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Obama administration publishes 2016 fiscal budget proposal on Github and Medium — How the White House found a publishing ally in Medium — The White House published President Obama's 2016 fiscal budget on Monday using a medium that's become increasingly popular among its advisors …
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Twitter is testing a new landing page featuring curated tweets for people without accounts — Another Twitter Update! This One's a New Homepage, Designed to Lure New Users. — Twitter is experimenting with yet another new product tweak — a homepage designed for people who visit Twitter but don't have their own account.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
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Amazon launches Kindle Convert in the US, a $19 Windows app for scanning, turning paper books into e-books — Amazon's Kindle Convert Can Turn Your Paper Library Into E-Books — If you've been hanging on to those paper books because the idea of having to repurchase them all as Kindle titles is daunting …
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Alan Eustace, Google's SVP Of Knowledge, Is Leaving The Company — Another management change is underway at Google: TechCrunch has learned that Alan Eustace, a longtime Google employee and its SVP of Knowledge — and also the current world-record holder for making the highest-altitude free-fall jump — is leaving the company.
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
ARM says next-generation A72 chip can triple the performance of today's chips, or match performance while using 75% less power — ARM Says Next-Gen A72 Chip Paves Way for Thinner, More Power-Efficient Phones — ARM, the British company whose chip designs are at the core of nearly …
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| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Microsoft launches Picturesque, its second free lock screen replacement app for Android — Microsoft quietly launches a free lock screen replacement app for Android — Things are busy at Microsoft Garage, where the company's employees share experimental projects they've been working on.| Jessica Plautz / Mashable: |
Groupon founder Andrew Mason launches Detour, an iPhone app for location-aware walking tours in cities, starting with San Francisco — Groupon's ex-CEO launches audio tour app in San Francisco — Audio tours, often associated with museum field trips, are taking to the streets.| Brad Sams / Neowin: |
Microsoft pushes the open source door a little wider with .NET CoreCLR — Microsoft has been pushing the open source message for many months now, and today the company announced a few updates to this initiative. The Redmond-based company has taken the next step in completely open-sourcing …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
SAP revamps Business Suite with new UI, HANA analytics — SAP says its Business Suite 4 on HANA has been “reinvented for the digital age.” Adoption of the suite, which includes a new UI, is likely to be critical to SAP's 2020 outlook.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T previews lawsuit it plans to file against FCC over net neutrality — AT&T says Title II proponents “are only deceiving themselves.” — AT&T seems resigned to the near-certainty that the Federal Communications Commission will reclassify broadband as a common carrier service in order to enforce net neutrality rules.
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| Joseph Paul / Indianapolis Star: |
First-ever staffed Amazon store opens at Purdue University — Last semester, Zach Jordan spent around $400 renting textbooks for his classes at Purdue University. — This semester, the freshman mechanical engineering major decided to rent his books from Amazon and pick them up at the Web giant's …
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Amazon.com, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, The Next Web, TechCrunch, PC Magazine and Engadget. Thanks:@benvblanco
| Carlos Bohórquez Marín / The Yammer Blog: |
Microsoft's updated Yammer comes with Android Wear support and Handoff for iOS and Yosemite — Take Your Team To The Next Level With Yammer On Mobile Devices — In recent years, we've all experienced the unprecedented migration of life and work to mobile devices.
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VentureBeat, SlashGear, WinBeta, Android Police, Android Central and iMore
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
New Adware Found In Google Play Apps With Millions Of Downloads — A new report from security firm Avast out this morning reveals the discovery of a new form of malware on the Google Play store, which begins to display advertisements disguised as warning messages to end users when they unlock their Android smartphone.
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AdExchanger, Ars Technica, The Register, SlashGear, Engadget, IntoMobile, Phandroid, PC Magazine, Graham Cluley and BGR
| Paul Bischoff / Tech in Asia: |
Alibaba is testing drone delivery in China with a 3-day pilot program — Alibaba is now in the testing phases of delivering packages by drone, according to a post on Taobao's website (h/t 36kr). Bringing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos' dream into reality, Alibaba's major online marketplace Taobao … | Alastair Stevenson / V3.co.uk: |
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