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| Terry Myerson / Windows Blog: |
Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today — When we first unveiled Windows 10 in September, we outlined our plans for a new era of Windows. We wanted to create a Windows that empowered people and organizations to do great things. Our vision was one platform, one store …
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Review: Windows 10 is the best version yet—once the bugs get fixed — Your very own personal assistant, a better browser... and something called the Start menu. — I'm more conflicted about Windows 10 than I have been about any previous version of Windows.
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Yahoo unveils an audioless video messaging app called Livetext, launching in US, UK, Canada, Germany, and France tomorrow — Yahoo Livetext - A New Way to Connect — We're all walking around with a device in our pockets, primarily to communicate with others.
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| Ariha Setalvad / The Verge: |
Facebook is testing out LinkedIn-style profile tags — Facebook seems to be taking a cue from LinkedIn and is early in the process of testing a new feature — profile tags. — Verge reader Luke M. alerted us to Facebook's new profile tags feature, and the company confirmed it was testing …
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| Katrina Brooker / Bloomberg Business: |
How Goldman Sachs Became a Tech-Investing Powerhouse — “They weren't coming just to get wasted,” says Mel Cavaricci—aka DJ Mel—recalling the crowd milling in front of his sound table at a party in March. It was at the height of the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) conference, held in Austin, Texas.| Brian Steinberg / Variety: |
CBS Will Live-Stream Super Bowl Ads In Big Move For Media Industry — TV's most memorable and most-watched commercials will no longer be relegated to the TV set. — For nearly half a century, the only way for the average consumer to see all the glitzy commercials that accompanied … | David Gasca / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter launches native Windows 10 app that showcases tweets in live tiles from the Start menu — A whole new Twitter for Windows — Starting today, Windows users will have a new Twitter experience optimized especially for Windows 10. Announced last night, this Twitter app …
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| Wish Wu / TrendLabs Security Intelligence Blog: |
Android vulnerability silences phone and kills screen, affects Android 4.3 and above, and can be exploited by a malicious website or app — Trend Micro Discovers Vulnerability That Renders Android Devices Silent — We have discovered a vulnerability in Android that can render a phone apparently dead …
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| Jonathan Vanian / Fortune: |
Twilio raises $130M Series E led by Fidelity and T. Rowe Price, valuing it at over $1B — Twilio lands $130 million to make it easier to communicate via software — There's money to be had in the online communications marketplace. — San Francisco-based Twilio, a cloud-based communication …
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| Alex Rosenblat / Motherboard: |
Study shows that Uber's app for passengers doesn't reliably show the exact locations of drivers, likely as a side-effect of forecasting supply — Uber's Phantom Cabs — When Heather*, a driver who has been working for Uber for about eight months, opened up the passenger app a few weeks ago …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Nokia's Ozo is a 360 degree VR camera for professionals with fast low-res rendering for rapid playback, price expected to be in the mid-five figures — Nokia reveals Ozo, a futuristic new camera for filming virtual reality — When Microsoft bought Nokia's handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all.| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google Translate's App Now Instantly Translates Printed Text In 27 Languages — One of the most intense experiences you'll ever have is visiting a country that speaks a language different than yours. There's a host of tools you can use, but Google's Translate product has leapfrogged just about everything out there over the years.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Chinese hackers behind OPM and Anthem breaches have also hacked United Airlines, stole flight manifest data — China-Tied Hackers That Hit U.S. Said to Breach United Airlines … The hackers who stole data on tens of millions of U.S. insurance holders and government employees …
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| Sarah Kessler / Fast Company: |
Vine is less about users sharing life moments, more about content creators using it to entertain viewers — Vine's Quiet, Stealthy Pivot — The video app is no longer all about sharing. “It's more like the entertainment industry,” Jason Mante, Vine's head of UX, tells us.Thanks:@steverubel
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources say Twitter's list of outside CEO candidates is lacking, pointing to Dorsey or Bain, with Bain in lead because of Dorsey's Square commitment — Adam Bain Is Soooo Nice, Jack Dorsey's Hamlet Act and Other Things You Need to Know About the Twitter CEO Search
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