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See broken iPhones turned into strange art

Is there anything more useless than a broken iPhone? Sure, they can often be fixed, but if you're not covered you might as well buy a new one leaving you...

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Richard Stallman’s letter to the judge

There's a real difference between the ways that punishment are handed down for technology infringements. The judge that received a letter from Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman didn't agree....

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Yahoo Japan invested $27 million into BrightTag in order to collect customer activity data

Yahoo Japan has invested $27 million into BrightTag, a Chicago-based advertising software firm,  in order to collect customer activity data. BrightTag announced plans to build a real-time data management platform for...

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Samsung is reportedly developing a three-sided smartphone screen

Samsung has never been afraid to try out crazy ideas and this strategy has worked very well for the South Korean company in the past. The latest weird tech from...

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Comcast is going to take on Apple and Amazon with plans to enter the digital media market

Comcast is planning on using its established user base to compete with companies such as Apple and Amazon in the digital media market. The company already offers on-demand video rentals and a...

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How the Finns have turned Helsinki into a hub for gaming startups

The Finnish government’s tech funding agency, Tekes,  injects more than €500 million ($671 million) into research and development, about 27% of which goes directly into startups. This is part of...

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Hungarian startup offers $25,000 to anyone who can hack them

Two Hungarian developers have created a startup called Tresorit, a cloud-based, more secure version of Dropbox. In order to prove how secure their startup is, the self described "security freaks" have offered $25,000...

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Photo-sharing app lets you embed music and sound clips into your photos

A new app called Shuttersong will allow users to either capture sounds using their phone or take music and sound effects from a music library and then embed those sounds into...

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Kids and coding coming together

The IT revolution has been happening for a couple of decades now as jobs are plentiful in the land of tech. The challenge has been that the barrier to entry...

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Call of Duty: Ghosts met with decent reviews, not as good as the previous games

Reviews for the latest game in the Call of Duty franchise are coming in, and they're decent. The game isn't bad, but it's not great either. It's definitely not as...

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AMD launches its new graphics card, and it’s a beast

AMD just launched it's latest graphics card, the Radeon R9 290, and it's the company's fastest graphics card yet. Advanced Micro Devices has launched its speedy new graphics card, the AMD Radeon...

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Activision ramps up marketing for Call of Duty in response to Battlefield 4’s success

It's been a while since Call of Duty has seen some real competition but with the recent success of EA's Battlefield 4, Activision is ramping up the marketing for Call...

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