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What if you could store your Bitcoins safely in your pocket?

Having a centralized Bitcoin wallet it useful and all, but considering how many of these services have suffered security breaches of varying severity of the years, they may not be...

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Facebook is adopting Nokia’s HERE mapping service

Creating a mapping service is very tedious and there are numerous problems that can and most certainly will arise, but it's still an incredibly valuable service to have, so what...

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Croissant allows you to reserve a seat at coffee shops

People are still coming up with ways to make iBeacons and similar technologies useful, but a new app known as Croissant may be the best one yet. The idea is that people love...

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Tinder’s premium service is raking in some serious cash

Tinder recently moved to a subscription-based freemium model in order to help make more money, and it looks like it's paying off. Not only has the dating app's parent company...

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Apple acknowledged that tattoos can affect the Apple Watch’s sensors

Those of you with tattoos on their wrists who want to get an Apple Watch are in for some bad news. I'm sure you've heard about all the people with...

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Microsoft’s cloud business could have a $20 billion run rate by 2018

During last week's quarterly earnings report, Microsoft announced that its commercial cloud business has achieved an annual run rate of $6.3 billion. That's an impressive number to say the least,...

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Samsung’s days as the king of smartphones are numbered

Samsung's days as the king of smartphones are numbered, as the South Korean company's operating profit has been in free-fall these past few quarters, and last quarter was no exception....

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The enthusiast’s web browser just received a ton of new features

There was a time when Opera was quite possibly the best web browser out there, better even than Chrome or Firefox. That time has long since passed, but the former...

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Switzerland is testing a drone-based mail delivery system

The Swiss are known for their efficiency, and what's more efficient that using robots to do a task as repetitive and simple, yet as absolutely essential as delivering mail? That's exactly what the...

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BlackBerry is closing its Swedish operations in favor of Israeli ones

Shortly after announcing that it was expanding its operations in Israel through the acquisition of WatchDox, BlackBerry announced that it will also be shrinking its operations in Sweden. The company began...

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Funding Circle raises $150 million to expand its P2P lending platform

It looks like another billion-dollar startup has been born, but this time it's not based in the United States. Funding Circle, which is based in London, has just raised $150 million in...

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Facebook Messenger accounts for 10% of global VoIP calls

Facebook's ambitions aren't limited to messaging, the company wants to dominate voice communication as well, and it's certainly off to a good start. According to Mark Zuckerberg, voice calls through Facebook...

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