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Vending machine tweets on your behalf when you buy a snack

Holly tweets every time someone at the Nottingham Hackspace in Nottingham, Britain, buys something from the vending machine. But Holly, counter her deceivingly humanoid name, is not some weird, passive-aggressive person tweet-shaming her...

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Upworthy announces new native advertising partnership program

Upworthy’s secret sauce is now in the hands of brands. Following limited partnerships with Dove, Skype, and theBill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Upworthy is launching a full-blown ad program and content consultancy. The goal? To bring brand-approved...

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Explore Alaskan ice caves with this GoPro-equipped quadcopter

Using a ‘quadcopter’ drone and a GoPro camera, a film crew from Los Angeles has captured breathtaking views of the ice caves that wind their way through Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier. The rapid melting...

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Turkey causes worldwide outrage by banning Twitter

The Turkish Prime Minister has banned Twitter across the country. Twitter was blocked just after midnight in Turkey on Thursday, according to Reuters. Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan stated his intention to block the social...

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Sony takes the wraps off its PlayStation VR gaming headset

Sony has unveiled its own virtual-reality PlayStation 4 headset, and it's tentatively called Project Morpheus. In a gaming landscape where the Oculus Rift has inspired many to wonder what's next, Sony aims to...

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Microsoft may finally be bringing Office to the iPad

Apple iPad Air and iPhone 5S users have been waiting for the release of Microsoft Office for the iOS operating system. Will they find alternative services before Microsoft finally decides to release the software it has...

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Promising piracy site Popcorn Time is already shutting down

Well, that didn't last long. Just a little over a week ago, Popcorn Time descended upon the masses as a way to easily stream torrents straight to your computer. Now,...

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IBM claims not to have given user data to the NSA

International Business Machines Corp has not relinquished its customers' data to the U.S. government and would challenge any orders to do so, the company said in a blog post on...

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Mark Zuckerberg calls out Obama over NSA spying

Mark Zuckerberg took to Facebook today for a rare rant calling for more transparency from the U.S. government regarding Internet security. The Social Network guru expressed thinly veiled chagrin, saying he's been "confused...

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