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| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Android TV revealed: Google's simple set-top box interface for movies, shows, apps, and games — Exclusive: this is Android TV — Google's plans for the living room come into focus with a simple TV interface, apps, and games — Every so often, some enterprising computer company will claim they've finally fixed the TV.
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For some, “bro” culture offers one explanation for why there are so few women in tech — Technology's Man Problem — Elissa Shevinsky can pinpoint the moment when she felt that she no longer belonged. — She was at a friend's house last Sept. 8, watching the live stream …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Windows in the car, battles Apple CarPlay — Microsoft has been powering a lot of different car entertainment systems over the years. Ford, Kia, BMW, Nissan, and Fiat have all used special versions of Windows to create their own interfaces and systems …
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| Rohin Dhar / Priceonomics Blog: |
How revenues of publicly-traded RetailMeNot, primarily referral fees, depend largely on SEO — The SEO Dominance of RetailMeNot — You're about to buy a delightful pair of pants from your favorite online store when you notice a small box near the checkout button labelled “Promo Code.”| Jason Torchinsky / Jalopnik: |
Tesla owner scans Model S's internal network through its disguised ethernet port, receives security call from Tesla — The Tesla Model S Is Basically A Good Looking IT Department On Wheels — It's pretty well known that modern cars are full of little computers talking to each other.
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| Brenden Mulligan / Medium: |
Apps should wait until the user can be shown the benefits before requesting iOS permissions — The Right Way to Ask Users for iOS Permissions — How Cluster dramatically increased iOS access conversion … Cluster is the first native mobile app I've designed, and the experience has taught … | Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Steve Jobs email from 2010 released in Samsung suit outlines strategy, discusses Apple TV — New Steve Jobs email a treasure trove of information about Apple TV, Google ‘holy war,’ and behind-the-scenes strategy — A new email from Steve Jobs that was published during today's Samsung lawsuit …
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| Simon Parkin / New Yorker: |
Some indie game developers who suddenly strike it rich are experiencing guilt and depression — The Guilt of the Video-Game Millionaires — One night in March, 2013, Rami Ismail and his business partner Jan Willem released a game for mobile phones called Ridiculous Fishing.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers can construct 90% of a user's web activity by monitoring traffic to ad-trackers — How advertising cookies let observers follow you across the web — Back in December, documents revealed the NSA had been using Google's ad-tracking cookies to follow browsers across the web …
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| Robert McMillan / Wired: |
NASA to release a searchable database of 1,000+ software projects, make some code open source — Wanna Build a Rocket? NASA's About to Give Away a Mountain of Its Code — Forty years after Apollo 11 landed on the moon, NASA open sourced the software code that ran the guidance systems on the lunar module.
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Meetup, Basecamp, Vimeo, and Bit.ly among startups hit with DDoS attacks after ransom demands — Tech Start-Ups Are Targets of Ransom Cyberattacks — Scott Heiferman and Gary Burns had less than four minutes to decide whether to pay up or go down. — One Thursday morning …
Tweets: @heif, @nicoleperlroth, @eastdakota and @kashhill
| Michael Wolf / Forbes: |
Future of wearables in general can't be predicted based on survey about fitness tracker usage — Here's What's Wrong With The Guardian Article On Wearables — This week, The Guardian's Charles Arthur wrote an article suggesting the jury is still out on the wearables category … Thanks:@nextmarketco
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
At least 5 execs from Samsung's US mobile business have left or given notice in last 2 months — Key Samsung executives depart from US business — At least five high-ranking executives from Samsung's US mobile business have left or have given their notice over the past two months, CNET has learned.Sponsor Posts
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