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The story of the Internet company that’s based around a great idea but still struggles to make money is one that’s almost as old as the Internet itself, and few companies have lived that story as much as Foursquare has. Its explosive popularity has died down immensely in recent years, an

Self-driving cars are the future of the automotive industry, and the Obama administration wants to ensure that that future is brought about as quickly as possible. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced on Thursday that the government is working on laying down some proper legal framework an

The fact that 70 million smartphone sales is considered lackluster for Xiaomi is a testament to how ridiculously successful the company has been over the past few years, but that doesn’t change the fact that the once burgeoning Chinese company wasn’t even able to reach the lowest sales g

It’s interesting to see how different smartphone companies approach the problem of shrinking sales in different ways. For example, HTC tried to recreate the success of the One (M8) last year by mimicking the device, and when that failed to turn the company’s sales around, it resorted to

With a name like the Planetary Defense Coordination Office, you’d think that NASA’s new program was some kind of badass defense force meant to protect us from alien invaders, but the reality is a bit less exciting. Instead of protecting us from alien invaders, the program is meant to pro

After more than a year of false leaks and rumors that did nothing but get our hopes up, it’s nice to see a leak regarding the Xiaomi Mi5 that we can be fairly certain is actually true. We know that the smartphone will be launching in February, but according to a leaked product page from a thir

I’m sure many of us would agree that autonomous vehicle technology is progressing at a rapid pace, but the government seems to think that it’s not progressing fast enough. According to Reuters, the Obama administration plans to announce a new autonomous vehicle initiative later today, wh

Babylon Health, a London-based startup that allows users to set up video consultations with doctors, has raised $25 million in funding, which it claims will be used to develop an artificially intelligent medical assistant that will pre-screen users before they decide to set up a video consultation.

Some interesting, but not all that surprising, data from Deloitte suggests that a little more than a quarter of the people in developed nations won’t make a single phone call this year, and most of the people that do will only do so occasionally. According to Deloitte, this can be attributed t

I can’t really say crappy computers are to be blame for slow virtual reality adoption, because there’s not really anything to adopt at the moment, but they will be to blame. At least, that’s what Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey claimed in a recent Reddit AMA, saying that crappy com

Tim Cook has already made his stance on encryption abundantly clear, but he decided to give the White House something of a reminder during last week’s meeting, in which government intelligence officials met with executives from some of the largest technology companies in the country to discuss

Having amassed a sizable fleet of trailer trucks, and started negotiations with Boeing to lease as many as twenty cargo jets, it’s pretty clear that Amazon wants to take charge of its own deliveries. The company will further demonstrate this when it completes its acquisition of Colis Privé, a

Have you ever had trouble entertaining yourself while you’re getting a ride through Uber? If so, then you’re not alone, and Uber wants to make your rides a little more interesting. On Tuesday, the company announced Uber Trip Experiences, a new way for app developers to integrate their ap

T-Mobile CEO John Legere is nothing if not brazen, often to the amusement and respect of the people on the Internet, but his curse-riddled rant against the Electronic Frontier Foundation last week attracted nothing but criticism, especially from his customers. In response to the EFF’s claim th

How many cancer-related deaths do you think would’ve been avoided if doctors had discovered the cancer sooner? Lots of them, I can assure you. But the problem is, most of the time, doctors only discover that someone has cancer after they start showing symptoms, at which point their c

More than 75% of South Koreans own a smartphone, and more than 90% of those smartphone users use the KakaoTalk messaging app, which puts Kakao in an excellent position to become a cultural powerhouse in the country. Kakao clearly intends to use this position to its full potential too, because it&#82

Yahoo has definitely seen better days, and though many people had faith that Marissa Mayer would bring those better days back when she became the company’s CEO back in 2012, but that faith has largely faded away. The New York Times recently spoke with dozens of current and former Yahoo employe

Ford’s new Smart Mobility initiative has been drawing a lot of attention from the media, and it doesn’t take much to see why. The initiative is primarily focused on making advancements in autonomous vehicles and connected cars, and part of that involves delving into the world of cloud-ba

Western companies have always found it difficult to tap into China’s vast consumer base, but many of them keep trying because of how lucrative the Chinese market is. The problem isn’t that Chinese consumers don’t want Western products, because that couldn’t be farther from th

HTC has announced that pre-orders for its upcoming virtual reality headset will open at the end of February, shortly before the first batch of Oculus Rift headsets start to ship out. On Monday morning, CEO Cher Wang told the Telegraph that pre-orders for the HTC Vive will open on February 29th, and

When people think about clean energy, they think about things like rooftop solar panels or wind farms, but those are just two simple parts of a very complex and versatile industry. The more interesting parts of clean energy start to be revealed when people apply their entrepreneurial creativity to t

Regardless of your opinions about the Obama administration, you can’t deny that it’s done an excellent job of embracing modern technology to better communicate with the American people. This will be especially apparent during the State of the Union address on Tuesday, because not only wi

Just one look at the technology market over the last few years would be all you’d need to tell that everyone’s focus is being put on the cloud and mobile devices, which is why it’s odd that nobody has really combined the two yet. Don’t get me wrong, the cloud and mobile devic

It’s only been three weeks since SpaceX successfully landed its first Falcon 9 rocket, but it’s already trying to outdo itself. The company has confirmed that its next Falcon 9 rocket launch will happen next Sunday, but this one will be attempting to land on a floating platform, rather t

Virtual reality has the potential to revolutionize a number of fields and industries, not the least of which is education, and part of Matt Cook’s job is exploring how this revolution can be brought about. In a recent interview with Inverse, Cook went into detail about how he and his colleague

As awesome as it is to rid yourself of your cable subscription, cutting the cord still has its downsides, the most-annoying of which is getting access to all of the content you want. One of the benefits of cable packages is that everything you could ever want to watch is included, and there aren&#82

Good movies can be boring, and bad movies can be fun, but forcing users to rate movies using a five-star rating system can cause them to forget that, which is why Netflix wants to replace it with something better. The current rating system encourages users to rate movies and television shows based o

Every now and then, a new social app will pop up on everyone’s radar and end up exploding in popularity. Most of them end up fading away after a while, but some of them stay popular, and end up growing into something like Snapchat. The latest such app to do this is Peach, a very Twitter-esque

Xiaomi has had a lot to boast about over the last few years, and it’s certainly taken every opportunity it’s had to do just that, but things were a lot different last year. Everything started off normally, with Xiaomi boasting that it had sold more than 61 million smartphones in 2014, an

When it comes to contraceptives, men really only have one of two options: condoms or a vasectomy. Most people feel that condoms detract from the experience of sex, and a vasectomy is a potentially permanent surgical procedure, so for people who want the full enjoyment of sex without the risk of beco

HTC released some solid smartphones last year, but with how ridiculously competitive the mobile market is, being solid isn’t nearly enough, and HTC is paying the price. Those solid smartphones earned the already struggling company a 35% decrease in sales in 2015. Should this trend continue, th

ProPublica has become the first major news website in the world to release a version of its website that’s optimized for the Dark Web. Although the Dark Web has a nasty reputation, and for good reason, it’s also an important source of news and other kinds of information that people in pl

Razer has made it very clear that it’s new Nabu Watch isn’t a smartwatch, it’s a regular digital watch that has some smart features, but what makes this smartish dumb watch so special? Well, for starters, it looks like a throwback to the digital watches of the late 1990s, accompani

Building a new social network is incredibly difficult, even for the largest of companies, and it’s next to impossible for the smaller ones. The only way to do it is to have a neat little quirk that draws people in and keeps them, such as Snapchat’s ephemeral messaging, or to cater to a s

Even with artists like Adele withholding their new albums from streaming services, music streaming continued to grow at a ridiculous pace last year. According to Nielsen’s year-in-review report, people streamed more than 317 million songs in 2015, which is a 92.3% increase from 2014. Of those 317 mi

Few companies have contributed to the mobile market as much as Motorola has, and despite the fact that most of these contributions were made in the pre-smartphone area, the company has still managed to maintain a strong presence in the smartphone market. That’s why it’s odd that Lenovo,

We’ve been hearing a lot about Yahoo over the past couple of months, and none of what we’ve heard has been good. The latest batch of news about the struggling company suggests that it’s considering laying off at least 10% of its workforce, most of which will come from its “me

With how slowly Netflix has been expanding over the past year or so, many people were wondering if the company would be able to complete its goal of spreading to nearly every country in the globe by the end of 2016. That’s because we were expecting a gradual expansion over the course of severa

Crowd-funding doesn’t just supply aspiring entrepreneurs with the financing they need to turn their ideas into actual products or services, it helps measure people’s interest in a particular area. Indiegogo believes that both of these things could prove beneficial to even large corporati

Samsung may have nailed the design of the Galaxy S6, but the hardware and software failed to impress users enough to generate as many sales as the company had expected. Things will be different with the Galaxy S7, however, as Samsung will be using the same design as the Galaxy S6 so that it can [&he