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• TikTok maker's new app is another shot in the Chinese social media battle

  ByteDance, the world's most valuable startup behind popular apps like TikTok, releases a new interest-based social app Feiliao, ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Freshness sensors for milk could dramatically reduce waste

  Researchers have developed a new technique that can pinpoint, in real-time, the moment at which milk spoils inside a carton. ...

  • Emma Bryce

• Google tracks nearly all your online (and some of your offline) purchases -- see it for yourself, here

  For years Google has been keeping track of nearly every online purchase we’ve made. A CNBC report today reveals that, thanks ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Facebook tweaks News Feed to favor close friends and 'worthwhile' content

  Facebook has said it's leveraging user surveys to prioritize updates from friends you care about the most and the links you ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Google isn't killing off Nest integrations just yet

  Google has addressed concerns surrounding the transition by sharing an updated timeline of what exactly is set to happen ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Mad scientist builds a robot to beat the crap out of him in a VR fighting game

  Since the 80s, fighting games have been a raucous good time, a way to blow off some steam while digitally beating an AI opponent to smithereens. In the VR world though, these same characters might one day fight back — physically. James Bruton, a robotics engineer and YouTube ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Bad news, journalists: Robots are writing really good headlines now

  Journalism is hard. Hours of research and writing culminate with publishing a piece with little more than blind faith that it’ll be well-received. Most aren’t. And for those that flop, it’s typically the headline we start with when trying to diagnose the cause of our failures. Until ...

  • Bryan Clark

• Microsoft announces cloud gaming partnership with Sony

  Microsoft and Sony, makers of the eternally-competing Xbox and PlayStation consoles, respectively, today announced they were partnering up to find "joint development of future cloud solutions in Microsoft Azure to support their respective game and content-streaming services." Basically, ...

  • Rachel Kaser

• Scientists bio-hacked E. coli to create synthetic life

  Escherichia coli, nobody's favorite dinner guest, just had the distinction of becoming the first living organism to have ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Driverless cars are years away, but self-driving forklifts have arrived

  For several years, executives of tech and automobile companies have been promising that fully autonomous vehicles will soon ...

  • Ben Dickson

• The most compelling tech tools to assist the visually impaired

  In celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day, here's a look at some of the most innovative apps and solutions helping ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Google's new AI can help you speak another language in your own voice

  Google Translate is one of the company’s most used products. It helps people translate one language to another through typing, ...

  • Ivan Mehta