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Facebook announces Safety Check, a tool that lets you announce you're safe during natural disasters — Introducing Safety Check — In times of disaster or crisis, people turn to Facebook to check on loved ones and get updates. It is in these moments that communication is most critical …
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Apple TV channel for today's iPad and iMac event live stream is now available — Apple previously announced that it would be live streaming Thursday's iPad and Mac event, so it shouldn't be a surprise that the company is pushing out an Apple TV channel to stream the video.
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Apple should stop selling the iPad Mini, introduce an iPad Pro to revive a product that is getting squeezed between larger phones and lighter laptops — Thoughts on iPad — The iPad is at a crossroads. Introduced by Steve Jobs four years ago, the iPad has gone on to become a phenomenal success …
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'iPad Air 2′ and 'iPad mini 3′ with Touch ID & Burst Mode confirmed, show up early in iTunes — Apple's iTunes Store has just made a little bit of a slip-up (and with perfect uncanny timing): screenshots for the iOS 8.1 iPad user guide have just appeared within iBooks and include Apple's upcoming iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3.
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Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, The Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App — If you're even kind of active on reddit, you probably know of Alien Blue. As far as perusing reddit on iOS goes, it's pretty much the undisputed champ. — It seems reddit would agree.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Nexus 9: 8.9" display, first 64-bit CPU in a Nexus, 9 hour battery life, preorders start Oct. 17, from $399, keyboard case sold separately — Google announces HTC-made Nexus 9 tablet, coming November 3rd — Google has just announced the Nexus 9, an Android 5.0 tablet that the company designed in collaboration with HTC.
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will.i.am introduces Puls cuff with voice control, 1GB RAM, 16GB storage, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, more — Will.i.am introduces the Puls smartwatch — When you think wearables you don't usually think international superstar or Salesforce. Push aside that old way of thinking aside …
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Christian Bale in talks to play Steve Jobs in Sony's new movie “Jobs” — Christian Bale to Play Steve Jobs in New Movie — Oscar-winner Christian Bale, who has played Batman and Moses, is about to take on another iconic figure: Steve Jobs. — Sources confirm the actor …
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| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
HBO's taking on Netflix like never before. But now they'll share the same headaches, too. — HBO is finally caving to consumer pressure and will be offering its streaming service, HBO Go, as a standalone subscription next year. This is a huge deal for cord-cutters, people … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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Nadella says differences in base pay among genders and races at Microsoft within 0.5%, announces plan to recruit and train for diversity — Internal Memo: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sets new diversity plan after ‘humbling’ experience — A week after his controversial comments about women and pay raises … | Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Apple Plans to Stop Selling Fitbit Devices in Stores — Apple may soon stop selling the popular Fitbit devices, as it clears the way for its own wearable technology product set to launch sometime next year, according to sources. — It's unclear exactly why Apple will no longer sell the devices …
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Mass internet surveillance threatens international law, UN report claims — Actions of intelligence agencies are ‘corrosive of online privacy’, Ben Emmerson says in response to Edward Snowden leaks — Mass surveillance of the internet by intelligence agencies is “corrosive of online privacy” … | Alex Wagner / PhoneDog: |
HP: webOS cloud services, App Catalog to shut down on January 15 — Earlier this month, we learned that LG may be working on a new webOS SmartWatch, which would be the first new mobile webOS product in quite some time. Unfortunately, now we have a bit of bad webOS news to balance out the good.
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Netflix Q3 earnings: profit of $59.3M on revenue of $1.41B; shares fall over 25% on lower-than-projected subscriber numbers — Netflix Blames Missed Sub-Growth Targets on Price Increase, as Stock Gets Hammered — Netflix added 3.02 million overall streaming customers for the third quarter of 2014 … Sponsor Posts
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