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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 dating app and, after a brief but interesting conversation, it was revealed that the person was actually an AI. The pr
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 users around the world,” in reference to the massive surveillance operations that have been conducted by the NSA over t
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 bit slower due mainly to the fact that there’s very little for them to actua
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 that, like all gaming PCs and unlike consoles, the offerings are incredibly diverse in b
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 dollars. Doing this generally requires rooms or warehouses full of servers that turn the data into something usable, but a s
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 the product in its current form. The biggest problem, as with all virtual reality gaming headsets at the mom
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 possibilities could be virtual shopping as a recent poll has shown that two thirds of all consumers
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 of private social networks. It’s certainly an interesting idea and, judging from the $110 million in new fundin
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 platform is “very important” for the future of the industry. In fact, many developers said that PC will be the most important platform for the ne
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 Firefox OS-powered smartphones to first-time smartphone buyers, p
When you’re dealing with a $4.4 billion market, people will overcome just about any obstacle to get a piece of it, which is exactly what Western developers are doing with the Chinese mobile gaming market. As lucrative as the market is, there are many difficulties that are involved with actuall
Remember a few days ago when Google announced that Blogger accounts which host sexually explicit images will be made private next month? Yeah, people weren’t very happy about that and now the company has decided to change its mind. Instead, users hosting sexually explicit images will be requir
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