Netflix wowed Wall Street with higher-than-expected subscriber growth and healthy Q3 financial results on Monday, sending its stock up 20%.What drove that success? Well, as this chart from Statista shows, it’s all about international users. This past quarter, the company added 3.2 million international subscribers, miles more than the 370,000 it added within the US. After expanding to 130 nati...

eBay is the latest tech company to jump on the Facebook Messenger bot bandwagon with the launch of ShopBot, a “smart personal shopping assistant” that helps consumers dig out the best deals on eBay.Available in beta, for now, ShopBot can be accessed through this landing page or by searching for “eBay ShopBot” within the Facebook Messenger app. Once you’re in, you can use natural language t...

A new report from Microsoft details the victim demographics of tech support scams, and some of the findings may surprise you.The most substantial victims of tech support scams probably aren't who you'd expect—they're young users. A new report from Microsoft found that users age 18-34, sometimes referred to as millennials, are more likely to follow through on a tech support scam and more likely...

As one of the Earth's crust's most abundant elements, silicon could form the basis of a cheaper storage system for renewable energy.A team of researchers from Madrid is developing a thermal energy storage system that uses molten silicon to store up to 10 times more energy than existing thermal storage options. The hope is to develop the technology into a new generation of low-cost solar thermal...

It’s always exciting when a new mobile game makes a big impact with gamers and earns a spot among the staples of the mobile category that unrelentingly dominate the weekly download charts. Unfortunately, this success is often fleeting. That’s because “big bang” titles will typically concede coveted spots back to more established pillars of the mobile category after little more than a few we...

When we use our muscles, they produce heat as a byproduct. When we use them a lot, we need to actively cool them, which is why we sweat. By sweating, we pump water out of our bodies, and as that water evaporates, it cools us down. Robots, especially dynamic robots like humanoids that place near-constant high torque demands on their motors, generate enough heat that it regularly becomes a major...

Auto insurers are basking in a false sense of security, seemingly oblivious to the impending decline in market size and the threat of new entrants. The sector is ripe for disruption: the value of insurers’ proprietary data and traditional expertise is diminishing, and other players are emerging with the data, analytics, and customer access needed to attack the value chain. In light of the comb...

HAVING just received a fancy new watch from TAG Heuer, Cristiano Ronaldo, a footballer, posts a photo of himself, wrist aloft, to his Instagram account. He dutifully thanks them for their “kind gift” and signs off the post with the company’s advertising slogan #dontcrackunderpressure.This is the latest frontier of a rapidly growing industry. Since January, more than 200,000 posts per month o...

The view from inside (top) and outside (bottom) a virtual world made possible with Modal VR.With the PSVR launching this week, and plenty of Oculus Rifts, HTC Vives and Gear VRs already in the wild, people's VR options are growing, but not everybody has the space or cash for a decent setup. More and more we're seeing companies step in to offer VR as a theme park or arcade type of experience, an...