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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
Whereas Apple likes to make its products thinner and thinner every year, Samsung prefers to make it products bigger and bigger. It could even be said that Samsung is the one that started the whole phablet craze when it released the Galaxy Note a few years back, and bigger has most certainly proven t
Consolidation is the name of the game in the computer component market nowadays, with SanDisk and Western Digital being the latest companies to combine into a single, much larger company. Earlier today, Western Digital announced that it’ll be acquiring SanDisk for somewhere around $19 billion
Few companies have as many beloved movies and television shows in their arsenal of original content as Disney, which is why the company has decided to release its own Netflix-like subscription streaming service. The service will be known as DisneyLife, and will be exclusive to the European market fo
Like an eighth grader being told they should go to prom, Uber wants people to stop telling it that it needs to go public soon. That’s the analogy that CEO Travis Kalanick in response to one of Uber’s board members publicly criticizing the company for its refusal to go public. According t
There’s no way you can call the Wii U anything other than a complete failure, but it’s somewhat less of a failure than before thanks to the release of Super Mario Maker. According to Nintendo, the game has only been out for a month and it’s already boosted the Wii U’s sales b
The story that Destiny launched with last September was completely different from what it was a year prior. This is because the higher ups at Bungie weren’t happy with the original story that Joe Staten and Bungie’s writing team had been working on for years, and decided to completely ov
I’m sure you remember that big cybersecurity agreement that China and the United States made a few weeks ago, and I’m sure you’ll also remember how virtually nobody actually expected either of the two countries to respect the agreement for very long. That being said, it’s sti
Dark Souls II wasn’t a bad game by any means, but most gamers can agree that it lacked much of what made the original Dark Souls so amazing, although there were some improvements as well. That being said, Dark Souls III is looking to be everything that the second game should have been and more
Amazon Fresh members in Los Angeles already have to pay an annual $299.99 fee in order to have Amazon deliver groceries to them, and now members in New York City, Philadelphia, and Seattle are going to have to start paying as well. Obviously this hasn’t been met with positive reception from ex
Everyone had high hopes for Marissa Mayer when she was became the CEO of Yahoo a few years back, but not only is the company still losing market share to the likes of Facebook and Google, it’s losing executives as well. The latest executive to abandon Yahoo is Jacqueline Reses, the companyR
We still have a little over a week to go before OnePlus official unveils the OnePlus X, which means there still plenty of time for leaks. We’ve already has enough leaks over the last couple of weeks that there’s practically nothing left for the company to unveil, especially now that we h
It looks like HBO isn’t the only one that needs to watch its back for Netflix, as the company will apparently begin offering Vice-like content in the near future. A recent interview with some Netflix executives left little doubt that the company will be competing directly with Vice within the
Who doesn’t love having their favorite video games from years back updated with high-definition graphics and brought to modern platforms? As great as many HD remakes are, there are plenty of publishers out there that like to release garbage remakes that were rushed to the market in order to ma
Fake reviews have always come with the package for e-commerce websites like Amazon, which is obviously the kind of thing that these websites would prefer not to have, which is why Amazon has been suing fake reviewers left and right in recent months. The company just recently filed a lawsuit in Seatt
The easiest way for governments to take away people’s freedom and privacy is to tell them that it’s for their own safety, or the safety of their children. The NSA uses the “preservation of national security” as both and excuse and a justification for spying on tens of million
I thought it was pretty cool that when New York City announced that it would be turning some of its payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots, but small town in the United Kingdom is one-upping this project by literally building Wi-Fi into its pavement. That’s right, the British town of Chesham will be th
Commercial drones are far more dangerous than most people realize, as not only can they crash into things on the ground if not handled properly, they pose a massive threat to aircraft. There have already been numerous close calls between aircraft and drones this year, especially near airports, which
It may surprise you to find out that Match.com, OKCupid, and Tinder are all owned by a Dallas-based company known as Match Group, and that the company is filing for an IPO. Considering how it pulled in nearly $500 million in the first half of this year, it’s not all that surprising that the co
Valve’s been slowly but surely trying to bring PC gaming to the living room these past couple of years, but there’s been a bunch of roadblocks, not the least of which is the fact that the company’s computer/console Steam Machines have been delayed numerous times. Even when they do
With how much of a flop the Wii U has been, you can’t blame Nintendo for being so quick to release a successor to replace the console, but it’s starting to look more and more like Nintendo’s next console will be replacing the 3DS as well, which is rather odd considering how success
Rather than offering better prices to persuade customers to choose it over Lyft, Uber has decided to lure people in with free entertainment. The company has joined forces with AT&T to start streaming football games in a handful of cities over the next couple of months. Using seat-mounted tablets
The ZUK Z1 may have been late to the party, but it still managed to challenge the Moto X Style, OnePlus 2, and ZTE Axon as one of this year’s best high-end, low-price smartphones. Its last-generation Snapdragon 801 processor wasn’t the best, but it made up for that weakness with a massiv
With competitors like Apple and Xiaomi absolutely dominating Samsung in China, the company has been forced to turn to India in an effort to reverse its shrinking smartphone sales. The Indian government is actually making this a bit easier for Samsung with its “Make in India” initiative,
The only things you see advertised on Steam is video games, all of which are available on Steam. Unlike console-based services like PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, there’s no sponsored content or third-party advertisements on Steam, and although Valve has admitted that it’s considered
Better late than never, right? Now that BlackBerry has finally decided to jump on the Android bandwagon, people are waiting to see whether or not that’ll be enough to save the company from extinction. Obviously, we’ll have to wait until the BlackBerry PRIV is actually released before we
USB Type-C hasn’t quite become the standard for new smartphones, but people still expect to see it on newer flagships, something you can thank the OnePlus 2 for. The speed of the transition to USB Type-C will depend on how quickly the companies that make mobile accessories start adopting it, w
With how popular ad-blockers have become recently, it’s clear that online advertisers are doing something wrong, and even though those mistakes have been pretty damn obvious to us for years, the advertisers themselves are only just now starting to understand that they messed up. The advertisin
There’s been no shortage of OnePlus X rumors this month, and most of them seem to contradict one another, but this recent leak from Oppomart definitely has a bit more weight to it than the others. The OnePlus X was prematurely added to the e-commerce website earlier today, well ahead of the of
