Source: Fastcompany
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Snapchat is almost as popular of a video platform as Facebook
People have been talking about how Facebook is close to becoming the first serious competitor that YouTube has seen in a decade, but it's not the only rising video-sharing platform out there....
Samsung wants its smartwatches to identify you using your veins
Soon you won't even need to do anything to have your smartwatch identify you if a recently published Samsung patent ever makes it into one of the company's products. The...
America and Europe have reached a new Safe Harbor agreement
Last October, the European Court of Justice ruled that the Safe Harbor laws that allowed companies to transfer user data between the European Union and United States with ease were invalid, which...
Nielsen now factors social media shares into television ratings
Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it's expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means is that the company will now...
The iPhone 7 might be Apple's most-interesting smartphone to date
We still have several months to go before Apple unveils the next iPhone, but that hasn't stopped rumors about the device from spreading like wildfire. Some of the rumors have even...
NASA's next Mars rover might have a companion drone
NASA has been able to gather unprecedented amounts of information on Mars using a single, land-bound drone, so just imagine what it could do with a flying drone. It sounds like NASA...
Google now has six services that each have more than a billion users
Google's first quarterly earnings report as a subsidiary of Alphabet was filled with impressive numbers and promises for the future, but it's the statistics regarding some of the company's most popular...
The online ad industry has finally promised to make ads less annoying
With how popular ad-blockers have become recently, it's clear that online advertisers are doing something wrong, and even though those mistakes have been pretty damn obvious to us for years,...
Pinterest wants to be your go-to destination for travel planning
Discovery and collection are what Pinterest is all about, and the Place Pins feature that the company introduced a couple of years ago is supposed to take those two things...
Digg wants to make the Internet's comments sections less cancerous
Cancer and spam are just about the only thing you'll ever find in the comments section below most web articles, which is why so many websites have decided to do...