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It’s often the simplest tricks that are the most effective. For example, not even the most advanced, most expensive data protection and encryption can guarantee that people won’t be able to get their hands on the data that’s stored on your hard drive, but you could easily take it o

BitTorrent is practically synonymous with digital piracy, but the file sharing protocol has plenty of legal uses as well. In fact, a leaked draft presentation from about a decade ago shows that Sony Pictures actually fiddled around with the idea of trying to acquire BitTorrent, as well as other comp

OnePlus is still struggling to make the OnePlus 2 available to purchase, but it looks like the company is already gearing up to launch a new product. This kind of crap is what makes it difficult to believe the company’s recent apology for botching the OnePlus 2 launch, but I’d be lying i

Nintendo’s hardware sales over the past few years have been far from impressive, but one area where the company is enjoying a lot of success if Amiibos. The company’s coveted toys have been selling so well that it’s actually pretty hard to get your hands on one nowadays. According

We’ve been saying for a while now that HTC is going to need something powerful and enticing if it wants to start turning its abysmal sales around, and the One A9 is definitely one of those things. Also known as the HTC Aero, the HTC One A9 recently popped up on Geekbench, and the benchmark too

One of the Xperia’s biggest selling points is the fact that it’s extremely waterproof, at least as far as smartphone go, and the new Xperia Z5 is no exception. The company has been advertising it as a waterproof device since it was first unveiled, even going so far as to include promo im

Asian messaging apps are like Swiss Army knives for mobile devices; they come packed with tons of functionality that you wouldn’t really expect to see in a messaging app, from cab-hailing to ticket-buying, and WeChat is no exception. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that a new feature is c

China is one of the few places where Uber isn’t completely dominating the ride-sharing market, and its local competitors want to keep it that way. Uber has been really aggressive and vocal about its Asian expansion recently, especially when it comes to China and India, but two of China’s

Qualcomm’s Snapdragon processors are responsible for powering a significant chunk of the Android devices that have been released over the years, and now the company wants them to power drones as well. Qualcomm has spent the last six months or so developing a new reference platform for consumer

Tizen hasn’t exactly risen to challenge Android in any meaningful way, it hasn’t even been able to beat out Windows Phone as the third most-popular mobile operating system, but Samsung is far from finished with it. The successor to the mildly successful Samsung Z1 was recently approved b

Missed deadlines and unfulfilled promises are something that OnePlus seems to have in abundance. You know what it doesn’t have in abundance? Phones. Despite the company’s promise that the OnePlus 2 launch wouldn’t suffer from the same issues that plagued the OnePlus One launch, tha

It’s only natural for the “Google of China” to follow in Google’s footsteps, which is why it’s not all that surprising that Baidu has unveiled its own virtual assistant that’s going to be taking on the likes of Cortana, Google Now, and Siri. Known as Duer, this ar

It’s a little too early to be seeing leaked specs for the Galaxy S7, but a new Samsung smartphone popped up on the AnTuTu Benchmark database that may very well be the company’s next flagship. Going by the codename Lucky, the device comes equipped with Qualcomm’s next-generation Sna

A three-year-long legal battle came to a close earlier today, one that had come to symbolize Silicon Valley’s numerous issues with sexism. Ellen Pao filed a gender discrimination lawsuit against her former employer, Kleiner Perkins, back in 2012, alleging that the company denied her a promotio

It can be difficult to wrap your head around just how ridiculously massive The Witcher 3 is, in terms of both content and world size, and there was a LOT of effort put in to make it that way. According to CD Projekt, it took 240 in-house staff members and 1,500 extra workers from across the [&hellip

If you’ve had your eye on the startup scene in Asia anytime in the past couple of years, the first thing you’ll notice is that there’s a LOT of money being invested, especially when it comes to Chinese startups. However, a new report from Tencent Tech suggests that a significant ch

We still have a couple of months to go before Bethesda releases fallout 4, but the company is already opening up about the game’s downloadable content. I’m not talking about horse armor either, I’m talking about a Season Pass that will give you access to the numerous DLCs that Beth

Behind Firefox OS and Tizen, and way behind Windows 10 Mobile, there’s another alternative mobile operating system that’s fighting to take the number three spot in the mobile market behind Android and iOS, and it’s called Sailfish OS. From a small Finnish startup by the name of Jol

Nowadays, most high-end mobile devices come with either 3GB or 4GB of RAM, but that number could jump up to 6GB in the near future thanks to Samsung. The company has started producing next-generation LPDDR4 modules for mobile devices that could bring 6GB of RAM to future smartphone, with as much as

The Fire Phone didn’t just sell poorly, it sold so poorly that it took Amazon more than a year to clear out its stock of the smartphone. It was noticed earlier this week that the Amazon page for the Fire Phone lists the device as unavailable, which means Amazon must have finally sold the last

We already know that HTC has a couple of high-end smartphones that it plans to unveil on September 29th, but there’s a good chance that the company will take the wraps off of its first smartwatch at the event as well. We don’t have anything official to go on, but according to Phandroid,

With hundreds of millions of people, low levels of car ownership, really crowded cities, and underdeveloped public transit, China may be Uber’s most important market. CEO Travis Kalanick seems to agree, because he recently announced that the company will be doubling its expansion plans in the

With Qualcomm expected to launch its Snapdragon 820 chipset by the end of the year, many people are wondering which company will be the first to utilize the next-generation chipset in one of their devices. Qualcomm announced recently that somewhere around 30 Snapdragon 820-powered smartphones are be

Most analysts for the wireless market have predicted that 2020 will be when 5G networks start seeing commercial deployment, but I guess Verizon didn’t get the memo. The largest wireless carrier in the United States announced this morning that it plans to begin testing of 5G wireless technology

Building a Raspberry Pi-powered basic tablet or control panel just got a lot easier, as there’s now an official Raspberry Pi touchscreen that can be purchased for $60. Naturally, for a touchscreen that’s so affordable, it isn’t exactly top-tier with its 7-inch 800×480, but tha

Samsung is currently the undisputed king of the smartphone market, but Apple’s seemingly unstoppable growth and the burgeoning smartphone makers coming out of China are really starting to take their toll on the South Korean company. Not even the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge were able to sell a

Sony’s smartphones have some pretty straightforward names. The Xperia Z5 Compact is slightly weaker and more compact than the standard Xperia Z5 while the Xperia Z5 Premium is slightly bigger and more premium. Like I said, they’re pretty straightforward names, which is why I got a little

Few people are as qualified to make predictions about the PC market as Michael Dell, so when he says that the market is going to consolidate even further over the next few years, you can believe him. Speaking at a conference in India earlier this week, the founder and CEO of Dell predicted that the

With the Taiwanese company’s ever-shrinking profits recently culminating in it falling off of Taiwan’s fifty most valuable companies list, it’s clear that the mobile market has not been kind to HTC, and things are only going to get worse. That’s why it’s so important th

As far as displays are concerned, 4K and OLED are the two hottest trends at the moment, and as one of the market leaders for displays, it’s only natural for LG to have combined to two to create something that’s as impressive as it is ridiculous. At IFA 2015 in Berlin earlier this week, L

Amazon and Apple have always approached the tablet market from different angles, Amazon from the low-end to mid-range side and Apple from the high-end side. It’s worked out pretty damn well for both companies, but with the tablet market continuing to shrink, the two of them have had to really

Another day, another batch of Nexus leaks. That’s what the past couple of weeks have felt like as we grow ever-closer to Google’s official unveiling of the two smartphones, which is expected on September 29th. One of the more recent leaks comes from AndroidPIT, and gives us an actual loo

Uber has been testing out its own courier service for a few months now, and it looks like the company is finally ready to actually launch it. According to reports, the company is planning to announce partnerships with several major retailers later this fall, and will have an Uber-powered express del

ZTE isn’t exactly a household name in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped the Chinese handset maker from taking an 8% share of the American smartphone market in the second quarter of this year. According to IDC, ZTE’s market share in the United States has increased from 4.2%

Considering the lukewarm responses to the LG G4, not to mention the disappointing sales, LG needs a new flagship smartphone to help turn things around, and that new device will be launching on October 10th, according to reports out of South Korea. While the name of the devices wasn’t mentioned

One of the most surprising things we learned about Fallout 4 at E3 was that the playable character would be fully voiced. It was surprising because Fallout has always had a seemingly endless number of dialogue options, and having them all voiced would be incredibly difficult to achieve, but Bethesda

Acer founder Stan Shih announced a few days ago that he was open to the idea of having his company taken over by another one, which led to many people talking about a potential merger between Acer and ASUS. It makes a lot of sense on the surface, considering how both of them are based […]

Now that Nextbit has entered the smartphone market, the company is having a celebration party in its home city of San Francisco today. Its first smartphone isn’t the only thing to be celebrating either, as the new device also managed to reach its Kickstarter goal of $500,000 in less than 12 ho

With China’s mobile growth starting to slow down, all eyes are turning to India as the next burgeoning mobile market to take advantage of. According to a statement released by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), the number of active Internet users in the country has increased

When you find something you like on Tumblr and want to share it with your follows, you simply reblog it. In the past this has created what Tumblr itself has described as “crazy-long, indecipherable reblog chains,” but the company released a much-needed update to its interface earlier thi