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Even though it was one of the first music streaming services in the world, and dominated the market for a while, Pandora has been losing a lot of ground to newer services like Spotify, mainly due to the fact that users can’t actually choose which songs they listen to on Pandora. Fortunately, a

Being a driver for a ride-sharing service like Uber is a fairly new kind of job, but it’s one that’s already on the verge of being replaced by robots. Uber has been especially interested in self-driving cars, and envisions a future where all of its cars are autonomous, but that doesn&#82

Xiaomi has launched a bunch of smartphones this year, but time is running out for the company to release the flagship that people have waited more than a year for. Rumor has it that the company has been holding off on releasing the Mi5 because it wants to power the device with the next-generation Sn

Not including the return of the universally loathed invite system, the lack of NFC support is the biggest problem that people have with the OnePlus 2, and it looks like OnePlus isn’t all that interested in fixing that problem. According to OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei, not only will the company

Smartphones as we know them will be replaced by “superphones” within the next five years. At least, that’s what Huawei believes, and it’s basing this prediction on the fact that it took twelve years for regular handsets to evolve from the first commercial mobile phone that Mo

Dubai loves showing off the ridiculous amounts of money it has, whether it’s by equipping its police force with expensive sports cars, or equipping its firefighters with actual jetpacks. That’s right, the Dubai Civil Defence has ordered $700,000 worth of jetpacks from the Martin Aircraft

It’s safe to say that Netflix’s push into original content has been an immense success, and the company has been putting tons of resources into pushing out as much premium content as it can. In fact, the company wants to surpass HBO in that regard by pouring somewhere around $5 billion i

You don’t even need to use Netflix to feel the effect it’s having on traditional television anymore. In order to combat the ever-growing number of people cutting their cords and switching to online streaming services like Netflix, a number of television networks have decided to start cut

Millions of love lives and social lives were put on hold this week as people across the globe began their Fallout 4 binging. Reports of neglected girlfriends and a massive increase in “sick days” at work have been popping up all over the place, and it looks like even porn consumption has

Whereas Google had to jump through a bunch of regulatory hoops in order to test out its self-driving cars on public roads, the Michigan Department of Transportation, the University of Michigan, and a consortium of fifteen automakers decided to just build a fake city. Known as MCity, this 32-acre par

We’ve been hearing that “Digg isn’t dead yet” for years, but this may be the first time that I actually believed that claim. Yesterday, the website announced that COO Gary Liu has been named the new CEO, and he has $4 million in Series A funding to work with. Apparently, most

Google Play Books has supported comics and graphic novels for years, but the user experience has never been the best, especially when compared to apps like ComicRack that are dedicated solely to reading comics. Fortunately, Google has decided to give the app a long-needed update that makes it much e

Hot on the heels of Airbnb’s promise to play nice with local governments in the future, the company announced that it wants its hosts to become more business-like. At the Airbnb Open earlier today, CEO Brian Chesky that his company has made it to where “people” and “businesse

Remember when everyone was freaking out about Skyrim shipping seven million copies in the first week? Well that’s nothing compared to Fallout 4, which apparently saw more than twelve million shipments on the first day! According to Bethesda, meeting the day one demand generated sales in excess

Cyanogen has been working hard to deliver on its promise to take control of Android away from Google, and the results of those efforts will be seen in full next year. During the Big Android BBQ in Amsterdam this morning, Cyanogen revealed that it has numerous partners in the smartphone market at the

Gaming tablets are extremely niche, but Acer is willing to try anything at this point. First unveiled a few months ago, the new Predator 8 tablet is now available to pre-order, and Acer put enough power into the device to justify its $300 price tag, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s

Physical car manuals are extremely easy to damage or lose and impossible to navigate, which is why Hyundai has decided to try using augmented reality to help customers understand their car’s features. Known as the Hyundai Virtual Guide, this virtual car manual will be able to recognize about f

It’s nice to see that more cable companies are accepting the fact that nobody wants cable anymore, and are starting to embrace the cord-cutting trend. Earlier today, Comcast launched its new online streaming service, known as Stream, which offers users all of their local networks, an HBO subsc

Live streaming and virtual reality are seen as the future of entertainment, and NextVR wants to cash in on both of the trends at the same time. The startup just finished a $30.5 million round of funding led by Comcast and Time Warner, which will help it broadcast more live-streamed content in virtua

What started off as a side project for a college student that wanted to help people on Reddit share pictures without linking to bloated websites that took forever to load, has grown into a burgeoning startup that has more than 150 million monthly active users. According to Imgur, around 82% of these

Nintendo likes to take half-steps forward, where it progresses slightly but makes some silly mistake that undermine the whole thing, but fortunately, it looks like its foray into mobile gaming won’t be one of those instances. We already know that the company will be releasing five mobile games

For those of you who aren’t familiar with Single’s Day, it’s a massive shopping festival that’s the Chinese equivalent of Black Friday, and just like with Black Friday, it causes people to spend billions and billions of dollars on all the sales. According to Alibaba, which is

Firefox OS is one of those things that I’ve been interested in enough to keep up with some of the more significant news, but not to the point where I’d actually consider getting a Firefox OS smartphone, no matter how inexpensive they are, and I’m far from the only one. It looks lik

It’s a little known fact that OKCupid, Match.com, and Tinder are all owned by the same company, and that company is going public. Known as Match Group, the Dallas-based company is finally going through with its long-awaited IPO soon, where it plans to raise as much as $536.7 million, a massive

Numerous reports have suggested that Samsung intends to announce the Galaxy S7 much earlier than expected, which is probably why we’ve been seeing so many rumors about the smartphone recently. One of those rumors claimed that the device will come with a a 12MP camera that’s similar to wh

Have you ever seen something cool on Pinterest that you wanted to find out more about, but you couldn’t come up with the right words to describe it and search it up? Well, fortunately for you, Pinterest has a solution. In a blog post earlier this morning, Pinterest announced that it’s ro

How many hours a day do you think your smartphone sits in idle, meaning it’s on but not being used at all? We all use our smartphone a lot, but there are plenty of times when it just sits in our pockets doing nothing, or just sits next to our bed for hours while we […]

Earlier this morning, MIT announced that it’s going to open its first-ever Innovation Node in Hong Kong next summer, which will act as a sort of startup incubator for the American university that will help students in Hong Kong learn how to “move ideas more rapidly from lab to market.&#8

Israel has one of the most vibrant technology sectors in the world, and new research has revealed that London is the most popular European destination for Israeli technology companies looking to expand overseas. With that in mind, the Mayor of London has taken a trip to Israel in an effort to convin

We’ve spent the last seven years waiting for Fallout 4 to be released, but it’s the next twelve hours that’re going to be the most difficult. I’m sure most Fallout fans have already pre-ordered the game, so reviews probably aren’t going to have an effect, but for those

For those us who have limits on the amount of data we’re allowed to use, or who don’t have fast connections, watching videos on Netflix and YouTube can be a struggle. Either we hit our data caps too quickly, or videos take forever to load, both of which are definitely first-world problem

Jon Chen, the CEO of BlackBerry, has made it clear that his company isn’t afraid to exit the handset business if it can’t start making a profit soon, any many people have assumed that the success of the BlackBerry PRIV will determine if we see anymore BlackBerry hardware or not. Chen rec

With billions of dollars in funding and the single most extensive ride-sharing network on the planet, Uber is an absolute behemoth, and there’s no way a ride-sharing startup like Gett can compete by just copying what Uber does, it needs to do something different. Easily the biggest complaint p

A cognitive neuroscientist by the name of Anthony Ries, working for a United States Army research facility, has just developed an automated program that can interpret brain waves, which essentially means that it can read minds. It’s not the kind of advanced mind reading that you’d expect

It’s too early to tell if the HTC One A9 will be a success, but considering the lukewarm responses from reviewers, not to mention the controversy surrounding the fact that the One A9 is a blatant iPhone clone, I don’t imagine it will be. This means that HTC’s search for a smartphon

Do Not Track requests are basically a way for you to politely ask websites not to track your online activity, and I probably don’t need to tell you how hilariously ineffective it is, to the point where it can’t even be considered a placebo. That’s why privacy advocates have been ca

Energy efficiency has become one of the most important specs for smartphone components, because battery technology hasn’t been able to progress as quickly as things like flash memory and processors, and companies like Qualcomm have been forced to compensate for this when developing their chips

Have you ever complained on a company’s social media account about an issue your having with their product or service? If you have, then you’re certainly not alone, because millions of people in the United Kingdom and United States do the same thing, but maybe they shouldn’t. Accor

Virtual reality is considered by many to be the future of media consumption, and the New York Times couldn’t agree more. The news agency, which has always been one of the first to embrace new technologies and trends, launched a new app earlier this week that allows users to watch news videos i

It doesn’t matter how awesome and well-received your smartphone is, if people can’t actually buy one, then you’re not going to make any money, and therefore aren’t going to grow. Nobody understands this better than OnePlus should, but considering how both the OnePlus 2 and On