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A former Pinterest employee has become Reddit’s first-ever CTO

Marty Weiner, one of the founding engineers at Pinterest, has just joined the Reddit team as the company's first-ever CTO. Having spent almost five years at Pinterest, Weiner says that...

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StumbleUpon may be taking its last breath

StumbleUpon has been around for years and was really popular in the early days of the modern Internet, but its popularity has since waned dramatically and the discovery engine is now...

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Amazon is restricting who you share your Prime account with

Sharing is caring, but it also means less people paying for premium subscriptions. That's why Amazon has decided to limit how many people you can share your Amazon Prime membership...

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Brian Whitman gives us a look at Spotify’s plans for the future

When it comes to using machine learning for the purpose of music discovery, few people know as much about it as Brian Whitman. A decade ago he co-founded a music data...

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Wikipedia’s founder has a unique new way to donate to charities

As heartfelt as liking a post on Facebook post to show your support for a cause or charity is (sarcasm), don't you think actually donating money would be a little...

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Digg’s co-founder and former CEO talks about Reddit’s recent troubles

Digg was more or less the Reddit of its day, but we all know how that story ended. Considering how similar the two websites are, it's common for people to...

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You may have missed it but Facebook has a new logo

Without knowing beforehand that Facebook changed its logo, it's actually pretty easy to not notice there's a difference at all. The new logo is basically just a slightly trimmed-down version...

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Ford has entered into the car-sharing market

Getaround, the vehicle sharing service that allows people to lease out their vehicles for a few hours a day, has formed a rather surprising partnership with Ford. The automaker is...

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Tidal has lost yet another CEO, it’s second one in six months

One of these days I might be able to look at the most recent news and actually see something positive about Tidal, but that day is not today. Jay Z’s music streaming...

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Microsoft’s new website could be as viral as its age-guessing tool

A month after Microsoft's "How Old Do I Look?" website went viral, one of the company's developers has released a similarly fun tool called "Twins or Not?" which may or may not...

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LEGO has finally launched a video game to compete with Minecraft

I guess you can't call Minecraft the "LEGOs of video games" anymore, because now there's actually a LEGO video game. I don't mean those movie themed video games that we've...

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YouTube had to rework itself in order to compete with Netflix

As the third most popular website in the world, you'd think that YouTube would be rolling in cash, but that's not the case. In fact, despite making billions of dollars...

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