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YouTube gives creators more info about audio added to their videos
This insurance startup will give you a wearable and reward you for hitting fitness goals
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5 of Hearthstone: Goblins vs. Gnomes’ most promising new cards
ESG Labs Report Substantiates Production Deployment Advantages of the MapR Distribution for Apache Hadoop
Google releases Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its IDE
Facebook brings Graph Search to mobile, now lets you find posts in addition to people and places
Apple’s best of 2014 includes Threes, indies, XCOM, and Hitman
Microsoft updates Bing with quick answers for local phone numbers, hours of operation, and directions
Electronic Arts is the publisher of the first game from Hazelight, new studio from Brothers creators
XOEye is raising $2M to build a Google Glass for laborers and technicians
Google Cloud Platform now supports Microsoft server app licenses, Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter Edition
Performance Lab creates Siri-like personal trainer to put more power into your fitness wearable
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Brands can learn a lot about app engagement & retention from game developers
Yik Yak flaw let hackers deanonymize and take control of your account
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MediaSpike creates cool in-game native ads for virtual reality
Super-secret virtual reality startup Magic Leap hires former Beats CFO
Why CenturyLink just bought disaster-recovery company DataGardens
China gets its own Borderlands in 2015
Dynamics Inc. Raises $70 Million in Series C Funding
MasterCard and Dynamics Inc. Partner to Drive Innovation within Interactive Payment Card Market
eASIC Demonstrates 10Gbps JEDEC JESD204B
Vimeo starts letting Pro users upload videos in 4K
For the best Lara Croft experience, just add friends (review)
Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place
Destiny characters and progress will carry over to Destiny 2
The Talos Principle asks you to solve puzzles, ponder humanity (review)
Freescale enables wireless charging for tablets and other large gadgets
Israel’s Sckipio raises $17M to zap the Internet to your home at a gigabit per second
Referral platform Extole scores $14 million to help more friends help more friends
BlackBerry launches a new cancer genome browser aimed at doctors using the BlackBerry Passport
Revionics Raises Growth Financing From Goldman Sachs
Uber banned in Delhi following rape allegations, blames local authorities for bad driver-vetting
Mesosphere gets a big $36M as it starts pushing a whole operating system for data centers
PlayStation Network down intermittently — cyberattackers take credit
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It’s time to accelerate hardcore tech
Ralph Baer, the father of video games, has died at 92
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Surprise: Agriculture is doing more with IoT Innovation than most other industries
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The commoditizing of humans
