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Genetics company Invitae is filing for an IPO

The genetics field has become increasingly popular in recent years thanks to improvements in technology, which is probably why San Francisco-based Invitae feels confident enough to go public. The genetics company has...

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Microsoft is adding gold trim to two if its smartphones

Decking out your smartphone with gold and other precious materials has become increasingly popular of late, and Microsoft wants in on the action. The company has announced that the Lumia 930...

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Mozilla and Panasonic are bring Firefox OS to smart televisions

Mozilla hasn't made much progress with its own operating system, but that could all change thanks to its recently announced partnership with Panasonic. The Japanese electronics giant will be bringing...

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Kim Dotcom is taking on the NSA and Skype with MegaChat

Kim Dotcom already brought an "anti-surveillance" cloud storage service to the masses with Mega, but now the renowned (or perhaps infamous) internet entrepreneur is doing the same thing with instant...

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Half of all smartphones and tablets gifted this Christmas were from Apple

Smartphones and tablets are always popular gifts to give on Christmas, and this year was no exception. As usual, Apple completely dominated, with more than 50% of all mobile devices...

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Hackers claims they can reproduce fingerprints using normal photos

You would think that your fingerprints are pretty secure. After all unless someone went through all the effort to lift your prints from objects that you have touched, there’s no...

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Online sales grew by 8.3% this Christmas according to IBM

Every year right after Christmas, IBM reports its analysis of online and mobile sales. This year, Big Blue discovered that 57.1% of all online shopping traffic belonged to mobile devices....

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Yahoo is shutting down even more of its services

Yahoo has been shutting down a lot of its products since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO. It even closed the famous Yahoo Directory that put the company on the...

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WeWork valued at $5 billion following massive funding round

WeWork , an office developer, believes it can be as transformational to its industry as upstarts like Airbnb  and Uber are in travel and transportation. The four-year-old company, which divvies...

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Bose is reportedly looking to launch its own music streaming service

Bose is a well-known player in music hardware, but just as Beats did, it looks like the company is trying to get into the content business, as well. As noticed by...

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Google Earth will be retired by this time next year

Developers who have built web apps that take advantage of the Google Earth geospatial imaging service have just 12 more months to make the most of them, because the online...

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Facebook is finally considering a “Dislike” button

With the introduction of the “Like” button to Facebook, we guess the obvious opposite would be a “Dislike” button but unfortunately despite many users asking for it, Facebook has yet...

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