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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

The ride-sharing market isn’t exactly crowded, but it’s extremely competitive. Uber is the only ride-sharing service that operates on a global scale, and is the undisputed market leader, but it still has to work for its money. A number of local ride-sharing services h

It might seem like electric vehicles are quickly taking over the automotive industry, but as the Vienna-based Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) claims, this couldn’t be farther from the truth. In its annual World Oil Outlook report, the organization claims that

Being able to regularly monitor your pulse is cool and all, but Samsung wants to take fitness trackers to the nest level with the Bio-Processor, a new chip that’s supposed to bring much more functionality to next year’s fitness trackers. The chip enables fitness trackers to mon

Earlier this month, China launched its Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) into space, and it’s already starting to send back data. Developed by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside researchers from the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare in Italy and

The last few years haven’t been kind to Taiwanese technology companies, and though there are a few exceptions, HTC isn’t one of them. The company has been struggling for a while now, to the point where many industry analysts believe its days may be numbered, but CEO and chairwo

The Russian government has been practically synonymous with corruption for decades, and in few areas has this been more noticeable and detrimental than the country’s space agency. That’s why President Putin has decided to dissolve the agency and turn it into a state-run corporation,

Game of Thrones has won or been nominated for numerous awards over the years, but there’s one award that I’m sure the people at HBO would much rather live without, and Game of Thrones just won it for the fourth year in a row. Though it’s not actually an award, Game of Thrones once

Faraday Future has made it clear that it wants to reinvent cars as we know them, but how the company intends to do that has been a mystery, until now. Lead designer Richard Kim recently gave Tech Insider an unprecedented amount of detail regarding the company’s plans, claiming that i

The Xiaomi Mi5 may very well be the most-leaked smartphone of the year, and one of the most-anticipated, which is funny considering that it’s not even going to be released this year. If rumors are to be believe, it was originally scheduled to be released late this year, but overheating issues

Most of the rumors we’ve been hearing about the Galaxy S7 claim the smartphone will be released shortly after next year’s Mobile World Congress ends on February 25th, but Reuters is reporting that the company might actually launch the Galaxy S7 at an Unpacked event a couple of

Thanks to Amazon’s notorious secrecy regarding certain aspects of its business, we’re still not sure how many people are subscribed to Amazon Prime, but the company decided to give us an idea of how popular it is on Sunday. According to the company, more than three million

There was a time when Theranos was one of the most-promising startups in the world, but now it’s having to fight off wave after wave of accusations that, should they prove to be true, will undoubtedly be fatal to the company. Business is already starting to suffer from these accusations, which

Despite the numerous protests of Western technology companies, and even a warning from President Obama himself, China’s legislature voted unanimously to pass the country’s controversial new anti-terrorism law. As with most laws that claim to be designed to combat

ASUS has been fairly successful in its attempts to become less reliant on its PC business with its recent smartphones, but it doesn’t want its diversification efforts to be limited to just the mobile market. We already know that the company is working with Microsoft to create its own

Companies are only just now experimenting with the idea of bringing holograms to consumer electronics, but a group of researchers from the University of Tokyo is already bringing the technology to the next level. It’s one thing to be able to interact with holograms, or even manipulate them thr

Being able to work with some of the most-popular celebrities in the world is one of the perks that comes with being owned by Facebook, and it looks like Oculus intends to take full advantage of that perk. Beats proved that getting LeBron James to promote your product can be a massive boost to your [

If there’s one thing that Twitter has in abundance, other than spam bots, it’s trolls. The sheer amount of malicious users on Twitter has caused many people to stop using the service entirely, which is obviously the last thing the company wants. That’s why it’s been maki

Most consumer electronics companies see their revenue spike during the holiday season, but Fitbit sold so many of its fitness trackers this Christmas that the accompanying Fitbit app was the most-popular app on the app store this week. Beating out the likes of Instagram and YouTube, the Fitbit app t

In contrast to Uber’s aggressive international expansion, Lyft has chosen to focus all of its attention on its home market, but despite the fact that it only operates in the United States, the ride-sharing service is actually attracting a lot of foreign investment. The most-notable o

Anyone who’s looked at investment trends in China over the last couple of years has probably noticed that investors there really, REALLY like delivery startups. Billions of dollars are being poured into everything from laundry delivery startups to food delivery startups, and Alibaba just spent

Japanese companies used to be the kings of consumer electronics, but the the rise of the mobile market and increased competition from foreign companies has caused many of them to struggle. Fujitsu is one such company, and in an effort to improve the efficiency of its businesses, it&#8

Samsung’s position at the top of the smartphone market is becoming more and more precarious, as the company has been losing startling amounts of market share and profit in recent months. The reason for this, according to some of the company’s former executives, is that it has no idea wha

All we know about Nintendo’s first mobile game is that it’s going to be free-to-play, and it’s not really a game, but rather a Mii-based communication tool. That’s not what most us were imagining when we begged the company to enter the mobile gaming market, but this only the

Mozilla may have abandoned its efforts to bring Firefox OS to smartphones, but the Web-centric operating system might still make its way to pretty much every other kind of consumer electronic out there. That’s not even an exaggeration, as some leaked documents that Hipertextual claim

Spotify’s relationship with music artists is… not so good. Thanks to issues with how it distributes royalties, many artists have complained that they’re not properly compensated for their songs that are streamed through Spotify, and some big name artists like Adele and Taylor

What separates Viber from the likes of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp is that, similar to Skype, it can be used for both business and leisure, which is why it’s currently the sixth most-popular messaging service in the world. That being said, its messaging features are pretty standard (m

It’s kind of funny how one of the year’s most-anticipated smartphones isn’t actually being released this year. Most people assume that Xiaomi decided not to release the Mi5 this year in order to avoid the Snapdragon 820’s overheating issues, but the company claims that this w

Due to the nature of Palantir’s work with government agencies and law enforcement, the data analytics startup is one of the most-secretive companies in Silicon Valley, but we do know that it’s extremely popular with investors. According to an SEC filing on Wednesday, the startu

It seems like every study and survey conducted in the United States is coming to the conclusion that traditional television is dying, and the latest data from the Pew Research Center is no exception. According to the data, somewhere around 15% of American adults are now cord-cutters, which mean

A group of researchers from Berkeley, Boulder, and MIT have successfully demonstrated a microprocessor that transmits data through optical connections instead of electrical wires, which the researchers claim allows it transmit data at ten to fifty times the speed of traditional microp

It looks like the threat of a massive fine and potential prison time was enough to convince more than 45,000 American drone owners to register with the FAA after just two days of opening the mandatory registration, not to mention the fact that it’s free for the first thirty days. If

While many people are anticipating the release of virtual reality headsets like the Oculus Rift, most of them don’t realize how much processing power these headsets actually require. That’s why virtual reality gaming is going to be more or less exclusive to computers for the&nb

Elon Musk is nothing if not venturesome, but the success of SpaceX’s vertical rocket landing on Monday may have taken his ambitions to new levels. The success of the landing is a major step towards the development of reusable rockets, and Musk claims that these rockets will

Fans of the beloved, yet unsuccessful Dreamcast were filled with excitement earlier today when talk of a Dreamcast 2 started popping up on social media, all thanks to team of fans going by the name of Project Dream. It was reported that the team plans to launch a crowd-funding campaign to

Google may provide us with some of the most-detailed maps that are available on the Internet, but its reliance on its own fleet of customized mapping vehicles severely limits how quickly its able to update these maps. In an effort to exploit this limitation, Toyota has developed its own mapping syst

If you’re not buying your smartphone from any of the increasingly-popular Chinese smartphone makers like Huawei or Xiaomi, then odds are you’re still buying a smartphone that was manufactured in China. In fact, if new data released by China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Te

Your profile picture is one of the first things people see when viewing your social media profiles, so it’s important that the picture be at least somewhat interesting and memorable. Generic selfies are a dime a dozen on social media, so you need to get a bit creative if you want to

With a higher valuation than all of its competitors combined, Uber is the undisputed leader of the ride-sharing market, which is why so many of its smaller competitors have been joining forces, because there’s no way they can compete with Uber by themselves. That being said, forming partnershi