For obvious reasons, Sony’s games and gaming-related products are almost always exclusive to the PlayStation, but that might not be the case with the company’s upcoming virtual reality headset. Known as the PlayStation VR, this headset is significantly cheaper than its competit
Netflix found itself in a bit of a pickle a few days ago when it was revealed that the company has been throttling the steams of mobile users for years. On one hand, throttling the streaming reduces mobile data use and makes it harder for people to hit their data caps, but on the other […]
Judging from the fact that most people don’t even know that Redbox and Verizon tried to release their own Netflix-killer back in 2013, known as Redbox Instant, I think it’s safe to say that it was a failure. Redbox isn’t giving up, however, and even though Redbox Instant&
Even in areas where carrying a gun is both legal and socially acceptable, there’s always going to be people who aren’t comfortable with the idea. Kirk Kjellberg experienced this first-hand when he was at a restaurant and a kid noticed the gun that he was legally carrying and po
Mars has become the main focus of every major space agency in the world, and unlike the Space Race of the 20th-century, Russia and the United States aren’t the only players on the field. China, Europe, and even the United Arab Emirates have Mars missions planned for the near future,
In case you haven’t been keeping up with this week’s batch of gaming rumors, images of the controller for Nintendo’s next console, known as the Nintendo NX, were leaked through Reddit, first by a user named Idriss2Dev, and then later by a user named perkele37. As with all leaks and
Last week, T-Mobile CEO John Legere accused AT&T and Verizon of throttling Netflix streams, but as it turns out, it was Netflix itself that was throttling the streams, and it’s been doing so for years. The company admitted as much to The Wall Street Journal on Thursday, claiming that
Self-driving cars have more than just technological obstacles to overcome before they become common on public roads, there’s also the matter of consumer interest and government regulation, both of which have a tendency to lag far behind technological advancement. That’s why Ford doe
Machine-Learning, (Home) Automation, Robotics, and Space Exploration. Those four areas were the focus of the MARS conference that Amazon hosted at a resort in Florida over the weekend, and if this is your first time hearing about such a conference, that’s because Amazon was keeping it on
I wouldn’t go so far as to say that Pornhub is at the forefront of technological advancement, but the website is definitely quick to embrace emerging technologies. It released an amusing YouTube video on Tuesday, in which it announced that it’s partnering with BaDoink to make f
Just as digital downloads replaced physical copies as the most-popular way to listen to music, music streaming has now replaced digital downloads. This is according to statistics published by the RIAA, which show that steaming accounted for 34.3% of music sales in 2015, with digital downlo
Whether it’s not being able to handle 4K gaming or still struggling to achieve 60FPS on most games, this generation of consoles has been riddled with disappointment, but nothing has been as disappointing as the Wii U. Even the release of highly-anticipated games like the new Super Smash B
The list of things you can purchase through Amazon is quickly growing to include just about everything the average person would ever want, and it now includes cable and internet service. Comcast announced on Monday that potential customers can now browse and purchase its various servi
Apple Music has had some really impressive growth since it launched last June, so does that mean should Spotify be worried? Even though it’s still the undisputed king of music streaming, Apple Music is growing at a ridiculous pace, and many people are wondering if Spotify can keep up
Barry Enderwick, the former director of global marketing at Netflix, made in interesting LinkedIn post last December, in which he claimed the company was planning to release its own set-top box at one point, but decided against it in order to remain neutral in the hardware market so that itR
It was exactly one decade ago that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the world’s first tweet, and now there’s close to half a billion tweets being posted each day. However, there are a few problems that have plagued Twitter over the last ten years that continue to plague it
It’s no secret that Uber wants to replace its drivers with autonomous vehicles in the near future, but even with billions of dollars in funding, there’s no way the company can develop the necessary technology on its own. That’s why Uber is in the process of finding a partner i
Rumors that Twitter is planning to remove it 140-character limit for tweets have been popping up for a couple of months, and while CEO Jack Dorsey admitted that his company considered removing the limit, it’s decided against it. The being said, it’s still within the realm of possibility
When asked what the future of video games looks like, most gamers will mention 4K gaming and virtual reality, and the fact that neither the PlayStation 4 nor the Xbox One support these technologies have led many people to question the longevity of this generation of consoles. However, Sony has been
Living in a post-Snowden world, it’s hard to know which online services you can trust with your information, and that’s spawned a massive wave of privacy and security-centric services for everyday users that want to protect themselves from government surveillance and hackers. Proton
Robots are very close to reaching the point where they can start taking over our everyday jobs, and when that happens, fast food jobs will be among the first to be taken over. Domino’s proved as much on Friday when it announced its plan to start having robots deliver pizza to people. Known as
Integrated graphics cards have come a long way over the years, as have mobile graphics cards, but neither of them can compete with a full-on dedicated graphics card when it comes to gaming, which is why gaming on a desktop has always been superior to gaming on a laptop. However, Razer revealed&
Amazon hasn’t officially confirmed anything, but the company isn’t exactly hiding the fact that it’s trying to build its own shipping network in an effort to cut costs and speed up deliveries. However, building a shipping network is an immensely expensive and time consumi
Hearing that Uber is encroaching on your territory is enough to make most companies a little nervous, and I don’t think GrubHub is an exception. The Chicago-based startup generated more than $1 billion in sales for restaurants across the country last year, but the launch of UberEATS
Video games have evolved immensely over the past forty years, and for those of us who experienced this evolution first-hand, it can be strange to see how society has come to embrace the medium in recent years. Playing games is actually a viable, and oftentimes even lucrative career choice these
Somewhere around 600 million people live in the Chinese countryside, and Alibaba has spent years trying to turn them into customers. The problem is, while e-commerce has been exploding in China’s urban areas, the logistical challenges of shipping products to rural areas, as well as t
From time to time, Samsung will release a new product in an area that it’s not familiar with which will inevitably fail, and the tech community will laugh and wonder what the hell the company was thinking. The latest such product is Waffle, the company’s new content-sharing social m
Google Cardboard has made it so that even videos that aren’t designed for virtual reality can be viewed in virtual reality as a sort of simulated cinematic experience, and now Valve wants to do the same thing for video games. The company teased this new feature, called SteamVR Desktop The
It seems like not a day goes by without more evidence of Yahoo’s imminent demise popping up, and I have no idea why watching it all unfold is so entertaining to me, especially considering I haven’t even used a Yahoo service in years. The most-recent evidence of the company’s demise
Autonomous cars are the future of the automotive industry, but unfortunately for traditional automakers, it’s the technology industry that’s leading the charge in this area, meaning that these automakers must rely on companies like Apple and Google for their self-driving technology. Not
Few companies are as slow to adapt to market changes as Nintendo, but the beloved video game company has finally decided to get with times and embrace the smartphone market. The company partnered up with DeNA a while back to develop a handful of smartphone apps that it plans to release over the
Ever since Apple refused to assist the FBI in breaking through the iPhone’s encryption last month, the United States has been engaged in an unprecedented debate about privacy and security, and numerous high-profile people from both the government and the technology industry have come
Those of us who like to stay up to date on the latest technology news are probably abundantly familiar with virtual reality headsets like Google Cardboard and the Oculus Rift, but most Americans aren’t so knowledgeable. On Monday, Horizon Media posted the results of a recen
When every music-streaming service offers roughly the same content for roughly the same price, it can be hard for one service to differentiate itself from the competition. One of the ways Spotify is doing this is by expanding its messaging and social features, which not only strengthens th
President Frank Underwood may be required to use a BlackBerry for the sake of national security, but the First Lady has no such restriction. Claire Underwood gets to use whichever smartphone she wants, and she chose to use the OnePlus 2, although I’m sure that has more to do wit
Cloud storage and file synchronization have become an essential part of many people’s lives, and Dropbox was one of the first services to offer those features. Even though technology giants like Google and Microsoft have released their own file hosting services in the years since Dropbox
China’s thirteenth Five Year Plan since 1953 was unveiled on Saturday, and it’s all about the internet and technology. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Five Year Plans are a series of regularly implemented initiatives that are designed to help develop China both economically and soci
Getting people to download your app is the easy part (relatively speaking), it’s getting them to continue using it that’s difficult. This is according to an analyst by the name of Andrew Chen, who recently published an article to his website claiming that most people stop using an a
As if it wasn’t bad enough that Activision Blizzard and Electronics Arts, two of the largest game publishers in the world, have decided to skip E3 2016, now Disney Interactive and Wargaming are doing the same, and more publishers may end up following suit before the trade show b
HTC released the One M7 back in 2013, the One M8 back in 2014, and the One M9 last year, so it would be safe to assume that this year’s HTC flagship will be called the One M10, right? Well, the company definitely reinforced this assumption by teasing its next flagship on Twitter with the