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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

I can’t blame you if you’re not sure which processor Samsung will be using to power the Galaxy S7, because the rumors we’ve been hearing the past couple of weeks have been all over the place. Some claim that it’ll be the Snapdragon 820, others claim it’ll be a new in-ho

Ads are definitely annoying, but I can accept the fact that they’re essential to the Internet, as they allow website owners to make money while still offering their visitors free content. Spying on their visitors and tracking their online activity, on the other hand, is something that I’

Xiaomi is taking its sweet time with announcing the highly-anticipated Mi5 smartphone, but if the rumors about the device’s price and specs are to be believed, it’ll be worth the wait. Not only is the Xiaomi Mi5 expected to come with 4GB of RAM, numerous reports have claimed that it&#821

Microsoft managed to significantly boost Xbox One sales by unbundling the Kinect from the console and dropping the price, and now Sony is doing the same with the PlayStation 4, not that it even needs it. In order to maintain the massive sales lead it’s had with the PlayStation 4 for the last t

Jawbone makes wearable fitness trackers and wireless audio devices, which means it’s basically a hardware company, but don’t let CEO Hosain Rahman hear you say that. In a recent interview with Recode, Rahman stated that Jawbone no longer sees itself as a hardware company, and that it&#82

Amazon may have some serious competition from domestic companies in Asia, but here in the West, the only company that really stands a chance is Jet.com. The e-commerce startup finally launched earlier this year after spending several months building itself up, and it looked really promising. What ma

It’s a little known fact that the rise of music streaming has actually had a significant impact on concert ticket sales, especially for lesser known artists, and being a music streaming service, this is obviously the something that Pandora would take notice of. That’s probably why the co

One of the biggest concerns that Twitter’s board of directors had with naming Jack Dorsey as the company’s permanent CEO was the fact that he was already the CEO of Square, but obviously they decided to go through with the decision anyway. This means Jack Dorsey is now among the handful

The Witcher 3 is absolutely massive, so much so that one of the biggest complaints with the game is that there simply isn’t enough interesting content to fill such a large world, but what about Cyberpunk 2077? According to CD Projekt’s Jose Teixeira, the game will be even bigger than The

With its ultra-popular premium hardware that people either think is overpriced crap or top-quality product, Razer is pretty much the Beats Electronics of the gaming world, but it’s newest product doesn’t actually have anything to do with gaming. It’s called Razer Music, but don&#82

Curation is the name of the game nowadays, and Twitter wants to get in on the action with Moments, a new service that the company launched this morning which aims to turn the chaotic nature of Twitter into something more engaging and organized. Basically, a team of editors will find trending tweets

We reported this morning that Reddit would be launching a new website later today, and that time has come. Known as Upvoted, this new website is a more centralized version of Reddit that doesn’t allow users to comment or vote on posts. Community contribution and discussion have been done away

The controversial “Safe Harbor” laws that allowed technology companies to move user data between the Europe Union and the United States were ruled invalid by the European Court of Justice this morning. These laws made it so that companies like Facebook and Google could transfer user data

There hasn’t been a single DLC for Destiny that wasn’t met with tons of controversy and criticism, which is why Bungie has decided to revamp the game’s entire DLC system in a way that it hopes will appease the hordes of (justifiably) angry gamers. Rather than selling overpriced exp

China’s domestic smartphone companies have been gaining a lot of prestige in recent years, and though most of them are still guilty of blatantly copying their foreign counterparts, the quality of their products has reached the point where they can hold their own against the likes of even Apple

I could sit here for hours talking about all the issues that plague Reddit, but if you use the website yourself, then you’re probably already painfully familiar with them. The good news is that Reddit is also familiar with these issues, but rather than address them directly and risk changing R

The more I learn about Samsung’s upcoming 18.4-inch tablet, the less I understand about what the company is trying to achieve. Sure, that massive screen is pretty cool, but the rumors that it’ll only have a resolution of 1080×1920 with such a large screen seemed really weird. At fir

Pinterest’s potential as an e-commerce gateway is what earned it its $11 billion valuation, and with more than 100 million monthly active users, it’s about time the company starts meeting that potential. It started doing that not too long ago with its Buyable Pins program, which there ar

Interbrand inadvertently gave us yet another testament to Nintendo’s decline today when it released its 100 Global Brands ranking, an annual list of the most valuable brands in the world. Nintendo’s position on the list has been going down for years, but this year, for the first time in

Meerkat and Periscope are the only non-gaming live streaming apps of note at the moment, but YouNow wants to change that by taking a rather unique approach to live streaming, and it now has $15 million in funding to help achieve that goal. What makes YouNow so unique is that it focuses heavily on so

We all saw it coming, and every rumor we’ve heard this past week has indicated as much, but Twitter made it official today: Jack Dorsey is returning as the company’s permanent CEO. Dorsey has been serving as Twitter’s interim CEO ever since Dick Costolo stepped down from the positi

The year is coming to an end and Xiaomi still hasn’t released the two flagship smartphones that everyone has been so eagerly waiting for: the Mi5 and the Mi Note 2. Xiaomi has been infuriatingly quiet regarding the two devices, but there’s been no shortage of leaks and rumors about them,

More details on this year’s second smartphone from OnePlus have been leaked, and it looks like the company is trying to fix some of the issues that people have with the OnePlus 2, although this comes at the cost of having weaker specs. Known as the OnePlus Mini, an anonymous source has told G-

Testing out a virtual reality headset would be enough to make my day by itself, but doing that AND getting to be a part of one of the world’s first virtual reality marriage proposals would be on whole other level of awesome. That’s what Kelly Tortorice got to experience last week when sh

Considering how Google’s two upcoming Nexus smartphones were developed by separate companies, the Nexus 5X by LG and the Nexus 6P by Huawei, there’s only so much consistency that can be achieved, and it’s only natural for there to be some glaring differences between the two devices

Coloring is already fun and engaging for people of all ages, but Disney Research has developed an app that takes things to the next level by bringing people’s drawings to life. The augmented reality app allows users to capture real-time images from their smartphone’s camera and then map

The speed at which the English language adapts and adds new words is what makes it so great, but also what makes it so annoying, mainly due to the fact that it’s difficult to keep up with how quickly everything changes. The rise of the Internet has only served to make things worse thanks to [&

Families have always been Netflix’s primary target, and the company already has plenty of content to entertain parents and young children, but what about kids in the tween and teen demographics? Netflix’s offerings in those areas could use some work, especially when it comes to original

The last eight years or so have basically been heaven for comic book fans, and things are only getting better. Not only is Marvel releasing comic book movies that are well-made and really enjoyable, even the company’s less popular heroes, or anti-heroes in Daredevils case, are getting screen t

Remember how nervous music streaming services like Spotify were when Apple Music was close to launching, how they were worried that it would completely change the industry like iTunes did? Yeah, that never happened, and it turns out there was nothing to worry about because Apple Music isn’t mu

Now that YouTube is encroaching on Twitch’s territory with YouTube Gaming, it’s the perfect time for Twitch to do the same to YouTube. Twitch CEO Emmit Shear has announced that, starting sometime next year, Twitch broadcasters will be given the ability to upload pre-recorded videos, whic

A rumor that Samsung might equip the Galaxy S7 with a dual-camera setup popped up a few weeks ago, and recent leaks regarding the dual-camera technology for smartphones that the company is working on definitely lent some weight to it. Not only is Samsung definitely working on dual-camera technology,

Xiaomi is taking its sweet time before unveiling the highly-anticipated Mi5, but with the end of the year growing closer, the company won’t be able to wait much longer. In the meantime, there seems to be no shortage of rumors regarding the flagship smartphone, such as the one from earlier this

Earlier today, SolarCity announced that it has successfully developed the world’s “most efficient” solar panel, which it claims can produce between 30% and 40% more power than regular solar panels while also costing noticeably less than them. With the solar power industry growing a

The Huawei-made Nexus 6P is definitely one of the most unique looking Nexus smartphones to date, but not so unique that Huawei isn’t being accused of copying someone else’s design. The accuser in question is ZTE, which is one of Huawei’s fellow Chinese smartphone makers, and while

Samsung shook things up a when it opted to use its own Exynos 7420 processor to power the Galaxy S6 instead of the Snapdragon 810 that powers most of this year’s flagships, but a report out of South Korea claims that the company will be returning to Qualcomm’s chipset with the Galaxy S7.

From the Fertile Crescent that is Silicon Valley, to the vibrant middle powers of London and Tel Aviv, to the emerging unknowns of Lagos and Nairobi, there are startup scenes in hundreds of cities across the globe. One place you’d never expect to find a startup scene, however, is North Korea,

Snapchat already has hundreds of millions of users, now all it needs to do is find a way to make money from them. This is much harder than it sounds, and Snapchat has spent the last year or so experimenting with ways to monetize in search of something that’ll really get the cash flowing, such

What makes consumer electronics so amazing is that it only takes a few years for technology that was previously only accessible to organizations with tons of money to make its way to something as accessible as a smartphone. A perfect example of this is machine learning, which has been used on a larg