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Made (by robots) in China

There's a challenge with economic freedoms. Every country that expands capitalism finds that there are benefits, but one of the hardest parts to stomach is the increase in necessary wages....

Don’t park your car in a garage on Grand Theft Auto V

Games in virtual worlds as massive as Grand Theft Auto V are bound to have glitches. Other games that operate in open landscapes have had some comical glitches, such as...

Google adds remote locking for lost or stolen Android devices

Anyone who has lost a smartphone has gone through the anxiety of wondering what could be gained by the thief or someone who finds it. Would they answer phone calls...

Part of BlackBerry’s problem: they failed to reach young consumers

BlackBerry built its reputation while it was Research In Motion as a company with products that every old, stuffy business executive needed in their briefcase. When that could no longer...

New iMacs will feature Intel’s Haswell processors

In case you forgot, Apple makes more than just mobile devices. After the flurry of activity and buzz surrounding their new iPhone releases, the company announced upgrades to its iMac...

Google fixes massive Gmail bug, still not sure what happened

It's fixed. That's the good news. The bad news is that the tech giant still isn't certain what caused nearly half of their email service users to experience delays for...

Unlimited data plans not sustainable according to Verizon CEO

Some say the "digital age" has been replaced by the "data age". It's no longer just about what hardware you have. The ability to retrieve the data quickly and in...

Shanghai will be Facebook friendly

China is hoping that foreigners visiting the free-trade zone of Shanghai will not feel so detached from home by making Facebook accessible. Access to Facebook and other politically sensitive web...

New York is making it easier to stop and text while driving

Texting is one of the most dangerous activities one can do while driving, but the constant pings from smartphones makes it still very common. Now, New York is trying to...

Facebook makes payments easier with new partnerships

PayPal, Stripe, and Braintree are now "in" as Facebook Autofill payment options on apps. This is great news for those companies... for now. Many expect that Facebook will remove the...

Apple TV tries to correct wayward path with fixes

It was surrounded by excitement and then plopped down on the ground as a dud. Now, Apple hopes to push forward with Apple TV through fixes in their most recent...

HTC in hot water over violating a pair of Nokia patents

Sometimes it isn't the patent trolls that make the waves in court. The courts themselves are very capable of making waves on their own, as HTC is finding out. Taiwan's...

Links used in Supreme Court opinions nearly half rotted away

There's a "disease" on the internet that plagues any entity that relies on other sources and exists for long enough. It's called link rot, and thankfully it's not contagious. It...

Oracle sued for refusing to pay $33,540 strip club tab

It apparently takes a lot out of people when they're working at Oracle. An employee ran up a $33,540 tab at a strip club and paid it on the corporate...

Prem Watsa, the ‘Warren Buffett of Canada’, is trying to save BlackBerry

The large buyout that Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is attempting on BlackBerry isn't just a bargain. They're in it for self preservation as well. The man behind the move is...

New $50 million funding round will help Flipboard unify content consumption

Flipboard has been able to stay on top of the extremely competitive arena of content presentation and distribution for a couple of years now. This latest round of funding against...

Your next job may be waiting for you in your LinkedIn news fed

Inline ads work on social. Facebook has proven it. Twitter is doing well with it. Now, LinkedIn is making it happen in their feed as well. Now we’re starting to...

Every Constitution in the world, brought to you by Google

Google has never been shy about getting involved in politics. They talk to governments. They fight with governments. They help governments get overthrown. Now, they're going to educate the people...

NSA, ad sales, or both are to blame for Google’s switch away from transparent search data

If you want to know what people searched for to land on your website, you'll have to be buying ads from Google. The data will soon be completely unavailable to...

Surface 2 didn’t impress

They were hoping that they would have the type of boost that Apple received when they launched the iPad 2. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the innovations didn't seem strong enough following...