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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.
Meizu might not be a familiar name to most people in the West, but the Chinese company has been growing at a rapid pace these past few months, having managed to sell 8.9 million smartphones in the first half of 2015. The Meizu MX5 is the most enticing of a number of excellent smartphones that [&hell
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 HTCR
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
It’s funny how many companies are trying to sell smartwatches by making them look like anything other than a smartwatch. Sony’s doing the same thing with new Wena Wrist, which stands for “wear electronics naturally,” according to the company. The device recently appeared on F
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
Talking about China’s stock market plunge or the deadly explosions that recently hit Tianjin are apparently a punishable offense in China. Nearly 200 people have already been punished by Chinese authorities for spreading “rumors” about the country online which caused panic, misled
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.”
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
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
