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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions — Following the success of OS X Snow Leopard for Macs in 2009, one of iOS 9's standout ‘features’ will be a directed focus on stabilizing and optimizing the operating system.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8.4 to be released after Apple Watch starts shipping, possibly with redesigned Beats-based music service — Apple working on iOS 8.4 update, may include new music service — In addition to working on iOS 8.2, iOS 8.3, and iOS 9.0, Apple is working on yet another update to iOS 8: iOS 8.4.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8.3 brings wireless CarPlay, improved Google login, new Emojis, China Apple Pay — Earlier today, Apple seeded the first iOS 8.3 build to developers alongside Xcode 6.3 beta with Swift 1.2. Readers have discovered that the new operating system brings a new wireless CarPlay feature to the iPhone.
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| Prem Ramaswami / The Official Google Blog: |
Google adds fact-checked and reviewed health information to Knowledge Graph in search — A remedy for your health-related questions: health info in the Knowledge Graph — Think of the last time you searched on Google for health information. Maybe you heard a news story about gluten-free diets … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Ross Ulbricht's closest confidant at Silk Road, known as Variety Jones, remains elusive — Ross Ulbricht Didn't Create Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts. This Guy Did — More than 14 months after his arrest, Ross Ulbricht has been convicted of being the Dread Pirate Roberts … | Beth McMurtrie / Chronicle of Higher Education: |
Many original Thiel fellows say they learned more in fellowship than they would've in college — The Rich Man's Dropout Club — Whatever happened to the teenage entrepreneurs whom Peter Thiel paid to forgo college? — Peter Thiel paid teenagers to forgo college. Here's how that turned out:| Carl / OnePlus Blog: |
OnePlus will sell One without invites for 24 hours every Tuesday starting at midnight PT — OnePlus One Open Sales, every Tuesday — We've been shipping the OnePlus One for half a year, and nowadays we're bumping into lots of people using it when we're out and about.
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| Alex Hern / Guardian: |
Samsung rejects TV privacy concerns: we do “not retain voice data or sell it to third parties” — Samsung rejects concern over ‘Orwellian’ privacy policy — Smart TV voice recognition software could transmit ‘personal or other sensitive information’ to a third party, Samsung's policy warns
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
French government can now block sites that advocate terrorism or contain images of child abuse without a court order; ISPs must comply within 24 hours — French law blocking terrorist and child abuse sites comes into effect — Law that allows blockade of offending sites without … | Cory Bennett / The Hill: |
Apple CEO to speak at White House cyber summit — Apple CEO Tim Cook will speak at the White House cybersecurity summit this Friday at Stanford University, according to an invitation to the event. — The White House is expected to reveal its next executive action on cybersecurity at the summit …
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| Kim Yoo-chul / The Korea Times: |
Samsung creates independent team to work on VR, drones, robots, 3D printing, unmanned vehicles — Samsung establishes product innovation team — Samsung Electronics has established a team to work on hi-tech innovative business projects, officials said Monday.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Takes Internet.org And Its Free Mobile Data Services To India — Facebook's Internet.org project to provide basic mobile internet services for free just took its biggest step to date after it launched in India. — The service, which is run by non-profit organization Internet.org …
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| Kristen V. Brown / San Francisco Chronicle: |
San Francisco's antitech movement has fizzled before it ever really took off — Is the antitech movement obsolete? — Wearing a pig mask and sequined suit jacket, Amy Gilgan stood outside of Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night to accept the McMansion award at the second annual Crappys …
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| Ian King / Bloomberg Business: |
China Fines Qualcomm $975 Million, Sets Patent Licensing Rates — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Chinese regulators fined Qualcomm Inc. $975 million and set licensing rates for its mobile-phone chip technology after finding the U.S. company guilty of antitrust violations.| David Lumb / Fast Company: |
Imgur drops Pro subscriptions, makes unlimited image uploads and analytics free — Imgur Unleashes Subscription-Only Pro Editing Tools For All — Imgur, the self-billed “simple image sharer,” is celebrating its sixth birthday by releasing its paid subscription-only Pro user tools for all users.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft, Samsung settle contract dispute over Android patent payments — Summary:Microsoft and Samsung have settled an Android patent-licensing-related contract dispute, Microsoft officials say, while offering no specific about the terms. — Microsoft and Samsung have settled …
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| Siobhan Hughes / Wall Street Journal: |
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