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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 company&#82

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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