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World of Warcraft always gains subscribers when a new expansion comes out and then loses them again once people get bored, but the latest expansion has the MMO bleeding subscribers much faster and in higher numbers than before. It looks like even the highly-anticipated Warlords of Draenor expansion

It was rumored late last year that Samsung was forgoing the use of Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon 810 chip in the Galaxy S6 due to overheating issues. It’s true that Samsung decided not to use the chip, but it was never confirmed that overheating issues were the reason. However, evidence from

Three years of consecutive losses is not the kind of trend that any company wants, but Nintendo has finally pulled out of its slump and managed to report its first profit, albeit a slim one, since 2011. It’s a small victory, and the poor 3DS and Wii U sales don’t give me hope that next q

The only thing official we know about the OnePlus 2 is that it’s not coming out until much later in the year and it will come in two variants. Aside from that, all we have are rumors and speculation, but the most recent speculation has a pretty solid base. OnePlus CEO Liu Zuohu asked fans what

Roku’s current products allow users to turn their dumb televisions into smart ones for less than $100, but the company has been partnering with a handful of companies over the last few months to start selling all-in-one smart televisions as well. The latest such partner is Sharp, which is work

For those of us who don’t want to drop several hundred bucks on a smartphone but still want something that can pack a punch, there’s an entire market full of mid-range devices just for us. The latest edition to the market is the Sony Xperia C4, which shouldn’t be confused with the

Most of Xiaomi’s products offer a premium-feeling experience at a budget-friendly price, but it’s the company’s high-end devices that get the most attention. The latest such device is the Mi Note Pro, which was announced a few months ago but has only just now launched, and at a low

With somewhere around $500 million in funding, Zenefits is now worth $4.5 billion, an impressive feat only made more so by the fact that the startup is only a couple of years old. What’s especially interesting about Zenefits is that, despite the fact that, despite being an enterprise software

It’s bad enough that the masses on the Internet shower Steam with love and praise, but those of us who actually recognize that the platform has an abundance of flaws, not the least of which is Valve’s indifference to the problems of its users, are forced to use Steam if we want to play g

Before people were getting tired of all those Assassin Creed games, hell, even before Guitar Hero got worn down, people were getting tired of all those Tony Hawk games. Nobody really expected a skating game to be anything other than an attempt to milk some cash by tagging on Tony Hawk’s name,

There’s just no stopping Snapchat’s expansion into the world of publishing. While the company took a big step towards achieving its goal of becoming a serious publishing platform earlier this year with the addition of its Discover feature, it was held back by the fact that people weren&#

It looks like being one of the most hated companies in the United States isn’t enough to bring Electronics Arts down, as the video game publisher has exceeded expectations in terms of both profit and revenue. This success was due in large part to strong sales on the digital front, with digital

Not even poor Chinese workers can compete against robots that don’t even need to be paid. At least, that’s what the founder of Foxconn thought a few years ago when he claimed the world’s biggest contract electronics maker would soon have an army of robots doing its work. The problem is,

Modular smartphones are more of an interesting experiment than a viable product. Be it Phonebloks or Project Ara, modular smartphones are a very cool idea and I can’t wait to see how things progress, but I’d still never get one, and most people feel the same way. We’re all too comf

There are four major wireless service providers in the United States, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon. What can change is the positioning of those for carriers, which is currently Verizon at the top, followed by AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile respectively. T-

Nothing is safe from Samsung’s insatiable desire to make everything “smart,” not even suitcases. The company has reportedly teamed up with Samsonite to develop a kind of “smart luggage” that uses GPS to allow the owner of the luggage to check its location through their

It’s no secret that public education in the United States is broken, shamefully so, but how do we fix it? Many people feel like America’s educational system is flawed all the way down to its foundation and needs to be replaced entirely, but that just leads to another question: what do we

Intel’s hardware powers the vast majority of PCs out there, as it always has, but the company wasn’t able to bring this dominance over to the mobile market when smartphones started to become popular. Rather than using its near complete market dominance to stifle the competition, as Intel

From Europe to Australia, New York to California, solar power is becoming more of a common source for energy. The benefits of renewable energy are many but the drawback has always been financial; it’s simply too expensive to expect solar power to be the bulk provider of worldwide energy for no

In its current state, virtual reality is in the same vein as video games, where it helps users escape our reality and go to a fake one, albeit in a much more immersive way. That’s why most virtual reality headsets we see in development at the moment are geared towards games, but it doesn&#8217

People are still coming up with ways to make iBeacons and similar technologies useful, but a new app known as Croissant may be the best one yet. The idea is that people love to use coffee shops as a temporary place to study or work, and through the app, these people will be able to reserve a seat [&

Some will embrace them when they come. Some will fight. Most think that they’re already here. The mythical robot overlords who are supposed to take over society at some point in the future (based upon a combination of fiction and real scientific advancements) are able to do more, think faster,

Environmental technology has been flooding into the automotive industry since before the Prius was launched almost two decades ago. Green tech is a big deal and even with lower gas prices today, people are still interested in saving on gas and looking at alternative fuel sources for their vehicles.

Tinder recently moved to a subscription-based freemium model in order to help make more money, and it looks like it’s paying off. Not only has the dating app’s parent company expressed its delight at how quickly the app’s penetration rates have grown, it also highlighted Tinder&#82

Speaking at the launch event for the Zenfone 2 in India earlier this week, ASUS CEO Jerry Shen talked about the future of the mobile industry and what trends we can expect to start seeing later this year. One such trend is 4GB of RAM, which is what the Zenfone 2 has and what Shen believes will becom

Cyanogen’s biggest motivation for trying to wrest control of Android away from Google is that the platform isn’t nearly as open as it should be, and certainly not as open as Google claims it is. With that in mind, it only makes sense that Cyanogen open up it own platform to third-party d

Grooveshark has been around for almost a decade, and has been in legal battles with the music industry for just as long. Unfortunately for users of the music streaming service, it looks like the battles are finally over, and Grooveshark has lost. The company’s website now links to a single ima

Things like lag and trolls can certainly take away from an online gaming experience, but there’s one thing that tops them both in terms of ruining a game: cheaters. Dealing with these cheaters is generally left to whichever company controls the platform you’re playing on, such as Xbox Li

It’s been a few months since AT&T announced its plans to acquire Nextel Mexico, but the $1.875 billion acquisition wasn’t official until last night. This marks the American company’s second acquisition of a major Mexican wireless carrier, the first being Iusacell, which AT&

If you made a list of recent games that promised more than they delivered, Watch Dogs would be somewhere at the top. Even the creative director of the developers that made the game admitted that it wasn’t perfect in any way, however, the sequel is going to be better. While we were already pret

Few people expected 21 Jump Street to be good, and even fewer expected its sequel to be good, but both of them turned out to be excellent films. Now it looks like Sony is going to continue the series, but not in a way that you’d expect. Rather than going the route of The Hangover, […]

Considering how E3 is the biggest gaming expo in North America and the PC is the biggest gaming platform in the world, you’d think that E3 would have an event dedicated to the PC, but it never has. E3 has always been a console show with a bit of PC mixed in here and there, but […]

As promised, HTC has finally added support for RAW images to the HTC One M9. Considering how the M9’s camera isn’t the best around, at least as far as flagship smartphones go, the addition of RAW image support should help it hold its own against the competition. For those of you who aren

There’s nothing wrong with having a service that’s geared towards a specific demographic, but the problem with Pinterest is that it’s NOT geared towards a specific demographic and yet still has a massive gender imbalance in favor of women. Consumer diversity is very important in bu

The life of the app known as Secret has been plagued by controversy, including a nation-wide ban in Brazil. As we all know, anonymity is important, but it also opens the door to a massive amount of abuse as it allows people to say whatever they want without consequence. That’s why the founder

You know what’s better than a robot worker? Two robot workers that work together! At least, that’s the idea behind the new system that San Jose-based Fetch Robotics has developed, which the company claims will make warehouses much more efficient, which means you Amazon shipment will get

Those of you, those very few of you, who have been putting off getting a smartwatch until a major Swiss watchmaker entered the market will be happy to know that TAG Heuer has an Android Wear-powered smartwatch coming out this fall. As expected of a Swiss watch, it’ll cost you quite a lot of mo

If you were planning on getting an LG G4 and using Qualcomm’s Quick Charge 2.0 charging capabilities, then I have some bad news for you. While the Snapdragon 808 processor that powers the LG G4 supports Quick Charge 2.0, the smartphone itself does not. The good news is that last year’s L

Few companies are as affected by online piracy at HBO and Showtime, but the two have never really taken legal action against the websites that make this piracy possible… until now. It looks like the Mayweather vs Pacquiao fight is the exception, as the two companies have joined forces with May

The problem with the smartphone market is that the established leaders make it difficult for newer companies to gain ground, and all of them aside from Apple and Microsoft are close to Google. So for a company like Cyanogen that has promised to take Android away from Google, getting companies to ado