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Behind Evernote's decline: lack of focus hampered growth, products failed to convert free users — The inside story of how $1 billion Evernote went from Silicon Valley darling to deep trouble — In 2012, the note-taking app Evernote became one of the first “Unicorn” startups … | Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Autonomous vehicles are safer, more efficient, utterly inevitable, and truly transformative — Google's Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving — The main thing you should know about autonomous vehicles is that they are utterly inevitable. — BuzzFeed News San Francisco Bureau Chief
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New gaskets and seals make iPhone 6s and 6s Plus less prone to liquid damage than predecessors — Is the New iPhone Waterproof? We Opened It Up (Again) to Find Out — On Friday, we tore down Apple's two newest iPhones and found something new lurking (quite literally) just below the surface.
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Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ reviewed: best Android phablets on the market with incredible displays, fast and efficient SoC, significantly improved TouchWiz — The Samsung Galaxy Note5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ Review — The Galaxy Note line has long been one of Samsung's greatest assets in the mobile market.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google's 'Don't Be Evil' Becomes Alphabet's ‘Do the Right Thing’ — “Don't be evil” is so 2004. — Alphabet Inc. posted a new code of conduct for its employees Friday, after Google completed its transformation into a holding company. There were few substantive changes in more than 20 documents filed …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub Launches Support For U2F Security Keys — Today at its first user conference, GitHub Universe, GitHub announced that it's launching support for FIDO Universal 2nd Factor (U2F) security keys from companies like Yubico and others. These physical USB keys automatically generate … | Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
A look at multiple motivations behind Amazon's move to stop selling Apple TV, Nexus Player, and Chromecast devices — What's behind Amazon's baffling decision to ban Apple TV and Chromecast? — Amazon's decision to ban sales of Apple TV and Google's Chromecast and Nexus Player from its retail store … | Jack Clark / Bloomberg Business: |
Published academic research shows Google's robotics group is making strides; source says group will become a separate division under Alphabet — A Peek Inside Google's Efforts to Create a General-Purpose Robot — The company's secretive robotics group is making strides, according to interviews and academic research.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
What to expect from Microsoft's October 6 Press event: Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL, Surface Pro 4, Microsoft Band 2, Windows 10 and Xbox news — Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 and Lumia event: what to expect — Microsoft is kicking its holiday season off with a press event in New York City next week.
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| James Crabtree / Financial Times: |
Didi Kuaidi buys stake in Indian ride-hailing group Ola — Chinese ride-hailing group Didi Kuaidi has invested an undisclosed amount in Ola, India's largest taxi-hailing app by market share, in a further sign of a growing global alliance among rivals to US-based Uber.
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| Jun Hongo / Wall Street Journal: |
Japan officials and Robot Taxi say a pilot program for unmanned taxi service will launch with a small group of riders in 2016 — RoboCab: Driverless Taxi Experiment to Start in Japan — From the country where hotels are operated by robots and androids serve as clerks at department stores comes …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Cortana won't be available on the Xbox One until next year — Microsoft is currently testing a new Windows 10-powered dashboard for the Xbox One. While the update includes a number of new features, one of the big additions is Cortana integration. Microsoft has demonstrated how Cortana works …
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