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Star Citizen has raised an insane $100 million in crowdfunding

When you decide to back a crowdfunding project, you're running the risk of having your money wasted when the project ends up failing, and though it may be reassuring to see...

Americans now have until February 19th to register their drones

This morning, the FAA made good on its promise to have a national drone registry in place before Christmas, and people who register their drones within the next thirty days...

This new Tor alternative hides your messages in a stream of spam

Tor is currently the most-important tool for online anonymity in the world, due in large part to the fact that it doesn't have much in the way of competition, but...

Elon Musk is worried that WWIII will interrupt his plans for Mars

It's safe to say that World War II would cause a lot of problems, not the least of which is the interruption of Elon Musk's plans for Mars. In an...

Huawei is bringing its Honor brand to the United States

It looks like Honor, the brand of mid-range smartphones that Huawei owns, will be entering the American market next year. The brand announced as much after its two-year anniversary celebration...

Nintendo has no intention of killing off the 3DS

Just because Nintendo is making its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, doesn't mean the company is giving up on handheld consoles. In an interview with the Washington Post, marketing chief...

This software uses data from court cases to accurately detect lies

Lie detectors have been around for almost a century, but none of them have even come close to detecting lies as well as a human can, which isn't saying much, because most...

This new artificial intelligence venture could be game-changing

Elon Musk has made his wariness of artificial intelligence abundantly clear, and though many people within the tech industry have joked about his concerns, there are still plenty that share...

Japan is using an interceptor drone to hunt down other drones

While regulators in the United States are still working on a legal solution to the ever-growing consumer drone problem, Japan has decided to fight fire with fire using a new...

Yahoo’s newest app is like a TV guide for cord-cutters

God, don't you just hate it when you're subscribed to all these video streaming services and you can't decide what to watch because there's just too many options?! Yeah, it's...

Nintendo’s next controller might be just as lame as the last two

Don't get me wrong, I like it when companies take risks and try new things, but I'm far from alone when I say I would much rather Nintendo release a...

Electronic Arts has launched its own eSports division

Up until a few years ago, few people would've predicted that eSports would actually become popular, let alone predict that competitions for games like Counter-Strike and League of Legends would generate...

Rumor: Huawei will make another Nexus smartphone next year

Even though the Nexus 6P only just recently hit the market, we're already started to see rumors of the device's successor. It's still far too early to be seeing any...

Ford plans to pour another $4.5 billion into electric vehicles by 2020

If you had doubts about Ford's commitment to electric vehicles, then maybe CEO Mark Fields can remove them. This morning, Fields announced that his company intends to invest $4.5 billion into electric vehicles...

Germany has fired up a potentially revolutionary fusion reactor

Mankind's obsession with energy has led to its demise in countless fictional stories, and whether it be the irreversible destruction of our environment, or wars fought over limited resources, an energy-related...

Tumblr’s instant messaging feature is now available to everyone

Considering how instant messaging is practically essential for social networks nowadays, it's a surprise that it's taken Tumblr this long to release its own such feature. Due to popular demand,...

GoPro’s first drone is called the Karma, and it launches next year

Some of the best GoPro videos out there have come from people who strapped a GoPro camera to a consumer drone and started shooting aerial footage, with some drones even...

Dish Network’s streaming service has less than 500,000 subscribers

With more than 43 million subscribers in the United States alone, Netflix has set the bar pretty high for other streaming services. Obviously, nobody expected Dish Network's own streaming service...

Twitter wants to monetize its 500 million users who don’t have accounts

Unlike with most social networks, it's actually really easy to use Twitter without an account, so much so that the company estimates that there are somewhere around 500 million Twitter...

Around 77,000 Steam accounts are hijacked and pillaged every month

Steam users have been suffering from account theft since the service first launched, but ever since Valve introduced Steam Trading to the mix, the number of accounts being stolen increased...