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Pebble Reveals Pebble Time Steel And A Smartstrap System Open To Hardware Developers — Pebble announced Pebble Time last week, the next-generation version of its Pebble smartwatch, and today it's revealing another new product: Pebble Time Steel. This is the stainless steel version of the Pebble Time …
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Obama criticizes China's new rules requiring US tech companies to provide backdoor access, says Beijing must change policy if it wants to do business with USA — Exclusive: Obama sharply criticizes China's plans for new technology rules — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama …
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Inside Project Loon: Google's internet in the sky is almost open for business — “Good news,” says Katelin Jabbari, Google X's communications chief. “It's about to explode.” — We're several hundred feet in the air, inching our way along a wooden walkway tucked high into the rafters … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Oculus Has Hired Mary Lou Jepsen Away From Google X — Facebook-owned Oculus has hired away big-time Google X executive Mary Lou Jepsen, according to sources familiar with the move. — Jepsen, who spent the last three years running the Display Division at Google X, is joining …
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BlackBerry plans four phones this year, including $275 all-touch 5-inch Leap phablet — BlackBerry plans to launch a sliding ‘dual-curved display’ phone this year — During a press conference at Mobile World Congress today, BlackBerry revealed that it plans to launch a new touchscreen slider device later this year.| Luke Westaway / CNET: |
The Lenovo A7000 is a $169, 5.5-inch 4G LTE smartphone with Dolby sound — BARCELONA — Once the preserve of the high-fallutin', gadget-lovin' elite, smartphones no longer need to cost the Earth. The latest mobile to offer smartphone tech on a modest budget is Lenovo's A7000 … | Lauren Johnson / Adweek: |
Interview with Kim Kardashian on her hit game, aspirations in tech, and plans to create more apps — After Conquering Reality TV, Kim Kardashian Is Taking the Mobile World By Storm — Kim Kardashian West first grabbed our attention in October 2007 with the premiere of E!'s Keeping Up With the Kardashians.
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Uber launches a quarterly print magazine, Momentum, for drivers in Boston, New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Ohio, and Oklahoma — Uber just launched a quarterly print magazine, Momentum — Here's something different. — Uber, the $41 billion ride hailing company … | Chloe Sorvino / Forbes: |
The World's Richest Tech Billionaires: Jack Ma Breaks Through to Top, Google Leaders Slip — Want to join the upper crust of the billionaire ranks? Building a tech company could be your way in: Seven of the world's 15 richest self-made billionaires earned their wealth through a technology business.
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Open Whisper System's Signal app for encrypted calls gets encrypted texting in version 2.0 for iOS — You can now call or text anyone with end-to-end encryption, for free — For years, smartphone users have been out of luck if they wanted to call or text everyone in their address books …
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Samsung Pay vs. Apple Pay vs. Android Pay — Samsung's new mobile payment system, coming this summer, will work even at the millions of old-fashioned checkout terminals that don't have a wireless connection. That solves one of the big limitations of Apple's mobile pay system …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Cook teases ‘ton’ of Apple Watch announcements, including Panera Bread, Salesforce enterprise & fitness apps — In addition to discussing the international Apple Watch launch and accessibility efforts at a briefing in Germany, Apple CEO Tim Cook teased “a whole ton of announcements coming shortly …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default — Encrypted storage will only be required in “future versions of Android.” — Last year, Google made headlines when it revealed that its next version of Android would require full-disk encryption on all new phones.
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| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Stratos Bluetooth connected card aims to unify all credit cards, ships in April — Stratos' Bluetooth connected payment card works everywhere, available this April — Everyone wants a piece of the payments space and if the excitement for Coin proved anything, people want a single card …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PCH buys Fab.com, will use it as a sales channel for the hardware products it helps startups make — Fab.com's Fire Sale Is Official — Fab.com finally has a new home. — PCH, a company that helps startups design and manufacture hardware products, has announced that it has purchased …
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Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 will feature Kryo CPU, Krait's 64-bit successor — At long last, it's (almost) time for Qualcomm's custom-designed 64-bit chip. — BARCELONA, Spain—Qualcomm, after an agonizingly long wait, has finally revealed a few details about its next-gen, top-end CPU core.
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