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Social media and how the world reacted to the tragedy in Paris

On Friday, November 13, Paris was rocked by a series of terrorist attacks, and the world joined hands to lift the people of France to their feet.
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Want KFC? Now you can get it delivered

DoorDash has teamed up with Colonel Sander's Kentucky Fried Chicken to bring your perfect golden-brown bird straight from the fryer to your foyer.
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This is what London looks like through a self-driving car’s eyes

Thanks to an incredible visualization completed by ScanLAB Projects, we now have an idea of what self-driving cars "see" when they navigate the roads
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Track your heart rate from your bag or your pocket with your smartphone

Researchers at MIT are working on BioPhone, which can actually track your heart and breathing rates even if your smartphone is in your pocket
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Facebook Instant Articles aren't doing that well, and publishers aren't pleased about it

Facebook Instant articles has now drawn the ire of heavy-hitting publishing partners like the Washington Post and the New York Times.
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BlaBlaCar is France’s only unicorn, and it’s part ridesharing app part carpooling platform

Meet BlaBlaCar, an app that's more carpooling than taxi service that is France's only unicorn.
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Uber is now using TomTom digital maps in its smartphone apps

Transportation giant Uber signed a deal with Dutch mapping company TomTom letting Uber license mapping and traffic management services.
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bPay makes contactless payment super cute

On Wednesday, Barclays and the fashion retailer announced their Topshop x bPay collection
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Thinking about Tinder? With its latest updates, now’s the perfect time

Tinder released product updates and improvements, among which are job and education information on profiles and an improved messaging experience.
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T-Mobile just raised its prices without telling anyone about it

Unlimited data plans on T-Mobile will now cost $95 a month, a pretty hefty increase of $15 over the previous price of $80 a month.
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This ain’t your grandma’s teddy bear — this is Oliba

Oliba is a Bluetooth-connected teddy bear tracker that doubles as a storytelling machine.
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Laser scans will preserve world heritage sites in digital format forever

Non-profit organization CyArk is laser scanning "dozens of at-risk sites in Syria, Iraq, and the Middle East."
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Studies suggest zero gravity environments have negative effects on the human brain

Before you get too excited about going into space, you might want to consider the effects space missions have on the human brain.
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Need to repaint? Use Benjamin Moore via Paintzen, the on-demand painting service

It's been described as the "Uber for House Painting," and now, Paintzen is stepping up its game with a pretty serious Benjamin Moore partnership.
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This may be the most high-tech children’s picture book of all time

Children's book "The Intergalactic Journey Home" utilizes mapping technology and NASA images to create "highly personalized story experiences."
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The Wi-Fi password for tonight’s GOP debate is ‘StopHillary.’ Really.

Members of the media must input the Wi-Fi password "StopHillary" in order to access the Internet at tonight's Republican debate.

Google has open-sourced TensorFlow, their new deep-learning system

Google has decided to open source their machine learning system, TensorFlow.
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DiMoDA is a virtual reality museum that you don’t want to miss

VR is going highbrow, and it's all thanks to the Digital Museum of Digital Art, or DiMoDA.
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No Wi-Fi? No problem for Google Maps, which just introduced offline search

Google just introduced offline navigation and search, and it may be the best thing since sliced bread.
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Want to keep your memory? Drink champagne

Drinking three glasses of champagne a week could help prevent memory loss and protect your brain from diseases like Alzheimers and dementia.
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The UK is promising ‘superfast’ broadband to everyone in the country by 2020

On Monday, Prime Minister David Cameron pledged "fast broadband" to everyone living in his country by 2020.
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Swipe left on your unwanted emails with Unroll.Me

Say hello to Unroll.Me and bid adieu to all your annoying email subscriptions.
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Love chicken? Then you may not love Oxfam’s hard-hitting Lives on the Line campaign

A new campaign spearheaded by Oxfam and Almighty Digital Media reveals the dark underbelly of the poultry industry.
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Pinterest introduces visual search tool for iOS, Android, and the web

Pinterest's new visual search tool is like facial recognition ... but for furniture.
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A 10-year-old cancer patient will soon attend school, as a robot

A 10-year-old girl is currently undergoing cancer treatment in New York while she virtually attends school in Maryland via a robot named PAVS.
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Just how equal-opportunity is AirBnB for its hosts?

A new study reveals that Asian-American hosts in Berkeley and Oakland actually earn around 20 percent less per week than Caucasian hosts.
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Get rid of cataracts with eye drops, thanks to new research

New eye drops that promise to "shrink down and dissolve" the protein build-ups known as cataracts that affect millions worldwide.
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Want one of the world's first PCs? The Kenbak-1 is now for sale

A live auction is currently running that involves the Kenbak-1, one of the very first commercial personal computers in the world.
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Could the United States Army hold the key to reading minds?

According to a press release from the U.S. Army, "a desktop computer was able to accurately determine what target image a soldier was thinking about."
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How can tech help our children? Find out at the Global Innovations for Children and Youth Summit

UNICEF's "Global Innovations for Children and Youth Summit" hopes to accelerate progress for the world's most disadvantaged children and youth.
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What’s Tsu.co? Facebook doesn’t want you to know

Tsu.co is so despised by Facebook that you literally cannot even post about it, even in a private message.
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Requesting ‘Do Not Track’ settings? Companies are just laughing in your face

Do not track requests are just that and only that, requests. The FCC took this position in denying a petition to require websites to honor those requests.
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Just press harder — Instagram experimenting with 3D Touch ads and Apple Pay

Instagram is taking things to the next level -- and this time, it's not about its filters. Instagram is now testing 3D Touch ads
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Third-party websites are getting a lot of your personal data from your mobile apps

Here's an alarming statistic -- on average, the most popular iPhone and Android apps are sending your data to three different online services.