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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

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

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

If you’re one of the handful of people that still purchases physical copies of PC games, you’ll probably be a little upset to hear that even physical copies of Fallout 4 will require Steam in order to be playable. Requiring the game to be activated online through Steam is a great way to

It looks like one the most-hated cable companies in the United States is about to join forces with one of the country’s most-hated wireless carriers. We’ve been hearing rumors about Comcast’s expansion into the wireless service market for a while, and now it looks like the company

Commercial drones have been a major problem for federal regulators for a while now, especially since they can’t seem to find an acceptable, yet effective way to go about regulating them. However, the Department of Transportation has started the process of writing up some commercial drones rule

Those of you who pre-ordered the Nexus 5X may have already gotten your hands on it, but even though the smartphone is still brand new, there’s always the possibility that you might break it, so what happens then? Well, you won’t actually have to worry too much if the Nexus 5X breaks, bec

It’s funny how the first enticing handset to come out of BlackBerry in years is also the company’s first Android-powered smartphone, but I’m sure BlackBerry will do pretty much anything to increase sales at this point. What makes the PRIV so enticing is the fact that it brings Blac

Li Xiaolu isn’t a name that many in the West are familiar with, but in China, she’s a famous actress, one who accidentally revealed the next flagship smartphone from LeTV. However, rather than asking her to take the images down, LeTV went and reposted the images of the LeTV 2 to its offi

By keeping track of trending hashtags and scanning through tons of tweets, companies and organizations can use Twitter to gauge people’s interests and opinions, but doesn’t that seem like a really complex way to go about doing that? Twitter thinks so, which is why the company has started

Most people never bother reporting robocallers and telemarketers to the FCC, although there are still hundreds of people that do this everyday, but now there’s a good reason to do so. In order to start cracking down on the annoying advertisers, the FCC is going to start publishing their number

Online piracy is so prevalent in many parts of Asia that actually purchasing content is considered unusual, especially in China. The rapid growth of cloud storage in the country has made it even easier for people to download and share pirated content online, thanks to the affordability of cloud stor

Xiaomi is already dominating the smartphone market in its home country, and now has a 14% share of the Indian market, which means the Chinese company already has two of the world’s three largest smartphone markets locked down, but what about the United States? Well, that’s going to be di

Most traditional watchmakers have accepted the fact that they either need to jump on the smartwatch bandwagon or wait to die off, and Fossil intends to do the former. Yesterday, the Texas-based company announced its new Fossil Q line of watches, with the Android Wear-powered Q Founder being the flag