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The iPhone 5s Review — For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition. Indeed that's how the market played out.| Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD: |
iPhone 5s is “the best smartphone on the market” — A New Touch for iPhone — Apple brings out a new top-of-the-line iPhone model every year, but a redesign only every other year. In the intervening cycles, the company tends to keep the phone's exterior the same, but change the innards and the software.| David Pogue / New York Times: |
In Arrival of 2 iPhones, 3 Lessons — We can draw three lessons from the arrival of Apple's two new iPhone models, the 5C and 5S. — LESSON 1 Apple may have set its own bar for innovation too high. — Year after year, Steve Jobs used to blow our minds with products we didn't know we wanted.| Myriam Joire / Engadget: |
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Google vs. Death — In person, it can be a little hard to hear Larry Page. That's because he has vocal-cord nerve damage, one cord paralyzed about 14 years ago, the other left with limited movement after a cold last summer. This rare condition doesn't slow him down, though it has made his voice raspy and faint.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple launches iTunes 11.1 with iTunes Radio, Genius Shuffle, Podcast Stations, iOS 7 support — In the hours before iOS 7 arrives for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, Apple has released iTunes 11.1 with several major new features. The download is available from Apple's website.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
iOS 7 now available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch — iOS 7, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, is now available for download. The update can be installed on any compatible iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch by visiting your device's settings menu, choosing “general,” … | Nick Heer / Pixel Envy: |
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BlackBerry Z30 official: 5-inch Super AMOLED display, 1.7GHz Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2,880mAh battery and BB 10.2 — If you were paying attention to the late summer leaks, then the BlackBerry above won't strike you as a surprise. That's because it's the newly announced BlackBerry Z30 … | Donny Halliwell / Inside BlackBerry: |
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No Internet? No Problem: YouTube Getting Ready to Let You Watch Videos Offline, on Your Phone. — YouTube streams more than six billion hours of video a month. Soon it will let people watch some of those videos even if they're not connected to the Web. — Next month, Google's video site … | Joe Palazzolo / Law Blog: |
Court: Facebook ‘Like’ Is Protected By the First Amendment — “Liking” something on Facebook is a form of speech protected by the First Amendment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, reviving a closely watched case over the extent to which the Constitution shields what we say on social media.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Fork in the road: Cyanogen raises $7 million to build a better version of Android — The rebel ROM builder grows up — and starts making hardware plans — Cyanogen, makers of popular software based on Android that extends the abilities of smartphones, is making a bid for the mainstream.| Fernando Delgado / Yahoo: |
Yahoo app for iOS 7: Now with breaking news, “My Saves,” and cinemagraphs — by Fernando Delgado, Senior Director of Product Management, Mobile and Emerging Products — The Yahoo app is one of our daily experiences — we present news that's personalized just for you.| CNET: |
iPhone 5C review: A cheaper iPhone that doesn't cut corners — The iPhone 5C is kinda, sorta, technically a new product — colorful, cute, with a variety of interchangeable color cases much like the recently released Motorola Moto X — but under the hood it's really an iPhone 5 with a new paint job … | Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
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Hulu signs content deal to add 144 titles from BBC — Hulu Lines Up New Video Content — After Months in Limbo, Streaming Site to Add 144 Titles From the BBC — Hulu LLC is once again making significant investments in content, after months in limbo on the auction block.| Don Jeffrey / Bloomberg: |
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Morgan Stanley: Apple iPhone sales up 28% this quarter — AlphaWise survey data through Sept. 15 catches early interest in iPhones 5C and 5S. — FORTUNE — Apple (AAPL) had only just begun taking iPhone 5C pre-orders Sunday when Morgan Stanley's AlphaWise Smartphone Tracker closed the books on Q3 2013 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Groupon Buys SideTour To Add Local, Bespoke Activities To Its GrouponLive Events Business — A little over a week after Groupon announced the acquisition of hotel booking service Blink, today comes one more purchase that moves Groupon further yet out of the realm of daily deals.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twilio Adds Picture Messaging Into Its API Frame, Cuts Text API Pricing By 25% For U.S. Numbers — Photo-sharing services like Instagram have become some of the most popular of all mobile apps, and today Twilio launched a new service that could help a much larger swathe of developers tap into that trend: picture messaging.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Tesla's ‘autopilot’ car project targets 90 percent of miles driven, three years from now — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has discussed the company's ambitions to build a self-driving car on more than one occasion, and now he's revealed a bit more about its plans. After reports today about a job listing … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Expands Chrome Data Compression Feature On iOS — Google has begun expanding access to its Chrome data compression feature to more users, specifically those on iOS devices who have the company's mobile browser app installed. The feature's existence was announced some time ago … | Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Pandora welcomes iTunes Radio with new iOS apps, tweaked branding — Sometimes timing is everything: Pandora is releasing new iOS apps as well as a new logo and tweaked branding on the same day that Apple is will release iOS 7 as well as its own internet radio product dubbed iTunes Radio.| Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
Stealth Security Startup Illumio Secures $34 Million From General Catalyst — More funding details are starting to emerge about Illumio, a mysterious stealth security startup. — The company has just closed a significant $34 million Series B round of venture capital funding led by General Catalyst Partners.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Zoho Notebook: The free iPad note-taking app every student needs — If you're a student with an iPad, you already have one of the best note-taking devices in your hands. The question is, does your app actually do it justice?
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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