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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

It’s weird how the Web still feels like a new thing in a lot of ways, but it’s actually older than many of the people who use it. In fact, the world’s first website was launched exactly twenty-five years ago on Sunday, although it wasn’t until several months later that t

I’m sure we’re all familiar with the loathsome 404 error that explains to us how the webpage we were looking for wasn’t found, but it never tells us why the webpage wasn’t found, which is something that man by the name of Tim Bray wants to fix. Bray, who i

Ubuntu may be the most well-known of the Linux distributions, but that doesn’t mean much, and it certainly wasn’t enough for the operating system to reach founder Mark Shuttleworth’s ambitious goal of reaching 200 million users within four years. That was four years ago,

Earlier this year, it was discovered that Toshiba had exaggerated its operating profits by around $1.2 billion over the last six years, which not only resulted in both its CEO and vice-chairman being forced to resign from the company, but caused the company to suffer from a whopping $

I’ll admit, when ASUS unveiled the first ZenFone, I assumed it was going to be another failed attempt by a PC maker to expand into the smartphone market in an effort to save itself, but I was wrong. Not only did the ZenFone end up being a solid mid-range device, it launched a fairly-popul

Not content with being the largest smartphone maker in China, and the third-largest in the world, Huawei has spent the last few years trying to expand into the semiconductor market with its own mobile chipsets. The expansion has actually been pretty successful, and the company’s newest Kirin 9

A few bucks a month isn’t all that much, which is why many of us don’t think twice when before signing up for a monthly subscription to something like Netflix or Spotify, but when you accumulate several of those subscriptions over a period of time, it starts to add up. The worst part is,

3D printing may have the potential to revolutionize the way we manufacture things, but for now, 3D printing is mostly used to create colorful nicknacks and small-scale components for the few people that can actually afford 3D printers. That being said, tons of research and development is being put i

Bitcoin and most other digital currencies rely on something called a blockchain to operate, and while the technology has become more or less synonymous with Bitcoin, the Blockchain’s potential uses extend far beyond digital currencies. The finance industry stands to be the most-affected by the

Taxes aren’t very fun, which is why so many multinational corporations like to use their ability to operate in multiple countries to avoid them. According to some American politicians, Apple is one of these companies, but in an interview with CBS, CEO Tim Cook dismissed those accusations as &#

With the new Star Wars movie having finally been unleashed upon the world, this is the perfect time to be talking out the science fiction technology that’s quickly making its way into the real world. One such technology is lasers, which the United States military has been especially interested

Remember how Amazon bought itself a small fleet of trailer trucks for Christmas earlier this month? Well it looks like the company wants to buy itself a fleet of cargo jets as well. In an effort to have more control over how its goods are transported, Amazon is apparently negotiating to lease twenty

It seems like everyone and their mother wants to get into the mobile payments market nowadays, with Walmart being the latest company to launch its own mobile payments service, but it’s not the only retailer looking to delve into the market. According to a report from Reuters, Target is actuall

John Chen may have built a reputation as a guy who can turn things around for struggling companies, but when he became the CEO of BlackBerry back in 2013, most people had little hope that he’d be able to breathe new life into the company. However, due in large part to the release of its first

One of the biggest questions people have had about America’s upcoming drone registry is whether or not the personal information that’s given to the government as part of the registration process will be public. It’s not that the question hasn’t been answered, it’s that

Trailing behind BlackBerry 10, Cyanogen OS, Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, and Windows Phone in the quest to challenge the Android-iOS duopoly that currently dominates the mobile market, is this little-known mobile operating system called Sailfish OS. It’s an interesting operating system that has a lot

Remember those LifeLock commercials where CEO Todd Davis would publicly display his own Social Security number to demonstrate the company’s ability protect customers form identity theft? Well, the fact that Davis has had his identity stolen more than a dozen times should have alerted people to

While Xiaomi is struggling just to meet the lowest sales goal it set for itself this year, Huawei has become China’s largest smartphone maker with more than 100 million smartphones shipped in 2015 alone. This puts the company up there with Apple and Samsung as the three largest smartphone make

Don’t get me wrong, I like the power increase that comes with each successive generation of smartphones, but I’m far from alone when I say that I’d rather have a battery that lasts longer than an improved processor whose added power I probably won’t even utilize. Improving ba

Remember when Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun claimed his company would sell at least 80 million smartphones this year? Well, despite its explosive growth, the company wasn’t even able to achieve that number, and it was the lowest goal that it set for itself. Aside from the fact that Xiaomi hasn&

This year’s Sony flagships did little to improve the company’s horrendous smartphone sales, but as stated many times before, its handset division has no intention of giving up. Earlier this month, there was a rumor that the company was planning to release four versions of its next flasgh

Technology isn’t just changing the way we drive vehicles, it’s also changing the way we buy them. A New York City-based startup by the name of Vroom is one of the companies bringing about this change by selling used cars online. With more than $300 million in revenue this year, Vroo

Netflix is finally starting its expansion into Asia, but several local competitors have already popped up while the company was taking its time. One of the most promising of these competitors is iFlix, a Kuala Lumpur-based streaming service that offers Western entertainment to users across

Xiaomi was originally planning to release a Snapdragon 810-powered Mi5 at the end of the year, but obviously that never happened, with many people suggesting that the company wanted to wait for the Snapdragon 820 to be released so that it wouldn’t have to deal with overheating issues. While th

Thanks to the California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program, the state has become the most-popular place in the world to test out self-driving vehicles on public roads, and Ford is the latest company to secure a permit to do so. BMW, Google, Honda, Mercedes, Nissan, Tesla, and Volkswagen have a

Few things are as potentially dangerous to children in developed nations as social media, and though many governments and organizations have made efforts to raise awareness of its dangers, it hasn’t been nearly enough. That being said, the European Union’s proposal to make it illega

Gaming has come a long way over the years, in both market size and social acceptance. According to a new survey from Pew Research Center, almost half of the adults in the United States have played video games, and one in ten consider themselves to be gamers. This means that plenty of peopl

We’ve been waiting years for Yahoo to turn things around, and many people have given up hope of it ever happening. Not only has CEO Marissa Mayer failed to turn the company around as promised, the board of directors has decided to cancel its plan to spin-off its stake in Alibaba in favor of a

China Mobile isn’t just the largest of China’s state-run wireless carriers, it’s the largest wireless carrier in the world, with almost double the number of subscribers as Vodafone, which is the world’s second-largest wireless carrier. The company didn’t fare too well i

Netflix’s algorithms get the job done, but they’re not nearly as efficient as they could be. The algorithms currently in place determine the quality of the video you receive based on the available bandwidth, but don’t discriminate between different movies or shows. This c

High-end specs, mid-range price. That’s part of what makes Xiaomi’s products so ridiculously successful, and so far, the company hasn’t had to sacrifice much in the way of power to keep its device’s affordable. Unfortunately, it looks like that might change with the

Have you ever felt like smartphone companies should be putting more focus on improving batteries than increasing the power of their devices? If so, then the Oukitel K10000 may be the smartphone for you. How many people actually use all those high-end components in their smartphone to their full

The online hacking group known as Anonymous can be amusing at times, and occasionally even admirable, but most of the time it’s just annoyingly immature, and it’s most-recent hack definitely puts it into the latter category. For no reason other than because it though it would b

OnePlus shrunk things down a bit with the OnePlus X, but it looks like the company might be shrinking things down even further with another smartphone, and it’s not even sacrificing power to do so. A new smartphone from the company was recently benchmarked, and it comes with a 4.6-inch display

Pressure-sensitive displays are practically essential for new flagships nowadays, so it’s not at all surprising to hear that Samsung will be adding the technology to the Galaxy S7, but what is surprising is the rumor that the company might add an iris scanner to the smartphone as well. Iris sc

When you decide to back a crowdfunding project, you’re running the risk of having your money wasted when the project ends up failing, and though it may be reassuring to see other people pouring millions of dollars into a project, history has proven time and time again that even the most well-f

This morning, the FAA made good on its promise to have a national drone registry in place before Christmas, and people who register their drones within the next thirty days won’t even have to pay the registration fee. If that’s not enough to encourage you to register your drone

Tor is currently the most-important tool for online anonymity in the world, due in large part to the fact that it doesn’t have much in the way of competition, but that’s about to change thanks to a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

It’s safe to say that World War II would cause a lot of problems, not the least of which is the interruption of Elon Musk’s plans for Mars. In an interview with GQ Magazine, Musk expressed his belief that another World War is definitely a real possibility, and that it would be “far