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Why Doesn’t Anyone Want to Buy Twitter?
All the companies recently rumored to be considering buying Twitter – including Google, Disney, Apple and Salesforce – are likely to take a pass.
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Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 May Be Gone, but Its Spirit Lives On
Samsung helped to legitimize the big-screen smartphone.
3 min read
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Facebook Messenger Now Has Encrypted Messaging. Just Try To Use It
Secret Conversations isn’t the greatest, but it isn’t the worst.
2 min read
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Google Battles Amazon (and Apple) to Bring AI to Your Home
Google’s big hardware launch event, held Tuesday in San Francisco, will inevitably be compared to Apple’s iPhone 7 launch last month. But for Google, hardware is really just a gateway for its AI ambitions.
4 min read
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Does Apple Losing the iPhone Headphone Jack Represent Progress?
Removing ports and jacks has been the norm for Apple, but this time around, getting a more powerful iPhone might not be worth losing the headphone jack.
4 min read
Entertainment
Rules of Acquisition: Will Studio-Sanctioned Guidelines Mark End of ‘Star Trek’ Fan Films, or a New Creative Era?
Paramount hopes to settle a lawsuit it brought against the producers of a “Star Trek” fan film and issue guidelines for future fan productions.
10 min read
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Musicians Battle YouTube for Revenue as Prince Videos Disappear
Prince didn’t want his videos on YouTube and argued that the service didn’t compensate artists fairly. He’s not alone, and musicians ranging from Katy Perry to Tony Bennett have recently stepped up efforts to change laws that they say allow major online services to earn billions of dollars from illegal copies of their work.
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With Web Annotation, You Can Comment on Any Page—But Should You?
Web annotation tools like Genius and Hypothesis let you add notes to any page on the internet. Will they become tools for serious discourse, or end up as a mostly ignored layer of digital graffiti?
9 min read
Science
Twitter Shifts From Social to News App
News may start on Twitter, but it quickly migrates to other services, which may not bode well for the company.
3 min read
Entertainment
‘Star Trek’ Copyright Lawsuit Pits Paramount and CBS Against ‘Professional’ Fan Film
Paramount and CBS, which own the “Star Trek” brand, have sued the producers of the fan film “Axanar,” who raised over $1.2 million. What does the case mean for the future of fan-based media—and the venerable sci-fi franchise?
9 min read
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Why Virtual Reality Is About to Become a Very Real $5 Billion Industry
At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, everyone from Hollywood insiders to hardcore pornographers showed up to share their vision for the virtual future.
10 min read
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‘The Martian VR Experience’ Lets You Channel Your Inner Astronaut
The Martian VR Experience mirrors the experience of Mark Watney, Matt Damon’s character in the hit movie The Martian.
4 min read
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HTC Wants You to Never Take Off your VR Goggles
The HTC Vive lets you interact with your physical environment without removing your headset.
6 min read
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This $79 Spherical PC Could Change the Developing World
Startup founder Matt Dalio wants everyone in the world to have a personal computer by 2025.
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