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Facebook is cracking down on excessively promotional posts

Facebook plans to start deprecating newsfeed posts from brand pages that it sees as "too promotional," according to a blog post late Friday. These types of posts aggravate users more...

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YouTube’s music streaming service is just weeks away from launch

After a long negotiation process, YouTube's long hinted-at music service appears to be close to launch. Sources for the Financial Times claim that YouTube has finally signed a deal with...

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Artificial intelligence could help discover a cure for Ebola

A Canadian research team, hunting for new Ebola treatments has developed a cutting edge artificial intelligence, capable of predicting the effect of new drugs 150 times faster than current methods. Supported...

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MovieTickets.com makes it easier to use movie tickets on your phone

Sure, digital tickets allow you to skip the printer before heading to see Gone Girl or Fury, but you still have to get the scan of approval before nabbing the...

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Twitter comes to Twitpic’s rescue at the last second

If you’ve missed the recent Twitpic hullabaloo, the third-party Twitter image host, one of the biggest in operation, has been threatened with closure since April, when Twitter challenged it with...

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Microsoft is joining the fight against Ebola

Microsoft on Monday announced it will provide free cloud-computing and research applications to medical researchers working on the Ebola virus. "One of the things tomorrow morning we're going to do...

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Kickstarter suspends popular Anonabox campaign over scam accusations

Kickstarter has suspended the campaign for Anonabox, a $45-internet router, owing to controversy. Anonabox touted as "an open source embedded networking device designed specifically to run Tor" had a fundraising...

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Who needs a wallet when you have the all-in-one Plastc card?

How much technology can you fit into a 0.8-millimeter-thick credit card? Last November, Coin offered a first taste of what was possible. The device promised to digitally hold eight credit...

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YouTuber installs Windows 95 on a smartwatch

Give smartwatches another 10 years, and maybe they’ll play Crysis. But at least they can run Windows 95 for now. By sideloading a DOS emulator onto Samsung’s Gear Live ,...

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Google Doodle has celebrated its 16th birthday

Google's 16th 'birthday' is being celebrated with an animated doodle on Saturday, despite September 27 not being the date of the company's incorporation. The first time Google created a doodle...

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