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Xiaomi's success may have also been its downfall

Xiaomi has had a lot to boast about over the last few years, and it's certainly taken every opportunity it's had to do just that, but things were a lot different...

This contraceptive lets men literally switch their fertility off and on

When it comes to contraceptives, men really only have one of two options: condoms or a vasectomy. Most people feel that condoms detract from the experience of sex, and a vasectomy is a...

With a 35% decrease in sales, HTC might be taking its last breaths

HTC released some solid smartphones last year, but with how ridiculously competitive the mobile market is, being solid isn't nearly enough, and HTC is paying the price. Those solid smartphones...

BlackBerry will only release Android smartphones this year

For the handful people that are actually anticipating another BlackBerry 10-powered smartphone, don't hold your breath, because BlackBerry won't be releasing one this year. That isn't to say that BlackBerry isn't releasing any smartphones this...

ProPublica is the first major news website to arrive on the Dark Web

ProPublica has become the first major news website in the world to release a version of its website that's optimized for the Dark Web. Although the Dark Web has a...

Apple wants to use artificial intelligence to read your emotions

Emotient has become the latest startup to get scooped up by Apple, and it's one of the more interesting ones we've seen. The San Diego-based startup specializes in using people's...

Razer doesn't want you to call its new smartwatch a smartwatch

Razer has made it very clear that it's new Nabu Watch isn't a smartwatch, it's a regular digital watch that has some smart features, but what makes this smartish dumb watch...

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...

The iPhone 7 might be Apple's most-interesting smartphone to date

We still have several months to go before Apple unveils the next iPhone, but that hasn't stopped rumors about the device from spreading like wildfire. Some of the rumors have even...

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...

Palmer Luckey apologized for misleading people about the Oculus Rift

Oculus tried to remain as vague as possible whenever it discussed the Oculus Rift's price, and we had no idea what the headset would actually cost until it became available...

Apple made more than $20 billion from the App Store last year

Whenever you hear about the ridiculous amounts of money that mobile games like Candy Crush Sage and Clash of Clans make, just remember that they all have to give Apple a...

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...

You can now pre-order the Oculus Rift before it ships in March

The virtual reality market didn't begin with Google Cardboard and its derivatives, because it hasn't actually begun at all. Those cheap headsets were more like the heralds of the true birth of the...

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....

Facebook Messenger is about to become filled with bots

Remember those rumors a few weeks back that claimed Google is working on a new messaging app that'll filled with a bunch of bots that users can interact with? Well,...

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....