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Aside from sleeping, working, and general leisurely activities, what would you say the average American spends the most amount of time doing every day? Eating seems like an obvious answer, or maybe showering and other hygienic practices, or maybe even religious activities. If you guessed any of thes

For an Internet of Things platform to be successful, it needs to be compatible with as many types of hardware as possible, and considering how prevalent ARM-based processors are, it’s only natural for IBM to want to make its own IoT platform work with them. That’s why the company has for

The wait may finally be over. The most popular smartphone to come out of China was released more than a year ago, and people have been getting antsy waiting for some kind of official announcement from Xiaomi regarding the smartphone’s successor: the Xiaomi Mi 5. While we still don’t

I’m one of the many people who likes to fall asleep while watching TV, which is fine by itself, but the fact that the TV remains on while I’m asleep is not just bad for my health, it wastes a lot of power. That’s where Samsung thinks the SleepSense can be of assistance. One of [&he

Qualcomm is hoping that the Snapdragon 820 will make us forget about the overheating issues that plagued the Snapdragon 810, and if the details on the new SoC that the company just revealed are true, it might actually do that. We already know about the chip’s Adreno 530 GPU, which Qualcomm cla

I thought the NIVIDIA SHIELD gaming tablet sounded pretty gimmicky when it was first announced, and while I still think that, I can’t deny that it’s a solid device. That being said, it wasn’t exactly a smash hit because the market for gaming mobile devices is still hilariously smal

One of Hulu’s biggest weaknesses has always been its reliance on advertisements. Whereas Netflix offers a ton content for $7.99 per month with no advertisements of any kind, Hulu offers less content while still forcing users to watch multiple ads per episode when watching television shows, eve

Sony Mobile has had a rough time these past few years, so much so that Sony is losing millions of dollars every week just to keep its mobile division alive. Obviously this can’t keep going on, and since Sony has made it clear that it has no intention of leaving the mobile market, the company [

Months after Huawei first unveiled its new smartwatch at this year’s Mobile World Congress, the Chinese company is finally making the device available to pre-order in the United States. Huawei missed the original June launch date for the Huawei Watch, but it’s easy to forgive them when y

It’s always been possible to build a new PC from scratch or replace the components on an existing device, but the process requires a bit of know-how, and even if you have the experience, it’s still annoying and tedious at times. There aren’t very many people who enjoy fiddling arou

The official Xperia Z5 unveiling is right around the corner, so this may very well be the last leak we see for Sony’s next flagship. Confirming rumors that there will be three versions of the device, a batch of hands-on images have been leaked which give us our best look at the smartphones yet

With how poorly the PC market has been doing over the past few years, it’s common to see big-name PC manufacturers like ASUS and Lenovo expanding into the mobile market to make up for their shrinking sales. Xiaomi, on the other hand, is reportedly looking to do the opposite: expanding OUT of t

With more than 1.35 billion people and a rapidly growing number of smartphone users, it’s only a matter of time before China surpasses the United States and becomes the world’s most valuable mobile gaming market, and it looks like that time is upon us. According to the 2015 Chinese Mobil

Tech companies have made their hatred of closed video formats very clear, especially the kind that require the companies to pay royalties to patent holders. That’s why many of these companies have developed their own video formats, but that doesn’t really solve the problem, it just creat

Gaming computers need to be really powerful in order to handle modern games with max settings, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that they’re massive power hogs, but it’s still a bit surprising to see just HOW much power they consume. Even though they make up just 2.5% of the glob

Nextbit isn’t exactly a well-known name in the mobile world, and neither is Baton, the cloud-based transfer tool that it released for Android devices last year. Even so, the company popped up on everyone’s radar last month when it announced that it would be releasing its own smartphone.

Music streaming services have supported offline playback for a while now, but for subscription video services like Hulu and Netflix, users have never been able to enjoy this feature. Fortunately, Amazon thinks its about time to change that, and is now allowing Amazon Prime subscribers to download mo

With a batch after batch of layoffs and perpetually terrible sales figures, it’s safe to say that HTC has seen better days. The HTC One M9 didn’t do anything to turn things around for the struggling Taiwanese company, so many mobile industry analysts have been curious to see what HTC&#82

We all knew that Lenovo was working on another Moto 360 smartwatch, but this was just an assumption that was based on the success of the first one, we haven’t had anything official to go on, but now we do. Lenovo has announced that it’s hosting a new Motorola conference in Shanghai next

Gaming may be the most popular area for the live streaming at the moment, but apps like Meerkat and Periscope are helping to turn it into a new form of video sharing by allowing anyone with a smartphone to start live streaming whatever they want, whenever they want. In order to help streamers engage

After months of rumors and speculation, Samsung has officially unveiled its next smartwatches, known as the Gear S2 and the Gear S2 Classic. Both of them feature the circular design and rotating bezel that we’ve been hearing so much about, but where they differ is in the band. Whereas the Gear

Aside from a handful of pixel graphic indie titles on the PC, there’s a rather disappointing shortage of new cyberpunk video games at the moment, but that’s going to change this February. That’s when Eidos Montreal will be releasing Deus Ex: Mankind Divided for the PC, PlayStation

Possibly confirming rumors that the next LG-made Nexus smartphone will have modestly high-end specs, Android Police is reporting that the Nexus 5 (2015) will have have a 5.2-inch display at 1920×1080, 3GB of RAM, and a Snapdragon 808 processor. As for the camera, the device will reportedly have

Xiaomi may be called the “Apple of China” because of how much it copies the company, but that doesn’t mean its not afraid to copy Samsung as well. Some new rumors out of China claim that Xiaomi is planning to release a smartphone with a curved display alongside its high-end flagshi

There’s a certain point where a smartphone becomes so big that it’s basically a tablet. Devices that hover between the two definitions are called phablets, but even those smartphones usually don’t have more than a 6-inch screen. Lenovo doesn’t seem to care all that much about

If you’ve already spent hundreds of hours experiencing everything The Wither 3 has to offer, then prepare to put a few dozen more into the game, because CD Projekt RED is almost finished with its first expansion: Heart of Stone. All of the free DLC that CD Projekt RED has been releasing is gre

A company’s logo is what helps customers and potential customers identify its products, so it’s incredibly important that the logo be nice looking and easy to recognize. Meizu clearly didn’t have this in mind when in designed its abysmal logo that it has currently, but the Chinese

Despite the fact that Sony’s mobile division is practically a money incinerator, the company has made it clear that it’s not going to stop making smartphones anytime soon. The Xperia Z5 will be the first flagship from Sony Mobile since making that promise, and the company is expected to

We’re less than two weeks away from this year’s IFA, and Huawei is taking to Twitter to tease some of its new products beforehand. The company tweeted an image earlier today of what looks to be the Huawei Watch, accompanied by the words, “Elegance and power, one and the same.&#8221

netflix‘s five year distribution deal with Epix is coming to an end next month, and the company has announced that it won’t be renewing it. The deal was first signed back in 2010, and Netflix is reported to have paid Epix somewhere around $1 billion in licensing fees over the course of d

Samsung’s semiconductor business is growing about as quickly as its mobile business is shrinking, which means it’s growing pretty damn fast. The company managed to make $10.366 from its 12.0 share of the global semiconductor market last quarter while Intel made $11.797 billion from its 1

Ali Shukri Amin has never engaged in any kind of violent terrorism, but the 17-year-old American did operate a Twitter account that not only supported ISIS, but taught its 4,000 Twitter followers how to send money to the terrorist group using Bitcoin. Obviously this isn’t the kind of thing tha

It’s hard to imagine New Orleans popping up in any conversation about tech hubs in the United States, but that’s starting to change. Poverty, rampant crime, and a severe shortage of jobs caused tens of thousands of young professionals to leave the city in search of better opportunity dur

Remember how tablets were really, really popular for a few years, but then people stopped caring about them after a while? Well the same thing is happening to the wearable market at the moment, except wearables haven’t even come close to being as popular as tablets, and whereas it took the tab

It doesn’t matter how low your prices are compared to your competitors if customers aren’t aware of the price difference. That’s one of the biggest problems that Jet.com is facing at the moment as it continues to try and steal the e-commerce crown away from Amazon. CEO Marc Lore ac

Messaging apps are a big deal right now, especially in Asia where apps like Line and WeChat have become something like the app equivalent of a Swiss Army knife. Line has been gaining users like crazy these past couple of years, both within its home country of Japan and all over Asia, but its earning

A rule of thumb for Chinese electronics makers is that if Xiaomi does it, then you should to, and since Xiaomi has already released a couple of its own smart routers, it’s easy to believe the rumor that Meizu is going to do the same. KJuma, a well-known leakster on Weibo, has posted a bunch of

I hope Gottfrid Svartholm enjoyed his thirty seconds of freedom, because after the Pirate Bay co-founder was released from Danish prison for the first time in several years, the Swedish man was immediately re-arrested by police. It’s not like this was a big surprise for Svartholm, as he was in

Siemens has been one of the worlds largest tech companies for more than a century, back when the term “technology company” meant something a lot different then what it does today. The German company was even one of the biggest names in the handset market up until around 2005, and while i

Be it delivering electronics or picking up laundry, there’s just something about delivery startups that attracts hundreds of millions of dollars from Chinese investors. The latest startup to benefit from this is Ele.me, which just announced that it has secured $630 million in a series F fundin