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Tim Stenovec is a technology reporter at The Huffington Post. Prior to joining HuffPost in 2011, he worked with AOL, The New York Times and Current TV. He began his career at Plum TV in Vail, Colorado. He grew up on the central coast of California and lives in Brooklyn. Tim appears regularly on HuffPost Live, the Huffington Post's live streaming network.

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Arrested Development Premiere May Account For More Than 5 Percent Of Netflix Bandwidth Usage

(14) Comments | Posted May 25, 2013 | 11:45 AM

Between a traveling banana stand, a Seamless promotion that went viral and Tobias Fünke's sizzle reel, Netflix has made the fourth season of "Arrested Development" the most highly anticipated original show ever to premiere on the media service.

And when the show's...

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Death Of Cable Won't Come At The Hands Of Streaming Players Any Time Soon

(338) Comments | Posted May 24, 2013 | 5:00 AM

The cable bill is not going away anytime soon.

There was a glimmer of hope that subscription services like Hulu Plus, Netflix and Amazon Prime Instant Video, which allow people to watch television shows and movies on demand, coupled with streaming devices like Roku, Apple TV and gaming consoles, would...

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Oklahoma Tornadoes, Extreme Weather Inspire Social Media 'Storm Chasers' To Take Risks

(17) Comments | Posted May 21, 2013 | 8:18 PM

When Tim Baker began racing to the front lines of unfolding natural disasters 18 years ago, it was just him, his video cameras and the tornado.

But those "good old days" are over. Now, when Baker chases tornadoes, he finds himself joined by a mix of curious...

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Tornado Facebook Group Reunites Oklahoma Victims With Belongings

(3) Comments | Posted May 20, 2013 | 11:52 PM

When Leslie Hagelberg went outside of her West Tulsa, Okla., home on Sunday evening to check the weather, she noticed what appeared to be insulation and pieces of paper falling from the sky.

But it wasn't until she found a photograph near her mailbox that it dawned on her...

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Yahoo Tumblr Acquisition: It's About Young People With Money

(11) Comments | Posted May 20, 2013 | 9:02 PM

Young people with money.

Those four words help explain why Yahoo just handed over more than $1 billion for a social network that has yet to turn a profit.

A third of Tumblr's active users come from households with incomes above $100,000 per year, giving it...

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Google 'All Access,' The Search Giant's 'Spotify Killer,' Is All About Data

(84) Comments | Posted May 16, 2013 | 9:26 AM

On first inspection, Google All Access, the new streaming music service that Google announced on Wednesday, is merely a late arrival to an already crowded party. It's yet another entry alongside big players that include Pandora, Spotify, Last.fm, Rdio and Rhapsody.

But unlike any of those other companies,...

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Google Play Music All Access: Search Giant Launches Spotify Competitor

(196) Comments | Posted May 15, 2013 | 2:26 PM

The music streaming wars have officially begun.

Google on Wednesday announced Google Play Music All Access, a streaming music service for smartphones, tablets and desktops. All Access, which launches in the U.S. on Wednesday, allows users to stream "millions" of songs, create personalized radio stations and discover music based on...

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Twitter ESPN Deal Shows Social Network Is Getting Serious About Content

(11) Comments | Posted May 14, 2013 | 6:01 PM

Twitter is increasingly pressing beyond the confines of the 140 character text messages that defined the social network at its inception. The Twitter timeline of today -- replete with tweets that feature pictures, videos, music and short clips of news articles -- is far from the timeline of truncated status...

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Robert Scoble May Be Google Glass's Biggest Fan

(71) Comments | Posted May 13, 2013 | 10:40 AM

Among the many reasons skeptics have questioned Google Glass, the eyewear that puts the web right in your face at all times, is the idea that we're already too addicted to the Internet; you can't have a conversation with a friend for five minutes without a...

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Facebook Waze Purchase Would Add Mapping Horsepower, Revenue Opportunities

(165) Comments | Posted May 9, 2013 | 9:10 PM

For years, technology companies have touted the advent of a new fusion of your social habits and mapping.

You're driving home from work and an alert pops up on your smartphone to tell you that a close friend is at a restaurant just off your route. Or you're on...

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Tim Westergren Emails Underscore Tension Between Pandora, Artists

(365) Comments | Posted May 6, 2013 | 2:58 PM

In the third quarter of last year, Blake Morgan's songs were played on Pandora some 27,900 times. But the New York-based recording artist and label owner said he made only $1.62 from the popular Internet radio service.

So he found it "disappointingly hypocritical" when he received an email last week...

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Angry Birds Proposal: Man Proposes To Girlfriend With Custom-Built Level (VIDEO)

(94) Comments | Posted May 3, 2013 | 7:00 AM

Angry Birds was the bane of Melissa Swift's existence.

Her boyfriend, Ben Levi, wouldn't stop playing the game.

"We'd be watching TV and he'd be playing Angry Birds," Swift, a 24-year-old psychologist living in Sydney, Australia, told The Huffington Post. "We'd be lying in bed at night and it...

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2 Minutes With Google Glass

(189) Comments | Posted May 2, 2013 | 2:57 PM

I confess to being skeptical about Google Glass, the much-hyped, mobile computer eyewear from a company so big its name is also a verb. I figured the glasses would be weird and uncomfortable to wear, obscuring my vision and distracting me with headlines, email and other material served...

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Facebook Competitors May Be Slowing Growth Of World's Largest Social Network

(647) Comments | Posted May 2, 2013 | 1:01 AM

Back in 2011, Facebook was adding about 55 million monthly active users each quarter. That number has stayed roughly the same, which means the growth rate has slowed -- a sign the company may finally be running out of new participants while a crop of smaller competitors has...

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Gokul Rajaram, Facebook Ad Executive, Wants You To Know You Can Hide Ads

(130) Comments | Posted May 1, 2013 | 8:06 AM

Up on the stage the man from Facebook seemed to be delivering some much appreciated news: One could, in fact, hide the advertisements that are increasingly popping up in the News Feeds of users of the world's largest social network.

"The primary pillar for Facebook on privacy is control,"...

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Foursquare Data Could Power Wearable Tech, Co-Founder Dennis Crowley Suggests

(9) Comments | Posted April 30, 2013 | 4:26 PM

We've known for quite some time that the integration of location data is going to be a major component of Google Glass and other wearable technology.

A video for Project Glass that Google released more than a year ago previewed the type of integration Google had...

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New York Times Google Glass: Newspaper Releases App For Glass

(101) Comments | Posted April 26, 2013 | 7:26 PM

The New York Times on Thursday released a news app for Google Glass, the highly-anticipated computer eyeglasses that can record video, take pictures and connect to the Internet.

The app will provide summaries of top news articles and push breaking news with audio alerts, according to...

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'Dumped! By Google,' Viral Blog Post, Underscores Anxieties And Risks Of Cloud Computing

(245) Comments | Posted April 25, 2013 | 11:21 AM

For six days in March, Tienlon Ho was locked out of her Google account.

"I couldn’t finish my work or my taxes, because my notes and expenses were stored in Google Drive," the San Francisco-based writer detailed in a blog post explaining the labyrinth she...

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Samsung Galaxy S4 Review: With New Smartphone, Samsung Wants To Free Your Fingers

(195) Comments | Posted April 24, 2013 | 12:01 AM

Samsung is aiming to free your fingers with the much-hyped release of the Galaxy S4.

Like all new smartphones, the Galaxy S4 packs new and improved features. But the one that stands out is an infrared sensor that allows you to answer calls, control the screen and read long text...

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LinkedIn, With Pulse Acquisition, Moves Closer To Becoming Your Homepage

(68) Comments | Posted April 23, 2013 | 9:19 AM

LinkedIn wants to be the first place you go when you wake up, and the last thing you check before you go to sleep.

The site, which bills itself as the "world's largest professional network," has over the last few years morphed from a place to store an electronic version...

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