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| John Paczkowski / Re/code: |
Apple plans to announce a new wearable with HealthKit and HomeKit integration September 9 — Code/red: Apple Plans to Announce Wearable in September — Start the Countdown Timer on Whatever Old-Fashioned Piece of Junk You Have on Your Wrist Right Now Remember back in June when I said Apple hoped …
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
JPMorgan and four other US banks hacked this month, gigabytes of data including account information stolen — JPMorgan and Other Banks Struck by Cyberattack — A number of United States banks, including JPMorgan Chase and at least four others, were struck by hackers in a series …
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Bloomberg, The Register, Washington Post, BGR, Help Net Security, ZDNet, USA Today, Re/code, Computerworld, Business Insider, Gizmodo, Fortune, Softpedia News, Telegraph, TIME, NBC News and Business Insider. Tweets: @akianastasiou
| Surface Blog: |
Surface Pro 3 now available in 28 markets around the world — The next 24 hours are huge for Microsoft and Surface fans everywhere. Starting just minutes from now in New Zealand, retailers and resellers in 25 additional geographies will begin selling Intel® Core™ i3 …
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
LG G Watch R: 1.3" circular plastic OLED screen, stainless frame, 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor, 4GB storage, available Q4 2014 — The LG G Watch R is a round, retro smartwatch with good looks to spare — Great artists steal — LG's G Watch was one of the first Android Wear devices to hit the market …
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| Alex Karpenko / Instagram Engineering: |
Instagram describes the tech behind Hyperlapse and its image stabilization algorithm, Cinema — The Technology behind Hyperlapse from Instagram … - We request frames from the decoder at the new playback rate — We simultaneously kick off the Cinema stabilizer on a background thread …
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| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Samsung announces Gear S smartwatch with 3G connectivity, 2" screen, dual-core 1GHz CPU, running Tizen — Samsung's Gear S smartwatch doesn't need a phone to get online or make calls — Samsung is taking the wraps off of yet another new smartwatch, but the Gear S has a twist: there's a 3G modem inside.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @inafried, @zpower and @stevekovach
| Bloomberg: |
Profile: Lee Jae Yong, Samsung's heir apparent and the man credited with forging a relationship with Apple — Samsung Low-Profile Heir Poised to Succeed Father Seen as ‘God’ — When Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) Chairman Lee Kun Hee toured his factories, the preparations were worthy of a head of state.
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Business Insider and The Verge. Tweets: @ghimhehsuhng, @simoncywong, @wilsonleeflores, @davidmmerritt, @ek_obrien, @lmoliva_ and @fredojardias
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Desire 510 has 64-bit hardware, but 32-bit software; needs 64-bit Android L, due later this year — First 64-bit Android phone has no 64-bit software — When Apple launched the iPhone 5S with a 64-bit processor, it sent the rest of the spec-obsessed SoC world on a race to catch up.
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| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
How Many People See Your Tweets? Twitter Opens Its Nifty Analytics Dashboard To Everyone — Back in July, Twitter launched a really nifty analytics dashboard. A bit like Google Analytics for tweets, it allows you to gauge the performance of each and every tweet you sent. How many people saw it?
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Tweets: @chanian, @mathewi and @joannastern
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Cotap, A WhatsApp For The Workplace, Adds Box, Dropbox, Google, OneDrive And Desktop App — Cotap, a startup founded by former Yammer executives Jim Patterson and Zack Parker that launched last year with the premise of becoming a “WhatsApp for the workplace”, is today unveiling a new build of its product, and a wider remit.
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The Next Web, CITEworld and Gigaom
| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Fails Again in Bid for Samsung Smartphone Sales Ban — Apple Inc. (AAPL) failed again to win a sales ban on Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) products found to infringe its smartphone patents, even after requesting what it described as a more limited prohibition.
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| Rich Trenholm / CNET: |
Samsung bets on 4K Amazon and Netflix streaming to make UHD TV more tempting — The Korean tech giant wants to persuade you to fork out for 4K by offering movies and TV shows from Amazon and Netflix in eye-watering detail. — House of Cards was the first Netflix show shown in 4K.
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Engadget, Samsung Tomorrow, The Next Web and Geeky Gadgets
| Agam Shah / PC World: |
IDC: Global PC shipments will only fall 3.7% this year, driven by Chromebooks and XP upgrades — PC market in 2014 a bit less dire than previously thought — The PC market is still a bleak place to be, but not as bleak as expected, according to new figures released Wednesday.
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