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It doesn’t matter how much we hate Facebook, we’re never going to leave it. Even though we’re little more to Facebook than a consumer that advertisers will pay to target, it’s not enough to convince us to join social networks like Ello that shun advertising and commoditizing
The tablet market may not be what it was a couple of years ago, but that doesn’t mean Samsung isn’t going to release a successor to one of last year’s best Android tablets. Continuing with its recent trend of giving its flagship devices a more premium feel, Samsung will supposedly
No therapist is going to be a perfect match for every patient, and finding the therapist that’s right for you oftentimes boils down to hopping from session to session until you’re either comfortable or tired of searching. However, a new text-based therapy platform known as Talkspace want
The sun is a natural source of energy for much of the life on our planet, and while we have ways of turning that energy into usable electricity, we’ve haven’t even come close to exploiting the sun’s full potential. A team of researchers from UC Berkeley has developed a system that
Startups are, by nature, privately-held entities that have no legal obligation to share their data publicly, which is why it can be difficult to keep track of them. Potential investors wanting to seek out promising startups generally have to pull information regarding a startup that they’re in
While smartphone markets in places like India and Indonesia continue to explode, the Chinese smartphone market is reaching a level of maturity closer to that of Japan or the United States, which means its growth is starting to slow. Since most Chinese people own smartphones, the primary goal of comp
As any solid-state drive owner will tell you, the storage medium is infinitely superior to traditional hard disk drives in almost every way.. Emphasis on the “almost.” Although small, ridiculously fast, and virtually silent, SSDs have been known to have issues with data loss, and accordi
Pinterest has raised an additional $186 million in funding, which brings the social-sharing startup’s total amount raised in that round to $553 million. All in all, Pinterest has raised somewhere north of $1.3 billion in funding over the past few years, an impressive feat by any measurement. T
Uber raised more than a billion dollars in a single funding round last year, more than most startups will ever raise in their entire lifetime, but the company still isn’t satisfied. Speaking to high-level investors, Uber announced that it plans to raise somewhere between $1.5 billion and $2 bi
It’s hard to believe that it’s 2015, and in a nation as developed as the United States, there are still millions of people using dial-up. Yeah, that’s right, there are 2.1 million Americans that are still paying for AOL’s dial-up service. The reasons for this vary from househ
Mega.co.nz is a cloud-hosting service that, despite playing by all of the rules and taking care to respect copyright laws, was included in a report that painted the service as a sketchy file-sharing platform that makes millions by helping people share copyrighted content. The report caused all of th
The rise of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has been present in the US military for a decade. Now, China is getting stronger with their own UAV army and they have the ability to catch up quickly thanks to an incredible industrial machine capable of building quickly and inexpensively. Over the next 8
