Chastity Mansfield

  I'm a writer, an amateur designer, and a collector of trinkets that nobody else wants. You can find me on Noozeez, and Twitter.

   

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1325 Stories by Chastity Mansfield

ASUS and Gigabyte are making their own virtual reality headsets

ASUS has been fairly successful in its attempts to become less reliant on its PC business with its recent smartphones, but it doesn’t want its...
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Facebook is dead, long live Facebook Messenger

Okay, so Facebook isn’t actually dead, not even close, but if there’s one thing we learned from the recent end-of-the-year app statistics, it’s that...
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Lyft is looking for another $1 billion in funding to compete with Uber

With a higher valuation than all of its competitors combined, Uber is the undisputed leader of the ride-sharing market, which is why so many...
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The Galaxy S7 might have iPhone levels of software optimization

Thanks to the absolute control Apple has over iOS, it can make its hardware and software work together in a way that few other...
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Apple decided to shut down a company it acquired for $200 million

Two years after acquiring Topsy Labs for $200 million, Apple has decided to shut down the analytics company. As usual, we have no official information on...
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Netflix’s video quality is about to receive a significant boost

Netflix’s algorithms get the job done, but they’re not nearly as efficient as they could be. The algorithms currently in place determine the quality...
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Anonymous hacked the European Space Agency for no reason

The online hacking group known as Anonymous can be amusing at times, and occasionally even admirable, but most of the time it’s just annoyingly immature, and...
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This software uses data from court cases to accurately detect lies

Lie detectors have been around for almost a century, but none of them have even come close to detecting lies as well as a human can,...
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There’s a chance that Apple will try to acquire GoPro in the future

Investors have been losing a lot of interest in GoPro these past few months, but talks of a potential acquisition by Apple caused the...
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GoPro’s first drone is called the Karma, and it launches next year

Some of the best GoPro videos out there have come from people who strapped a GoPro camera to a consumer drone and started shooting...
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Amazon is uniting every other streaming service against Netflix

Confirming those rumors we heard a couple weeks ago, Amazon is now allowing Prime users to add other streaming services to their subscription, essentially...
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Not even Xiaomi is safe from this American patent troll

The list of companies that Blue Spike has filed lawsuits against for allegedly infringing on its patents is too long to say with a single breath,...
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Mozilla has decided to remove advertisements from Firefox

When a company or organizations wants to make money from one of their products, but knows that charging people to use it would most-likely...
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Not releasing albums on Spotify is becoming an annoying trend

I think most people would agree that $9.99/month is a small price to pay to be able to listen to whichever songs you want,...
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The next Apple TV may be here much sooner than expected

It took Apple more than three years to release the current generation Apple TV, but we may not have to wait nearly that long for the...
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America and China are working towards cybersecurity cooperation

Cybersecurity is easily one of the biggest sources of tension between China and the United States, and it’s one that the two nations have...
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Nokia has unveiled its own $60,000 virtual reality camera

What now? That’s what Nokia had to ask itself after selling its handset division to Microsoft, and it’s one that the company is still...
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Renders of Microsoft and Nokia’s canceled tablet have been leaked

Now that Windows-powered tablets have actually become desirable products, it’s sad to hear that Microsoft and Nokia were working on a tablet together at some...
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