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Sources: Comcast will partner with publishers like Vox, Buzzfeed, others to launch Watchable, a major online video platform to rival Facebook and YouTube — Comcast is about to launch a major video platform called Watchable to rival Facebook and Google — Comcast is preparing to launch …
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Sources: Watchable to be available on the web for Comcast subscribers and and non-subscribers, in addition to set-top-boxes, Android, and iOS — Comcast Gets Ready to Launch Online Video Service on Its Set-Tops and the Web — Comcast is inching closer toward the launch of its own online video service … | Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Documents show Apple has talked with GoMentum Station, a high-security road testing facility for autonomous and connected vehicles — Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car — Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by the Guardian shows Project Titan is further along …
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US Court of Appeals rejects Samsung's request for rehearing of patent case against Apple — Apple v. Samsung: court rejects Samsung's latest appeal — A federal appeals court Thursday refused to re-examine Samsung's appeal of a stinging 2012 jury verdict that found the tech giant violated Apple's iPhone patents.
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| Fred O'Connor / PCWorld: |
Puerto Rico is out as Project Ara's first test market, but Google isn't nixing the program — Google has scrapped plans to use Puerto Rico as the initial test market for its Project Ara modular-smartphone initiative, but interested developers and DIYers need not despair.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Ex-employees say Kaspersky tricked rivals' antivirus programs to mark false-positives, deleting or disabling important files — Exclusive: Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - Ex-employees — Beginning more than a decade ago, one of the largest security companies in the world …
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| Olivia Solon / Bloomberg Business: |
VW suppressed research for two years about a security flaw letting hackers steal some VW, Audi, Porsche, Lamborghini, Fiat vehicles; fix requires new hardware — VW Has Spent Two Years Trying to Hide a Big Security Flaw — Got a VW, Fiat, Audi, Ferrari, Porsche or Maserati?| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Slack now allows Standard and Plus plan users to integrate email into channels — Slack Decides Not To Kill Email For A Little While Longer, Integrates It Instead — Slack! The email killer! It's going to kill email! — Welp, not today. — The team clearly listens to its users … | Wall Street Journal: |
Jessica Alba's subscription e-commerce startup, The Honest Company, raises $100M at a $1.7B valuation — Jessica Alba's Startup, Honest, Valued at $1.7 Billion — Honest, the baby-products retailer co-founded by movie star Jessica Alba, has raised $100 million in a new round of funding, valuing it at about $1.7 billion.| Susan Decker / Bloomberg Business: |
Akamai Wins Appeal in $45.5 Million Limelight Patent Case — Akamai Technologies Inc. finally won an almost decade-long patent-infringement fight with Limelight Networks Inc. over ways to store and deliver video content on the Internet. Limelight shares dropped the most in four years.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
New iCloud.com feature lets users restore recently deleted files, contacts and calendars — Apple has quietly added a new data restore feature to iCloud.com today, enabling users to rollback accidentally deleted documents, calendar changes and contacts. The new ‘Restore Files’ … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Adapted OwnStar MITM Wi-Fi attack can grab the virtual keys of BMW, Mercedes, Chrysler cars through a vulnerability in RemoteLink mobile app — OwnStar Wi-Fi attack now grabs BMW, Mercedes, and Chrysler cars' virtual keys — Using SSL proxy, attack decrypts user data, allowing remote access to vehicle.
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