Internet
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What is 5G and why should lawmakers care?
Oct 31, 2015 6:33 am - WASHINGTON - A decision last week by the FCC to open large swathes of high-frequency radio spectrum for use in next generation wireless networks marks a turning point in...
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GIFs are for everybody now
Oct 31, 2015 6:25 am - Instagram's new Boomerang feature isn't a GIF-maker, but it thinks like one: The tool makes one-second videos out of a burst of photos. The Boomerang videos loop indefin...
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Astronaut Sloth conquered the Internet; now he's going to the moon
Oct 31, 2015 1:00 am - We've sent monkeys to space, cats and dogs to space, rabbits and jellyfish and fruit flies to space. Now, thanks to Reddit and Lunar Mission One, a sloth in a spacesuit ...
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New online site hopes to be the Rotten Tomatoes for theater
Oct 27, 2015 7:00 am - NEW YORK - Like a lot of people, Tom Melcher was frustrated with the amount of work it took to find something to watch onstage in New York. Unlike a lot of people, he di...
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Constable: Meet my new, slightly creepy, friendOct 26, 2015 1:00 am - As a thank-you for hosting my old college roommate, Steve, and his son, Jon, for an abbreviated National League Championship Series, my family is given a present far mor...
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Why your pizza rat GIFs are disappearing off social mediaOct 24, 2015 7:44 am - When Matt Little filmed a New York rat hefting a slice of New York pizza down the grimy stairs of a New York subway, he waited 12 long hours before putting the video on ...
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Here's why Facebook needed to tweak its 'On This Day' feature
Oct 24, 2015 7:43 am - In an acknowledgement that not every social media moment is a fun trip into nostalgia, Facebook has now enabled filters on its "On This Day" feature, which resurfaces pa...
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Match.com says hackers are after its data
Oct 24, 2015 7:38 am - Match Group, the corporate parent of Tinder, OKCupid and Match.com, is planning to go public - which honestly won't have much impact on the 59 million people looking for...
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Pay-TV losing 300,000 customers is good news in cord-cutting era
Oct 24, 2015 7:37 am - NEW YORK - How bad have things been for the pay- television industry lately? An estimated 300,000 Americans dropped TV service last quarter, and analysts are calling it ...
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App reviews: Twitter Moments, Photoshop Mix
Oct 24, 2015 7:36 am - For its devoted users, Twitter is a torrent of information in which to splash around to pick up everything from the latest news to the latest meme. But for those who are...