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Samsung’s smartphone sales have definitely been better, which is why the company has been forced to offer potential customers deals and promotions in order to convince them to purchase its smartphones. Not only is the company willing to pay your monthly phone bill for the next three months if

In order to get people excited for the BlackBerry Priv (previously known as the Venice), BlackBerry CEO John Chen gave BNN an exclusive first look at the device. The problem is, this is BlackBerry’s first Android smartphone, and it’s clear from Chen’s awkward fumbling that he&#8217

For the handful of you who’ve never seen a courtroom scene in a movie or television show where the Fifth Amendment is used, it’s essentially the part of the Constitution that protects the convicted from being forced to incriminate themselves, hence the oft-used “right to remain sil

With less than a week to go before LG’s upcoming event in New York City, the company ha started building up hype for one of the announcements with a 15-second teaser video of what appears to be the long-rumored V10. The video reveals next to nothing about the smartphone, but from the rumors we

It looks like President Barack Obama and President Xi Jinping have reached a “common understanding” regarding cyber-espionage between the two countries. Both countries have vowed to never conduct or knowingly support the theft of intellectual property from one another, and President Obam

We’re less then two months away from the Fallout 4 launch, and Bethesda is stoking the hype flames with bits and pieces of information every few days that come in the form of short explanation videos. The most recent video explains the new character system in Fallout 4, and how Bethesda has do

2016 is shaping up to be the Year of Virtual Reality, because pretty much every virtual reality headset worth noting is expected to launch sometime during the year, including the HTC Vive and the Oculus Rift. However, whereas those headsets are going to be gaming-centric and really expensive, Samsun

Even with next to no traditional marketing, the ZTE Axon still managed to pop up on everyone’s radar thanks to its high-end specs and premium feel, both of which come at the low price of $450. The high-power and low-price put the ZTE Axon against the likes of the Moto X Pure and OnePlus 2, and

OnePlus got a good bit of press for hosting the world’s first virtual reality product announcement, but CNN is about to blow that achievement out of the water. Following the success of its virtual reality highlight clips for the most recent Republican presidential debate, CNN has announced tha

It’s easy to forget just how essential lithium-ion batteries are to our daily lives. These rechargeable batteries are what supply power to pretty much every mobile device you own, from laptops to smartphones, which is why it’s a shame that so few people recognize the name John Goodenough

We can add this report from the Taipei Times to the ever-growing list of rumors that Xiaomi is working on its own laptop. The report quotes Richard Lee, the chairman of one of Xiaomi’s smartphone manufacturers and one of the largest laptop makers in Taiwan, who expects Xiaomi to launch its fir

I still remember how amazed I was when I first saw someone create a 3D-printed wrench, but after seeing what the people at World’s Advanced Saving Project (WASP) are doing with 3D printers, I can’t believe something as laughably small as a wrench ever impressed me. WASP is planning to build a

We’ve known that beta testing for Star Wars Battlefront would be open to everyone on PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One sometime before the game launched, and now we know when. Electronic Arts announced yesterday that the open beta will be taking place between October 8th and October 12th, and wi

Subscription-based entertainment is really common nowadays, with companies like Netflix and Spotify making billions by offering people unlimited access to a bunch of content for a small monthly fee, but one area where the subscription model hasn’t really picked up is gaming. I’m not talk

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

Yesterday afternoon, a mysterious timer popped up on Pebble’s official website, which is set to expire at mid-day on September 23rd, but what will happen when it does? A new product announcement or software update seems like the most likely occurrence, but unfortunately, Pebble is keeping that

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