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It’s funny how in one moment technology can fill me with immense pride in the human race and its accomplishments and, in another moment, it can completely destroy any faith I had in humanity. An example of the latter moment would be the fact that the makers behind the stupidly successful Kim K

For those of you who aren’t aware, Silk Road was an online bazaar for drugs and other illicit products that allowed buyers and sellers to conduct business anonymously using Tor and Bitcoin but was taken down by the FBI in 2013. Since then, a California man by the name of Ross Ulbricht who foun

It seems that the more time goes by the harder it is to remain anonymous on the Internet, particularly in countries such as China. While the Chinese government has been pressuring people to use their real names online for quite some time, it will now be requiring users of certain platforms and servi

Amazon’s Jeff Bezos may have dreamed up a world where drones deliver packages to your door but Alibaba seems to be the company that’s bringing it to reality. The Chinese e-commerce giant will be running a testing phase for the service that will last a couple of days and will deliver a pr

During Take-Two’s investor call, the company revealed that it has managed to sell more than 45 million copies of Grand Theft Auto V since its launch. That’s a ridiculous amount to say the least, especially when you consider the fact that the game hasn’t even been released on the PC

We already know that Samsung is working on the next iteration of its Galaxy Tab tablet line, but recent a report claims that the South Korean company will be dropping the traditional 16:9 aspect ratio that it has traditionally used in its tablets in favor of displays with 4:3 aspect ratio. The repor

Perhaps one of the most used parenting tricks in the modern age is to plop your kid down in front of a screen and leave them to their cartoons or games, essentially locking them in place and freeing you up to do other things. VINCI Education wants to use this as an opportunity to educate your [&hell

As usual, Apple and Google have garnered the majority of the attention regarding smartwatches these past few months despite the fact that Apple hasn’t even released its device yet. Pebble, on the other hand, was one of the first companies to enter the market and has already managed to sell mor

The video game market wouldn’t be what it is today without Asia, particularly China and Japan, which have both influenced the market in a way that no country outside of the United States can boast. Mobile gaming is no exception, as both nations as well as the rest of Asia have shown that they

One of the ways that companies like Facebook and Google are able to make their users OK with the fact that the companies gather vast amounts of data on them is by assuring them that none of this information can be used to identify them. However, even without things like names and addresses, research

Many of us who browse the Internet regularly use extensions like Adblock or some derivative of it to remove all of those annoying ads that would otherwise bombard us at every turn. However, users of Adblock Plus may be upset to learn that Eyeo, the creator of the extension, has excepted payouts from

The Pirate Bay has been reborn after nearly two months of downtime, but there have been some changes. One of the most notable changes s the absence of admins and moderators that, for reasons unknown, the website decided not to employ this time around. This has had the exceedingly annoying effect of

Four years into the drought that’s plaguing the Western US and it doesn’t look like it’ll be stopping anytime soon. Things are so bad, in fact, that there is actually going to be a satellite launched into orbit with the sole purpose of monitoring the drought and giving farmers and

Nintendo hasn’t exactly embraced the world of Let’s Plays and video game streaming. In fact, the Japanese company has actively tried to shut down anyone who releases gameplay footage of its games and has expressed confusion as to why anyone would want to stream games. However, due to the

Steam Workshop is a platform from Valve that allows users to create custom content for the company’s most popular video games and then make money off of it. This platform has already generated more than $57 million for users and a hefty sum of cash for Valve as well which is why the company wi

A significant portion of the Internet is dominated by GIFs, including Reddit, the so-called “front page of the Internet.” The popular image sharing website known as Imgur that actually spawned from Reddit has helped make the sharing of GIFs much easier by offering an unobtrusive, lag-fre

The biggest factor in determining whether a city is a good place to build a startup is how large that city’s talent pool is. An appealing culture, attractive scenery, delicious food, good universities, and all of that stuff is simply the bait that attracts the intelligent, skilled workers that

Similar to YouTube, Vine has become a major entertainment whirlpool where people can get sucked in for hours just watching humorous videos, particularly children who have lots of time on their hands. The problem with this is that much of the content on both of these services is far from appropriate

The increased demand for anonymous messaging and social apps has given birth to many interesting services, such as Secret. While Secret started off as an aesthetically pleasing image-centric app, it has undergone a redesign that emulates the simplistic text-based layout of its more popular competito

China has been gradually opening its doors to video game consoles over the last year or two, having already lifted the blanket ban on such devices, but companies are still limited by the fact that they can only manufacture and operate these devices within the Shanghai Free Trade Zone. According to r

Samsung may not have been the first company to release a phablet, but it was certainly the first company to release a successful one. Similar to when Apple unveiled the iPad, many people laughed at the idea of the Galaxy Note and claimed it was a silly idea. However, as we know now, it was […

Despite the fact that Qualcomm has described its Snapdragon 810 as the mother of all mobile chips, the company has warned that its chip division won’t be pulling in as much revenue as expected to the fact that a “major customer” will not be putting the chip in one of its flagship d

Opera was once a community-driven cutting edge browser that, while still losing out in terms of popularity, was one of the most impressive web browsers out there. In recent years, however, Opera has fallen hard which is why its original founder decided to leave a few years ago. Now he’s back w

While most agree that it’s about time we consolidate the stupid amount of cards that many of us carry in our wallets, there’s some disagreement as to how we should go about doing this. While Apple and Google have been pushing to integrate these cards into our smartphones, Qvivr believes

In just a few short years of existence Xiaomi has managed to achieve a level of fanatic customer loyalty that’s comparable to that of Apple. This can be seen with the fact that the burgeoning Chinese smartphone company managed to sell out its most recent flagship, the Mi Note, in less than thr

Some things never change. While Samsung has promised to change its smartphone business by changing its build quality and improving its software, it looks like the South Korean company will be sticking to its habit of flooding the market with a cacophony of devices. The company is supposedly releasin

Google acquired Waze for nearly a billion dollars back in 2013 so that it could gets its hands on the company’s unique combination of GPS navigation and social communities. One of the features of this service is that it can track the location of police officers in your area and many law enforc

Even with all of the technical advancements that we’ve had in recent years NASA is still decades away from being able to put a human being on Mars. The good news is that the agency is a pro at putting robots on Mars, and with its new partnership with Microsoft, NASA might be able to […]

There have been quite a few HTC One M9 leaks over the last two weeks or so, including a series of images that the leaker claimed depicted the new smartphone. For those of you who were disappointed that the leaked images showed that HTC didn’t deviate much from the One M8 design, you’ll b

It wasn’t too long ago that SpaceX sued the US Air Force for not giving the company a chance to bid for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) program contract, claiming that the USAF accepted bribes from SpaceX’s competitors to prevent the private space company from getting t

Smart cities have been described as one of the best ways that the human race will be able to address the many issues that we’re going to be facing in the coming decades, from climate change to overpopulation, but how can you help make your city “smart”? According to Cisco’s W

Pinterest has been looking at its demographics and has come to the conclusion that it has a serious gender problem: there simply aren’t enough men using the website. A lack of diverse users can prove to be a serious problem when you’re product or service isn’t aimed at a specific d

Tumblr’s community may not be palatable to some, but its creative and occasionally amusing feed does have a certain draw to it that ends up getting me stuck on the website for hours at a time. The company doesn’t want to ruin that draw when it starts putting ads on your feed, which is wh

Everything can be “smart” if you slap a computer on it that will gather and utilize some form of data and that’s exactly what Stir has done with its new $2,990 smart desk. This desk is so smart that it can learn your sitting and standing habits, cool right?! Hell, with features lik

Remember the good old days when you had to hold your phone up to the radio and then wait for the text from Shazam to tell you which song that was? Well the service has come quite a ways in the more than a decade since its launch, and after its latest rounds of funding […]

Button has managed to bring in more than $12 million in new funding in order to help the startup create its digital ecosystem that seeks to help integrate apps. This means that one app using this ecosystem would be able to connect to other apps using the ecosystem. For example, you would be able get

Regardless of how you feel about 4chan, you can’t deny how important the website has been in making the internet what it is today, for better or worse. Founded by 15-year-old Christopher “Moot” Poole back in 2003, the website has since spawned some of the most recognizable memes and jokes on t

Lying is usually not the best option, but it’s pretty much the only way to put an end to then inquiries regarding when you’re going to find yourself a boyfriend or girlfriend. Fortunately, an app by the name of Invisible Boyfriend hopes to make things easier for you by creating fake text

It should be obvious by now that autonomous vehicles are the future of the automotive industry and, while they may not fully replace manual vehicles, will certainly become a popular option, the only question is when. According to Bosch, the automotive supplier has contracts to supply various compone

Last year was an excellent one for Xiaomi, the burgeoning Chinese electronics manufacturer that his risen to become the third largest smartphone maker in the world, with more than 60 million sales. Now the company is looking to take things to the next level with even more expansion and growth, both