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Xiaomi might unveil its first smartwatch next week

In three days, Xiaomi will throw its end-of-the-year Grand Finale event, where it's expected to unveil a bunch of new products, including the Redmi Note 2. We're not sure what else...

China wants to create its own anti-American smartphones

The vast majority of the world's smartphones are powered by three operating systems, all of which are developed in the United States, which has many non-Americans concerned about American surveillance...

Snapchat's lackluster ad revenue has investors worried

Having more than 100 million daily active users was the easy part for Snapchat, now it needs to find out how to make money off them. The company has tried...

Airbnb has raised $100 million in funding, still valued at $25.5 billion

Last night, Airbnb announced that it has raised another $100 million in funding, which brings the startup's total funding to $2.34 billion, and brings its value to $25.5 billion. As...

Hilary Clinton wants Silicon Valley to help combat terrorism

Hillary Clinton is far from the only politician taking advantage of the recent attacks in Paris to call for weaker encryption, but she's one of the biggest. While she stopped short...

More than half of American internet users watch Netflix

YouTube has been the king of video streaming for years, but it looks like Netflix has stolen the crown, at least in the United States. According to a survey from...

Google Play may be returning to China early next year

Back in 2010, Google decided to remove the Play Store from China rather than comply with Chinese censorship laws, which was admirable, but not that big of a deal considering how small...

Reddit has some big privacy policy changes in the works

Reddit has announced that it'll be making some big changes to its privacy policy in a few weeks, with CEO Steve Huffman going into detail about the changes on the...

The FCC has nothing but praise for T-Mobile's unlimited video service

T-Mobile came under fire from net neutrality advocates when it released Music Freedom, and the company has run into similar concerns with its new Binge On service. For those of you...

Tesla is looking for engineers to bolster its autonomous vehicle division

Aside from a handful of idiots using the feature in ways they know they shouldn't, Tesla's new Autopilot feature has been pretty successful, and that's just the beginning. According to...

Sony is bringing PS2 games to the PS4 with the power of emulation

Microsoft dealt a massive blow to Sony when it announced that the Xbox One will be receiving backwards compatibility for many Xbox 360 games, and while Sony has made it clear...

Facebook is making it easier to recover from painful breakups

Dealing with painful breakups is hard enough as it is, but Facebook tends to make them infinitely worse by showing you all of the new comments and pictures that your ex...

Switzerland's exports are shrinking because of the Apple Watch

Swiss watchmakers were struggling well before the rise of smartwatches, but the release of the Apple Watch caused the market to suffer its largest decline in six years. According to...

LG has launched its own mobile payments service

Mobile payments aren't exactly a big deal at the moment, but they will be in the future, which is why companies like Apple and Google have been trying to secure...

YouTube is willing to compensate content creators for their legal fees

YouTube content creators have always been a prime target for copyright holders, and while some of their lawsuits and takedown requests are understandable, many of them are just blatant attempts to...

Pepsi has started crowdfunding its first smartphone

The rumor that Pepsi was working on its own smartphone was one of the strangest bits of news the tech world has seen this year, bu last month, the company...

Adele won't allow her new album to be available for streaming

Adele is one of the most-popular music artists in the world at the moment, so it's pretty obvious that her first new album in nearly five years is going to...

Google will make more money from the cloud than advertising by 2020

For the entirety of its existence, the vast majority of Google's revenue has come from online advertisements, but that may change within the next five years. According to Google's Urs Hölze, the revenue...

Square is worth half as much as it was a year ago

Earlier this month, Square set an $11 to $13 price range for its long-awaited IPO, which is much lower than the $15.46 that investors paid per share during the company's...

Android users can now stream certain apps instead of installing them

One of the things that makes Google Search such a powerful tool is that it pulls information from other websites and presents it in search results, and even links back to...