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Fewer people are buying tablets, and it’s become a long-standing trend

The tablet market is continuing to shrink, posting an 8.5 percent decline over the same time last year.

Move over Fitbit, Apple is now the king of the wearables market

Apple just keeps annexing more territory. Its latest conquest? The wearables industry. The Apple Watch beat out the Fitbit.
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Home security company Ring partners with Shaquille O’Neal to keep homes safe

Neighborhood crime has a new force to reckon with and he is more than seven feet tall: former NBA player Shaquille O'Neill.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Best Buy and Vivint Smart Home are partnering on connected homes

Thanks to a new partnership with Vivint Smart Home, Best Buy will begin offering smart home consultations to customers this summer.
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Facebook wants to bring 20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots to India with its Express Wi-Fi

Facebook will help India add an additional 20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots, helping a larger proportion of the Indian population get online.
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Sleep on your car with this new ‘Mini Countryman’ roof tent

A new partnership between Mini and Autohome has yielded quite the result -- a roof tent that you can pitch on top of your Mini car.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Google Maps has just released an updated home page for its users in India

As per a new blog post, Google Maps is rolling out a new home screen "specifically designed for people in India" for Android.
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Monoprice wants you to have a five-star kitchen with its new Strata Home line

Having a five star kitchen shouldn't cost you five star restaurant prices. After all, you're cooking to save money, right? Monoprice can help.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Angie’s List, HomeAdvisor to merge into one big recommendation website

Patient has finally paid off for media company IAC, who has successfully acquired Angie's List after two years of negotiations.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Zillow wants to help millennials buy their first homes with RealEstate.com

Becoming a homeowner may not be such a pipe dream after all, at least not with a tool like RealEstate.com in your back pocket.
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Keep an eye on your most important threads with WhatsApp's new pinned chats

WhatsApp looks to be testing a new feature that will let you pin your most important conversations at the top of your inbox
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GitHub pull requests affected by gender bias, new study suggests

As per a new study, women's contributions to open-source programs are rejected more often, but only if their gender is identifiable
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.
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Sharp and Orville Redenbacher team up on popcorn-perfect microwave

Thanks to a match made in heaven, there are microwave ovens from Sharp that come with Orville Redenbacher’s certified popcorn preset button.
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Focus is a new Chrome plug-in that helps you concentrate

There's a modern-day solution to account for ADHD. Meet Focus, branded as "a friendly new Chrome extension to keep you from procrastinating."
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Ditch plastic bottles with this smartphone-activated water fountain

Reefill is taking advantage of your smartphone to help you save the planet, with a system of phone-activated water refill stations.
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Apple will process some Apple Watch battery repairs for up to 3 years

The latest version of the Apple Watch may soon be making its debut, but the first generation of the wearable is proving problematic.
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The natural gas you pass is being turned into natural gas you can use

Portland, Oregon is turning human waste into something that is safe for the planet. No, we're not kidding.
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Season 5 of ‘Orange is the New Black’ has been hacked and released

After eagerly anticipating the release of Netflix's hit Orange is the New Black for months, our waiting has come to an anticlimactic end
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So long, gossip trolls — Yik Yak announces it is shutting down

Anonymous trolls may have a slightly harder time starting rumors and spreading gossip now that popular messaging app Yik Yak is shutting down
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Brush your teeth in style with the new All-Black Brush Kit from Goby

The new All-Black Brush from Goby will make your bathroom seem a bit more...elegant, even if it's where you do the basest of things.
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Merriam-Webster lists ‘sheeple’ as a word, cites Apple fanatics as examples

What are Sheeple, you ask? Well, as Merriam-Webster would have you believe, they're Apple fanatics. See? Like we said -- a sign of the times.
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FAA concludes that drones are safer than you may have thought

A new FAA-commissioned report "welcomed" by civilian drone company DJI assures us that we have nothing to fear when it comes to drones.
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First the Galaxy Note 7, now the Fitbit — wearable device explodes on customer’s arm

Fitness wearables are meant to keep you healthy, not send you to the hospital. That wasn't the case for a Milwaukee woman.
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Capture the smoothest videos in the shakiest circumstances with Rigiet

Meet the Rigiet, heralded as the most advanced stabilizer for your phone and GoPro, now available on Kickstarter.
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Weekly Rewind: The tech trends changing the world, the latest in Apple’s battle with Qualcomm, the bot that feeds your pets

In the tech world, a lot happens in a week. That’s why we’ve compiled a quick and dirty list of this week's top 10 tech stories.
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Phishing scam lands a couple of big ones: Google, Facebook identified as victims

The two Silicon Valley-based firms that were swindled into paying a Lithuanian man more than $100 million were Facebook and Google.
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Alexa might start sounding more human thanks to new SSML tags from Amazon

On Thursday, Amazon announced a series of new SSML tags that will help developers control Alexa's intonations a bit better than before.
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Bring The Fast & The Furious to life in the backyard with Anki Overdrive

The Fate of the Furious looks to be $1 billion, and hoping to capitalize upon that success is Anki by releasing a new line of smart toy cars.
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Best app deals of the day! 6 paid iPhone apps for free for a limited time

Everyone likes apps, but the best ones often cost money. Here are the latest and greatest apps on sale in the iOS App Store.