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Fitness tracking is one of the very few areas in which smartwatches are actually useful, and even then, smart bands can do the same thing for a much lower price. Regardless, people are still willing to spend money on smartwatches, which is why companies are willing to make them, even those that don&

Autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing are two topics that are guaranteed to pop up whenever there’s a conversation about the automotive market and the transportation industry as a whole. The convergence of the two is an especially popular topic, and it’s believed by many that self-driving

I lost count of how many Xiaomi Mi5 rumors we reported on last year, but as 2015 started to come to a close, it became clear to everyone that Xiaomi had no intention of releasing a flagship smartphone that year. Most reports agree that this was done to avoid the overheating issues that plagued the [

Anyone who’s pirated a video game knows that you need a crack to break through the game’s anti-piracy protection, and there’s a number of hacking groups out there that dedicate all of their time to developing these cracks. Unfortunately for them, the anti-piracy technology that som

It seems like nothing is safe from smartification these days, not even guns. President Obama renewed everyone’s interest in smart guns on Monday with a memorandum titled Promoting Smart Gun Technology, which goes into detail about the new measures his administration wants to take in order to c

While Xiaomi was struggling just to meet the low-end of its sales goals for last year, Huawei was blowing past its own sales goals to become the largest smartphone manufacturer in China, and the third-largest in the world behind Apple and Samsung. From the reports we late last year, this outcome was

Would Instagram would be as popular as it is today if it didn’t limit its users with its square images? What about Snapchat and its ten-second messages, or Vine and its six-second videos? The answer is no, because those limitations are what keep things clean and simple for users. That being sa

Earlier today, the Toyota Research Institute announced a number of new artificial intelligence and robotics research projects, including some collaborative projects with the likes of MIT and Stanford. It even plans to open two new offices in the home cities of the these universities: Cambridge, Mass

With more active users than both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, Steam is the most-popular digital distribution platform for video games in the world, with next to nothing in the way of competition. The platform’s dominance over the market is such that Steam Spy has reported that more t

It looks like Snapchat is in the process of entering the advertising technology market, or at least, that’s what a report from Digiday is claiming. According to the report, Snapchat is currently in discussions with a number of advertising agencies and advertising technology companies about ope

Most of the PC gaming enthusiasts I’ve met in my life would never even consider getting an all-in-one for a number of reasons, the primary one being that it has almost as many limitations as a laptop, but without the benefit of portability. Gaming laptops make sense for a gamer that’s al

Qualcomm has been called the Intel of Smartphones due to its dominance over the mobile processor market, and it’s been trying to achieve the same level of dominance over the drone processor market. However, with its recent acquisition of a German startup by the name of Ascending Technologies,

Entertaining your passengers is one thing, but YOU don’t need to find a way to pass the time while you’re driving because most of your attention is (or should be) on the road. With self-driving vehicles, however, even the person in the driver’s seat is a passenger, which means for

Last night, after months of hints and teasers meant to build up our anticipation, Faraday Future unveiled its first concept vehicle. Known as the FFZERO1, the vehicle looks like something out of a comic book, but don’t expect it to be hitting the road anytime soon, or ever, because i

Remember when Yahoo decided it was jumping into the video streaming market with a revamped Yahoo Screen, and even generated a bit of buzz when it saved Community from dying by renewing it for another season? Well, that’s over now. Yahoo Screen has been removed from the Andr

When you’re competing against a $51 billion (soon to be $62.5 billion) behemoth like Uber, it’s important to have some big friends backing you, otherwise you won’t stand a chance. Lyft understands this, and that’s why it’s decided to become friends with none o

LG and Samsung like to get creative with the displays they manufacture, and both South Korean companies have been putting a lot of focus on flexible displays recently. Their focus on flexible displays will be especially apparent at CES 2016 this week, where LG is planning to show off an 18-inch

Earphones aren’t something that most people spend a lot of money on, mostly because it’s so easy to damage or lose them, not to mention a lot of smartphones come bundled with some cheap earphones that, while not exactly the highest quality, still get the job done. But why settle for

We still know next to nothing about Faraday Future, but that might change tomorrow. The electric vehicle company, which could be both a Tesla-killer and an Uber-killer, will be unveiling the concept vehicle it’s spent the last few weeks teasing, one that it claims will require us to

It looks like all of the terrorist attacks that have been occurring over the past several months have stifled some of the outrage over the NSA’s surveillance programs. According to a recent poll conducted by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs R

With the FAA having finally started implementing comfortable drone regulations, the most-popular drone manufacturer in the world has decided to appease the agency a bit with something called Geospatial Environment Online (GEO). Made by DJI, this new features allows the Chinese company’s d

Both the developed and developing worlds have been undergoing massive amounts of urbanization over the last century, and that trend is expected to continue for the next several decades. It’s believed that 86% of the developed world and 64% of the developing world will be urbaniz

Believe it or not, there was a time when people thought Foursquare was going to become the next Facebook, but the company has faded into relative obscurity over the last couple of years, and now it’s worth less than half of what it was just two years ago. Though it doesn’t look like

At team of researchers from Cornell University have developed a new type of polymer that’s able to remove pollutants from water in a matter of seconds. Led by associate professor of chemistry Will Dichtel, the team was able to develop a porous form of cyclodextrin, which is the same mater

After assessing the damage to the reusable rocket it recently launched, Elon Musk claims SpaceX found nothing of note, and that the rocket is ready to launch again. The ability to reuse rockets will be a massive step forward for space missions, as they’ll significantly reduce the time and reso

Samsung has proven time and time again that it’s not afraid to try new things, and t’s willingness to experiment is one of its biggest strengths. Dual-edge displays and phablets are two examples of experiments that have paid off, and Samsung is hop

As China’s mobile market continues to mature and saturate, all eyes are turning to India as the country’s mobile market continues to boom. Earlier this week, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India announced that the country has become the second in the world to reach one billion

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down by law enforcement, but a series of domain seizures over the last few months have whittled away the website’s arsenal, and now it’s being forced to use its .ORG and .SE do

For those of you who aren’t familiar, Politwoops is a website that allows people to see all the stupid crap that politicians have said on Twitter, even if those tweets were deleted. It’s a brilliant service, and one that more people should be taking advantage of, but the problem is,

For the average Internet users, Tor is easily the most-effective tool for maintaining anonymity and bypassing government censorship, and this is due in large part to the fact that the Tor Project works to hard to maintain the service and ensure that bugs and vulnerabilities are always bein

Commercial and consumer drones are exploding in popularity right now, and Qualcomm wants a piece of the action. Naturally, the company doesn’t want to sell its own drones, it wants to sell the hardware that powers the drones, which it intends to do with a modified version of its Snapdragon chi

Uber proved long ago that it’s more than just a ride-sharing company. It’s now more of a crowd-sourced transportation platform that transports both goods and people in a variety of ways, but it still limits itself to local transportation. Even that limitation might be

Most people are reluctant just to purchase a smartwatch, let alone other kinds of wearable gadgets, but that isn’t stopping Samsung from popping out even more niche wearables with questionable usefulness. To be fair, all of the devices that come from its Creative Lab a

The LG G4 was a solid device, but when you’re competing in the extremely crowded market for high-end smartphones, just being solid isn’t enough. Things might be different with next year’s LG flagship, however, as a new leak suggests the device might be one of the mos

Whether it was to cash in the Steam card they got for Christmas or take advantage of the ongoing Winter Sale, thousands of Steam users encountered a frightening glitch in the system when they tried to interact with the Steam store or view their account information. The glitch was causing person

With more money comes more responsibility, and following the news that Congress will be increasing NASA’s budget by $1.3 billion in 2016, it appears that $55 million of that budget has to be used to develop a deep space habitat for astronauts to use during future exploration mis

Earlier this week, we heard rumors that Samsung was planning to release the 5.2-inch Galaxy S7 and the 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge within the next few months, which is hardly surprising news. What is a bit surprising is the newer rumors, which claim that the company actually intends to release four vers

This year, Instacart managed to more than triple its staff to around 300 employees, but it won’t be nearly as aggressive with its hiring next year. This isn’t necessarily an indication that the grocery delivery startup is doing poorly, but rather that it’s matured to the point

What separates Massdrop from other e-commerce companies is that it runs on something the founders of the company call “community-driven commerce.” The products that are sold on Massdrop are decided by the users, who discuss what they’re interested in and wh

Spotify’s less-than-friendly relationship with the music industry stems from one thing: royalties. To be more precise, it stems from Spotify’s self-confessed inability to distribute royalties quickly and accurately, many times neglecting to pay royalties at all. That’s why Cam