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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

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

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