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Instagram no longer forces users to crop their photos to a square

Instagram loves squares, that's just its thing. Since day one, the photo-sharing service has forced users to crop their photos to a 1x1 perfect square, and this neat limitation is...

Facebook is cracking down on stolen videos

It's easy to ignore stolen videos being posted to your website when the people that they belong to are just regular users, but now that Facebook has become one of...

OnePlus will finally get aggressive with OnePlus 2 invites next weekend

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...

Apple somehow managed to make the iPhone's battery even worse

Every year, Apple releases the next iPhone, and every year, people complain about how small the battery is. This has been happening for as long as I can remember, and...

Xiaomi is reportedly developing two homemade mobile chips for 2016

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...

It took Apple just four months to control 20% of the smartwatch market

Apple managed to carve itself a 20% share of the smartwatch market in a few months with a single device, and I'm not sure if this shows how much brand...

This kind of crap is why everyone should use HTTPS whenever possible

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...

Acer is about ready to throw in the towel and let itself be taken over

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...

Apple might be packing some crazy tech inside its next earbuds

Apple might be giving its earbuds another rework here soon, but it looks like most of the changes will be internal this time around. According to a recently published patent,...

Google has a secret job interview hidden inside Google Search

If there was an award for the most unconventional job interview, I'm pretty sure this guy just won it. Max Rosett did an online search for "python lambda function list comprehension,"...

China's smartphone market is about to come to a complete standstill

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...

If this is what Microsoft's new flagships look like then I'm not impressed

We're all waiting see whether or not Windows 10 will be able to breathe new life into Windows Phone, and how successful Microsoft's next flagship smartphones are will be a...

Huawei is teasing a new Force Touch-like feature ahead of IFA 2015

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....

The new Nexus 5 may focus on affordability instead of top-tier specs

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...

Amazon is rethinking its hardware ambitions because of the Fire Phone

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...

Apple's former CEO has a new line of gorgeous Android smartphones

We haven't heard very much about John Sculley ever since he was forced to step down as the CEO of Apple more than a two decades ago, but he's been far...

Garrett Camp is taking control of StumbleUpon once again

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...

Facebook is testing its own unique digital assistant for Messenger

Don't get me wrong, competition and variety are great, but does anyone else feel like the digital assistant market is getting a bit too crowded? We have Apple's Siri, Googe...

Samsung stole trade secrets in order to win Apple's A9 chip contract

Denying that Samsung is one of the biggest innovators in the mobile world is unfair, but so is denying that the company likes to copy other companies from time to...

It looks like Android Pay isn't launching this week after all

An internal memo from McDonald's was leaked earlier this week which led many of us to believe that Android Pay was going to launch sometime today, but obviously that didn't...