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Rdio has cancelled its subscriptions and won’t take new subscribers

A week after Rdio filed for bankruptcy and was acquired by Pandora for $75 million, the struggling music streaming service has stopped accepting new subscribers and has cancelled the accounts of existing...

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Google Search just got a hell of a lot more advanced

Google Search has always been impressive in the way that it's able to intelligently understand your questions, but it's still not even close to being as intelligent as a human....

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Pinterest now lets you search for things you can’t describe with words

Have you ever seen something cool on Pinterest that you wanted to find out more about, but you couldn't come up with the right words to describe it and search...

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Facebook’s standalone news app could launch sometime next week

Following the success of Instant Articles, which allow media websites to host their articles directly on Facebook instead of having to redirect readers to a third-party website, Facebook has decided...

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Amazon is killing off yet another batch of failed products

Amazon is kind of like Google in that it likes to release tons of products all the time in order to see which ones work, and isn't afraid to kill...

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Yahoo has decided to do away with passwords entirely

It's been proven numerous times that passwords are pretty unreliable, although this is mainly because people like to pick crappy passwords. That's why companies like Google have been working on...

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Around 65% of American adults use social media nowadays

Social media is popular, can you believe it?! It's so popular, in fact, that around 65% of the entire adult population in the United States use social media in some...

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Microsoft Edge is good, but people still prefer Chrome and Firefox

Microsoft Edge was supposed to help Microsoft regain the web browser market share that it's been losing over the years, but even though it comes bundled with Windows 10 and...

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Facebook is preparing to beam Internet service down to Africa

Eutelsat, a French satellite provider, has joined forces with Facebook to bring Internet access to a significant chunk of Sub-Saharan Africa. In partnership with Spacecom, an Israeli communications satellite operator, the two companies...

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Apparently the Xperia Z5 is waterproof so long as it never gets wet…

One of the Xperia's biggest selling points is the fact that it's extremely waterproof, at least as far as smartphone go, and the new Xperia Z5 is no exception. The...

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Baidu is entering the crowded virtual assistant market with Duer

It's only natural for the "Google of China" to follow in Google's footsteps, which is why it's not all that surprising that Baidu has unveiled its own virtual assistant that's...

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GoPro and Google have launched their virtual reality camera rig

It's been a few months since Google launched Jump, a virtual reality platform for creating and sharing content, as well as the wacky camera rig known as Odyssey that it co-designed with...

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