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You could fill a library with all the arguments on Internet forums about whether eSports are actually sports or not, but they’re definitely a competition, and that’s good enough for DraftKings. The company, which allows users to create fantasy sports teams and have them compete with othe

Smartphones and tablets have taken massive chunks out of the handheld console market, something that Nintendo is painfully aware of, but it looks like even the livingroom console and PC gaming markets are being affected as well. At least, that’s what a new report from the NDP Group seems to su

That mysterious countdown that popped up on Pebble’s website earlier this week hit zero today, at which point the company unveiled the Pebble Time Round. As the name implies, the Round is the first smartwatch from Pebble to have a circular face, but that’s not the only thing that separat

When Nextbit unveiled Robin, the company’s first smartphone and the world’s first cloud-first mobile device, potential customers in the United States were upset that the smartphone would be exclusive to AT&T and T-Mobile. Nextbit heard these complaints and decided to unveil a CDMA ve

The new OnePlus smartphone isn’t shaping up to be much of a surprise. We already got a look at the upcoming device earlier this week with some leaked renders, which showed a dual camera and a fingerprint sensor on the back, and now the device has popped up on AnTuTu. According to the benchmark

There aren’t very many things that make me wish I lived in China and not the West, but Xiaomi is chief among them. The company has risen to become one of the most valuable startups in the world, behind only Uber, by selling powerful smartphones at ridiculously low prices. The latest of these s

It was reported not too long ago that CyanogenMod has more users that BlackBerry OS and Windows Phone combined, and the developers behind the custom Android ROM want to make sure that number keeps growing. The developers have been working with a number of smartphone makers like Motorola and Xiaomi t

Meizu isn’t a brand name that many in the West will recognize, but it has the potential to be. The Chinese smartphone maker has released a bunch of excellent products this year, which have helped to build up its reputation in the premium market, but there are a few things holding the company b

China’s ride-sharing services may be trying desperately to hinder Uber’s expansion in the country, but it doesn’t seem to be working. The company has been investing hundreds of millions of dollars to speed up its expansion into what it considers one of its most important markets, a

Remember a few years ago when Groupon turned down a $6 billion acquisition deal from Google? Yeah, I can pretty much guarantee the company is regretting that decision. To be fair, the company was growing at a ridiculous pace back then and staying independent actually seemed like a good move, but Gro

If money isn’t an issue, then Samsung has always been the way to go when it comes to ultra-fast solid-state drives. The company has made several improvements to its SSD technology over the years that have not only increased capacity and speed, but reduced prices to the point where SSDs are now

Opera has always been a distant fifth in terms of web browser market share, which is why Opera Software has recently been expanding its software offerings so that it’s not so reliant on a mildly-popular web browser. With a string of acquisitions and new products over the past few months, the c

Samsung is single-handedly responsible for creating the phablet market as we know it today, and has dominated the high-end side of that market with its Galaxy Note series for years. Numerous competitors have tried to steal the phablet crown away from the Galaxy Note, but aside from the iPhone 6 Plus

The virtual reality market is still in its infancy, which is why so many companies are practically tripping over each other trying to establish a dominant position in the market. Tech companies like Facebook and Google have been especially interested in virtual reality, and have been investing billi

It’s no secret that cable television is dying, and the only reason that it hasn’t died already, aside from annoying data caps that limit online streaming options, is the fact that there’s no way to legally watch many of the television shows out there without having a cable subscrip

The Wii had its motion controls and wacky controllers, the 3DS had those 3D effects that everyone turns off, and the Wii U had that stupid tablet controller thing, but what kind of lame gimmick will the NX have? This is the console that’s supposed to turn things around for Nintendo, so its gim

OnePlus fans across the globe have been complaining about the failed OnePlus 2 launch and the fact that the smartphone is a pain in the ass to get your hands on, but don’t worry, OnePlus has been listening to these complaints and has decided to… completely disregard them. Instead of work

Laser weapons have been synonymous with sci-fi entertainment for decades, but only is the technology for these weapons available to us now, the United States military plans to start using them within just a few years. It’s weird to think about. First the Army wanted to use lasers to clear land

Back when Russia and the United States were the top dogs, both countries were afraid of the devastation that a nuclear attack from the other could cause, and set some ground rules for how and when those weapons could be used. But now that we live in the Digital Age, it’s cyberwarfare that coun

From the rumors we’ve been seeing recently, it looks like the LG-made Nexus 5X will be the smaller, more affordable version of Google’s new smartphone, and the Huawei-made Nexus 6P will be the larger, more powerful version. This can be seen in the storage options for the two devices, as

Remember back when screens were just screens? The capabilities of these screens and the technology that powered them differed, but at the end of the day they were just flat, rectangular or square screens. The past couple of years, however, have seen South Korean companies like LG and Samsung mixing

Konami has had a rough year, in terms of both finances and reputation. Not only is the Japanese video game company struggling to make money, some reports from earlier this year have highlighted just how crappy of a company it actually is, which is what led to the cancellation of beloved and long-run

There are a bunch of companies working on their own virtual reality headset at the moment, and while they love talking about how great their product is, there’s one bit of information that all of them have shied away from: the price. Even when Oculus VR announced that the final version of the

Britain is second only to the United States in terms of the number of enjoyable, high-quality television shows it produces, and that’s all thanks to the BBC. The British broadcaster has an immense catalog of content, only a fraction of which is easily obtainable by people outside of the United

Wireless carriers like to lock down smartphones in order to make it more difficult for users to switch to another carrier with a compatible network, and while it’s perfectly legal for users to just remove these locks themselves, carriers have no obligation unlock a user’s smartphone if t

My wallet and I feel all warm and fuzzy inside whenever we see all the affordable high-end smartphones that have been hitting the market these past couple of years, but with all these options, how are people supposed to decide which one to buy? Well if real-world speed is the most important thing, t

There’s no denying that trash men have an essential job, but it’s also a very simple one, so simple, in fact, that you could probably program a robot to do it. That’s exactly what Volvo wants to do with its new ROAR Project, which stands for Robot-based Autonomous Refuse Handling.

Apple’s big hardware announcement event was last week, Microsoft’s is next month, and Google’s is coming shortly after that, but what about Amazon? Not wanting to be left out of all these awesome announcement events, Amazon had one of its own earlier today, and don’t worry, t

Earlier this year, Russia started requiring technology companies like Google and Twitter to store data on Russian users within Russia itself, not overseas, all in the name of “national security” and all that jazz. What that really means is that Russia wants to ensure that even foreign te

It’s been more than a decade since Baidu went public through the NASDAQ, and the Chinese company has since risen to become one of the largest Internet companies in the world. However, while being listed on the American stock market may have been the best choice for Baidu in the past, CEO Robin

Berlin-based Rocket Internet can add a multi-billion dollar company to the list of startups that it’s helped to create. HelloFresh, a clever food-delivery startup that also happens to be based in Berlin, just raised €75 million ($85 million) in funding, which was led by Scottish investment fir

The vast majority of the population hasn’t even adopted a 4K display, and yet Sharp has already released its own 8K display. To be fair, this $130,000 monitor is meant for professional use, and isn’t supposed to be used by regular consumers, so it’s not all that crazy. Even so, it&

The struggle to find a way to monetize your service is one that many startups are painful familiar with, and Snapchat is definitely one of them. Advertisements have been the company’s sole source of revenue for a while now, but that’s not nearly enough, especially when you’re deali

The problem with the PC market being dominated by just two operating systems (OS X and Windows) is that consumer options are limited and lack of competition can stifle innovation. In China, however, that’s only half of the problem. The other half is that both of those operating systems are clo

The Snapdragon 810 wasn’t a failure, but it was definitely a disappointment, and it looks like Qualcomm is trying to make up for that by packing tons of new features and improved performance into the chip’s successor: the Snapdragon 820. The company already had us excited for the next-ge

Verizon recently earned itself a bit of publicity for announcing it that it’s already preparing to test out 5G network technology, but AT&T isn’t all that impressed. According to AT&T Mobility chief Glenn Lurie, consumers shouldn’t get too excited about 5G technology, espec

Michelle Phan was one of the Internet’s first YouTube celebrities, all thanks to her make-up tutorial videos that have earned her more than one billion collective views over the years. However, that success is merely the platform on which Phan is building her own beauty empire. Known as Ipsy,

Alongside the plethora of useful features that smart cars offer is the ever-present threat of hackers. Security experts have been worrying about the threat that hackers pose to smart cars for years, but it wasn’t until just recently that consumers really started to understand how vulnerable th

Nintendo and the gaming world as a whole mourned Satoru Iwata’s passing when he succumbed to bile duct cancer a couple of months ago, but now it’s time for the company to announce his successor: Tatsumi Kimishima. Only four people have held the title of President at Nintendo in the compa

It’s been six months since Etsy completed its IPO, which valued the company at around $3.5 billion, and now it’s time for the company to expand. One of the biggest problems with being a seller on an e-commerce website that specializes in artisanal goods is that these goods are difficult