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Here's proof that a smartphone company can develop a car

LeEco is one of the numerous smartphone companies that are pretty big in China, but virtually non-existent elsewhere. However, whereas most of these companies try to gain recognition outside of China by...

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Japan wants tourists to use their fingerprints to make purchases

Japan is already one of most tourism-friendly countries in the world, even going so far as to offer free Wi-Fi to tourists, but there's always room for improvement. In an...

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The leaked images of the Nintendo NX controller were fake

In case you haven't been keeping up with this week's batch of gaming rumors, images of the controller for Nintendo's next console, known as the Nintendo NX, were leaked through Reddit,...

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Domino's wants to use this autonomous robot to deliver pizzas

Robots are very close to reaching the point where they can start taking over our everyday jobs, and when that happens, fast food jobs will be among the first to...

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Samsung's attempt at a social media app is destined to fail

From time to time, Samsung will release a new product in an area that it's not familiar with which will inevitably fail, and the tech community will laugh and wonder...

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Yahoo's financial struggles mean more autonomy for Tumblr

There's been quite a lot of fighting between Tumblr and Yahoo over the last year, as the latter company has been trying to integrate Tumblr's sales team into its own...

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Amazon has released its own free and open-source game engine

Last year, Kotaku reported that Amazon brought Crytek back from the brink of death in a $50 to $70 million licensing deal involving Crytek proprietary CryEngine technology. As interesting and surprising as the report...

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Elon Musk has an idea for an electric plane that takes off vertically

There's just no stopping Elon Musk, is there? While answering questions at the awards ceremony for the Hyperloop Pod competition earlier this week, Musk talked about his idea for an electric plane...

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Elon Musk wants to have humans on Mars within a decade

Elon Musk is nothing if not ambitious, especially when it comes to the future of space. At a startup festival in Hong Kong on Tuesday, the SpaceX CEO said that he'll...

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Lyft's partnership with Waze could give it an edge over Uber

Google hasn't done much with Waze since it acquired the crowd-sourced navigation app back in 2013, but it looks like that's about to change. On Tuesday, Waze announced on its official...

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