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The Washington Post app will come pre-installed on new Kindles
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos has already started making his mark at The Washington Post as the newspaper’s new owner. First, he tackled costs, by slashing employees’ retirement benefits…
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Twitter gives MIT $10 million and access to every public tweet
Twitter is opening up its vault for researchers at MIT’s Media Lab, and it’s giving them $10 million to try and glean some insights from the deluge of tweets. The team…
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BlackBerry has already sold 200,000 Passport smartphones
Judging from the first wave of reviews of the BlackBerry Passport, it is safe to say that many are quite smitten with BlackBerry’s latest smartphone efforts. In fact last…
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Verizon is looking to triple its solar energy with a $40 million investment
Verizon plans to expand the amount of solar panel projects that power its network by almost double. Following a $100 million investment in solar panels and fuel cells last year…
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The first Roku-powered smartTVs have been announced
For the last several years, Roku has sold a series of devices that you connect to your TV to stream a wide range of content from thousands of different apps. Roku is getting…
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Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients using credit card data
So, this sounds creepy: Some hospitals are identifying high-risk patients by buying loads of consumer data and plugging it into algorithms so they can step in before the customer…
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RoboEarth is a cloud network that lets robots teach other robots
RoboEarth. No, it’s not a lame SNES game from 1994, it’s a cloud network that lets robots learn from the actions of other bots. It started over three years ago, and now, a new…
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Amazon’s upcoming smartphone is expected to have gesture interface
It is widely believed that Amazon’s 3D smartphone will be unveiled to the masses later this evening, which would be spot on according to an earlier rumor. Much has been said about…
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Flaw in the Tinder app allows users to pinpoint your exact location
Tinder users could have had their near-exact location revealed for more than two months last year while a flaw in the app remained unfixed. The flaw, which has since been patched…
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How Airbus engineers are debugging the A350-XWB
Airbus has long been in a neck-and-neck race with Boeing for the lead in the airplane market. The company is making a big bet with the A350, a plane built with composite materials…
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Miley Cyrus and Vevo dominate MTV
Earlier this week, Miley Cyrus rode a wrecking ball into the record books. Her new Terry Richardson-directed music video—in which she swings around naked on a wrecking ball while…