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Apple pulls iOS 8.0.1 after users report major problems with update — The new update is reportedly killing cell reception and Touch ID — One week after the launch of iOS 8, Apple released its first update for the new OS — iOS 8.0.1 — on Wednesday afternoon.
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Amazon to invest $55M in its Silicon Valley-based hardware unit Lab126 to develop smart home gadgets and wearables — Exclusive: Amazon tests smart home gadgets, expands hardware lab — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc will boost staffing at its secretive Silicon Valley-based hardware unit …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
BlackBerry Passport review: good display and battery life, but inefficient keyboard with clumsy software — BlackBerry Passport review — Getting stuff done or getting in the way? — “BlackBerry is still around?” — I've heard that question quite often the past few weeks, as I've been using the BlackBerry Passport.| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Unix/Linux Bash: Critical security hole uncovered — Summary: The popular Linux and Unix shell has a serious security problem that means real trouble for many web servers. Fortunately, a patch — as source code — is available. — Bash, aka the Bourne-Again Shell, has a newly discovered security hole.| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Convicted black hat hacker Kevin Mitnick now selling zero-day exploits, starting at $100K — Kevin Mitnick, Once the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Is Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits — As a young man, Kevin Mitnick became the world's most notorious black hat hacker, breaking into the networks … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
Comcast accuses Time Warner merger opponents Netflix, Discovery, and others of “extortion” — Comcast Accuses Time Warner Cable Deal Opponents of “Extortion” — Netflix, Discovery Communications and other companies opposing Comcast's $45 billion deal to acquire Time Warner Cable …
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HotelTonight moving past same-day model to include 7-day advance booking as competition grows — HotelTonight Pivots Beyond Same-Day Booking As Competition Heats Up — HotelTonight is planning a major shift to its business model, moving from its same-day booking model to a more flexible offering of seven-day advance booking.| Joshua Brustein / Businessweek: |
Online survey company Qualtrics raises $150M at valuation exceeding $1B from Insight Venture Partners, Sequoia, and Accel — How an Online Survey Company Joined the $1 Billion Club — The business of making software for online surveys is pretty easy to understand: You find people …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
Amazon launches #AmazonWishList, now you can add products to your Wish List by tweeting — Twitter has long been evolving as a vital cog in the global e-commerce wheel, and now Amazon is turning to the social network to make it easier to add items to your Amazon Wish List.
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| Brad Stone / Businessweek: |
Bezos-Backed Pro.com Raises Another $14 Million to Help Renovate Your Home — Fern leaf green, the color of the walls in my living room, started to look dated ages ago. The baseboards need retouching, and there's a hole in the drywall near the front door, where movers once mishandled a sofa.| Paul Carsten / Reuters: |
Adobe to shutter China R&D by December due to hostile government, layoffs of 300 expected — Adobe to shut China R&D as sour business climate bites — (Reuters) - Computer software maker Adobe Systems Inc will shut its Chinese research and development arm, as U.S. technology firms face …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Startup incubator Science Inc buys mobile ad network PlayHaven from Upsight for more than $20M — Science Inc. Buys Mobile Ad Network PlayHaven — Science, the Los Angeles-based startup incubator and investment company, has made its biggest deal to date, by acquiring PlayHaven, a mobile ad network.
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ARM unveils feature-rich Cortex-M7 processor for embedded, internet of things, and wearables — Cortex-M7 Launches: Embedded, IoT and Wearables — Introduction — Last week, I had the distinct pleasure of visiting ARM's Austin Texas campus for a meeting with Vice President of CPU Product Marketing Nandan Nayampally.
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| John Callaham / Android Central: |
Samsung Gear S coming to AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile for fall launch — Following up on its reveal in late August, Samsung has now announced that its upcoming Tizen-based smartwatch, the Gear S, will go on sale later this fall at the top four US wireless carriers.| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Support page screenshots and error messages suggest Photos app is coming to iCloud website — Can't wait for Photos for OS X? Photos app likely coming to iCloud.com for desktop viewing — With Photos for OS X not being released until early next year, it seemed like there would be no way to view …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Its Audacity Undiminished, Udacity Raises $35 Million To Train A New Generation of Developers — As its push to transform education through technology begins to show results, massively open online course provider Udacity is announcing a fresh $35 million financing from a global group of investors to take its vision worldwide.
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| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Circa reworks its bite-sized news app around Daily Brief catchups and a custom ‘Wire’ news feed — Circa, a news reader app for Android and iOS that breaks important stories down into bite-sized chunks, has undergone a massive overhaul in terms of its design and user experience.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Bionym Raises $14M Series A For Its Heartbeat Authentication Wristband — Toronto-based startup Bionym has raised a $14 million Series A round of funding, including investment from Ignition Partners, Relay Ventures, MasterCard and Salesforce Ventures. The round includes a lot of strategic investment …
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Karma Rolls Out An LTE Version Of Its Pay-As-You-Go Mobile Hotspot, Pre-Order For $99 — Karma, makers of the small, portable Wi-Fi hotspot that lets you pay-as-you-go, contract free, for the data you use ($14/1 GB), is now accepting pre-orders for its latest device, the Karma Go portable LTE Wi-Fi hotspot.
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Skyhook plays the beacon game, building context into its Wi-Fi geo-location platform — There's a lot Skyhook can tell about you based on the Wi-Fi networks you cross everyday. It's putting that info to work with a more refined set of geofencing and profiling tools for advertisers and developers.| Jackie Dove / The Next Web: |
Hands on: Adobe Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements hit version 13 with deep upgrades — Every year — like clockwork — Adobe delivers updates to its consumer photo and video apps, Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements, and that time has arrived. While the new Elements version 13 seems modest …
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