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IBM’s Watson AI Wants to Coach Your Fantasy Football Team

Tim Moynihan — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 04:01:00 +0000

A new app called Edge Up Sports uses IBM's Watson cognitive computing skills to help you win your fantasy league.

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Tinder Completely Freaked Out On Twitter

Julia Greenberg — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:20:15 +0000

Tinder is having a meltdown. The company sent out a tweetstorm tonight defending its app as more than just about hooking up. Okay???

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Machine That Turns Poo Into Water Gets a Test Run in Africa

Davey Alba — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:10:38 +0000

Bill Gates once drank poop water from this low-cost waste treatment plant that makes sewage potable.

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Twitter Now Makes It Possible to Harness Every Tweet Ever

Julia Greenberg — Wed, 12 Aug 2015 00:56:33 +0000

Brands can now tailor their ads to you using more than 500 billion tweets spanning nine years.

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So Long, Columbia House. And Thanks for Making Me Cool

Klint Finley — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 22:10:01 +0000

It's easy to romanticize the days of physical media. But there's no way I would go back.

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Hackers Busted in Insider Trading Scheme

Klint Finley — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 21:37:21 +0000

When it comes to insider trading, hacking is the new whispering in back rooms.

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The Fan Letdown Trailer: Jem and the Holograms

Jordan Crucchiola — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:35:30 +0000

If you’ve been waiting for the old-school Jem to come to life, this movie probably isn't going to fill the void.

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Alphabet Could Give Google Employees More (Stock) Options

Cade Metz — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 20:23:29 +0000

Spinning off Google's moonshot companies could give Alphabet more freedom to spawn more IPOs.

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Hillary Clinton And Jeb Bush Had An Epic Photoshop Fight On Twitter

Liz Stinson — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:49:48 +0000

Jeb Bush recently took to Twitter to offer Hillary Clinton some graphic design advice. The Republican presidential candidate, whose logo has drawn its own special breed of attention, offered what you might call a reworking of Clinton’s divisive ‘H’ logo. It proved the final blow in a brief but spectacular picture-war on Twitter between the […]

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Thanks to Google’s Alphabet, .Xyz Will End .Com Dominance

Lexi Pandell — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 19:49:00 +0000

Alphabet revealed that it is making its online home at abc.xyz–a move that could end .com dominance for good.

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