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Fresh Meat is an online dating service that’s only for attractive people

Building a new social network is incredibly difficult, even for the largest of companies, and it's next to impossible for the smaller ones. The only way to do it is to have...

People streamed twice as much music last year as the year prior

Even with artists like Adele withholding their new albums from streaming services, music streaming continued to grow at a ridiculous pace last year. According to Nielsen’s year-in-review report, people streamed more than 317 million songs...

Lenovo is killing off the Motorola brand name

Few companies have contributed to the mobile market as much as Motorola has, and despite the fact that most of these contributions were made in the pre-smartphone area, the company has still managed...

Yahoo is reportedly planning to lay off at least 10% of its workforce

We've been hearing a lot about Yahoo over the past couple of months, and none of what we've heard has been good. The latest batch of news about the struggling...

Netflix is now available in 130 more countries, but not China

With how slowly Netflix has been expanding over the past year or so, many people were wondering if the company would be able to complete its goal of spreading to nearly...

Indiegogo wants large corporations to start crowd-funding too

Crowd-funding doesn't just supply aspiring entrepreneurs with the financing they need to turn their ideas into actual products or services, it helps measure people's interest in a particular area. Indiegogo believes that both of...

A bunch of information on the Galaxy S7 has been leaked

Samsung may have nailed the design of the Galaxy S6, but the hardware and software failed to impress users enough to generate as many sales as the company had expected....

Intel and New Balance are working on a smartwatch together

Fitness tracking is one of the very few areas in which smartwatches are actually useful, and even then, smart bands can do the same thing for a much lower price....

South Korean researchers are developing a self-driving taxi service

Autonomous vehicles and ride-sharing are two topics that are guaranteed to pop up whenever there's a conversation about the automotive market and the transportation industry as a whole. The convergence of the two...

Xiaomi is planning to release the Mi5 sometime next month

I lost count of how many Xiaomi Mi5 rumors we reported on last year, but as 2015 started to come to a close, it became clear to everyone that Xiaomi...

Pirating video games might be impossible in a couple of years

Anyone who's pirated a video game knows that you need a crack to break through the game's anti-piracy protection, and there's a number of hacking groups out there that dedicate all...

Obama wants to use smart guns to curb gun violence in America

It seems like nothing is safe from smartification these days, not even guns. President Obama renewed everyone's interest in smart guns on Monday with a memorandum titled Promoting Smart Gun Technology, which...

Huawei ended 2015 with more than 108 million smartphones shipped

While Xiaomi was struggling just to meet the low-end of its sales goals for last year, Huawei was blowing past its own sales goals to become the largest smartphone manufacturer...

Twitter might be removing its 140-character limit for tweets

Would Instagram would be as popular as it is today if it didn't limit its users with its square images? What about Snapchat and its ten-second messages, or Vine and...

Toyota is developing an artificially intelligent vehicle safety system

Earlier today, the Toyota Research Institute announced a number of new artificial intelligence and robotics research projects, including some collaborative projects with the likes of MIT and Stanford. It even plans...

Steam made more than $3.5 billion from video game sales last year

With more active users than both the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live, Steam is the most-popular digital distribution platform for video games in the world, with next to nothing in the...

Snapchat might be getting into advertising technology

It looks like Snapchat is in the process of entering the advertising technology market, or at least, that's what a report from Digiday is claiming. According to the report, Snapchat...

Maingear has proved that all-in-ones can be used for gaming too

Most of the PC gaming enthusiasts I've met in my life would never even consider getting an all-in-one for a number of reasons, the primary one being that it has...

It looks like the Intel of Drones might end up being… Intel

Qualcomm has been called the Intel of Smartphones due to its dominance over the mobile processor market, and it's been trying to achieve the same level of dominance over the drone...

Volvo is making sure you don’t get bored while your car drives itself

Entertaining your passengers is one thing, but YOU don't need to find a way to pass the time while you're driving because most of your attention is (or should be) on...