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Pinterest acquires product recommendation startup Kosei

Kosei, a California-based startup that specializes in using machine learning to help recommend products, has been acquired by Pinterest for an undisclosed amount. This will help Pinterest to connect its...

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Xiaomi is launching four more smart home modules

Xiaomi has already made more than a name for itself in the smartphone market, but can it do so in the smart home market as well? The burgeoning Chinese smartphone...

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A former CIA director has joined Oracle’s board

Oracle has announced that it has put Leon Panetta on its board of directors. Who is this and why is it significant, you ask? Well, Panett has served as both the Secretary of Defense...

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Chinese hackers are causing the Department of Defense millions

According to recently detailed documents from the Snowden leaks published by Der Spiegel, the NSA has done research into the ever-growing cyberwarfare arms race that's occurring. What it found was that the...

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Samsung is making its fingerprint scanner more like Apple’s

Apple and Samsung both have fingerprint scanners inside their more recent flagship smartphones, but there's a big difference in how they work. While Galaxy users have to swipe their finger...

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Xiaomi is taking on the iPhone 6 with its latest high-end smartphones

We're not even a month into the new year yet and Xiaomi has already released two new smartphones that have been met with the kind of Apple-level fanfare that we've...

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Snapchat’s growth is slowing down significantly

Despite the app's seemingly endless popularity, it looks like Snapchat's user growth slowed down significantly as it approached the end of 2014. After having peaked sometime in March, the number...

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These smart socks can warn you when you’re running incorrectly

Just when I think they can't possibly integrate modern technology into anything else, someone goes and and creates the world's first smart socks. While the Sensoria aren't exactly the most aesthetically...

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Almost half of all cord cutters have a Netflix subscription

A new study from the Leichtman Research Group has shown that almost half of all households that don't have a cable subscription make up for it with a Netflix subscription, highlighting...

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ASUS uses Morse code to tease one of its CES 2015 announcements

ASUS has been providing us with plenty of teasers for the announcements it's going to make at CES 2015 next week, including one that uses Morse code. The "secret" message that's...

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New extension makes it easy to run Linux on a Chromebook

Although it's been possible to run Linux on a Chromebook for sometime, it wasn't exactly easy and required quite a bit of work and technical knowledge. Fortunately, there's now an...

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Xiaomi has already sold more than a million smartphones in India

This year Xiaomi ventured outside of its home market, China, and into India. For many months now, it's been holding pretty much weekly flash sales in partnership with Flipkart, the...

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