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Sanitation in some of the world’s least developed nations is a serious issue, one that Bill Gates wants to solve in the least expensive, most productive way possible. His solution comes in the form of OmniProcessor, an affordable waste treatment plant that not only disposes of sewage and keeps

Once you take away the spam and trolling, Twitter is a gold mine of data that marketers would love to get their hands on, and with Twitter’s new Full-Archive Search API, they can do just that. Using technology it acquired after it bought social insight platform Gnip last year, Twitter has comp

The music streaming market is crowded and ridiculously competitive, now more so than ever, which is why Rdio has always been one of the underdogs despite being an excellent service. In an effort to distinguish itself and better compete with the likes of Apple Music and Spotify, the company has teame

It’s common for tech companies to be targeted by journalists, and how these companies react to the oftentimes negative articles that’re written about them says a lot them. Some of these companies choose to downplay the articles while others like to simply ignore them, and then there&#821

There’s a good chance that you’ve never even heard about Nextbit, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay attention to the new smartphone the company will unveil next month. The startup was founded as the developer of a little-known cloud-based tool for Android users but has

One of the few truly must-have apps out there at the moment just got a pretty significant security update today. Known as Pushbullet, this app essentially unifies all of your devices so that you can instantly share files and messages between them and even use your computer to see and respond to text

Online education has always been one of those things that has the potential to be revolutionary but has never been able to meet that potential for a number of reasons. However, Hillary Clinton is working on a $350 billion plan with companies and other organizations in Silicon Valley that could final

The world has been completely changed by the Internet, and not all the changes have been good. A good example would be how much easier for people to access or distribute child pornography without being caught. In an effort to make the process of identifying and removing such pornography much quicker

Spotify has been facing pressure from record labels to kill off its free, ad-supported streaming service for a while now, but it looks likes the company is finally going to cave in. While the free option shouldn’t be disappearing anytime soon, you can expect some new restrictions to be added i

More people are getting their hands on the final version of the OnePlus 2 so we’re gonna be seeing a lot more reviews and impressions in the coming days. The people at The Next Web want to wait for some more prolonged use before they give us a full review of the new smartphone, but […]

I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned Elon Musk and Lana Del Rey in the same sentence, mainly because there’s pretty much nothing linking the two, but apparently meeting Musk was one of the best days in Del Rey’s life. While she’s mentioned their meeting in the past, she di

If there’s one complaint that everyone has about Snapchat, it’s that the app can eat up a LOT of data. When you receive a new snap, not only does Snapchat notify you that you’ve received it, it also automatically downloads it so that you can view the snap as soon as you open up the

While it sucks that we still have to wait an unspecified amount of time for a Snapdragon 820 unveiling, Qualcomm is giving us some smaller unveilings to snack on in the meantime. Earlier today the company announced the Snapdragon 212, 412, and 616, three slightly improved versions of last year&#8217

If you’re running low on digital storage space then you might want to head over to Amazon sometime today because the company is having a massive sale on PNY memory products. Everything from flash drives, to SD cards, to SSDs are being marked down, with many products going for as much as 80% of

Having a doctor professional diagnose your illness is ideal, but many people choose to diagnose themselves for a number of reasons, ranging from an inability to see a medical professional to plain laziness, and the Internet helps enable this bad habit. This is why Baidu has developed a new app that&

Opera has found most of its success in developing nations these past few years and the company intends to embrace that rather than trying to compete directly with the likes of Chrome and Firefox. One of the ways the web browser maker plans to do this is with Bemobi, a Brazilian subscription-based mo

While we wait for the “year of the Linux desktop” to actually happen, Spanish smartphone maker BQ is helping to make Ubuntu phones a thing. While it’s doubtful that Ubuntu smartphones will ever come to challenge the likes of Android or iOS, it’s still nice to see the mobile m

After having been more or less forced to step down as the CEO of Twitter, Dick Costolo is apparently considering leaving the company’s board of directors as well. While he wants to remain for a while longer to ensure that the company remains stable as it transitions to new leadership, Costolo

Prince is a strange dude. On one hand he was one of the first musicians to embrace the Internet and on the other we have his 2010 proclamation where he said that “the Internet’s completely over.” More recently, he announced that he’s going to remove his music from every music

I’m not sure whether this is good or bad publicity for LG, but the NSA just gave the LG G4 its own seal of approval. On the surface that sounds pretty sketchy, but it starts to make sense once you actually look in to it. What this means is that the National Information Assurance Partnership. [

ASUS has already established that it’s no longer just a PC-focused company, but now it looks like the company isn’t just stopping with diversification, it’s going to start shifting its focus away from the PC market altogether. ASUS chairman Jonney Shih has announced that the compan

Blu-ray is one of the few reasons why discs are still a thing in today’s digital world, and it’s about to get a major upgrade. The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) has announced that next-generation Ultra HD (4K) Blu-ray discs should be ready to hit the market in time for the holidays, whi

Gigabit Internet has been slow to spread across the United States for a number of reasons, the biggest of which is how expensive it is for Internet providers to upgrade their existing infrastructure. Broadcom and STMicroelectronics want to solve this problem with some new tools that will make it muc

The mobile market has been experiencing some changes these past couple of years as South Korean and Taiwanese companies continue to lose ground to their Chinese competitors. With more than $265 million in losses last quarter and even more losses to come, no company understands this as well as Taiwan

If you enjoyed watching John Wick, and you’d have to be crazy to not enjoy that movie, then you may be in for quite a treat next year. Lionsgate has teamed up with Starbreeze, the publisher of Payday, to create a virtual reality first-person shooter for the John Wick universe. Set to come out

One of the best things about the Halo campaigns is that, for the most part, you’re a lone wolf that’s tearing through hordes of enemies with nobody aside from the occasional disposable marines and the ever-present voice of Cortana helping you out. You’re practically a demigod in po

Konami is responsible for published some of the most beloved console games of the past few decades, but in the company recently started to shift its focus away from its traditional market and onto mobile gaming, and fans are furious. While I can definitely understand why fans are so upset, when you

Samsung’s crown has been slipping in recent months, especially in China where companies like Huawei and Xiaomi are absorbing market share at a rapid pace, but Samsung isn’t just going to sit there and watch it all happen. The company already started cutting the price of the Galaxy S6 and

Don’t you just hate it when you win so many prizes that you get overwhelmed and don’t know what to do with them all? Yeah, that’s definitely one of those “problems” that I’d love to have, but according to Hunter Scott, it’s not all that great. Scott decided

Mozilla announced in a security-related blog post last night that a Firefox user in Russia has discovered a bug in the web browser that allows hackers to steal sensitive files from your computer. The good news is that most Firefox users don’t have to worry about the bug because the files that

Maintaining your privacy on the web is pretty difficult when virtually every website you visit is trying to track you or collect information on you in some way, which is why Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants to make things a bit easier with a simple, lightweight browser add-on called Privac

Streaming services like Hulu and Netflix have finally given us a viable alternative to traditional cable, which has created a new type of consumer known as the “cord cutter.” These consumers have chosen to abandon cable entirely and get all of their movies and television shows from the I

Samsung is the company that first started to blur the line between smartphone and tablet, so it makes sense that it also be the first to blur the line between tablet and… portable television? An inventory image that was recently leaked suggests that the company is currently working on a 18.4-i

Few industries suffered from the rise of the Internet as much as the porn industry. Anyone with an Internet connection and a lock on their door can browse virtually unlimited amounts of porn thanks to the Internet, and it’s all free. Paying for porn isn’t very common because of this, whi

The number of people that have signed up for a OnePlus 2 invite has now reached 2.5 million and continues to grow. This is especially impressive when you consider that the OnePlus managed to sell 1.5 million OnePlus One units within a year and the OnePlus 2 is close to doubling that in less than [&h

One of the biggest complaints people had with Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas is that it’s simply too easy to hit the level cap before you even come close to finishing the game, even when some of the expansions increased the level cap. Many people were hoping that Bethesda would make the leve

I know this isn’t good news, but the cyberpunk enthusiast in me can’t help but get a little excited about China’s recent announcement that it will begin putting “Internet police” inside major Internet companies and websites in order to ensure that no fraud or “mis

Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 820 a couple of months ago but it won’t be until next week that the company reveals all the juicy details on the processor that’s more than likely going to power most of next year’s flagship smartphones. That might not even be necessary at this poi

There’s no shortage of apps, websites, and YouTube videos out there that provide you with lyrics to your favorite songs, but a service by the name of Genius (previously known as Rap Genius) separates itself from the rest by not only giving you the lyrics to songs, but also explaining what thos

Of all the smartphone makers out there at the moment, only a handful actually power their devices with homemade processors, with Apple and Samsung being the most notable ones. The rest of them use processors developed by the likes of MediaTek and Qualcomm, but Xiaomi wants to change that. According