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With the number of people signing up for a OnePlus 2 invite quickly approaching the two million mark, some of us have gotten to the point where we’d actually pay more just to skip the line. Fortunately, OnePlus is giving its fans the opportunity to do just that by auctioning off official invit

The United States is covered with surveillance cameras that law enforcement can use to track people, but new technology has opened the door to new levels of tracking that use biometric data to identify people. There are many police departments throughout the country that have access to such technolo

A report out of China claims that Qualcomm will unveil the latest addition to the Snapdragon line at a special event in Las Vegas next week. The Snapdragon 820 is the SoC that’s more than likely going to power most of the flagship smartphones that are released next year so it’ll be excit

We still have a little over a week before Samsung officially unveils the Galaxy Note 5, but there’s been no shortage of leaks for the upcoming phablet over the past few weeks. Not only does the most recent leak provide us with images of the device in hand, some of the specs have been revealed

You can ask your web browser to send “Do Not Track” requests to the websites you visit, but this doesn’t really do anything of substance. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) wants to change this, however, and has joined forces with a coalition of companies and privacy experts

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has maintained the database of addresses for the vast majority of the Internet for more than a decade, which more less puts control of the Internet in the hands of the United States. However, an international group of Internet experts h

With the number of people signing up for a OnePlus 2 invite quickly approaching the two million mark, many OnePlus fans are worried that it’ll be a while before they actually get their hands on the device. To make matters worse, a developer by the name of Jack Cooper found a way to essentially

Sharing is caring, but it also means less people paying for premium subscriptions. That’s why Amazon has decided to limit how many people you can share your Amazon Prime membership with. Starting now, the number of people you can share your membership with has been reduced from four adults to

One of the best things about Bethesda’s RPGs is their excellent replay value, and Fallout 4 won’t be an exception. We already know that even the game’s developers don’t know everything that’s in the game, and now lead producer Jeff Gardiner has come out to say that he&#

Body cameras have become an important topic of discussion amid the string of police brutality cases we’ve seen over the past year or two, and Richard Stallman has his own proposal for how body cameras should be used by police officers. One of the most important people in the tech world, Stallm

Yahoo announced that it acquired a social shopping service known as Polyvore last week, but the specifics regarding the deal weren’t officially revealed. Even so, with the $22 million that Polyvore managed to raise since its founding, it’s safe to assume that Yahoo paid a pretty penny fo

While the tech world has been buzzing about the OnePlus 2, many of us are still wondering whether OnePlus will release a second smartphone this year like rumors suggested. OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei revealed in an interview with USA Today that his company is, in fact, releasing a second smartphone

Whatever your opinion of Amazon Echo is, you can’t deny that the Alexa Voice Service that powers the device has a lot of potential, and Amazon wants to capitalize on this. Rather than keeping Alexa an Echo-exclusive, the company has decided to open the service up to any developer that wants to

With half a TRILLION dollars poured into the F-35’s development over the past decade or so, it’s exciting to hear that the fighter jet is finally ready for combat. Those of you who’ve been waiting to see your tax dollars put to use will be pleased to hear that the United States Mar

When tens of millions of Americans had their information stolen from the Office of Personnel Management’s database last month, China was widely suspected to be responsible for the cyberattack. This has become an all too common occurrence in recent years, with American corporations in particula

There are unique and addicting apps like Snapchat that gain millions of users that stick with the service, and then there are quirky and mildly-interesting apps like Yik Yak that have a few million users that generally uninstall it after a few weeks once the initial interest wears off. Unfortunately

The ever-rising mercury level of the ocean is one of the most well-documented and well-known instances of pollution out there, and yet little has been done to actually reverse the damage that’s being done. This is something that a group of Chinese scientists want to change with some new &#8220

Netflix is one of those companies that you would totally invest in if you could go back in time a decade or so. Once the leader of a fairly niche market that Blockbuster practically laughed off the negotiating table when an acquisition was discussed, Netflix has since risen to become a multi-billion

Just when we thought Yahoo’s acqusition spree was coming to an end, the company announced that it has agreed to acquire a popular social shopping service known as Polyvore. The fashion-discovery website was actually founded by a few former Yahoo employees back in 2007 and allows users to brows

In order for Tor to successfully anonymize its users, it has to bounce their traffic between a number of relays to obfuscate their identity, but it can’t keep bouncing forever and will eventually need to exit through an exit node. The problem is that, be it because of the constant questions fr

One of the most respected and well-known leakers out there at the moment has posted some official press renders of the Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, which are expected to be unveiled by Samsung at a special event next week, as well as a few details on the Note 5’s specs. While [&helli

It’s not the best smartphone, nor is it the most popular, but the YotaPhone 2 is still one of the most interesting devices out there at the moment and many Americans were excited to get their hands on one following its wildly successful Indiegogo campaign. Unfortunately, that won’t be ha

There are many different processes and routines when it comes to aging whiskey, but this may be the most unique one yet. A Japanese distillery known as Suntory has announced that it will be sending five bottles of its whiskey, which has been called the best in the world, to the International Space S

Peer-to-peer technologies have revolutionized how we download things, and now the inventor of BitTorrent wants to do the same thing to live streaming. For more than five years, Bram Cohen has been trying to change live streaming the same way he changed file sharing, which is especially significant n

Uber has been consistently ranked as one of the world’s most valuable startups for a few years now, but the company’s recent $1 billion round of funding may have turned it into THE most valuable startup in the world. Now valued at almost $51 billion thanks to funding from the likes of Be

It wasn’t that long ago that people wouldn’t have been able to wrap their heads around how a game could make money if it was free, yet now it’s common knowledge that freemium games are some of the most successful. According to Super Data Research, this is most certainly still the c

Sling TV may be one of the more expensive streaming services out there, but it’s certainly one of the best options for cord-cutters who want to ditch their cable subscription but still have a cable-esque service to watch their shows on. As a direct competitor to traditional cable companies, it

South Korean companies like LG and Samsung still produce a few flip phones, mostly for older people or unique markets like Japan, but Samsung might actually be bringing something new to the table with its next flip phone. According to a recent patent, the company is working on an ultra-flexible smar

Pocket is one of those apps that, once you use it, you won’t be able to live without it. Especially for people like myself who come across hundreds of articles and videos every day, the ability to save all that content to view later and easily organize and sort through everything I’ve sa

India is a nation with nearly 1.3 billion people, dozens of massive and densely populated cities, and notoriously crowded and underdeveloped public transit, which means it’s a perfect market for ride-sharing services like Uber. Considering how much growth the company has had in India, Uber cou

Sharp has been struggling in the Americas for some time now, but rather than pushing through its financial losses and hoping that things turn around, the Japanese company has decided to abandon North and South America entirety so that it can focus on products that are still successful in these marke

When it comes to using machine learning for the purpose of music discovery, few people know as much about it as Brian Whitman. A decade ago he co-founded a music data company known as The Echo Nest, which was the acquired by Spotify last year for $100 million, thus landing Whitman his current positi

How many Internet-connected devices do you have? Most of us only have a handful while some may have a dozen or more, but according to SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, the Internet of Things revolution will make it so that every person will have more than 1,000 Internet-connected devices within the next 2

It’s only been a few days since the OnePlus 2 was announced and more than a million people have already signed up to receive an invite for the smartphone. Considering how the OnePlus One managed to sell 1.5 million units in a year and the OnePlus 2 is coming close to that in just three days, [

Having become wildly popular in important smartphone markets like India and having amassed a userbase of more than 100 million, Truecaller is looking to raise $100 million to help expand into new markets. The caller ID app has already managed to raise $80 million from big-name investors like Kleiner

Have you ever noticed that you were running low on coffee or toilet paper and wished you could refresh your stock right then and there? If the answer is yes then you’ll be pleased to hear that the Amazon Dash buttons that were announced not that long ago are up for sale. Basically, they’

Windows 10 is a game changer in many ways and in many areas, including PC gaming. Microsoft made it clear from the start that it would be putting an unprecedented amount of focus on PC gaming with its next operating system, and nothing proves this more than DirectX12. The new Windows 10-exclusive gr

Yahoo’s new messaging app wasn’t widely discussed when it first launched earlier this month because, at the time, it was exclusive to Hong Kong and Taiwan, but now that the app has expanded to a handful of Western nations, it’s about time to take a look at it. Known as Livetext, th

Health care has been recognized as one of the best industries for Watson to make a difference in ever since IBM first unveiled the artificial intelligence a few years ago, and CVS couldn’t agree more. The two companies have joined forces to use Watson’s supercomputer-powered predictive a

Most smartphone makers abandoned FM radio chipsets ages ago for obvious reasons, but that may have to change if AT&T has its way. For reasons that we can only speculate on, AT&T has announced that it will begin requesting that handset makers support FM radio on its network in an effort to ma