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Genetics company Invitae is filing for an IPO

Jan 10, 2015

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

Microsoft is adding gold trim to two if its smartphones

Jan 8, 2015

Decking out your smartphone with gold and other precious materials has become increasingly popular of late, and Microsoft wants in...

Mozilla and Panasonic are bring Firefox OS to smart televisions

Jan 5, 2015

Mozilla hasn't made much progress with its own operating system, but that could all change thanks to its recently announced...

Kim Dotcom is taking on the NSA and Skype with MegaChat

Dec 29, 2014

Kim Dotcom already brought an "anti-surveillance" cloud storage service to the masses with Mega, but now the renowned (or perhaps...

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

Dec 29, 2014

Smartphones and tablets are always popular gifts to give on Christmas, and this year was no exception. As usual, Apple...

Hackers claims they can reproduce fingerprints using normal photos

Dec 28, 2014

You would think that your fingerprints are pretty secure. After all unless someone went through all the effort to lift...

Online sales grew by 8.3% this Christmas according to IBM

Dec 27, 2014

Every year right after Christmas, IBM reports its analysis of online and mobile sales. This year, Big Blue discovered that...

Yahoo is shutting down even more of its services

Dec 19, 2014

Yahoo has been shutting down a lot of its products since Marissa Mayer took over as CEO. It even closed...

WeWork valued at $5 billion following massive funding round

Dec 16, 2014

WeWork , an office developer, believes it can be as transformational to its industry as upstarts like Airbnb  and Uber...

Bose is reportedly looking to launch its own music streaming service

Dec 15, 2014

Bose is a well-known player in music hardware, but just as Beats did, it looks like the company is trying to...

Google Earth will be retired by this time next year

Dec 13, 2014

Developers who have built web apps that take advantage of the Google Earth geospatial imaging service have just 12 more...

Facebook is finally considering a “Dislike” button

Dec 11, 2014

With the introduction of the “Like” button to Facebook, we guess the obvious opposite would be a “Dislike” button but...