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Yahoo went on a tear last spring, closing down more than a dozen underperforming services as part of a broader streamlining effort to focus on core products. Over the past year, the Internet pioneer has continued to evaluate some of their less popular products and is once again performing a cleanup

Verizon may finally be adding LTE to its prepaid services, according to the folks at Droid Life. This change would will reportedly take effect on July 17th and the carrier will offer this new service through its ALLSET prepaid plans that include unlimited talk, text and 500MB of date for $45 a month

Netflix offers more top movies than any of its subscription streaming rivals, according to new analysis from Piper Jaffray. Variety highlights that the company’s lineup includes 10 of 2013’s 50 best box office performers. For comparison, Amazon Prime Instant Video has just three. “

The connected car is shifting into high gear, and the Linux Foundation wants an open-source platform in the pole position. The non-profit consortium recently announced the debut of Automotive Grade Linux, a customizable, open-source automotive software stack with Linux at its core. There have been L

The battlefield could prove to be a place where valiant men prove their valor as well as bravery, but there are also moments where the loss of limb, and perhaps life, occurs. Defusing bombs can be one of the more heart stopping duties that one has to undertake when one joins a certain department in

TeleSign has today announced that Australia’s Telstra has made a strategic investment in the company. TeleSign has pioneered Mobile Identity by creating mobile phone-based verification tools for online accounts. Many of the world’s largest companies use TeleSign to manage and maintain th

After shutting down its in-house book and music services, Samsung is closing the company’s Video and Media Hub, which hasn’t been able to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon and Google. This change in Samsung’s US content strategy was first signaled in April when the company announced a deal w

Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard. At some point next year, we will start seeing the first WiGig chipsets in smartphones and other mobile devices, said Tal Tamir, former

Amazon is refusing to comply with a request from the Federal Trade Commission to implement stricter controls that would prevent children from making in-app purchases. The FTC is demanding Amazon implement a “consent” model similar to the one Apple conceded to earlier this year, according to a letter

If you’re like me and love the many benefits that a plasma television affords then you’ve probably noticed that such sets are getting harder and harder to find. Panasonic halted its plasma television production late last year and today we’ve learned that Samsung is doing the same.

The CyanogenMod ROM has arrived on a couple of new devices as the nightly version of the platform has landed on the HTC One Max and the Oppo Find 7. The Oppo Find 7 has started shipping recently and the quad core smartphone is an upgrade to the original Find 7a, a smartphone that already […]

OnePlus is having a hard enough time shipping the OnePlus One smartphone but now it appears that the company is also building a tablet. The device name was spilled by Evleaks, which published an image of the OnePlus website that refers to the device as the “OnePlus Tab.” OnePlus made its name by cra

You’ve just caught the “red-eye” flight home. The baby in the next row screamed all of the way, your in-flight meal was awful, and you’re beyond tired. You drag yourself off the plane and schlep your heavy baggage over to the car park only to realize that you’ve forgotten whe

It’s easy to spend an inordinate amount of time on the internet, and understandably parents would rather their children didn’t grow up permanently glued to a screen. Stripping their hands of tablets and computers is one way to impose down-time, or you can go the positive reinforcement ro

One of the appeals of a Polaroid camera was the fact that you could get your photos printed straightaway. There was a certainly novelty about holding your photo in your hand right after you took it, although with smartphones and digital cameras, we can see our results instantly. Lomography recently

Back in the day, getting good at sports simply meant keeping at it until you got better. Or you could hire a coach. However nowadays thanks to technology, we can use it to improve our game via smartphone apps, sensors, and so on. Now if you’re particularly interested in boxing, you might be interest

They say less is more, unless “they” is Samsung, in which case more is more, and anything less is, er, less… more? Chinese manufacturer Lenovo appears to like the cut of Samsung’s jib, and taking a page out of the How to Become the World’s Number One Mobile Manufacturer handbook, ultimately aims to

In a thread on NeoGAF, attention was drawn to the peak on Sunday, bringing with it the importance of the number. Previously, the record for the simultaneous connections went to the 2013 winter sale. As a Gamespot poster indicated, the peak on December 26 broke 7.5 million. Polygon reports 7 million

The PlayStation 4’s DualShock 4 controller just scored a bit of additional functionality, at least for those who own a PlayStation 3 — wireless support on the older generation console. The news surfaced by way of Reddit user shafiggy16, who posted the update on the /r/PS3 subreddit. The

The deal breaker with so many smart home systems is tech support: When the thermostat doesn’t work, is it a problem with the home network, the home automation system, the furnace or the thermostat itself? Wink, the newly spun-off division of GE-backed Quirky, thinks it has tech support nailed. No on

Dropbox for Business customers can start using a new option if they wish to share their work with colleagues, but don’t trust them enough to not mess up the files within. Beginning today, customers can mark their folders as “view-only” to users, allowing those they share with to vi

Looking to build a 21st century DIY media empire? The rags-to-not-yet-riches story of Jawn McQuade and Mike Stone, the co-founders of MakersKit may have written the instruction manual. Launched in February last year, the company has already raised $1.5 million in seed financing, inked distribution a

An independent study commissioned by Samsung found that working conditions at suppliers in China are pretty horrendous—they’ve been that way for awhile now. The sustainability report shows that many issues still persist; 100 suppliers were investigated, and 59 failed. That’s a pretty high failure ra

Tinder, the iOS App Store’s fastest-growing dating app, set itself apart from the online dating competition in early 2013 by combining the personality-algorithm matching of OKCupid with GPS functionality, allowing users to comb through eligible, interested singles faster than ever before. Yest

Dropbox has made another acquisition: Predictive Edge, a startup that had built a way to personalize e-commerce offerings, along with dynamic pricing, for marketers to send out to users and run A/B tests around them. The service will be shut down, and the founders will be working on something differ

Businesses using Frontier Communications for their voice calling needs will now be able to send and receive texts with consumers thanks to a new partnership with a Seattle startup. Zipwhip today announced a new deal with Frontier that will add texting capabilities for businesses that want another wa

In another example of why Bitcoin is probably best for online transactions, the mercurial PayPal has shut down ProtonMail’s account, freezing $270,000 in limbo until “questions” are “answered” regarding the cash. PayPal is quite good at shutting down popular funding efforts including, most notably,

It was only some time ago that Sammy had announced that it would bring to our midst a Tizen-powered Samsung Z smartphone. We now hear that the company might bring in a new Galaxy S5 handset too which will be powered by Tizen. We have been hearing bits and pieces of info with regard to […]

A video promo claims the website will be a socially acceptable place to talk using pictures of salsa dancers, eggplants, or poop… depending on your mood. It was bound to happen sooner or later. Two British Internet personalities have announced the creation of Emojli, a social network that allows peo

Look out, Netflix: Yahoo just played a card that probably should’ve been yours. They’re bringing back Community. After its sudden cancellation crushed fans back in May, whispers started going around that Community would turn to the web for its sixth season. Sure enough, Yahoo, series creator Dan Har

As much as we’d like to be good at every single video game out there, there are just some gamers who are naturally better at certain types of games, whether it be RPGs, RTS, FPS, and so on. Of course practice makes perfect but if you’d like to get better at games like League of […]

Ouya recently launched an All-Access Pass in which buyers can gain access to more than 800 titles for the price of a typical console game. The package will let gamers play any qualifying title for the next 12 months but if you want in, you’d better act fast. According to a statement on the mat

Hoping to simplify life for system administrators, CoreOS has launched a commercial Linux distribution that continually updates itself, eliminating the need to perform major upgrades. CoreOS is offering its namesake Linux distribution as a commercial service, starting at $100 a month. “Businesses to

One of the biggest problems with printing human meat was the creation of blood vessels and ventricles. Making a solid mass of flesh was easy but adding a way to pump blood and other nutrients through the flesh was more difficult. Now researchers at the University of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT

Farming is long and hard work, but it can be rewarding too, especially when you take into consideration that you know what exactly you are eating. Not only that, it gives you a greater appreciation of nature, but why not enlist the help of technology to increase yield and efficiency on the farm? Wha

It looks like Twitter’s leaked “Buy Now” button is more than just a proposal, after all. Recode has spotted the button lurking in tweets seen from the mobile app, enticing people into making impulse purchases when browsing their social feeds. While the shopping link was frequently

Earlier this month T-Mobile said it was on track to cover 230 million Americans with LTE service, and today the carrier claims it has officially hit that goal. CEO John Legere broke the news on Twitter, using the opportunity to take a shot at the competition. T-Mobile may be beating Sprint when it c

Robots are starting to be more and more pervasive in our world, never mind that they have long ruled assembly and inspection lines in factories. Japan has a couple of robot museum guides who look so lifelike, they might have just taken a huge leap into the Uncanny Valley. Apart from that, we also ha

Amazon is bringing new features to its smart TV box. You can now use an Amazon Fire TV to stream music to your TV. The feature will let you access any MP3 songs or albums you’ve purchased from Amazon as well as Amazon AutoRip content which provides you with an MP3 version of physical albums [&hellip

It goes without saying that smartphones these days are getting larger sized screens, especially among the flagship models, despite having a thinner and ever thinner chassis. Of course, there is another aspect to the smartphone’s display that takes off in the same direction as that of a slim TV – nar