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When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go out of its way to help the government spy on its users. That’s why it’s not all that surprising to hear AT&amp

To say that Sharp isn’t doing too well would be a massive understatement. The electronics maker had to receive a ¥225 billion ($1.91 billion) bailout from the Japanese government in order to combat its massive losses last year, but that was only a temporary solution, and it looks like the end

General Motors has made its interest in the ride-sharing market abundantly clear, and if its $500 million investment into Lyft, or its acquisition of Sidecar’s assets weren’t enough to convince you of that, then maybe the fact that it’s launched its own car-sharing service will be.

After a controversy surrounding his past donations caused Brendan Eich to resign from his position as the CEO of Mozilla back in 2014, he decided to launch a new startup that aims to fix what he considers to be one of the biggest problems on the Internet: advertisements. His startup is developing a

Hot on the heels of Deezer’s announcement that it has raised $109 million in new funding, Spotify announced that it has acquired two startups: Cord Project and Soundwave. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, and we don’t know what Spotify intends to do with them, but it’ll mo

Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means is that the company will now factor social media shares on both Facebook and Twitter into its ratings for American television program

The sordid cycle of rumors preceding launches of hot new tech devices has gotten to the point that we’re now using rumors to confirm or deny other rumors. It’s confusing, but it actually makes a lot of sense when we start to dig deeper into the marketing and buzz-building aspects of mode

Chinese companies are just as interested in autonomous vehicle technology as their American counterparts, and as the Google of China, it’s only natural that Baidu be the company leading the charge for Chinese research in the area. In fact, the company claims that it’s well within the rea

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, known as superbugs, have become a serious problem in recent years, and many experts believe that the problem will grow to near-catastrophic levels in the decades to come if we don’t do something about it. Researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder are wor

Netflix’s stock price surged increased by 7% on Tuesday after the company announced that it added more subscribers last quarter than it expected to, and raked in $1.823 billion in revenue. However, a measly $43 million of that revenue was actually profit, because the company spends ridiculous

It baffles my mind that most people in developed nations have tons of experience with the Internet at this point, and yet many of them still don’t take online security seriously. According to SplashData’s annual ranking of the worst passwords in North America and Western Europe, the most commo

Kickstarter is largely responsible for creating the crowd-funding scene as we know it today, but Patreon’s work in this area may actually be the most noteworthy. Rather than having tons of people pool money together to support a project, which is almost like a cross between fundraising and inv

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Tuesday that he’s taking on two new jobs, the most notable of which is the founder of a new personal fitness startup, while the other is a venture partner for Index Ventures. Amusingly enough, he made the announcement through his Twitter account, an

Remember a few weeks back when Sidecar announced that it’ll no longer be competing with the likes of Lyft and Uber, and will be exiting the ride-sharing market? Well, most of the assets and technology that belonged to the company has apparently been acquired by General Motors, which has expres

Although some would say that Singapore is the Silicon Valley of Asia, there are many who would argue that Beijing or Seoul are more deserving of the title. Seoul in particular is becoming a burgeoning startup hub, and the South Korean government wants to boost that growth even more by investing $65.

Having already become the world’s third-largest smartphone maker, several reports have indicated that Huawei will be joining fellow Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi in releasing its first laptop this year. However, whereas Xiaomi is said to be working on a traditional laptop like the MacBook, a

There haven’t been any major cyber attacks on connected cars yet, but numerous security researchers have proven that hacking cars is dangerously easy, and have called upon automakers and governments to ensure that drivers are protected before connected cars become the norm, which will be very

Whether it’s to avoid long checkout lines, or just avoid interacting with another human being, many people prefer to use the self-checkout counter when they go shopping, but the machines there can be… less than perfect at times. Often times, they lead to even longer waiting or even more

Nintendo is already an entertainment powerhouse, but it has the potential to be so much bigger, and it’s frustrating to see the company fail to meet that potential because of how slow it is to adapt to the changing market. This might be the year that Nintendo finally catches up, however, as pr

The “dark side of the Moon” is often used as a phrase to describe the unknown, because it can’t be viewed from Earth. While modern technology has allowed us to glimpse this side of the moon, humanity has yet to land any kind of spacecraft there in order to explore, but that’s

Wikipedia is celebrating its fifteenth birthday today, which is practically ancient as far as Internet years go. In those fifteen years, the website has not only managed to supplant Britannica as the dominant reference work in English, it’s become the seventh most-trafficked website in the wor

Whether or not you enjoy eSports, or consider them to be sports at all, you can’t deny that they’re exploding in popularity at the moment, and companies like Activision are trying to set themselves up as the ESPN of eSports, but as it turns out, the ESPN of eSports might just end up bein

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