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Sources: Meerkat raises a $12M Series B led by Greylock at a $40M pre-money valuation — LIVE NOW| Meerkat Raises $12M From Greylock At A $40M Valuation — If you're reading TechCrunch right now (you are, by the way), chances are you have at least heard of Meerkat.| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
New “On-Body Detection” Smart Lock Mode In Android Seems To Be Hitting Some Devices — If a tipster's screenshots are to be believed (and I think in this case, they are to be believed), Google is testing and / or rolling out a new smart lock mode called on-body detection.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's working on storefront called Unlocked to offer paid apps for free; no launch date set — Amazon ‘Unlocked’ Will Give Away Paid Apps For Free — Amazon has been working hard to build up the popularity of its Android-based Appstore with consumers and developers … | ABC News: |
Apple provides a peek into its Watch fitness testing facility, reveals it collected 18K hours of health and fitness data in testing — Inside Apple's Top Secret Health and Fitness Lab for Apple Watch Development … Apple, known for keeping its product developments under the strictest of lock-and-key …
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| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
Chrome extension Ugly Mail identifies which of your Gmail emails are being monitored using pixel tracking — A Clever Way to Tell Which of Your Emails Are Being Tracked — While you've likely never heard of companies like Yeswear, Bananatag, and Streak, they almost certainly know a good deal about you.| Horace Dediu / Asymco: |
Market saturation, rising monthly fees, lack of innovation, and broadband expansion make cable TV's decline inevitable in the US — Peak Cable — Paying for TV has been a curious consumer phenomenon. There was a time when TV was free to consumers. It was delivered as a broadcast … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Facebook testing app that provides info on callers and automatically blocks calls from commonly blocked numbers on Android — Facebook Appears To Be Testing A Dialer And Caller ID App For Android, And It's Called... Phone — Facebook, that company that is constantly trying to confuse … | Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Windows 10 to make the Secure Boot alt-OS lock out a reality — Windows 10 hardware must support Secure Boot and won't have to let you turn it off. — Those of you with long memories will recall a barrage of complaints in the run up to Windows 8's launch that concerned the ability to install … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Stops Supporting Windows 7 in Boot Camp on New MacBook Pro, MacBook Air Models — Apple's newly refreshed MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro models no longer support running Windows 7 with Boot Camp, according to Apple's Boot Camp support document. Boot Camp on the new notebooks …
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| Tom Vanderbilt / Outside Magazine: |
15-year-old TripAdvisor with its 200M+ reviews shapes tourism economies but continues to struggle with bogus comments — Inside the Mad, Mad World of TripAdvisor — Research almost any travel destination and you'll probably wind up on travel-industry Goliath, where passionate people praise … | John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
Apple to launch new Apple TV set top box at WWDC with A8 chip, increased storage, enabling App Store, Siri, and HomeKit integration — New Apple TV Set Top Will Debut This Summer With App Store, Siri — Apple intends to show the device off at its annual World Wide Developers Conference in June
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| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
At Pwn2Own, researchers exploit fully patched versions of Firefox, Chrome, IE 11, and Safari, while payouts total $557K — HP Awards $240K for Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari Exploits — On March 19, the second day of the Hewlett-Packard Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) sponsored Pwn2Own hacking challenge …
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