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Apple Watch to be sold at Best Buy stores and online starting August 7 — Apple Watch to Be Sold at Best Buy — One month after Apple Inc. started selling Apple Watch at its own stores, the company said it will bring the device to Best Buy stores in August.
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| Josephine Wolff / The Atlantic: |
How the Secret Service Internet Threat Desk deals with online threats to President Obama — How the Secret Service Protects Obama on the Internet — When President Obama launched his Twitter account in May, people noticed his rapid accumulation of followers, a silly back-and-forth with President Clinton … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Samsung unveils the first monitor that can wirelessly charge your phone — Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a monitor that isn't just about more screen, more pixels, and more visuals. Samsung today unveiled the SE370, claiming it's the first monitor with an integrated wireless charging function for mobile devices.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Smoking Gun: MPAA Emails Reveal Plan To Run Anti-Google Smear Campaign Via Today Show And WSJ — If you talk to the reporters who work for various big media companies, they insist that they have true editorial independence from the business side of their companies.
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DraftKings Raises $300 Million, Promises to Spend Much of It With Fox Sports — Attention sports fans: Prepare to see a lot more DraftKings advertising over the next few years. — DraftKings, one of the top daily fantasy sports companies, has raised $300 million in new funding led by 21st Century Fox's Fox Sports unit.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researches create a faster Tor alternative for anonymous Internet use called HORNET — Researchers claim they've developed a better, faster Tor — HORNET, a high-speed onion routing network, could be deployed on routers as part of the Internet. — Tor, the world's largest and most well-known … | Ellen Huet / Forbes: |
Homejoy couldn't retain customers enticed by promotional prices for its home cleaning service — What Really Killed Homejoy? It Couldn't Hold Onto Its Customers — A cleaning company charges north of $85 for a 2.5-hour house cleaning, but to rope in as many new customers as possible … | Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
YouTube offers money and help to top creators to ward off online video rivals like Facebook — YouTube Creates Stars. Can It Keep Them? — At VidCon, Google battles with Facebook and startups to woo ‘MyCupcakeAddiction’ and other popular online video creators — YouTube created a new kind of celebrity.| Kyle VanHemert / Wired: |
Jewelbots programmable bluetooth friendship bracelet aims to inspire young girls to code, passes Kickstarter goal — Somehow Teen Girls Get the Coolest Wearable Out There — Jewelbots are bracelets with programmable plastic flowers made for middle-school girls.| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Unpatched phones with Android 2.2 Froyo or later can be hacked via a single unopened MMS due to vulnerability in native Stagefright media playback engine — Android Stagefright Flaws Put 950 Million Devices at Risk — Vulnerabilities discovered in the Stagefright media playback engine …
| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
Ubuntu Phone review: years in the making, but still not consumer-ready — The smartphone arena is dominated by two operating systems. Gartner's latest figures show that during the first three months of 2015, iOS and Android devices accounted for almost 97 percent of global smartphone sales.
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Vodafone and MTN strike interconnectivity deal for mobile money remittances between their networks in East and Central Africa — Africa Makes Leap in Cross-Border Mobile Payments — New partnerships aimed at getting a bigger slice of the $48 billion Africans sent and received last yearSponsor Posts
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