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HP is looking to fill in every gap in the tablet market, from affordable basic tablets, to high-end business tablets, to gargantuan 12.3-inch monsters. Known as the Pro Slate 12, this massive tablet and its smaller 7.9-inch Pro Slate 8 counterpart both look like over sized versions of the HTC One (M

Snapchat has already managed to accumulate tens of millions of users, now it just needs to start making money off of them. However, while the My Story feature is the best for the app to begin monetizing, AdWeek is reporting that Snapchat is asking for a hefty $750,000 for these My Story advertisemen

Infobar may not be the most recognized line of mobile devices, but its certainly one of the most unique. One thing that makes this brand of smartphones different from the rest is its intense focus on design, combining art and technology into something quite interesting. For its latest device, KDDI h

The FBI was quick to blame North Korea for the recent Sony Pictures hack, and while many people assumed the same thing in the beginning, further investigation by cybersecurity experts found that the FBI’s claims didn’t actually have that solid of a foundation. Even so, the agency stood f

Few game communities have as devoted or passionate of a fan base as World of Warcraft, and Blizzard wants to reward to most devoted and most passionate fans for their loyalty to its insanely popular MMORPG. The company has send out a metal orc statue, a replica of the statue that sits outside of Bli

The list of things you can’t buy on Amazon is pretty small and, as of yesterday, you can take gargantuan mechs off of the list. Looking like something out of a Terminator movie, the robot known as Kuratas is an actual, five ton ridable mech that could be yours for the modest price of over a [&

Fight fire with fire, that’s the idea behind Rapere, a drone that was developed by a team of developers from California. Rapere is a unique kind of drone that doesn’t take readings and measurements or record aerial videos, it’s specially designed to hunt and destroy other drones. N

Bringing high-speed internet to the people has become an important focus for politicians in this day and age, which is why New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a $1 billion plan that he hopes will bring high-spreed internet to every household in the state by 2019, something that he describes

I’m sure by now a lot of you have heard about the OnePlus One by now, the self-described flagship killer that rose to become 2014’s most surprising smartphone success, so surprising in fact, that the startup that made the phone didn’t have the supply to meet the demand. In order to

OnePlus was one of the surprise victors in last year’s smartphone war, and even though the new company is still struggling to meet the massive demand for its OnePlus One, it’s already working on the smartphone’s successor. Referred to as the OnePlus Two by most, this new device is

Danish developer Robocat has launched a new iOS app by the name of By My Eyes that aims to help people with impaired visions “see” what’s in front of them. It does this by live-streaming whatever the smartphone’s camera is aimed at to one of the service’s 700 human help

The Mobile World Congress has traditionally been one of most popular events for smartphone manufacturers to launch their flagships and this year is no different. HTC has started to send out invites for an upcoming event in Barcelona on March 1st, which leads us to believe that the company could be a

Elon Musk has a well earned reputation for being a bold innovator, even over the top at times, but arguably his most ambitious plan to date has been Hyperloop. For those of you who aren’t familiar, Hyperloop is a theoretical rapid transit system that would be able to transport people at speeds

A newly declassified report from the Department of Justice has revealed that the FBI actually had a significant role in the NSA’s email surveillance program. The 231-page study, which was obtained under a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shows us that the FBI started to review the NSA&#8217

It’s no secret that the rise of mobile devices has taken quite a toll on the PC market, so much so that many wondered if the PC was dying. However, a while sales numbers seemed to indicate as much in recent year, a new report from Gartner suggests that the PC market is actually enjoying [&hell

One of the biggest problems we have with data breaches and cyberattacks on corporations nowadays is the fact that, more often than not, the companies in question choose to withhold the fact that they were hacked for months, even years at times. This is an issue that President Obama hopes to address

There was a deadly nitrogen leak at an LG Display factory in South Korea earlier today that resulted in the deaths of at least two people. One of the people was pronounced dead at the scene while another died later in a hospital. At least four other people have been injured while one is in […

In this day and age, pretty much everyone takes selfies, or at least has taken a selfie at some point. While objectively there isn’t anything wrong with this, a new study conducted by the Ohio State University suggests that men who take a lot of selfies actually score higher in narcissism and

Everyone who has ever used earphones understands the frustration of having them fall out. Even the best earphones out there are limited by the fact that not all ears are the same size, and one size fits all isn’t really achievable. This is why Harman came up with a new method of producing earp

It’s hard to imagine that a game such as Texas Hold’em poker would need to be solved, but that’s exactly what the University of Alberta claims to have been done. The popular game gives each player two private cards plus three community cards with a round of betting after each card

Getting woken up by an alarm is probably one of the most jarring and unpleasant experiences, and many people have to deal with it every single day. In order to alleviate some of that unpleasantness and help get your day off to a good start, the Rise and Shine app will only turn your alarm […]

Many people, myself included, have been asking for a Minority Report televisions series since the movie first came out, and now it looks like that might finally be happening. The world is in desperate need of a decent cyberpunk television series and Minority Report has the perfect world to do so wit

Some of the greatest public-private coalition achievements in the world can be found in Singapore, such as Block 71, which is a public co-working space that acts a central startup ecosystem for the city-state and houses somewhere around 250 startups. Now that model is being brought over to San Franc

When it comes to autonomous vehicles, NASA and Nissan feel like they could learn a lot from each other, which is why the two have partnered up for the next five years to develop self-driving technology that could not only be used on Earth, but in space as well. A team composed of scientists from [&h

Despite the fact that China has lifted its blanket ban on foreign video game consoles, companies still need to go through a rigorous approval process if they want to sell their products in the country. While Microsoft has already managed to launch their new Xbox One console in China, Sony hasn&#8217

For the past months, Amazon has been working on a redesign for its website that it not only hopes will be more aesthetically pleasing, but will convince potential customers to buy more products. The visual changes make the website look smoother and less cluttered while also making it easier for user

Big data is an invaluable tool for companies in today’s data-driven markets, but it can be a difficult tool for smaller business to utilize. This is something that Dato, previously known as GraphLab, wants to fix by letting developers build apps that utilize machine learning and artificial int

While the rise of the Internet of Things promises to bring us unparalleled convenience and improvements to our quality of life, the FTC has reminded us that the introduction of all of these connected devices also poses some serious risks to our privacy and security. In order to alleviate the concern

SpaceX sued the US Air Force last year for awarding a near exclusive $11 billion contract to the United Launch Alliance on the grounds that the joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin bribed the USAF into preventing SpaceX from even attempting to bid for the contract. Fortunately, the compa

It’s been a little over a month since Swedish police raided The Pirate Bay’s servers and took the world’s largest torrenting website down, but now the site has returned, and it’s hinting at something big to come. Not too long ago, a counter showed up on the website that was c

All of the atomic clocks in the world will pause for a single second on the midnight between June 30th and July 1st later this year in order to synchronize with the Earth’s rotational time. While adding a leap second definitely isn’t something new, past occurrences have caused some serio

Evidence of Amazon’s failed attempt to enter the smartphone market can be seen every time the company offers insane deals in order to try and get rid of their Fire Phone stock. Amazon has been doing this for a few months now and the latest deal includes am off contract Fire Phone for less than

The OnePlus One was definitely one of the most surprising success stories in the smartphone industry last year, but when you consider the incredibly affordable price of the device and its solid specs, it shouldn’t really be surprising at all. The question is, will OnePlus be able to do the sam

Huawei may be a big name brand in China, but in the states, not very many people would even recognize it, and this is something that the company wants to change. First launched in December of 2013, Huawei’s Honor line of budget smartphones have sold more than 20 million devices and the company

Just 60 seconds before it was supposed to launch for a cargo resupply mission to the ISS, SpaceX aborted the mission for its Falcon 9 rocket. This launch wouldn’t have been SpaceX’s first mission to the ISS, but the return mission would’ve involved an unprecedented attempt at safel

The downloads of more than 30 million people are coordinated by just three BitTorrent trackers at any given moment: OpenBitTorrent, PublicBT, and Istole.it. These three trackers are the largest in the world, and though they’ve been know to experience downtime every now and then, having all of

CES has seen some pretty crazy stunts performed for the sake of generating buzz for new products, but Audi might have taken the cake this year by having its autonomous vehicle concept drive itself from Silicon Valley to Las Vegas, which is where CES is being held. An Audi official will be inside the

Origin PC was one of the first third-party manufacturers to team up with Valve during the Steam Machine craze that promised to take the living room by storm and kill consoles for good, but as many of you are aware, that plan kind of collapsed on itself. Origin PC’s ambitions aren’t dead,

Netatmo wants to take home monitoring to the next level with its connected home camera system that will be compatible with both Android and Android Wear. The system will supposedly be able to recognize the faces of everyone in your household and will be able to inform you which of them is currently

HugOne is one of the numerous devices that have popped up over the last few years that aim to help people achieve a better night’s sleep and monitor their health while they do so. While HugOne doesn’t really bring anything new to the table in terms of functionality, it does target famili