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Bill Gates is launching a multi-billion dollar clean energy initiative

On Monday, the United Nations climate change summit will open in Paris, and Bill Gates will be launching a multi-billion dollar clean energy research and development initiative alongside some of...

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Google Plus has been completely redesigned and refocused

Numerous articles have been written about what went wrong with Google Plus, so I won't go into detail here, but suffice it to say that Google put too much focus...

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Airbnb wants to help its hosts become more like actual hotels

Hot on the heels of Airbnb's promise to play nice with local governments in the future, the company announced that it wants its hosts to become more business-like. At the Airbnb...

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Facebook is using facial recognition to help you share pictures faster

It's kind of funny how often the words creepy and convenient can be used to describe the same thing, and Facebook's new Messenger experiment is definitely one of those things. The experiment will be rolling...

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Circle with Disney allows parents to control their children’s gadgets

Back in 2013, a man by the name of Jelani Memory tried to crowdfund a device that would enable parents to manage the online content on all of the devices connected to...

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Virgin Galactic’s first post-tragedy spacecraft is coming in February

Virgin Galactic has been laying low in the twelve months following its horrible space plane accident, which resulted in one pilot dying and another being hospitalized, but now the company...

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Instagram is taking aim at Snapchat and Twitter with this new feature

Curation is the name of the game nowadays, and ever the trend-follower, Instagram is trying its hand at curation with a new channel that features curated pictures and videos relating...

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Reviewers don’t seem to be impressed with HTC’s blatant iPhone clone

Reviews for the HTC One A9 are starting to come in, and the entire tech world seems to be unanimously unimpressed. The most notable thing about the One A9 is that...

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New breakthrough could turn smartphones into pollution detectors

Smog is a big problem in many of the world's largest cities, especially in the massive urban agglomerations that pepper Asia. That's why a group of researchers from Australia and China have developed...

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Uber might be looking to raise another $1 billion in funding

Uber has already surpassed Xiaomi to become the world's most valuable startup, but now it looks like the company is taking things even further by raising an additional $1 billion...

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