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Ford’s self-driving vehicles will hit public roads sometime next year

Thanks to the California Autonomous Vehicle Testing Program, the state has become the most-popular place in the world to test out self-driving vehicles on public roads, and Ford is the latest...

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Google’s first tablet is being held back by Android’s limitations

Microsoft managed to breathe new life into the stagnant tablet market with the Surface, proving that tablets can be used for more than just playing games and watching videos, and...

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Did Apple wait too long to enter the music streaming market?

When it comes to new markets and technologies, Apple generally likes to take things slow. Before entering new territory, the company makes sure that what it's getting into isn't just...

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Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks SpaceX will never lead the space frontier

Neil deGrasse Tyson admits that he's not very good at predicting the future, but his claim that SpaceX will never lead the space frontier is well-founded. As he puts it,...

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Tor wants to replace government donations with crowdfunding

Considering how the United States government's feelings towards encryption and online anonymity have been like over the past couple of years, it's no surprise that the Tor Project wants to...

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Children can’t tell the difference between an ad and a regular link

Most people who have been using the Internet for a while can tell the difference between an advertisement and an actual search link, especially since most search engines actually highlight...

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Android users can now stream certain apps instead of installing them

One of the things that makes Google Search such a powerful tool is that it pulls information from other websites and presents it in search results, and even links back to...

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Gmail will soon warn users when they receive unencrypted emails

Google has made its love of encryption abundantly clear, and with more hackers and government surveillance than ever before, the company is doing everything it can to assist and educate...

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YouTube’s standalone music streaming app could be a game-changer

Spotify is considered to be the most-popular and successful music streaming service out there at the moment, but what about YouTube? It may be a video-sharing service, but how many...

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Microsoft wants to protect European users from American spying

The thought of your own government spying on you is enraging enough, but for a foreign government to be doing it, that just takes things to a whole other level....

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Snapchat could beat Facebook before Facebook beats YouTube

We've been focusing so much on how Facebook is catching up to YouTube that we didn't notice how Snapchat is actually becoming a video behemoth as well. Facebook recently announced...

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Expedia has acquired one of Airbnb’s competitors for $3.9 billion

The rise of the sharing economy is revolutionizing the way we do things, especially in regards to travelling, and rather than adapt to the changing market, many companies are throwing...

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