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FAA to propose rules on commercial drones: operators must be licensed pilots, flights only allowed in daylight hours at altitudes below 400 feet — Drone Flights Face FAA Hit — Looming Rule Proposal Would Restrict Commercial Uses, Require Pilot License
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Whitney Wolfe, Other Former Tinder Employees To Launch Direct Competitor Called Bumble — Whitney Wolfe, an early employee at Tinder who sued the company for sexual harassment and workplace discrimination, has joined up with two other early Tinder employees, Chris Gulczynski and his parnter Sarah Mick … | Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
T-Mobile forced to stop hiding slow speeds from throttled customers — When T-Mobile US customers exceed their monthly data caps, they aren't cut off from the Internet entirely. Instead, T-Mobile throttles their connections to 128Kbps or 64Kbps, depending on which plan they have, for the rest of the month.
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Twitter CFO Anthony Noto, in apparent “DM fail”, expresses support for buying unnamed company — A Top Twitter Executive Just Had A Massive Direct Message Fail — It looks like Twitter's finance chief Anthony Noto thought he was messaging another Twitter executive about buying a company.
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Regin malware found on Belgacom, other EU networks, rumored targets of earlier GCHQ, NSA hacks — U.S. and British Intel Agencies Attacked European Union With Malware — Complex malware known as Regin is the suspected technology behind sophisticated cyberattacks conducted by U.S …
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Sony Pictures hacked, entire computer system reportedly unusable — Reports that Sony Pictures has been hacked have been trickling in this morning, after a thread appeared on Reddit claiming all computers at the company were offline due to a hack. — According to the Reddit thread …
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Lack of centralized cloud infrastructure team hampering Apple's development of iCloud services - report — Apple's work-in-progress iCloud Photo Library still hasn't fully realized the original concept, code-named “Hyperion,” that was pushed years ago by late company co-founder Steve Jobs, according to a new report.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
iPhone 6 drives App Store downloads to all-time-high in October, up 42% from September and 39% YoY, while app marketing costs fall slightly — iPhone 6 drives huge downloads in October, but marketing costs finally fall slightly — App and game makers got some welcome relief in October, according to marketing technology firm Fiksu.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iFixit: Nexus 6 is easy to fix if you can get it open — If you ever find yourself with a broken Nexus 6, iFixit has your back. The site has just completed its teardown of the Google/Motorola Nexus “phablet,” and it turns out that most of the internal components are pretty easy to get to.
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ESPN planning its first subscription service for the web in the US for cricket's World Cup — ESPN Gets Ready to Launch Its First Web Video Subscription Service — For Cricket's World Cup — ESPN's efforts to sell streaming video subscriptions for some sports programming … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Ebay Now Pulled From App Store As Company Rethinks Its Same-Day Delivery Plans — Ebay Now, the same-day local delivery service from the online marketplace giant, was pulled from the App Store over the weekend, where previously it allowed mobile customers to shop from their phones in order … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Post Rakuten Acquisition, Slice Buys UnrollMe To Add Email List Control To Its Shopping App — Slice, the shopping and package tracking app acquired by Rakuten earlier this year, has now made an acquisition of its own. It has bought Unroll.Me, an app that lets users roll …
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