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Facebook now allows custom gender options
2015-02-27

Facebook now allows its users to enter any term they want to describe their gender, and also indicate how they’d like to be addressed. (...)

Corel updates its consumer video editing software for Windows
2015-02-26

Corel today updated two versions of its Windows consumer video editing package: VideoStudio Pro X8 and VideoStudio Ultimate X8. (...)

Wait, what? Kanye West publicly apologizes to Beck ... and Bruno Mars
2015-02-26

LOS ANGELES — Out of the blue, more than two weeks after criticizing Beck for winning Album of the Year at the Grammys, Kanye (...)

How Apple Watch changes Apple Retail
2015-02-26

Steve Streza is a software developer with over ten years of experience building for Apple platforms, at Ambrosia Software, ngmoco, (...)

How to create GIFs of live events in seconds
2015-02-26

Creating high quality GIFs in seconds is a great way to make live video shareable on Twitter, but many people don’t know how to (...)

Twenty20 emerges from beta with a fresh take on stock photography
2015-02-26

Had it with artificial, old-fashioned, stagey royalty-free images that literally scream, stock photo? An alternative kind of agency, (...)

Twitter is making it easier to report abuse on its service
2015-02-26

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo knows that the service has a problem with harassment. Today it announced that it was rolling out new policies (...)

Box introduces specialized file retention and watermarking for financial services organizations
2015-02-26

Just two weeks after introducing new technology to bring the cloud to high-security organizations, Box is now making a greater push (...)

San Bullshit Sans font converts tech buzzwords into...well, you can probably work it out
2015-02-26

The world of technology is bedevilled with awful buzzwords but Dutch developer Pixel Ambacht has a solution – Sans Bullshit Sans, (...)

Spotify desktop update brings Musixmatch integration for full song lyrics
2015-02-26

Spotify has announced the latest update for its desktop app. The biggest news is that it’s integrating lyrics using Musixmatch, (...)

UberX rides are free in Seoul for a week, but to what end?
2015-02-26

Uber has turned off fares this week for its UberX rides in the South Korean capital of Seoul, where the local government has been (...)

Net neutrality rules to be approved in the US today
2015-02-26

The Federal Communications Commission is set to approve net neutrality rules on Thursday, which will prevent broadband providers from (...)

LG Watch Urbane LTE runs a proprietary OS and lets you make calls without a phone
2015-02-26

Ahead of the Mobile World Congress trade show, LG has unveiled an LTE variant of its fashionable Watch Urbane that will support calls (...)

SwipeMy.Pics Web-based Instagram viewer focuses your eyes on the image
2015-02-25

Instagram is cool, but its interface can quickly devolve into a cluttered mess of ads, likes, comments, hashtags and captions. If (...)

Digg launches Digg TV Mode to keep you from getting your work done
2015-02-25

After relaunching as an editorial curation site, Digg has been searching the edges of the Internet to surface entertaining or (...)

Soviet propaganda art book features pull-out posters that you can hang on the wall
2015-02-25

The Russians may have lost the Cold War, but one thing that will never die is the art that talented illustrators created during the era (...)

Buzzfeed launches its first experimental app which naturally is about cute animals
2015-02-25

Buzzfeed is going all in with experimental apps. After acquiring GoPop last week, its launching its first experimental app. As expected, (...)

You could own RadioShack’s name if you have a spare $20 million
2015-02-25

A report today on Bloomberg Business detailed Radioshack’s plans to sell off its name separately from its assets, with a $20 (...)

Lenovo’s website was hacked and it’s kind of amazing
2015-02-25

Lizard Squad has allegedly taken over Lenovo’s website right now, posting what seems to be a slideshow of pictures of the hackers dressed (...)

Apple ordered to pay $533 million for breaching gaming patents
2015-02-24

A federal jury in Texas has ordered Apple to pay $532.9 million for infringing on patents held by Smartflash LLC, in software and (...)

Medium pushes for shorter posts and a wider audience with new functionality
2015-02-24

Medium, the minimalist blogging platform, is implementing significant changes to its model in a bid to both appeal to widen its pool (...)

Twitter is testing analytics on the Web for individual tweets
2015-02-24

It looks like Twitter is experimenting with a new analytics feature on the Web; some users can now see statistics for individual tweets (...)

Vimeo partners with Machinima to bring more exclusive content to its on demand service
2015-02-24

Machinima, the gaming and fandom focused video network, rebranded late last year and introduced new tools for makers. Now it’s (...)

Google will soon begin blocking sexually explicit content on Blogger
2015-02-24

For reasons as yet unknown, Google is cracking down on sexually explicit content on its blogging platform. Starting March 23, users (...)

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