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The biggest issue with noise-cancelling headphones is the same as their biggest advantage: they’re noise-cancelling. While this can be exceptionally useful when you want to focus on listening to one thing, it can be annoying when you want to hear someone talking to you, or even hear yourself s

Due to complex licensing agreements, it’s difficult for Netflix to expand outside of the few dozen countries that it currently operates in, and even then, those countries each have very different content libraries. Unsurprisingly, users from the US have access to the most content, which is so

Despite all of the talk about the death of PCs and the rise of mobile, PC gaming is still going strong, very strong actually. Steam, by far the most popular digital distribution service for video games on PCs, reached 8.5 concurrent users at the start of the year, a massive increase from the year pr

Huawei may have fallen short of its goal to ship 80 million smartphones in 2014, but considering how the Chinese electronics giant managed to rake in $46 billion in revenue, I doubt that any at Huawei is very upset right now. As with many Chinese electronics companies, Huawei has been experiencing e

There’re plenty of connected coffee makers out there, but none of them can truly be called “smart,” which is something that Smarter’s new Wi-Fi Coffee Machine hopes to change. This coffee maker can begin remotely making you a cup, a few cups, or a whole pot using commands fro

I’m sure many of us have been on the receiving end or, God forbid, the giving end of embarrassing drunk texts, but there’s a new app out there that hopes to make those a thing of the past. Unlike the ephemeral nature of services like Snapchat, the app known as Strings only deletes messag

Last year’s iCloud hack was certainly one of more infamous events in Internet history, and now it looks like 2015 might have a similar event. A hacker known as Pr0x13 has released a new tool on GitHub that it call “iDict” and claims is capable of bypassing the restrictions and auth

I’m sure many of you had to endure the cyberattack that took down the PlayStation Network for most of the holidays. The outage, which was supposedly caused by a DDoS attack, kept many PS3 and PS4 owners from being able to access online services such as the PlayStation Store and multiplayer for

Montblanc has established its reputation as a provider of expensive, high-quality products such as pens and watches and, like most luxury watch makers, the company has been trying to find a way to compete with the increasing popular smartwatches that tech companies are releasing. While most of these

The number 1.26 billion might not seem like a small number, but that’s the smallest that movie theater ticket sales have been since 1995, where the number was around 1.21 billion. While many would say that the rise of piracy and legitimate online streaming services may have taken a bite out of

Twitter announced back in November that it intends to boost user engagement with a plethora of new features. One of those promised features, a “While you were away” recap of all of the tweets that you missed while you were AFK, appears to have started rolling out to a bunch of users. Whi

The main page for The Pirate Bay, the most popular file-sharing website on the planet, has been updated once again, this time with a countdown to February 1. The website went down on December 9 after local law enforcement officers raided the site of its servers. The website went back up a short time

The US Supreme Court is notorious for sticking to antiquated methods and traditions, such as not allowing cameras in the court rooms or wearing those silly eighteenth century robes. Fortunately, the court is willingly to accept some changes every now and again, with the most recent being that the co

Tor is one of the most invaluable anonymity tools out there today, something that even the NSA will admit to. Often times this tool is used to access questionable or even illegal content and services. While various drug forums and contraband markets make up the majority of the websites accessed thro

In the early part of 2014, momentum was strong for the rise of bitcoin as a mainstream form of currency. Complications and conspiracies slowed the buzz...

It wasn’t that long ago that CD players replaced cassette players as the standard personal media playing device for cars, but now the time has come for CD players to be replaced. Hyundai Motors recently unveiled its advanced new infotainment system that will be implemented into the South Korea

Elon Musk gets a lot of attention for potentially revolutionizing the automotive industry with Tesla Motors, but SpaceX is Musk’s truly revolutionary company. SpaceX was founded with the goal of making space travel more feasible, and one of the ways the company wants to do that is by creating

Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest, laid out plans last year for how he intends to monetize the popular web service. As part of a beta program for this plan, a select few advertisers were allowed to put their promoted pins in search results and category feeds. A little more than a year later, Pint

The OnePlus One was one of the most coveted smartphones of 2014 due to its universally good reviews and near constant lack of supply, and with 2015 right around the corner, rumors of a successor to the popular device are starting to pop up. Even though the company hasn’t even announced such a

Although Xiaomi is only a few years old, the Chinese company has quickly risen to become not only the third largest smartphone manufacturer on the planet (behind Apple and Samsung), but the most valuable tech startup in the world. The company recently announced that it had raised and unprecedented $

It’s been a couple of weeks since police officers in Sweden raided the offices that housed The Pirate Bay’s servers and took the website offline. In response to this, the people over at IsoHunt decided to release The Open Bay, a project that essentially allows anyone to run their own ver

The various Snowden revelations that have been trickling out for a couple of years now all point to the same conclusion: digital spying is a major priority of the NSA and other government agencies. While the majority of the public is well aware of this and have major concerns over it, we may not eve

Despite an ongoing hacking scandal and a launch that was canceled and only recently rescheduled, The Interview has managed to rake in $15 million since its online debut on Wednesday. The film’s sales numbers were revealed in an official statement from Sony released on Sunday. “Through Sa

Lizard Squad, a hacker group, has been pretty busy over Christmas. First it knocked down PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, bringing online gaming on PlayStation and Xbox consoles to a standstill, and then set its sights on an anonymity network called Tor. Lizard Squad shifted its focus over the wee

You would think that your fingerprints are pretty secure. After all unless someone went through all the effort to lift your prints from objects that you have touched, there’s no where else that someone else could get their hands on them, save for forcing you to give it to them. Well unfortunately it

The rumors about the Huawei Ascend P8 have been making rounds in the tech news for a while already. First, there was a talk about the next device to don the company’s signature thin body design built around a metal chassis. Additional rumors indicated that the next flagship from the Honor 6 Pl

Since it was unveiled in February 2013, Oppo’s Find 5 has been running versions of their ColorOS based on Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean. The release of KitKat in October of 2013 has had Find 5 owners waiting anxiously for a 4.4-based version of ColorOS on their devices. The presence of ColorOS 2.0, based

Samsung has released a new app that helps people with autism establish eye contact. According to statistics, one in 68 children in the U.S. have autism spectrum disorder, or ASD. Some of the symptoms of the condition include poor eye contact and social skills. Samsung’s new app aims to treat these s

According to a report out of the Netherlands, Samsung is working on a 10-inch Galaxy Tab 5 tablet. It appears that major tablet manufacturers are moving ahead to larger screened slates. Apple is said to be rolling a 12-inch iPad Pro slab off of the assembly line during the second quarter, while Sony

Next week supporters of Alexei Navalny, a lawyer and anti-corruption crusader currently under house arrest in Russia, are planning a rally that the Kremlin would really rather not happen. So, to that end, the government has begun issuing block orders to the likes of Twitter, Facebook and Google to k

Getting to Mars is never going to be cheap. But a couple of mathematicians have figured out how to shave some significant bucks off the price tag. Rather than fly to the red planet when it’s orbit brings it closest, the craft will “meet” it on the way. The strategy is called ballis

If you’re worn out from all your holiday shopping lately, perhaps you can take a minute or so to recoup by learning about everything else that everyone picked up. Online retail giant Amazon just released a number of facts about the shopping trends of its customers this year—leading off, of cou

We do know that the next version of the Samsung Galaxy S series would have arrived at the half dozen figure – that is, the Samsung Galaxy S6. I am quite sure that between now and the rumored early 2015 release date, there will be many opportunities to read about upcoming leaks of the handset, [&hell

Redmond biotech company Cerevast Therapeutics has raised $10 million as it continues to test a headset it hopes will one day be used to treat stroke patients. That brings the company’s total fundraising up to nearly $32.5 million, according to company CEO Bradford Zakes. The company was formed

There have been rumors in the past that Nintendo is working on a successor to the Wii U system, a console which hasn’t been doing particularly well as of late. The rumors suggested that the company was working on a brand new system which has since been denied, although if a recent statement by Ninte

HBO’s Game of Thrones is probably one of the biggest hits on TV these days. In fact last year we had heard that the TV show was a top torrent download but with 2014 bringing us new TV shows to watch, did Game of Thrones lose its steam? Hardly. According to a report from TorrentFreak, […]

Prior to the launch of the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, there were many rumors suggesting that Apple could launch these new phones with sapphire displays, but safe to say that did not happen. Apple was later beaten to the punch by Kyocera and now if the rumors are to be believed, Apple could once […]

It does look as though when it comes to the year 2014 among tech companies in the U.S., T-Mobile has experienced a far more remarkable year than the rest of the pack – at least this is what CNN reported. T-Mobile did their fair share of actions in 2014, thanks to its “Un-carrier” marketing push that

While I am quite sure that many of us have already opened up all of the present that were placed under the tree for the past week or so, how many of them happen to be a smartphone? BLU Products intends to take the Samsung route it seems – that is, to release as many […]

This year Xiaomi ventured outside of its home market, China, and into India. For many months now, it’s been holding pretty much weekly flash sales in partnership with Flipkart, the biggest retailer in the subcontinent. And apparently those have been going quite well. Xiaomi’s boss for In