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This startup will pay you back for your surge-priced Uber ride

With billions of dollars in funding and the single most extensive ride-sharing network on the planet, Uber is an absolute behemoth, and there's no way a ride-sharing startup like Gett...

Britain wants to have ubiquitous Internet access before 2020

With somewhere around 90% of the British population having connected to the Internet sometime in the last year, it's obvious that the United Kingdom is already an extremely connected country,...

The Army has found a way to read people’s brain waves

A cognitive neuroscientist by the name of Anthony Ries, working for a United States Army research facility, has just developed an automated program that can interpret brain waves, which essentially means that it...

HTC’s next smartphone might actually be pretty enticing

It's too early to tell if the HTC One A9 will be a success, but considering the lukewarm responses from reviewers, not to mention the controversy surrounding the fact that the One...

The FCC refuses to force websites to honor Do Not Track requests

Do Not Track requests are basically a way for you to politely ask websites not to track your online activity, and I probably don't need to tell you how hilariously...

This simple process can make batteries charge faster and last longer

Energy efficiency has become one of the most important specs for smartphone components, because battery technology hasn't been able to progress as quickly as things like flash memory and processors,...

Retailers ignore 83% of the complaints they receive on social media

Have you ever complained on a company's social media account about an issue your having with their product or service? If you have, then you're certainly not alone, because millions...

The New York Times has released its own virtual reality app

Virtual reality is considered by many to be the future of media consumption, and the New York Times couldn't agree more. The news agency, which has always been one of...

OnePlus understands that its invite system is hindering its growth

It doesn't matter how awesome and well-received your smartphone is, if people can't actually buy one, then you're not going to make any money, and therefore aren't going to grow....

Toyota is establishing a $1 billion research institute in Silicon Valley

Toyota announced this morning that it plans to invest somewhere around $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new, Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence and robotics research company. The company...

Blizzard is launching Overwatch on current-gen consoles as well

Last night, Blizzard confirmed the rumors that it's launching Overwatch on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well, which would've been almost unthinkable a couple of years ago. Diablo...

Xiaomi is crowdsourcing a new smartphone for the holidays

Black Friday is known all across the globe as that day where even poor people can get their hands on all the coolest and most high-tech gadgets out there. Singles...

Circle with Disney allows parents to control their children’s gadgets

Back in 2013, a man by the name of Jelani Memory tried to crowdfund a device that would enable parents to manage the online content on all of the devices connected to...

Check out the Fallout 4 launch trailer that Bethesda just released

It looks like there's no brakes on the Fallout 4 hype train, because Bethesda just released the official launch trailer for the game. Unlike the announcement and gameplay trailers we...

Xiaomi may finally announce the Mi5 on December 3rd

We have less than two months to go before the year comes to an end, and yet we still have no word from Xiaomi on when we can expect the...

Huawei’s new chipset could give Qualcomm a run for its money

After years of dominating the mobile chipset market, it looks like Qualcomm may finally have a serious competitor, and it's not Samsung. Instead, it looks like Huawei will be the one...

Blizzard wants to resurrect some of its most beloved classics

Earlier this week, Blizzard announced on its website that it's looking to hire some new software engineers, not to design a new game, but to restore some old ones to glory....

Tizen now has more users than BlackBerry

Tizen may not have been the next Android, but at least Samsung's homemade operating system is still more popular than BlackBerry OS. A recent report from Strategy Analytics claims that Tizen...

Expedia has acquired one of Airbnb’s competitors for $3.9 billion

The rise of the sharing economy is revolutionizing the way we do things, especially in regards to travelling, and rather than adapt to the changing market, many companies are throwing...

Your smartphone’s display could be as strong as steel in the future

If you thought the shatter-proof display on Motorola's new Droid Turbo 2 was cool, wait until you hear what the Institute of Industrial Science at the University of Tokyo has developed. Using extremely...