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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

Airbnb has been really aggressive with how it expands, which has more often than not brought it into conflict with local regulators, but the company has continued to choose to fight rather than comply. Now, having grown and matured a bit, Airbnb has decided to start playing nice with city government

Instant messaging has become an essential feature for social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, so it’s a bit odd that it’s taken Tumblr this long to introduce its own such feature. Earlier this morning, Tumblr announced that it’s going to be launching its first, real insta

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

Valve’s attempt to make Linux a viable gaming platform while bringing PC gaming to the living room has been met with numerous delays these past couple of years, but the time has finally come. Earlier today, Valve officially launched the first batch of Steam Machines, alongside SteamOS, with an

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

Although the recently-unveiled Huawei Kirin 950 could prove to be a serious competitor, the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 is still going to be the chip that powers the majority of next year’s high-end smartphones. Qualcomm has been teasing bits and pieces of information about the next-generation chi

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

With somewhere around 90% of the British population having connected to the Internet sometime in the last year, it’s obvious that the United Kingdom is already an extremely connected country, but Prime Minister David Cameron doesn’t think that’s enough. According to him, Internet a

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

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