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Tinder users at SXSW are trying to hook up with a robot
A profile has been popping on Tinder this week for users in Austin. Many of the attendees of the SXSW festival in Austin came across an attractive 25-year-old woman named Ava on...
The Wikimedia Foundation is suing the DOJ and the NSA
The Department of Justice and the NSA are being sued by the Wikimedia Foundation with the goal of ending "this mass surveillance program in order to protect the rights of our...
Check out Pinterest's first annual transparency report
Transparency reports have pretty much become a must-have for Internet companies, with the big companies like Facebook and Google releasing massive reports regularly. Smaller companies like Reddit, however, have been a...
Steam Machines will cost you anywhere from $460 to $5,000
We've already established that Valve's highly-anticipated Steam Machines will finally be hitting the market this November, but what will the offerings look like? The best part about Steam Machines is...
MapD wants to revolutionize how companies process big data
Big data is like the oil of the digital age, with companies spending billions of dollars trying to turn it into something worth hundreds of billions, perhaps even trillions of...
We have the virtual reality headsets, all we need is games
Sony's most recent virtual reality headset prototype is hardly a prototype at all. While the company is still making a few improvements before the final release, it could easily release...
What kind of effects will virtual reality have on shopping?
Oculus Rift may have started off as a gaming-centric virtual reality headset but Facebook's acquisition of the headset's creators has opened it up to even more possibilities. One of these...
Nextdoor raises $110 million to expand its neighborhood social network
Nextdoor is unique in the world of social networking in that it focuses more on building local communities by connecting people with others in their neighborhood to form a collection...
Most developers believe the PC is the most important gaming platform
PC gaming has had to overcome some difficulties over the past few years but it has now reached a point where around 75% of game developers say that the PC...
What's next for Firefox OS?
Mozilla hasn't even made Firefox OS something that people recognize, let alone something that's actually relevant. That could all change with the company's recently announced collaboration, however, which would bring...