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Aereo chooses to “pause its operations temporarily” following Supreme Court decision — A Letter to Our Consumers: Standing Together for Innovation, Progress and Technology - An Update on Aereo — “The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
How Instagram moved the service's more than 20 billion photos from AWS to Facebook servers — How Facebook Moved 20 Billion Instagram Photos Without You Noticing — From left to right, Instagram and Facebook engineers Pedro Canahuati, Patrick Bozeman, Rick Branson, Nick Shortway …
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Wired.co.uk, VentureBeat, Instagram Engineering, ZDNet, AllFacebook, Softpedia News, Business Insider and Data Center Knowledge. Tweets: @glennf
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google Shuts Down TalkBin, A Feedback Platform For Businesses It Acquired In 2011 — TalkBin, a customer feedback platform for businesses that was incubated at Y Combinator and then acquired by Google in 2011, is being shut down on July 31, citing “dwindling usage.”
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
University of California considers barring employees from using Airbnb, Uber, Lyft, cites concerns over liability, regulation — UC may bar traveling workers from using Uber, Lyft, Airbnb — The University of California is considering barring employees on business trips from staying in Airbnb rentals …
| Business Insider: |
IAC Is Close To Acquiring Dating Startup HowAboutWe — IAC, which owns dating properties Match.com, OK Cupid and the majority stake in Tinder, is close to acquiring New York startup for singles, HowAboutWe. — The deal has not yet been finalized, according to an email founder Brian Schechter sent … Thanks:@stevekovach
| Kelly Jackson Higgins / Dark Reading: |
20-year-old integer overflow vulnerability found, being patched in pervasive LZO compression algorithm — Decades-Old Vulnerability Threatens ‘Internet Of Things’ — A newly discovered bug in the pervasive LZO algorithm has generated a wave of patching of open-source tools such as the Linux kernel this week.
| Kellex / Droid Life: |
Google Search update on Android enables “Ok, Google” hotword anywhere, adds Audio History feature to increase voice search accuracy — Google Search 3.5.14 Adds “OK, Google” Hotword Everywhere, Plus Audio History — Google Search 3.5.14 is beginning to rollout with a couple of major enhancements.
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Engadget, Android Authority, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, MobileBurn.com, Pocketnow and AndroidGuys
| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
GE announces $15 connected LED light bulb controlled by Wink app — The “Internet of things,” the “Connected Home,” the “Smart Home,” whatever you want to call it, it's just a fancy way of turning your stuff on and off with your smartphone. Now GE has introduced a cheaper way to stay on the couch and control your lights.
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GE, GE Reports, App Advice, Gigaom, Digital Trends, iMore, Android Central, Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine and SlashGear. Tweets: @fmanjoo
| Wall Street Journal: |
NBC in discussions with Dish over Dish's ad-skipping Hopper recorder, puts lawsuit on hold — NBC, Dish Talks Ease Tensions Over Ad-Skipping — Two-Year-Old Standoff With Broadcasters May Be Easing — Dish Network Corp. is in discussions with NBC over Dish's ad-skipping digital video recorder …
Tweets: @shaliniwsj
| Marc Ferranti / PC World: |
GoPro continues rise on day two of trading, now up nearly 50% from IPO price, as NASDAQ surges to highest point since spring of 2000 — Wall Street Beat: GoPro continues to soar after IPO as Nasdaq surges — Shares of action-camera maker GoPro shot up again Friday, a day after its IPO …
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Video Hangouts No Longer Require A Plugin On Desktop - If You're Running Chrome Dev Or Canary Channel — If you're a regular user of Google's video Hangouts service, you'll be glad to know that the experience on desktop for this service is about to get a little more stable (we hope).
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Victoria Kirst, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, 9to5Google and Android Central
| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
HP wins dismissal of lawsuit linked to ex-CEO Hurd's ouster — (Reuters) - Hewlett-Packard Co has won the dismissal of a lawsuit accusing the computer maker of securities fraud for misleading shareholders about its commitment to ethics while its chief executive was allegedly engaging in sexual harassment.
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