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Digg founder Kevin Rose reveals new blogging tool prototype

Serial entrepreneur Kevin Rose, the founder of Digg and Revision3, has been pretty quiet since joining Google Ventures as a VC. But a new YouTube video posted this weekend indicates that he’s itching to jump back...

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Engineer connects his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the Internet

An engineer named Jeff Keacher has connected his 27-year-old Macintosh Plus to the Internet. Keacher used a Raspberry Pi to do the heavy lifting, plus some serial adapters and voltage converters to...

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YouTube opens live streaming for all verified channels

What's that, your YouTube channel has fewer than 100 subscribers, but you feel it's a travesty that you can't share your video opus as it happens? Well, start popping bottles: Google has begun...

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New app helps you ‘crowdship’ products and goods via friends on Facebook

A new app called Friendshippr is a courier-by-friends service that uses Facebook to map out when and where friends are travelling to so you can ‘crowdship’ items through them. If you travel...

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AT&T offers gigabit Internet discount in exchange for your Web history

AT&T's "GigaPower" all-fiber network has launched in parts of Austin, Texas, with a price of $70 per month for download speeds of 300Mbp. The $70 price is only available if you...

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Twitter ousts Facebook as best tech employer according to a new survey

Twitter is now the best tech company to work for, according to an annual Glassdoor survey, surpassing social network rival Facebook which led the pack for the last three years. This time...

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Introducestartups.com connects you with startup communities in Asia’s key cities

A new Singapore-based website called Introducestartups.com will help connects startups, investors, and other influencers within Asia's key cities. The website currently only covers ten cities but will be expanding in the future....

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Microsoft Research’s social network Socl launches on Android, iOS, and Windows Phone

Well, this is certainly the nail in Twitter's coffin, Microsoft's Socl has it's own Android app now. What? You've never heard of Socl? It's a social network based around sharing...

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Yahoo snaps up live streaming event startup

Yahoo is stocking its online-video war chest. On Friday, the concert streaming startup Evntlive announced on its blog that it had been acquired by the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based tech giant. The startup will shut...

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‘Amazon Rockets’ pledges to deliver your goods in five minutes

Amazon has caught a lot of flack for introducing the idea of 30-minute drone deliveries. Since its announcement earlier this week, everyone and their mother have been concerned about piddling little...

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Microsoft is expanding encryption and legal protection across all of its services

Microsoft has announced that it will be expanding it's encryption and legal protection across all of its services in an effort to push governments to use legal processes rather than “technological brute force”...

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Hands on look at the dual-screened YotaPhone

Yota Devices is gearing up to release its unique new dual-screened smartphone called the YotaPhone. The device is a crossbreed between a smartphone and an e-reader and will feature one...

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