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A camping stove that can recharge your gadgets

  Bloomberg A new camping stove is using mankind’s oldest communal activity—cooking over fire—to power our newest communal obsession: sharing pictures of your meal on social media. The BioLite CampStove 2, available for $130, employs thermoelectric technology to turn cooking heat into electricity. It can run the internal fan that turbocharges your fire, and via the built-in USB outlet, power ...

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YouTube losing major advertisers upset with videos

  SAN FRANCISCO / AP AT&T, Verizon and several other major advertisers are suspending their marketing campaigns on Google’s YouTube site after discovering their brands have been appearing alongside videos promoting terrorism and other unsavory subjects. The spreading boycott confronts Google with a challenge that threatens to cost it hundreds of millions of dollars. But that diverse selection periodically allows ...

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Swiss startup bringing AI to music label business

  Bloomberg A Swiss-Swedish startup wants to bring the power of big data and social-media analysis to the music business, offering artists instant insight into where and how their songs are playing so they can market more effectively to fans. Utopia Music Group is being billed as a new kind of record company by its founder, Mattias Hjelmstedt. Like an ...

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