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Following a merger back in 2012, two of China’s top video-sharing websites, Youku and Tudou, merged into a single company. Known as Youku Tudou, the company still operates both websites seperately but combines the date from the two as if they were a single website and according to that data, t

Losing your phone is one of those problems that everyone has experienced, and it sucks. Calling your phone with another phone to try and find it only works of the ringer is on and the tools that Apple, Google, and Microsoft have in place to find missing phones require you to hop on your computer. [&

The problem with more people turning to the Internet to stream movies and television shows is that it adds a significant amount of traffic to the already contested thoroughfare that the public Internet uses. Considering how HBO, Showtime, and Sony are all invested in online media streaming, it shoul

Popcorn Time has been around for a little over a year and to call the service a hit would be an understatement. Commonly referred to as “Netflix for Pirates,” the service allows users to stream movies and television shows without having to pay a cent, similar to pirating them except that

As lucrative as a market as China is, it can be difficult for Western companies to actually establish a foothold in the country. Yahoo is the latest such company to call it quits in China and has announced that it will be shutting down its research center in Beijing and lay off hundreds of its [&hel

If ever there was s poetic symbol of an industry’s death, it would be the fact that Uber cars now outnumber yellow cabs in the de facto capital of yellow cabs: New York City. Uber now had more than 14,000 standard and luxury cars on the streets of the Big Apple after less than four […]

Sony announced that its PlayStation Vue streaming service would be coming to the United States not too long ago and now we have a clear look at how much the service will cost and what will come with it. The company already has several major networks on board and dozens of channels, all of which will

More than 90% of the people in China have a mobile phone which means that, with a population of just under 1.4 billion, the number of mobile users in China is somewhere around 1.29 billion. That shows just how quickly mobile use is growing in the nation, but the most impressive growth is with mobile

Solar power may be one of the most promising forms of renewable energy but the fact remains that the solar farms that generate all of this electricity are sprawling masses of solar arrays that take up tons of open space, especially when compared to far more compact coal and gas power plants. The mos

Great news OnePlus One owners, we now have an official release date for when Android 5.0 Lollipop will be coming to the smartphone. Updates that will bring either CyanogenMod 12S or the first official release of the OxygenOS that OnePlus has been working on will be released sometime before March 30.

It’s been well over a year since the world’s most popular online black market, Silk Road, was taken down by law enforcement and, in its absence, several websites have been trying to claim its throne. A website by the name of Evolution looked to be the winner and was the de facto king of

It’s one thing to create a good product that people like but it’s another to provide those people with the kind of after-sales service that makes them confident that you’re a company that has their best interest at heart and makes them continue to purchase your products. According

Elon Musk has made some wild claims and predictions over the years and, while it’s safe to say that he’s quite a bit smarter than most of us, some of them are pretty hard to swallow. His latest prediction is that autonomous cars will not only come to dominate the auto industry, which is

With $367 million in new funding and a valuation of around $11 billion, Pinterest is now one of the most valuable venture capital-backed startups in the world. The social discovery and visual bookmarking site confirmed the financing on Monday and even expressed its desire to raise an additional $211

Meerkat looks to be one of the next big apps and, despite the fact that Twitter seems to want to kill the app in the womb, CEO Ben Rubin is confident that Meerkat will continue its impressive level of success. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Meerkat enables users to stream live videos fr

If you’ve been even remotely keeping up with the tech world this week then you’ve probably heard about the new Meerkat app. Even so, you may not really have a good idea of what it is so allow me to explain. First of all, there’s a good chance that the app is already dead thanks to

A profile has been popping on Tinder this week for users in Austin. Many of the attendees of the SXSW festival in Austin came across an attractive 25-year-old woman named Ava on the dating app and, after a brief but interesting conversation, it was revealed that the person was actually an AI. The pr

BlackBerry hasn’t delved into the world of tablets ever since the debacle that was the PlayBook but now the company has decided to give it another shot. To say that BlackBerry has developed a new tablet, however, isn’t exactly true. Rather, the company has teamed up with IBM to create an

Jason Larke is an Australian man who works as an electrical contractor in remote Queensland, a job which requires him to work away from home for weeks at a time. This means that Larke wasn’t able to be with his wife when she gave birth to their third child but, thanks to Samsung’s Gear V

A newly discovered NSA cyber espionage program was revealed by researchers earlier this week which involves the agency installing malware in hardware firmaware. As serious as this is, the list of websites that the malware uses to send information back to the NSA is actually kind of amusing. Ran

Despite being one of the most beloved and popular television shows of all time, Seinfeld has been conspicuously absent from legal streaming services such as Hulu and Netflix, which is especially strange considering sitcoms are some of the most bingable shows out there. That’s all going to chan

Barbie has had her fair share of controversies but this may be the first time that the popular children’s toy has been accused of spying. Mattel’s new “Hello Barbie” doll is designed so that it sends recordings of what children say to her to the cloud where voice detection te

Considering that California is one of the world leaders in solar power it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the state is behind a new plan to build a massive solar array on top of wastewater ponds. The project, which will be built in California’s Wine Country, will be built across six lo

Square Order hasn’t even been around for a year yet and Square is already shutting it down. The service enabled users to order and pay for their food before they even arrived at a restaurant which, while an excellent way to save time, wasn’t as successful as Square would have liked. The

Remember a few weeks ago when China figured that if the United States could pressure technology companies to install backdoors in their products for the government to access user data then so could they? Apparently that’s changed and now China has backed away from that legal push, perhaps as a

According to OpenSignal most recent State of LTE report, T-Mobile has the fastest 4G LTE network in the United States with an average of 10Mbps while Verizon was the leader in terms of coverage with 86% of the population covered. On the global playing field, Spain’s Vodafone ES came in with an

Have you ever said something to Siri that you wouldn’t want other people knowing about? Or how about this, do not want anyone listening to what you say to Siri regardless of what it is that’s said? If the answer is yes then you’ll probably be upset to learn that Apple sends anonymi

We’re on step closer to achieving wireless charging, and I mean true wireless charging, the kind where your smartphone can be anywhere in the room and still be getting juice, thanks to researchers at the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. Scientists there have successfully transmitted 1.8

Cable television is dying and there aren’t very many people who are going to mourn its passing. In fact, most of us are probably laughing as it writhes on the ground while Amazon Prime, Hulu Plus, and Netflix continue to beat the living crap out of it. That metaphor isn’t too far from th

Xiaomi announced the Mi Note and Mi Note Pro a couple of months ago but the announcement of the successor to the ever-popular Mi 4 has yet to be made. That doesn’t mean that the flagship smartphone, most likely called the Mi 5, won’t be launching this year because, according to GizmoChin

When you hear about wargames you probably picture dozens, hundreds, even thousands of armed soldiers and military vehicles fighting mock battles. While all of this still happens, a new kind of wargames has become common, one which involves throwing a bunch of tech experts together and give them a cy

China has been experiencing a startup boom over the past couple of years thanks to how easy it is for these companies to secures series A and series B funding. However, reaching the almighty series C round may prove to be much, much harder. According to Chinese venture capitalist Ran Wang, hundreds

Live television has undergone a rapid change over the past few years thanks to social media. Whereas people once used commercial breaks to talk to whomever they’re watching the show with about what happened, more and more people are whipping out there smartphones and using services like Facebo

Knowing how long we have to wait for Star Wars is almost as bad as not knowing how long we have to wait. According to Disney CEO Bob Iger, the eighth film in the main series will be released in May of 2017 while the first spin-off film in the series, Rogue One, will begin shooting […]

Those of you who have been considering buying a Roku might want to hold off for a bit. According to a new filing spotted at the FCC, Roku could be coming out with two new devices that doesn’t seem to differ much from the company’s current offering but look to be cheaper that Roku’s flags

The entertainment industry put a lot of pressure on MasterCard and Visa, which in turn put a lot of pressure on PayPal, to cut off payments to “shadowy” file-storage sites such as Mega in response to a report from the Digital Citizens Alliance and NetNames last year. This was a massive blow to Mega,

Cord cutting is easier than ever thanks all of the streaming services out there, but which of these services do American’s use the most? According to Nielsen, Netflix is the king of streaming by a long shot, unsurprisingly, with around 36% of all households in the United States subscribing to

Swarm had an interesting and potentially successful idea with its location-based social network. The app allowed users to post ideas for what to do that day, such as going to a bar or just hanging out, which was cool and all but there was no way to filter certain people out. That meant that you&#821

Online television is becoming really big in the United States and everyone wants in on the action, including Sony. According to Sony executive Andrew House, the company will be launching the service, known as PlayStation Vue, within two weeks in three major American cities: Chicago, New York, and Ph

I say a silent prayer of thanks every time I see how popular flat design has become in modern interface. As great as this minimalist design language is, however, many people seem to think that it has far more power than it really does. While aesthetically pleasing and simple, flat design isn’t