Yahoo plans to cut its workforce by about 15% by the end of the year
Marissa Mayer has already written a kill list for Yahoo's employees, and now it's time for the CEO to start killing off the people who're unfortunate enough to work for one...
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Uber is rebranding itself with a dynamic app icon and a new logo
Be prepared to see a new icon the next time you update your Uber app, because the company announced on Tuesday that it's rebranding itself. Not much is changing aside from...
America and Europe have reached a new Safe Harbor agreement
Last October, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Safe Harbor laws that allowed companies to transfer user data between the European Union and United States with ease were invalid, which...
Popcorn Time has declared war on “righteous content monopolies”
Oh, you thought Popcorn Time was dead? Well think again, because the Netflix for Pirates is back and better than ever, because users can now stream pirated content through their...
Nintendo might be at least somewhat interested in virtual reality
Nintendo was one of the first gaming companies to embrace motion controls, but it may have already missed its chance to do the same with virtual reality. Nonetheless, Nintendo is still...
Samsung has started installing ad-blockers on its devices
Samsung's software has always been, for lack of a better description, absolute crap, so much so that it's actually hurting the company's mobile business. This isn't something that Samsung can allow to continue, which...
The world’s first fully automated farm is being built in Japan
Japan's population is aging at a frightening pace, and it's already experiencing labor shortages as a result. The shortages are only going to get worse as more people grow old...
Samsung will unveil the Galaxy S7 on February 21st
I'm sure we've all heard about Samsung's struggles in the smartphone market by now, and it's going to be interesting to see how the company tries to turn things around...
Elon Musk wants to have humans on Mars within a decade
Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious, especially when it comes to the future of space. At a startup festival in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the SpaceX CEO said that he'll...
SpaceX declared MIT the winner of today’s Hyperloop competition
Thousands of engineers from colleges and high schools from across the world gathered at Texas A&M University in College Station on Saturday to compete for a chance to test their pod designs...
A mere 5% of developers are working on a Wii U game at the moment
I think it's safe to say that the Wii U is more or less dead at this point, and if the fact that Nintendo is already preparing to release the...
A company you’ve never heard of may be the next smartphone giant
The seemingly unstoppable Xiaomi just had a pretty rough year, having failed to achieve even the lowest sales goal that it set for itself, thanks to intense competition from Apple and...
This might be the Steam alternative that we so desperately need
Steam is great and all, but there's so much crap that Valve is allowed to get away with because it doesn't have any serious competition. Aside from Origin, which doesn't...
Lenovo will release the next Moto smartphone in July
Lenovo may be looking to developing markets to grow its smartphone sales, but that doesn't mean it's forgotten about the United States. That's where it's acquisition of Motorola really pays...
Marissa Mayer has written a kill list for Yahoo’s employees
The fate of Yahoo's employees is being determined by where they are on the new kill list that CEO Marissa Mayer has written up, though I'm sure many of them...
Circuit City is coming back from the dead with a new strategy
The deaths of Circuit City and RadioShack have painted a grim picture of the future of electronics retailers like Best Buy, but it's not all doom and gloom. For starters,...
Amazon may launch its own music-streaming service this year
People were understandably skeptical when Amazon decided to launch its own premium video-streaming service, but the company has long since proven that it can hold its own against the likes of...
Adobe Flash will cease to exist within the next couple of years
This has been a pretty good week for digital security, because not only is Oracle finally killing off its cancerous Java plug-in for web browsers, Encoding.com has reported that Adobe Flash will die its...
The Java plug-in is finally going to meet its long-awaited demise
It's been more than two decades since Oracle decided to start plaguing web browsers with its Java plug-in, but it looks like it's time for Oracle to finally kill it off. Its death...
More than five million Cardboard headsets have been shipped
Google has brought affordable virtual reality to more than five million people so far, the company announced through its official blog on Wednesday. High-end virtual reality headsets haven't even hit...