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Rumor: Microsoft's next flagships will have a Snapdragon 820

What little success Microsoft has had with Windows Phones has been in the low-end side of the mobile market, especially in developing countries, but with the introduction of the Windows...

Snapchat's disturbing terms of service update has people up in arms

Snapchat owes its rapid ascension to the top of the social app pyramid to its disappearing messages, but the service has been transitioning away from ephemeral messaging in recent months. Not...

Next-generation anti-virus software will work like a human brain

Evading anti-virus software isn't exactly easy, but if malware authors have a mind to do so, they can design their malware to mutate in such a way that anti-virus software...

Russia wants to put astronauts on the moon again

The space race may have ended with America's victory decades ago, but that doesn't mean Russia has lost interest in space travel. In fact, the country is more interested in...

Steam Machines are finally happening, and Alienware wants to be first

After numerous delays, and a lot of reworks, it looks like Steam Machines are actually going to be hitting the market this year. It's been a couple years since Valve...

Amazon is killing off yet another batch of failed products

Amazon is kind of like Google in that it likes to release tons of products all the time in order to see which ones work, and isn't afraid to kill...

A measly 3% of Americans actually own a wearable gadget

With how much focus technology companies are putting on fitness trackers and smartwatches, you'd think that the market for wearable gadgets was booming, but that's far from the case. Not...

Instagram is taking aim at Snapchat and Twitter with this new feature

Curation is the name of the game nowadays, and ever the trend-follower, Instagram is trying its hand at curation with a new channel that features curated pictures and videos relating...

Samsung may be laying off a whopping 30% of its workforce

After years of dominating the mobile market, Samsung is finding itself in the unfamiliar position of having shrinking profits due to its increasingly disappointing smartphone sales. This has been happening...

Who's Down is Google's latest attempt to succeed with social media

After fumbling into the world of social media with Google Plus, and then slowly retreating, Google is ready to try again, but this time the company is being much more...

Twitch beat Dark Souls, now it wants to install Arch Linux

It all started a couple of years ago when an anonymous Twitch users decided to conduct a social experiment where Twitch users tried to collaboratively finish a game of Pokémon Red by entering...

Microsoft is expecting a ton of Xbox One converts this holiday season

The PlayStation 4 has been dominating this generation of consoles, but Microsoft believes that things will start to turn in the Xbox One's favor this Christmas. Despite previous claims that backwards compatibility...

Facebook is making video ads load faster in developing countries

Video advertisements are much more effective, and therefore more valuable, than their static counterparts, but this comes at the cost of loading more slowly on weaker connections or low-end devices....

PewDiePie claims ad blockers forced YouTube to create YouTube Red

YouTube's ad-free subscription service has launched, and while many people are complaining that the company forced content creators to either accept the service or have their videos removed, the most-successful...

The Tor Project has started beta testing its secure messaging app

Tor has been described by the NSA as the undisputed king of online anonymity, and it's an essential tool for Internet users who want to protect themselves from prying eyes. The Tor...

Apple is selling more Macs than ever despite the shrinking PC market

Oh, the PC market is dying? Well, I guess somebody forgot to tell that to Apple. While the overall market for personal computers has been on the decline for years,...

Google denies rumors that it's merging Android and Chrome OS

Yesterday, a report from the Wall Street Journal started circulating across the Internet, which claimed that Google is planning to fold Chrome OS into Android sometime in 2017, with a later...

One of the biggest names in online piracy is shutting down

If you've ever even dabbled in online piracy, there's a good chance that you downloaded a movie that was released by the popular movie torrenting group known as YIFY. For years,...

Force Touch is going to explode in popularity next year

Apple is rarely ever the first company to do something, but it tends to be the first to do something so well that it quickly becomes an industry standard. That...

Viewers didn't seem to like Twitter's first television commercial

In order to help people understand what Twitter and convince them to start using the service, Twitter released its first-ever television commercial during the World Series on Tuesday, but it seems...