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Baidu wants to release a self-driving car before Google does

Baidu is known to those of us in the West as the Google of China, and it seems to go out of its way to earn that name. The company...

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...

You don't even need to be online to use Facebook anymore

Facebook is so focused on being connected that it wants users to be connected even when they're not connected. This week, the company will be rolling out a new feature...

Microsoft accidentally teased the launch of extensions for Edge

Microsoft Edge is a solid web browser, but it wouldn't matter if it were three times as fast as Chome or Firefox, because without support for extensions, most people won't...

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...

Tim Cook believes we need to reinvent America's education system

The vast majority of Americans agree that our nation's education system is seriously flawed, what we can't agree on is which parts are flawed, and how we should go about...

Samsung wants to start making electric vehicle components

Samsung already makes practically everything having to do with electronics, from kitchen appliances to semiconductors, but the company is on a mission to make LITERALLY everything having to do with...

Walmart has launched its own mobile payments service

There are thousands of Walmarts scattered across the country, so it's no surprise that companies like Apple and Google have been trying to get the supermarket chain to adopt their...

The LG G5's announcement date and specs have been leaked

LG isn't nearly as massive or well-known as Samsung, but the South Korean company has still managed to carve itself out a little piece of the smartphone market thanks to...

China claims it doesn't censor the Internet, it just manages content

Well everybody, it looks like we've all been wrong about China this whole time! Contrary to popular belief, the Chinese government doesn't actually censor the Internet at all, it just "manages" the content...

Tim Cook isn't happy about Google dominating the education market

Last week, Futuresource Consulting revealed that Chomebooks now account for more than half of the computers used in American classrooms, and the rapid adoption of Chrome OS has come at the...

Indiegogo is helping Chinese startups come to the United States

Just as American companies tend to have a hard time breaking into the Chinese market, so to do Chinese companies trying to break into the American market. This is especially...

Information on the OnePlus 3 may already be popping up

There may have been a few (or several) bumps in the road, but this year has been great for OnePlus. Not only was the company able to release two smartphones,...

Yahoo has decided to split itself into two companies

It looks like only half of the rumors about Yahoo's plans for the future were true. While the company has confirmed that it's abandoning its plan to spin off its...

Airbnb has surpassed Google to become the best company to work for

Glassdoor’s list of the best companies to work for has been dominated by Facebook and Google in recent years, but not only did Airbnb manage to make onto the list...

Apple's online television service has reportedly been put on hold

Apple likes to take its time with new products, but the delays to the company's long-rumored online television service are hardly voluntary. Naturally, the reason for the delays is money, with Apple...

HTC and Valve's virtual reality headset is being delayed until April

HTC and Valve's co-developed virtual reality headset has been delayed by a few months. We've known the device wouldn't fully hit the market until sometime next year, but HTC claimed...

Spotify appears to be caving in to Taylor Swift's demands

Remember the fight that Spotify and Taylor Swift got into last year, the one that resulted in Swift removing most of her songs from the streaming service? Well, the fight started...