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Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies At 55 — Nintendo has just issued a short statement announcing that president Satoru Iwata has passed away at the age of 55. — The statement reads: … Iwata was forced to skip last year's E3 due to his poor health, and shortly afterwards underwent surgery to remove the bile duct growth.
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| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Comcast announces Stream, a $15/month web TV add-on for its internet subscribers with broadcast networks and HBO, available in select markets later this year — Comcast Offers Its Alternative to Cable TV, Using the Web — Comcast, the country's largest cable operator …
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Microsoft plans multi-million Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign, fan-focused launch — Microsoft plans a fan-focused Windows 10 launch kick-off — Microsoft's multi-million-dollar Windows 10 ad and marketing campaign will be focused on ‘upgrading the world’ to the coming operating system release.| Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed: |
Two major pharmaceutical companies, GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma, are considering Apple's ResearchKit for drug R&D — Big Pharma Eyes iPhone For Drug R&D — Pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline and Purdue Pharma are considering Apple's ResearchKit platform for gathering medical research data.
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| Chuq Von Rospach / Writing & Commentary: |
Reddit is fatally broken, should rebuild by hiring or contracting top 100+ moderators to align mod motivations with the company, kill controversial subreddits — The Death of Reddit — [edit July 12: when you're done here, I wrote a followup for you: Fixing or Replacing Reddit, some quick thoughts — take a look! chuq]
| Blake Ross / Medium: |
Wealthfront markets itself as the anti-Wall Street, but still charges a 0.25% compound fee, far worse than Vanguard VTI's 0.05% fee — Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices — Somewhere in the Bay Area, a developer teeters on the edge of insanity. — For the last 60 hours … | Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico: |
Many Obama campaign and administration alumni are moving to Silicon Valley to join tech firms — The city on the hill(s) for Obama alums — San Francisco and its tech firms are a prime destination for aides leaving the administration. — Getty — SAN FRANCISCO — Sipping a cup of cold-pressed coffee.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to expand Surface distributor count from ‘couple hundred’ to a few thousand — Microsoft is opening up its Surface distribution channel to help prime the pump for its Surface tablets ahead of the start of the Windows 10 rollout. — Microsoft is continuing to gradually expand … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
China's Tianhe-2 Supercomputer Is Still the World's Most Powerful — Sorry, America, but the most powerful computer on the face of the planet still resides in China. — That's the pronouncement of researchers who assembled the twice-a-year Top500 list of the world's top supercomputers …
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Development of anti-surveillance device ProxyHam and its DEF Con talk mysteriously cancelled, existing units destroyed — Privacy talk at DEF CON canceled under questionable circumstances — Anti-surveillance tool ProxyHam will never see the light of day| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Java Zero-Day Used in Attacks on NATO Member, US Defense Organization — A notorious cyber espionage group has been using a Java zero-day exploit in attacks aimed at the armed forces of a NATO member country and a defense organization based in the United States, Trend Micro reported over the weekend.
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Cortana Analytics Suite with Power BI, Azure Machine Learning, and more in a monthly subscription — Microsoft today announced Cortana Analytics Suite, a new package of data storage, information management, machine learning, and business intelligence software in a single convenient monthly subscription.
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