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My wallet and I feel all warm and fuzzy inside whenever we see all the affordable high-end smartphones that have been hitting the market these past couple of years, but with all these options, how are people supposed to decide which one to buy? Well if real-world speed is the most important thing, t

There’s no denying that trash men have an essential job, but it’s also a very simple one, so simple, in fact, that you could probably program a robot to do it. That’s exactly what Volvo wants to do with its new ROAR Project, which stands for Robot-based Autonomous Refuse Handling.

Apple’s big hardware announcement event was last week, Microsoft’s is next month, and Google’s is coming shortly after that, but what about Amazon? Not wanting to be left out of all these awesome announcement events, Amazon had one of its own earlier today, and don’t worry, t

Earlier this year, Russia started requiring technology companies like Google and Twitter to store data on Russian users within Russia itself, not overseas, all in the name of “national security” and all that jazz. What that really means is that Russia wants to ensure that even foreign te

It’s been more than a decade since Baidu went public through the NASDAQ, and the Chinese company has since risen to become one of the largest Internet companies in the world. However, while being listed on the American stock market may have been the best choice for Baidu in the past, CEO Robin

Berlin-based Rocket Internet can add a multi-billion dollar company to the list of startups that it’s helped to create. HelloFresh, a clever food-delivery startup that also happens to be based in Berlin, just raised €75 million ($85 million) in funding, which was led by Scottish investment fir

It may have taken Pinterest longer than the likes of Facebook and Twitter to reach the 100 million monthly active users milestone, but that doesn’t really matter, because it’s an impressive feat nonetheless. The company confirmed earlier yesterday that it had reached the milestone, which

The vast majority of the population hasn’t even adopted a 4K display, and yet Sharp has already released its own 8K display. To be fair, this $130,000 monitor is meant for professional use, and isn’t supposed to be used by regular consumers, so it’s not all that crazy. Even so, it&

Hewlett-Packard has had a rough time these past few years, and now the company is being forced to enter super cost-cutting mode in order to ensure its survival. Part of the cost-cutting involves splitting the company into two separate entities to allow for better focus on important markets, a move w

The struggle to find a way to monetize your service is one that many startups are painful familiar with, and Snapchat is definitely one of them. Advertisements have been the company’s sole source of revenue for a while now, but that’s not nearly enough, especially when you’re deali

OnePlus started teasing “something luxurious” earlier this week, and it turns out that something is a $100 handmade leather case that’s designed just for the OnePlus 2. That may be interesting to some people, but it’s hard to get excited for an overpriced smartphone case when

After more than a decade of waiting, many of us have given up hope that Valve will ever release a new Half-Life game, but maybe another developer could do it. Neil Druckmann, the director behind The Last of Us and Uncharted 4, recently tweeted a half-joking, half-serious photo with the caption, &#82

The problem with the PC market being dominated by just two operating systems (OS X and Windows) is that consumer options are limited and lack of competition can stifle innovation. In China, however, that’s only half of the problem. The other half is that both of those operating systems are clo

The Snapdragon 810 wasn’t a failure, but it was definitely a disappointment, and it looks like Qualcomm is trying to make up for that by packing tons of new features and improved performance into the chip’s successor: the Snapdragon 820. The company already had us excited for the next-ge

Verizon recently earned itself a bit of publicity for announcing it that it’s already preparing to test out 5G network technology, but AT&T isn’t all that impressed. According to AT&T Mobility chief Glenn Lurie, consumers shouldn’t get too excited about 5G technology, espec

Michelle Phan was one of the Internet’s first YouTube celebrities, all thanks to her make-up tutorial videos that have earned her more than one billion collective views over the years. However, that success is merely the platform on which Phan is building her own beauty empire. Known as Ipsy,

Alongside the plethora of useful features that smart cars offer is the ever-present threat of hackers. Security experts have been worrying about the threat that hackers pose to smart cars for years, but it wasn’t until just recently that consumers really started to understand how vulnerable th

Nintendo and the gaming world as a whole mourned Satoru Iwata’s passing when he succumbed to bile duct cancer a couple of months ago, but now it’s time for the company to announce his successor: Tatsumi Kimishima. Only four people have held the title of President at Nintendo in the compa

Amazon’s investors were skeptical when the company first introduced Amazon Prime, but the premium membership has since risen to become one of the driving forces behind the company’s revenue growth. According to RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney, there were around 50 million Amazon

It’s been six months since Etsy completed its IPO, which valued the company at around $3.5 billion, and now it’s time for the company to expand. One of the biggest problems with being a seller on an e-commerce website that specializes in artisanal goods is that these goods are difficult

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