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Google wants to turn your wall into a giant e-book screen

Google has been awarded a patent for a projector that would essentially turn any wall in your home into a giant screen that would enable you to project whatever image...

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Amazon is taking the covers off its most secretive business

Few of Amazon's products are as influential and revolutionairy as Amazon Web Services, and few of them are as shrouded in secret either. In the nine years since its launch, statistics regarding AWS...

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Google’s latest patent would allow it to control a robot army

Google's ambitions in the field of robots are no secret, but this latest patent may be one of company's most interesting yet. Essentially, the patent describes configuring a bunch of...

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The UN wants to prevent autonomous robots from wiping us out

Terminator is probably one of the worst inspirations for painting a picture of the future, and the United Nations wants to make sure that the film's creative dystopia never becomes...

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Be wary of spoilers, episodes of Game of Thrones have been leaked

As great as the Internet is, there's hardly a worse place to be when you're trying to avoid spoilers, particularly when the spoilers are for a show like Game of...

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iOS users can now install the “Netflix for Pirates” app on their iPhone

Popcorn Time has a large enough library to rival or even surpass Netflix and is completely free, unless you include the price of a VPN which isn't even necessary for...

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There’s a $400 million market for sneaker-collecting on eBay

Collecting sneakers is actually a popular hobby. It's so popular, in fact, that there's currently a $400 million market for them on eBay. Back in the olden days, these collectors...

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How can an 80-year-old law completely alter the future of television?

Television as we know it is changing at a ridiculous pace as more and more people transition to Internet-based alternatives to the cable and satellite providers that have dominated the...

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Huawei is spending more on R&D than Apple, IBM, and Facebook

American technology giants are known for pouring ridiculous sums of money into research and development, something that many people don't expect from Chinese companies. However, not only does Huawei appear...

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How is social media helping kids cheat on standardized tests?

It's almost worth it to allow kids to cheat just to see the creative ways they go about doing it. The latest such incident comes from Maryland where two students...

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