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Samsung Galaxy S5 to have swipe-style fingerprint sensor in home button for unlocking device, app shortcuts, website logins — Explained: Samsung's implementation of the fingerprint sensor on the upcoming Galaxy S5 — Yes, you heard it right folks! Today, we are finally confirming … | Alistair Barr / USA Today: |
Sources: new Samsung Gear smartwatch to run on Tizen, not Android — Samsung's updated smartwatch to shun Android — SAN FRANCISCO - The new version of Samsung's Gear smartwatch will run on Tizen, not Google's Android operating system, the latest attempt by the South Korean electronics giant … | Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Samsung plans to launch new Galaxy Gear models next week — Samsung could take the wraps off multiple new Galaxy Gear wearables at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona next week, according to a source familiar with the company's plans. The announcements would come just half …
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Galaxy S5 to have 5.2 inch screen, sharper display, improved battery and camera, may arrive alongside upgraded Galaxy Gear — Samsung's New Galaxy Said to Feature Bigger, Sharper Display — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930)'s new high-end smartphone will have a larger 5.2-inch screen … | Michael Crider / Android Police: |
| Kate Kaye / AdAge: |
Amazon and Apple struggle with ad growth because they're “slow, cocky and downright stingy” according to media buyers — Why Can't Amazon And Apple Catch a Break on Madison Ave? — Advertising Sales Are a Tough Slog for Both — And for A lot of the Same Reasons — Goodby, Silverstein and Partners| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Whisper publicizes and claims it vetted a new Gwyneth Paltrow affair rumor shared by a user — Whisper, The Sequoia-Backed Secret Sharing App, Makes A Move Into TMZ Territory — Whisper, the popular anonymous social sharing startup that's raised $24 million from venture capital giants …
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Spy Chief: We Should've Told You We Track Your Calls — The U.S. government long considered its collection of Americans' call records to be a state secret. Now the Director of National Intelligence admits it would have been better if Washington had acknowledged the surveillance in the first place.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Here Comes the Candy Crush IPO! After a $1.9 Billion Year, King Gets Ready to Go Public — Candy Crush isn't just a crazily addictive time-waster: It's also a really, really big business. Now the company behind it wants to go public. King Digital Entertainment, the Irish publisher behind Candy Crush …
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GCHQ spied on WikiLeaks visitors; NSA discussed targeting WikiLeaks, Pirate Bay, and Anonymous — Snowden Documents Reveal Covert Surveillance and Pressure Tactics Aimed at WikiLeaks and Its Supporters — Top-secret documents from the National Security Agency and its British counterpart reveal …
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Apple patents sensor-packed health monitoring headphones with ‘head gesture’ control — In one of the earliest pieces of evidence pointing to Apple's push into the fitness and health monitoring field, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted the company a patent …
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Postmates raises $16M series B funding, passes 10,000 deliveries a week — Postmates Closes New Financing Round and Passes 10,000 Deliveries a Week — Kosmo tried it and failed — dismally. Urban Fetch did, too. But it seems Postmates, a mobile-delivery service that can fetch …
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No New Windows Phone Models on Tap for Barcelona — It's shaping up to be a rough Mobile World Congress for Microsoft, with little new expected on either the hardware or software front for Windows Phone. — The Barcelona event will see the debut of dozens of new Android phones, said sources …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Digits: |
Peter Magnusson, former engineering director at Google, joins Snapchat as a VP of engineering — Snapchat Poaches Google Veteran in Engineering Push — Snapchat wants to beef up the technology behind its popular mobile app for disappearing messages. — Peter Magnusson … | Diane Cardwell / New York Times: |
Newark Airport tests sensor network embedded in light fixtures to analyze passengers — At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They're Watching You — Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior …
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Some day Silicon Valley will move north. Here's why it should settle in Oakland — Silicon Valley is both a metaphor for the entire tech industry and a real place that is (on a rare good day) an hour south of San Francisco. It's the longtime home to some of the world's most important … | Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
BioShock developer Irrational Games ‘winding down,’ new studio being formed by Ken Levine — BioShock developer Irrational Games is “winding down” in its current form and all but approximately 15 members of the studio will be laid off, according to an update from co-founder Ken Levine.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Duolingo Raises $20M Series C Led By Kleiner Perkins To Dominate Online Language Learning — The popular language learning platform Duolingo today announced that it has closed a $20 million Series C round led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. As Duolingo's founder Luis von Ahn told me … | Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
AT&T's first transparency report shows 300K government demands for data including 37K for location, 35K from NSA — AT&T reveals number of NSA and location demands in first-ever transparency report — Phone giant AT&T published its first “transparency report” on Tuesday morning …
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| Christian Zibreg / iDownloadBlog.com: |
Realmac adds iPad support to Clear for iPhone, migrates Clear+ users to Clear for free — Realmac Software has finally added native iPad support to its popular Clear to-do application for the iPhone and iPod touch. They're also moving customers from Clear+ back to Clear for free.
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Realmac Software, App Advice, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web, MacStories, The Verge and iMore
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nokia teases ‘X’ as it prepares to launch its Android phone — Nokia is preparing to launch its Android phone, codenamed Normandy, and the company is teasing it heavily today. The low-cost handset is expected to be named Nokia X when the Finnish smartphone maker unveils it next week …
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Nokia Conversations, BGR, CNET, 9to5Google, Pocket-lint, UnleashThePhones, Phandroid, Electronista, Wpxbox, The Droid Guy, Android Central and Softpedia News. Tweets: @evleaks
| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Cuff Launches Wearables That Look More Like Jewelry — A new company called Cuff is now taking preorders for a line of nine different metal and leather bracelets that contain a small device that can be used for simple messaging. — Cuff founder Deepa Sood
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| Mike Hopkins / Hulu Blog: |
Hulu hires former SVP at Sony Network Entertainment Tian Lim as CTO — A World-Class Builder Joins the Hulu Ranks — Hulu is the best place for world-class builders. Hands down. Our business at its core is defined by the building and innovating that happens daily at Hulu.
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Iranian infiltration of US Navy computer network far more extensive than previously thought — Iranian Hacking to Test NSA Nominee Michael Rogers — Infiltration of Navy Computer Network More Extensive Than Previously Thought — WASHINGTON—Iran's infiltration of a Navy computer network … | Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
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