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The FCC refuses to force websites to honor Do Not Track requests

Do Not Track requests are basically a way for you to politely ask websites not to track your online activity, and I probably don't need to tell you how hilariously...

Elon Musk doesn't think humans can be trusted with Tesla Autopilot

Due to a dangerous combination of curiosity and mischievousness, humans like to push things to their limits, or even well past them. This is something that Tesla has had to...

Dell and HP are advising customers to ditch Windows 10

Microsoft is putting all of its weight behind the big Windows 10 push, but it looks like some OEMs are pushing back. While going undercover and calling the customer support...

This simple process can make batteries charge faster and last longer

Energy efficiency has become one of the most important specs for smartphone components, because battery technology hasn't been able to progress as quickly as things like flash memory and processors,...

Retailers ignore 83% of the complaints they receive on social media

Have you ever complained on a company's social media account about an issue your having with their product or service? If you have, then you're certainly not alone, because millions...

Google wants to discuss the ethics of artificial intelligence

Most experts can agree that the development of artificial intelligence is something that should be done with a degree of caution, although they can't agree on which level of caution...

Elon Musk thinks Tesla could surpass General Motors some day

Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious, but to suggest that Tesla may one day surpass the likes of General Motors and Volkswagen may go beyond ambition and into the...

The New York Times has released its own virtual reality app

Virtual reality is considered by many to be the future of media consumption, and the New York Times couldn't agree more. The news agency, which has always been one of...

Android is becoming a major security concern for Facebook

Android's openness is both its biggest strength and its biggest weakness. While this openness makes it easily accessible to companies that're developing their own mobile devices, it also makes it so that...

OnePlus understands that its invite system is hindering its growth

It doesn't matter how awesome and well-received your smartphone is, if people can't actually buy one, then you're not going to make any money, and therefore aren't going to grow....

Activision formed a studio to make movies and shows from its games

Games that're adapted from movies and television shows are generally bad, but there are plenty of exceptions. Movies and shows based on games, however, are pretty much always horrendous insults to both...

YouTube wants to steal news publishers back from Facebook

Facebook has a long way to go before it becomes the world's dominant video-sharing platform, but one area where it's definitely beating YouTube is with news publishers. The social network...

Toyota is establishing a $1 billion research institute in Silicon Valley

Toyota announced this morning that it plans to invest somewhere around $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new, Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence and robotics research company. The company...

The Apple Car might use digital license plates instead of physical ones

One of Apple's newest employees, who goes by the name Rónán Ó Braonáin, isn't just an Irishman and a self-described "secret agent," he also spent three years at BMW before working as...

Blizzard is launching Overwatch on current-gen consoles as well

Last night, Blizzard confirmed the rumors that it's launching Overwatch on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as well, which would've been almost unthinkable a couple of years ago. Diablo...

Google may be thinking about designing its own smartphone chipset

Whereas iOS has been specifically designed to work with Apple-designed chipsets, Android is designed to work with a wide variety of chipsets from different companies, but Google may be adopting a...

Xiaomi is crowdsourcing a new smartphone for the holidays

Black Friday is known all across the globe as that day where even poor people can get their hands on all the coolest and most high-tech gadgets out there. Singles...

Circle with Disney allows parents to control their children's gadgets

Back in 2013, a man by the name of Jelani Memory tried to crowdfund a device that would enable parents to manage the online content on all of the devices connected to...

Every single video on YouTube can now be viewed in virtual reality

Watching a flat YouTube video in virtual reality isn't anything special, but if you still wanted to do it, you used to have to download the video to your computer,...

Facebook's standalone news app could launch sometime next week

Following the success of Instant Articles, which allow media websites to host their articles directly on Facebook instead of having to redirect readers to a third-party website, Facebook has decided...