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What happens to Uber drivers once self-driving cars take over?

Being a driver for a ride-sharing service like Uber is a fairly new kind of job, but it's one that's already on the verge of being replaced by robots. Uber...

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Digg now has $4 million in funding and a new CEO

We've been hearing that "Digg isn't dead yet" for years, but this may be the first time that I actually believed that claim. Yesterday, the website announced that COO Gary...

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Imgur now has more than 150 million monthly active users

What started off as a side project for a college student that wanted to help people on Reddit share pictures without linking to bloated websites that took forever to load, has...

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MIT is opening its own innovation center in Hong Kong next summer

Earlier this morning, MIT announced that it's going to open its first-ever Innovation Node in Hong Kong next summer, which will act as a sort of startup incubator for the...

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Facebook now sees around eight billion video views every day

In just seven months, Facebook has been able to double the number of video views it generates, and that insane growth rate doesn't look to be slowing down anytime soon....

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Uber is beta testing a new service aimed at commuters

Driving isn't just annoying and tedious, it can also be pretty expensive, especially when you're commuting and need to pay for things like gas and parking. That's where Uber thinks...

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Oculus VR founder thinks cables will hold virtual reality headsets back

With just a few months to go before high-end virtual reality headsets start hitting the market, Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey has claimed that there's going to be one thing that...

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This moment-sharing has the potential to be the next Snapchat

With around 4.5 million users, Fling still has a long way to go before it rises to Snapchat's level, but it has the potential to do just that. How the app...

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OnePlus has officially unveiled the design-focused OnePlus X

Months of rumors and speculation have finally culminated in the OnePlus X being officially unveiled. As expected, it's smaller and weaker than the OnePlus 2, but that's because aesthetics are the...

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Facebook is making it easier for strangers to send you messages

Most people weren't even aware that there was an Other folder in Facebook Messenger for messages that come from the people you aren't actually friends with, which is probably why...

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