The big picture: The combined company is expected to be a force in the patent licensing industry. Between them, they’ll have more than 10,000 patents and applications with minimal overlap. By the end of 2021, they expect to save at least $50 million annually through the integration of patent portfolios.

TiVo earlier this year was considering splitting its hardware and patent licensing divisions into two separate businesses. That potential path is now off the table as the company has agreed to

Why it matters: Two senators have asked Facebook to explain the need to track users' location at all times, and were met with an unsurprising response - to serve you relevant ads. The company prefers if you give its apps access to Location Services, but it does have other ways of tracking your location even without your permission.

By now it's no secret that companies like Facebook and Google are doing their best to track your location as precisely as they can, since their business model and the utility of their

In brief: We’ve heard for months that Samsung’s successor to the Galaxy Fold would be a clamshell-like device much like Motorola’s Razr phone. Now, we might have got our first look at the prototype.

The photos come from Weibo user Wang Ben Hong (via reliable leaker Ice Universe ), who posted five images of what are said to be the next-generation Galaxy Fold. And while this could always be a fake, it does looks very similar to the concept images Samsung teased

Something to look forward to: Are you an owner of one of Nvidia’s RTX cards waiting for some new ray tracing-enabled titles? At the company’s GPU Technology Conference in China, it announced six new games that will support the feature.

There are already several big-name titles that allow ray tracing, including Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and Control. Probably the biggest name announced in China was Tencent’s popular battle Royale game Ring of Elysium, which will be receiving support for the feature

Something to look forward to: CES 2020 kicks off in a few weeks, where LG's expanded line-up of 'Ultra' branded monitors will be targeting professionals and gamers looking for a premium display. 4K options include the new UltraFine Ergo and three gaming-focused UltraGear models, while the curved ultrawide seems to tick all boxes at QHD+ resolution.

UltraFine Ergo

For pros looking to save precious desk space, the UltraFine Ergo's swiveling arm and clamp attachment could offer all the flexibility

In brief: Google hasn’t updated its distribution dashboard, which lists how many devices are running the different versions of Android, since May, but an unlikely source has revealed the statistics: Pornhub.

Google had updated its Android Platform Distribution dashboard on a monthly basis, giving us an idea of the speed at which new versions of the OS were being adopted, but there hasn’t been an update in about seven months.

Thanks to Pornhub’s annual ‘ Year in review ,’ however, we get a

Something to look forward to: Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance have announced a new partnership towards a project called Connected Home over IP. This means we can expect the current fragmented ecosystem of smart things to become a thing of the past, as the project seeks to solve the compatibility and security headaches that consumers have been facing because of fierce competition between companies that make these products.

The smart home market should have been bigger by now, and one of the possible reasons is that tech giants have mostly

WTF?! Do you feel that your gaming abilities could be improved by using the correct footwear? If so, Puma has a product you might find interesting: a $105 pair of “gaming socks” that have three different modes.

According to Puma’s website, the “Active gaming footwear” is created with console gamers in mind, though PC owners will surely benefit from these

In context: As its music streaming war with Apple Music continues on, Spotify is constantly trying to keep a step ahead of the Cupertino tech giant. This means frequently adding features even if they only turn out to be experimental. A new tool will apparently allow users to find new music based on their friends' musical tastes.

Spotify has a new feature coming that lets users explore new music options through their friends’ preferences. The mode is called Tastebuds in a tongue-in-cheek reference to finding music that your