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Samsung Wallet is shutting down to make room for Samsung Pay

Samsung has announced that it will be discontinuing its existing mobile payments service, Samsung Wallet, in favor of the company's new Samsung Pay service. People currently using Samsung Wallet will no...

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Google no longer allows you to install unofficial Chrome extensions

I've got bad news for any of you who're using Chrome extensions that aren't hosted on the official Chrome Web Store, Google will now prevent these extensions from loading for Mac and Windows...

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You no longer need a Twitter account to use Periscope

You don't need a Twitter account to use Vine anymore, so why should you need one for Periscope? In an update for Twitter's popular live-streaming app, the company removed the need...

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Facebook has a new search engine for its mobile app

Sharing links on a computer is a piece of cake, but doing so on a mobile device can be a bit more difficult due to the fact that you have to...

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Mozilla is bringing affordable Firefox-powered smartphones to Africa

Rather than try to compete against the well-establish behemoths that dominate the developed world's smartphone market (Android and iOS), Mozilla did the smart thing with its open-source Firefox OS and stuck...

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Destiny now has more than 20 million players

Destiny is either a bland, boring grind-fest or the greatest game in years, depending one who you ask. Either way, the game has been undoubtedly successful, thanks in large part...

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GOG has taken its first step towards being a serious Steam competitor

It's bad enough that the masses on the Internet shower Steam with love and praise, but those of us who actually recognize that the platform has an abundance of flaws,...

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Meerkat is backing away from Twitter and embracing Facebook

The market for live-streaming apps is still new, but Meerkat and Twitter have been competing for dominance since day one. While Meerkat was able to hit the market faster, the...

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Google+ has made its first-ever tweet

Google has a dedicated Twitter account for all of its key products, and the company generally uses these accounts to keep followers up to date with the product. However, this...

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Microsoft still has a few things it needs to fix with HoloLens

Augmented reality has been a part of science fiction practically since the beginning of the genre, but now it's making its way into the real world, and Microsoft is one...

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