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YouTube is now blaming ISPs for poor video performance

YouTube wants you to know that if you're experiencing playback issues, blurring video or excessive buffering, it's probably your Internet service provider's fault. Taking a cue from Netflix, YouTube has...

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China’s analog X-ray machines are gobbling up U.S. film supply

Film may be going the way of the dodo, but not in China where it's gaining popularity for use in analog X-ray machines in many of the nation's estimated 20,000 hospitals...

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Former Nokia and Vertu designer working on ‘beautiful’ smartwatch

Frank Nuovo, the pioneering Nokia industrial designer that founded luxury phone brand Vertu, is working on a smartwatch. Quartz reports that MetaWatch will release the product in the first quarter of next year;...

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The road to internet freedom in China is paved by individual messages

It's hard for those with a relatively free internet to understand what it's like to wonder whether or not your post is going to be visible or not. It may...

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Twitter IPO edits point to secrets

When a company prepares to go public, all of their dirty little secrets must be put out in front of the world so investors can make educated decisions about whether...

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This week, the Twitter IPO

The time has come. Twitter IPO details will be a released this week. Twitter’s IPO filing is ready, and the company intends to make it public this week, according to...

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The chart Tim Cook doesn’t want you to see

At Apple’s iPhone presentation today, Tim Cook presented the following chart. At best the chart is misleading; at worst it’s disingenuous. The chart has no scale. It could be showing billions of iPhone...

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Google waging war on malicious apps

Late last month, Google made sweeping changes to its policies for developers on Play, the official store for apps that run on Android, Google’s smartphone operating system. The changes, which among other...

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Why Tesla Cares About Oil Rich Norway

Just off the European E18 highway some 210km south of Oslo lies an industrial park called Brokelandsheia. It is an unassuming cluster of a few hundred workers, a small collection of warehouses, a...

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