The FCC thinks it’s about time we overhauled the set-top box market
If the FCC has its way, cable subscribers in the United States will be able to lower their cable bills by choosing their own set-top boxes instead of the ones...
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Aecom is helping SpaceX build its first Hyperloop test track
When the idea of the Hyperloop was first made public back in 2013, most people thought that it was a really interesting idea, but one that would never become more than...
LG confirmed that it’s releasing two flagships this year
Despite increased competition from the likes of Apple and Samsung, not to mention the lukewarm response to the LG G4, LG still managed to ship close to 60 million smartphones...
Lyft’s partnership with Waze could give it an edge over Uber
Google hasn't done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that's about to change. On Tuesday, Waze announced on its official...
Spotify is now a video-streaming service as well
Just as the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, Spotify has added a video-streaming feature to its Android app, with the iOS app expected to receive the same feature in...
A new company is now in-charge of Sony’s PlayStation business
Sony is a consumer electronics behemoth that sells everything from camera sensors to televisions, but the company has been losing ground to its Chinese and South Korean competitors in recent years,...
One in six Americans now subscribe to Amazon Prime
Whenever someone suggests that Jeff Bezos might not be the right person to lead Amazon, just remember that Amazon Prime was his idea, and it may be one of the...
Amazon’s smartphone ambitions didn’t die with the Fire Phone
When the Kindle Fire became a surprising success, and ended up spawning a line of solid tablets, Amazon was confident enough in its ability to create successful hardware that it...
Snapchat may support audio and video calling in the future
Snapchat may be popular, but the company is struggling to make money through advertisements. It's been searching for a new source of revenue for months, including additional photo lenses and sponsored photo...
Spotify will start offering video content for the first time this week
Music-streaming may be popular, but it's not exactly lucrative, which is why Spotify still operates on a loss even though it's one of the most-popular music-streaming services in the world. Obviously,...
Twitter just lost four of its top executives
We won't know until later today what exactly happened at Twitter on Sunday, but we do know that whatever it was, it resulted in the departure of four of the...
Netflix’s international expansion is facing a gargantuan obstacle
Now that Netflix is available in almost every country on the planet, except for China, you'd think that the company's quest for world domination would simply be a matter of...
Professional hacking is starting to become a viable career
In a time where malicious hackers are constantly looking for vulnerabilities in popular software and websites that they can exploit, companies are willing to pay ridiculous amounts of money to...
Volvo wants to have deathrpoof vehicles on the road before 2020
It's been almost a decade since Volvo announced its ambitious plan to make it virtually impossible to be injured or killed in one of its vehicles, and it looks like...
The human brain is capable of storing almost the entire Internet
A group of researchers from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in California have discovered that the human brain is capable of storing more information than was previously believed, a LOT...
Tinder now tells users where the nearest STD testing location is
Health experts have claimed for a while now that Tinder contributes to higher STD rates, and the company has finally addressed that issue in a way that doesn't involve freaking the hell...
Believe it or not, the Director of the NSA is actually pro-encryption
The Director of the National Security Agency is the last person I'd expect to come out in support of encryption, but that's exactly what Mike Rogers did on Thursday when he said...
Yahoo turned down numerous acquisition offers this month
Most people have lost all hope that Yahoo will be able to turn things around, including many of its own employees, but it looks like the company still has no intention...
More anti-encryption legislation has popped up in the United States
The war on encryption continues, and as usual, the politicians trying to force companies like Apple and Google to stop encrypting their products are claiming that it's all being done...
The Tor Project’s first crowd-funding campaign raised $200,000
The vast majority of the Tor Project's funding comes from the American government, and considering how the Tor is used as a tool to combat government censorship and surveillance, it's...