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Video games might speed up artificial intelligence development

Video games have evolved immensely over the past forty years, and for those of us who experienced this evolution first-hand, it can be strange to see how society has come...

Alibaba wants to bring e-commerce to rural areas

Somewhere around 600 million people live in the Chinese countryside, and Alibaba has spent years trying to turn them into customers. The problem is, while e-commerce has been exploding in China's...

Instagram is planning to stop showing posts chronologically

It's only natural for social networks to display posts in chronological order, which is what Instagram has always done, but this often results in posts that are more interesting or relevant to users...

The PlayStation VR will be cheaper than the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive

A few weeks ago, most of us would've thought that the PlayStation VR was a bit too expensive, but after it was announced that the Oculus Rift will sell for $600,...

Samsung's attempt at a social media app is destined to fail

From time to time, Samsung will release a new product in an area that it's not familiar with which will inevitably fail, and the tech community will laugh and wonder...

Samsung has finally made an Android skin that doesn't suck

Samsung has proven time and time again that it knows how to make excellent hardware that sells hundreds of millions of units every year, but the company's track record with...

Microsoft has stopped accepting Bitcoin payments

Bitcoin may be hundreds of times more valuable than the US Dollar, but that doesn't mean much when most companies don't accept the digital currency. That's why it was such...

Valve wants to bring non-VR video games to virtual reality

Google Cardboard has made it so that even videos that aren't designed for virtual reality can be viewed in virtual reality as a sort of simulated cinematic experience, and now...

Yahoo is killing off even more of its products

It seems like not a day goes by without more evidence of Yahoo's imminent demise popping up, and I have no idea why watching it all unfold is so entertaining...

Rumor: NVIDIA will launch its next flagship graphics card in May

Gaming enthusiasts won't have to wait much longer for NVIDIA's next-generation flagship graphics card, according to a report from a Chinese website known as BenchLife on Friday. BenchLife has a pretty...

General Motors just spent $1 billion on an autonomous car startup

Autonomous cars are the future of the automotive industry, but unfortunately for traditional automakers, it's the technology industry that's leading the charge in this area, meaning that these automakers must...

Nintendo will launch its first-ever smartphone app next week

Few companies are as slow to adapt to market changes as Nintendo, but the beloved video game company has finally decided to get with times and embrace the smartphone market....

Obama has finally spoken out about the encryption debate

Ever since Apple refused to assist the FBI in breaking through the iPhone's encryption last month, the United States has been engaged in an unprecedented debate about privacy and security, and numerous...

The former CEO of Google uses an iPhone

You would think that the former CEO of Google and current Executive Chairman of its parent company would be using a Nexus smartphone, or at least some kind of Android...

Chinese consumers are tired of all these iPhone clones

Chinese companies used to be able to make some serious cash by creating a decent iPhone clone and then selling it at a price that most people could afford, but...

Facebook wants to be the dictionary for the language of the internet

Often times, it seems like conversing with people on the internet requires knowledge of a completely different form of English from what we use in regular conversations, almost like a...

Microsoft Edge might finally start supporting extensions this month

Edge was supposed to help Microsoft reclaim its position at the top of the web browser market, and while the design and performance of the browser are comparable to that of Chrome...

The Android N developer preview is here WAY sooner than expected

People weren't expecting Google to unveil the next version of Android until its annual I/O developer conference in May, but the company surprised everyone on Wednesday by announcing the Android N Developer Preview,...

Most Americans aren't aware that virtual reality headsets exist

Those of us who like to stay up to date on the latest technology news are probably abundantly familiar with virtual reality headsets like Google Cardboard and the Oculus Rift, but most...

Pandora wants to help artists connect with their fans

When every music-streaming service offers roughly the same content for roughly the same price, it can be hard for one service to differentiate itself from the competition. One of the...