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Google Wants to Offer Subscription-Based Music Streaming Service, Says Report
Google is reportedly in talks with major industry labels to offer its own Spotify, because why not. The company has a market cap nearing the $300 billion mark, and stock price is hovering around $800....
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Google Buildings Contaminated By Toxic Substance Left By Chip Manufacturers
Recommended Reading Getting a Gig at Google As our own Jon Rettinger pointed out in a recent CNBC interview, recruitment at tech companies is experiencing a resurgence. And one of the biggest players...
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Geek-Powered Glam: 10 Oscar-worthy Techtastic Dresses
It’s almost Oscar time! And you know what that means: Plenty of glam, diamonds and paparazzi poses. Now, we could set our sights on stuff like barely there dresses and ginormous diamonds, but we do...
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FDA Approves The Use of New Bionic Eyes
The US Food and Drug Administration has green lit the use of the Argus II, a two part bionic eye designed for patients who are almost completely blind through retinis pigmentosa. Its creator, Second...
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Music Sales Finally Increase, Piracy Goes Down
For the first time in 14 years, music sales are up by the slimmest of margins—just 0.3 percent. Even better, piracy reportedly fell by 17-percent overall in 2012, meaning the music industry is getting...
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Why Marissa Mayer’s Telecommute-Killing Yahoo Mandate Freaks Everyone Out
The media has been in love with Marissa Mayer ever since the former Googler took the reins as Yahoo CEO last summer. Her every move has been well-covered — whether it’s a redesign of the office...
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Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Claims Apple and Google Are Making Music Worthless
To coincide with the new Atoms For Peace record out this week, The Guardian has done up a short expose on frontman Thom Yorke, also of Radiohead fame. The singer/songwriter is a respected if somewhat...
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The Mobile Office: How to Work On The Go Like A Pro
Cubicles? Who needs a cube when the big, wide open world is your office? Marissa Mayer notwithstanding, it is clear that more companies have embraced telecommuting and remote offices over recent...
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News Corp. Unveils $300 10-inch Amplify Tablet Aimed at Education
News Corp. has a new 10-inch educational tablet called Amplify that’s just $300. Do tablets have a place in education? It would certainly seem so, and the tab, which will come with Google Apps for...
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George Lucas Accidentally Confirms Original Actors Returning for Star Wars...
Despite some quick backtracking on his part, it appears George Lucas has confirmed the return of Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher in Star Wars Episode VII. While speaking with Bloomberg...
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Discussions Over Apple’s Streaming Service Aren’t Going Well, Says Report
Apple has reportedly opened talks with record labels about an upcoming music streaming service, but they’re not going well. According to the NY Post, Apple is going at companies with laughable lowball...
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New Program in New York Could Regulate Loud Headphone Music
This isn’t some old timey curmudgeon agenda, or because of your specific tastes. There’s a new program taking shape in New York that could regulate in-ear music that’s too loud. But it’s for your own...
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Alcohoot Turns Your iPhone Into a Breathalyzer
You shouldn’t drink and drive. That’s a simple rule the entire world should follow, and even if you suspect you are close to the limit, then there should be enough common sense to prevail to the point...
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Viral Marketing Agency Punks People To Promote Film, Stages Fake Elevator Murder
Imagine minding your own business, waiting for an elevator to open up, when the doors pull back to reveal a strange man choking a victim. What would you do? Scream? Run? Call 911? All of those...
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Feeling Down? Where To Go Online To Get Your Happy Back
Life is hard. There are deadlines. Irritating customers, clients, co-workers. Someone’s always trying to sell you something (or scam you out of something). Your girlfriend or boyfriend just dumped...
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Troll Study: The Detrimental Effects Of Nasty Online Comments
We all know trolls have a penchant for derailing comment threads. Who among us hasn’t witnessed an intelligent discourse devolve into name-calling, errantly accusing cesspools of time-sucking drivel?...
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Twitter Prepping Standalone Music App for iOS, Says Report
Twitter is reportedly preparing to release a standalone app similar to SoundHound at the end of March called Twitter Music. A new CNET report claims the social networking company wants to dress up its...
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Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs Film Release Delayed for Further Marketing
Folks who expected to see the biographical film of Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher in their local cineplexes next month are going to have to wait a little longer as the release has been delayed....
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Funny or Die Takes on Steve Jobs “Biopic,” Parody Coming April 15
Move over, Ashton Kutcher and Aaron Sorkin. There’s a new Steve Jobs biopic coming to town. (Well, sorta.) And there’s no fiddling with facts this time around. In fact, aside from there being an...
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Harrison Ford “Looking Forward to” Star Wars Episode VII
The original gang may indeed may be getting back together for Star Wars Episode VII, even the reclusive Harrison Ford. Of the original three main actors in the Star Wars trilogy – Mark Hamill, Carrie...
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