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YouTube to try again with new paid music service, aiming for March launch

Google-owned YouTube is determined to make a success of at least one of its subscription services, with the next one expected in March, 2018.
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Check into Hilton’s ‘connected room’ for a more modern hotel experience

Hilton Hotels is testing new features for its app, putting more control into your smartphone so you can get the room just how you like it.
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Lyft riders can now take a driverless-car trip in Boston

Lyft has partnered with driverless car specialist nuTonomy to launch test rides for members of the public in Boston.
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Vine co-founder teases fans with hint at ‘follow-up’ to the looping-video app

A Vine co-founder is planning to create a follow-up to the once popular video-looping app that left the scene at the start of this year.
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Nissan follows GM with plan to test robo-taxis in early 2018

Driverless taxi services have emerged as the main focus of companies developing self-driving cars, and Nissan is the latest to unveil a plan.
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A popular virtual keyboard leaked the personal data of 31 million users

Ai.type is a popular virtual keyboard app for Android and iOS. But it appears that one of its databases has leaked the details of 31M users.
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Amazon speeds up delivery of its ‘Handmade’ goods for Christmas shoppers

If you're shopping on Amazon for handmade goods made by local artisans and you can't wait a few days for delivery, you're in luck.
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Think twice about posting that koala selfie, Instagram warns

Instagram is trying to steer users away from taking certain types of animal selfies, and will also warn them when they search for such images.
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Starbucks’ plushest coffee shop yet serves up AR with its drinks

Starbucks is opening its largest location to date on December 6. In fact, it's so big it's offering tours around the place with an AR app.
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Amazon flips switch on Aussie online store in a bid to grab some Christmas coin

Perhaps the only surprising thing about Amazon launching its online store in Australia is that it hadn't done so already.
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See how astronauts make pizza in microgravity conditions

How difficult is it to make pizza in space? Watch this entertaining video from the International Space Station to find out.
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Musk’s Boring Company is ‘capping cap orders at 50,000 caps’

Elon Musk is raising a few bucks for his Boring Company by selling branded caps, though he's decided he's "capping cap orders at 50,000 caps."
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Capsule lets you spend your work breaks hanging out on the side of a building

The Monade Capsule offers a special place to escape to during lunch breaks, as long as hanging from a city rooftop is good with you.
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Google’s Santa Tracker offers the ‘largest multiplayer snowball fight ever’

Google has launched its Santa Tracker, bringing with it an online Advent calendar and a bunch of fun games and educational experiences.
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GM may launch robot taxi services across the U.S. sooner than you think

GM has made it clear that it wants to launch large-scale, city-based robot taxi services across the U.S. in 2019.
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Oops! Computer glitch lets too many American Airlines pilots take Christmas off

A computer glitch at Americans Airlines let too many pilots take time off for Christmas, causing a scheduling nightmare for officials.
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YouTube joins the party by launching its own version of Snapchat Stories

Snapchat started it. Then others, like Instagram and WhatsApp, followed. And now YouTube is launching its own version of Stories.
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Airbus hybrid-electric plane project gets a boost from Rolls-Royce

Rolls-Royce has joined Airbus and Siemens on work to develop a hybrid-electric passenger plane that could transform the short-haul market.
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Amazon delivery drone could self-disintegrate for safety if it falls from sky

Amazon wants to deliver stuff using drones, but what if they suffer a problem on the way to your home? Its proposed solution is intriguing.
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iPhone and iPad tips offered via Apple’s new YouTube channel

Looking for help with your iPhone or iPad? Apple has a number of support services in place, its latest being a new YouTube channel.
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Samsung’s offbeat washing machine ad puts viewers in a spin

Samsung's ad for its QuickDrive washer, the longest single-shot ad ever made for U.K. TV, reveals some surprising facts about the British.
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Google can catch shoulder surfers peeking at your phone

Google may be prepping a feature that alerts you to someone looking over your shoulder when you're using your smartphone.
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Tumblr CEO and founder David Karp decides to call it quits

Tumblr CEO David Karp has decided to move on to pastures new after 11 years with the blogging platform that he founded in 2007.
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Slip into the ZoZoSuit to take the headache out of online shopping

If you buy clothes online, how often do you have to return them because they don't fit? The sensor-laden ZozoSuit aims to end all that.
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Motorola takes a dig at Samsung’s iPhone parody with ‘up-upgrade’ ad

Samsung gave us a laugh with its ad persuading iPhone owners to ditch their handset in favor of the Note 8. Now Motorola has weighed in.
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Drone-owning Brits face clampdown as government moves to make skies safer

Brit-based drone owners may soon have to sit safety tests and register their drones as part of efforts make U.K. skies safer.
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This gamer raced past the competition to become McLaren’s F1 simulator driver

Expert gamer Rudy van Buren has just become a simulator driver for the McLaren F1 team after racing past 30,000 rival contestants.
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BMW imagines elevated tubes for speedy, comfortable ebike commutes

BMW is proposing a modern take on the bike path, putting them inside tubes with climate control, and with solar panels providing power.
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Budweiser begins space experiments aimed at brewing beer on Mars

Planning for the future is important for the success of any company, but Budweiser is really taking it to the extreme with its Mars plans.
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Do AirPods kill intimacy? No way, says Apple’s holiday ad

Apple's newest ad is a story about how its AirPods can help you find love if you don't mind sharing them with a stranger, apparently.
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Watch this bus utterly ruin a live-stream of Georgia Dome demolition

"Get out of the way, bus!" shouted the guy who was trying to live-stream the demolition of Georgia Dome. But his pleas were in vain.
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Google finally breaks ground on its impressive ‘landscraper’ campus in London

It's taken a while to get to this stage, but Google has finally broken ground on what promises to be a stunning campus in London.
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Uber wants riders to consider more carefully how they rate drivers

Uber has made some changes to its rating system in an effort to make riders consider more carefully how they rate drivers.
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Nintendo’s free mobile game ‘Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’ arrives a day early

It's been a while coming, but Nintendo's Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp officially launched for smartphones one day early, on November 21.