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Samsung is really speeding things up with its phablets. Not only did the company decide to announce the next-generation Galaxy Note earlier than expected, it also opened up pre-orders for the smartphone immediately after the announcement, as well as for the Galaxy S6 Edge Plus. Now that Apple has en
I like to think of the Internet as a gateway to the collective knowledge of the entire human race… more or less, but that might not be a good thing. According to a new study by the American Psychological Association, the access that we have to this knowledge actually makes us overestimate ours
It’s hard being a Bitcoin supporter when criminals are constantly damaging the digital currency’s reputation with their illicit activities, but like it or not, they come with the package. A significant chunk of the people who first adopted Bitcoin did so to support their illegal activiti
The United States gets its electricity from numerous different power plants that are scattered across the country, and each of these power plants uses a different kind of source to generate electricity from. While green energy sources are rapidly growing in popularity, coal is still one of America&#
Okay, so scientists haven’t ACTUALLY created a robot that can have babies, but something somewhat similar was achieved during a recent experiment. In an effort to demonstrate how robots can evolve and learn, a group of British and Swiss researchers programmed a robotic arm to assemble a separa
If this recent rumor is to be believed, Google’s upcoming Nexus smartphone that’s being developed by Huawei may be a must-have for people who do a lot of international travelling. Apparently the device will have a single PCB board supporting all bands, which means that no matter where in
It turns out that being the world’s largest PC manufacturer won’t help you much when you’re trying to expand into the mobile market. Lenovo is learning this the hard way as it suffers from a declining PC market and an inability to find success in the mobile market, both of which ar
Netflix is using in a significant chunk of American households and is responsible for an even more significant chunk of the bandwidth usage in the United States, so the company is in an excellent position to rank the country’s Internet service providers based on speed. The company routinely mo
You can already use your fingerprint to authorize mobile payments with certain smartphones and some companies are working on alternative methods like facial recognition and retinal scanning, but a company by the name of Nymi has managed to create what’s essentially a wearable credit card that&
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 Jeopardy or telling people if their emails sound too aggressive. IBM’s most
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 American operations in the near future, which explains why the company recently promised to invest $1 billion to expand in
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 than ever apparently. According to Twitter’s biannual transparency report, government requests for user informati
