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Sprint to shutter WiMAX network around Nov. 6, 2015 — Sprint (NYSE:S) confirmed it will shut off service on its mobile WIMAX network on or around Nov. 6, 2015, giving further clarity on its network evolution. — Sprint spokeswoman Adrienne Norton confirmed the date to FierceWireless.
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Comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with facial recognition to charge per laugh — Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition — A comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with charging users per laugh, using facial-recognition technology to track how much they enjoyed the show.
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Kmart says hackers have obtained credit and debit card numbers of “potentially” all customers since September — Kmart Says Credit Card System Breached In Malware Attack — The attack began in September and involved the use of malware. A separate hack reportedly targeted Dairy Queen.
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Kmart, Krebs on Security, SlashGear, Mashable, Electronista, CSO Online, Consumerist, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, CBS Philly and Bloomberg
| Richard Padilla / MacRumors: |
New Images of iPad Air 2 Parts Show Touch ID Home Button Cable, Logic Board With A8X Chip, and More — Apple.club.tw (Google Translate) has shared new images that appear to show a variety of components from the iPad Air 2, which include pictures of the logic board, home button flex cable, front panel, and volume control flex cable.
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Netflix quietly raises its 4K Ultra HD subscription rate to $11.99 from $7.99 — Netflix Quietly Raises its 4K Ultra High Definition Subscription Rates — Netflix, the leader in 4K Ultra High Definition streaming services, has raised their rates, while continuing to add more 4K content …
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Variety, SlashGear, /Film, Digital Trends and Engadget
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road—On a Technicality — Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have spent the last two months shifting the focus from their client, charged with creating the billion-dollar drug market the Silk Road, and putting it onto the potential illegality of the FBI's investigation.| The Atlantic Online: |
How social media firms struggle to balance free speech and safety as women face threats and harassment online — The Unsafety Net: How Social Media Turned Against Women — In December 2012, an Icelandic woman named Thorlaug Agustsdottir discovered a Facebook group called “Men are better than women.”
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| Doug Cameron / Wall Street Journal: |
iRobot introduces new operating system enabling more autonomous robots for military use — IRobot Introduces System to Help Machines Think for Themselves — Technology Dovetails With Pentagon Push for Robots to Steer Themselves in Tricky Environments — IRobot Corp. , best known …
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CIO Today, bizjournals, The Boston Globe and Bidness Etc
| Megumi Fujikawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Tokyo court orders Google to delete search results about Japanese man, citing privacy violations — Google Suffers New Privacy Setback in Japan — TOKYO— Google Inc. has suffered another setback on privacy issues, this time in Japan, following a European court ruling that gave Internet users … | Mark Scott / New York Times: |
| Jonathan Blake / BBC: |
Co-founder of Silent Circle, maker of privacy-centric Blackphone, says tablet is coming soon — Privacy-focused Blackphone maker plans tablet ‘soon’ — Encrypted calls are only possible between Blackphone users or other devices running the Silent Phone app| Wall Street Journal: |
How marketing firms scan logos and emotions on services like Instagram for research and targeting customers — Smile! Marketing Firms Are Mining Your Selfies — Photo-Sharing Sites Are Being Scanned to Find Brands, Target Ads — Most users of popular photo-sharing sites like Instagram …
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CBS San Francisco, Tech Times, Consumerist, Valleywag and TIME
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tinder Spammers Move To SMS After Improvements To Dating App's Security — Dating app Tinder for a long time had been flooded with spam bots - fake accounts that flirt with users in order to redirect them to adult sites, and yes, take their money. This summer, security firm Symantec detailed …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in China: three carriers took 1M pre-orders in first six hours of availability — iPhone 6 in China: 3 carriers took 1 million pre-orders in 6 hours — Apple's new iPhones are hot commodities in China. Millions of customers, scalpers and resellers registered … Sponsor Posts
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