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Facebook’s Rooms app get a much-needed “Explore” feature

Back in October Facebook launched a new application called Rooms. It is different from many of the social network’s other apps because unlike all of them, Rooms allows users to...

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Leaked emails reveal Snapchat’s secret acquisitions

Snapchat reportedly made a number of secret acquisitions, including Vergence Labs, Scan.me and AddLive, according to leaked Sony emails that emerged from the hacker attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment. It...

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Facebook now automatically enhances your photos for you

Pretty much everyone on Facebook shares mobile photos. So Facebook thought it would be a good idea to add an automatic enhancement feature for images uploaded from your phone. Available...

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Mattermark raises $6.5 million to help investors rank startups

Business intelligence company Mattermark has been described as “counting cards” when it comes to evaluating startups amid a sea of gamblers. And it looks like the strategy is paying off,...

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Seoul is hosting the largest-ever international hackathon

The largest-ever international hackathon was announced this Friday. The result of a partnership between the Seoul Metro Government and Global Hackathon, the event will take place in the South Korean...

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Netflix has brought recommendations to phones and smartwatches

Following the launch of its Facebook-based social recommendations in September, Netflix is now extending the feature to its Android app. The update brings movie and TV show recommendations to Netflix...

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Spanish news papers are begging for Google News not to be blocked

Anti-Google lobby group the AEDE, which represents publishers in Spain, has asked the country's government to prevent the ad giant from shuttering its news-scraping service. The volte-face comes after Mountain...

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Yahoo tells visitors that they should “upgrade to Firefox”

Yahoo! has started urging visitors to its homepage to "upgrade to the new Firefox" – even when they aren't using the Mozilla browser in the first place. The message, along...

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Oculus acquires two more virtual reality companies

It happens every time I strap on the Oculus Rift. Whether the amazing head-tracking wonder that is the DK2 unit or even the earlier model, I'm completely sucked into a...

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Google pulls Amazon’s Android app from the Play Store

Back in October, Amazon updated its official Android app with hidden yet fully functional access to its own app store. Amazon then vaguely mentioned the new feature in a subsequent...

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BitTorrent is testing out its own peer-to-peer web browser

BitTorrent is looking for Alpha testers for a new product called Project Maelstrom, and what that is may surprise you: a browser based on the company's peer-to-peer sharing technology. What...

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Facebook brings its “Trending” section to mobile users

Facebook introduced a new “Trending” section on the web in January to display trending stories that are frequently shared and discussed on the social network. Today, the company announced that...

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