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Streaming Music Services, From Most Screwed To Least Screwed
SoundCloud is stuffed. On Thursday, the streaming music service mostly known as a place to hear podcasts and remixes from unknown DJs confirmed that it had taken $US70 ($92) million in debt funding — basically a loan from various investors — in order to stay in business.
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Google Wants To Make Your Images Take Up Less Space
For years, Google has been trying to reduce how much space images take up on the web. Most of those efforts have been based around its proprietary (and largely ignored by non-Google entities) WebP format, but a new project out of the company’s research and open source divisions could help make JPEG images — one…
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The Latest Version Of Chrome Will Prevent Tabs From Killing Your Battery Life
The latest version of Google Chrome (which is available now) will finally do something to prevent background tabs from killing your laptop’s battery.
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Everything We Know About The Incredible Scandal Rocking Samsung And South Korea
Exploding phones are the least of Samsung’s worries. Yesterday, a South Korean court formally removed the country’s president, Park Geun-hye, from office. The removal came four months after a corruption scandal rocked the foundation of not just the South Korean government, but also the nation’s biggest company.