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Facebook now takes into account how long you've viewed specific stories in News Feed in determining which posts to surface — News Feed FYI: Taking Into Account Time Spent on Stories — The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you.
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White House confirms hackers breached second computer system at OPM, says President is considering financial sanctions against attackers — White House Weighs Sanctions After Second Breach of a Computer System — WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday revealed that hackers had breached …
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Office of Personnel Management hacker breach is far worse than first believed, was exposed during sales demo by security company — Why The OPM Breach Is Such a Security and Privacy Debacle — If it's not already a maxim, it should be: Every big hack discovered will eventually prove to be more serious than first believed.
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Sources: Beats Electronics planned to introduce a WiFi speaker by the holidays in 2014, but effectively killed it post acquisition — Apple Music's Missing Link: How Beats Electronics Fumbled Its Sonos Killer (Exclusive) — Pop stars, live music, superlatives: The launch …
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Google will take on Amazon's Twitch by launching YouTube Gaming, an app and website for live-streamed and on-demand gaming video, this summer in US and UK — Google is launching a ‘YouTube built for gamers’ to take on Twitch — Google is now officially taking on Twitch.
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Amazon Expands Prime With Goods Shipped Directly From Merchants — Amazon.com has quietly begun rolling out a program that could dramatically increase the number of items eligible for two-day shipping through its Prime membership. — The e-commerce giant is now listing items in Prime …
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Amazon releases first transparency report, covering January 1-May 31: 813 subpoenas of which 66% were fully complied with, 0-249 national security requests — After years of silence, Amazon releases first transparency report — The cloud giant said it was never part of the government's PRISM surveillance program.
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Google is taking additional steps to reduce Chrome's battery draw — Google recently implemented a new feature in Chrome that detects and shuts down any unnecessary Flash content on a web page. The intent was to free up some CPU cycles and ultimately, improve battery life on mobile devices and notebooks.
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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Google Play Offers Its First Free App Of The Week—A PBS App Tucked Away In The Family Section — Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets …
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FCC Has ‘Serious Concerns’ About PayPal's New Robocall Policy — PayPal and eBay's recent announcement that their terms of service are changing to allow them to make robocalls or send text messages to users has now caught the attention of both federal and state officials.
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Here are marketing images for Nokia's Moonraker smartwatch project, which was later canceled by Microsoft — Microsoft Moonraker was Nokia's smartwatch before it was killed — While Apple was working on its Watch, Nokia had its own ideas about smartwatches.| Fortune: |
Crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky ditches device manufacturing, is close to raising a new round of funding — Exclusive: Quirky ditches device manufacturing, preps for new investment — Quirky is just days away from raising a new round of venture capital funding, Fortune has learned … Sponsor Posts
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