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Rovi has agreed to acquire TiVo for $1.1 billion

TiVo... that's a name that hasn't been relevant in my life for years, and I'm far from the only one. Being able to record the movies and shows on your...

Theverge

The founder of Atari wants to start making mobile games

Atari rose and fell before many of today's gamers were even born, but the modern video game industry wouldn't be what it is now without the company, and as Atari's founder, Nolan Bushnell is...

Cnbc

Telegram denies rumors that it’s being acquired by Google

Google was in a perfect position to dominate the mobile messaging and social networking markets while they were still in their infancy, but because it was too slow to act, it...

Thenextweb

Snapchat users watch ten billion videos every day

Facebook isn't the only emerging video-sharing behemoth that YouTube needs to be wary of, according to a report from Bloomberg on Thursday. The report, which Snapchat has confirmed to be accurate,...

Mashable

Xiaomi’s first smartwatch will launch in the second half of 2016

Xiaomi might not like being called the Apple of China, but the company seems to do everything in its power to earn that title. It's already released laptops, smartphones, set-top...

Ibtimes

HTC is working on two Nexus devices for Google

It looks like HTC will be returning to Google's Nexus program this year, and this time it'll have two devices instead of one. This is according to a respected and well-known...

Neowin

Nintendo will release its next console in March 2017

Consoles tend to last six to eight years before their successor is released, so the fact that the Wii U will be replaced in just four years should tell you how much...

Mirror

YouTube now has six-second advertisements that you can’t skip

YouTube decided to remind us that life is full of compromises with a new blog post this morning, in which it announced that it's introducing a new advertisement format that shortens...

Techcrunch

Google believes artificial intelligence will be bigger than virtual reality

When Mark Zuckerberg thinks about the future, he sees a world that's dominated by mobile devices and virtual reality, but when Google CEO Sundar Pichai thinks about the future, all he...

Techradar

Amazon is trying to bully users into subscribing to Amazon Prime

Part of what makes Amazon Prime so great is that you don't need it, because it's luxury. Non-subscribers can use Amazon the same way that subscribers can, and the company doesn't purposely...

Gamesradar

Using smartphones too much can make children cross-eyed

A child doing something in excess is different than an adult doing something in excess, because children are still in the process of developing both mentally and physically, so an...

Gadgets Ndtv

China wants to build floating nuclear power plants for its new islands

I'm sure you've heard about that man-made island chain that China has built in the South China Sea, the one that's been causing a lot of anxiety for the other...

Nytimes