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Leaked Images Of The New Nexus Phone Retail Boxes Confirm ‘Nexus 5X’ And ‘Nexus 6P’ Model Names — It's a little less than a week until Google reveals its new Nexus devices in San Francisco, but as seems to happen every year, we know pretty much every detail beforehand.
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| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
On iPhone 6s and the importance of Apple's tick-tock release cycle: new-number phones demonstrate design focus, and S models are for perfecting engineering — The iPhones 6S — The pattern is pretty clear. In even-numbered years (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) Apple releases all-new iPhone form factors: 3G, 4, 5, 6/6 Plus.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
T-Mobile offers iPhone 6s for $5, $10, or $15/month via its JUMP upgrade program, price depends on trade-in model — T-Mobile Offering iPhone 6s Starting at $5/Month With iPhone 6 Trade In — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced on Twitter that it will offer the iPhone 6s for as low as $5 per month through JUMP!
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Citrix looking to sell itself as a whole before embarking on asset sales, has reached out to Dell and others — Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources — Citrix Systems Inc (CTXS.O), the U.S. cloud computing company targeted by activist hedge fund Elliott Management …
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| Cory Weinberg / bizjournals: |
Source: Uber leasing space in former Sears building in Oakland, likely all 330K square feet, for an office that will open in two years — Exclusive: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland's former Sears building — Uber Technologies Inc. will open a large office in Oakland …
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram announces it has reached 400M monthly active users, doubling in size since March 2014, with more than 75 percent of users outside US — Celebrating a Community of 400 Million — We are thrilled to announce that the Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong.
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| Zoltan Szabadka / Google Open Source Blog: |
Google develops and open sources Brotli compression tool, claims it offers 20-26% higher compression ratios than predecessor Zopfli — Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet — At Google, we think that internet users' time is valuable, and that they shouldn't have to wait long for a web page to load.
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| TechCrunch: |
Kleiner Perkins brings on new partners in effort to increase diversity and hires Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister, Arielle, as an associate partner — Arielle Zuckerberg, Zuck's Youngest Sister, Is Joining Kleiner Perkins — Arielle Zuckerberg, the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Socialtext founders launch Pingpad, a Slack-like messaging and collaboration tool for web, iOS, and Android — Socialtext founders launch Pingpad, a single app for chatting and collaborating — Collaboration tools are abundant these days, but each one seems to be taking a unique approach to the mobile space.
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| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
EU-US data flows using “Safe Harbour” may be illegal because of NSA spying — Just how safe is Safe Harbour? (credit: Elizabeth du Toit) — The “Safe Harbour” framework—which is supposed to ensure data transfers from the EU to the US are legal under European data privacy laws … | Ellen Barry / New York Times: |
Indian government withdraws draft encryption policy after backlash, plans to revise and rerelease it — India Withdraws Social Media Data Proposal After Outcry — NEW DELHI — Responding to a chorus of criticism, Indian officials on Tuesday hastily withdrew a draft policy on encryption …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica UK: |
Researchers say over 4K apps in iOS App Store infected with XcodeGhost, but apps not as harmful as feared earlier — XcodeGhost apps haunting iOS App Store more numerous than first reported — Security researchers have both good and bad news about the recently reported outbreak of XcodeGhost apps infecting Apple's App Store.
| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Nvidia's desktop GTV 980 graphics cards coming to six gaming laptops, includes overclocking headroom and support for VR — Nvidia hits gaming milestone: True desktop performance in a laptop with GeForce GTX 980 — Nvidia somehow managed to cram a desktop GPU into a laptop. Read on to find out how.
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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Smule sues two former employees, claims their new startup Shred Video used Smule IP — Startup sues former employees who launched similar company; CEO warns, 'If we're wrong, we'll win' — Smule, a maker of popular apps like Sing! Karaoke, AutoRap, and I am T-Pain … Sponsor Posts
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