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Unlike with most social networks, it’s actually really easy to use Twitter without an account, so much so that the company estimates that there are somewhere around 500 million Twitter users that aren’t accounted for in normal usage statistics because they don’t have an account. Us
It’s odd how a company that makes all of its money by selling things online, and is often cited as the biggest reason for the decline of physical bookstores, ended up opening its own physical bookstore. Even stranger than this, however, is the fact that Amazon’s bookstore is actually a b
Ad-blockers are a dime a dozen nowadays, and they all do the same thing in roughly the same way, so in order for any newcomers to succeed, they need to find a way to differentiate themselves. Goodblock does this in the most admirable way possible, by allowing users to watch specific advertisements t
Many companies were a little worried when Amazon first started releasing its own products, because in the event that some of those products competed with what the companies were offering, all Amazon would have to do in order to give itself and advantage was stop selling competing products on its web
Just as Uber wants to be more than just a ride-sharing service, Airbnb wants to be more than just a convenient way to find a place to stay when you’re visiting a new city. A few days ago, the company started sending out invites for a new feature called Journeys, which helps uses plan pretty mu
Cheaper is always better, especially for things you pay for regularly, like transportation. That’s why Lyft has introduced a new kind of discounted option for it ride-sharing service, known as Lyft HotSpots, in its home city of San Francisco. Anyone who orders a Lyft Line in one of these desig
Few companies in the United States have been as vocal about their support of net neutrality as Netflix, probably due to the fact that the company would be affected far more negatively than most if net neutrality laws protection wasn’t put into place. However, Netflix doesn’t seem to find
Remember back when everyone thought Evan Spiegel was insane for turning down Facebook’s $3 billion offer to acquire Snapchat? Well, I’m sure Spiegel is laughing as he counts the money that Snapchat is reportedly raising right now that will value the company at a whopping $19 billion. Con
Chips are getting faster every year, as they’ve always done, but a team of researchers at MIT claims they may have found a way to make current multi-core chips FAR faster than they are. In a 64-core chip, the researchers supposedly achieved a speed increase of 46% with a power consumption decr
Wi-Fi is kind of weird. I can get perfect connection when I’m on the other side of the house but have terrible connection a room away from the router. I’m not alone in this either, which is why Ethertronics has taken some technology from mobile devices and applied it to Wi-Fi routers in
With how many complaints I see that an app or other software isn’t being updated with new features as often as they should it reminds me how little people actually know about the developing process for these products. While massive companies like Facebook or Google don’t have much of an
Smart cities have been described as one of the best ways that the human race will be able to address the many issues that we’re going to be facing in the coming decades, from climate change to overpopulation, but how can you help make your city “smart”? According to Cisco’s W
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