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Google wants to show off Android’s most creative and innovative apps

The Android platform is fertile ground for developers to be creative, and Google wants to show the world how Android is being used to allow these developers to innovate. To do...

IBM is using Watson’s vast analytical abilities for… fantasy football?

Despite its potential to revolutionize a number of industries, many of Watson's achievements have been nothing more than a pretty cool, somewhat interesting way to use an artificial intelligence, such as playing...

Uber’s business in India may soon overtake its American operations

America has a ton of people, but India has more, and they're also less likely to own cars. That's why Uber expects its ride-sharing business in India to overtake its...

The government really wants to get its hands on Twitter’s user data

It's not just marketers that want to get their hands on the wealth of data that Twitter possesses, the government wouldn't mind having access to it as well, now more so...

Facebook is testing a new standalone app for breaking news

As we thought, the decision to have websites host their articles directly on Facebook was just the beginning of Facebook's plan to become the world's top news source. Apparently the company...

Zynga can’t seem to stop losing money and users

The past couple of years haven't been kind to Zynga, as the FarmVille maker has already lost millions of users and will most likely continue to lose more. Obviously less...

Bill Gates wants to bring electricity and water to Africa using… poop?

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...

Twitter is making every tweet ever made available to marketers

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,...

Samsung patented a smartphone that can display holograms

Samsung has never been afraid to try new things with its smartphones, just look at the Galaxy S6 Edge, and that doesn't look like it's going to change anytime soon. Apparently...

Rdio is getting some live radio stations, lots of them

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....

Blizzard makes $20 million a month from Hearthstone

The glory days of Magic: The Gathering and Pokémon may be over, but that doesn't mean collectible card games have died off. In fact, a recent industry report from SuperData claims that Blizzard is making somewhere around $20...

Tinder had a bit of a meltdown on Twitter last night

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...

Which one is better, Amazon Prime or Jet.com?

Amazon is currently the undisputed king of e-commerce, but the company may finally have a serious competitor now that Jet.com has launched. How do the two compare though, which one is...

StumbleUpon may be taking its last breath

StumbleUpon has been around for years and was really popular in the early days of the modern Internet, but its popularity has since waned dramatically and the discovery engine is now...

Here’s how to remove those useless built-in apps from Windows 10

My experience with Windows 10 has been great so far, but I'm not alone in saying that I'd really like to remove some of those built-in apps that I'm never...

These glasses can protect you from facial-recognition systems

Facial-recognition is becoming mare advanced and more prevalent every day, and not all of us are comfortable with that. For the more privacy-conscious people out there, the National Institute of Informatics in Tokyo...

Why are people getting so excited for Nextbit’s first smartphone?

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...

Pushbullet now supports end-to-end encryption

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...

MIT may have just made a major breakthrough in battery technology

Batteries simply haven't been able to progress at the same rate that the technologies depending on them have, though this isn't due to lack of trying. Researchers for organizations both...

Is online education finally going to become a viable option for students?

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...