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Apple quietly pulls original iPad mini, its last non-Retina iOS device, from website and Apple Store — Apple quietly pulls original iPad mini from web site and Apple Store — Last week, above. Today, below. — The original iPad mini has quietly disappeared from Apple's web site … | David Pierce / Wired: |
Project Lightning demotes the timeline to get to the core of Twitter: curated news and information — Twitter Is Killing Twitter To Save Twitter — Twitter isn't about a 140-character limit. It's not about a timeline. It's not about your joke going viral, or getting Justin Bieber to follow you by any means necessary.
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Tweets: @rickm18, @digitalmaverick, @trengriffin, @funnelfiasco, @ronellsmith and @therickwilson
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FCC votes in favor of giving consumers the right to block robocalls and spam text messages — FCC Moves to Prevent Robocalls and Spam Texts — Under new plan, phone carriers can block robocalls and automated text messages to cellphones and landlines — WASHINGTON—The Federal …
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Nokia to design and license smartphones in 2016 when Microsoft agreement permits it — Nokia CEO says to get back into phones: Manager Magazin — Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, plans to start designing and licensing handsets again once an agreement … | Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
The DxO One is a $599, 20.2MP, 1-inch camera that attaches to your iPhone lightning port; preorders open now for September delivery — The DxO One makes your iPhone better than most compact cameras — We all take pictures with our phones but some of us want to grow the experience up a little.
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Interview with Nuzzel CEO Jonathan Abrams on news, Twitter, Friendster, founders as CEOs, and the future of Nuzzel — We talked to the CEO who some people think owns the one thing Twitter needs most — A few days ago, the Silicon Valley investor Chris Sacca was talking on Periscope about Nuzzel, the newsgathering app.
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Toshiba's Windows 10 laptops all have a built-in Cortana key — Toshiba just unveiled its back-to-school laptop lineup, and while mainstream notebooks are normally a bit of a snooze, there's at least one detail that makes these worth a second look. Everything in the line …
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Inquirer, BetaNews, TechCrunch, The Verge, Electronista, Laptop Mag and PCWorld
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A look at the OS X and iOS security vulnerabilities that make up XARA and what to do until Apple fixes them — XARA, deconstructed: An in-depth look at OS X and iOS cross-app resource attacks — Does the Indiana University XARA whitepaper make your head hurt?
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International Business Times, MacRumors, Daring Fireball, Mashable, The Loop, SecurityWeek, TIME and HOTforSecurity. Tweets: @1password
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Fitbit shares soar in trading debut, close up 48.4% or $9.68, at $29.68 — Fitbit Shares Surge 48 Percent in Market Debut — Shares of Fitbit soared in their trading debut on Thursday, even after the company priced its initial public offering above an already heightened range.
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Tweets: @jeff, @joshmedia and @starkupnation
| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook Moments will not be available in Europe until an opt-in choice is offered due to regulators' concerns about facial recognition — Facial-Recognition Concerns Keep Facebook ‘Moments’ From Europe — Facebook is not offering its new photo-sharing app Moments in Europe …
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PCWorld, Engadget, The Register, Ubergizmo, GSMArena Blog and The Next Web
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Samsung will roll out security update to fix Galaxy keyboard vulnerability in coming days, says likelihood of successful exploits using vulnerability is low — Information Regarding the Keyboard Security Issue and Our Device Policy Update — Samsung takes all security threats very seriously.
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