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In the early days of what we now know as the modern Internet, I Can Haz Cheezburger, under the leadership of co-founder and CEO Ben Huh, was giving birth to the first memes. Eventually scooping up other websites like Fail Blog and Know Your Meme, ICHC helped form the Internet into what we see now. H

Those of you lucky enough to have gotten your hands on some Comic Con tickets will be happy to know that HTC will be bringing its Valve-collaborated virtual reality headset to San Diego for testing here soon. Not just that, the company is literally putting the headset, known as the Vive, on a bus an

There are plenty of reasons for someone to not be able to or not want to watch a movie in theaters, which is perfectly fine, but it sucks having to wait months for a movie to become available outside of theaters. Even if you’re getting your hands on a movie through less legal means, you’

It looks like not even the impressive list of musicians backing Tidal is enough to help the music streaming service. Since it can’t rely on exclusive music videos and sheer celebrity popularity to compete with the likes of Apple Music and Spotify, Jay-Z’s troubled music steaming service

Sailfish OS doesn’t exactly have a large userbase here in the United States, but that’s because the mobile operating system has found a significant chunk of its success by being an alternative to the American-made duopoly that currently controls the mobile market: Android ans iOS. The Fi

Just when I think the OnePlus 2 is too good to be true, OnePlus goes and sweetens the deal even more. We already know that the device will come with a high-end Snapdragon 810 processor and will be priced under $450, so I wasn’t expecting the rumors that the smartphone would also have 4GB of [&

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

Sony has been absolutely killing it with PlayStation 4 sales ever since the console launched, but the company’s other products haven’t been doing nearly as well, especially those coming from its mobile division. With massive losses and terrible sales, you would think that Sony Mobile wou

Nintendo made a smart move when it decided that the Wii U was a lost cause and started to put most of its focus on its next console: the Nintendo NX. Considering how the Wii U’s weak specs were one of the biggest complaints that people had, you would think that the company would try […]

Anyone who’s trained with guns will tell you how movies make using firearms look WAY easier than it actually is. There are numerous factors that you need to take into consideration, both with the gun itself and with your own body. That’s why the United States Army has developed a new exo

Fredrik Neij may not be a name that you’re familiar with, but you’re definitely familiar with the website he helped to create: the Pirate Bay. Unfortunately for Neij, co-founding the world’s largest torrenting website isn’t the most conventionally rewarding thing to do, as so

With the LG G4 having already been released, the only flagship that the company has yet to announce is the LG G Pro 3, which is expected to launch later this year. While we don’t have any official information, MobiPicker is reporting that the phablet has already entered production and will pac

People used to spend months travelling from one side of the United States to the other, and now the American military is working on a way to be anywhere in the world within four hours. Apparently, the United States Air Force is looking for partners to help it develop a hypersonic jet that’s ca

More than two decades ago, before Sony had entered the console market on its own, the company had partnered with Nintendo to create an SNES add-on that would allow the console to read CDs. Known as the “Play Station,” there were only a handful of these mythical devices made before the tw

If you want an idea of how popular music streaming has become, just take a look at the latest data from Nielsen. American consumers alone have streamed 135 billion music videos and songs in the past six months alone, which is almost twice the amount of streams this time last year. In contrast, both

One of the ways OnePlus is building up hype for its upcoming smartphone is by hosting the world’s first-ever product unveiling in virtual reality. As cool as that is, however, it doesn’t do much for fans when getting your hands on a virtual reality headset isn’t exactly the easiest

Most smartphone makers would be ecstatic if they sold 35 million smartphones in a year, but not only has Xiaomi sold that many smartphones in a mere six months, that number is less than half of what the company is aiming to sell by the end of the year. In order to meet its sales goal, Xiaomi will [&

OnePlus is doing everything it can to stoke the hype flames for its upcoming smartphone, including hosting the world’s first-ever product unveiling later this month. One of the ways the company is getting people excited for the OnePlus 2 is by revealing bits and pieces of information as we wai

VPNs are probably the most essential tools out there for maintaining ones privacy and security on the Internet, as well as bypassing content filters. However, as far as privacy and security are concerned, a vulnerability known as “IPv6 leakage” can make even the best VPNs out there prett

The usefulness and appeal of smartwatches has been significantly held back by the poor batteries that the gadgets tend to have equipped, but LG may have a solution to that problem. By necessity, smartwatches have some pretty minuscule batteries, which means that they’re not nearly as good as s

Considering how an iPhone in Brazil is almost twice the price of an iPhone in the United States, not to mention the country has a massive population and a rapidly growing smartphone market, Brazil seems like an obvious choice for Xiaomi’s next expansion. The burgeoning Chinese company began it

With about a month left until the big unveiling of its next smartphone, OnePlus has been teasing bits and pieces of information about the OnePlus 2. We already know that the device will be powered by a Snapdragon 810 and will feature a USB Type-C port, and now the Chinese company has revealed that t

Much of what goes on in Japan is strange or borderline incomprehensible to Westerners, so much so that it has become somewhat of a running. If you want an example of something that can only happen in Japan, just look at the recent wedding in the country that saw two robots joined together in holy [&

Despite having picked up some steam in recent months, the Wii U is very clearly a failure. Considering how the company is already working on the console’s successor, this is something even Nintendo has accepted. Known as the NX, little to nothing is known about the device and Nintendo intends

There were some reports going around earlier this week that claimed that many of the Beats headphones out there at the moment are basically cheap pieces of crap that are sold at a premium price because of a few shady tricks. It was claimed that there were metal weight put inside the headphones to ma

According to a report out of China. the OnePlus 2 may have a screen that’s slightly larger than the OnePlus One. A sketch of the smartphone has popped up Chinese micro-blogging network Weibo, and although OnePlus is claiming that it’s fake, the sketch suggests that the OnePlus 2’s

If you want a smartphone with a premium feeling aluminum body, you’re most likely going to have to sacrifice the ability to swap out your battery or put in a microSD card. Unfortunately for smartphone makers, this means that no matter what they do, someone isn’t going to be happy. This w

Launching rockets into space isn’t easy, and failures are always to be expected. This is something that SpaceX knows well, but the the private space company had to learn the less again earlier today when one of its Dragon cargo capsules broke up in mid-air shortly after it launched. The capsul

Ever since acquiring the ThinkPad series from IBM a decade ago, Lenovo has done pretty well with the laptops. While the ThinkPad has evolved over the years to fit in with customers needs and desires, the Chinese company is working on a retro model of the popular laptops that will undoubtedly be a bi

Seeing as how it’s not a television broadcast network, it’s not rated by Nielsen. If it was, however, Wall Street analysts at FBR Capital Markets claim that Netflix will soon surpass every major network out there in terms of 24-hour viewership. That includes the likes of ABC, CBS, Fox, a

Every Fallout fan out there has dreamed of having their own Pip-Boy, and as Bethesda announced at this year’s E3, those dreams will finally be able to come true. There’s going to be a wearable Pip-Boy included in the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy Edition that you’ll be able to slip your smartp

Getaround, the vehicle sharing service that allows people to lease out their vehicles for a few hours a day, has formed a rather surprising partnership with Ford. The automaker is advertising this partnership as a cost-cutting opportunity for its customers and is encouraging them to help pay off the

Don’t get me wrong, I love the increased power I get when I upgrade my smartphone to one with newer hardware, but I’d be more than happy to upgrade to a smartphone with the same exact specs if it had a larger battery. Smartphones are constantly getting more powerful, but the batteries in

The announcement of Fallout 4 wasn’t the only reason Bethesda chose to have its first-ever E3 press conference this year, the fact that the company had enough games to announce to fill up an entire show was actually the biggest reason. As awesome as the conference was, however, Bethesda isn&#8

Yahoo has made it abundantly clear that the mobile market is the company’s primary focus as it tries to regain the ground it has lost over the years. As part of the company’s continued effort to expand and improve its mobile products, Yahoo has released a major update for its mobile sear

I remember in how, back in my younger days, I would pre-order pretty much any game that caught my eye. I’d even stand in line for midnight releases from time to time. Despite the fact that the game would be available in most stores whether I pre-ordered or not, I still did so, a lot […]

Cortana and Siri may be the current kings of the virtual assistant market, but Amazon wants to gain ground with its new Alexa assistant by opening the artificial intelligence platform up to developers. As the company announced yesterday, the voice-controlled assistant is now free for any developer t

In the post-apocalyptic world of Fallout, the dollar has been done away with in favor of a new universal currency: bottle caps. That’s why, in honor of the recently announced Fallout 4, an Imgur user by the name of GatorMacheteJr sent Bethesda two boxes containing all of the bottlecaps he&#821

When you’re a brand new Chinese smartphone maker with absolutely no recognition in your own country, let alone in the West, you need some marketing wizardry to make your product successful. That’s exactly what OnePlus did last year with the OnePlus One where, despite an annoying invite s

BlackBerry’s focus on safety and security is one of the only reasons the company has managed to stay alive as Android and iOS continue to dominate the mobile market. The company creates handsets that are designed for specific situations to provide as safe and secure an experience as possible.