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Periscope users are strangely obsessed with people’s refrigerators

It's been a few days since Twitter launched Periscope, a Meerkat-like live streaming app, and one thing has become abundantly and confusingly clear: people really want to see what's in...

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Angie’s List is halting its Indiana expansion citing “anti-gay” law

Indiana has caused quite a stir with its Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA). The new law, which makes it legal for businesses to turn away homosexuals for religious reasons, has been...

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Meerkat has forced Twitter to release Periscope early

Meerkat is a simple app really, all it does is allow users to live stream from their smartphones and automatically tweets a link to their broadcast. The problem is that Periscope...

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Apple just patented some advanced stalking features for the iPhone

Have you ever wanted to track a friend's location in real time? If the answer is yes then you'll be pleased to know that Apple has patented some advanced stalking...

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Facebook is opening Messenger up to third-party apps

Facebook has been making some major changes to Messenger recently but the fact that the company will be opening it up to third-party apps is the biggest change yet. According...

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Google Play now has some semblance of order

The Google Play Store has often been referred to as the Wild West of app stores due to the fact that Google doesn't actually have an approval process for new...

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Apple’s online television service may launch this fall for $30-$40/month

Rumors of Apple's upcoming Internet television service have been circulating for a few months now but a new report from the Wall Street Journal has given us our first taste of actually...

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Samsung helps a man watch his child’s birth through virtual reality

Jason Larke is an Australian man who works as an electrical contractor in remote Queensland, a job which requires him to work away from home for weeks at a time. This...

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Barbie is sending your child’s voice data to cloud servers

Barbie has had her fair share of controversies but this may be the first time that the popular children's toy has been accused of spying. Mattel's new "Hello Barbie" doll is...

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Fingerprint scanning is old-school, heartbeat monitoring is where it’s at

Unlocking your account using fingerprints is so yesterday and passwords are practically primordial. The Halifax banking chain in the United Kingdom is working on a new method that's both more awesome...

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