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Amazon hosted a secretive robotics conference in Florida

Machine-Learning, (Home) Automation, Robotics, and Space Exploration. Those four areas were the focus of the MARS conference that Amazon hosted at a resort in Florida over the weekend, and if this...

Bloomberg

Pornhub wants virtual reality porn to be accessible to everyone

I wouldn't go so far as to say that Pornhub is at the forefront of technological advancement, but the website is definitely quick to embrace emerging technologies. It released an amusing...

Gizmodo

Music streaming now generates more revenue than digital downloads

Just as digital downloads replaced physical copies as the most-popular way to listen to music, music streaming has now replaced digital downloads. This is according to statistics published by the RIAA, which...

Time

Nintendo might cease production of the Wii U by the end of the year

Whether it's not being able to handle 4K gaming or still struggling to achieve 60FPS on most games, this generation of consoles has been riddled with disappointment, but nothing has been...

Kotaku

Amazon has started selling cable and internet services

The list of things you can purchase through Amazon is quickly growing to include just about everything the average person would ever want, and it now includes cable and internet service. Comcast announced...

Qz

Apple might not have to break the iPhone’s encryption after all

Apple's legal battle with the FBI took a rather unexpected turn on Monday when the Justice Department convinced a federal court to cancel Tuesday's highly anticipated hearing on whether Apple should...

Politico

Spotify now has more than thirty million paying subscribers

Apple Music has had some really impressive growth since it launched last June, so does that mean should Spotify be worried? Even though it's still the undisputed king of music streaming, Apple...

BGR

These are Netflix’s favorite smart televisions

Barry Enderwick, the former director of global marketing at Netflix, made in interesting LinkedIn post last December, in which he claimed the company was planning to release its own set-top box...

Theverge

Smaller brands may as well say goodbye to Instagram

Instagram announced on Tuesday that it wants to start using algorithms to determine which posts are most interesting and relevant to users, which it described as being designed to improve...

Techcrunch

Twitter is now a decade old

It was exactly one decade ago that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey posted the world's first tweet, and now there's close to half a billion tweets being posted each day. However, there are...

Mashable

Apple has a new head of corporate digital security

Just days before Apple was scheduled to meet with United States prosecutors in court over its refusal to break through the iPhone's encryption, the company has reportedly hired a new corporate digital security...

9to5mac

Uber is reportedly shopping around for self-driving cars

It's no secret that Uber wants to replace its drivers with autonomous vehicles in the near future, but even with billions of dollars in funding, there's no way the company can...

Reuters