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Need a bigger backlog of games to work through? Michael Thommason is selling his 11,000-plus game collection, a treasure hoard officially recorded as the largest in the world by Guinness Records. So 11,000 is a big number and all, but what do you get with that many zeroes? For starters, you get ever

Uber just became one of the most valuable tech startups in history. Co-founder and CEO Travis Kalanick announced that investors are pouring another $1.2 billion into Uber in a funding round that values the five-year-old company at $17 billion. Though nine and 10-figure deals have become common enoug

Amazon’s June 18th event is still mostly shrouded in mystery, but general consensus is that the e-commerce giant is releasing a phone of its own with an interactive 3D interface. Now, TechCrunch claims to have identified the technology behind that feature, and it’s supposedly Omron&#8217

From what we know, Samsung is working on a new range of tablets which they have called the Samsung Galaxy Tab S, where we have heard that it will go up for pre-order next week, with a release happening at the end of the month. Having said that, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S will arrive […]

Samsung has been a busy little bee, haven’t they? The company recently announced that they will be partnering with Barnes & Noble to deliver the Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet, with word of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S arriving at the end of the month, and now here we are with a leaked image of a

AT&T’s GoPhone service, in which customers can bring their own handsets and activate them under the carrier’s different tiered prepaid plans, is now widening to accept certain tablets. Announced via Twitter, the plans do not require annual contracts, and can be renewed on a mont

Canon has quietly launched a new online photo storage and sharing service that is free for anyone to use worldwide. Called Irista, the new photo service offers a free option that includes 10GB of cloud storage with no limits on the number or size of your file uploads. Irista also offers paid options

Twitter is an interesting medium to put forth one’s ideas, and we have seen how Twitter is used to document the banter between a couple who have broken up due to infidelity issues, or even to recreate the exact happenings of D-Day, not to mention “watching” an entire movie via tweets. Well, you can

Yahoo is moving forward with plans to discontinue access to its services using Facebook and Google logins. After removing the feature from its Tourney Pick’Em service earlier this year, the Mayer campaign is turning its attention to Flickr. According to a report from The Next Web, the Internet pione

Verizon Communications’ war of words with Netflix escalated Thursday, as what began with a tweet is now pulling in the lawyers. The telecom giant sent a cease-and-desist letter to Netflix, demanding that the popular streaming service stop sending messages to customers saying Verizon’s cr

The University of Michigan will be truly ahead of the pack this fall as it opens up a new automated vehicle test facility on North Campus. Over the course of this summer, construction will be done on the patent-pending Mobility Transformation Facility, where all 32 acres of it will be a simulated ci

ZTE Nubia Z7 price, release date: Specs of the rumored ZTE Zubia Z7 has been leaked, showing that this could be a high-end 5-inch smartphone. Aside from its built, it’s also expected that the device may be running on Android 4.4 KitKat with ZTE’s own software customization, Phone Arena reports. Base

The long arm of the law has the added advantage of technology working alongside them in order to uncover dastardly crimes that have been committed by nefarious minds. However, there are moments when even the law remains one step behind, and in this particular game of cat and mouse, perhaps the intro

Menstruation-tracking apps might not seem like like a goldmine waiting to be unearthed, but in China, investors are hedging their bets on them. Dayima, a period calendar app and women’s social network, just closed a $30 million series C round, backed by Ceyuan Ventures, Sequoia Capital China, and Be

It does look as though T-Mobile will be introducing a new service that they have called theUnderground which will target tech enthusiasts. The Underground is not meant for the masses as its name suggests, as it will train its proverbial crosshairs on “true enthusiasts” through its “limited-stock dev

Want to feel as frustrated as some of the women from Orange Is The New Black? Looking to take a break from the new season? Well Netflix has put together the perfect annoying time waster with their very own clone of Flappy Bird called Feisty Chicken. In the game, you take the role of the legendary ch

Now this is probably not going to sound a lot like a shocker after what we have gone through in the past year with revelations on the NSA from Edward Snowden, but it is still unnerving to say the least. Telecoms operator Vodafone has admitted that government agencies did install wires in the company

Tinder became one of the most popular apps around by offering one simple service, but now the company is hoping to expand its offerings by adding a tried and true feature to its own app with self-destructing photos. The new feature, called Moments, should be rolling out to Android and iOS today, off

Those who happen to live in the Central African Republic have not exactly gone through a bed of roses over the years, ever since the country gained its independence in 1960. Of course, there are the relevant growing pains of a nation which are to be expected, and with that, the advent of technology

The world hasn’t yet recovered from the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL and now there’s news of a new bug affecting the popular open-source security package. This recently announced, and already patched, exploit could allow an attacker to see and modify traffic between an OpenSSL cli

Super Bowl 50 is still a ways away. But the money is already flowing in. The host committee that’s been tasked with bringing the National Football League’s biggest event — and the most-watched television spectacle in the United States — to the San Francisco 49e

We already know that Twitter is preparing tons of different new ads that it plans to implement into its service. The social network needs to generate new revenue, and now that it’s a publicly traded company investors will be looking to how it plans to do just that. One key area will be non-intrusive

It’s no secret that NASA’s long-term goal is to get people to Mars. But how realistic is that objective, really? Unfortunately, the prospects aren’t looking good right now. The National Research Council has conducted a review of NASA’s space program that suggests its budget i

All eyes in the tech industry are on Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba after it finally kickstarted its long-awaited IPO by submitting its prospectus. As many talked up the event, which may very well be the world’s biggest IPO potentially raising up to $20 billion, some in the US are puzzled that Ali

Alibaba Group chairman Jack Ma announced today at a press conference that the company will buy a 50% stake in Guangzhou Evergrande Football Club, one of China’s top soccer teams. The deal’s value was not disclosed, but it is reportedly worth 1.2 billion yuan ($192 million), according to Xinhua, the

In an all-Portland deal, social commerce platform Chirpify today announced the acquisition of fellow Rose City-based digital marketing startup Measureful. This is the first acquisition for Chirpify, a four-year-old startup that lets people make purchases with hashtags on social media and helps compa

Fusion-io just took the wraps off a new, high-performance series of MLC NAND flash-based accelerators that push the limits in terms of speed and capacity. There are two families of products in the new Fusion-io Atomic series of products, the high-end and PX600 series and the not quite as high-end, b

I would suppose that one can say that smog is a modern day problem that those of us who happen to live in large cities have to deal with, and while it is far from a pleasant experience, it is a very real problem that ought to be solved – for the betterment of mankind. […]

Motorola does seem to be on a roll at the moment, having made sure that their range ofMoto devices would be able to enjoy some Android 4.4.3 KitKat goodness, not to mention the 2013 DROID collection of smartphones skipping the Android 4.4.2 bus and jumping straight to Android 4.4.3 KitKat, too. Why

Google Glass might be the de facto champion of the wearable tech world at the moment, but this does not mean that other hardware manufacturers are going to sit down and do nothing about the situation. Computex 2014 is a hotbed for such technology to be shown off, where ChipSip has picked up Computex

Cellular carriers Sprint and T-Mobile have agreed upon an outline for a proposed merger that would see Sprint acquiring its rival company for around $32 billion dollars. Sources tell the Wall Street Journal that Sprint would pay about $40 a share for T-Mobile. The deal would further consolidate the

Kingston Digital, the flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology Company, the independent world leader in memory products, has announced the MobileLite Wireless G2. Shipping later this month, MobileLite Wireless G2 allows smartphone and tablet users to extend onboard device storage and stream and

The latest GfK data shows that smartphone take-up has passed the halfway mark in the overall handset market which includes basic feature phones, making up 55% in March across Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Cambodia and Vietnam. Smartphone sales volume continue to break its ow

CyberX, a security startup with tentacles in Israel and focused on what it calls the Internet’s industrial domain, raised $2 million in venture funding Wednesday. The seed round was led by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from the Swarth Group and assorted angels. CyberX chief Omer Schneid

Nexus6 out of Auckland, New Zealand received FDA clearance to bring to U.S. market its SmartTouch inhaler monitor. The device slips onto a traditional inhaler and detects when the inhaler is used, sounding alarms to remind to take medication, and keeping a record of compliance. A touchscreen on the

If you’re like me and love technology but hate the rats nest of cables it requires, we could be in for some good news. Intel has demonstrated a system that could be incorporated into future computers that allows wireless connectivity for power, displays and connection to accessories like external dr

A €2.8 billion ($3.8 billion) joint investment in robotics research and innovation by the robotics industry and the European Commission is intended to create over 240,000 new jobs in Europe—but it remains unclear how many old jobs will be replaced or destroyed by the program, some of those involved

UK Broadband has unveiled a 4G internet service named Relish, which it claims will quickly deliver fibre speeds without a landline connection. Launched at an event in London on Wednesday, Relish is available in Central London from today, after the firm first announced plans to rollout the

American companies like Google aren’t exactly popular in countries like China where they are pretty strict about the information coming in and going out of the country. We suppose their concerns were only amplified with the Snowden leaks which suggested that tech companies might have had a hand, kno

The Samsung Z will be its first smartphone to ditch Google’s Android and run its own Tizen software, the manufacturer has announced. The launch means that consumers now have more choice of mobile phone software beyond the dominant Google Android and Apple iOS operating systems. The Samsung