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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

Sony’s handset division may burning through money, but the PlayStation 4 is still dominating, which is one of the only reasons that the company was able to (barely) make a profit last quarter. According to the most recent sales numbers, the PS4 is leading the current generation of consoles wit

It may not be the coolest, most futuristic thing to come out of MIT in recent years, but researchers from the institute’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have developed some interesting software that uses Wi-Fi signals to see people through walls. Using a device called RF-Capt

Twilight Princess is considered by many, myself included, to be the best Zelda game of all time, and though there’s plenty of people who would beg to differ, nobody can deny that its an excellent game. That’s why it’s so exciting to see hints of an HD remaster of the game popping u

Remember a few months back when we started hearing rumors that GoPro was working on its own consumer drone? Well the company confirmed those rumors earlier this week when it released some teaser footage that was shot from one of its drones. The footage looks as awesome as you’d expect, but wha

Imagine seeing something that you want on a commercial, then being able to purchase it straight through your television with a few button clicks. Doesn’t that sound cool? Well don’t get too excited, because Amazon’s new shopping feature for televisions isn’t anywhere near as

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