Yahoo’s financial struggles mean more autonomy for Tumblr
There's been quite a lot of fighting between Tumblr and Yahoo over the last year, as the latter company has been trying to integrate Tumblr's sales team into its own...
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Americans trust scientists more than politicians
Seeing how much attention people like Honey Boo Boo and the Kardashians get genuinely depresses me at times, and it's even worse when monumental scientific events like the detection of gravity waves only...
AT&T is bringing its 5G technology to Austin by the end of the year
While other carriers are still working on expanding their 4G networks, companies like AT&T and Verizon are already developing their own 5G technologies. We still have a few years to...
Pandora might be looking for a company to sell itself to
Pandora may be the largest Internet radio service in the world, but that doesn't mean all that much considering how it's music-streaming services like Spotify that have been getting all...
Qualcomm is helping make smartwatches more enticing
The general consensus seems to be that smartwatches are a great idea with a lot of potential, but current smartwatches are still pretty limited, and most people don't find them enticing enough to...
LG has confirmed that the LG G5 will have an always-on display
All the reports we've seen over the last few months have suggested that LG is doing everything it can to make sure the LG G5 stands out among this year's...
The long-awaited death of Adobe Flash is almost upon us
It seems like all of Silicon Valley, including Adobe itself, has banded together to finally kill off Flash, but the process has to be gradual. A significant chunk of the Internet...
Obama wants $19 billion to improve America’s cyber security
Cyber attacks have grown to become one of the most-important issues in the United States, with both corporations and government agencies suffering from them in recent years, and President Obama wants...
We need an alternative to passwords because people are idiots
Most of us have enough personal information stored on our devices and online accounts that a malicious hacker could do some serious damage to our lives if they were to...
Amazon has released its own free and open-source game engine
Last year, Kotaku reported that Amazon brought Crytek back from the brink of death in a $50 to $70 million licensing deal involving Crytek proprietary CryEngine technology. As interesting and surprising as the report...
More evidence suggests the Galaxy S7 will be water-resistant
Samsung may have nailed the design aspect of the Galaxy S6, but design alone isn't enough to sell a smartphone, and the lack of exciting features on the S6 was...
A hacker managed to steal information from the DHS and the FBI
Motherboard reported on Sunday that a hacker managed to get their hands on the personal information of about 30,000 employees for the DHS and FBI, with Wired confirming in its own...
You can now stream pirated content directly from The Pirate Bay
Remember how Popcorn Time returned from the brink of death with a new website that allows users to stream pirated movies and television shows directly from their web browser? Well, the...
Samsung wants its smartwatches to identify you using your veins
Soon you won't even need to do anything to have your smartwatch identify you if a recently published Samsung patent ever makes it into one of the company's products. The...
Brain scans might replace passwords one day
Biometric authentication is seen by many to be the natural successor to passwords, but nobody has been able to figure out which method is the best. Fingerprint scanning is the most-popular option...
Elon Musk has an idea for an electric plane that takes off vertically
There's just no stopping Elon Musk, is there? While answering questions at the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod competition earlier this week, Musk talked about his idea for an electric plane...
GitHub is having something of a civil war at the moment
It looks like all is not well inside GitHub at the moment, as two factions within the company are fighting over which direction to take it, and the fighting has resulted...
Taylor Swift is getting her own mobile game
If you thought that Kim Kardashian mobile game was popular, wait until the Taylor Swift mobile game comes out. Glu Mobile, the company behind the Kardashian game, announced on Wednesday...
Cisco is spending $1.4 billion to begin its Internet of Things expansion
Expanding into the emerging Internet of Things market shouldn't be too hard for Cisco considering how it's the largest manufacturer of networking equipment in the world, but that doesn't mean it needs to...
LG will unveil the LG G5 at MWC 2016 on February 21st
The LG G4 is a decent smartphone, and that's about all that can be said about it. With that in mind, it's no surprise that the device was met with...