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There's a good chance you'll see something you want to buy on the shelves this year that uses a new kind of USB port. It's called USB-C, and this is what you need to know about it.
YouTube is finally stepping up their game with high-end original content, but locating those videos is challenging.
It's all fun and games until Michael Dorn tells you that your new smartphone isn't cool enough for him.
Using your smartphone or a GoPro to capture something happening around you is a great way to go most of the time, but the increasing popularity of 360° video and VR video means there's some other options worth considering. 360fly is one such option.
Samsung, being the first company to release a smartphone with the Vulkan APIs onboard, has the potential to be a big deal for a lot of people, but it's also the first step in a slow march toward the future.
We've been playing with the NVIDIA Shield Android TV 3.0 update for a couple of days now. Here's what we know about Marshmallow powered by Shield.
Samsung has been making it fun to watch 360° video through the Gear VR, but now the company has an accessory that makes it easy to capture 360° video and still images.
The Khronos Group just released version 1.0 of a set of APIs now known as Vulkan. Here's why you should care.
Square Enix has been slowly figuring out the best way to port their games to other platforms, but Final Fantasy IX demonstrates that they aren't quite there yet.
It used to be that Verizon Wireless was a carrier you actively avoided if you wanted timely updates or phones with the best features, but the unlocked revolution has forced Big Red to play nice.
The idea that we'd have a single app for all of our messaging was a nice idea for a while, but there's no way it will work with current technologies.
Samsung and LG will soon be announcing phones with "Always-On" displays, but that doesn't mean there are new battery concerns to be had.
Google's Marshmallow update has started rolling out to Android Wear, and a big part of that experience is new gestures for navigating the UI without any help from your other hand.
Developers feel the need to implement freemium models on Android in order to get more people to use their apps, and it sucks.
Seeing cases pop up on Amazon before the phone is launched isn't a new phenomenon, but it helps to understand why this happens when shopping for your next case.
Like any major smartphone release, sifting through the rumors before launch is a full-time job. One rumor in particular started an interesting conversation about next-gen biometric authentication on Android, and it caused us to take a look back at what we've already seen in this space.
We're more than a little familiar with VR gaming around these parts, but a recent forum conversation about new content to check out on the Gear VR lead to a fantastic list of must try games.
There's a lot to say about how great USB-C is, but there are also very serious issues that aren't being quickly addressed.
Google has figured out a way to make quickly launching the camera a standard across all of Android, and manufacturers need to get on board right now.
If it feels like progress in the Internet of Things movement has stopped, that's because a massive reboot is happening right now. This time, companies are looking to Makers first.