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Samsung acquires smart-home controller startup SmartThings for $200M — Internet of Bling: Samsung Buys SmartThings for $200 Million — Samsung has bought SmartThings, the startup that makes smart-home controllers. While the companies did not disclose the price, sources …
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| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple considering sapphire glass screens for more expensive models of new iPhones this fall, producing sapphire displays for smartwatch — Apple Considers Using Harder Material in Pricier Models — Apple Inc. created the blueprint for a smartphone when it covered the touch screen of its first iPhone in glass, instead of plastic.
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Microsoft builds a Snapchat competitor called WindUp — It's no secret that Snapchat, the app that lets you send time-limited messages, has run into a few issues this year: From exposing nearly five million accounts, to the FTC ruling that the company was deceiving users, the app may still be popular but many people no longer trust it.| IDC: |
Smartphone shipments surpass 300M in Q2, Android and iOS dominate with 96% global marketshare — Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Edge Past 300 Million Units in the Second Quarter; Android and iOS Devices Account for 96% of the Global Market, According to IDC| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook VP Sam Lessin Is Leaving the Company — Sam Lessin, Facebook's VP of product management, is leaving the company. — Lessin announced his departure on his Facebook page Thursday afternoon. He originally joined Facebook when his startup, a storage company called Drop.io …
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Swarm of 1,024 Tiny Robots Works Together Without Guiding Central Intelligence — Swarm of 1,024 Tiny Robots Works Together Without Guiding Central Intelligence — Harvard University scientists have devised a swarm of 1,024 tiny robots that can work together without any guiding central intelligence.
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| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
PGP, which hasn't fundamentally evolved since the 1990s, needs to die — What's the matter with PGP? — Last Thursday, Yahoo announced their plans to support end-to-end encryption using a fork of Google's end-to-end email extension. This is a Big Deal.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers use a smartphone's gyroscope as a crude microphone to eavesdrop on conversations — The Gyroscopes in Your Phone Could Let Apps Eavesdrop on Conversations — In the age of surveillance paranoia, most smartphone users know better than to give a random app or website permission to use their device's microphone.
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| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Big-screened phones are better all-in-one entertainment systems, preferred in emerging markets — Report: People in emerging markets prefer big smartphones. Here's why. — Apple is strongly rumored to be preparing to release a larger version of the iPhone next month.
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Ask.com Buys Ask.fm, an Anonymous Q.&A. Start-Up — Ask, and ye shall receive. — Ask.com, the Oakland, Calif.-based company owned by IAC/InterActiveCorp, announced on Thursday it had acquired Ask.fm, a highly popular question-and-answer website. — The move signals Ask.com's first significant push into social networking.| Hollywood Reporter: |
Xbox Shops Entertainment Studio to Warner Bros. — Microsoft's TV production arm might not be gone for good — Microsoft may have decided to shutter its nascent Xbox Entertainment Studios but it's not necessarily game over for the Santa Monica studio. — Sources tell The Hollywood Reporter …
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| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator branches out into energy tech by investing in nuclear fusion startup Helion, with Mithril Capital — Y Combinator And Mithril Invest In Helion, A Nuclear Fusion Startup — Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work … | Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Square Just Released A Blog Post Listing The Top 10 Negative Myths About It — Square just published a defensive blog post about the Top 10 negative myths about its service. — The post comes only a few days after Amazon launched a new product that puts it in direct competition with Square …
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| Timothy Prickett Morgan / EnterpriseTech: |
Oracle Cranks Up The Cores To 32 With Sparc M7 Chip — Say what you will about Oracle co-founder and CEO Larry Ellison, but when the software giant bought Sun Microsystems more than four years ago, for $7.4 billion, he said that he had seen the light and wanted Oracle to control its own hardware …
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Tech executives Zuckerberg, Nadella, Costolo, Schiller, and others take “ice bucket challenge” to raise ALS awareness — Ice Bucket Challenge: Cook, Zuckerberg, Nadella and More — The “ice bucket challenge,” a campaign to raise awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis …
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| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
50 Cent partners with Intel on heart-rate monitoring earphones, will be available Q4 2014 — Gimme a Beat: Intel, 50 Cent Pair Up on Heart-Rate Headphones — Chipmaker Intel and SMS Audio, the consumer electronics company founded by 50 Cent, are partnering to launch a pair of heart-rate-measuring headphones.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Comcast, Time Warner Cable withdraw funding for dinner honoring FCC's Clyburn — Comcast and Time Warner Cable today withdrew their respective contributions towards a dinner that will honor FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn next month. The Kaitz Dinner is an annual event hosted … | Zach Honig / Engadget: |
YouTube refreshes television app for set-top boxes, game consoles and smart TVs — If you use YouTube's app on your TV, get ready for a new UI (finally!). The app has a much cleaner look now, in line with Google's Material Design, and includes features that you're used to seeing on your computer … | Elise Hu / NPR: |
Comments sent to FCC were overwhelmingly pro net neutrality, most opposing came from templates — A Fascinating Look Inside Those 1.1 Million Open-Internet Comments — When the Federal Communications Commission asked for public comments about the issue of keeping the Internet free and open, the response was huge.
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| Florin T. / PhoneArena: |
Meet the 6-inch Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 — Samsung is getting ready to launch a successor to the Galaxy Mega 5.8 and Galaxy Mega 6.3 from last year: a new device that should be called Galaxy Mega 2. While we heard about it several times before, it's only now that we get to see what the handset looks like …
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Berlin bans Uber app citing passenger safety — The mobile taxi app Uber has been banned in Berlin by the city's State Department of Civil and Regulatory Affairs. — In a statement, the authority said it had banned the app on passenger safety grounds and threatened the firm with a 25,000 euro … Sponsor Posts
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