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Facebook will pay employees $10,000 if they move closer to its HQ

We live in a world where thousands of people can all work with each other for the same company without having to live anywhere near each other, and while Facebook...

LifeLock is paying a record-breaking $100 million settlement

Remember those LifeLock commercials where CEO Todd Davis would publicly display his own Social Security number to demonstrate the company's ability protect customers form identity theft? Well, the fact that Davis has had his identity...

Apple will be dominating the smartwatch market for years to come

It doesn't matter that Apple wasn't even close to being the first company to release a smartwatch, because when it finally got around to releasing one, it ended up completely...

Huawei sold more than 100 million smartphones this year

While Xiaomi is struggling just to meet the lowest sales goal it set for itself this year, Huawei has become China's largest smartphone maker with more than 100 million smartphones shipped...

Sony is developing smartphone batteries that last 40% longer

Don't get me wrong, I like the power increase that comes with each successive generation of smartphones, but I'm far from alone when I say that I'd rather have a...

BlackBerry is chastising Apple for respecting the privacy of its users

Whatever brownie points BlackBerry earned for choosing to exit the Pakistani handset market rather than put backdoors in its encryption for the government were lost this morning when CEO John Chen actually chastised Apple...

Google plans to dedicate a million bucks to security research next year

Google doesn't just want people to use Google Drive because its cheaper and more convenient than buying your own hard drive, it wants you to use it because its safer...

You might be able to vote for which name Android 7.0 will have

Rather than having us guess what the next version of Android's confectionery-themed name will be, Google may leave the decision up to the Android community. During his visit to India this week,...

Microsoft is working on a program that can predict crimes

Science fiction has explored the idea of predicting crimes or people's likelihood to commit them numerous times, most notably in movies like Minority Report or shows like Psycho-Pass, but the technology capable...

Xiaomi claims it's not worried about its lackluster smartphone sales

Remember when Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun claimed his company would sell at least 80 million smartphones this year? Well, despite its explosive growth, the company wasn't even able to achieve that number,...

Sony may be working on two Snapdragon 820-powered flagships

This year's Sony flagships did little to improve the company's horrendous smartphone sales, but as stated many times before, its handset division has no intention of giving up. Earlier this...

California's new self-driving car regulations are bad news for Google

Thanks to the California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program, not to mention its wealth of engineering talent, California has become the most vibrant hub for self-driving vehicle development in the world, but the...

Microsoft is making a custom version of Windows 10 just for China

One of the biggest obstacles Microsoft has faced in China is the government's reluctance to accept and operating system that's developed by an American company, especially after the Snowden leaks....

Facebook's annual Year in Review will let you filter out bad memories

With the end of the year fast approaching, it's time for Facebook to launch its annual Year in Review tool, which recaps all of your highlights throughout 2015, so long...

Google's self-driving vehicle division is becoming independent

Now that Google is has become a subsidiary of Alphabet, many of the divisions that have nothing to do with its core business are being spun off into separate companies, which are...

Apple decided to shut down a company it acquired for $200 million

Two years after acquiring Topsy Labs for $200 million, Apple has decided to shut down the analytics company. As usual, we have no official information on what the company's talent or technology...

Facebook and Uber have joined forces

Spinning off Facebook Messenger into a separate service made sense, as did acquiring WhatsApp, but why in the world did Facebook do both? The reason for that is actually pretty simple: Facebook...

Vroom has raised $95 million to expand its online car-buying empire

Technology isn't just changing the way we drive vehicles, it's also changing the way we buy them. A New York City-based startup by the name of Vroom is one of the...

iFlix wants to expand to all the countries that Netflix hasn't yet

Netflix is finally starting its expansion into Asia, but several local competitors have already popped up while the company was taking its time. One of the most promising of these...

Xiaomi claims the Mi5 was delayed to perfect the user experience

Xiaomi was originally planning to release a Snapdragon 810-powered Mi5 at the end of the year, but obviously that never happened, with many people suggesting that the company wanted to...