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Valve has established a reputation as a maker of both excellent games and excellent software but its hardware track record is a bit flimsy. By that I mean the company hasn’t actually released any kind of hardware ever. Although inexperience, Valve’s first foray into the hardware world ap

HBO has revealed next to nothing about its upcoming standalone streaming service, all of the information we have now, such as the April release date, has been gathered through leaks. The most recent such leaks have revealed that the service will be called “HBO Now” and will cost subscrib

There were some rumors earlier this year that Etsy is planning to go public some time soon and the company has pretty much just confirmed that this is true by filling out the forms required to begin the process of going public. For those of you who aren’t aware, Etsy is an online marketplace f

While blockbuster games continue to dominate the market, indie games are more important than ever before, certainly important enough that no gaming company wants to miss out on them. The PC has always been and always will be king of indie gaming for many reasons but that doesn’t mean consoles

Remember the YotaPhone, that smartphone that has a standard front-facing display and a second, e-paper display on the back? Well, the successor to that quirky Android-powered smartphone, the YotaPhone 2, could be making its way the United States later this year if its able to raise enough money thro

Apple broke company records with the release of the iPhone 6 and Samsung believes it’s going to do the same thing with the Galaxy S6. While the Galaxy S5 was incredibly popular, it still didn’t manage to outperform the Galaxy S4 but Samsung is confidant that the Galaxy S6 will. One of th

Few companies in the United States have been as vocal about their support of net neutrality as Netflix, probably due to the fact that the company would be affected far more negatively than most if net neutrality laws protection wasn’t put into place. However, Netflix doesn’t seem to find

Many assumed before the next generation of consoles were even released that the PlayStation 4 would take the crown and, if recent numbers are to be believed, that may very well be true. Sony has announced that the PlayStation 4 has, as of March 1, sold more than 20 million units across the globe whi

Among the collection of big announcements that Valve made at the Game Developers Conference yesterday was the Steam Link. This device will work with all Linux, Mac, and Windows PCs as well as Steam Machines and will allow users to stream any content in their Steam library to any other compatible dev

Alibaba is often described as the “Amazon of China” and seems to be doing everything it can to retain that title. Not only is the country a prominent player in the e-commerce market, just like Amazon, it offers cloud computing services to businesses, just like Amazon. However, the compan

Many of the most popular games out there today are running on Source which is why it’s so exciting that Valve has finally announced the successor to its more than a decade old game engine. Little is known about Source 2 aside from the fact that it has been officially confirmed and will be free

Going free-to-play is, rather unfairly, considered a sign that an MMO is dying. World of Warcraft is pretty much the only MMO that has managed to maintain its monthly subscription fee for the entirety of its existence without any permanent price drops. While that hasn’t changed, the MMO has ad

The PlayStation 4 may be dominating the Xbox One in terms of sales but the Xbox One is the clear winner when it comes to support for third-party entertainment apps. Whereas the Xbox One received an official HBO GO app back in November, the PlayStation 4 didn’t receive one until just now. Fortu

One of the most notable things about the unveiling of the Galaxy S6 was Samsung’s inclusion of a dual-edge version of the flagship smartphone, called the Galaxy S6 Edge. Perhaps due to the positive response to this unique smartphone, rumors out of South Korea suggest that Samsung will be doing

From the mouth of founder Carl Pei himself, OnePlus will be unveiling a new product next month and it won’t be a smartphone. The two most likely options are a smartwatch or a tablet but, according to Pei, the device won’t fall into those two categories either. So what could it be? The co

PC gaming has had to overcome some difficulties over the past few years but it has now reached a point where around 75% of game developers say that the PC platform is “very important” for the future of the industry. In fact, many developers said that PC will be the most important platform for the ne

Electric cars are growing in popularity everywhere, including China where numerous companies, many of which had no previous ties to the automotive industry, have been delving into the world of electric vehicles. It has been speculated for a few months that Xiaomi intends to make such an expansion, e

BlackBerry has a secure hold on the market for secure smartphones, if little else, but its looks like Android may come in to take that away from the company as well. The creators of the security-centric Blackphone have unveiled their new phone, uninspiring called the Blackphone 2, which could end up

The NSA has made its dislike of encryption abundantly clear, something made even clearer last week when the agency’s director called for companies to allow the government to insert backdoors into their communications software. With that in mind, I imagine the NSA is going to absolutely loath S

Mobile growth has remained steady in the developed world due to the fact that pretty much everyone already has a mobile device, but things are different in developing nations. These nations are still playing catch-up and with many of them experiencing economic and technological booms, mobile growth

Xiaomi is often called the “Apple of China” because of the similar style that the two have, not to mention how Xiaomi blatantly rips of many of Apple’s products. However, Xiaomi does have a much more diverse line of products than Apple does, including smart televisions and now even

A few major tech websites have managed to get their hands on a Xiaomi Mi Note and have started to release their reviews of the ridiculously popular Chinese smartphone and they’ve all arrived to the same conclusion: it’s an awesome device, too bad you can’t have one. That’s th

After months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has finally taken the wraps off of the highly anticipated Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge. While the two flagship smartphones have virtually identical hardware and both combine metal and glass to give them a more premium feel, they feature two different d

Saying that T-Mobile has been aggressive this past year or two is a gross understatement. The company isn’t just sticking it to AT&T and Verizon with insane deals and offerings, its expanding its own services as well to better compete. In fact, CEO John Legere wants to expand its 4G LTE co

If it’s alright for America to do it than its alright for us to do it. For decades, that’s been how the world works, with America’s actions essentially determining what is and isn’t acceptable for other nations to do. That’s why China figures its OK to require companies

While we can all agree that terrorists need to be eliminated, the kind of role we should play in their elimination is debatable. If you ask Apple CEO Tim Cook, the role of the people is currently and should continue to be very limited, simple as that. As far as Cook is concerned, privacy is [&hellip

Lenovo has been trying to clean up the massive mess that was left behind when the Superfish adware scandal hit, and it’s not doing very well. In order to rebuild people’s trust, the company has promised to cut back on the amount of crap that it installs on its computers. While that&#8217

We live in world that revolves around big data, and its only going to become more dependent on data as time goes by. Even so, the process of buying and selling data is annoying even in the best circumstances, especially real-time data. This is something that a Singaporean startup known as DataStream

A few days ago it was revealed that the GCHQ and NSA had conducted one of their most daring spying operations to date which involved hacking the world’s largest manufacturer of SIM cards and acquiring thousands of the secure encryption keys that protect these cards. While the company, Gemalto,

As with most developing nations, mobile use in Pakistan has been growing at a dizzying pace these past few years with an estimated 100+ million citizens using cell phones. The Pakistani government wants to use this to its advantage and, for what it claims is an effort to avoid another disaster like

Here in the West, many of us complain about how crappy our Internet connection is and how annoyed we are that we have to pay so much for it. In the less fortunate parts of the world, however, people can’t even connect to the Internet at all or, when they can, its barely usable. In […]

The recording industry already has a release day standard, but it varies from country to country. Now, after several months of bickering, the industry has finally adopted a global standard that will see all future albums released on a Friday, a change that will go into effect later in the summer. Cr

Amazon is the undisputed king of the e-commerce market, especially here in the West. However, a new startup known as Jet may be the closest thing to a real competitor that Amazon has seen in a while, especially considering it was founded by a former Amazon executive. The startup’s Insider prog

Spotify’s desktop app is, for me at least, the biggest advantage the service has over its competitors as it allows me to save music to my computer for offline use. Now the app is getting updates with a collection of new features such as the ability to access the lyrics to your favorite songs t

Alien was one of the greatest sci-fi movies ever released, and certainly the greatest space horror film. The sequel, Aliens, was just as good, perhaps even better if you ask me. After the first two, however, things got a bit sour. While the third film was somewhat decent, the fourth film was abysmal

Watching viral videos is now easier than ever thanks to Digg TV, a new mode for the news aggregation service that allows you to create a playlist of Digg videos and watch them back-to-back. Discovery is one of the main focuses of this new mode, which is still in beta, and the Explore feature makes i

BuzzFeed may be getting serious about apps but its most recent app is anything but serious. The app is virtually useless for both the users and BuzzFeed itself, but that doesn’t detract from how amazing it is. Known as Cute or Not, this experimental new app employs a Tinder-esque swiping syste

We’re just a few days away from this year’s Mobile World Congress, the most important mobile event in the world, and VentureBeat has put together a list of the rends we should expect to see at the conference in Barcelona. Such things as the rise of mobile payments and the coming of 5G ne

Some alleged promotional videos for HTC’s highly-anticipated 2015 flagship were leaked earlier this week and responses have been… disappointing. In fact, some fans who been waiting eagerly for the HTC One M9 are holding on to the hope that the “leaked” videos were actually a

More important than the size of an e-commerce company’s product offerings or its prices is how quickly it can deliver those products to customers and for how much. Amazon has always led the market in this regard and wants to maintain that lead with whatever system or technology proves most eff