When it comes to the Android vs. iOS tablet race, manufacturers didn't really have much of a choice than to go to Android. There's Windows as an option, but given the current state of popularity (or lack thereof) that the Windows tablets are enjoying, along  with the abysmal reviews of the Windows' App Store, Android really is the better bet. Numerous tablets running Android's latest is currently in the market for users' perusal, and while HP hasn't been in the tablet game in a while, they feel it is time to bet on Android by releasing a new batch of Slate tablets.

Tech giant Hewlett-Packard is set to take a giant leap forward this fall with the unveiling of HP ENVY17, the first laptop with embedded Leap 3D motion control technology.

HP is the first computer maker to integrate this kind of technology into one of its devices, a special feature that will probably catapult its new ENVY17 ahead of the pack.

Our friends tell us that there's this anti-phubbing website called stopphubbing.com that encourages people to do something against the massive spread of phubbing (phone + snubbing). It all sounds funny but according to Carly Chynoweth, a Guardian Professional, phubbing isn't just anti-social but "leads to a big increase in the carbon footprint of the digital economy." Think about it, every time someone checks their phone instead of engaging in a real conversation with a friend or a date or an acquaintance, energy is consumed – energy, which is actually greater than the amount you use for charging your device. Besides, it's incredibly rude and not at all excusable even if everyone else seems to be doing it. Remember of a person's lack of manners cannot be blamed on a smartphone or a tablet or any other newfangled gadget that lulls you into thinking that it's worth your attention, 100 percent of the time. As some wise old chap put it, "Manners cost nothing." And you know what else costs nada? These five tech etiquette tips that you should try to remember at all times!

Enhance your tabletop RPG experience (and thwack dragons more efficiently) with these four apps for your Android phone.

Tabletop RPGs, no matter how creative (and sometimes downright absurd) they tend to be, are serious business. In fact, I think the graphing paper industry owes its existence partly to tabletop gamers. The really extensive and fleshed-out RPG sessions involve more frantic scribbling, dice-rolling, and calculating than actual monster brain-bashing, and as weird as it sounds, it's actually really entertaining. I mean, when you're actually playing, that is. I can't imagine anyone getting worked up over nabbing front-row seats to watch Englebert the level 16 Bard make a saving throw.

I don't have any actual data on hand right now, but I'm pretty sure that if somebody were to conduct a study on the relationship between the likelihood of a person to own a smartphone and the involvement of said person in tabletop RPGs, they'd probably find a correlation of some sort.

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Tired of your sedentary lifestyle? Want to work out but just can't find the time to do so? Check out these four surefire tips to stay fit at the office.

Honestly, we sometimes wish we're highly-paid actors just so we can feel this round-the-clock pressure to be super toned, healthy, and of course, ridiculously good looking. As you may have guessed by now, we're tied to a desk job, which we don't hate (thank God!); but it comes with these demands that just do not give us a lot of us time to pamper ourselves, work out and generally do fitness-related stuff. Yes, we know that we can do better and that if we really want to, we can find ways to take advantage of the minutes we have between looming deadlines and keep our bodies moving at work.

In a move that totally surprised everyone, the new update of Android will be called KitKat.

In a surprising turn of events, we now know the next dessert name of the upcoming version of Android. I'll give you a clue. Take a break and have a what? Yup, instead of Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie, we will be getting Android KitKat 4.4.

The tech world has been caught off-guard by this move for different reasons. First, everybody thought that the next update will be called Android 5.0 Key Lime Pie. Almost all tech bloggers have been calling it that since last year. It turns out, even Google employees did not know that it will be called KitKat and they just called it Key Lime Pie as well.

Follow these simple tips to improve your social media writing skills or break into a social media career.

Social media writers are in demand nowadays. This isn't surprising given the current statistics. Some would be happy to note that social media has now overtaken porn as the number one activity on the net. When it comes to social networks, Facebook is still leading the pack. Facebook active users now number close to one billion, and Hubspot says 70% of business-to-consumer marketers have acquired a customer through the behemoth social networking site. Over on Twitter, Business Insider says that over 83 percent of users expect a same-day response from customer service.

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Keep your precious gadgets safe from the most dangerous hands in the world – children's.

Quick, what's your greatest fear? Heights? Darkness? Monthly billing statements? If you're a tech-savvy parent with at least one toddler at home, chances are your greatest fear is to wake up and see your little angel hitting things as hard as she can with your Android phone, or accidentally spending two thousand dollars on some virtual weapons for an iPad game. When left unsupervised, children are the leading cause of astronomical gadget-related bills. Perhaps the most frustrating part about this is that you can't simply tell your kid to not touch your stuff, because "being curious" and "doing things that human cubs absolutely are not supposed to do" are two traits that have managed to survive generations of evolution. This means that to expect children to behave properly at all times is tantamount to going against the very will of Mother Nature herself, which is both scary and impossible.

Have you seen the infographic on Google's discontinued products? Well, here's our list of Yahoo! products that have been relegated to history's shadows. 

Don't get us wrong. We have nothing against Google. In fact, we consider ourselves big fans of some of their products; like Google Search (of course!), Gmail, Google Docs, YouTube, and more. But even we cannot help but laugh at the cheeky infographic that's been going around, chronicling the demise of some of Google's projects--including the controversial Reader, which made its debut in 2005, and Talk, which was replaced by Hangouts on May 15, 2013.

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 When you browse the Internet, do you ever encounter the term disruptive technology or disruptive innovation? It comes across as a negative thing—after all, the root word disrupt is often linked to problems, delays and obstructions. And maybe for some people, it is bad news. But what you might not be aware of is that you are part of the phenomenon called disruptive innovation.

What is it all about?

It wasn't until 1995 that Clayton M. Christensen coined the term disruptive technology, later changed to disruptive innovation, but the idea of it has been around since people started creating devices that were superior to their predecessors. Though the exact definition of it has evolved through the years, the basic concept is that these innovations bring down existing technologies or industries by either adapting to or anticipating the needs of the modern market.

Here are four horrifyingly devastating incidents that you should think about the next time you're about to fall asleep at work.

In order to function like a well-oiled machine (which I now realize is a somewhat redundant metaphor, considering that I'm talking about technology here), technological devices often require hundreds, or even thousands, of tiny parts working together in glorious mechanical harmony. Unfortunately, this also means that the slightest miscalculation, error, or forgotten detail inevitably spells disaster, the intensity of which increases exponentially with the level of complexity of the device in question (discounting the butterfly effect or Murphy's Law, of course, in which case anything and EVERYTHING can annihilate life on Earth, with proper timing). A few droplets of water inside a cellphone could mean that you'd need to buy a new one, while a few droplets inside a stealth bomber's sensor means that very expensive things will explode and heads will certainly roll.

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Read about five ways technology is used in the real world to keep our animal friends from completely getting wiped out.

In our mad rush to jump from one technological milestone to another, we sometimes forget that the rest of the world tends to get left behind, mostly to pick up our garbage and get poisoned from all the pollution we leave in our wake. We've experienced high-tech breakthroughs in medicine, transportation, entertainment and even pretending to care about each other. Unfortunately, we haven't even managed to completely stop other animals from dying out, in no small part due to our own selfishness. Fortunately, scientists and animal lovers have figured out ways to use sophisticated technology to help our animal buddies survive long enough to see us flying around in jetpacks and teleporting all over the place. Here are five methods that serve as likely demonstrations of what Iron Man would do if he were an animal rights activist.

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What do you think of child prodigies? Get to know four exceptional kid geniuses from around the world and marvel at their astounding talents and intellect.

Don't get us wrong. We love Barney Stinson. In fact, we think the show needs more of him and less of Ted Mosby. But if you were to ask us who our favorite Neil Patrick Harris character is, we would have to say Doogie Howser, kid physician slash computer diarist with an adorable mop of blonde hair. Why? Well, because we're getting a bit long in the tooth; and lately, we just can't resist indulging our nostalgic side. Also, we have a thing for fictional child prodigies such as Artemis Fowl, Jimmy Neutron, Matilda, Kazuo Kiriyama, and so on. But of course, as fun as it is exploring the lives of fictional wunderkinds, we know that they can't compare to the real deal. And so without further ado, let us take a look at some of the world's most interesting child geniuses in recent history so we can collectively scratch our heads and wonder how their parents were able to hatch them.

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Looking to upgrade your car? Check out the top tech cars of 2013 and see if you're ready for Bluetooth connectivity, sophisticated navigation systems, and more!

Say what you will about David Hasselhoff, but we will always remember the guy as Michael Knight, crime-fighter extraordinaire with a badass car named KITT. And no, you don't get to make fun of the car's name because KITT, which is short for Knight Industries Two Thousand, is a modified 1982 Pontiac Trans Am complete with Turbo Boost, molecular bonded shell body armor, microscanners, and more. Of course, if we're talking about technically advanced cars, we'll have to look at what real life automakers are offering these days to see how far we've come from the four-stroke internal combustion engine in the days of yore to the touchscreen navigation systems, Bluetooth connectivity, and other sophisticated features that are becoming more and more common among the automobiles of today.

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You love your job, but you know in your heart that it's time to move up the ladder. Here are four ways you can prepare yourself to land that prized position.

We will always remember the 2010 Tonight Show conflict; not just because it showed the world what an incredibly awesome guy Conan O'Brien is, but also because it gave us hardcore Coco fans The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour and of course, this epic quote from the final episode of The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien: