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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
UPS researching its own delivery drones to compete with Amazon's Prime Air — Flying parcel-carriers are the next logical frontier for delivery companies — Amazon made headlines Sunday night when it announced it was working on small drones that could someday deliver customers packages in half an hour or less.
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| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
Amazon's warehouses are currently too far from customers to make same-day drone delivery feasible — Even if the Feds Let Them Fly, Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Still Nonsense — Amazon took over the 24-hour news cycle last night with the unveiling of Prime Air, an aerial drone …
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| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
Spotify opens up analytics in effort to prove its worth to doubting musicians — Streaming music firm opens Spotify Artists website and claims when it reaches 40m subscribers, even ‘niche indie albums’ will earn $17k a month — Streaming music service Spotify is hoping to win …
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Officials estimate a third of people enrolled through HealthCare.gov affected by system errors — Health-care enrollment on Web plagued by bugs — The enrollment records for a significant portion of the Americans who have chosen health plans through the online federal insurance marketplace …
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| Ken Yeung / The Next Web: |
Square acquires Viewfinder so sellers can create ‘personal, human experiences’ for their customers — Square has acquired Viewfinder, a company specializing in helping you “organize, share, and relive memories” with friends and loved ones. The move will see Viewfinder eventually shut …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Future iPhones may unlock, hide messages based on a user's face — Apple on Tuesday was granted a patent that uses facial recognition technology to control a computing device, like an iPhone, iPad or Mac, allowing for a more secure and productive operating environment. — Source: USPTO| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google is building Chrome apps support for Android and iOS, beta release coming as soon as January 2014 — Google is working on bringing Chrome packaged apps from the desktop to the mobile world. The company is currently building a toolkit to help developers create Chrome apps for Android and iOS …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
VSCO Cam brings its simple interface and powerful photo-editing tools to Android — Free app gives users yet another way to tweak and share their photos — After an extended beta test period, VSCO Cam for Android is now available to download from the Google Play Store.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Makes Another Acquisition: Hacker League, A Platform For Hackathons, Is Now A Part Of Mashery — Intel's acquisition spree continues apace, with the latest being made to augment one of its other recent acquisitions. It is buying Hacker League, a popular platform for managing hackathons … | Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Netflix Changes Binge Release Strategy for DreamWorks Turbo Show — When Netflix started its big push into original TV shows this year, it played up its binge-friendly strategy: Each time the streaming service debuted a new show, like “House of Cards”, it released a season's worth of episodes in one day.
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
How does the NSA break SSL? — A few weeks ago I wrote a long post about the NSA's ‘BULLRUN’ project to subvert modern encryption standards. I had intended to come back to this at some point, since I didn't have time to discuss the issues in detail. But then things got in the way.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's ‘Project Spark’ beta arrives on Windows 8.1, lets you create an Xbox One game — Microsoft is launching a beta version of Project Spark today, its game maker project for Windows 8.1, Xbox 360, and the new Xbox One console. Project Spark is essentially a tool to allow developers …
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| Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Motorola apologizes for Moto X Cyber Monday snafus, extends deal — Claiming it wasn't ready for the high volume of orders on discounted Moto X handsets on Monday morning, Motorola apologized later that same evening for the hours of customer frustration. A blog post from Motorola CEO Dennis … | Rob Wile / Business Insider: |
Stockholm-based KnCMiner sells $8 million worth of bitcoin mining hardware in 24 hours — Bitcoin Developer Sells $8 Million Worth Of Hardware In 24 Hours, As Mining Technology Arms Race Goes Insane — Stockholm-based KnCMiner sold $8 million worth of their new $10,000-a-pop bitcoin miners …
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| Kit Chellel / Bloomberg: |
Nokia Gets Ruling Blocking Sales of HTC's One Mini Phone in U.K. — A London judge said HTC Corp. (2498) couldn't sell its One Mini phone in the U.K. from Dec. 6 after it was found to have infringed patents owned by Nokia Oyj. (NOK1V) — While Judge Richard Arnold also ruled that HTC's …
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FOSS Patents, Engadget, BGR, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, Android Central, CNET, BGR, Phandroid, Geeky Gadgets, PhoneArena, Inquirer, Pocketables, Android Beat, Gigaom, Phones Review, pocketnow.com, Softpedia News, Electronista and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @marypcbuk
| Agam Shah / PC World: |
HP Slate tablets running Android Jellybean hit the market — Hewlett-Packard's latest Android tablets with multiple screen sizes are available through the company's website. — HP Slate 7 Extreme — The tablets run Android 4.2, code-named Jellybean, and are listed at the company's tablet page.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
E La Carte Scores Deal With Applebee's, Bringing 100,000 Tableside Tablets To All U.S. Locations By Year-End 2014 — Applebee's, the largest casual dining chain in the U.S., has signed a deal with restaurant tablet hardware and software provider E la Carte, which will see it introducing 100 …
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
PayPal launches a digital gift store, featuring Apple as its sole launch partner — A week after adding support for prepaid gift cards, payments giant PayPal has launched its own digital gift store to allow US -based customers to buy gift cards for friends and family using its service.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Firehose Provider DataSift Raises $42M Led By Insight Venture Partners For Global and Non-Social Ambitions — DataSift, a social data platform that provides brands and enterprises with access to content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and dozens of other social networks …
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VatorNews, VentureBeat, Digits, Telegraph, Mashable, Bloomberg, Gigaom, Tech Europe, CloudAve, PE Hub Blog, BetaNews and The VAR Guy. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Jon Christian / Wired: |
From ‘Preggers’ to ‘Pizzle’: Android's Bizarre List of Banned Words — There's no “sex” at the Googleplex. — Type or swipe the word on the latest version of Android's Google Keyboard — or for that matter “intercourse,” “coitus,” “screwing” or even “lovemaking” — and the web giant's predictive algorithm will offer no help.
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