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Amazon wants to own all your screens. That’s why it sells Kindle tablets, the Fire phone, and the Fire TV set top box. And it’s why the company just inked a nearly $1 billion deal to Twitch, a company that lets people broadcast their videogame play over the net. As random as the Twitch buy […]
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High school begins across the U.S. this week and next. And it begins too early! Too early in the day, that is. Ask any groggy teenager waiting for a bus or yawning in "home room" and he or she will…
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The distance between Shanghai and San Francisco is around 6,135 miles (9.873 km), and a team of scientists aims to make that trip possible in 100 minutes. Researchers at Harbin Institute of Technology’s Complex Flow and Heat Transfer Lab have…
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As it promised, Netflix has filed a petition to the FCC demanding that it deny the proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner. The 256-page document claims that it would result in "serious public interest harm," and no discernible public benefit…
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The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is EVERYWHERE right now, and Guardians of the Galaxy director, James Gunn, challenged Groot himself — Vin Diesel — to partake. Diesel agreed, but not without issuing this challenge of his own to Gunn: “Yes, I accept…but I raise you: Plant a tree for Groot!†While it has not gotten […]
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