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INFOGRAPHIC: Google Is Destroying Our Memory

If you think your memory has fallen off a cliff over the past ten years or so, it might not be memory loss due to aging. It might be due to the way Google restructures how our brains archive knowledge.
Why bother storing a voluminous amount of knowle…


uTorrent Adds Android, iOS, PS3 and Xbox Integration

With more than 100 million active users a month and a market share of nearly 50 percent, uTorrent is without doubt the most-used BitTorrent client.
Despite the success story that it is, the uTorrent development team hasn’t been sitting still in rece…


CLASSIC: Not The Joyous Future We Wanted

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Netflix “Qwikster” has a Twitter problem. A thuggish, weed-loving, Twitter problem.

Over the weekend and after an ill-received price hike, beleaguered Netflix CEO Reed Hastings pulled a dramatic mea culpa. In a post on the official Netflix blog, he announced that the company will split streaming and DVD services, and launch a new co…


Netflix Plan to Lure Back Subscribers: Confuse Them with a New Name [NetFlix]

Netflix is a company in crisis. Their stock price is plunging and subscribers are abandoning them en masse, in protest of a 60 percent price increase levied against anyone who wants to retain both stre…


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