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It looks like Honor, the brand of mid-range smartphones that Huawei owns, will be entering the American market next year. The brand announced as much after its two-year anniversary celebration last night, saying that the “United States market is the highest end market for Huawei,” and th

Just because Nintendo is making its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, doesn’t mean the company is giving up on handheld consoles. In an interview with the Washington Post, marketing chief Scott Moffitt claimed this 3DS sales are actually up from last year, and that his company

Lie detectors have been around for almost a century, but none of them have even come close to detecting lies as well as a human can, which isn’t saying much, because most humans aren’t that accurate either. However, a group of researchers from the University of Michigan ha

Elon Musk has made his wariness of artificial intelligence abundantly clear, and though many people within the tech industry have joked about his concerns, there are still plenty that share them. Several of these like-minded tech leaders, such as Y Combinator CEO Sam Altman, have joined forces with

While regulators in the United States are still working on a legal solution to the ever-growing consumer drone problem, Japan has decided to fight fire with fire using a new drone that specializes in taking out other drones. On Friday, police in Tokyo unveiled a net-wielding interceptor drone t

God, don’t you just hate it when you’re subscribed to all these video streaming services and you can’t decide what to watch because there’s just too many options?! Yeah, it’s definitely one of those problems that most people would love to have, but Yahoo has developed a

Don’t get me wrong, I like it when companies take risks and try new things, but I’m far from alone when I say I would much rather Nintendo release a traditional controller with its next console instead of a quirky motion controller or pseudo-tablet that lose their appeal after a few

Up until a few years ago, few people would’ve predicted that eSports would actually become popular, let alone predict that competitions for games like Counter-Strike and League of Legends would generate more views than many actual sports. The rise of eSports has not only allowed gamers to make

Even though the Nexus 6P only just recently hit the market, we’re already started to see rumors of the device’s successor. It’s still far too early to be seeing any real details, but a Chinese consumer electronics analyst has claimed that Huawei will be working with Google again ne

If you had doubts about Ford’s commitment to electric vehicles, then maybe CEO Mark Fields can remove them. This morning, Fields announced that his company intends to invest $4.5 billion into electric vehicles over the next five years, and will release thirteen new electric vehi

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

Considering how instant messaging is practically essential for social networks nowadays, it’s a surprise that it’s taken Tumblr this long to release its own such feature. Due to popular demand, the website started rolling out its own instant messaging feature in small batches last month,

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