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Oculus VR founder thinks cables will hold virtual reality headsets back

With just a few months to go before high-end virtual reality headsets start hitting the market, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey has claimed that there's going to be one thing that...

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This moment-sharing has the potential to be the next Snapchat

With around 4.5 million users, Fling still has a long way to go before it rises to Snapchat's level, but it has the potential to do just that. How the app...

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OnePlus has officially unveiled the design-focused OnePlus X

Months of rumors and speculation have finally culminated in the OnePlus X being officially unveiled. As expected, it's smaller and weaker than the OnePlus 2, but that's because aesthetics are the...

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Facebook is making it easier for strangers to send you messages

Most people weren't even aware that there was an Other folder in Facebook Messenger for messages that come from the people you aren't actually friends with, which is probably why...

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Walmart wants to start testing delivery drones too

Ever since Amazon put the idea of delivery drones in the limelight, companies across the United States have been asking federal regulators for permission to begin testing their own delivery drone...

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YouTube Red forced ESPN to remove its videos from YouTube

Remember when we said that 99% of content creators on YouTube signed on for YouTube Red because the only other option was to have all their videos taken down? Well it...

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Microsoft is actually starting to make money off of Bing

Bing used to get almost as much hate as Internet Explorer, which I always felt was unfair, because even though it's not as feature-rich or popular as Google Search, it's...

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Disney is launching its own Netflix-like subscription streaming service

Few companies have as many beloved movies and television shows in their arsenal of original content as Disney, which is why the company has decided to release its own Netflix-like subscription streaming...

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The company that owns Tinder is preparing to go public

It may surprise you to find out that Match.com, OKCupid, and Tinder are all owned by a Dallas-based company known as Match Group, and that the company is filing for an...

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Facebook and Twitter may come to replace news websites entirely

Online publishing has almost completely replaced physical magazines and newspapers, but now it may be in danger of being replaced itself. A more accurate way to describe it is that the current form...

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