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Toyota announced this morning that it plans to invest somewhere around $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new, Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence and robotics research company. The company will be known as the Toyota Research Institute, and is being formed so that Toyota wi

Last night, Blizzard confirmed the rumors that it’s launching Overwatch on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well, which would’ve been almost unthinkable a couple of years ago. Diablo III was the first Blizzard game to be launched on consoles since The Lost Vikings 2 landed on the SNES b

Black Friday is known all across the globe as that day where even poor people can get their hands on all the coolest and most high-tech gadgets out there. Singles Day, on the other hand, is mostly exclusive to China, but it’s more or less the same thing as Black Friday, with more than $9 [&hel

Back in 2013, a man by the name of Jelani Memory tried to crowdfund a device that would enable parents to manage the online content on all of the devices connected to their home network, which would allow them to control the content that their kids consumed on the Internet. It’s a good thing t

It looks like there’s no brakes on the Fallout 4 hype train, because Bethesda just released the official launch trailer for the game. Unlike the announcement and gameplay trailers we saw a few months ago, this one actually goes into detail about the game’s story, as well as the factions

We have less than two months to go before the year comes to an end, and yet we still have no word from Xiaomi on when we can expect the highly-anticipated Mi5 to be released. The Chinese company has been conspicuously silent regarding its annual flagship, but many rumors have suggested that Xiaomi i

After years of dominating the mobile chipset market, it looks like Qualcomm may finally have a serious competitor, and it’s not Samsung. Instead, it looks like Huawei will be the one to challenge Qualcomm, as the Chinese company unveiled its new Kirin 950 chipset in Beijing this morning, and i

Earlier this week, Blizzard announced on its website that it’s looking to hire some new software engineers, not to design a new game, but to restore some old ones to glory. According to the job description, the company wants to make games like Diablo II, StarCraft, and WarCraft 3 work better o

Tizen may not have been the next Android, but at least Samsung’s homemade operating system is still more popular than BlackBerry OS. A recent report from Strategy Analytics claims that Tizen has now overtaken BlackBerry OS and become the world’s fourth most-popular mobile operating syste

The rise of the sharing economy is revolutionizing the way we do things, especially in regards to travelling, and rather than adapt to the changing market, many companies are throwing as big of a fit as they can in order to stop these changes. For evidence of this, you need look no further than the

If you thought the shatter-proof display on Motorola’s new Droid Turbo 2 was cool, wait until you hear what the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo has developed. Using extremely durable aluminum oxide compounds, a group of researchers from the institute have developed a

The MPAA dealt a couple of major blows to the world of online piracy this week. Not only did the association take down YIFY, one of the most popular providers of quality movie rips in the world, it also took down Demonii, which is the single largest standalone BitTorrent tracker out there. This is b

High-end smartphones are what helped turn Samsung into the consumer electronics behemoth that it is today. For years, people have been willing to pay several hundred dollars for the latest, most premium Samsung smartphone out there, but that time is coming to an end. With high-end, low-price smartph

Netflix has tons of different content for tons of different people, but it’s looking to diversify its content offerings even further. According to CEO Reed Hastings, the company actually wants to start creating its own Bollywood original shows to appeal to more viewers, and is also looking to

Virgin Galactic has been laying low in the twelve months following its horrible space plane accident, which resulted in one pilot dying and another being hospitalized, but now the company is back on track. Richard Branson, the founder of the company, recently did an interview with Mashable where he

Driving isn’t just annoying and tedious, it can also be pretty expensive, especially when you’re commuting and need to pay for things like gas and parking. That’s where Uber thinks it can be of assistance with its new uberPOOL service. Currently in beta, the new service offers comm

Tidal may have launched as a premium music streaming service, but numerous controversies have held the service back to the point where it struggled just to achieve one million users, which is why it may be thinking about shifting its focus to other forms of entertainment. The service already has doz

If you thought people were scrambling to get their hands on the new Apple TV, just take a look at China, where Xiaomi’s new smart television just completely sold out in about five seconds. I’m not kidding. The company put two versions of its new smart television and one version of its ne

It’s kind of ironic how Amazon, which was instrumental in the downfall of physical book stores like Barnes & Noble and Borders, has decided to open its own physical bookstore. This isn’t Amazon’s first physical store, but it’s odd enough for anyone to be opening a physica

Even though Chinese products have improved significantly over the years, the country still has a problem with counterfeit goods, especially on its e-commerce platforms. According to a new report from the National People’s Congress Standing Committee, a measly 58.7% of the products sold on China&#821

With a mere eight days to go before Fallout 4 launches, there’s not much of a point in checking out any new leaks for the game, but for those of you who need something to temporarily satiate your Fallout 4 cravings, a ton of gameplay footage was leaked on the Internet last night. The leaked vi

China’s latest attempt to control what’s said on the Internet comes in the form of an amendment to the government’s criminal law, which makes it illegal to circulate false stories on the Internet. As always, China is claiming that these new rules are there to protect civilians, but

Evading anti-virus software isn’t exactly easy, but if malware authors have a mind to do so, they can design their malware to mutate in such a way that anti-virus software can’t keep up. That’s why an Israeli startup by the name of Deep Instinct is developing an artificial neural n

After numerous delays, and a lot of reworks, it looks like Steam Machines are actually going to be hitting the market this year. It’s been a couple years since Valve announced its initiative to bring Linux-powered gaming computers to the living room, and it’s been one year since the comp

Amazon is kind of like Google in that it likes to release tons of products all the time in order to see which ones work, and isn’t afraid to kill off the ones that don’t meet its expectations. There are far more failed Amazon products than successful ones, which isn’t a bad thing,

With how much focus technology companies are putting on fitness trackers and smartwatches, you’d think that the market for wearable gadgets was booming, but that’s far from the case. Not only do most Americans not give a crap about wearables, a new survey from Kantar Worldpanel has found

After years of dominating the mobile market, Samsung is finding itself in the unfamiliar position of having shrinking profits due to its increasingly disappointing smartphone sales. This has been happening for a couple of years now, and despite the company’s best efforts, it can’t seem t

It all started a couple of years ago when an anonymous Twitch users decided to conduct a social experiment where Twitch users tried to collaboratively finish a game of Pokémon Red by entering commands through the Twitch chat. After about sixteen days of gameplay, the Twitch community was able to bea

Tor has been described by the NSA as the undisputed king of online anonymity, and it’s an essential tool for Internet users who want to protect themselves from prying eyes. The Tor Project, which is responsible for maintaining Tor, has integrated Tor into other applications, such as with the T

Apple is rarely ever the first company to do something, but it tends to be the first to do something so well that it quickly becomes an industry standard. That was the case with smartphones, that was the case with fingerprint sensors, and now it looks like that’ll be the case with force-sensit

In order to help people understand what Twitter and convince them to start using the service, Twitter released its first-ever television commercial during the World Series on Tuesday, but it seems to have had the opposite effect. The people who didn’t just change the channel when they saw the

Remember when LG was trying to get us all hyped for its upcoming super premium smartphone? Well, the company ended up trying to downplay the device shortly before its announcement, and it’s a good thing they did, because nothing about the LG V10 is super premium. In fact, the only thing worth

T-Mobile has gotten pretty crazy with its Un-carrier moves, but this leak claims that the company is preparing to take things to a whole other level. It already exempts popular music streaming services like Pandora and Spotify from its data caps, which means users can stream as much music as they wa

You may know Twitch as that place where people can make millions of dollars by having other people watch them play Minecraft, but the company wants to be more than just a live-streaming platform for video games by expanding into new territory. To be fair, the Amazon-owned company isn’t expandi

Twitter currently has around 320 million monthly active users, which is a hell of a lot, but that’s only a fraction of its true user base. The problem with measuring Twitter’s user base is that the service’s content is easily accessible to people who aren’t registered with it

With around 4.5 million users, Fling still has a long way to go before it rises to Snapchat’s level, but it has the potential to do just that. How the app works is, whenever you find yourself wanting to share a “moment” with the world, regardless of what it is, you just snap a pict

Many companies were a little worried when Amazon first started releasing its own products, because in the event that some of those products competed with what the companies were offering, all Amazon would have to do in order to give itself and advantage was stop selling competing products on its web

Nintendo’s decline over the last decade or so has already been widely discussed and reported on, so I won’t go into too much detail, but the gist of it is that the company simply hasn’t been able to adapt to the modern gaming market. While companies like Microsoft, Sony, and Valve

Halloween is just a few days away, which means its time for Steam’s annual Halloween Sale to assault our wallets. Since it’s a Halloween-themed sale, it’s only natural for horror games to be the primary focus, with games like Dead Space and Left 4 Dead selling for around $4.99, but

Huawei and Xiaomi are the two biggest names in China’s smartphone market at the moment, but which of the two do Chinese consumers like the most? Well, if you’re going by sales numbers, then Huawei is surprisingly the winner, as the company has been selling record numbers of smartphones t