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If there was ever a year for Snap to take a bite out of Instagram’s market share, it was 2018. With Instagram’s parent company Facebook besieged with one privacy scandal after another, Snap had ample reasons to convince wary Facebook users to ditch one of the company’s apps entirely for Snapchat. Yet Snapchat is on […]

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Man, 2018 was another great year for video games. And while a lot of the blockbuster games I was looking forward to delivered, I fell in love with a bunch of unexpected indies this year. I even have a game in my top 10 that made me a believer in VR! That’s something I never […]

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Amazon had another record-breaking holiday season, the retailer announced this morning. The company says it added “tens of millions” of people who signed up for Prime memberships, both paid and on a trial basis. Its worldwide customers also shopped and ordered more items than ever before, including “millions more Amazon devices” compared with this time […]

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The Yellow Vest movement that swept across France in the past six weeks has provoked intense debates over elitism, economic inequality, and the nature of protest in this country. But it has also put platforms such as Facebook and Twitter Without a doubt, the Yellow Vests (or “gilets jaunes”) were initially propelled by Facebook groups. […]

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The gaming world met a lot of new faces in 2018.  gave us the likable (if morally questionable) cowboy Arthur Morgan, and introduced the badass female Spartan warrior Kassandra. But our favorite new character of year game from a much smaller game. Madeline is the hero of , an indie side-scroller that came out on […]

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It should come as no surprise that companies across practically every industry are scrambling to take advantage of (and most importantly keep up with) social media marketing. Platforms like and Instagram have become some of the most lucrative and high-yield markets for companies ranging from small startups to Fortune 500 conglomerates, and these businesses are […]

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We will be holding a small event during CES in Las Vegas and we want to see you! We’re looking to meet some cool hardware and crypto startups, so the good folks at Work In Progress have opened up their space to us and 200 of you all to hold a meetup and pitch-off. The […]

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Researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, while testing the “station keeping” functions of the glass knifefish, have created an augmented reality system that tricks the animal’s electric sensing organs in real time. The fish keeps itself hidden by moving inside of its various holes/homes and the researchers wanted to understand what kind of […]

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Academic exams are a big deal in China as they determine the kind of universities, high schools and elementary schools that students get into and to a degree, the future that awaits them. Parents are thus willing to invest generously to help their children get ahead in school. One startup capitalizing on this need is […]

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Two years ago, Apple killed the headphone port. I still haven’t forgiven them for it. When Apple announced that the iPhone 7 would have no headphone port, I was pretty immediately annoyed. I figured maybe I’d get over it in a few months. I didn’t. I figured if worse came to worse, I’d switch platforms. […]

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