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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

Utah was the site of the first test of the world’s largest solid rocket booster today, a test which proved successful. NASA will be using the information it gathered from this test to ensure that one of its largest and most ambitious programs to date will be able to carry humans to Mars, or pe

The HTC One M9 looks great and all but those of us with a taste for bigger phones will be more excited by the recently leaked HTC One E9. We have next to no information about the device aside from a picture and a 5.5-inch display. According to Upleaks, HTC’s unannounced phablet will come equip

The decline of digital music sales may have been a surprise to many, although it shouldn’t when you look at how popular streaming services are, but the revitalization of the vinyl market was the music industry’s biggest surprise of 2014. But what’s driving this revitalization? Well

In the age of the millennial, things have to be a little weird to get some attention. Couple the weirdness with a generally low starting salary of the typical millennial, and marketing becomes somewhat challenging. For a typical car manufacturer, sleek lines and stylish design equal massive sales to elder generations, but is this the best way to market to the millennial? For the Gen Y crowd, quirkiness is key, and auto makers are catering to those needs.

The solar industry has been exploding in the United States over the past few years and with millions of dollars in investment and tons of new jobs being created as a result, that doesn’t appear to be changing anytime soon. In fact, market analysis firm GTM Research has found that last year was

DisplayMate is know for running extensive testing on smartphone displays and providing ridiculous amount of detail on their performance with measurements that most of us wouldn’t even know how to read. That’s why when Raymond Soneira, the president of DisplayMate, says that Samsung&#8217

The principles of net neutrality may have been preserved in the United States but that doesn’t mean the nation’s internet isn’t broken still. While things aren’t nearly as bad as elsewhere in the world, the state of the internet in America is something that we should be asham

For the past few months, NASA has been working on a plan an air traffic control system for drones that will ensure that the autonomous flying machines don’t crash into things. That plan has now expanded to include a system that will make it so that people can fly drones remotely as well and Ex

Remember back before the PS4 had even launched when Sony was talking about how cool the console’s “Rest Mode” feature will be? Yeah, that didn’t happen, but the company has promised to implement it in an update. Unfortunately, Sony is ridiculously slow at rolling out updates

It has been less than a week since Twitter opened an office in Jakarta but the social network is already taking the next step in its Asian expansion, this time by opening an office in Hog King. According to the company, the people working in this office will focus on forming relationships with adver

Samsung’s music streaming service, Milk Music, has been around for a few years now but has always been exclusive to the company’s own Galaxy line of smartphones and tablets as well as its Smart TVs. Now the company is finally bringing the service to other platforms starting with web brow

It’s always comforting to see how unqualified the people who control your country are for their positions. The latest instance of this is with Senator Lindsey Graham who, in his own words, has literally never sent an email in his life. Keep in mind that this man is a member of the Senate Subco

Last year saw Xiaomi truly establishing itself as one of the top dogs in the smartphone market and the burgeoning Chinese company wants to take things even further this year. Despite having little presence outside of China and a few surrounding countries, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun claims that his company i

Not every tech company can say that its received funding from a royal family but, if news that CEO Evan Spiegel met with Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal earlier this month is any indication, Snapchat may soon be one of the few major tech companies to be able to boast that. One of the things

Opera was originally intended to be a web browser for power users but has since become watered down and abandoned many of the things that separated it from the likes of Chrome and Firefox. Now the man behind Opera is back and he wants to do things right this time with a new web browser […]

One of the biggest complaints people have with the Galaxy S6 is that there’s no way to swap out the battery as easily as its predecessors. The reason for this is that previous devices in the Galaxy S line had plastic backs that could easily be removed which allowed users to access the battery

In today’s world, wars are fought just as much with posts and tweets as they are with bombs and guns, and ISIS has an army of at least 46,000 Twitter accounts helping it fight these online battles. The study which arrived at this number suggested that there could be as many as 70,000 active IS

Technology has come a long way over the years and has allowed us to view our sports from almost every angle. However, a Spanish startup by the name of First V1sion doesn’t think “almost” is enough and wants to take things to the next level by letting you see that game as the player

The new “sharing economy” has been talked about quite a lot over the past year or two, with many experts highlighting the many benefits of it and some claiming that it has the potential to benefit people with lower incomes especially. In order to see whether this was true or not, researc

We’ve already established that Valve’s highly-anticipated Steam Machines will finally be hitting the market this November, but what will the offerings look like? The best part about Steam Machines is that, like all gaming PCs and unlike consoles, the offerings are incredibly diverse in b

Those of you who want to take app consolidation on iOS to the next level will be happy to learn that there’s actually a way to put folders inside other folders. It’s not an actual feature, more like an exploit, but it isn’t hurting anyone so Apple hasn’t felt the need to &#82

A new app called Appeer has popped up on the Google Play Store that helps you find apps that you’ll want, or will probably want. The app takes the information it has learned about you to determine what your tastes are and then compares it to people with similar tastes to recommend apps that it

Amazon may be the king of e-commerce in the West but Alibaba rules over the Chinese market and Amazon has been struggling to compete. The company’s latest move to expand in China could be seen as either an admission of defeat or a clever business move, depending on who you ask. If you ask me,

The problem with virtual reality at the moment is that tons of companies are showing off their new virtual reality headsets but it’s pretty much impossible for regular consumers to get their hands on most of them. Even when these headsets to become readily available, how many people are going

Remember that awesome real-time lyrics feature that Spotify added to its desktop app a few days ago? Apparently there could be some legal issues surrounding this move, at least, that’s what the American karaoke industry believes. The potential legal issues are a little complicated and PCWorld

HTC’s reputation has gotten quite a boost over the past year or so thanks to its impressive flagship smartphones and its creative accessories, such as its Dot View cases. These cases use small dots to display the time and various notifications using cool 8-bit like designs. As interesting as t

Amazon Game Studios has some solid mobile games but they’re exclusive to Amazon devices. Considering how pretty much nobody bought the Fire Phone and the company’s tablet line isn’t nearly popular enough to warrant exclusivity, Amazon has finally come to the conclusion that it shou

Sony’s most recent virtual reality headset prototype is hardly a prototype at all. While the company is still making a few improvements before the final release, it could easily release the product in its current form. The biggest problem, as with all virtual reality gaming headsets at the mom

Payments apps have bee exploding in popularity in recent months, thanks to Apple Pay, but an app by the name of Glassjar is doing something a bit different. Founded by a couple of New Zealanders and aimed at the American market, this app focuses specifically on shared payments, meaning a payments th

Little has been seen of webOS since LG acquired it from HP, aside from a few smart televisions. However, the dead-ish operating system has finally appeared in a device that people actually (somewhat) give a crap about: smartwatches. What’s more is that it actually looks pretty impressive and c

A recent report from Bloomberg shows, to the surprise of no one, that American technology companies are storing hundreds of billions of dollar overseas to avoid paying taxes. The top 8 tech companies in the United States alone have a combined total of $420 billion stored in overseas bank accounts wi

Cheaper is always better, especially for things you pay for regularly, like transportation. That’s why Lyft has introduced a new kind of discounted option for it ride-sharing service, known as Lyft HotSpots, in its home city of San Francisco. Anyone who orders a Lyft Line in one of these desig

Music is great and all but it’s never a good idea to put all of your eggs in one basket. That’s why Shazam, the company behind the app that identifies the music you’re listening to, is looking to diversify its offerings and expand outside of the music world. One of the ways the com

If law enforcement wants to get its hands on someone’s past cellphone location data, they’ll need to get their hands on a warrant. This is due to a recent ruling by a federal judge in California which has been regarded as a major win for privacy by digital rights activists. As it stands,