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Fallout: New Vegas and Fallout 3 were released five and seven years ago respectively, and while mods have extended the lives of those two excellent games, it’s about time we had an actual successor. More so than most games, Fallout 4 has been plagued by false rumors and hoaxes, but when Bethes

Amazon Prime is one of Amazon’s biggest cash cows, and the free shipping the service offers is one of Prime’s biggest draws, so doesn’t it seem a little counter-intuitive for the company to start offering free shipping to non-Prime users? Well, that’s what it looks like on th

For years, it’s been standard practice to buy an expensive smartphone from your wireless carrier at a reduced price in exchange for signing a contract that commits you to that carrier for a couple of years. However, more and more people are abandoning this payment method in favor of cellular p

Pinterest has all the makings of an excellent e-commerce platform, just without the e-commerce. The service is already a popular place for retailers to show off their products, and users can “Pin” images that they like to collections in much the same way one would save an Amazon listing

It’s hard enough to wrap my head around the fact that there are currently 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions across the globe, but the latest Mobility Report from Ericsson claims that the number will skyrocket to 6.1 billion by the year 2020. That’s right, despite the fact that smartph

Today, Valve addressed what’s easily one of the biggest complaints that people have with Steam: the lack of refunds. Whereas refunds have been an impossibility on Steam for years, the service is now issuing on-request refunds for any game that was purchased within 14-days and has less than two

As one of the top direct-broadcast satellite service providers in the country, Dish is in an excellent position to enter the American wireless market, which is notoriously difficult to get into as a newcomer thanks the sheer dominance of the four companies that currently control the market. If any c

With the kind of specs that Samsung’s new 4.6-inch smartphone has, you would think that it’s a smaller version of the company’s 5.1-inch Galaxy S6. Packing a 16-megapixel rear camera, 2GB of RAM, and a Snapdragon 808 puts the device up against even some of the big flagship smartpho

Just because a San Francisco jury voted in favor of Kleiner Perkins doesn’t mean Ellen Pao is done with her gender discrimination lawsuit. Despite the fact that Kleiner Perkins offered to waive nearly a million dollars in legal fees if Pao promised not to appeal the ruling, Pao will still be a

Google Cardboard definitely makes virtual reality more accessible to those of us who can’t acquire or can’t afford an actual virtual reality headset, but it’s not as easy as just folding some cardboard into the shape of goggles. Aside from some tape, you’ll need to get your h

Twitter is an excellent way for businesses to reach their customers, and it wants to get more businesses using the platform to do so. In order to do so, the company has launched a new initiative known as the Official Partner Program which aims to encourage businesses to turn to Twitter when looking

Pinterest users are going to love the new wishlist feature that Amazon is testing out. Known as Amazon Stream the new feature presents users with a grid of product photos that they can sift through and save to their wishlist, similar to how you “Pin” things to collections on Pinterest, e

It’s almost a necessity to use the front-facing camera when taking a selfie, which sucks when you consider how practically every smartphone out there has a front-facing camera that’s not as good as the rear-facing one. Fortunately for you selfie lovers out there, ASUS has a solution in t

The first thing you learn when you’re a OnePlus fan is to get used to waiting unspecified amounts of time for news and new products. Those of you who were hoping that the Chinese companies big announcement tomorrow would be the OnePlus One’s successor, you’re going to be a bit disa

As a tech writer it’s pretty frustrating to have to talk about Xiaomi smartphones, as I’m basically talking about this ultra-power, super sexy, ridiculously cheap smartphone that… I can’t actually buy. Don’t get me wrong, I’m happy with my OnePlus One, but that do

It’s always good to have big organizations backing your beliefs and causes, and with governments across the globe waging a war against anonymity and encryption, it’s relieving to hear that we have the United Nations on our side. The benefits of anonymity and encryption are innumerable, b

For years, Shazam has been THE app for identifying songs that you like but don’t know the name to. After more than fifteen years, however, the company has decided to branch out into something new: visual discover. Whereas Shazam has always been limited to music, the app now has a new feature t

So long as you’re not horrendously ugly, finding someone to hookup with is easier than ever before thanks to apps like Grindr, Hinge, Tinder, and a wealth of other dating apps out there. However, this ease of hooking up isn’t without its downsides, as a new health report from the Rhode I

Many people unfairly assume that adopting a free-to-play model is the sign that a game has failed, but in the instance of WildStar, it was definitely a series of failures on the developer’s part that led to this. While I’ll spare you a nerdy analysis on the highly-anticipated MMO’s

New Mexico is already filled with ghost towns, but a group of investors plan to build an empty city that will actually be of use. On a fifteen square mile patch of desert, these investors want to build what is essentially a massive testing ground for some of the most bleeding-edge technology out the

Just as Tesla did last year, Ford has decided to open up its electric vehicle patents to everyone, including its competitors. Obviously the company isn’t doing this out of the goodness of its heart, and neither was Tesla. The electric vehicle market has a very bright future, but is being held

People have been equipping GoPro cameras on their drones fro years, so why hasn’t GoPro just released its own drone with a camera or two built in? Apparently GoPro has been asking itself the same question, as the company is finally getting around to releasing its own camera-equipped quadcopter

It seems like everyone and their mothers is trying to cut themselves a slice of the virtual reality market while it’s still in its infancy, and Lenovo is no exception. Unveiled at the company’s big TechWorld event in China, the new Lenovo VR Goggle can work with most Lenovo smartphones b

It doesn’t matter how expensive or powerful a smartwatch is, the device is still limited by its small screen size, and while making the screen bigger seems like an obvious solution, nobody wants to have a gargantuan watch weighing their wrist down. Lenovo’s solution is much more realisti

There are numerous obstacles Xiaomi has to overcome before it can start selling its smartphones in the West, not the least of which is the inevitability of copyright lawsuits, but that isn’t stopping the company from testing the waters with some of its other products. The company has announced

It may have taken a few weeks longer than we would have liked, but LG is finally bringing its new flagship smartphone to the United States. Priced at $600, T-Mobile users can now purchase the LG G4 in either metallic gray or brown leather, while Sprint users can expect to get their hands on the [&he

Phandroid managed to get its hands on a trademark from LG for an app named “Meerkat.” Obviously that app already exists, and is one of this year’s surprise hits, so there’s no way LG would be able to trademark that name unless it had acquired the original Meerkat. The patent

Oftentimes when we see something become massively popular in a short amount of time, it only lasts for a short while before the excitement dies down and people stop caring. However, that isn’t going to be the case with apps like Meerkat and Periscope, as the two of them are based on something

Xiaomi has been far from dormant this year, with numerous product launches and expansions, and that’s great and all, but what everyone really wants is the latest iteration of the company’s flagship smartphone: the Mi5. Considering that the smartphone’s predecessor, the Mi4, launche

As a manufacturer of both smartphones and smartphone components, Samsung is in a better position than pretty much any company out there to influence and predict what the future of the mobile market will be like. With the announcement that it’s working on denser batteries and thinner camera sen

If you keep up with technology news even a little bit, then there’s a good chance that you’ve come across an article or two from Re/code. While it’s an excellent website, and despite being led by two veteran journalists, the website has n’t been able to reach as wide of an au

What started off as a path to monetization for Snapchat has transformed into the realization of a bold vision that CEO Evan Spiegel has for the company. It’s very clear at this point that Snapchat is much more than just an ephemeral messaging service, as the company implemented an effective co

Samsung has proven time and time again that it’s not afraid to experiment, and that doesn’t look to be changing anytime soon. A newly revealed patent indicates that the company is working on a new hybrid device that runs on two operating systems. The way it works is that, in its smartpho

Those of you who have been eagerly awaiting an official OnePlus Two announcement might not have to wait much longer, as OnePlus has announced through social media that it’s looking to “shake up the tech industry” on June 1st. We know that the company is definitely working on a succ

Content creators, investors, record labels, and users. These four groups are essential to SoundCloud’s success, but unfortunately, not all of the four want the same thing, and this often leads to conflicts that SoundCloud has to resolve, or else lose invaluable assets. At the International Mus

If anyone could challenge the Apple-Google duopoly that powers the cast majority of the smartphones out there today, it would be Samsung. At least, that’s what many people thought when the company first announced its own mobile operating system, known as Tizen, and continued to think this even

Confirming yesterday’s reports that Charter Communications was about to agree to a merger with Time Warner Cable, the company announced that it has greed to a $55 billion cash and stock deal to acquire Time Warner Cable. This values TWC at almost $80 billion, or about $195/share, and will resu

Flipboard is pretty much an essential tool for social network power users, and if you’ve never given the app a shot, you really should. It basically collects content from your favorite websites and presents it to you in magazine format, allowing you to “flip” through all of your fe

“It’s okay, we’ll be fine.” Those are the words that co-CEO of BlackBerry Jim Balsillie uttered when he was first shown the video Steve Jobs unveiling the iPhone. They weren’t necessarily last words, but BlackBerry’s nosedive of a decline began shortly after that, and i

Almost immediately after the Comcast-Time Warner Cable fell through, rumors that Charter was looking to acquire TWC started popping up, and have more or less been confirmed in the weeks since. According to reports from both Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal, the acquisition is expected to be som