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Dubai is equipping its firefighters with $35,000 jetpacks

Dubai loves showing off the ridiculous amounts of money it has, whether it's by equipping its police force with expensive sports cars, or equipping its firefighters with actual jetpacks. That's...

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The New York Times has released its own virtual reality app

Virtual reality is considered by many to be the future of media consumption, and the New York Times couldn't agree more. The news agency, which has always been one of...

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ASUS may be working on its own version of Microsoft’s HoloLens

Microsoft's augmented reality headset hasn't even launched yet, and we're already hearing rumors that other companies are working on their own versions of the device. ASUS has apparently been talking with Microsoft...

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The new Microsoft Band 2 is here and it actually looks pretty sick

Microsoft entered the wearables market pretty quickly last year, and it definitely showed. Although he Microsoft Band was a decent device, because of how rushed the development was, Microsoft made...

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Why is Facebook only just now working on a dislike button?

There's one thing that users have constantly begged for over the years, and Facebook has always denied them: a dislike button. The reason for this is that Facebook wanted to keep the...

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VLC will be coming to the new Apple TV

You could argue for hour about which third-party media player is the best, but VLC is undeniably the most popular and one of the easiest to use. That's why it's...

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Amazon finally managed to sell the last of its Fire Phones

The Fire Phone didn't just sell poorly, it sold so poorly that it took Amazon more than a year to clear out its stock of the smartphone. It was noticed earlier this...

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Amazon beat Hulu and Netflix to supporting offline playback

Music streaming services have supported offline playback for a while now, but for subscription video services like Hulu and Netflix, users have never been able to enjoy this feature. Fortunately,...

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Pro-ISIS tweets earned this American teen eleven years in prison

Ali Shukri Amin has never engaged in any kind of violent terrorism, but the 17-year-old American did operate a Twitter account that not only supported ISIS, but taught its 4,000...

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Obama is trying to make solar panels cheaper and more efficient

The solar revolution that's sweeping the nation is moving fast, but considering the state of the global climate at the moment, it can't move fast enough. In order to speed...

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