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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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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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| 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 … | 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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| 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 … | 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.
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| Margaret Rhodes / Wired: |
Stack's Alba smart bulb adapts to sunlight and your household habits to conserve energy — Ex-Tesla and NASA Engineers Make a Light Bulb That's Smarter Than You — Sometime in early 2013, one of the supply chain engineers at Tesla leaned back in his chair and took a look around the Silicon Valley office.
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| 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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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Verizon's rumored ‘Droid Turbo’ appears in leaked photos — It sounds like Motorola is building a powerhouse for Verizon — The Droid line is far from dead, if newly leaked photos are any indication. Motorola has reportedly been hard at work on its next Verizon-exclusive smartphone; rumors claim it'll be called the Droid Turbo.
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Droid Life, Engadget, Android Central, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile, Android Police, Greenbot, Phones Review, and SlashGear
| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Bitcoin-mining company Butterfly Labs shut down by FTC — Company marketed specialized computers designed to produce the cryptocurrency but delivered useless machines, according to an FTC complaint. — A bitcoin-related company that allegedly engaged in deceptive marketing …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Robinhood Raises $13M To Democratize Stock Market With Zero-Commission Trading App — Half a million people have already signed up for Robinhood's unlaunched zero-fee stock trading service. Now the startup has raised $13 million to hire talent to make its app totally secure …
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| 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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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Amazon brings Kindle Unlimited to the UK, an all-you-can-eat book subscription service for £7.99 a month — Two months after Amazon launched its e-book subscription service in the US, the internet giant has quietly introduced the offering to UK readers too.| CBC News: |
Netflix refuses CRTC demand to hand over subscriber data — Video streaming company not ‘in a position to produce competitively sensitive information’ — Netflix was ordered last week to give confidential subscriber data to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission.
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| 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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GeekWire and 9to5Google
| 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, Co.Design, LinuxGizmos, ReadWrite, TWICE, Digital Trends and Gigaom. Tweets: @generalelectric. Thanks:@benpopper
| Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
WhoSampled launches on Android, scans music on your phone to offer samples, remixes, and covers — With 1 million users, WhoSampled brings its music DNA exploration to Android — 'We are much more than a glorified Excel spreadsheet. It's an experience,' says founder Nadav Poraz
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The Next Web, AndroidHeadlines.com, Droid Life, Android Police, Complete Music Update and Inside Mobile Apps
Tweets: @guardiantech and @jameswragg
| 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: |
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Tweets: @benedictevans and @ryan
| 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.Sponsor Posts
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