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This is how YouTube plans to take on Amazon and Netflix

YouTube is a vast well of content creators that companies like Netflix have already started tapping into, and in an effort to increase interest in its new premium subscription service, YouTube...

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Samsung has started installing ad-blockers on its devices

Samsung's software has always been, for lack of a better description, absolute crap, so much so that it's actually hurting the company's mobile business. This isn't something that Samsung can allow to continue, which...

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Google is testing solar-powered drones that deliver 5G internet

I'm sure we've all heard about Google's plan to create a system of delivery drones by now, but deliveries aren't the only thing Google wants to use drones for. According...

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Google has reached a major artificial intelligence milestone

It's been almost two decades since IBM taught a computer to be a master at chess, which is regarded as one of the most-important artificial intelligence milestones in history, and now...

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Google eliminated nearly 800 million crappy ads last year

One of the downsides of running some the of the largest advertising networks on the Internet is that there's always going to be people looking to pollute those networks with...

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The king of YouTube has launched his own content network

Once you've managed to completely dominate YouTube, what's the next step? That's a rather unique question that Felix Kjellberg, more commonly known by his username, PewDiePie, has had to ask himself, because...

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China's dark matter satellite has sent back its first batch of data

Earlier this month, China launched its Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE) into space, and it's already starting to send back data. Developed by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, alongside researchers...

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Twitter is trying to purge malicious users from its services

If there's one thing that Twitter has in abundance, other than spam bots, it's trolls. The sheer amount of malicious users on Twitter has caused many people to stop using the...

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Spotify appears to be caving in to Taylor Swift's demands

Remember the fight that Spotify and Taylor Swift got into last year, the one that resulted in Swift removing most of her songs from the streaming service? Well, the fight started...

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Music labels make more from vinyl sales than YouTube streaming

Don't let those stories of YouTubers making millions of dollars from the advertisements on their videos fool you into thinking YouTube streaming is a lucrative business, because it's not. Even...

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