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One of the biggest complaints that people have with Samsung devices is that they come pre-loaded with some truly awful bloatware that isn’t useful and takes up a ridiculous amount of space. This is all going to change with the Galaxy S6, however, and if this recent leak is to be believed, only

Smart locks are an excellent idea: simply use your smartphone to unlock your door rather than having to fumble around with your keys. However, current smart lock offerings aren’t at a price range that most people would consider, such as the $250 August smart lock that made its way to the Apple

It was revealed last week that the GCHQ and the NSA conducted a joint operation that resulted in the theft of thousands of encryption keys from the world’s largest manufacturer of cellphone SIM cards which may have granted the two spy agencies access to the communication information of million

Very little in the way of rumors have been released about Sony’s upcoming Xperia Z4 Tablet, in fact the device hasn’t even been confirmed yet, but Sony may have accidentally given us our first look at the device through its own Xperia Lounge app. Next to nothing is known about the Z4 Tab

The tech world has been abuzz over the long-awaited coming of HTTP/2, but what the hell is that and why is it so great? To lay it out as simply as possible, HTTP has been used for more than a 15 years as a mechanism for your browser to receive data from a server and turn that […]

Reddit has maintained a generally hands-off, neutral approach to regulating the content on the site for nearly a decade. However, as the website continues to grow in popularity, more people than ever before are criticizing Reddit for the oftentimes harmful or immoral content it allows to be posted a

Chegg made more than $200 million last year by renting out printed textbooks to college students but the company’s CEO wants to abandon this clearly lucrative business in favor of a digital model. Inspired by companies like Adobe and Netflix, CEO Dan Rosensweig wants to vastly improve the comp

Roadie is a startup that wants to take on the likes of FedEx and UPS using the power of crowd-sourced shipping. However, there are some safety issues with picking up packages from a strangers house which is why the startup has found an unlikely partner to help provide a safe, neutral pickup area for

Remember back when everyone thought Evan Spiegel was insane for turning down Facebook’s $3 billion offer to acquire Snapchat? Well, I’m sure Spiegel is laughing as he counts the money that Snapchat is reportedly raising right now that will value the company at a whopping $19 billion. Con

The biggest name in PC gaming is delving into the world of virtual reality. Valve has announced that it will be bringing some homemade hardware to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco next week, including the new Steam Controller that has been delayed numerous times, some new living room

As promised, Apple has unveiled a collection of multi-ethnic that will become available sometime in the near future. Whereas emojis have generally been neutral in pretty much everything, from race to sexuality, Apple is spicing things up with this new update and will even be bringing families with s

Passenger safety is a major concern for Uber ever, particularly in India where the company came under heavy fire after a passenger was raped by an Uber driver. While the company released a built-in panic button for its app, it’s taking things a step further by partnering with an app called Saf

The fact that you have to charge your smartphone every day, or multiple times a day for power users, is an annoying chore that pretty much everyone could live without. Many smartphones have a strong enough battery to last you the day, but many don’t, which is why an Israeli startup by the name

Autonomous vehicles are expected to start hitting the road within the next decade or so and automakers are racing to be among the first to release their own self-driving cars. One such company is Volvo which announced last week that it will begin public testing of its own autonomous vehicle with 100

For those of you who aren’t aware, Buzzfeed is a ridiculously popular Internet media company that reports on a variety of topics and is known for its use of viral content. Now the website wants to begin a serious expansion into the world of tech news by building a team of Silicon Valley report

The current console wars may be ongoing but we already know which console lost and perhaps the console that won as well. While the Wii U is the clear loser here, the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One are still fairly even in terms of sales. However, a recent forecast suggests that Sony will have [&hell

Once on of the kings of the Internet, Yahoo has fallen far over the years. CEO Marissa Mayer has promised to turn things around for the company and many analysts are confident that she’ll be able to do so. One of the ways Mayer hopes to do this is by putting an intense amount of focus [&hellip

A group of people who helped build Siri have managed to raise $12.5 million for its new startup, Viv Labs, which hopes to create a new digital assistance that’s much like Siri except that it will be able to teach itself. While the startup didn’t actually need the new capital but was very

A significant portion of the Internet is dedicated to the creation and sharing of memes and one of the most popular resources for that is Imgur. As part of its recent effort to better organize the countless images it hosts, Imgur has announced a new “topics” feature that make it easier t

Individual commercials can be funny from time to time bu the vast majority of the ads that were bombarded with regularly are annoying and almost always get ignored or disregarded. Most of us just spend the couple of minutes during commercial breaks doing something else like checking our phones or wh

Chips are getting faster every year, as they’ve always done, but a team of researchers at MIT claims they may have found a way to make current multi-core chips FAR faster than they are. In a 64-core chip, the researchers supposedly achieved a speed increase of 46% with a power consumption decr

Power grids work much the same way wherever you go and all of them are incredibly wasteful. However, a city in Germany by the name of Mannheim wants to take that fabled German efficiency and apply it to power grid in a program it calls the “Model City of Mannheim.” The program essentially crea

Guessing the products that companies will unveil at big events like MWC 2015 is fun and all but it’s much easier when they start giving us hints as to what we can expect. As for Samsung, the company has released a video of what looks to be the Galaxy S6 hidden in the shadows. The […]

Vint Cerf is widely regarded as one of the fathers of the Internet thanks to his work on ARPANet, the military’s predecessor to the modern Internet. That’s why his words should have more weight when he says that preserving digital information for future generations is incredibly importan

Xiaomi mixed things up a bit with the Mi Note. The Chinese company has become insanely successful by packing as much power a sit can into an affordable handset but with the Mi Note Xiaomi decided to release a comparatively expensive high-end device comparable to the iPhone 6 Plus or Galaxy Note 4. W

Am important but often times overlooked part of Amazon Web Services known as Spot Instances allows you to name your price for using pieces of servers in Amazon’s cloud. A startup by the name of ClusterK has found a way to utilize these instances in away that makes it so that you can run comple

The developers of the original PlayStation actually had to fight with Sony to get the console released. Think about that for a moment, the product that Sony didn’t even really want to release has turned into its breadwinner. That’s not an exaggeration either. Sony CEO Kaz Hirai, who happ

Few business landscapes change as frequently as the technology market does and many of the corporate giants that controlled the market a few years are now struggling to change and remain relevant. One such company is Hewlett-Packard which announced today that it will be selling a new line of network

For those of you who aren’t aware, Asia was awash with celebration last night as hundreds of millions of people gathered to celebrate the Chinese New Year. One of the traditions during this holiday is to give each other gifts and WeChat decided to add a modern twist to the tradition by enablin

Peer-to-peer file-sharing makes up a significant chunk of Internet traffic and there’s not much that ISPs can do legally to stop that, nor should there be. In order to deal with this, AT&T has decided to create what is essentially a dedicated lane for P2P traffic such as BitTorrent that wi

A new store has opened up in Harajuku, the center of youth culture in Tokyo. What’s so special about this store you might ask and how is it relevant on a tech site? Well, the new store is called Line Friends and is owned by Japan’s fastest growing social media giant, Line. The app may fa

HTTP has remained more or less the same since it was released back in 1999 but that’s all about to change. After several years in development, HTTP/2 has finally been approved and is one step closer to being published as a standard, although this could take several months to actually happen. N

As companies continue to search for ways to make smartwatches as essential to people as smartphones, Neptune has found its own solution with the Neptune Duo. As the name implies, the Duo is made up of two separate devices: a hefty wristband that contains all of the hardware you’d normally find

Wi-Fi is kind of weird. I can get perfect connection when I’m on the other side of the house but have terrible connection a room away from the router. I’m not alone in this either, which is why Ethertronics has taken some technology from mobile devices and applied it to Wi-Fi routers in

With all of the pictures your family takes across all of their devices it’s fair to assume you have quite a large collection of photos that are by no means organized. Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Fortunately, Lineage Labs may have a solution that combines local storage, pr

High-end mobile chips are almost always the coolest, thanks to the new and interesting features that they tend to have, and therefore receive the most attention. However, it’s the low-end and midrange hardware that is the most popular in terms of how many are actually shipped which means that,

Sony may bring in a ton of revenue but it still hasn’t been able to bring in much profit which, in the end, is all that really matters. The company’s solution to this comes in the form of a three-year turnaround plan that it believes will enable it to achieve an operating profit of $4.2

PCPartPicker is an essential tool for anyone looking to build their own PC or just wanting to virtually create the dream PC they can’t afford. The website not only gives you a massive list of parts to choose from, it ensures that you get the best deals on all of your parts and that none [&hell

As they seem to do every year, smartphone sales reached record levels in 2014 with more than 1.228 billion units sold, which is a 23% increase from 2013. One of the driving forces behind the increase in smartphone sales is Latin America which saw a 59% increase in sales over the previous year, bring

Every day brings us one step closer to the launch of Project Ara, Google’s modular smartphone that’s still in development. These smartphones will run on interchangeable modules rather than your regular hardware which means that you can simply replace each individual component when you wa