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| The Official Samsung Galaxy Site: |
Live stream of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked 2015 event in New York City — Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2015, August 13th - The Official Samsung Galaxy Site — Next is Now. We're ready for Unpacked. The stage is set for The Next Galaxy. I'm pumped to post live from NYC at Unpacked.| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Samsung announces slightly larger variant of the Galaxy S6 Edge, the Edge+, with 5.7" display — Samsung's new Galaxy S6 Edge+ is bigger and smarter — Samsung released two phones in March that featured some radical shifts in design philosophy: the Galaxy S6, and the Galaxy S6 Edge.
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Android Authority, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Engadget, CNET, Gizmodo and Android Central. Tweets: @alexjamesfitz
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Samsung announces Galaxy Note 5: 5.7" quad HD display, 4GB RAM, 16MP camera, available Aug. 21 — Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is official and will be available on August 21st — Samsung is officially taking the wraps off of the Galaxy Note 5 today, the latest in its flagship line of Note phablets.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
| Allison Pohle / Boston.com: |
Facebook rescinded Harvard student's internship after he revealed privacy flaw, created Chrome extension to map people's locations when they used Messenger — Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws — Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna …
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Tinder Founder Sean Rad Returns as CEO, Replacing Chris Payne — Sean Rad, the co-founder of Tinder, who was replaced as CEO in March, is returning to the job. — As part of the move, Chris Payne — the former eBay and Microsoft exec who was hired in March to give the company more experienced management — is leaving.| Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
HTC to cut 15% of its workforce, about 2250 people, by the end of this year — HTC to Cut Jobs Amid Crowded Smartphone Market — Taiwanese smartphone maker sets its sights beyond smartphones in latest restructuring — HONG KONG—Smartphone maker HTC Corp. said Thursday it plans … | Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support — Apple today released an update to Boot Camp with support for Microsoft Windows 10, according to a new support document. The update, Boot Camp 6, is still propagating and is not yet available for OS X. However, several MacRumors forum members … | Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 activation status for each device is now stored online; future reinstalls on that device don't require product key — Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10 — Windows activation is alive and well in Windows 10. Microsoft doesn't like to talk …
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| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi announces new flagship Redmi Note 2: Octa-core and full HD for $124 — Just days after releasing its last new phone, Xiaomi has announced yet another device with competitive specs at a very disruptive price point. Xiaomi calls it ‘the new monster’ and for good reason.| Celena Chong / Business Insider: |
Russia bans Reddit because a thread gave advice on how to grow psilocybe mushrooms — Russia bans Reddit over shrooms — The Russian government has officially banned Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the internet. — Unless Russian users take advantage of VPN to bypass the website blocks …
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
NBCU invests $200M in Vox Media, pre-money valuation of $850M; will invest $200M in BuzzFeed — NBCUniversal Buys Big Chunks of Vox Media and BuzzFeed — Last week Re/code reported that NBCUniversal was investing in BuzzFeed and Vox Media. — Now those deals are done, and NBCU and Vox Media are announcing their deal today.
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Wall Street Journal, NBCUniversal, Ars Technica, New York Times, PE Hub Blog, Politico, SiliconANGLE, The Hill, The Digital Reader, Tubefilter, The Awl, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable, Fortune, Silicon Republic, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Wrap, Business Insider and Vox Media Marketing
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See also Mediagazer| Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Google's NASA relationship lets it test 100-mph, 55-lb Project Wing drones in US as high as 400 feet over private land — Google is testing drones in US airspace by piggybacking on Nasa exemption — Documents show the tech company has skirted regulations for private firms for a year …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 820: Adreno 530 GPU 40% faster, consumes 40% less power than 430, supports HDMI 2.0 4K display at 60 FPS — Snapdragon 820 is official: A look at its GPU (and how much the chip matters) — Qualcomm introduces a new flagship by way of the Adreno 530 GPU and Spectra ISP.
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Computerworld, Inquirer, Android Police, ZDNet, SlashGear, Engadget, CNET and Forbes
| Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Announcing General Availability of Google Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Pub/Sub — By the time you are done reading this blog post, Google Cloud Platform customers will have processed hundreds of millions of messages and analyzed thousands of terabytes of data utilizing Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
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InfoWorld, insideBIGDATA, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, eWeek, VentureBeat and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mojio Launches Apps And Services Marketplace For Its Connected Car Platform — Mojio, a connected car platform based around a small, Internet-connected device you plug into your car's OBD port, is launching an app and services store for its platform today. The new Mojio Drive will feature 20 apps …
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Re/code, Techvibes Global News and BetaKit
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Groupon cuts 20 jobs in its restaurant software unit Breadcrumb as founder Seth Harris leaves — Layoffs Hit Groupon's Restaurant Software Unit as Breadcrumb Founder Leaves — Earlier this year, Groupon considered spinning off its restaurant software business, Breadcrumb, as Re/code previously reported.
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Street Fight, PYMNTS.com and Seeking Alpha
| Reuters: |
Facebook struggles to sell advertising in India — Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India with features such as free email support for questions about advertising and advice on increasing sales in a bid to boost revenue from its second biggest market.Sponsor Posts
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Copilot to autopilot: Why no single safeguard is enough — Microsoft designed a layered model that lets an AI agent resolve network incidents on its own within defined boundaries.
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