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Well, this is what happens when you gets you’re hopes up, you just set yourself up for disappointment. It looks like what many people were hyping to be the biggest release of the year isn’t even going to be released this year. According to Nintendo, not only will the highly-anticipated n

As expected of a movie as highly-anticipated as the new Avengers, there has been tons of footage of Age of Ultron released over the past few months. Even so, most of the footage has focused on the recurring heroes and the new villain while we’ve only seen glimpses of the two new and perhaps mo

It’s finally over guys, the gender-discrimination case that’s been shaking up Silicon Valley for the past few months has finally come to a close. A California jury has ruled against Ellen Pao, the current CEO of Reddit, on all counts, coming to the conclusion that the fact that she&#8217

With competitors like HTC and Samsung hogging up much of the attention at this year’s MWC with their own flagship smartphones, LG made the smart move and decided to unveil its own flagship device at a different date. Smart, as I said, but we’re still waiting for an official announcement

Twitter has been trying to kill Meerkat in the womb due to the fact that it has been working on its own live-streaming app known as Periscope that will directly compete with Meerkat. Obviously that didn’t work and now Twitter has been forced to release Periscope early. So now that both of them

Windows 10 will be arriving on desktops and smartphones later this year and, while the desktop technical preview has given us a look at many of the features we can expect, the mobile preview has been less feature-packed. Even the company’s new web browser, Project Spartan, has only been demoed

Migraines really, really suck, and treating them is difficult due to the fact that we really aren’t sure what causes them. Fortunately for sufferers of this disease, migraines can still be prevented in most cases and a startup out of Singapore known as Healint has a mobile app that can help yo

More and more it looks like the Galaxy S6 will be what helps pull Samsung out if the rut it’s in and it won’t be able to do that unless Samsung can produce enough of them to meet demand. The Galaxy S6 shouldn’t be a problem but the Galaxy S6 Edge’s curved screen makes things

Remember a week or so ago when OnePlus announced that owners of its OnePlus One smartphone would be able to install the company’s homegrown mobile operating system, OxygenOS? Yeah, now it looks like that’s not going to happen. The decision to develop its own OS came after a falling out w

To Amazon, employees are simply placeholders for what will eventually be the perfect, utterly efficient robot that doesn’t need to be paid or try to unionize. The company already has robots working in several of its warehouses thanks to its acquisition of Kiva back in 2012 but these robots are

Sorry boys, it looks like the secret device that Xiaomi will be celebrating its fifth birthday by launching will be geared towards women. The company released a teaser poster featuring a dress and the words “NSSJ” over a pink background. This still tells us next to nothing and there&#821

No list of the greatest albums of the 1990s would be complete without Radiohead’s third studio album, OK Computer, nor would any list of the greatest albums of all time, for that matter. I could go on for hours about how freaking amazing, influential, and ahead of its time the album was but yo

Meerkat is a simple app really, all it does is allow users to live stream from their smartphones and automatically tweets a link to their broadcast. The problem is that Periscope does pretty much the exact same thing except that it’s actually owned by Twitter which is why the company has been

It’s hard to believe that Xiaomi has been able to achieve such a ridiculous level of success in just a few years, but the burgeoning Chinese startup is only just now turning five years old. To celebrate the occasion, Xiaomi has teased a big announcement on March 31 that will see at least one n

If you attended the SXSW Interactive trade show last week you may have seen a small Japanese flag perched in the back corner of the Austin Convention Center’s main exhibit hall. Beneath this flag stood the largest international section at SXSW where ten of the “Todai to Texas” startups (

Ah, the age-old battle between innovation and regulation. That was the subject of Amazon’s recent testimony before a Senate subcommittee, where the company complained that it has to wait ridiculous amounts of time to acquire the approval it needs to conduct tests that it could get in a matter

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few months, or few years, then you’ve undoubtedly heard about Clash of Clans. Well the company behind the game, known as Supercell, has announced that it doubled its revenue last year from the already ridiculous amount of $567 back in 201

Amazon’s Fire TV and Fire TV Stick are excellent ways to turn dumb televisions into smart ones but there’s a problem that many owners encounter when they’re trying to connect these streaming devices to hotspots with web-based authentication, such as what many colleges and hotels do

Do any of you think Bloodborne looks freaking amazing but you can’t bring yourself to buy a PlayStation 4 just for one game? Believe me, I know. Well we might be in luck, some of us at least, because Sony accidentally leaked a PC version of something called “Bloodborne – Nightmare

OnePlus One owners better start getting excited. OnePlus has been teasing a new product line over the last couple of weeks and the official unveiling is right around the corner. We still have no idea what this new device is but the Chinese startup has released another teaser image with the line: “Th

The NFL has had a long and incredibly profitable (mutually so) relationship with television but it looks like even that won’t stop the NFL from embracing modern entertainment. Embrace may not be the best word, more like dabble. Even so, it’s a step forward, and when the Buffalo Bills and

Remember last week when Xiaomi teased an announcement for the successor to its Mi TV line of smart televisions? Well the announcement is here and it’s better than we expected, and we expected quite a lot. There are two versions, both of which are incredibly appealing to the eye and even more s

Cyanogen made headlines a few weeks back by announcing its intention to wrestle control of Android away from Google, a bold claim to say the least. While it may not seem like a small software startup could take a multi-billion dollar technology behemoth’s own operating system away from it, Cya

Metal frames give smartphones a premium feel that plastic simply can’t compete with, that’s why everyone was so excited when leaked screenshots showed that the upcoming LG G4 would feature a metal frame. Unfortunately, that probably won’t be happening due to time constraints and LG

We’ve been hearing about Vessel off and on ever since former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar showed off the new premium streaming service last year. Basically, the service gives you early access to videos that will eventually be posted on YouTube and other sharing sites by popular content creators. It&#8

For decades, centuries even, it’s been common for people to immigrate to the United States in search of opportunities that their home country didn’t offer and, when they became successful, these immigrants would send some of the money they made to the family members that they left behind

The bulk of Amazon’s revenue may come from e-commerce but over the past few years the company has been aggressively expanding its digital content offerings such as movies, music, and television shows. All of this has been bundled into Amazon Prime and, while it started off as more of a cherry

The Americans and, to a lesser extent, the British have garnered most of the attention directed towards government surveillance over the past couple of years but don’t let that distract you from their fellow Anglo nations, such as Canada. Our neighbors to the north have quite an impressive ars

Lets say the American government is interested in spying on you and, while you’re pretty sure the company you’re getting your IT equipment from is safe, Snowden’s leaks revealed that the NSA could very well intercept your equipment before it reaches you can install bugs on it. What

There has been increasing pressure from corporations and organizations to start teaching kids how to code and, while several local and state government have made promising moves toward this goal, it wasn’t until just recently that a state passed a comprehensive law requiring all high schools t

After more than seven years of travelling across the solar system, NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has finally reached the last part of its mission which involves orbiting the dwarf planet Ceres and sending back images and data. Perhaps the most interesting thing about Dawn, however, is that rather tha

Urban heat islands, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is where pollution from tons of people living together in a dense area, such as a major city, causes that area to be hotter than the surrounding area. While fossil fuel-burning cars aren’t the only cause, they’re one of the

The launch of the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge is looking to be Samsung’s biggest smartphone launch to date. According to a Taiwanese research firm, Samsung will sell somewhere around 55 million units of its flagship smartphone this year, quite a bit more than similar estimates from DRAMeXchange. Thi

It doesn’t look like any tech company is safe from the explosion of gender discrimination lawsuits in Silicon Valley right now, not even Twitter. Hot on the heels of Facebook’s own legal issues, Twitter may be facing a lawsuit of its own courtesy of Tina Huang, a former employee who clai

For a decade, the SXSW music festival has offered thousands of tracks from various artists free of DRM. While the method of releasing all of these songs has differed from year to year, SXSW opted to release freely available MP3 files for this year’s festival and left it to the community to con

This year is going to be one of the greatest years for Star Wars fans ever. Not only is the first movie of the new trilogy coming out, EA has confirmed that the highly-anticipated Battlefront video game will be launching for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC later this year as well. Fans of [&hell

HBO is working on a new drama series set in 1980’s Los Angeles and you’ll never guess who it’s partnering with: Snoop Dogg. next to nothing has been revealed about the series aside from the fact that it will follow a family in LA, may be inspired by Snoop Dogg’s own life grow

While many people in the United States are still fighting with local governments to even be able to equip their homes with solar panels in the first place, the French government has now made it a legal requirement that buildings in commercial zones cover their rooftops in either solar panels or gree

Nintendo’s new NX console is now available for pre-order in some areas and people still have no idea what the hell it is. Considering that the device was announces shortly after the company made its plans for the mobile market clear, it would be safe to assume the NX may be some sort of mobile

It’s hard to believe that a minuscule nation, in terms of both size and population, in the Middle East manages to produce more technology startups and draw more venture capital per capita than any other nation in the world, but that’s exactly what Israel does. But how? How the hell does