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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
Neil deGrasse Tyson admits that he’s not very good at predicting the future, but his claim that SpaceX will never lead the space frontier is well-founded. As he puts it, government organizations like NASA are better suited for long-term projects and making technological advancements, whereas p
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
Zenefits is one of the most-valuable startups in the world at the moment, but its $4.5 billion valuation has been called into question in recent months, which means this is a horrible time for the company to be getting into legal trouble, but that’s exactly what’s happening. According to
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
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
The vast majority of the world’s smartphones are powered by three operating systems, all of which are developed in the United States, which has many non-Americans concerned about American surveillance programs. Due to these concerns, China has decided to partner up with Alibaba and ZTE to crea
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
