All of Samsung’s smart TVs this year will be powered by Tizen
While many people are skeptical that Tizen will be able to compete against the well established top dogs of the mobile operating system market (Android and iOS), Samsung's homegrown OS...
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The theft of Mt. Gox’s 850,000 Bitcoins may have been an inside job
It's been about 10 months since Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox was shut down after the company "lost" more than 850,000 of its customers bitcoin. The company initially blamed hackers...
Snapchat is now valued at somewhere around $10 billion
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins has lead a recent round of financing for Snapchat that managed to put more than $485 million into the company's pockets. Driven by the it's...
The FBI still blames North Korea for the Sony Pictures hack
Despite growing growing evidence to support the contrary, the FBI is standing firmly behind its previous claim that North Korea was directly responsible for the massive cyberattack that was recently...
Hyundai is doing away with the age-old CD player in its future vehicles
It wasn't that long ago that CD players replaced cassette players as the standard personal media playing device for cars, but now the time has come for CD players to...
US banks may have conducted “revenge hacks” against Iran
Many of us were taught that revenge is never the solution, but apparently nobody told US banks that. According to sources for Bloomberg, financial institutions in the United States are...
A member of the PSN and XBL hacker group has been arrested in the UK
Shortly after the hacker group launched successful cyberattacks against Xbox Live and PlayStation Network, Lizard Squad boasted that it was completely untraceable. Apparently they spoke too soon, as reports from...
Huawei sold more than 75 million smartphones this year
Xiaomi may be the most talked about Chinese smartphone manufacturer of 2014, but plenty of other companies in the country are worth noting as well. One of these companies is Huawei,...
The US Army might relax fitness standards for future “cyber warriors”
It almost goes without saying that the kind of people who're good enough with technology to be able to fight cyberwars for the United States aren't the kind of people...
OpenStreetMap wants to crowdsource a map of the Amazon
Crowdsourced mapping is can be very helpful in many places, but it has the most potential in areas that haven't been professionally mapped in their entirety, such as the Amazon rainforest....
The Sony Pictures hack and PSN DDoS attack may be linked
This past month hasn't been the best for Sony, not only was the company hit with a massive cyberattack that resulted in the theft of millions of private emails and...
Bloomberg ranks Bitcoin as the worst currency of 2014
Late 2013 may have been a highpoint for Bitcoin, where it reached prices exceeding $1000, but 2014 was an entirely different story. The popular cryptocurrency has since been in a...
SpaceX wants to try and land a spaceship on a boat
Elon Musk gets a lot of attention for potentially revolutionizing the automotive industry with Tesla Motors, but SpaceX is Musk's truly revolutionary company. SpaceX was founded with the goal of...
CES 2015 is going to be all about televisions for LG
Next month's Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas will be all about televisions for LG. The South Korean electronics giant not only announced its Quantum Dot TV ahead of rival Samsung,...
ZTE adopts a redesigned logo as part of a broader strategy change
ZTE has recently started to undergo a change in business strategy that the Chinese smartphone manufacture hopes will drive more innovation and grow its market potential. The first visible change...
Oppo wants to ship 50 million smartphones next year
Oppo has managed to achieve moderate success in China, as well as a few other countries, thanks to its quirky and innovative designs. However, the company wants to take things...
Xiaomi is launching its next flagship smartphone in January
Following hot on the heels of the announcement of it's $1.1 billion funding round, Xiaomi president Lei Jun has confirmed that the Chinese company's next flagship smartphone will be launching in...
Pinterest is opening its Promoted Pins feature to all advertisers
Ben Silbermann, the CEO of Pinterest, laid out plans last year for how he intends to monetize the popular web service. As part of a beta program for this plan,...
CISWYWIRMPOA? is basically just Airbnb for Airbnb… if that makes sense
Can I Stay with You While I Rent My Place on Airbnb? (CISWYWIRMPOA?) may not be the most simple name for a service, but it's definitely one of the most...
The OnePlus Two has popped up on a Chinese retailer’s website
The OnePlus One was one of the most coveted smartphones of 2014 due to its universally good reviews and near constant lack of supply, and with 2015 right around the...