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Microsoft has developed its own Linux-based operating system

Considering Microsoft's history of exclusivity to its own ecosystem, it's still a little weird to see the company releasing products for Android and iOS, but this most recent move is...

Google's new smartphones will be called the Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P

We won't know for certain until Google officially announces the two smartphones later this month, but Droid Life claims that the Huawei-made Nexus will be known as the Nexus 6P, while the...

The BBC is launching its own Netflix competitor in America

Britain is second only to the United States in terms of the number of enjoyable, high-quality television shows it produces, and that's all thanks to the BBC. The British broadcaster...

It looks like iOS 9 is just as buggy and sloppy as iOS 8 was

Last year's iOS 8 launch was uncharacteristically bug-riddled and sloppy, and Apple put a lot of effort into making sure that this week's iOS 9 launch would be different, but I guess...

Twitter's audience might be even larger than Facebook's

Whereas Facebook's strategy has always been to keep users within its own ecosystem, Twitter content is scattered all over the place, and this makes it difficult for the company to...

AT&T may have been the victim of a massive phone-unlocking scheme

Wireless carriers like to lock down smartphones in order to make it more difficult for users to switch to another carrier with a compatible network, and while it's perfectly legal for users...

The OnePlus 2 isn't even the fastest affordable smartphone out there

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...

Google will launch the next-generation Chromecast later this month

It looks like the new Nexus smartphones aren't the only hardware that Google will be unveiling at its big announcement event in a couple of weeks. According to leaked documents obtained by 9to5Google, the company will...

Volvo wants to replace trash men with robots

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...

Amazon just took the wraps off a bunch of new hardware

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...

It took iOS 9 less than a day to reach 12% adoption

It took the latest version of Android several months to reach 12% adoption, but iOS 9 was able to do it in less than a day. Analytics firm Mixpane claims that...

China wants American tech companies to be "secure and controllable"

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...

Facebook is helping journalists monitor what's trending with Signal

Journalists can't write about whatever pops into their heads and still be successful, they have to write about stories and topics that are trending with the masses at the time, but...

Apple just won an important patent case against Samsung

I can't imagine a world in which Apple and Samsung aren't embroiled in a bunch of legal battles with each other, but at least this world now has one less case to worry about....

YouTube Gaming will soon allow you to stream Android games

Mobile gaming and video game live-streaming are two things that have been exploding in popularity over the past few years, so why not combine the two? That's what Google is...

Baidu is considering leaving America and returning to China

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....

Berlin-based HelloFresh is now valued at around $2.9 billion

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...

Pinterest now has 100 million monthly active users

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...

Google Glass has been renamed to Project Aura

There are numerous analytical articles and forum posts out there that explain what went wrong with Google Glass, so I'm not going to fill you in on all the details, but...

This is our closest look at BlackBerry's first Android smartphone

At this point, we're about 99% certain that BlackBerry is working on its first Android-powered smartphone, which goes by the codename Venice, but we still don't have anything official to...