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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.3 beta 3 to developers with Messages conversation filters and ability to mark messages as junk — Apple releases iOS 8.3 beta 3 for developers — Apple has just seeded a new developer build of iOS 8.3. The beta can be downloaded on Apple's developer website. iOS 8.3 beta 2 …
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, BGR, TechCrunch, iMore, PhoneDog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone Hacks and TechnoBuffalo
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.3 Public Beta, Beta Program now comprises both iOS and OS X — Apple has updated its Apple Seed website to include many references to iOS device management. It has also updated the name of its program to ‘Apple Beta Software Program’, dropping the specificity of it being for OS X only.
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MacRumors, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Macworld, Ars Technica, ZDNet, TechCrunch, The Verge, SlashGear, Pocketnow and Lifehacker
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Apple Stops Selling Jawbone Up, Nike FuelBand in Stores — Making Way for the Apple Watch — Apple has removed competing fitness bands from its retail stores as the company prepares to ship its own wearable, the Apple Watch. — Checks of major stores in San Francisco, Palo Alto … | Kevin Rose / TechCrunch: |
Apple Watch Edition won't appeal to the technologist, the collector, or the gold lover, only the douchebag — The Gold Apple Watch Is Perfect For Douchebags — Editor's Note: Kevin Rose is the founder of Digg, a technology investor, and CEO of North Technologies, creator of the watch news aggregator, Watchville.| Jamie Talbot / Medium: |
Medium lets select publications host Medium stories at their own domain in limited beta — Custom domains for publications — Everyone's stories and ideas, in more places. — Everyone who posts on Medium already owns the rights to the original content they publish …
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VentureBeat and The Next Web. Tweets: @danielpunkass, @destraynor and @tim. See also Mediagazer
| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro teardown gives first look inside new Force Touch trackpad — Following dismantling the latest refreshed MacBook Air models yesterday, today iFixit dives inside the new MacBook Pro model that arrived this week with upgraded internals and more.
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iFixit, CNET, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, iMore, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, Tech Times, O'Grady's PowerPage and MacRumors
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
After its sale from Sony, Vaio launches first mid-range nondescript Android phone in Japan — Here is VAIO's first smartphone — No longer a part of Sony, VAIO likes the look of that smartphone market, and has decided to go up against its former parent company's Xperia series with its own creation … | Jane Wakefield / BBC: |
BBC to give 1M mini-computers to 11-year-olds across UK as part of Make it Digital initiative — BBC in school computer giveaway — The hardware is a nod to an earlier scheme to put BBC Micros in schools during the 1980s — The BBC will be giving away mini-computers to 11-year-olds across …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
In under 24 hours, 11K people signed up for Stanford's cardiovascular study using ResearchKit — Thousands Have Already Signed Up for Apple's ResearchKit — (Bloomberg) — Stanford University researchers were stunned when they awoke Tuesday to find that 11,000 people had signed …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Code disables new project creation, will shut down on January 25, 2016 — GitHub has officially won. Google has announced that Google Code project creation has been disabled today, with the ultimate plan to kill off the service next year. — On August 24, 2015, the project hosting service will be set to read-only.
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Google Open Source Blog, Ars Technica, 9to5Google, BetaNews, ZDNet, Recent changes …, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @stevestreza
| Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times: |
FCC releases full net neutrality rules confirming it will treat Internet as telecommunications and decide what is acceptable on a case-by-case basis — F.C.C. Releases Net Neutrality Rules — WASHINGTON — Two weeks after voting to regulate broadband Internet service as a public utility … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Docker's latest acquisition, KiteMatic, built a Mac app that runs Docker containers — Docker, a startup whose open-source container technology is becoming a popular component in software development, is announcing today that it's acquired KiteMatic, a three-man startup that built a Mac app …
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Google is done selling the Nexus 5 — Google has stopped selling the Nexus 5, the company's 2014 flagship Android smartphone. A Google spokesperson told The Verge today that “while some inventory of Nexus 5 still exists (with our retail and carrier partners), our focus is on the Nexus 6 at this time.”
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Android Police, CNET, Technology Personalized, BetaNews, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Tech Times, Phandroid, PhoneDog.com, BGR and htxt.africa. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
DJI set to double sales to $1B in 2015, the first consumer drone company to do so, amid VC funding talks — DJI is about to become the first billion dollar consumer drone company — The company did around $500 million in sales during 2014 and is on pace to double that this year
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
Cyanogen OS 12 will ship with Boxer as default email app — Boxer will be the default email app for Cyanogen OS devices, starting with the Lollipop-based release 12, due in the following months. — Through its boisterous CEO, Kirt McMaster, Cyanogen has made no secret of its plans to “take away Android from Google.”| Kevin Bocek / Venafi Blog: |
Clinton email server not encrypted or authenticated by a digital certificate for first three months of her term at State Department — Digital Certificate Forensics: What Venafi TrustNet Tells Us about the Clinton Email Server — 3-month gap before encryption enabled for browsers, smartphones, and tablets starting in 2009
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Computerworld, PandoDaily and Gizmodo
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Apple Pay enables hackers to use credit cards stolen online in retail stores, which were previously only useful for online fraud — Apple Pay: Bridging Online and Big Box Fraud — Lost amid the media firestorm these past few weeks about fraudsters turning to Apple Pay is this stark …
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ZDNet
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India's cab-hailing firm Ola to raise $400M from DST Global and others at a valuation close to $3B — India's Cab-Hailing Firm Ola Close to Raising $400 Million — Startup Could be Valued at About $3 Billion| Michael Carney / PandoDaily: |
SignalFx exits stealth with $28.5M in backing, promises Facebook-caliber systems monitoring off the shelf — As a budding startup, it can be challenging to say the least to hire the best and brightest technical talent in this industry. Often that talent is lock inside giants like Facebook …
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Ben's blog, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog, Xconomy and SiliconANGLE
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
One of Google's Project Loon balloons can cover an area the size of Rhode Island with LTE service; remote locations still primary target for commercial service — Google balloons, “cell towers in the sky,” can serve 4G to a whole state — A single Project Loon balloon can cover an area the size of Rhode Island.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Facebook to face U.S. class action over children's online purchases — (Reuters) - A federal judge said Facebook Inc must face a nationwide class-action lawsuit seeking to force the social media company to provide refunds when children spend their parents' money on its website without permission.| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Lyft Has Raised $530 Million In Series E Funding Led By Rakuten, Is Now Valued At $2.5 Billion — Ride-hailing startup Lyft has closed $530 million in new funding led by Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten, TechCrunch has learned. The new financing, which is slated to be announced tomorrow …
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Lyft Blog, Reuters, Rakuten, Inc., PC World, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Forbes, Tech in Asia, internetretailer.com, streetfightmag.com, PE Hub Blog, PandoDaily, memeburn, Mashable, Fast Company, SiliconANGLE and VatorNews
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