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This meal kit from Thistle isn’t for you — it’s for your baby

Thistle Baby promises weekly deliveries of nutritious, organic, and pre-prepped ingredients for you to make your own baby food.
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Weekly Rewind: Insane stunt pilot lady, life beyond Earth, $700 self-driving car

In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of this week's top 10 tech stories.
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Samsung debuts new measures to stay out of any other bribery scandals

Samsung announced a number of new measures that seek to "bring greater transparency and accountability in managing financial donations"
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Siri could be giving up your secrets, even if your iPhone is locked

You've always trusted Siri to help you out in a tight spot, but she may not be as loyal as you think, as one Twitter user discovered.
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Google is working with designer Christopher Cowan to make 'Really Blue' Jeans

A new partnership between Google and freelance fashion designer Christopher Cowan has resulted in a pair of "Really Blue" jeans.
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You can now find your Google Drive files directly through the Android Google app

G Suite unveiled a new update that promises to make it "easier to find your Google Drive files wherever and whenever you need them."
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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The ResiConnect is an IoT mousetrap that’ll set you back $1,600

If you want to rid your home of rodents the high-tech way, you'll need to spend an impressive $1,600 for the ResiConnect.
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JetSmarter, the Uber of private planes, expands its services with a new partner

Earlier this week, the private jet company JetSmarter announced an exclusive strategic digital partnership with TMC Jets
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Bionic Leaf project creates natural fish food out of thin air — sort of

Forget turning water into wine. A new project wants to turn air into food. It's called the Bionic Leaf, and it just won a big Amazon grant.
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Agriculture heads indoors with new farming startup Bowery Farming

The term "farmer's tan" may soon lose all significance -- not because farming is going anywhere, but rather, because it's going inside.
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Perspective is a new tool from Google that helps weed out ugly comments online

Perspective is a new technology from Google and Jigsaw that employs machine learning to identify toxic comments.
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Text and shop: You will soon be able to browse for stuff within the Viber app

You can talk, you can text, and now, you can shop, all within Viber. But be warned -- you still can't buy anything.
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Your next device could run on a network called LTE-U, thanks to T-Mobile

On Wednesday, the Bellevue-based mobile service provider T-Mobile announced the deployment of a new technology called LTE-U.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Are you reading stories or texts? They're one and the same with Tap

Tap is a storytelling format that presents content as chat bubbles, so you always feel like you’re peeking in on someone’s conversation.
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Find a (non-sketchy) roommate with Trulia's new Room for Rent tool

On Thursday, Trulia introduced a new feature that promises to make it easier than ever to find quality room-for-rent listings.
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Make sitting an active activity with the MÜV chair on Kickstarter

Who says sitting has to be sedentary? Not the MÜV chair team, a seat that says you don't have to sitting still when you're sitting.
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Gordon Ramsay is eviscerating people on Twitter, and everyone loves it

Gordon Ramsay, the famous chef known for his food and his foul mouth, is taking his cringe-worthy criticism to Twitter.
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Gordon Ramsay’s father-in-law charged with hacking the chef’s computer

Gordon Ramsay's father-in-law have been charged by the Met police with regard to computer hacking allegations that are now seven years old.
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Samsung denies plans to sell Galaxy Note 7 with refurbished batteries in India

Samsung just might be considering selling a refurbished Galaxy Note 7, swapping out the battery for one that isn't so problematic.
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Poor mobile service? Just look to the sky for drones and blimps that will help

British mobile carrier EE debuted a new plan to use its own patent-pending balloon- and drone-based mobile coverage solutions.
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Like smartphones, self-driving tech may prove problematic for road safety

With smartphones distracting drivers more than ever, there are concerns that self-driving technology could make the problem worse.
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Skype Lite is Skype's new 13MB Android app for areas with low connectivity

Targeted at the burgeoning market in the Asian country, Skype Lite seeks to address a number of pain points specific to developing countries.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Dyson is more than just vacuums — it patented a ‘high-velocity’ hairbrush

The best company from which to buy your haircare products? Your vacuum company, of course. At least, that's what Dyson is hoping you'll say
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Stop bouncing between other food apps, check out all your options with FeedMe

FeedMe may be the most aptly-named company ever -- it aggregates all delivery info from different sites into one place.
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Alexa! Ask Notion to read my email: Amazon’s digital assistant accesses your inbox

You use it to talk to everyone else, so why not talk to your inbox itself? Now you can, thanks to Notion's skill for Amazon Alexa.
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Verizon renegotiates deal to buy Yahoo to the tune of a $350 million discount

Yahoo's security breaches are costing the company more than $350 million. Good for Verizon, maybe bad for Yahoo.
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A pretend Pornhub app is infecting Android phones with malware

It's almost too ironic to be true. Porn is giving smartphones a virus that locks their users out of their handsets.
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This solar-powered smart wallet features RFID-blocking technology, too

Ekster partnered with Tile to launch a new solar-charged RFID-blocking smart wallet. It offers a lot of functionality for a little pouch.
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No earphone jack? No problem with Skybuds from Alpha Audiotronics

The future of headphones is clearly headed in a wireless direction, and here to help you stay in vogue are Skybuds.
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Feed your entire neighborhood with this new garden idea from Ikea

The Growroom is “a spherical garden [that] empowers people to grow their own food more locally in a beautiful and sustainable way.”
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Have fun responsibly with the pocket-sized AlcoMate Breathalyzer

The AlcoMate Breathalyzer is a pocket-sized device that can help notify users of when they’ve had enough to drink.