through the chat and control a game of Pokémon Red, they inadvertently created one of the most amusing social experiments in recent memory. The Twitch community eventually beat the game together (someho
Music streaming is popular, really popular. It’s so popular, in fact, that according to a new report from Next Big Sound, people have streamed more than A TRILLION songs in the first half of 2015. The data was taken from Pandora, Rdio, SoundCloud, Spotify, Vevo, Vimeo, and YouTube, which means
A flip phone is one of the last places I’d expect to find a Snapdragon 808, but that’s exactly where Samsung put one of the chips. Going by the model number SM-G9198, this flip phone packs the kind of specs I’d expect to find on a solid mid-range smartphone, with a 16 MP main camer
Researchers have been trying to find a way to utilize roads for an environmentally-friendly purpose for a while now, and no, Solar Roadways doesn’t count because it’s not viable. What could be viable, however, are roads that charge electric vehicles that drive on them. England has announ
The reason the FAA has been so cautious with drone regulations is that commercial drones can be incredibly dangerous to low-flying aircraft. Pilots have reported more than 650 close calls with drones so far this year, a massive increase over last year’s cases. According to a statement that the
There was a time when Japanese companies dominated the consumer electronics market, but do to a combination of cultural and economic factors, that time has passed. Companies like Sony simply moved too slowly to keep up with the ever-changing market while fast-moving Chinese companies like Xiaomi hav
Chinese smartphone makers have been having an excellent year so far, and Meizu is no exception. The company has released a couple of excellent mid-range smartphones so far in 2015, as well as an equally impressive flagship device, but the long-rumored Meizu MX5 Pro is what many of us have really bee
The OnePlus 2 may not differ much from its predecessor externally, but the inside of the smartphone is a whole other story. Not only are the components themselves different (obviously), the way they’re placed inside the smartphone is a bit different too, which is a good thing. According to iFi
It looks like you can add Samsung to the ever-growing list of companies that want to create their own network of satellites that would bring affordable Internet access to billions of people. Internet data usage is growing at a rapid pace, especially on mobile devices, which is going to put massive s
It’s really exciting to see how quickly SSD technology is progressing. Samsung has been responsible for a significant chunk of the progress we’ve seen so far and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon. At the Flash Memory Summit in California this week, the
Trains don’t cause nearly as many injuries as cars do, but the injuries they do cause tend to be far more severe. Japan knows this all too well with the 221 cases of people being hit by trains it had between April 2013 and 2014. It’s not all that surprising that a significant chunk of th
Samsung is really speeding things up with its phablets. Not only did the company decide to announce the next-generation Galaxy Note earlier than expected, it also opened up pre-orders for the smartphone immediately after the announcement, as well as for the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus. Now that Apple has en
