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Samsung may unveil VR headset at September 3 event; image shows similarities to Google's Cardboard — This is Samsung's VR headset — Samsung will be showing its rumored virtual reality headset at its upcoming product event in early September, The Verge has learned, where the company widely expected to announce the Galaxy Note 4.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
HTC builds separate business unit to make software for more than just HTC phones, launching Zoe video app for Android this week — HTC Builds Software Business Amid Tough Phone Market — Despite building some of the sexiest smartphones this side of Apple, HTC's hardware and financial challenges have been well documented.
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Phandroid, Engadget, The Verge, Pocketables, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo and Ausdroid
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
Ex-Siri engineers promise consumer-friendly digital assistant “Viv” that can teach itself — Forget Siri: This Radical New AI Teaches Itself and Reads Your Mind — Viv was named after the Latin root meaning live. Its San Jose, California, offices are decorated with tsotchkes bearing …
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Tweets: @wired, @jyarow and @marcello3d
Thanks:@johnrobertreed| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber is launching an API to enable “Request A Ride” buttons in more apps — Uber Is About To Launch An API — Uber wins when you hit the “Request A Ride” button, so shouldn't it try to put that button everywhere? It seemed like a smart plan, so I did some digging …
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Tweets: @panzer, @niallharbison and @joshconstine
| Sonja Hegman Andras / AllFacebook: |
Facebook Engineers Kill iOS Bug, Reduce Crash Rate by 50% — Facebook engineers have solved a long-term mobile bugging issue in iOS, reducing its crash rate by more than 50 percent. According to the company's engineering blog, one of mobile's top crashes was in the Apple Core Data system.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Internal documents from LinkedIn explain how the Bizo acquisition could lead to a $US1B B2B marketing platform by 2017 — Leaked: Here's How LinkedIn Plans To Have A New Billion-Dollar Business In 3 Years — LinkedIn plans to break into the $50 billion business-to-business marketing space …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Uber says Lyft cancelled 12.9K Uber rides, and Lyft investors pressured Uber to buy Lyft — Accusations Fly Between Uber and Lyft — All is fair, they say, in love and war. And Uber and Lyft, two smartphone-based car services, are most certainly at war.
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @mims, @jbruin, @ncroal, @caseynewton, @mikeisaac and @sameerpatel
| Sebastian Anthony / ExtremeTech: |
Reversible USB Type-C connector finalized: Devices, cables, and adapters coming soon — The USB Promoter Group has announced that the greatest invention in the known universe — the reversible Type-C USB connector — is finally ready for mass production. The USB Implementers Forum …
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| Glenn Fleishman / Boing Boing: |
How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks … The wisdom of crowds isn't always that smart. We've all seen mobs emerge online, or read uninformed Wikipedia entries that are the work of many idiotic hands. Where crowds help online is when you find your own particular gang …
Tweets: @wcullen65, @boingboing, @elmo_keep, @iroc and @glennf
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Opens Classroom, Its Learning Management Tool, To All Teachers — Back in May, Google announced the limited preview of Classroom, a tool that aims to make it easier for teachers to stay in touch with their students and to give them assignments and feedback.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Apple's Diversity Report: 70 percent Male, 55 percent White in U.S. — Apple is the latest company to release a report on the diversity of its workforce, saying Tuesday that its numbers represent a work in progress to the diversity it hopes to achieve over time. — Currently seven in 10 of its workers globally are male.
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Tweets: @stevesi, @mattrosoff, @markgurman, @carmeldea and @davewiner
| Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
Verizon to launch VoLTE in Q4, but delays first LTE-only phones to 2016 — Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) intends to launch Voice over LTE service in the fourth quarter of this year, and the carrier plans to use the technology to introduce new, high-definition telepresence services, according to Verizon Communications CFO Fran Shammo.
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| Ben Thompson / stratechery: |
BuzzFeed's valuation reflects how the Internet is narrowing the difference between media and software distribution — Is BuzzFeed a Tech Company? — It's telling that Chris Dixon, in a blog post explaining Andreessen Horowitz's $50 million investment, goes out of his way to explain …
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Tweets: @szekaichen, @jessicalessin, @cdixon, @startupljackson, @monkbent, @marklittlenews and @tcarmody
See also Mediagazer| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores to start offering iPhones via carrier financing on Aug. 20th — A significant number of Apple Stores in the United States will likely begin offering iPhone sales via the latest carrier financing programs later this month, according to several sources.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Sony has sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide — Sony is on a roll. During its press conference at Gamescom 2014, the company announced it has now sold 10 million PlayStation 4 consoles worldwide. — To be clear, this is the number of consoles that have been bought by consumers …
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| Ben Lang / Road to Virtual Reality: |
Oculus SDK is now available for Mac OSX — Oculus SDK 0.4.1 Beta Released: Mac OSX Support, SSE Fix, UE4 and More — Oculus VR today released the Oculus SDK 0.4.1 beta which brings important fixes for developers and enthusiasts alike. — With the release of the Oculus Rift DK2 at the end …
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
OnePlus asks women to participate in degrading contest to get a smartphone — The startup OnePlus recently launched its first smartphone, the One, and to deal with production issues it's been letting people buy them by invitation only, slowly offering them to more people as more are produced.
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