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The problem with having buttons on your smartphone is that, while very useful, they’re often unsightly, which is why most companies prefer to keep as few of them on their devices as possible. Rather than trying to balance form and function, however, Samsung wants to have both in the form of to

Running without some motivational music playing in your ears is practically blasphemous, something that the people at Nike clearly understand. That’s why the company has joined forces with the king of music streaming, Spotify, to grant users of the popular Nike+ app access to the more than thi

As we grow ever closer to a world where autonomous vehicles are driving on the same public roads as human-driven vehicles, the federal government is preparing to review its vehicle safety regulations to see whether or not they’ll conflict with the self-driving vehicle systems that’re mak

The United States, like China, has a smartphone market that’s simply too massive to ignore, so it’s no surprise that Xiaomi wants a piece of the action. The burgeoning Chinese company is already dominating the market in its home country, but while an American expansion is definitely part

We already know that Sony Mobile will continue to produce smartphones despite its numerous losses and unsuccessful products, but it has to turn things around eventually otherwise it’ll forced to shutdown whether it wants to or not. That’s why, in an effort to revive its Xperia line, Sony

It’s not like EVERYTHING we were going to hear about the OnePlus 2 was going to be good, although the device has managed to go quite a while with virtually nothing but excellent news. Breaking that streak is a leaked image on Weibo which shows an alleged AnTuTu benchmark of the smartphone. Whi

You could say that your smartphone knows you better than yourself and, according to some new medical research, that wouldn’t actually be too far from the truth. More specifically, the research suggests that your smartphone could be a better judge of whether or not you’re suffering from d

We’ve known it was coming for a while now, but eBay and PayPal have finally parted ways after working together for more than a decade. PayPal is now trading as a completely independent company, which means eBay has lost the one part of itself that was actually considered successful… so w

Easily one of the biggest weaknesses of written messages is that, without hearing the tone that someone would use were they speaking the message to you, it can be pretty easy to misinterpret what someone is saying. That’s where IBM thinks it artificial intelligence, Watson, can be of assistanc

Despite record-breaking sales at launch, the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge are starting to lose some serious steam. In the four months since Samsung first released the premium smartphones, both of them have experienced initially excellent sales followed by a massive decline. Although the company is still th

The OnePlus One was called the 2014 Flagship Killer, but the OnePlus 2 is going even further by calling itself the 2016 Flagship Killer. If you’re wondering why a smartphone that’s being released this year would be next year’s flagship killer, it’s because OnePlus clearly fee

Don’t get me wrong, Hulu is a great way to stream the shows that Netflix doesn’t have, but I’ve always felt kind of annoyed that the service still makes me watch ads even though I’m a paying subscriber. The good news is that Hulu may finally be offering an entirely ad-free su

Spam was around well before the Internet, but it’s on the Internet that spammers were able to annoy people on a level that had never been seen before. During the early days of what we now know as the modern Internet, spammers were able to use the power of botnets to send billions of spam messa

As nice as it would be to have a 4K television, they tend to be prohibitively expensive, especially the “smart” ones that companies like Sony and Xiaomi like to release. This is where Samsung thinks it can be of assistance, as the company has just added a new model to this year’s 4

If Bethesda decided to ditch consoles and PCs for mobile gaming, I honestly wouldn’t be able to blame it. According to new data from SuperData, the Fallout Shelter game that Bethesda released for iOS after E3 managed to pull in more than $5.1 million in its first two weeks. Keep in mind that t

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

The latest chapter in the seemingly never ending Reddit drama involves CEO and co-founder Steve Huffman trying to clarify once and for all what the website’s stance on free speech is, as well as trying to win back the trust of its users. Having been away from Reddit for about six years, Huffma

Angry Birds has been the poster child of the rise of mobile gaming ever since it was first released six years ago, having reached ridiculous levels of popularity and constantly being one of the most played and most profitable games on both Android and iOS. Now developer Rovio thinks its time for rou

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

BitTorrent Sync is an excellent alternative to traditional cloud storage, one that puts pretty much everything in your control, but the only problem is that the service only works well on a small scale, which makes it nonviable for enterprise use. That’s why BitTorrent has joined forces with O

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

All this talk about the OnePlus 2’s features and hardware is great and all, but at the end of the day it’s the reviews that really matter, not what’s on the specs sheet. OnePlus couldn’t agree more, which is why the company sent a OnePlus 2 to well-known YouTube tech reviewer

While little in the way of official information has been released on this year’s Nexus smartphones, well-known leaker Evan Blass has revealed that the Huawei-manufactured Nexus will be launching in the fourth quarter of the year. On top of that, Blass claims that the device will come with a 5.

I guess Yishan Wong isn’t happy with the way things are going down at Reddit because the company’s former CEO has been going around leaking Reddit’s dirty little secrets. Most of this leaked information surrounds Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, with Wong claiming that Ohanian was

ZTE definitely doesn’t have a large presence here in the West, even when compared to other Chinese smartphone makers, but the company has a new flagship device that might change that. Known as the Axon, this high-end device comes with some pretty impressive hardware inside, but it’s the

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

Reddit has always been a sort of free speech haven where users could do or say pretty much whatever they wanted, but as Reddit’s co-founder and current CEO Steve Huffman pointed out, the website was never intended to be such. According to him, Reddit was supposed to be a place for open and hon

You can’t deny that Adobe Flash was incredibly important in the early days of the modern Internet when multimedia was starting to become much more common in web browsers. Unfortunately, you also can’t deny that the dated technology is not only no longer necessary, but more often than not

IBM doesn’t just want to bring Watson to as many industries as possible, it wants to bring the artificial intelligence to as many places as possible as well. To help achieve this goal, the company has joined forces with the city of Abu Dhabi to to bring its Watson-based data analysis service t

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

Images of what’s claimed to be the next DROID smartphone from Motorola popped up on the Internet earlier today. The image only gives us a look at what the back the smartphone looks like, which appears to have a vertical metal housing and a metal frame for the camera components, but it’s

Digg was more or less the Reddit of its day, but we all know how that story ended. Considering how similar the two websites are, it’s common for people to compare the two, which is why many people have been recalling the downfall of Digg during the recent “Reddit Revolt” that went

You know the tablet market is in a slump when even Apple is suffering from shrinking iPad sales. Despite being the next big thing not that long ago, the tablet market has more or less plateaued, with Android tablets also dropping to extremely low prices in an effort to boost sales. The phablet marke

Boeing is apparently working on an aircraft engine that will use lasers and nuclear fusion instead of standard fuel, and I’m not sure whether that sounds incredibly badass or incredibly frightening, probably a little bit of both. While the new engine only exists on patent documents at the mome

Reddit has always taken a hands-off approach to moderating the content on its website, which meant that people could more or less do whatever they wanted. This was an easy policy to maintain back when the Reddit community was still small, but now that Reddit has become one of the most popular websit

We already know that OnePlus has multiple smartphones in the works at the moment, but the only one we have anything official on is the OnePlus 2. However, rumors of a OnePlus 2 Mini have been popping up, with the most recent rumors claiming that the device will feature some weaker, mid-range specs a

OnePlus entered into the smartphone market expecting to sell a maximum of 50,000 units, but in a turn of events that surprised everyone, including OnePlus itself, the OnePlus One went on to sell more than a million units and become one of the most talked about smartphones of 2014. With the OnePlus 2

Reddit CEO Ellen Pao’s relationship with the Reddit community has never been the best, but the website’s decision to fire an essential and well-liked Reddit admin was the final straw for many. Moderators and normal users alike have been in a sort of mini-revolt on Reddit these past few w

As if you needed any other reason to buy the OnePlus 2 when it comes out, the OnePlus team revealed in a Reddit AMA earlier today that the upcoming smartphone will have a 3300mAh battery. If you’re not familiar with smartphone batteries, this is roughly a 10% increase over the OnePlus One whic

South Park is one of the most beloved, longest-running adult cartoon comedies out there, which is why it’s not that surprising that Hulu was so desperate to secure streaming rights to the series. However, the company’s decision to pay a whopping $192 million over five years to stream a s