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| Joe Belfiore / Windows Phone Blog: |
Cortana (yes!) and Many, Many Other Great Features coming in Windows Phone 8.1 — Whew, what a day! What a week! I've just gotten off the stage at Build in front of 5,000 of our beloved developers talking about the future of the Windows platform. And now I'm here to tell YOU about the stuff we've …
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Thanks:@brandonleblanc| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The story of Cortana, Microsoft's Siri killer — Technically, Cortana isn't supposed to exist for at least another 500 years, but that's not stopping Microsoft from bringing her to life this week. While Apple has Siri and Google has Google Now — both digital assistants that run on smartphones …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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| Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat: |
Amazon Fire TV's voice search & kid-friendliness make it more than just another set-top box (video) — Above: Freetime is a safe space for kids on the Fire TV — Even though the Fire TV looks like yet another Roku and Apple TV competitor, Amazon packed in a few truly unique features.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
How Amazon Fire TV Stacks Up To Apple TV, Chromecast And Roku — Amazon has just announced its streaming TV media device, the Fire TV, and that means it now faces off against other tech giants and incumbents in yet another category. So how does the Amazon TK compare to the likes of the Apple TV … | Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Amazon Hires Portal's Kim Swift, Far Cry 2's Clint Hocking — Amazon is bolstering up talent in their video game development studio, and they've got two new high-profile snags: Portal designer Kim Swift and Far Cry 2 designer Clint Hocking have both joined Amazon Game Studios, Kotaku has learned.
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Thanks:@mattlynley| Brandon LeBlanc / Windows Experience Blog: |
Windows 8.1 Update - important refinements to the Windows experience — As Joe mentioned here, today we're announcing two important updates to the Windows platform: Windows Phone 8.1 and Windows 8.1 Update. With these updates, we continue to refine and improve Windows based on feedback …
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| Tim Stevens / CNET: |
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Inside Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab; see what Zuck saw just weeks before Oculus buy — If You Like Immersion, You'll Love This Reality — The news that Facebook paid $2 billion for a virtual reality start-up, Oculus VR, might strike you as a bit zany.
Tweets: @fmanjoo, @mrlerner, @davidsackman, @nytimesbusiness and @charlesgoulduk
| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 7 bug allows anyone to disable Find My iPhone and bypass Activation Lock without a password — Starting with iOS 7, deleting an iCloud account or restoring a device requires Find My iPhone to be disabled. Find My iPhone, in turn, requires the user to enter the password for the Apple ID attached to the iCloud account.
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| Eric Lam / Bloomberg: |
Google stock split creates nonvoting class, lets founders retain control when new stock issued — New Google Shares Hit Market as Founders Cement Grip With Split — More than 330 million new shares of Google Inc. (GOOG) land in the U.S. equity market today, completing a two-year process through …
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| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Twitter details its “Manhattan” real-time distributed database that helps it scale — This Is What You Build to Juggle 6,000 Tweets a Second — When you open the Twitter app on your smartphone and all those tweets, links, icons, photos, and videos materialize in front of you, they're not coming from one place.
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
European Parliament passes strong net neutrality law, along with major roaming reforms — European fans of the open internet can breathe a sigh of relief: the European parliament has passed a major package of telecoms law reform, complete with amendments that properly define and protect net neutrality.
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| Jenna Wortham / New York Times: |
Imgur, the Image-Sharing Site, Raises $40 Million From Andreessen Horowitz — If you spend any measurable amount of time on the Internet, you've likely visited — or at least looked at — an image hosted on Imgur (pronounced “image-er"). — The photo-sharing service is extremely popular …
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| Charles Luzar / Crowdfund Insider: |
Crowdfunding site Indiegogo allows campaign nearing $1M for a dubious calorie-counting device — Indiegogo's Reputation May Hinge On Outcome Of GoBe Campaign … The above excerpt is from Dr. David Ahn's writeup today in iMedialApps, and it does a great job in outlining some of the concerns surrounding … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
‘Silicon Valley,’ Mike Judge's New Series, Debuts on HBO — There is no epiphanic moment of invention in “Silicon Valley,” Mike Judge's new HBO comedy series about the socially awkward, emerging center of the world. Remember the lightbulb-flash scene in “The Social Network,” “A Beautiful Mind” …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Fantastical 2, The Best iPhone Calendar App, Is Now Available On iPad — There are only a few companies whose mobile apps are so well done or engaging that they actually earn one of the precious few spots on your iPhone's homescreen. Flexibits, the makers of Fantastical 2 … | Pankaj Mishra / TechCrunch: |
India's Homeshop18 Files For $75M Nasdaq IPO, Ahead Of Bigger E-Commerce Rivals — Homeshop18, an Indian TV shopping and online retail company owned by media conglomerate Network18 Media, has filed for $75 million IPO on Nasdaq, ahead of much-awaited listings of bigger e-commerce rivals in the country such as Flipkart and Snapdeal.
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Tech in Asia, NASDAQ.com, NextBigWhat, VCCircle, MediaNama and MediaNama
| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Rumored Galaxy S5 mini specs: 4.5" 720p Super AMOLED, quad-core Snapdragon 400, 1.5GB RAM — EXCLUSIVE: Galaxy S5 mini (SM-G800) specs leaked — We exclusively confirmed that the Galaxy S5 mini would be launching after the Galaxy S5 (not that we needed that confirmation … | Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Yahoo now encrypting traffic from its data centers, and plans to encrypt Messenger too — Yahoo is one of the many technology companies demanding reforms on US surveillance laws, and now says it's taken additional security measures to protect data it handles.
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| Joab Jackson / PC World: |
Microsoft open sources Windows Library for JavaScript — Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. — Now that the library is open source …
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