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Mankind’s obsession with energy has led to its demise in countless fictional stories, and whether it be the irreversible destruction of our environment, or wars fought over limited resources, an energy-related demise has become a very real possibility. It’s not all doom and gloom th

Some of the best GoPro videos out there have come from people who strapped a GoPro camera to a consumer drone and started shooting aerial footage, with some drones even being designed specifically to carry GoPro cameras. Seeing the potential in burgeoning consumer drone market, GoPro has decided to

With more than 43 million subscribers in the United States alone, Netflix has set the bar pretty high for other streaming services. Obviously, nobody expected Dish Network’s own streaming service to come anywhere close to that number, and Dish hasn’t disclosed any official numbers, which

Unlike with most social networks, it’s actually really easy to use Twitter without an account, so much so that the company estimates that there are somewhere around 500 million Twitter users that aren’t accounted for in normal usage statistics because they don’t have an account. Us

Steam users have been suffering from account theft since the service first launched, but ever since Valve introduced Steam Trading to the mix, the number of accounts being stolen increased exponentially. Once an account is stolen, it’s actually fairly easy to get it back or lock it down, which

The vast majority of Americans agree that our nation’s education system is seriously flawed, what we can’t agree on is which parts are flawed, and how we should go about fixing them. During a surprise visit to a group of third graders in Manhattan, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that one of the

Samsung already makes practically everything having to do with electronics, from kitchen appliances to semiconductors, but the company is on a mission to make LITERALLY everything having to do with electronics, including electric vehicles. Last night, the company announced that intends to begin deve

There are thousands of Walmarts scattered across the country, so it’s no surprise that companies like Apple and Google have been trying to get the supermarket chain to adopt their mobile payments services, Apple Pay and Android Pay, respectively. Unfortunately, Walmart has refused to partner w

LG isn’t nearly as massive or well-known as Samsung, but the South Korean company has still managed to carve itself out a little piece of the smartphone market thanks to its willingness to embrace new, potentially risky ideas. Unfortunately, that simply hasn’t been enough in recent years

Well everybody, it looks like we’ve all been wrong about China this whole time! Contrary to popular belief, the Chinese government doesn’t actually censor the Internet at all, it just “manages” the content on there, so I guess we owe them a big apology for gett

Just as American companies tend to have a hard time breaking into the Chinese market, so to do Chinese companies trying to break into the American market. This is especially true for startups, which is a damn shame considering all of the interesting startups that China has given birth to in recent y

There may have been a few (or several) bumps in the road, but this year has been great for OnePlus. Not only was the company able to release two smartphones, it was able to ditch the universally-loathed invite system for the OnePlus 2 much more quickly than it did with the OnePlus One, so it’s

It looks like only half of the rumors about Yahoo’s plans for the future were true. While the company has confirmed that it’s abandoning its plan to spin off its stake in Alibaba, which is the Chinese equivalent of Amazon, it won’t be selling off its core business. Instea

HTC and Valve’s co-developed virtual reality headset has been delayed by a few months. We’ve known the device wouldn’t fully hit the market until sometime next year, but HTC claimed that limited quantities of it would be available by the end of 2015. Unfortunate

Remember the fight that Spotify and Taylor Swift got into last year, the one that resulted in Swift removing most of her songs from the streaming service? Well, the fight started because of Spotify’s insistence that all songs be available on both its ad-supported free tier, and its subscriptio

Last night, Uber announced that it’s going to begin testing two new ride-sharing services in a couple of American cities. The first new service is called uberCOMMUTE, and will be limited to users in the Chicago metropolitan area. The service will only be available during work hours on weekdays

The idea behind Firefox OS was to create a mobile operating system that would focus on being affordable, lightweight, and web standards-compliant. It was an admirable and ambitious idea, but not one that even came close to being popular, which is why Mozilla has more or less killed off the

Confirming those rumors we heard a couple weeks ago, Amazon is now allowing Prime users to add other streaming services to their subscription, essentially turning Prime into s streaming hub, and all of these lesser-known services into components of that hub. Naturally, this doesn’t include HBO

The list of companies that Blue Spike has filed lawsuits against for allegedly infringing on its patents is too long to say with a single breath, but just know that Xiaomi is the latest company to be added to that list. Whether or not the American company is a patent troll is a matter of o

A broadband network company by the name of Sandvine recently conducted a survey which found that streaming services now account for more than 70% of North America’s broadband usage during peak evening hours. This probably isn’t that big of a surprise to most of us, but it does serve

I hope you like Netflix’s original content, because the company intends to double the number of shows it has next year. Yesterday morning, Netflix CCO Ted Sarandos announced that his company will have released 31 of its own shows by the end of 2016, and revealed that it’s

Airbnb may not be pulling in as much funding as Uber, but it’s raising more than pretty much every other startup out there. First reported by the Wall Street Journal back in June, the company has confirmed that it’s raised another $1.5 billion in funding, which brings its valuation to ar

Over the next several months, the United States Postal Service will be expanding its Informed Delivery service, which sends customers an email containing an image of the physical mail that they’re supposed to receive that day. Although it’s free, customers must sign up for

A little under a year ago, there were less than a dozen publishers using Snapchat, but after seeing how useful the app’s Discover platform is for tapping into the coveted millennial audience, the number of publishers has jumped to seventeen, with many more expected to join in the nea

Often more frightening than terrorist attacks themselves are the asinine laws that politicians will propose in their wake. When the horrors of a terrorist attack are still fresh on everyone’s mind, and the fear of future attacks is as strong as it will ever be, that’s when politicians wi

Australia is home to some of the world’s most-brilliant scientists and most-innovative startups, but it’s still only meeting a fraction of its potential. The country has been on the verge of a science and startup boom for a while, and as a man who is seen as a potential leader in innovat

When a company or organizations wants to make money from one of their products, but knows that charging people to use it would most-likely cause them to switch to a competitor, they usually turn to advertising or premium subscriptions. Mozilla chose the former when looking for ways to monetize Firef

Japan’s population is expected to start shrinking at an alarming rate in the years to come, and the country has already started running into issues with employment. Basically, more people are leaving the workforce than are joining it, a lot more, and that’s starting to cause some serious

Computers have become an essential part of many companies, and many of these companies have adopted policies for how their employees should use computers while they’re at work. Obviously, should an employee break that policy, the company is well within its rights to discipline them, but the go

Although many consumers have acquired a taste for big smartphones and phablets over the last few years, a significant chunk of Americans still prefer smaller handsets. According to a recent survey, which conveniently coincides with rumors that Apple intends to release a 4-inch smartphone next year,

Researchers from the International Data Corporation have released a rather surprising forecast for the future of the smartphone industry, one which predicts that global smartphone shipments will see single-digit growth this year for the first time. The forecast claims that smartphone shipment will g

Whenever Amazon needs to transport goods between its numerous fulfillment and sorting centers, it relies on a number of trucking partners across the country, and while that’s not going to change any time soon, the company has taken the first steps towards becoming self-sufficient in this regar

I’m not sure whether it’s because of determination or denial, but it looks like Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has no intention of selling the company. Yahoo has had a rough time these past few years, as I’m sure you all know, and rumors that the former Internet giant was considering sell

I think most people would agree that $9.99/month is a small price to pay to be able to listen to whichever songs you want, whenever you want, as much as you want, but the artists that create these songs and the publishers that release them would beg to differ. Many of them feel like Spotify, [&helli

I think it’s safe to say that broadband providers weren’t very pleased when the FCC announced its net neutrality rules, and when I say that, I mean they’ve been doing anything and everything in their power to try and get the rules changed or removed entirely. Yesterday, the FCC had

Liquidmophium is a type of liquid metal that looks and sounds like something from a sci-fi movie, with Terminator 2 being the first movie that comes to mind, but it’s actually real, and Turing Robotic Industries is making a smartphone out of it. You may have even heard about the Turing Phone r

The ride-sharing market is divided into two parts: Uber and those other guys. With billions in funding coming in every few months, and a valuation that could be as high as $65 billion, Uber is the undisputed leader at the moment, and its sheer dominance in the market has caused “those other gu

OnePlus has made it painfully clear that all of its new smartphone will use its universally loathed invite system for the foreseeable future, but it’s never permanent. A few months after the OnePlus One was launched, the company removed the invite system entirely, and starting tomorrow, the co

Back in 2007, before Netflix was the streaming powerhouse that it is today, the company was working on its own set-top box that would be competing with the likes of the Apple TV and the Roku. The company spent a lot of time and money on the device’s development, and was actually so close to re

It’s a testament to how massive Uber is at the moment that pulling in an additional $2.1 billion in funding is barely even noteworthy, considering how it’s just one more addition to an ever-growing list of multi-billion dollar funding rounds for the company. Uber is already the world&#82