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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

Companies like Sony have legions of analysts and designers that try to figure out what it is that consumers want, and then develop a product that fulfills those desires, but it’s not an exact science. That’s one of the reasons why companies tend to be hesitant about being too b

Xiaomi is second only to Uber in terms of how much people are anticipating its IPO, and although CEO Lei Jun has made it abundantly clear that his company isn’t preparing to go public, he admitted for the first time on Thursday that Xiaomi is at least considering an IPO. He reaffirmed his

I’m not excited about virtual reality because of the gaming or potential scientific uses, although those are great too, I’m excited for it because it’ll allow me to experience the outside world from the comfort of my own home. The experience will be lamer and less immersive than th

When the American government tried to force Apple to weaken its encryption, the company boldly and publicly refused, and is now fighting a massive legal battle in order to defend its decision, but how would other companies have reacted in similar situations? Judging from how much support Google and

Intel hasn’t found much success in the mobile industry, which is why the company has turned to emerging industries like drones and wearables in an effort to expand its business beyond personal computing, and those aren’t the only emerging industries that it’s interested in. Ac

Everyone had high hopes for Yahoo when Marissa Mayer became the company’s CEO back in 2012, but that hope has long since given way to resignation, as it’s become abundantly clear that Yahoo isn’t going to be able to turn things around. However, even though Yahoo&#821

NASA may be called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, but the agency has been neglecting the aeronautics aspect of its research in favor of space-related projects. Charles Bolden, the agency’s administrator, thinks it’s about time that changed, which is why he&n

Amazon’s most-recent venture is actually a step backwards in terms of advancement, as it takes the company into a market that’s widely considered to be dying off: ad-supported television shows. Not only is Amazon supporting its new show, Fashion Fund, with advertisements instead of

We all know that the PlayStation 4 is doing really well, but a recent report from DFC Intelligence claims that it’s actually doing so well that it’ll become Sony’s third console to exceed 100 million sales, the other two being the PlayStation and the PlayStation 2. T

From time to time, I get curious about how much money I’ve poured into Amazon over the years, but I’m always too lazy to backtrack through my purchase history and add everything together, which is a good thing, because I know it’s probably an embarrassingly larg

Despite the Japanese government’s insistence that Sharp remain in the hands of Japanese owners, rather than being taken over by a foreign company, Sharp has agreed to sell more than 66% of its voting stock to Foxconn for ¥489 billion ($4.34 billion). The Taiwa

Nextbit wants to solve the problem of storage anxiety on smartphones by using the cloud to ensure that you never run out of storage space, but Samsung has a more traditional solution: just give smartphones more internal storage. That’s easier said than done, however, because it’s no

It seems like OnePlus is launching a new smartphone every few months, and the next one could launch by the end of the second quarter of this year, according to company co-founder Carl Pei. According to him, the OnePlus 3 will be released within the next few months, but he didn’t

The Xperia Z-series has never been a big sales generator, and considering the laughable state of Sony’s mobile business, it’s no surprise that the company has decided to kill off the series. Sony confirmed as much on Wednesday when it announced that last year’s Xperia Z5

In what may be the first practical use for selfies in history, MasterCard will soon allow some of its customers to verify their purchases by taking a picture of their face, rather than entering a password. This is good news, because not only does everyone hate passwords, many people put their s

Consumer electronics are the only area where Amazon has found any real success in creating its own product lines, but the company hasn’t given up. WWD noticed on Monday that Amazon has quietly released somewhere around 1,800 new products through seven new in-house labels, which range from men&

Telegram announced on Tuesday that it now has more than 100 million monthly active users, with more than 15 billion messages being sent through the service every day. That might not seem as impressive as WhatsApp passing the 1 billion users mark earlier this month, but keep in mi

You can’t have Morgan Freeman narrate your life, unfortunately, but you can still have him give you directions if you’re a Waze user. The Google-owned, crowd-sourced navigation app announced on Monday that Morgan Freeman has joined the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Kevin Hart

LG’s flagship smartphones are always decent, and that’s why they’re never as successful as Samsung’s flagships, because just being decent isn’t enough to compete against the likes of the Galaxy S series. That’s why LG is being a little more bold with its

Things aren’t looking good for Qualcomm, as more and more smartphone makers are choosing to abandon the company’s Snapdragon chipsets in favor of their own, in-house chipsets. Huawei and Samsung have been seriously stepping up their chipset game in recent years, and now it looks lik

Spotify is pretty much a must-have for anyone who even remotely enjoys music, which is basically everyone, but even those of you who have been using the music-streaming service for years might not know how to use it to its full potential. There’s a plethora of features and tricks that you

Kanye West is in need of some serious cash to pay off his $53 million debt, and his newly released album, The Life of Pablo, is supposed to help him acquire that money, but he’s running into a problem that most artists are abundantly familiar with: online piracy. West’s decisio

More than 325,000 people have registered their drones with the FAA as of February 8th, and if you haven’t done the same within the next twelve hours, you risk facing civil penalties of up to $27,500 and criminal penalties of up to $250,000, not to mention as much a thr

It’s been almost twenty-six years since the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space, and in that time, some of the most-important breakthroughs in astronomy have been made as a result of the images the telescope has taken. However, technology has progressed immensely since Hub

Storage anxiety is something that most smartphone owners are painfully familiar with, and the only solution is to drop some extra cash on more internal storage, or buy a microSD, assuming your smartphone even supports one. Nextbit has another solution, however, and not only do yo

Your email address is basically the online ID that allows you to create accounts on various apps and websites, and even though many of them allow you to create an account using Facebook, you still need an email address to create a Facebook account, so it’s not a replacement for

Yahoo’s financial woes have forced the company to put all of its focus on the businesses that are actually making money, while everything else is either being put on the back burner or killed off entirely. Most of the company’s digital magazines will be suffering the latter fat

Uber is currently engaged in a war of attrition with China’s largest ride-sharing company, Didi Kuaidi, and it’s costing the company more than $1 billion a year, according to CEO Travis Kalanick. We’ve known that Uber is losing a lot of money in China, but we didn’t

Apple Music may have more than eleven million paying subscribers, but Spotify has nearly three times that amount. It reached ten million paying subscribers back in May of 2014, which then doubled to twenty million in June of 2015, and now The Financial Times is claiming that Spotify is close to

All things come to an end eventually, and mankind is no exception. Even if we don’t drive ourselves to extinction through the over-consumption of resources, unchecked scientific advancement, or war, on a long enough timescale, our demise is still inevitable.&

It’s hard to believe that we’ve actually reached the point where 3D printing technology is so accessible to consumers that even children can use it. Mattel proved this with its new ThingMaker, which was originally a device that allowed children to create their own plastic molds

Whatever your opinion of Kanye West is, either as a performer or as a person, you can’t deny that his popularity is almost unparalleled at the moment. Such is his popularity that an exclusivity deal for his newest album was enough to breathe new life into Tidal, a music-streaming service that&

There’s been quite a lot of fighting between Tumblr and Yahoo over the last year, as the latter company has been trying to integrate Tumblr’s sales team into its own sales organization. Not only does this go against Yahoo’s promise that Tumblr would remain mostly autonomous even af

Seeing how much attention people like Honey Boo Boo and the Kardashians get genuinely depresses me at times, and it’s even worse when monumental scientific events like the detection of gravity waves only receive a fraction of that attention. It’s not all bad though, becaus

While other carriers are still working on expanding their 4G networks, companies like AT&T and Verizon are already developing their own 5G technologies. We still have a few years to go before 5G actually becomes available, but Verizon has already claimed that it’ll be the first American ca

Pandora may be the largest Internet radio service in the world, but that doesn’t mean all that much considering how it’s music-streaming services like Spotify that have been getting all the attention in recent years. That isn’t to say Pandora is a failure, because it still has a ma

The general consensus seems to be that smartwatches are a great idea with a lot of potential, but current smartwatches are still pretty limited, and most people don’t find them enticing enough to actually purchase. In order for smartwatches to become more popular, the techn

All the reports we’ve seen over the last few months have suggested that LG is doing everything it can to make sure the LG G5 stands out among this year’s flagships, unlike its bland and unimaginative predecessor. One of the ways the company is doing this is by giving the smartp

It seems like all of Silicon Valley, including Adobe itself, has banded together to finally kill off Flash, but the process has to be gradual. A significant chunk of the Internet still relies on the platform, and you can’t exactly force online services and websites to abandon it. Instead,