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Months of rumors and speculation have finally culminated in the OnePlus X being officially unveiled. As expected, it’s smaller and weaker than the OnePlus 2, but that’s because aesthetics are the primary focus of this smartphone, rather than power. This is apparent from the OnePlus X&#82

Xiaomi offers a wide range of consumer electronics, and starting early next year, that’ll include a couple of laptops, which is rather odd when you consider the fact that Xiaomi is primarily a smartphone company and the PC market has been far from prosperous in recent years. Either way, the Xi

Better late than never, right? Nintendo revealed more information about its long-awaited entrance into the mobile gaming market yesterday, when the company announced a new game called Miitomo. The game, which will be Nintendo’s first for smartphones and tablets, will launch next March, and wil

Huawei isn’t known to many people here in the West, but those of us who are familiar with it know it as one of China’s top smartphone makers, one that also dabbles in the SOC market. Qualcomm is currently the undisputed leader of the mobile application processor market, with MediaTek tra

Aside from confirming that it’s working on a handful of games for smartphones and tablets, Nintendo has remained annoyingly silent regarding its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, but it’s finally going to break that silence tomorrow. CEO Tatsumi Kimishima announced earlier to

Internet freedom in China has always been horrendous, but now it’s officially considered to be the worst in the world, according to the most recent Freedom on the Net study from Freedom House. The American organization ranked China above Iran and Syria in terms of Internet freedom last year, b

Ransomware, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is a popular way for hackers to extort money from Internet users by encrypting important information on their computer and demanding that they pay a ransom in order to have those files decrypted. There’s no point in contacting the authori

Online piracy has always been more of a matter of convenience than money, and now there’s even more data to prove that. A new study from the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has found that music streaming services like Spotify have a direct effect on music piracy. According to the s

Amazon’s attempts to release its own consumer electronics have been pretty successful, excluding the Fire Phone, but the company’s other attempts to make its own products have generally ended in failure. However, even those failures haven’t been enough to discourage Amazon, and the

Everybody has at least heard of Twitter by now, but most of them still have no idea what it does, which is the biggest problem that the company has faced as it struggles to pull in more users. That’s the problem that Jack Dorsey, the new CEO of Twitter, intends to solve, not only by simplifyin

Following months of rumors that Comcast is interested in becoming a wireless carrier, CEO Brain Roberts has confirmed that his company is currently working with Verizon to test out its own wireless network. Technically, this means it’s not actually Comcast’s network, it’s just Veri

You could spend hours debating about which operating system is the best for computers, but one undeniably advantage that OS X has over Linux and Windows is its simplicity and stability. The other two operating systems may be much more customizable or support a wider range of software, but OS X is ea

Slowly but surely, cable companies are starting to understand that online streaming is the future of home entertainment, and rather than trying to fight the cord-cutting craze, more and more of them are cashing in on it. Charter has become the latest such company to do so with a new service called S

It disgusts me that many of the things that consumers in the United States purchase aren’t actually theirs, despite the fact that they paid money for them. Legally speaking, it’s more like consumers are paying for the ability to use someone else’s property, all because of asinine c

Earlier today, the European Parliament voted in favor of its controversial net neutrality protections, the same ones that activists and technology companies have criticized for containing loopholes that could be easily exploited to undermine the goal of protecting net neutrality in the European Unio

Elon Musk is too busy running both SpaceX and Tesla Motors to be worrying about making his Hyperloop concept a reality, which is why he decided to open-source the idea and allow other companies to pursue their own Hyperloop projects. The most promising of these projects comes from a company called H

It’s no secret that Qualcomm wants its processors to be inside of everything, and that includes cameras. According to the company, a lot of security cameras out there at the moment do their processing in the cloud, which requires tons of data to be transferred and can cause serious delays betw

Smog is a big problem in many of the world’s largest cities, especially in the massive urban agglomerations that pepper Asia. That’s why a group of researchers from Australia and China have developed a new method of detecting nitrogen dioxide in the air, which is a major contributor to s

Just as Uber wants to be more than just a ride-sharing service, Airbnb wants to be more than just a convenient way to find a place to stay when you’re visiting a new city. A few days ago, the company started sending out invites for a new feature called Journeys, which helps uses plan pretty mu

It’s no secret that having faster deliveries than your competitors can be a massive advantage for e-commerce companies, which is why Etsy is jumping on the same-day delivery bandwagon with Etsy ASAP. It’s currently just a pilot program that’s exclusive to buyers in New York City, b

The handful of you that are actually familiar with Ouarzazate will know it as the place where movies like Lawrence of Arabia and The Mummy were filmed, but the Moroccan city is about to become a hell of a lot more significant in a few weeks. That’s because the world’s largest concentrated sola

With how much attention the market for wearable gadgets has been getting recently, you’d think it was a lucrative market with tons of people willing to pay hundreds of dollars for the latest fitness trackers or smartwatches, but that’s far from the case. In fact, a recent survey done by

Reaching 100 million daily active users is only half the battle, the other half is finding out how to make money from them. That’s something that Snapchat knows all too well, as the company still has yet to find a way to properly monetize itself, but it’s been experimenting like crazy in

Ever since Amazon put the idea of delivery drones in the limelight, companies across the United States have been asking federal regulators for permission to begin testing their own delivery drone systems. Walmart is the latest company to do so, having already done testing inside its own facilities,

Theranos is one of the hottest and most-valuable startups in the world at the moment, but the company has been facing a lot of heat from the media this year over the validity of many of its claims, ranging from how well its technology works to which companies it’s doing business with. On top o

Fallout 4 is going to be a really, really big game, which is bad news for those of us who intend to purchase a digital copy but don’t have the fastest Internet speeds. Fortunately, we’re not going to have to spend the first few hours of the game’s launch waiting for it to download,

I’m sure a lot of you are tired of hearing all these OnePlus X leaks and rumors, especially when we’re just a few days away from the official unveiling, but news is news, and the OnePlus X is an interesting device. The rumors we’ve been hearing have been pretty contradictory, but o

Forget about the usual death and destruction that war brings, we should be worrying about Russia severing our Internet connections in the event of war! At least, that’s what some officials in the United States are worried about, as Russian spy ships and submarines have been hanging out uncomfo

If even Nintendo hasn’t been able to save its handheld console sales from being eaten away by smartphones and tablets, then you can be pretty sure that things are far worse for Sony. The PSP may have been pretty popular back in the day, but the PS Vita has been a complete failure outside of [&

With how poorly the PC market has been doing in recent years, and how poorly Acer’s foray into the mobile market has been, it’s obvious the Taiwanese company needs to find other sources of revenue if it wants to stay alive, and it looks like the electric vehicle market may be that source

Uber has already surpassed Xiaomi to become the world’s most valuable startup, but now it looks like the company is taking things even further by raising an additional $1 billion in funding, which would value it at somewhere around $70 billion. This isn’t the first time the company has l

You may remember that lawsuit that Wikimedia and a handful of other organizations filed against the NSA for its mass surveillance programs earlier this year, the one that claimed that the NSA violated and continues to violate constitutional and legal protections. Well, it looks like the lawsuit didn

Releasing smartphones with wacky displays seemed to work for Samsung, so it should work for LG too, right? Apparently not, because the dual-screened LG V10 smartphone that the company released a few weeks back hasn’t been selling all that well, especially when compared to Samsung’s curve

Unlike most of the world’s top smartphone makers, HTC hasn’t jumped on the smartwatch bandwagon yet, but we do know that the company is working with Under Armor to create its own fitness tracker, called the HTC Grip. Don’t get too excited though, as the Grip has been delayed until

It took a mere five years for Uber to reach 75% of the population in the United States, but reaching the other 25% could take a hell of a lot longer. According to senior policy adviser Nicole Benincasa, the remaining 25% of American live in more rural areas that are much harder for Uber to operate [

Ever since Razer first unveiled the OSVR at CES in January, we haven’t heard much about the virtual reality headset, aside from the fact that Razer plans to separate it from the likes of the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift by focusing on being hackable. The headset is completely open source, and can

Well, that didn’t take very long. I’m sure many of you were hoping that the Moments feature that Twitter recently rolled out was going to be free of advertisements, and it was for a couple of weeks, but now that time is over. Twitter started to test Promoted Moments earlier today, althou

Even those of you who follow Android news closely may have overlooked the Fairphone, so let me bring you up to speed. Basically, as the name implies, the Fairphone is an Android smartphone that you don’t have to feel guilty about buying, because great care was taken to ensure that all of the d

It was surprising enough to hear that Xiaomi has lost its spot at the top of the Chinese smartphone market to Huawei, but now we’re hearing reports that the burgeoning startup won’t even be able to hit the low end of its annual sales goal. Last year, Xiaomi announced that it would shoot

Firing a bunch of people right after he was named the permanent CEO of Twitter probably wasn’t the best way for Jack Dorsey to start things off, which is why he decided to distribute a third of his Twitter stock to the remaining employees that survived the recent purge. Considering how Dorsey