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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,

Cyber attacks have grown to become one of the most-important issues in the United States, with both corporations and government agencies suffering from them in recent years, and President Obama wants Congress to start doing more to combat them. In his fiscal 2017 budget proposal, Obama asked&nb

Most of us have enough personal information stored on our devices and online accounts that a malicious hacker could do some serious damage to our lives if they were to get their hands on it, and the only thing preventing them from doing that is an 8-16 character password. That’s why it&#8

Last year, Kotaku reported that Amazon brought Crytek back from the brink of death in a $50 to $70 million licensing deal involving Crytek proprietary CryEngine technology. As interesting and surprising as the report was, most people ended up forgetting all about it, but Amazon d

Samsung may have nailed the design aspect of the Galaxy S6, but design alone isn’t enough to sell a smartphone, and the lack of exciting features on the S6 was a significant factor in the device’s lackluster sales. This time around, however, the company will be putting most of its f

Motherboard reported on Sunday that a hacker managed to get their hands on the personal information of about 30,000 employees for the DHS and FBI, with Wired confirming in its own report the following day that the information has been dumped online, alongside some pro-Palestinian slogans. While

Remember how Popcorn Time returned from the brink of death with a new website that allows users to stream pirated movies and television shows directly from their web browser? Well, the same technology that enables that steaming has been turned into a browser plug-in that allows you so stream co

Soon you won’t even need to do anything to have your smartwatch identify you if a recently published Samsung patent ever makes it into one of the company’s products. The patent is for a sensor on the bottom of a smartwatch that takes pictures of its user’s vein structure and unique

Biometric authentication is seen by many to be the natural successor to passwords, but nobody has been able to figure out which method is the best. Fingerprint scanning is the most-popular option at the moment, with retina scanning coming in at a distant second, but some researchers from B

There’s just no stopping Elon Musk, is there? While answering questions at the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod competition earlier this week, Musk talked about his idea for an electric plane that can take off vertically, and expressed his interest in making the idea a reality. Aside from

It looks like all is not well inside GitHub at the moment, as two factions within the company are fighting over which direction to take it, and the fighting has resulted in a number of key executives departing. According to reports from both Business Insider and Wikipedia on Thursday, many people wi

If you thought that Kim Kardashian mobile game was popular, wait until the Taylor Swift mobile game comes out. Glu Mobile, the company behind the Kardashian game, announced on Wednesday that it has entered into a partnership with Taylor Swift, and that a Swift-themed mobile game will be released by

Expanding into the emerging Internet of Things market shouldn’t be too hard for Cisco considering how it’s the largest manufacturer of networking equipment in the world, but that doesn’t mean it needs to go through the trouble of building a new business from scratch.

The LG G4 is a decent smartphone, and that’s about all that can be said about it. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the device was met with lukewarm responses from critics and customers alike, but LG must have learned from its mistake, because we’ve been hearing some cr

Marissa Mayer has already written a kill list for Yahoo’s employees, and now it’s time for the CEO to start killing off the people who’re unfortunate enough to work for one of the company’s less successful divisions. Yahoo has turned down a number of acquisition offers i

Be prepared to see a new icon the next time you update your Uber app, because the company announced on Tuesday that it’s rebranding itself. Not much is changing aside from the app icon and logo, but the changes being made to the icon are actually pretty interesting, because while the Uber logo

Last October, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Safe Harbor laws that allowed companies to transfer user data between the European Union and United States with ease were invalid, which was a potentially massive blow to American technology companies. Fortunately, the European Commission an

Oh, you thought Popcorn Time was dead? Well think again, because the Netflix for Pirates is back and better than ever, because users can now stream pirated content through their web browser instead of needing to download the Popcorn Time client. Using a new technology known as Torrents Time, the web

Nintendo was one of the first gaming companies to embrace motion controls, but it may have already missed its chance to do the same with virtual reality. Nonetheless, Nintendo is still at least somewhat interested in the emerging technology, as the company has shared that it’s currently &#8220

Samsung’s software has always been, for lack of a better description, absolute crap, so much so that it’s actually hurting the company’s mobile business. This isn’t something that Samsung can allow to continue, which is why it’s finally making an effort to improve its s

Japan’s population is aging at a frightening pace, and it’s already experiencing labor shortages as a result. The shortages are only going to get worse as more people grow old and exit the work force while fewer people have children to replenish the work force, but the solution to the pr

I’m sure we’ve all heard about Samsung’s struggles in the smartphone market by now, and it’s going to be interesting to see how the company tries to turn things around this year. Naturally, that turnaround will be centered around the Galaxy S7 and its derivatives, and from th

Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious, especially when it comes to the future of space. At a startup festival in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the SpaceX CEO said that he’ll be announcing plans for a Mars-bound spacecraft later this year, and claimed that he plans to send humans to the planet within t

Thousands of engineers from colleges and high schools from across the world gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday to compete for a chance to test their pod designs on Elon Musk’s own Hyperloop test track later this year. MIT’s team was awarded the top prize,

I think it’s safe to say that the Wii U is more or less dead at this point, and if the fact that Nintendo is already preparing to release the console’s successor wasn’t enough of an indication, maybe the fact that a measly 5% of game developers are working on a Wii U game at [&hell

The seemingly unstoppable Xiaomi just had a pretty rough year, having failed to achieve even the lowest sales goal that it set for itself, thanks to intense competition from Apple and its fellow Chinese smartphone makers. Huawei and Lenovo were especially aggressive last year, but there’s anot

Steam is great and all, but there’s so much crap that Valve is allowed to get away with because it doesn’t have any serious competition. Aside from Origin, which doesn’t really count because it only sells EA titles, the only competition that Steam really has is GOG, and it’s

Lenovo may be looking to developing markets to grow its smartphone sales, but that doesn’t mean it’s forgotten about the United States. That’s where it’s acquisition of Motorola really pays off, because even if it’s dropped the Motorola branding in favor of the Moto by

The fate of Yahoo’s employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer has written up, though I’m sure many of them wouldn’t mind getting fired at this point. The list is the basis for the company’s current restructuring efforts, and i

The deaths of Circuit City and RadioShack have painted a grim picture of the future of electronics retailers like Best Buy, but it’s not all doom and gloom. For starters, RadioShack won’t be dying off entirely, and as Twice Magazine reported on Tuesday, Circuit City is actually preparing

People were understandably skeptical when Amazon decided to launch its own premium video-streaming service, but the company has long since proven that it can hold its own against the likes of HBO and Netflix, and it has the Emmys to prove it. With its venture into the video-streaming market proving

This has been a pretty good week for digital security, because not only is Oracle finally killing off its cancerous Java plug-in for web browsers, Encoding.com has reported that Adobe Flash will die its own death within the next couple of years. You know it’s bad when even Adobe itself wants t

It’s been more than two decades since Oracle decided to start plaguing web browsers with its Java plug-in, but it looks like it’s time for Oracle to finally kill it off. Its death will undoubtedly be met with cheers from the people who understand how much of security nightmare the plug-i

Google has brought affordable virtual reality to more than five million people so far, the company announced through its official blog on Wednesday. High-end virtual reality headsets haven’t even hit the market yet, but even when they do, they’re going to cost several hundred bucks, whic

If the FCC has its way, cable subscribers in the United States will be able to lower their cable bills by choosing their own set-top boxes instead of the ones that their cable provider gives them. As it stands now, most subscribers rent their set-top boxes from their provider, and there have been nu

When the idea of the Hyperloop was first made public back in 2013, most people thought that it was a really interesting idea, but one that would never become more than just an idea. However, it’s looking more and more like that idea could become a reality, as SpaceX has chosen one of the world

Despite increased competition from the likes of Apple and Samsung, not to mention the lukewarm response to the LG G4, LG still managed to ship close to 60 million smartphones last year. That’s a minuscule increase from the year prior, and the company wants to do much better this year, which is

Google hasn’t done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that’s about to change. On Tuesday, Waze announced on its official blog that it’s launching its own SDK, known as Waze Transport SDK, and that it already has a numbe

Just as the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, Spotify has added a video-streaming feature to its Android app, with the iOS app expected to receive the same feature in a week or so. Users can access the feature through the Browse tab, where they’ll be able to view short clips from popular

Sony is a consumer electronics behemoth that sells everything from camera sensors to televisions, but the company has been losing ground to its Chinese and South Korean competitors in recent years, especially when in the smartphone and television markets. One area where Sony has consistently dominat