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SmartThings' new hub supports 200 sensors and switches, video monitoring, has 10 hour battery backup, goes on sale today for $99 — SmartThings' new hub uses Samsung cameras to monitor your home — SmartThings, the open-platform smart home company that sold itself to Samsung a year ago … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches SleepSense, a smart sleep-tracker that connects to your home appliances — Samsung has launched a new “Internet of Things” (IoT) healthcare device designed to improve your sleep. — At the IFA consumer technology event in Berlin, Samsung unveiled the cylindrical device …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Confirms It Is Buying Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads — This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own. It is buying Millennial Media as it continues to build …
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Google launches standalone Street View app with ability to post 360-degree photos to Maps — Introducing the new Street View app from Google Maps — For all the Street View fans out there: exploring the world just got even easier. Today we are introducing the new Street View app for Android and iOS … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
New iPhone 6S/6S Plus to retain same storage tiers as iPhone 6: 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB, despite 4K video, increased photo resolution, and other improvements — Apple Event: New Apple Watch bands, 16GB iPhones confirmed with 7000 series aluminum — Starting with the iPhone 3GS …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Judge gives final approval to $415M settlement from Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel for anti-poaching suit — U.S. judge approves $415 mln settlement in tech worker lawsuit — A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit …
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| Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo! News: |
Men's rights activists are using a 1950s California law to file lawsuits against women-only tech events — These men's rights activists are using a 1950s law to shut down women in tech — Stephanie Burns came up with the idea for Chic CEO, a free online platform for female entrepreneurs, in 2008, when she was getting her MBA.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Samsung Gear S2: slim round design, smart interaction model, makes it the most promising Samsung smartwatch so far — Samsung's Gear S2 is its best-looking smartwatch yet — Samsung and smartwatches have had a tenuous relationship. It's not for lack of trying …
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T-Mobile launches native video calling starting with Samsung's latest phones — Starting today, T-Mobile customers with a Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ can place video calls right from their phone's dialer. The Uncarrier is introducing T-Mobile Video Calling, a VoLTE-powered feature … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company's corporate communications systems.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook partners with Summit, a public K-12 charter school, to build a suite of personalized learning software that will eventually be free for any US school — Inside Facebook's plan to build a better school — Looking back, Mike Sego says, he was always meant to work in education.
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| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google to more than double the number of health conditions in search results from 400 to 900, add downloadable PDFs — Google To Double The Number Of Health Conditions In Search Results — Google announced they are more than doubling their health conditions database …
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Inside Search, TechCrunch, 9to5Google and VentureBeat
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Twitter names developer platform lead Jeff Seibert head of consumer product in product team restructure — Twitter Restructures Product Team, Promotes Jeff Seibert — Twitter has promoted Jeff Seibert, the man who's been running the company's developer products for over a year.
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ValueWalk, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and BetaBoston
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy, an open-source tool to track XSS vulnerabilities across multiple apps — Netflix Sleepy Puppy Awakens XSS Vulnerabilities in Secondary Applications — Most automated scanning and security tools that ferret out cross-site scripting vulnerabilities don't do much analysis beyond the target application.
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Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, The Register and Slashdot
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung and Barnes & Noble launch the Galaxy Tab S2 Nook, a $400 8-inch tablet for readers — Barnes & Noble and Samsung have launched the latest iteration from their joint mission to combine tablets and e-readers. — The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook follows the $150 Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet …
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Digital Trends, BetaNews, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Police, AndroidHeadlines.com and TechnoBuffalo
| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Improved Simplocker Android malware disguises as an NSA app, has infected tens of thousands of devices using XMPP — Android ransomware uses XMPP chat to call home, claims it's from NSA — Improved Simplocker lurks disguised as legitimate Flash or video player app.
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Check Point Blog, Threatpost and Help Net Security
| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
IBM and ARM partner for data analytics from industrial, health, car, and wearable IoT devices — IBM And Chip Designer ARM Want To Monitor Every Device They Can — The term “Internet of things” is a bit like “Web 2.0” was a decade ago—a buzzword for some big change in the Internet that no one can clearly describe.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Skype redesigns its Android and iOS apps with easier navigation, enhanced search, and better multi-tasking — Microsoft today updated its Skype apps for Android and iOS with a big focus on the look and feel. You can download the new apps now directly from Google Play and Apple App Store (iPhone, iPad).
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