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Tesla launches Tesla Energy, new line of Powerwall and Powerpack batteries for homes and businesses

Instagram talks up its Apple Watch app

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How two buddy industrial robots could upend the logistics industry forever

More than a million people signed into Periscope in its first 10 days

Twitter leaked its own earnings report, says the analysis firm that published it (updated)

Twitter shares plunge on Q1 revenue of $436M that missed expectations

Facebook’s new login and graph API has resulted in apps asking for half as many permissions

Big-time Hollywood vet heading up virtual reality film production studio

Instagram introduces three new filters, emojis in hashtags

Pioneering social music app maker Smule raises $38 million

Twitter launches Highlights for Android, a summary of the best tweets you missed

Mark Zuckerberg: As more people make VOIP calls with Messenger and WhatsApp, call quality will improve

Facebook video views hit 4B per day, up from 3B daily views in January

Mobile dominance lifts Facebook earnings to $0.42 per share as revenue grows 42% year over year

Facebook unveils Hello, a caller ID and blocking tool for Android

NASA assembles unprecedented scientific team to find out if we’re all alone

WhatsApp voice calling now available on iOS

Elon Musk: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 landing failed due to ‘slower than expected throttle valve response’

Go up, over, and inside Google’s huge Iowa data centers in this new video

Facebook details ‘major improvements’ it’s made in ‘the fight against fake likes’

NASA shares first sunlit images of the dwarf planet Ceres

Fly the bleep-bloop skies (ANA’s Star Wars-themed 787 Dreamliner)

Medium now lets you block people, keeping them from following you or seeing your posts

Google investing additional $1B in giant Iowa data center

Second trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens lands on Twitter and YouTube

These are the Star Wars Twitter emojis you’re looking for

Airware launches end-to-end hardware, software, and cloud platform for commercial drones

Facebook testing new away messages

F-35 likely the Navy’s last manned strike fighter, unmanned systems ‘have to be the new normal’

Mark Zuckerberg is doing an AMA on Facebook right now

Twitter redesigns embedded tweets on the Web with full-width photos and videos

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 doesn’t survive landing … again

New third-party Instagram apps must apply to follow or like on users’ behalf

Feds concede drone filmmakers have First Amendment rights

U.S. patent office busts one tool trolls use to bully podcasters

SpaceX launch footage is even better in 4K

Airbnb says San Francisco is unfairly trying to double-tax hosts, access users’ personal data
