Alfie Joshua

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More than five million Cardboard headsets have been shipped

Google has brought affordable virtual reality to more than five million people so far, the company announced through its official blog on Wednesday. High-end...
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The FCC thinks it’s about time we overhauled the set-top box market

If the FCC has its way, cable subscribers in the United States will be able to lower their cable bills by choosing their own...
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iPhone sales are expected to shrink for the first time this year

For the past couple of months, we’ve been hearing rumors and speculation about how iPhone sales have started to slow down, and how sales...
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Spotify is now a video-streaming service as well

Just as the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, Spotify has added a video-streaming feature to its Android app, with the iOS app expected...
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Spotify will start offering video content for the first time this week

Music-streaming may be popular, but it’s not exactly lucrative, which is why Spotify still operates on a loss even though it’s one of the most-popular...
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WhatsApp might start sharing your information with Facebook

It was only a matter of time before WhatsApp started sharing user information with Facebook, despite how much the company tried to assure us...
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Google paid Apple about $1 billion to keep its search bar on iOS

Google may be the most-popular search engine in the world, but its continued dominance doesn’t come cheap. Plenty of people never bother to change...
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Apple has hired a prominent augmented and virtual reality researcher

It seems like Apple is the only major consumer electronics company out there that isn’t putting a lot of focus on the emerging augmented and...
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Nielsen now factors social media shares into television ratings

Nielsen announced on Wednesday that it’s expanding Twitter TV Ratings to include Facebook as well, and is renaming it to Social Content Ratings. What this means...
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Twitter’s former CEO has founded a new personal fitness startup

Former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced on Tuesday that he’s taking on two new jobs, the most notable of which is the founder of a new...
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WhatsApp has dropped its annual subscription and is now 100% free

WhatsApp’s annual subscription fee of $0.99 was a minuscule price to pay for such a useful service, but now that close to a billion people from across...
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Automakers are joining forces to prevent connected car hacking

There haven’t been any major cyber attacks on connected cars yet, but numerous security researchers have proven that hacking cars is dangerously easy, and...
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Spermbots could be used to help men struggling with infertility

Most cases of infertility in men are caused by sperm that can’t swim fast enough to reach the egg, and while there are some alternative...
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LG might be getting creative with its next flagship smartphone

It’s interesting to see how different smartphone companies approach the problem of shrinking sales in different ways. For example, HTC tried to recreate the...
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Most people rarely use their smartphones for actual phone calls

Some interesting, but not all that surprising, data from Deloitte suggests that a little more than a quarter of the people in developed nations won’t...
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Here’s more proof that Amazon wants to take on FedEx and UPS

Having amassed a sizable fleet of trailer trucks, and started negotiations with Boeing to lease as many as twenty cargo jets, it’s pretty clear...
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Kakao is becoming a cultural powerhouse in South Korea

More than 75% of South Koreans own a smartphone, and more than 90% of those smartphone users use the KakaoTalk messaging app, which puts Kakao in an...
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The White House will fully embrace modern media tomorrow

Regardless of your opinions about the Obama administration, you can’t deny that it’s done an excellent job of embracing modern technology to better communicate with the...
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