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An empty city is being built in New Mexico to test bleeding-edge tech

New Mexico is already filled with ghost towns, but a group of investors plan to build an empty city that will actually be of use. On a fifteen square mile...

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Google and Yahoo are interested in acquiring Flipboard as well

Hot on the heels of a report claiming that Twitter was in talks to acquire Flipboard, the Wall Street Journal is now reporting that Google and Yahoo are interested in...

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How long can SoundCloud maintain its precarious position?

Content creators, investors, record labels, and users. These four groups are essential to SoundCloud's success, but unfortunately, not all of the four want the same thing, and this often leads to...

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World White Web wants to diversify Google’s search results

Searching up the word "hand" on Google gives you numerous results, but all of them have something in common: they're white. In order to get yourself some more colorful images,...

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Mozilla is bringing Android apps to Firefox OS

It doesn't matter how cheap your smartphones are, if the operating system they're running on doesn't have any apps, nobody is going to buy them. That's a problem that Mozilla...

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You can now live-stream videos at 60FPS on YouTube

YouTube implemented support for 60FPS videos a while back, but it wasn't until now that the service supported the same playback for live-streamed videos. Starting today, albeit in the form...

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Netflix is finally ready to replace its terrible web interface

Netflix's web interface has never been ideal, but despite numerous complaints from customers and even a few "hacks" that turned the interface into something far more usable, the company hasn't...

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Literata is Google’s new default e-book typeface

If you're tired of seeing the default Droid Serif typeface on all of your e-book on Google Books, you may be excited to hear that Google has decided to replace...

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Spotify shuts down rumors that it’s killing off its free streaming option

Spotify and other music streaming services have been facing increased pressure from the music industry to drop the free, ad-supported streaming options that they offer. That's why it was easy...

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What does the future of communications look like?

As a a self-described "expert in cloud communication APIs," Nexmo is in an excellent position to track communications trend and predict what kind of trends we can expect to see...

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