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I’ve never been a big fan of special edition products. Not only am I paying more for something that generally offers nothing aside from different aesthetics, it tends to feel the same as bundling a crappy game with your console, where a bad product is leeching off the success of another produc

Spotify and other music streaming services have been facing increased pressure from the music industry to drop the free, ad-supported streaming options that they offer. That’s why it was easy to believe rumors that Spotify would be shutting down this feature, but a company spokesperson put tho

You need only look at the vibrant modding community that many games have to understand what makes PC gaming so great, but it’s not all fun and games. Sometimes, as with a few Grand Theft Auto V mods, some not-so-friendly people will ruin the fun by slipping in some malware. At least two mods f

Few countries are as popular a target for cyberattacks as Israel, and public utilities are one of the primary targets. That’s why state-owned Israel Electric is betting its future on cyber-security exports, as providing electricity to Israeli homes has left the company with billions of dollars

Just being accused of profiting from from inline piracy is enough to completely screw you over, as Mega knows quite well. Despite playing by all the rules, the cloud-storage services was accused of being a “cyberlocker” that makes tons of cash by allowing users to share stolen content, w

Walmart is still a retail behemoth that won’t be going away anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the company hasn’t been feeling the heat from e-commerce companies like Amazon. In fact, I would go so far as to say that Amazon is currently Walmart’s biggest rival. That’s

Samsung’s flagship smartphones have never been cheap or ugly by any means, but the company has generally chosen to focus more on functionality than design. That changed with the Galaxy S6 as Samsung chose to drop features like micro-SD compatibility and removable batteries in order to give the

Skyrim was an excellent game, but it lacked the complexity and depth that hardcore RPG fans love. Dark Souls, on the other hand, had those two in abundance but wasn’t as open-world as many would have liked. It was hoped that Dragon Age: Inquisition would find the nice middle ground that RPG lo

In the developed world, the Internet has changed our lives in a way that nothing else has, or probably ever will, but there are many parts of the world where this vast wealth of information and resources isn’t accessible. This is where a startup known as Outernet believes it can be of assistan

ASUS isn’t know for its mobile devices, but that’s been changing over the past couple of years as the company expands outside of its traditional markets. If recent leaks are to be believed, the company’s latest expansion into the mobile market is coming in the form of a new family

There’s much more to Singapore’s ambitions to become the world’s first “smart nation” than what you see on the surface. Many countries have already started to make their cities smarter, and it’s only a matter of time before every major city in the developed world

LG has been pushing its Watch Urbane as a fashion-first smartwatch, with a price to match, but does that come at the cost of other things, like comfort or power? Well, the hardware is almost identical to the company’s G Watch R, which is a solid smartwatch, but as far as comfort goes, some rev

Alibaba has been called the “Amazon of China,” and has certainly been dominating in its home country, but the Chinese e-commerce giant has little influence overseas. This is something that the company’s new CEO, 43-year-old Daniel Zhang , believes needs to change if Alibaba wants i

Music streaming services have always stuck with the standard $9.99/month price point for their premium services, with some offering ad-supported free versions, but Rdio wants to mix things up a bit. Probably in an attempt to gain ground ahead of the release of Apple’s own streaming service, Rd

You may not give much though to that faint, blurry reflection of yourself that you see when you look through a window, in fact, you probably just subconsciously ignore it, but it’s hard not to notice that reflection when its ruining a picture. Many pictures have been ruined by being taken thro

One of the greatest things about the Internet is that you can learn almost any skill you want using any of the numerous online resources out there. One such resource is My Aone Learning, which separates itself from the mass of face-to-face online solutions out there by operating in much the same way

The Internet has become an essential part of our lives, a least in the developed world. Not only is a gateway to the collective knowledge of the entire human race, it gives us access to an infinite amount of entertainment and allows us to communicate with people from anywhere in the world, but at wh

Although its expected to be worth tens of billions of dollars in the near future, the Internet of Things market is still in its infancy, which means there’s still plenty of room for companies to establish a dominant position in the market. Samsung is not only doing this by releasing its own pr

Consumer drones may have made aerial photography accessible to most people, but problems can arise when you either suck at flying drones or want to get a shot of yourself doing something cool. That’s where a new drone called Lily can be of assistance. This self-flying drone comes equipped with

We’re almost halfway through the year and most of the major flagship smartphones have already been released, but that doesn’t mean the second half of 2015 isn’t going to have its fair share of devices we’re anticipating. We’re still waiting on LG and Samsung’s pha

Oh look, another news aggregation app, how exciting. Sarcasm aside, a new app by the name of Spotter actually does look pretty interesting, as rather than just being a cookie cutter news aggregator, it shows you articles that you actually want to read. A product of two ex-Googlers, the app uses adva

Verizon took a major step into the new media world today when it announced that it will be acquiring AOL for $4.4 billion in an all-cash deal. The pricing at $50 per share is about 17% higher than AOL’s current $42 share price, and will put big websites such as the Huffington Post and TechCrun

You don’t need a Twitter account to use Vine anymore, so why should you need one for Periscope? In an update for Twitter’s popular live-streaming app, the company removed the need for a Twitter account to start using Periscope, although there are still some analytics and statistics featu

Amazon may have brought the idea of drone-based package deliveries to our attention but America’s strict regulations regarding drones have prevented the company from developing this kind of technology as quickly as it would like. Even so, Amazon isn’t exactly giving up on the idea, as th

These past few years has seen the number of large-scale hacks increase by a significant amount, with a significant chunk of them originating from China or Russia, and a large portion of these being state-funded. With this in mind, it’s a bit unsettling that the two nations have entered into a

Few television shows have enjoyed the level of success that American Idol has, but everything must come to an end eventually, and many people think American Idol’s death is long overdue. That could be why, after 15 years, Fox has announced that next year’s American Idol will be its final

Streaming is quickly becoming the most popular way to listen to music nowadays, but that doesn’t mean it’s profitable, at least at current prices. With millions of users paying the $10/month premium and subscription fee and tens of millions using the ad-supported free option, Spotify is

Startups are always claiming to be “disruptive,” but few have managed to cause as much legal controversy and trouble as Uber has managed to do in virtually every country it operates in. However, while regulators across the globe are still figuring out what to do with Uber, the Philippine

It doesn’t matter how much we hate Facebook, we’re never going to leave it. Even though we’re little more to Facebook than a consumer that advertisers will pay to target, it’s not enough to convince us to join social networks like Ello that shun advertising and commoditizing

The tablet market may not be what it was a couple of years ago, but that doesn’t mean Samsung isn’t going to release a successor to one of last year’s best Android tablets. Continuing with its recent trend of giving its flagship devices a more premium feel, Samsung will supposedly

Startups are, by nature, privately-held entities that have no legal obligation to share their data publicly, which is why it can be difficult to keep track of them. Potential investors wanting to seek out promising startups generally have to pull information regarding a startup that they’re in

While smartphone markets in places like India and Indonesia continue to explode, the Chinese smartphone market is reaching a level of maturity closer to that of Japan or the United States, which means its growth is starting to slow. Since most Chinese people own smartphones, the primary goal of comp

As any solid-state drive owner will tell you, the storage medium is infinitely superior to traditional hard disk drives in almost every way.. Emphasis on the “almost.” Although small, ridiculously fast, and virtually silent, SSDs have been known to have issues with data loss, and accordi

It’s hard to believe that it’s 2015, and in a nation as developed as the United States, there are still millions of people using dial-up. Yeah, that’s right, there are 2.1 million Americans that are still paying for AOL’s dial-up service. The reasons for this vary from househ

Mega.co.nz is a cloud-hosting service that, despite playing by all of the rules and taking care to respect copyright laws, was included in a report that painted the service as a sketchy file-sharing platform that makes millions by helping people share copyrighted content. The report caused all of th

With how much we’ve been hearing about virtual reality this past few months, it’s pretty annoying how little we actually have in the way of virtual reality devices. Plenty of them are being worked on but none have actually launched. For those of you who still want to at least try virtual

Grindr was founded six years ago with just a few thousands bucks by Joel Simkhai, the same mane who founded Blendr a couple of years later. Apparently organizing hookups for gay men is good business, as Grindr has managed to survive all this time without a penny from investors, but Simkhai is done w

Jet is an e-commerce startup that has been getting a lot of attention recently for its promises to dethrone Amazon and, despite having not even launched yet, things are looking promising for the company. Although dethroning Amazon will undoubtedly take years, Jet is off to a good start by beating Am

Everyone loves surprises, which is why it can be such a pain for companies when their products get leaked before their official announcement. This is especially true for Xiaomi, which makes big events out of its announcements that even Apple has a hard time rivaling, so you can imagine how upset the

It’s been a long time coming, too long if you ask me, but Nintendo is finally stepping into the modern world of smartphones and tablets. Before the year is over, the company will have released its first-ever mobile game, and intends to have another four more released before 2017. The best part