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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

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

Whenever someone suggests that Jeff Bezos might not be the right person to lead Amazon, just remember that Amazon Prime was his idea, and it may be one of the most-brilliant ideas in recent memory. Not only does Prime’s annual fee pull in $100 per subscriber for Amazon, it encourages users to

When the Kindle Fire became a surprising success, and ended up spawning a line of solid tablets, Amazon was confident enough in its ability to create successful hardware that it decided to release its own smartphone, and this the Fire Phone was born. As I’m sure you remember, that ended up bei

Snapchat may be popular, but the company is struggling to make money through advertisements. It’s been searching for a new source of revenue for months, including additional photo lenses and sponsored photo lenses, but neither of those are big money makers either, and so the search continues.

Music-streaming may be popular, but it’s not exactly lucrative, which is why Spotify still operates on a loss even though it’s one of the most-popular music-streaming services in the world. Obviously, that’s something that needs to change if Spotify wants continue operating, which

We won’t know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the company’s top executives, including the head of Vine. The departure of media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil

Now that Netflix is available in almost every country on the planet, except for China, you’d think that the company’s quest for world domination would simply be a matter of advertising and waiting, but it’s not that simple. As an analyst team for Deutsche Bank has pointed out, most

In a time where malicious hackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in popular software and websites that they can exploit, companies are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to find those vulnerabilities before hackers have the opportunity to do any damage. That’s why bug bount

It’s been almost a decade since Volvo announced its ambitious plan to make it virtually impossible to be injured or killed in one of its vehicles, and it looks like that plan is making some serious progress, enough that the Swedish automaker is confident that it can achieve that goal within th

A group of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have discovered that the human brain is capable of storing more information than was previously believed, a LOT more. According to Terry Sejnowski, one of the researchers, the new measurements put the data storage ca

Health experts have claimed for a while now that Tinder contributes to higher STD rates, and the company has finally addressed that issue in a way that doesn’t involve freaking the hell out on Twitter. After months of fighting accusations, Tinder has finally decided to put on its big boy pants

The Director of the National Security Agency is the last person I’d expect to come out in support of encryption, but that’s exactly what Mike Rogers did on Thursday when he said that “encryption is foundational to the future.” Unlike a number of politicians, such as FBI Direc

Most people have lost all hope that Yahoo will be able to turn things around, including many of its own employees, but it looks like the company still has no intention of selling off its assets. Sure, it’s willing to lay off about 10% of its workforce, but according to Reuters, the company is

The war on encryption continues, and as usual, the politicians trying to force companies like Apple and Google to stop encrypting their products are claiming that it’s all being done for the sake of national security and public safety. The latest such proposed legislation comes from Apple&#821

The vast majority of the Tor Project’s funding comes from the American government, and considering how the Tor is used as a tool to combat government censorship and surveillance, it’s easy to understand why the organization isn’t all that comfortable with being financially dependen

Stolen credit cards are great and all, but the real money-makers on the dark web these days are stolen accounts for services like PayPal and Uber. According to Trend Micro, stolen PayPal accounts with a guaranteed balance of $500 are selling for an average of $6.43 at the moment, while stolen Uber a

Uber’s experimental food-delivery service is finally ready for a full-scale launch in the United States, and that should make GrubHub extremely worried. Known as UberEATS, the new service will be expanding to ten major cities (Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, S