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The YouTube outage on October 15 served as a wake-up call to many users who have turned to these digital platforms for leisure, work, and acquiring information. The blackout made it impossible to play YouTube videos, including videos on YouTube Music and YouTube TV, for an hour. Starting around 8 p.
Have you ever walked into a beer or wine store only to be overwhelmed by the vast selection, including many options you’d never even heard of? We’ve all been there, but there’s a new app that should help recommend options you’ve yet to taste. Next Glass uses your phone’
Netflix now accounts for more than a third of all downstream Internet traffic during peak evening hours in North America, according to research firm Sandvine. Netflix’s share of traffic during the second half of 2014 rose to 34.89%, up from 34.21% in the first half of the year, Sandvine found in its
Yahoo is acquiring the video advertising platform BrightRoll for $640 million, in a move that could help to offset declines in its traditional display ad business. The deal was announced Tuesday and is one of Yahoo’s largest acquisitions since it bought Tumblr last year for just over $1 billio
Philips is no stranger to the healthcare industry, and with a new sensor, it’s looking to further dive into medical wearables for real-world use. The company developed a gadget for COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) sufferers that’s worn inside a disposable adhesive patch, cont
eBay is arguably the biggest online auction powerhouse and has been for quite a few years now. Back in 2002 it acquired internet payments giant PayPal for $1.5 billion. This move was seen as a way for eBay to increase the number of transactions being processed by PayPal through diversion of its user
There are four looming threats casting a shadow of doubt on the prospect of maintaining an open Internet by 2025, according to a canvassing of more than 1,400 experts by the Pew Research Center Internet Project. The experts were posed this question about the future of the Internet: “By 2025 will the
It’s official: AT&T just went big. Detailed in a report yesterday afternoon by USA Today, terms between the telecommunications juggernaut and the nation’s largest satellite provider, DirecTV, were agreed upon for a merger that would see AT&T purchase DirecTV for a reported $48.5 billion. The
BlackBerry is turning to Foxconn, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics, to jointly develop and produce some models of handset, the two companies said on Friday. The deal, announced as the company reported another quarterly loss, marks a major change in strategy at BlackBerr
First it was books, then it was fruit, and now it’s, paper towels? Amazon could soon be diversifying its growing retail empire to target the kinds of things people frequently buy at warehouse club stores as part of a new “Pantry” service that will launch next year. Amazon.com is wo
Ashton Kutcher is smart. He studied biochemical engineering at the University of Iowa. He’s good at looking into the future with a nice string of tech investments that would make full-time venture capitalists jealous. Now, he’s adding something new to his resume… Engineers are at a
Just because many stories in science fiction are centered around the concept of robots bringing along an apocalypse and world domination doesn’t mean we should be having our kids doing the programming of them, right? Vikas Gupta lives and works among Silicon Valley’s brightest engineers,
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