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Sources: Apple's licensing deals include permission to create up to five additional radio stations like Beats 1 — Apple's music deals allow for new Beats stations at any time — While Apple Music may have gotten off to a less than stellar start, Apple's 24/7 radio station Beats 1 has lived … | Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Twitter May Be a Takeover Target, but Google Is Unlikely to Take It Over — As markets closed yesterday, Twitter's stock sank to its lowest level ever — a drop that raised speculation, yet again, that another company would take it over. At only a $19 billion market valuation, that's not a surprise.
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Intel targets gamers with sixth-gen ‘Skylake’ CPU launch — With mobile annihilating the mainstream PC industry, Intel knows gaming is buttering its bread. The chip giant launched its sixth-gneration “Skylake” desktop processors today with two enthusiast quad-core models: the Core I7-6700K and i5-6600K.
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Hackers distributed Flash-based malware via Yahoo's ad network for seven days ending Monday; number of affected people not disclosed — Hackers Exploit ‘Flash’ Vulnerability in Yahoo Ads — For seven days, hackers used Yahoo's ad network to send malicious bits of code to computers …
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Epson's new EcoTank printers hold two years worth of ink, cost between $400-$500 and replacement cannisters of ink will cost $52 — Review: Epson Kills the Printer Ink Cartridge — The new EcoTank printers cost more up front but can churn for years without running dry| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Samsung Pay on TV lets you buy apps and games with your credit card, debit card, and PayPal — Samsung has introduced a new way for people to pay for content — right through their television. Called Samsung Pay on TV, it supports major credit cards, debit cards, PayPal, and other mobile billing options.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Fastly Raises $75M For Its Real-Time CDN — Fastly, a content delivery service (CDN) service that focuses on helping companies deliver dynamic content to their users faster, today announced that it has raised a $75 million Series D round led by ICONIQ Capital.
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Netflix Announces Its New ‘Unlimited’ Maternity And Paternity Leave Program — A few hours after hitting its all-time stock price high today, Netflix has announced a new program for all employees. — In a blog post, the company outlined its unlimited maternity and paternity leave program.| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Google's Patent Purchase Promotion ends with company buying 28% of patents submitted, with a median price tag of $150K — How Google Renewed Its Fight Against Patent Trolls — Congress killed patent reform last year, but big tech companies are taking the matter into their own hands.
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Data-analysis firm Tableau Software acquires Infoactive, a startup that turns data into infographics — Tableau makes first acquisition ever, swoops up startup that turns data into infographics … For the first time in its 13-year history, Tableau Software is acquiring another company.
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WordPress releases 4.2.4 security patch to address three cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, a potential SQL injection and side-channel attack — WordPress 4.2.4 Security and Maintenance Release — WordPress 4.2.4 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions …
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Twitter rolling out landscape support to iPhone 6 Plus users — In yet another staggered feature rollout, Twitter has begun enabling full landscape support for its iOS app on the iPhone 6 Plus. Like with many of Apple's bundled applications, Twitter app users on the larger … | Susan Svrluga / Washington Post: |
With over 36K tweets, #ILookLikeAnEngineer is challenging stereotypes in tech — ilooklikeanengineer wants to challenge your ideas about who can be a scientist — It all started when a “self-taught engineer, extreme introvert, science-nerd, anime-lover, college dropout” wrote that she was tired of stereotypes.
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Microsoft launches Sway out of preview along with new Windows 10 app, revamps Docs.com for sharing Office files — Microsoft today announced its content aggregation and presentation application Sway has hit general availability. That means the digital storytelling tool is launching …
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Movie studios sue MovieTube, seek SOPA-like power through broad site-blocking court order — Memo to MPAA: Congress didn't pass SOPA — Studios' suit demands “entire Internet” block, filtering infringing sites, EFF says. — Remember 2012, when there was that giant Internet backlash … | Adam Jourdan / Reuters: |
China to put security teams in major Internet firms, websites — China is planning to set up “network security offices” in major Internet companies and for websites so authorities can move more quickly against illegal online behavior, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement.| Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica: |
Flying DJI's new Phantom 3 Standard—better software, better camera — Updated platform has stricter flight controls and more attention to detail. — My first experience with DJI's Phantom quadcopter drones was unboxing a Phantom 2 Vision+ and then flying it directly into a tree.
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Instacart Makes Its First Acquisition With “Acqui-hire” Of App Maker Wedding Party — On-demand grocery delivery service Instacart has made its first acquisition since raising hundreds of millions in venture funding for its growing business. The company is “acqui-hiring” …
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Hybrid storage startup Tintri raises $125 million — Tintri specializes in VM-aware storage for cloud environments and counts AMD, F5 Networks, GE, NEC, MillerCoors and Time Warner as enterprise customers. — Hybrid storage startup Tintri has raised $125 million in a Series F funding round announced Wednesday.
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