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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,

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