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
In a move that reeks of desperation, some of the biggest names in the PC market have joined forces to launch an ad campaign that’s supposed to drive more people to buy PCs. Dell, HP, Intel, Lenovo, and Microsoft have come together for the first time ever in order to highlight how important PCs
Who needs Google Fiber? By itself, the Chattanooga Electric Power Board was able make Tennessee the home of the first city in the United States to offer city-wide gigabit Internet service, but it’s not stopping there. Yesterday, the city-owned utility announced that all of its 170,000 customer
Is there anybody who knows what you want better than you do? Valve doesn’t think so, which is why it wants the people using the Steam Controller to help improve the design to create their perfect game controller. The company has been fiddling around with the controller for a couple of years al
It’s no secret that most Americans have an unhealthy connection to their smartphones, but this connection isn’t without its benefits. A group of researchers from Florida State University, Indiana University, and the University of Oklahoma recently conducted a study, which found that adul
It’s been proven numerous times that passwords are pretty unreliable, although this is mainly because people like to pick crappy passwords. That’s why companies like Google have been working on password alternatives that are both more secure and more convenient, but Yahoo has become one
Xiaomi isn’t the only Chinese smartphone maker that’s reportedly preparing to enter the laptop market, as a recent trademark filing from Huawei suggests the the company is working on something called the MateBook, which sounds like the kind of name you’d give a laptop. The device c
Bethesda has been doing an excellent job of getting people hyped for Fallout 4 with its series of amusing explanation videos for the SPECIAL system, but he haven’t had an actual trailer for the game since E3… until now. This morning, Bethesda released a live-action trailer for the game t
South Korean companies like to get creative with their smartphone displays, but we haven’t seen anything revolutionary in a while. Curved displays and dual screens are cool and all, but they’re hardly game-changing, and are actually pretty niche. Foldable displays, on the other hand, hav
I, Robot is one of the many decent action movies starring Will Smith that have been released in the past fifteen years or so, but there’s nothing especially noteworthy about it, or is there? Whereas most of us probably only remember a couple of scenes from the movies, Elon Musk actually based
Xiaomi may get most of the attention in the Chinese smartphone market, but it’s actually Huawei that reigns supreme. With a market share of 18.7%, the Shenzen-based company is the top smartphone manufacture in China, and has even managed to surpass its goal of selling 100 million units this ye
Google Cardboard has been enough to satiate our virtual reality cravings for the time being, but the real fun won’t begin until companies like HTC and Oculus start releasing their own high-end virtual reality headsets. The HTC-made headset, known as the Vive, is actually being co-developed by
I honestly wasn’t expecting much from Swatch’s answer to the Apple Watch, but the Swiss watchmaker still managed to disappoint me. Rather than equipping its smartwatch with all the bells and whistles (and sensors) that other companies use as the selling point for their smartwatches, Swat
Uber already has thousands of drivers that bring people from one place to another, so why not have them bring packages from one place to another as well? That’s the idea behind UberRUSH, an experimental delivery service that the company launched earlier this year in New York City, and it must
We’ve been hearing a lot about the OnePlus X these past couple of weeks, and now OnePlus has confirmed that it’ll be unveiling the smartphone at a launch event on October 29th. The only official details we have are the name, everything else we know about the smartphone is based on rumors
Tizen hasn’t exactly risen to challenge Android’s dominance in the mobile market. In fact, it hasn’t really done anything at all, aside from powering a few lackluster smartphones and a handful of smart televisions, but Samsung hasn’t given up on its homemade operating system.
Running a startup requires an immense amount of time and effort, which leaves little room for anything else in your life, especially sex. A handful of startup founders in China have opened up about this problem, albeit anonymously, in a recent article that Tech in Asia has translated. According the
Remember when Phonebloks had everyone talking about how cool a modular smartphone would be? Well, Blocks wants to do the same thing with smartwatches, and it has more than enough money to do so. The London-based developers behind Blocks have actually been working on the idea for a while, but have on
There are different kinds of usefulness. There’s the convenient kind that makes life a bit easier but isn’t actually that big of a deal, and then there’s the kind that can legitimately help you in an important way. All of those sensors that get packed into smartphones tend to be th
Don’t you hate it when you wanna blow somebody up with your grenade launcher but they’re hiding behind cover? The United States Army certainly does, which is why it’s decided to purchase some advanced weaponry from Orbital ATK, a Virginia-based defense corporation that actually spe
Whether its government surveillance or hackers, there’s always someone looking to get their hands on your information, especially when it comes to communication, which is why encryption is more important now than ever before. Proving its dedication to use privacy and security, LINE has introdu
Discovery and collection are what Pinterest is all about, and the Place Pins feature that the company introduced a couple of years ago is supposed to take those two things and apply them to the travel market. With the feature, users are able to take Pinterest’s unparalleled visual discovery ab
Delivering supplies to troops in remote areas isn’t all that difficult by itself, but when you need to do it stealthily, things become much more tricky. All of the delivery systems that the military currently uses are either inconvenient or risky, which is why DARPA is working to develop a new
Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious. Even though running SpaceX and Tesla takes up most of his time, he still has ideas for how he could revolutionize other industries, the most well-known of which is Hyperloop. When asked in an interview what he’d be doing if Tesla didn’t exist and he
Now that Apple, Google, and Samsung made mobile payments popular by releasing their own mobile payments services, it’s time for some of the smaller mobile companies to get in on the action, and it looks like LG is next in line. The company is reportedly preparing to launch its own mobile payme
That was fast. It looks like it didn’t take Snapchat that long to figure out that making original programming that people actually want to watch isn’t exactly easy, because the company has decided to shutdown Snap Channel, for good. It’s brief foray into the world of traditional en
Popcorn Time brought online piracy to the Streaming Era of entertainment by offering users a Netflix-like service that allows them to stream pirated movies and television shows to their devices without paying a dime, and now Aurous wants to do the same thing with music. If Popcorn Time is the Netfli
We still have a few months to go before Samsung releases the Galaxy S7, but there’s been a surprising amount of rumors surrounding the smartphone already. The latest rumor comes from China, where a leak posted to Weibo suggests that the company is planning to use something called ClearForce in
Earlier this week, OnePlus confirmed the rumors that it’s going to start manufacturing its smartphones in India. The Chinese startup announced that it’s partnering with Foxconn to begin manufacturing its smartphones at the latter’s Rising Stars facility in the southern state of And
Ancestry.com has spent the last two decades reading people DNA in order to help them learn about their family history, but now it wants to find a more constructive way to use those reading skills. That’s why the company has been trying to get the FDA’s permission to use people’s DN
I wouldn’t blame you for dismissing the rumor that Pepsi is working on its own smartphone, or even the recent report that gave us the alleged device’s price and specs, but there’s no dismissing an official confirmation from Pepsi itself, is there? Yesterday, spokesperson for Pepsi
Whether it’s implementing nation-wide Internet of Things systems, or testing out drone-based deliveries for its postal service, Singapore has proven time and time again that it’s not afraid to embrace emerging technologies. Not even its public transportation is safe from that technologic
It looks like our waiting may finally be coming to an end. Teasers for a big Xiaomi product announcement event have started popping up on Chinese social media, and even though there’s little in the way of details, the timing of the event and the fact that the products are bring described as &#
There are a bunch of services out there that send you everything you need to make a home-cooked meal, from easy to understand recipes to perfectly measured ingredients, and they’re great. The reason they’re not more popular, however, is that a lot people find it hard to justify paying fo
The fact that modern GPS satellites are accurate to within about 11-12 feet is already really impressive, but that margin of error is still wide enough to occasionally cause problems in dense urban areas, which is why Mitsubishi Electric wants to take satellite accuracy to the next level. The Tokyo-
Vuforia isn’t a name that many people are familiar with, but it’s the most popular augmented reality platform on the market at the moment, and it has a new owner. Qualcomm was the original owner, but the company has decided to leave the augmented reality market, for unknown reasons, and
After seeing how successful the OnePlus One was, companies like Motorola and ZTE decided to release their own high-end smartphones with mid-range prices, and it’s definitely paying off. The ZTE Axon may not be as popular as the Moto X Style or the OnePlus 2, but it’s definitely just as g
It looks like those rumors from last week were true, as Dell has announced that it’ll be acquiring EMC in what’s going to be the biggest business deal in the technology industry. The roughly $67 billion cash-and-shares deal is expected to wrap up sometime next year, and will give Dell a
You’d be surprised how many products that we see and use everyday actually utilize technology that was developed by NASA, such as memory foam mattresses and non-stick pans, through patent licensing deals. These deals tend to favor established corporations, however, which is why the space agenc