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Google to launch “YouTube Music Key”, a $10/month, ad-free subscription service with offline support — Exclusive: This Is YouTube Music Key, Google's Upcoming Subscription Service With Offline Support, Background Audio, No Ads, Free Play Music Key — Google has big plans for both YouTube and Google Play Music.| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google is working to overhaul Web services so it can legally offer them to kids; new features include dashboard for parents, child-safe YouTube, more — Google Seeks New Customers: Kids — Google has been working to overhaul its Web services so it can legally allow children to use them …
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| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Moves to Target Kids Under 13 — Google plans to offer accounts to children under 13 years old for the first time, a move that will take the world's largest Internet search provider into a controversial and operationally complex new market. — Accounts on Google services such as Gmail …
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it was targeted and hacked by suspected foreign powers — Exclusive: Nuke Regulator Hacked by Suspected Foreign Powers — Nuclear Regulatory Commission computers within the past three years were successfully hacked by foreigners twice … | Kevin C. Tofel / Gigaom: |
Hello, HP Stream 14: A $199 Windows laptop aimed squarely at the Chromebook market — Microsoft isn't taking the low-cost Chromebook threat lightly. Instead it's working with partners to create $199 to $249 Windows laptops and it has enlisted HP's help with the HP Stream 14.
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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Nextdoor now adopted by one in four neighborhoods in the US — The anti-Facebook: one in four American neighborhoods are now using this private social network — Neighborhood gossip and community policing thrive on Nextdoor — It was early in the morning when the flooding hit The Knolls …
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Sprint Launches New Price War, Debuts $100 Family Plan — Sprint on Monday announced new family rate plans allowing up to 10 lines to share 20GB worth of data for $100 per month. — It's the first move in what is expected to be far more aggressive pricing under newly named CEO Marcelo Claure.
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Roku's First Streaming-Video TVs Ready to Hit U.S. Market — Remote controls for TVs from TCL, Hisense include buttons for Netflix, Amazon Video, Rdio and Walmart's Vudu — For years, Apple has been rumored to be developing an integrated, Internet-connected HDTV designed to make streaming video … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mesosphere Comes To The Google Cloud Platform, Integrates Google's Open Source Kubernetes Project — Google and Mesosphere today announced a partnership that brings support for Mesos clusters to Google's Compute Engine platform. While the Mesos project and Mesosphere aren't quite household names yet … | Seth Rosenblatt / CNET: |
Symantec to slim Norton line to single security suite — Symantec's widely used and much maligned line of Norton security suites will get a major overhaul in September. — Symantec will be rebranding and streamlining its complicated Norton line of security suites into one.
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U.S. details plans for car-to-car safety communications — SAN FRANCISCO — After more than a decade of research into car-to-car communications, U.S. auto safety regulators took a step forward today by unveiling their plan for requiring cars to have wireless gear that will enable them to warn drivers of danger.| Todd Wasserman / Mashable: |
Tumblr Partner Will Now Scan Photos for Clues About Brand Affiliation — Every day, users post about 130 million photos on Tumblr. Starting this week, the Yahoo-owned media brand will start to parse all those images for clues to users' brand affiliations.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
The team behind webOS TV jumps to Pebble to design the next generation of smartwatches — Pebble is dead-serious about competing in the face of Android Wear and whatever Apple is presumably working on. To that end, the company has just announced that it has hired Itai Vonshak as head …
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BlackBerry creates new unit for potential high-growth assets like QNX, Project Ion, cryptographic applications, 44K strong patent portfolio, more — BlackBerry creates new unit for potential high-growth assets — (Reuters) - BlackBerry Ltd said on Monday it has created a new unit to house … | Eli Hodapp / Touch Arcade: |
Exclusive Hands On With ‘Flappy Bird’ Creator Dong Nguyen's Next Game: ‘Swing Copters’ — Looking back on the Flappy Bird phenomenon, and the onslaught of games developer Dong Nguyen inspired with his brutally difficult single-tap gameplay, it's clear what made it so hard to put down.
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| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Algorithmia Raises $2.4M To Connect Academia And App Developers — While communities built around GitHub and Stack Overflow have developers working together more than they ever have before, one group's work is typically seen by too few, considering the impact it could have: researchers in academia …
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Meet Levi's Stadium, the Most High-Tech Sports Venue Yet — Most people have heard of smartphones, smart cars and smart homes. Say hello to the smart stadium. — More — Intel Promises Faster, Lighter and Thinner with Its New Processor LineQuestions About a 5.5-inch iPhoneWho … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase Acquires Blockchain Explorer Blockr.io — A small consolidation wave in the Bitcoin space continues as bigger, better-funded companies scoop up teams of talented designers and engineers. — Coinbase, the Andreessen Horowitz-backed Bitcoin wallet and merchant processing company …
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