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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Some iPhone 6 Plus Owners Accidentally Bending Their iPhones in Pockets — As highlighted in a few reports shared in the MacRumors forums, a small but growing number of iPhone 6 Plus owners have reportedly bent their phones after carrying the devices in their pockets just days after launch.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @edbott, @apollozac, @drankpee, @cliftonmthomas, @panzer, @nickwingfield, @samfbiddle, @yahootech, @cdharrison, @davechensky, @panzer and @mattbuchanan
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Comparing photos taken with Camera+ using all iPhone versions, from the original to iPhone 6 — How does the iPhone 6 camera compare to previous iPhone cameras? — In the past seven years, each new advancement in iPhone camera technology has made dramatic improvements to image quality.
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The Verge, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @timtrueman and @caseynewton
| Chris Martin / PC Advisor: |
Samsung exits laptop market in Europe “for now” after decline in PC market — Exclusive: Samsung exits laptop market including Chromebooks — Following in the path of Sony and its Vaio PCs, Samsung has decided to exit the laptop market stopping sales of Ativ Windows … | Philip Kollar / Polygon: |
Blizzard cancels its next-gen MMO Titan after seven years — Blizzard has officially canceled development on its mysterious next-generation massively multiplayer game Titan. The company confirmed the news to Polygon in a recent interview. — This revelation comes after at least seven years …
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The Register, The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, PC Gamer, Kotaku, destructoid, Tech Times, Gamasutra, Massively, Gotta Be Mobile, GamesIndustry.biz, GamePolitics blogs, Digital Trends, WoW Insider, VG247, New World Notes, Engadget, gameinformer.com, Forbes, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Blue's News and PC Magazine
Tweets: @codinghorror, @bradshoemaker, @on_code, @greenspeak and @alexadamsyt
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Mobile Wallet Laughingstock Clinkle Finally Launches To Let You Pay Friends And Earn “Treats” — After 17 months of jokes about vaporware college payments startup Clinkle, its iOS and Android apps finally launched today at a few colleges. Clinkle lets you pay friends, get a pre-paid Visa …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
PRSS Digital Magazine Platform Acquired By Apple — Apple has acquired Dutch digital magazine startup Prss, a platform that makes it easy to create iPad-compatible magazines using tools that don't require any knowledge of code. The company is essentially a magazine-focused version of iBooks Author … | Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Former Apple retail chief and ex-J.C. Penney CEO Ron Johnson to launch on-demand delivery service for gadgets — Former Apple Exec, J.C. Penney CEO to Launch Delivery Startup — The godfather of Apple's retail stores is trying to reinvent shopping again, this time by getting rid of stores.
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| Ryan Smith / AnandTech: |
Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450 4-core GPU, enhanced Cyclone CPU cores, 4MB L3 Cache — Chipworks Disassembles Apple's A8 SoC: GX6450, 4MB L3 Cache & More — One of the more enjoyable rituals with Apple's annual iPhone launch is the decapping, deconstruction, and photographing of the processor die at the heart of Apple's newest SoC.| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google X Founder Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role As Google VP And Fellow — Sebastian Thrun has left the building — the Google X building, that is. The founder of search giant Google's factory to develop and build “moonshot” technologies, who launched the company's driverless car project …
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9to5Google and GeekWire
| Steven Levy / Medium: |
Lotus Notes inventor and ex-Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie wants to make phone calls more like collaborative documents with Talko — Brave New Phone Call — Ray Ozzie's new app Talko hopes to give people their voices back — I. … It's not an abstract subject for the 58-year entrepreneur.
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The Verge, Forbes, New York Times, CITEworld, Laughing Squid, Disruptive Telephony, TechCrunch and Fast Company
Tweets: @monkbent, @tcarmody and @jonrussell
Thanks:@sarablask| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Wink announces Relay, a $300 wall-embedded touchscreen for controlling smart home devices — How one tiny startup is winning the race to power your smart home — For decades the smart home has been a tantalizing dream just out of reach. There are hundreds of connected devices on the market …
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Gizmodo, TWICE, Digital Trends, Co.Design, LinuxGizmos, Connectedly, ReadWrite and Gigaom. Tweets: @generalelectric. Thanks:@benpopper
| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
Facebook's internet connectivity drones to begin testing next year, to deploy within 2-5 years — Facebook Lays Out Its Roadmap for Creating Internet-Connected Drones — A still from an promotional video showing how Facebook and Internet.org will deliver internet access via — aerial drone.
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| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Samsung launches $19.99 Power Sharing cable for charging micro USB devices with your Galaxy phone or tablet — Samsung today launched a new accessory for its Galaxy line of products that isn't just a gimmick but looks extremely useful: meet the Samsung Power Sharing cable for $19.99.| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FTC sues Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs, alleging fraudulent and deceptive practices — Feds say Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs ran “systematic deception” [Updated] — Sonny Vleisides (right), is Butterfly Labs' co-founder and largest shareholder.
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Federal Trade Commission, Gigaom, NEWSBTC, The Verge, Electronista, CoinDesk, Data Center Knowledge, Valleywag, NEWSBTC and TechSpot
Tweets: @bobmcmillan and @nzkoz
| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Google investing $772M to build a 120 megawatt data center in the Netherlands — Google to build gigantic 120-megawatt data center in the Netherlands — The $772 million facility in Eemshaven will benefit from proximity to the landing point of major international submarine cables … | Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
PayPal integrates Bitcoin processors BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin for merchants in the US and Canada — PayPal today announced partnerships with three leading Bitcoin payment processors: BitPay, Coinbase and GoCoin. The eBay-owned company wants to help digital goods merchants accept Bitcoin payments … | Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Tiger Global raises $1.5B pool to invest in private companies, 5 months after last $1.5B raise — Exclusive: Tiger Global raising another huge fund — Tiger Global has begun raising another $1.5 billion to invest in private companies, Fortune has learned from multiple sources.
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| Sam Altman / How to Start a Startup: |
First lecture of the Stanford course “how to start a startup” with Sam Altman and Dustin Moskovitz now online — Lecture 1: Welcome, and Ideas, Products, Teams and Execution Part I — Why to Start a Startup. Sam Altman , View Sam's Slide Deck. Dustin Moskovitz , View Dustin's Slide Deck.| Electronista: |
UPS Store expands 3D printing services to nearly 100 locations — In-store 3D printing facilities offered in more markets — Delivery company UPS is making its 3D printing service more widely available at its stores across the United States. After an initial test with six markets …
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| Roberto Baldwin / The Next Web: |
Microsoft announces $59.95 Wireless Display Adapter for streaming Miracast devices to your TV — Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter connects your Miracast devices to HDTVs — The first 10 to 15 minutes of any presentation usually involves trying to figure out which cable connects to the TV.| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Radius Raises $54.7 Million to Improve Sales Leads Using Big Data … Marketing automation software, which delivers sales prospects to customers, has generated some big companies-last year, Marketo Inc. went public and has a market cap of $1.26 billion, and HubSpot Inc. filed in August to raise up to $100 million in an IPO.
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Re/code, Business Wire, TechCrunch, PE Hub Blog, and VentureBeat
| Carl Franzen / The Verge: |
California's autonomous vehicle regulations go into effect; Google wins 25 car permits, Audi and Mercedes-Benz get two each — Google's self-driving cars are now allowed on all roads in California — Google won 25 DMV permits for testing autonomous vehicles; Audi and Mercedes each received two
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