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The White House has declined to help Tesla battle state regulators

Last June, a petition filed on the White House's "We The People" site about direct-to-consumer car sales took less than a month to reach 100,000 signatures, the threshold required for...

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Microsoft has acquired InMage to improve its disaster recovery solutions

Microsoft has acquired InMage to improve hybrid cloud business continuity solutions and make Azure the top choice for disaster recovery for enterprise servers worldwide. The deal was announced on the...

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LG has announced a flexible new 18-inch OLED display panel

It's been a while since we've seen any new curved or flexible displays following LG's G Flex and Samsung's Galaxy Round smartphones. LG Display is thinking bigger now. It's announced...

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A/B testing startup, Predictive Edge, has been acquired by Dropbox

Dropbox has made another acquisition: Predictive Edge, a startup that had built a way to personalize e-commerce offerings, along with dynamic pricing, for marketers to send out to users and...

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Music discovery startup, TastemakerX, has been acquired by Rdio

After Spotify acquired The Echo Nest earlier this year, rival music streaming service Rdio had to ditch the music data platform as it didn’t want to share data with competitors....

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The federal government has released the NSA’s first transparency report

This morning the Director of National Intelligence released a report detailing its use of various legal authorities in 2013 to execute surveillance, and the number of targets impacted by each...

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Rainforest Connection is using old smartphones to stop illegal logging

Rainforests are full of exotic animals and plants. But one group is using technology to keep a check on particularly dangerous creatures — humans. San Francisco startup Rainforest Connection is...

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Pinterest is eyeing a new headquarters that is already full of tenants

Pinterest, the San Francisco darling of crafters and do-it-yourself enthusiasts, has signed a deal to take over a four-story brick warehouse in the heart of San Francisco's Showplace Square Design...

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Ancestry.com has been incapacitated by a massive DDoS attack

The genealogy website Ancestry.com is working to fully restore its service after it was hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack. Company spokeswoman Heather Erickson says it means ancestry.com...

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The Supreme Court has voted to restrict “abstract” software patents

You take an idea that's not all that original and implement it on a computer. For that, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday, you don't deserve a patent. Seeking to...

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This quadcopter can follow and record you autonomously

We know there are more than a few adrenaline junkies out there who love to film their crazy exploits. However this usually involves bringing a friend or camera crew along...

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Coin Pocket has become the first Bitcoin wallet to return to the App Store

Apple updated its policy for developers to allow Bitcoin wallets and in-app Bitcoin payments, and now the first apps taking advantage of that shift are live in the App Store....

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