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iPhone 6 Teardown — Double the iPhone, double the teardown! With the iPhone 6 Plus laid out for inspection, we turn our attention to the smaller iPhone 6—though at 4.7", it's still a giant among iPhones. What was so big that Apple couldn't fit it into the familiar form factor?| iFixit: |
iPhone 6 Plus teardown: 1GB RAM confirmed, has nearly double the battery capacity of the 5s — iPhone 6 Plus Teardown — Over the years, we've seen the iPhone evolve—and grow. It began as just the iPhone. Soon it learned how to 3G, it gained an S (it would lose and gain this every other year) …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
iPhone 6 and 6 Plus Use 20-Nanometer A8 Processor From TSMC — Apple's 20-nanometer A8 processor in the new iPhone 6 and 6 Plus was fabricated by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), according to Chipworks (via iFixit). Chipworks has been analyzing the various parts in the iPhone 6 …
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| Leslie Picker / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba begins trading on NYSE for $92.70 per share, up over 36% from IPO price of $68 — Alibaba Group Said to Raise $21.8 Billion in Record U.S. IPO — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (BABA), the e-commerce company started in 1999 with $60,000 cobbled together by Jack Ma … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba hits $228.5B market cap, passing Facebook, and trailing only Apple, Google, and Microsoft among public US tech companies — Alibaba Passes Facebook in Market Value on First Trade — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. surpassed Facebook Inc. (FB) by market capitalization on its first trade … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple's iPhone 6 And 6 Plus Go On Sale To Long Lines Of Fans — Apple started selling its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus today, with sales in-store kicking off at Apple Store retail locations beginning at 8 AM local time. The lines this year are longer than they have been in recent memory …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iCloud for Windows update means PCs can use iCloud Drive before Macs can — iCloud Drive is now available on Windows, but not OS X. — Apple officially released iCloud Drive yesterday as part of the iOS 8 update, but it came with a caveat: turning it on disables the “old” way of iCloud syncing …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 8 on iPhone 4S: cramped screen and 50% more time to do the same tasks compared to iOS 7 — iOS 8 on the iPhone 4S: Performance isn't the (only) problem — The iPhone 4S. I remember when this was the one that made my old phone feel slow. — iPhones have about a year to be top-of-the-line.| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Sony's SmartEyeglass prototype makes Google Glass look chic — As Sony's smartphone division continues to struggle, the company is working out what it needs to return to profitability. Does it concentrate on the high-end market dominated by Apple and Samsung, or does it try to appeal …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Patent troll gives up, can't defend “matchmaking” patent under new law — A patent troll called Lumen View Technology got stopped in its tracks last year after it sued Santa Barbara-based startup FindTheBest, then asked the company for a quick $50,000 settlement.
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Google, Dropbox, and others launch open source security organization Simply Secure — New Initiative Simply Secure Aims to Make Security Tools Easier to Use — The dramatic revelations of large-scale government surveillance and deep penetration of the Internet by intelligence services … | Everett Rosenfeld / CNBC: |
Bitcoin drops as much as 11% in the past day to below $382, lowest since April — Bitcoin tanks, is Alibaba to blame? — The price of bitcoin has plummeted in the past few days, and some are blaming the Alibaba IPO for the virtual currency's fall. — Touching as low as $381.17 earlier Friday …
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Facebook's US Ad Revenues Outpace Users' Average Daily Time Spent on the Site — Facebook bucks trend of digital ad dollars lagging time spent with digital media — US adults will spend an average of 21 minutes each day on Facebook in 2014, according to new figures from eMarketer …
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U.S. judge awards $40.7 million in SEC case over bitcoin Ponzi scheme — (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in Texas ordered Bitcoin Savings and Trust and its owner to pay a combined $40.7 million after the Securities and Exchange Commission established that the company, which sold investments using … | Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Android L, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default for the first time — Newest Androids will join iPhones in offering default encryption, blocking police — The next generation of Google's Android operating system, due for release next month, will encrypt data by default …
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| Catherine Mayer / TIME: |
Bono says U2 and Apple working on new digital music format — Exclusive: U2 and Apple Have Another Surprise for You — The four members of the legendary Irish band tell TIME about another new album in the works—and its secret Apple project that might just save the music industry
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| Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette: |
France's new anti-Uber law gives Taxis an unfair advantage — Yesterday evening, the France's National Assembly voted definitively in favor of the pro-taxi “Thévenoud law,” which imposed a certain number of restrictions and regulations on both Taxis and VTC (licensed professional drivers … | John Ribeiro / Network World: |
New US Senate bill aims to limit access to emails stored abroad — Legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate on Thursday aims to place limits on access by U.S. law enforcement agencies to emails and other communications stored abroad. — The proposed legislation comes against the backdrop …
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Microsoft on the Issues, Center for Democracy …, Washington Post and The Hill. Tweets: @bradsmi
| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Some say Larry Ellison's new role is merely a title change, a point that Oracle's statement partially confirms — Larry Ellison steps down as CEO of Oracle but remains in charge — Larry Ellison, a Silicon Valley pioneer known as one of its most flamboyant and aggressive leaders …
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| Sean Buckley / Engadget: |
Nvidia unveils new flagship GeForce GTX 980 and 970 desktop GPUs based on Maxwell architecture — NVIDIA's latest GPU crams 4K images on 1080p displays — Back in February, NVIDIA trotted out the very first desktop GPUs to feature its new Maxwell architecture: the GeForce GTX 750 and 750i.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Ahead Of New FTC Rules, Kickstarter Updates Terms Of Use Section Related To Failed Projects — Popular crowdfunding destination Kickstarter updated its Terms of Use today to clarify what specifically needs to happen if a project runs into trouble and creators are unable to deliver.
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| Amy Gesenhues / Search Engine Land: |
Bing Image Search Updates Include Touch Friendly Result Pages That Adapt To Screen Size & Resolution — Over the next few weeks, Bing is rolling out new updates to its image search experience that include touch-friendly search result pages that have been designed to adapt to a user's screen size and resolution.
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Search Blog, The Fire Hose, Ubergizmo, WinBeta and Neowin
| Dave Lee / BBC: |
eBay flaw exposing visitors to malicious websites has affected site since at least February — eBay security flaw has existed for months — Listings clicked on eBay automatically directed users to malicious websites — A flaw that has exposed eBay customers to malicious websites … | Signe Brewster / Gigaom: |
Finally: Meta begins shipping its augmented reality glasses to developers — The developer kit edition of Meta's glasses has come a long way since last December. But it's clear that augmented reality is still in its infancy. — It's a common story: Post your product on Kickstarter …
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