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Electronics designed specifically for children tend to be nothing more than colorful pieces of plastic with a screen and some gimmicky features, at least here in the West. Over in Asia, however, electronics geared towards kids are actually pretty popular, and many of them fairly feature-packed. A go

If the Steam Controller taught us anything about Valve, it’s that the company is willing to do as many revisions as it needs to in order to ensure that its hardware is perfect. Even though HTC is doing most of the work with the Vive, you can still tell that the company is partnering up [&helli

When it comes to designing mobile devices, Sony is definitely one of the least adventurous companies out there, and that doesn’t look like it’s going to change anytime soon. Xperia Blog managed to get its hands on what it claims are leaked press renders for Sony’s next flagship, an

When a television studio wants to know how popular one of its programs are, it turns to Nielsen. The company has been tracking the demographics and viewership of television programs for decades, and now it’s making its way into the world of online streaming. Nielsen has been working on a progr

I’ve never seen a company as bad at delivering on promises and sticking to schedules as OnePlus, but that’s just one of the many things you’re going to have to deal with if you want to get your hands on a OnePlus 2. Despite having launched more then two weeks ago, OnePlus co-founde

First-party mobile chips are all the rage these days, and it looks like Xiaomi is going to be the next smartphone maker to produce its own system-on-chip. Rumors that the company is developing its own SoC first popped up last month, and now a second rumor has popped up which not only seems to confir

While the recent AT&T ad-injection scandal is still fresh on our minds, now is the perfect opportunity to give everyone a simple little privacy tip that can go a long way towards protecting oneself on the Internet. For those of you who aren’t familiar, AT&T was recently caught using on

Unlike some of its competitors, Acer hasn’t been able to find much success in the mobile world. Ever since the PC market started dying a few years back, big-name PC manufacturers like ASUS and Lenovo have done a pretty good job of shifting their focus towards the mobile market, but Acer hasn&#

China’s smartphone market has been experiencing practically unfathomable levels of growth over the past few years thanks to the country’s rapidly-growing middle class and increasing availability of mobile data, but that’s about to come to an end. Not only is China’s smartphon

Ahead of this year’s Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA), where Huawei is expected to unveil a number of new products, the company has started teasing a new feature known as Incredible Touch. Although there’s no official explanation as to what this feature does, the images and na

All the rumors we’ve seen over the past few months suggest that Google will release two smartphones this year, one from Huawei and one from LG. We still don’t have anything official to go on for either device, but a recent leak claims that this year’s LG-made Nexus, the successor t

No matter how hard Amazon tried, and it tried REALLY hard, the Fire Phone was failure by every definition of the word. Four years of development went to waste when the company struggled just to sell its initial batch of Fire Phones, and Amazon has already lost millions of dollar because of the smart

After co-founding StumbleUpon more than a decade ago, Garrett Camp served as the company’s CEO from 2001 to 2012, even while the company was under the control of eBay before being bought back by Camp’s group back in 2009. He still serves as StumbleUpon’s “Chairman” whil

No matter how hard companies try to diversify their userbase, dating services are pretty much guaranteed to have an overwhelmingly male userbase. Ashley Madison isn’t any different, it seems, as some information that was released in the recent post-hack data dump reveals that somewhere around

Now that Netflix has a significant chunk of American adults in its pocket, the company has decided to turn its attention towards another demographic: teens. Today’s young adults are growing up in a world where cord cutting and online streaming are the norm, so Netflix shouldn’t have to d

Radio was dying well before the rise of music streaming services like Spotify, but their rise has definitely hastened its death, or have they? According to TuneIn, not only is radio not dead, it’s worth paying for. Coming from a company that has been providing tens of thousands of live radio b

No self-respecting flagship smartphone can go without a dual camera setup these days, so it’s not all that surprising that the next LG-made Nexus device will come with a dual camera. At least, that’s what some new leaks seem to suggest. It also looks like the smartphone will have a singl

You know all of that new technology that automotive companies are putting inside their vehicles and bragging about on commercials? Yeah, nobody even uses it. At least, that’s what the results of a survey taken by market research company JD Power say. The survey was directed at people who have

Nothing that’s said on the Internet ever truly disappears, and that can be a good or bad thing depending on the situation. One example of this being a good thing is that whenever a politicians decides to tweet something without thinking it all the way through, thus giving us a look at their tr

Amazon’s first attempt to release a smartphone may have been a complete and utter failure, but the company has been making some excellent tablets for years, so maybe it should just stick with what it knows it’s good at. Amazon must be thinking the same thing, because a new report from Di

HTC has definitely seen better days, but the company has promised a “hero” smartphone for this October that it hopes will be able to bring it back into the realm of profitability. With no official information to go on, many people were expecting this device to be something along the line

Yes, cheating on your spouse is bad, and yes, the companies that own Ashley Madison should have done a better job of protecting the information of its users, but neither of these things deter from the fact that the hackers themselves have done something illegal and have potentially ruined the lives

If you’ve been looking at Asia to find the next OnePlus, then you’ve been looking in the wrong place, because Wileyfox is a new British smartphone brand that’s looking to offer powerful yet affordable smartphones in much the same way that OnePlus does. The company’s first two

LG has been dropping hints about a new “super premium” smartphone that it’s working on for a few months, but now the company is trying to downplay those claims a bit, saying that the device is meant to compete with the likes of Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge P

The solar revolution that’s sweeping the nation is moving fast, but considering the state of the global climate at the moment, it can’t move fast enough. In order to speed up the adoption of solar power, President Obama launched a new initiative earlier this month that aims to encourage

If there are two things the Russian government hates, its gay people and weed. It hates them so much that it’s willing to order Internet service providers in Russia to block access to websites that fail to censor information regarding those two subjects, even extremely popular websites like Wi

ASUS has already established itself as one of the leaders of the PC market, but since that market has been decaying over the past few years, the company has turned its attention to the mobile market. The company’s entrance into the market a while back was a bit of a surprise, but ASUS has sinc

Amazon has decided to join the ever-growing list of tech companies that are trying to finally kill off Flash by making their services less reliant on it or just banning it altogether. This month will be the last time the company starts accepting ads that use Flash, because after September 1st, Amazo

The telecom industry in the United States has been rapidly consolidating over the past couple of years, and T-Mobile is the company that all the others seem to want to get their hands on but haven’t been able to. Tim Horan, an analyst with Oppenheimer, claims that all of America’s top wi

Numerous studies have shown us that humans aren’t very good at making secure passwords, and now it looks like we’re not good at making secure lock patterns as well. The lock pattern that Google popularized with Android several years back is an interesting alternative to passcodes and pas

The bigger the better, right? That mentality has worked pretty damn well for Samsung so far, which is probably why the company is working on a new tablet with an absolutely ridiculous 18.4-inch display. Rumors of the tablet started popping up a few weeks ago, but now we have some leaked specs to giv

Despite efforts from Google to put an end to unwanted advertisements being pushed to your device and clogging up your Android notification feed, companies like HTC and Sony have managed to get around this through some loopholes in the Google Play Store policies. It’s incredibly annoying to hav

If there’s a finite number of interesting app ideas that humans can come up with, I think we may be scraping the bottom of the barrel. A new iOS app known as Pooductive is meant to be used while you’re in the bathroom taking a crap and allows users to connect with other people who [&hell

Xiaomi’s success as a company that releases affordable yet powerful electronics has been almost entirely thanks to the rapidly growing middle classes of developing nations like China and India, but what about outside of Asia? The company has already started expanding into Latin America, but it

People have been up in arms about Spotify’s recent privacy policy update after Wired painted it as an “eerie” agreement that “you can’t do squat about,” which several other publications echoed. However, if you actually look at the update you’ll notice that,

We went from hearing nothing about Project Ara for weeks to hearing about nothing BUT Project Ara for the past few days. A tweet from Project Ara early this week mentioned that electropermanent magnets are no longer being used on the devices alongside the hashtag #FailedTheDropTest. This led many to

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim wasn’t the game that put Bethesda on the map, but it was definitely the companies most successful game by far, as well as one of the best-selling games of all time. However, Bethesda executive Pete Hines thinks that Fallout 4 will outdo even the behemoth that is Sky

According to an investor presentation that was recently leaked to Reuters, Uber’s total bookings is expected to reach $10.84 billion this year, a nearly threefold increase over last year that’s expected to more than double to $26.12 billion next year. This means that the 20% cut of every

Those of you with more physically active lifestyles probably know how difficult it can be to keep your smartphone safe at times, something that Samsung has been capitalizing on for years with its own rugged smartphones. The latest such device will apparently be a souped up version of the Galaxy Note

Not too long ago, we heard that Nintendo was working on a sleep-monitoring device that would be the first in a new line of quality of life products from the company. However, a couple of analysts recently predicted that these products won’t actually see the light of day, as Nintendo has more o