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Business customers will get additional options. Shippers of bulky items will pay more. And one market is going away.

By any measure, Shyp had an eventful 2015. The on-demand shipping service—which lets you use a smartphone to summon a courier who will take any item off to a Shyp warehouse to be packed up and sent on its way via the most economical option—launched in two new cities, Los Angeles and Chicago. It launched Shyp Returns, a feature designed to simplify sending stuff back to online merchants . It turned its couriers from contractors into full employees. It collected $50 million in funding from investors. And toward the end of the year, it added tools for package recipients as well as senders, became a shipping option on eBay, and gave its branding a thorough makeover.

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The integration is another example of Skype’s efforts to ease the enablement of its service inside other platforms.

Skype released the preview version of a new plug-in today that enables voice and video calls within the popular Slack team messaging platform.

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Samsung will likely spend $7.47 billion to expand flexible OLED display business, ET News reports.

Samsung’s display business is planning to spend $7.47 billion to expand its capacity to manufacture flexible OLED displays for future mobile devices, including iPhones.

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The widow of a man killed by ISIS has filed a lawsuit, accusing Twitter of allowing the terrorist group to spread its message.

The widow of a man killed in an attack on a Jordanian police training center filed a lawsuit against Twitter on Wednesday in San Francisco federal court, accusing the company of giving a mouthpiece to terrorist groups like ISIS—which took credit for the attack. The suit argues that ISIS has used Twitter to attract new recruits and to disseminate propaganda, and that the site has “knowingly or with willful blindness” aided terrorists as a result.

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What was television?

Al Jazeera America announced yesterday that it will shut down at the end of April. In honor of the hard-hitting, award-winning journalism the good employees of AJAM presumably did, here’s a crappy explainer:

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Pounce on this pawesomeness.

Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence scored big in this morning’s Oscar nominations—but what of their lesser known yet arguably more important counterparts: Leonardo DiCatrio and Jenni-purr Lawrence?

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Digital mental health is a fairly new but fast-growing field.

Apple’s HealthKit, which launched last year, is a service for people to pull together health and fitness data from their favorite apps. Apple refers to the service as the “beginning of a health revolution.”

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In a Backchannel post, editor Steven Levy details his experience behind the wheel of one of Google’s self-driving cars.

So you want to take a self-driving car for a spin? Backchannel editor Steven Levy, who had the chance to test out Google’s crop of autonomous vehicles, published a post on Wednesday that pulls back the curtain on the company’s exclusive training center—and reveals how you, too, can get behind the wheel of a Google car.

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The GOP presidential candidate also proposed offering liability relief to tech companies that share data with law enforcement officials.

At the tail end of a sixth Republican presidential debate, dominated by personal feuds and mutual condemnation of the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush made a stunning proposal: Put the NSA in charge of civilian data and cybersecurity.

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During Thursday’s GOP debate, the party’s top contender butted heads with his rivals over how incoming Chinese goods should be taxed.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump clashed with rivals Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush during Thursday’s Republican debate over his proposal to set a tariff on Chinese goods.

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