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Nest’s Learning Thermostat is about to become even more useful. This morning, the company announced that all generations of the device will be receiving a big update over the next couple of weeks, which will improve the device’s ability to maintain your preferred temperature in your hous

We’ve already seen plenty of tech companies trying to be watchmakers, but Fossil is one of the first watchmakers to do the reverse. Having been a major player in the traditional watch market for years, Fossil released its first smartwatch today, known as the Q Founder, which can be purchased d

The Xbox One may be catching up to the PlayStation 4, but Sony’s console is still the undisputed victor of this generation’s console wars. According to the company, the PlayStation 4 is the “the fastest and strongest grown in PlayStation history,” and has managed to sell more

Wearable gadgets are a great way to gather information on your fitness and health habits, but what do you do with that information once you’ve gathered it? Giving it to your doctor probably won’t help you, because there’s nothing of value that they can do with that information, and

Tech companies like Google have been at the forefront of self-driving car development, but most consumers wish that wasn’t the case. According to a survey from the Boston Consulting Group and the World Economic Forum, more than half of consumers across the globe are open to the idea of adoptin

Wi-Fi is going to be replaced eventually, and many people expected 5G to be the technology that finally does so, but it looks like Li-Fi might have a shot at replacing Wi-Fi as well. As the name implies, Li-Fi uses light to transmit data, rather than the radio waves that Wi-Fi uses, and initial test

Considering how the United States government’s feelings towards encryption and online anonymity have been like over the past couple of years, it’s no surprise that the Tor Project wants to seek other sources of funding. Despite being one of the few tools that can consistently combat gove

Challenging an e-commerce behemoth like Amazon requires an immense amount of connections and resources, not to mention experience and strategy. Jet.com has plenty of the latter two, having been founded by the same man who founded Diapers.com, and with $350 million in new funding and another $150 mil

When Irrational Games was disbanded last year, many people were worried that this meant the end of the BioShock series, and even though 2K and Take-Two have claimed that this isn’t the case, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick decided to remove and lingering doubts we may have had. According to him,

With commercial drones exploding in popularity, and the potential dangers of the emerging technology becoming more evident, the FAA has been trying to come up with a way to crack down on improper drone use. Requiring all of the drones in the United States to be registered with the federal government

For those of us with limited data or slow internet speeds, Opera Max is one of the most-useful apps out there. Basically, the app uses compression to save you massive amounts of data when you use your smartphone, especially when using video streaming services like Netflix, and as of now, the app sup

I understand how frustrating it can be to have features that used to be free suddenly hidden behind a paywall, but without a way to make money, apps like Pushbullet simply can’t continue to operate. To be fair, Pushbullet’s decision to adopt a subscription model wasn’t the best ide

A week after Rdio filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by Pandora for $75 million, the struggling music streaming service has stopped accepting new subscribers and has cancelled the accounts of existing subscribers. We don’t know when the service will actually be shutting down, but the free v

Whenever you throw out an old smartphone, you’re indirectly contributing to a massive environmental issue relating to the improper disposal of consumer electronics, but it doesn’t have to be that way. What if you could not only stop adding to the endless stream of electronic waste, but h

Most people who have been using the Internet for a while can tell the difference between an advertisement and an actual search link, especially since most search engines actually highlight and identify ads, but teens aren’t that perceptive. At least, that’s what a new report from Ofcom c

One of the biggest complaints that people have about the current generation of consoles is that the power increase over the previous generation wasn’t nearly as significant as it needed to be, which means that the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One aren’t powerful enough to handle emerging trend

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been focusing a lot more on privacy and security issues following the Snowden leaks, but the organization is directing more of its attention towards censorship and content control. Earlier this week, the EFF launched a new website that it hopes will be ab

NASA has been able to gather unprecedented amounts of information on Mars using a single, land-bound drone, so just imagine what it could do with a flying drone. It sounds like NASA has already started imagining it, and it must like what it sees, because there’s a good chance that the Mars 202

In three days, Xiaomi will throw its end-of-the-year Grand Finale event, where it’s expected to unveil a bunch of new products, including the Redmi Note 2. We’re not sure what else the company will be unveiling, but some rumors out of China claim that the company will announce its first

Having more than 100 million daily active users was the easy part for Snapchat, now it needs to find out how to make money off them. The company has tried a number of approaches, most of which involve various forms of advertising, and some of them show promise, but Snapchat’s ad revenue is sti

Last night, Airbnb announced that it has raised another $100 million in funding, which brings the startup’s total funding to $2.34 billion, and brings its value to $25.5 billion. As impressive as that number is, it’s the same value that the company had last summer, but it’s expecte

Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but she’s one of the biggest. While she stopped short of calling for government-accessible backdoors in encryptions, she did call on Silicon Valley to start doing its

YouTube has been the king of video streaming for years, but it looks like Netflix has stolen the crown, at least in the United States. According to a survey from RBC Capital Markets, more than half of American internet users have watched movies or television shows on Netflix in the past twelve month

Reddit has announced that it’ll be making some big changes to its privacy policy in a few weeks, with CEO Steve Huffman going into detail about the changes on the official r/announcements subreddit. One of the biggest changes will be how long the website stores the IP addresses of users, which

T-Mobile came under fire from net neutrality advocates when it released Music Freedom, and the company has run into similar concerns with its new Binge On service. For those of you who are unfamiliar, Music Freedom allows subscribers to stream as much music as they want from services like Spotify, w

Microsoft dealt a massive blow to Sony when it announced that the Xbox One will be receiving backwards compatibility for many Xbox 360 games, and while Sony has made it clear that it won’t be doing the same with the PS4 and PS3, the company has confirmed that PS2 games will be coming to the PS

Mobile payments aren’t exactly a big deal at the moment, but they will be in the future, which is why companies like Apple and Google have been trying to secure a dominant position in the market while it’s still in its infancy. Even Samsung has showed interest in mobile payments, and as

The rumor that Pepsi was working on its own smartphone was one of the strangest bits of news the tech world has seen this year, bu last month, the company confirmed that it is, in fact, working on its first smartphone, and now it needs some help to do so. The mid-range device will be […]

Adele is one of the most-popular music artists in the world at the moment, so it’s pretty obvious that her first new album in nearly five years is going to be massive. Many analysts are predicting that it’ll actually be the fastest-selling album ever, and in order to ensure that happens,

Earlier this month, Square set an $11 to $13 price range for its long-awaited IPO, which is much lower than the $15.46 that investors paid per share during the company’s most recent private financing round, but the actual IPO price has ended up being even lower than that. Last night, Square an

Although everyone can agree that self-driving cars will be hitting the market in the near future, nobody can agree on when that’ll actually happen. Google’s prediction that fully autonomous cars will become available to consumers in five years or so has been the most aggressive of all th

When releasing a high-end smartphone that’s supposed to compete with the newest Galaxy S and iPhone, it’s imperative that the device not only be powerful, but premium. This is something that’s taken LG a long time to learn, as it’s one of the only companies out there that sti

To say that Lyft is the underdog is a bit of an understatement. Whereas Uber has already raised billions in funding, with billions more to come in the future, and operates in hundreds of cities across the globe, Lyft only operates in the United States. In order to compete with its much larger rival,

Whereas most companies have been racing to dive into the emerging virtual reality gaming market, Electronic Arts wants to take a slower, more cautious approach. While the company isn’t denying that virtual reality will have a significant part to play in the future of gaming, CFO Blake Jorgense

Ad-blockers are a dime a dozen nowadays, and they all do the same thing in roughly the same way, so in order for any newcomers to succeed, they need to find a way to differentiate themselves. Goodblock does this in the most admirable way possible, by allowing users to watch specific advertisements t

Like it or not, GIFs have pretty much become the de facto language of the Internet, and few services are as good of a place to find and share them as Tumblr. With that in mind, it’s only natural that the service have its own built-in GIF maker, which was just added to Tumblr’s mobile app

Pushbullet is one of the most useful mobile apps out there at the moment, to the point where I’d even say it’s essential for people who use both a computer and a smartphone regularly. Now that it has a large enough userbase, the service has decided to adopt a freemium model in order to s

Smartphones are basically the Swiss army knives of the digital age, with new tools being added on a regular basis, and you may be able to add night vision to that ever-growing list of features here soon. Night vision cameras aren’t difficult to make, it’s making them affordable that&#821

The best part about Chinese smartphones is the fact that, more often than not, they’re ridiculously affordable relative to their specs, but that doesn’t mean much to American consumers, because they’re used to having their premium devices subsidized by their wireless carriers, whic

This may be almost incomprehensible to some of us in the West, but flip phones are actually pretty popular in other parts of the world, particularly in East Asia. That’s why Samsung still releases the occasional new flip phone in the region, the latest of which is 3.9-inch smart flip phone tha