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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

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

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

Exercising is one of those things that we all know we should be doing more often, but only a handful of us actually do so. I’d like to say that I can never find the time to do exercise, but the reality of the matter is that I’m too lazy to exercise, and the few times that […]

With things like Google Cardboard allowing people to build their own makeshift virtual reality headsets and companies like HTC and Oculus preparing to release their own high-end headsets, the virtual reality market is really starting to pick up steam. Netflix recently announced that it has its own v

The PRIV is far more than the BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone, it may very well be one of the last handsets the company ever makes, depending on how well the smartphone does. BlackBerry CEO John Chen has already suggested that his company might stop making handsets next year if it doesn&

I’m sure most of you were quick to dismiss that rumor from a couple of days ago, the one out of China that claimed Pepsi is working on its own smartphone, but now it’s starting to look like a real possibility. A more legitimate report has popped up, this one also out of China, and it giv

The New York Times released an in-depth report a couple of months about how much it sucks to work at Amazon, and with how much attention the report got, the company has been forced to do some serious damage control in the weeks that followed. Fortunately, the company is also making an effort to actu

Social media is popular, can you believe it?! It’s so popular, in fact, that around 65% of the entire adult population in the United States use social media in some form, which is dramatic increase over the 7% that did a decade ago. If you further break down the demographics, you’ll find

China and the United States reached some important agreements and understandings regarding cybersecurity last month, but a lot of people are worried that it was all just meaningless talk with no real substance. While those concerns are still there, and still valid, the Chinese government’s rec

Now that Jack Dorsey is back as the CEO of Twitter, this time for good, one of the first things he’s going to do is fire a bunch of people, starting next week. This is according to a report from Re/code, which claims that Twitter is looking to cut costs and possibly even make itself […]

We have a general idea of what kind of specs the OnePlus Mini will have, but what it looks like has been a mystery until now. It was actually confirmed earlier this week that the smartphone will be called the OnePlus X, but from what we can tell, it’s still a miniature version of the OnePlus [

Videos are already massively important to social networks, and they’re only going to become more so as time goes by, so if Twitter wants to have any kind of relevance in the future, it needs to start stepping up its game. What’s funny is that the company has actually made a couple of sig

With the PC market becoming an increasingly unreliable source of income, Dell is being forced to expand its offerings in other areas in order to remain profitable, such as cloud-based services for corporations. Managing and storing enterprise data is actually very lucrative at the moment, so much so

Plug-ins were essential to web browser back in the early days of the Internet, because they dramatically expanded the functionality of the browsers by adding support for things like Java and Silverlight. The downside to plug-ins, however, was that they caused numerous performance and stability issue

The post-Snowden world has seen technology giants like Apple and Google embracing encryption more than ever before in order to combat government surveillance and potential cyberattacks, and the United States government has made it clear that it doesn’t like that. There have been numerous calls

Password managers are an essential tool for those of us that juggle dozens of different accounts across various services and websites, and want to remain secure without sacrificing convenience. LastPass is by far the most popular password manager out there, and it’s the one that I use myself,

It’s common for companies to expand to new markets and diversify, but this may be the craziest diversification we’ve seen in a while. A sketchy report out of China suggests that Pepsi, of all the companies, is working on its own smartphone. It’s almost guaranteed that the company w

BlackBerry’s decision to remain in the handset market, despite failing to turn a profit for years and having lost almost all of its market share, could be seen as either denial or perseverance, but whatever it is, the company may have finally run out of it. At a conference in California yester

OnePlus has proven time and time again that it makes promises it can’t keep, such as claiming the OnePlus 2 wouldn’t be as difficult to purchase as its predecessor. Obviously that was a lie, as getting your hands on a OnePlus 2 invite is still much harder than it should be, but the good

Lyft announced a bunch of quality-of-life improvements for its drivers yesterday, such as cheaper gas and real-time payments, in an effort to keep its current drivers loyal and make itself more appealing to Uber drivers. As great as that is, the company may have done some less admirable things to be

Amazon took a crap on Etsy’s stock price yesterday morning when it announced Homemade, a new online store for artisanal goods that’s going to be competing directly with Etsy. As the name implies, Homemade guarantees that all of it’s products are homemade, in contrast to Etsy, which

Cancer and spam are just about the only thing you’ll ever find in the comments section below most web articles, which is why so many websites have decided to do away with comments sections entirely, but Digg wants to solve the problem, not just avoid it. In what’s probably going to be th

Netflix’s most popular streaming package is getting a price increase for the second time in two years, and as with last time, it’s such a small increase that the company will likely only receive minor complaints. That’s the beauty of it. Nobody really cares that Netflix is raising

We know that OnePlus is planning to release another smartphone before the end of the year, and we’re pretty sure it’ll cost $249.99, but a number of conflicting reports have made it difficult to determine the name of the device and what kind of specs it’ll have. Fortunately, CEO Li