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India now has more than a billion smartphone users

As China's mobile market continues to mature and saturate, all eyes are turning to India as the country's mobile market continues to boom. Earlier this week, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of...

After months of running, The Pirate Bay is right back where it started

The Pirate Bay has spent most of the year hopping from domain to domain in order to avoid being taken down by law enforcement, but a series of domain seizures...

Bitcoin was this year's best-performing currency

Bitcoin has come a long way over the years, and it cam especially far this year. Despite being the worst-performing currency of the year in 2014, the digital currency managed...

iOS users might be able to make payments through iMessage soon

If you any doubts that Apple is taking mobile payments seriously, then maybe this recently-filed patent will alleviate them. We've known that the company wanted to allow iOS users to...

Twitter will allow Politwoops to archive the tweets of politicians again

For those of you who aren't familiar, Politwoops is a website that allows people to see all the stupid crap that politicians have said on Twitter, even if those tweets were...

The Tor Project is about to launch its own bug bounty program

For the average Internet users, Tor is easily the most-effective tool for maintaining anonymity and bypassing government censorship, and this is due in large part to the fact that the...

Snapdragon-powered drones will be smarter and more affordable

Commercial and consumer drones are exploding in popularity right now, and Qualcomm wants a piece of the action. Naturally, the company doesn't want to sell its own drones, it wants...

Uber wants to help users plan their next long-distance trip

Uber proved long ago that it's more than just a ride-sharing company. It's now more of a crowd-sourced transportation platform that transports both goods and people in a variety of ways, but...

Samsung plans to show off a smart belt and smart ring at CES 2016

Most people are reluctant just to purchase a smartwatch, let alone other kinds of wearable gadgets, but that isn't stopping Samsung from popping out even more niche wearables with questionable usefulness. To be fair,...

China's air quality problem is good business for IBM and Microsoft

IBM and Microsoft are nothing if not entrepreneurial, and much of their success is owed to their ability to see everything as a business opportunity. For example, the air pollution in China has become a serious health problem for...

Microsoft now alerts users to government-sponsored cyber attacks

Ever since Google started notifying its users when they were targeted by government-sponsored cyber attacks back in 2012, many companies in the technology industry have followed suit, especially after the...

Facebook's free Internet initiative is exploitation disguised as charity

For those of you who have been living under a rock over the past few weeks, Facebook has been trying to spread its free Internet initiative across the developing world,...

The LG G5 might be LG's most-enticing smartphone to date

The LG G4 was a solid device, but when you're competing in the extremely crowded market for high-end smartphones, just being solid isn't enough. Things might be different with next year's...

Valve has an explanation for that frightening Christmas Steam glitch

Whether it was to cash in the Steam card they got for Christmas or take advantage of the ongoing Winter Sale, thousands of Steam users encountered a frightening glitch in...

Congress wants NASA to build a deep space habitat by 2018

With more money comes more responsibility, and following the news that Congress will be increasing NASA's budget by $1.3 billion in 2016, it appears that $55 million of that budget...

Samsung might release a 6-inch version of the Galaxy S7 as well

Earlier this week, we heard rumors that Samsung was planning to release the 5.2-inch Galaxy S7 and the 5.5-inch Galaxy S7 Edge within the next few months, which is hardly...

Instacart won't be nearly as aggressive next year as it was this year

This year, Instacart managed to more than triple its staff to around 300 employees, but it won't be nearly as aggressive with its hiring next year. This isn't necessarily an indication...

This e-commerce startup wants users to design their ideal products

What separates Massdrop from other e-commerce companies is that it runs on something the founders of the company call "community-driven commerce." The products that are sold on Massdrop are decided by the users, who discuss...

Spotify is being sued for $150 million in allegedly unpaid royalties

Spotify's less-than-friendly relationship with the music industry stems from one thing: royalties. To be more precise, it stems from Spotify's self-confessed inability to distribute royalties quickly and accurately, many times...

Sidecar has given up on trying to compete with Lyft and Uber

The ride-sharing market isn't exactly crowded, but it's extremely competitive. Uber is the only ride-sharing service that operates on a global scale, and is the undisputed market leader, but it still has to work...