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Facebook has adopted a more Twitter-like search system

It's usually Twitter the takes inspiration from Facebook, but today, it was Facebook that decided to change the way search works on its service to be more Twitter-like. Previously, search...

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Amazon is filing lawsuits against hundreds of fake reviewers

Fake reviews have always come with the package for e-commerce websites like Amazon, which is obviously the kind of thing that these websites would prefer not to have, which is why Amazon...

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Smartphones could be used to diagnose depression

There are different kinds of usefulness. There's the convenient kind that makes life a bit easier but isn't actually that big of a deal, and then there's the kind that can legitimately...

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It looks like Twitter is finally starting to take video content seriously

Videos are already massively important to social networks, and they're only going to become more so as time goes by, so if Twitter wants to have any kind of relevance in the...

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Google is making it so that ads don’t slow down websites anymore

News websites, as with all websites, need money in order to continue operating, and since there aren't very many people who're willing to pay subscription fees for online news, the...

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Reddit is launching its own Reddit alternative called Upvoted

I could sit here for hours talking about all the issues that plague Reddit, but if you use the website yourself, then you're probably already painfully familiar with them. The...

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Google is now officially a subsidiary of Alphabet

The Google that we've come to know and (sometimes) love over the last seventeen years no longer exists. We've known that the company has been undergoing a massive corporate restructuring for...

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Hackers can use an MP3 to hack into almost any Android device

Another month, another massive Android vulnerability that puts hundreds of millions of smartphone users at risk. The vulnerability is being called Stagefright 2.0 because of how many devices it encompasses,...

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Microsoft is working on its own version of Google Cardboard

Accessibility is second only to content offerings when it comes to what's holding virtual reality back at the moment. There simply aren't any easily-obtainable virtual reality headsets out there at...

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Google just made Chrome a lot faster and more efficient

Google Chrome has always been fast, but users have been complaining for months about inefficient the browser is with memory, and now Google has finally addressed those complaints. With the...

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