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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

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