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Those of you still using the older web-based version of Yahoo Messenger will be sad to hear that Yahoo will be ending support for the service in a few months, but the good news is that a new, revamped version of the service has launched, and it actually looks pretty enticing. Naturally, the new Yaho

Laptop-tablet hybrids are a dime a dozen these days, bu what about a laptop-smartphone hybrid? When you phrase it like that, it seems pretty silly, but this recently-discovered Samsung patent for the Galaxy Note 6 is actually really interesting. Rather than combining a laptop and a smartphone into o

Cybersecurity is easily one of the biggest sources of tension between China and the United States, and it’s one that the two nations have slowly started to address. A few weeks ago, the two nations reached their first-ever high-level cybersecurity agreement, albeit one of little substance, in

The augmented reality market is still in infancy, practically still in the womb, but the competition is already starting to heat up. Microsoft is the only major player at the moment, thanks to its HoloLens headset, which isn’t even available yet, but as usual, Amazon is looking to give the com

It’s safe to say that Tidal has had a rough year, and I’m not sure whether the fact that the company has cycled through three CEOs in the past six months is the cause of that, or the product of it. Either way, Tidal is hoping that things will be different next year, as industry veteran J

The tablet market has been shrinking for a while now, but a recent shift in the industry may breathe new life into the tablet market. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released high-end tablets in recent months that feature abnormally large screens and PC-like capabilities, which has actually drawn

Initially, many people were confident that former Google executive Marissa Mayer would be able to turn things around for Yahoo as its CEO and President, but after three years of little progress, people are starting to lose hope, including the company’s board of directors. Apparently, the board

The disastrous failure that is the Wii U has forced Nintendo to advance to the next-generation of consoles much earlier than expected. We’ve been hearing a lot about the company’s next console, known as the Nintendo NX, but Nintendo has yet to reveal anything official, aside from confirm

The Galaxy S6 was built from the ground up as a completely new smartphone, which makes it more like the beginning of a new line of flagships rather than a continuation of the Galaxy S line, but don’t expect the Galaxy S7 to do the same. Some reports out of South Korea suggest that the [&hellip

It’s odd to see a smartphone manufacturer expanding into the laptop market, as it’s usually the reverse that happens, but that’s what Xiaomi appears to be doing. Considering how the company has been adding a variety of consumer electronics to its list of products, including air pur

Although a handful of restrictions have been put in place over the years to reduce online vandalism, people are still more or less free to create and modify Wikipedia pages however they please. While this openness is one of Wikipedia’s defining characteristics and greatest strengths, it also o

American and Chinese companies have been immensely interested in drone-based deliveries these past couple of years, which makes sense considering how those two countries have the largest e-commerce markets in the world, but it looks like the Chinese companies have just been dealt a major blow. While

Netflix has been on an absolute roll these past few years, and though only time will tell if it can continue to dominate the way it has been, it’s definitely looking like the company is helping bring about the destruction of traditional television. A survey from Clearleap suggests that streami

Samsung’s days as the king of the smartphone market are numbered if it can’t reverse its shrinking sales. It’s obvious that the strategies that helped earn that position are no longer working, and the company’s leadership has either not adapted to the changing market, or chan

The more developed a nation becomes, the more meat its citizens consume, and while Chinese families may not consume as much meat as their Western counterparts, their meat consumption is definitely on the rise. China’s economy has been growing at a ridiculous pace, and so has its middle class.

The fact that the Sun is a blazing hot ball of fire makes it rather difficult to gather data on it, and there’s still so much that scientists want to learn about the star that they simply can’t do because of these difficulties. Several decades ago, NASA sent a brave little probe on a sui

It’s embarrassing how much food we throw out every day, and even though some of us may feel guilty when we think about it, that’s still not enough to motivate us to change our habits, but there may be a simple solution. An Israeli startup by the name of HomeBiogas has developed a system

Though nothing has been officially announced, numerous leaks and rumors over the past month or so have indicated that Samsung will be launching the Galaxy S7 much earlier than expected, and some recently leaked AnTuTu benchmarks indicate that the device will be released very soon. The benchmarks are

Proving that its delivery drone idea was more than just a promotional stunt, Amazon has released a video in which it actually demonstrates one of its drones. Jeremy Clarkson, the former face of Top Gear, described the many ways that a drone-based delivery service would benefit consumers, and highlig

Everyone knows that virtual reality is the future of entertainment, but we still have a few years before the technology really starts to pick up, so what will the virtual reality market be like in the meantime? Well, according to Superdata, which specializes in analyzing the gaming industry, there w

The largest PC manufacturer in the world has joined forces with one of the biggest names in the PC gaming industry to create a new series of gaming hardware. Lenovo and Razer announced the partnership last week, which has given birth to the new Razer Edition series of gaming devices. All of the devi

Those of you who purchased standalone USB-C adapters and cables from OnePlus may want to get a refund, because they can potentially damage third-party charging hardware. While claiming that the blame rests with the companies that made the cheap charging hardware, OnePlus announced in a recent blog p

While the Japanese are busy building robots that assist the elderly, and the Swedes are busy building robots that help tourists at airports, the Chinese have developed a trio of death-dealing attack robots to combat “global terror” with rifles and grenade launchers. The three robots are

One of the most interesting, if little-used, features of the Xbox One is the ability to stream games from your console to your computer, and it looks like Sony wants to add a similar feature to the PlayStation 4. However, whereas the Xbox One streaming feature only works with Windows 10 computers, S

All airports are difficult to navigate, but the Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam takes things to the next level. The airport is practically a labyrinth, and is so difficult to navigate that Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM), a Dutch airline that’s based in Schiphol, has teamed up with res

Gabe Newell is known to most as the co-founder and de facto leader of Valve, but did you know he also invests in cookery startups? Eater recently interviewed Newell over the phone, where he told a story about how a Seattle-based startup by the name of ChefSteps asked him if they could come to his ho

Reaching your funding goal on Kickstarter is only half the battle, the other half is actually providing backers with the product or service that they’re funding. Unfortunately, despite raising $3.5 million and becoming Europe’s most-funded Kickstarter project, Zano was not only unable to

On Monday, the United Nations climate change summit will open in Paris, and Bill Gates will be launching a multi-billion dollar clean energy research and development initiative alongside some of the world’s most-powerful politicians. The members of the initiative, which includes both developed

We’ve heard a lot about Hyperloop in the two years since Elon Musk first released the concept, but he haven’t really seen much in the way of actual progress until recently. Plenty of companies and organizations have laid out plans for testing out the experimental technology, but now Musk

With less than a month to go before Star Wars: The Force Awakens launches, those of us who have been doing everything we can to avoid spoilers are in the homestretch, but things are more difficult than ever. A fresh batch of spoilers was just unleashed on the Web, with more undoubtedly following in

Transporting things to and from space is incredibly expensive, not to mention difficult, which is why researchers are looking for ways to make space stations as self-sufficient as possible. One of the ways that NASA is considering doing this is with genetically modified bacteria that could not only

William Bao Bean is one of the most prominent venture capitalists in China, one that specializes in spotting emerging trends and identifying startups with a lot of potential, so his claim that China ahead of the rest of the world in social content-driven commerce has a lot of weight. According to hi

People have been waiting… and waiting… and waiting for the Xiaomi Mi5 to be released, but Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun assures us that it’s worth waiting for. Many of us expected the flagship to be announced at Xiaomi’s Grand Finale event a few days ago, but obviously that didn’t

Russia’s decision to force foreign companies like Facebook and Google to store the data they have on Russian citizens within Russia’s borders is actually an excellent business opportunity for local companies. As a nation of more than 143 million people, there’s no way these compani

The quest for immortality is as old as mankind itself, but we’re only just now at a level of technological advancement that immortality may actually be within our reach. Many companies and organizations are already searching for a way to cheat death, but whereas most of them are exploring some

HTC’s revenue has been steadily declining for months, and none of the smartphones that it’s releasing are turning things around, so the company has decided to try something new. In order to make absolutely sure that the products it releases are what consumers want, HTC has launched a new

The ZUK Z1 was definitely one of the lesser-known additions to this year’s high power, low price smartphone lineup. The reasons for this being that it was released later in the year, comes from an unknown Lenovo-backed brand, and isn’t quite as powerful as the Moto X Style or OnePlus 2.

A German motorists organization recently conducted a study on connected cars and how much driver data they gather, and the findings are a little unsettling. Known as the Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), the organization found that at lease one recent model, the BMW 320d, not only collect

It’s odd how a company that makes all of its money by selling things online, and is often cited as the biggest reason for the decline of physical bookstores, ended up opening its own physical bookstore. Even stranger than this, however, is the fact that Amazon’s bookstore is actually a b

Following a string of assaults, rapes, and attempted assaults and rapes, Uber promised to make safety the primary focus of its ride-sharing service, and it looks like the company is making good on that promise. Yesterday, Uber announced that it has assembled a safety advisory board, which will work