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Yahoo Messenger is back as an image-centric messaging app

Those of you still using the older web-based version of Yahoo Messenger will be sad to hear that Yahoo will be ending support for the service in a few months,...

Apple wants to turn regular fabric into electronic displays

The vast majority of patents never make their way into any released products, but it's still interesting to see the kinds of things that companies like Apple are thinking of. For...

The Galaxy Note 6 might be a laptop-smartphone hybrid

Laptop-tablet hybrids are a dime a dozen these days, bu what about a laptop-smartphone hybrid? When you phrase it like that, it seems pretty silly, but this recently-discovered Samsung patent...

Microsoft will drop support for Windows 10 Mobile in three years

Windows Insiders have had access to Windows 10 Mobile for a while now, but unless they've purchased a Lumia 959 or Lumia 950 XL, most Windows Phone loyalists haven't been...

America and China are working towards cybersecurity cooperation

Cybersecurity is easily one of the biggest sources of tension between China and the United States, and it's one that the two nations have slowly started to address. A few...

YouTube Red may soon offer movies and shows just like Netflix

With the launch of YouTube Music, its standalone music streaming service, and YouTube Red, its premium subscription service, the past few months have been pretty big for YouTube, but that...

Google is shutting down its other (other) music streaming service

Google has a confusingly long list of music streaming services, but fortunately, that list is going to be decreased by one starting on January 31, 2016. That's when the company will be...

Amazon wants augmented reality without the restrictive headsets

The augmented reality market is still in infancy, practically still in the womb, but the competition is already starting to heat up. Microsoft is the only major player at the moment,...

Tidal's third CEO in six months may be able to turn things around

It's safe to say that Tidal has had a rough year, and I'm not sure whether the fact that the company has cycled through three CEOs in the past six...

Google is taking a page out of Pinterest's playbook

One need only look at Pinterest's 100 million active monthly users to know that image bookmarking is really popular at the moment, and Google wants in on the action. Those of...

The co-creator of Android wants to make his own smartphones

Andy Rubin is known to most as the co-creator of Android, and though he left Google over a year ago to assist hardware-based startups in their endeavors, Android is still close to his...

Bigger tablets could breathe new life into the market

The tablet market has been shrinking for a while now, but a recent shift in the industry may breathe new life into the tablet market. Apple, Google, and Microsoft have released...

Google has been accused of tracking students without permission

Last year, Google pledged to never exploit the personal information of students for non-educational purposes, which was meant to assuage concerns that Google's push into education would allow it to...

Yahoo is considering selling off its core Internet business

Initially, many people were confident that former Google executive Marissa Mayer would be able to turn things around for Yahoo as its CEO and President, but after three years of...

Nintendo expects to sell 20 million units of its next console in 2016

The disastrous failure that is the Wii U has forced Nintendo to advance to the next-generation of consoles much earlier than expected. We've been hearing a lot about the company's next console,...

The iPhone 6C is expected to launch within the next few months

Rumors of Apple's return to 4-inch smartphones have been popping up for some time, but it looks like mid-2016 will be when we actually see the device launch. It's being...

The Galaxy S7 may be almost identical to the Galaxy S6

The Galaxy S6 was built from the ground up as a completely new smartphone, which makes it more like the beginning of a new line of flagships rather than a...

One of Tesla's top self-driving car experts has defected to Google

Tesla has started doubling down on its development of self-driving car technology, which means the loss of one of its top experts in the field couldn't have come at a worse...

Xiaomi's all-metal laptop may launch sometime around Q2 2016

It's odd to see a smartphone manufacturer expanding into the laptop market, as it's usually the reverse that happens, but that's what Xiaomi appears to be doing. Considering how the...

Wikipedia is using artificial intelligence to attract more contributors

Although a handful of restrictions have been put in place over the years to reduce online vandalism, people are still more or less free to create and modify Wikipedia pages...