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HTC's One A9 has a high-quality look and feel, similar to an iPhone, available this November for $399 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage — HTC's One A9 is a $399 iPhone running Android 6.0 — The HTC One M9 introduced earlier this year was a disappointment, both to fans of high-end smartphones and, consequently, to HTC itself.
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Sky-high valuations begin to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies trying to raise more money or go public — Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill — Sky-high valuations are starting to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies that are trying to raise more money or go public; Dropbox stalls
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out instant articles to all iOS users and announces an Android beta — Five months after introducing its fast-loading instant articles into the News Feed, Facebook is now rolling out the format to all iPhone users, the company said today. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook says new Apple TV coming next week, reveals 6.5m paying Apple Music subscribers — As expected, Tim Cook today took the stage at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference for an interview. During his time on stage, Cook discussed a variety of topics, ranging from iPhone to Apple Watch and to Apple Music.
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New York Times partners with Google on virtual reality project, will distribute over 1M cardboard VR viewers to subscribers, and will release new VR film — The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project — The New York Times announced on Tuesday a virtual reality project …
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New Android phones and tablets that ship with Marshmallow must enable full-disk encryption by default if their AES crypto perfomance exceeds 50 MiB/s — Android 6.0 re-implements mandatory storage encryption for new devices — As long as you meet the minimum speed requirements, that is.| Brad Smith / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft outlines four-step proposal in wake of Safe Harbor decision, to balance privacy, a global Internet, and public safety, in a new legal framework — The collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the new privacy Rubik's Cube — When people who care about technology look back at the year 2015 …
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| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
BrowserPopcorn Shut Down By the MPAA, Dev Says — Last Friday, TorrentFreak was contacted by Milan Kragujevi, a web developer with a brand new service up his sleeve. As the name implies, BrowserPopcorn.xyz looked very similar to the Popcorn Time application that has gained so much publicity in recent times.
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Collective Health Closes On $81 Million, Adds Google Ventures To List Of High-Profile Investors — Enterprise health insurance services platform Collective Health has raised a healthy $81 million in Series C funding to help the startup continue to grow its team as well as cover the U.S. market.| Charles Arthur / The Overspill: |
Google's growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile — Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and “early desktop years”. Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr. — Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, let slip a couple of interesting statistics … | Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Mozilla-backed Let's Encrypt says its free HTTPS certificates are now trusted by all major browsers — Let's Encrypt is one step closer to offering free HTTPS certificates to everyone — Let's Encrypt has announced that its free security certificates are now trusted by all major browsers …
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| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Twitter hires Marcus Mabry, New York Times editor at large, to oversee Moments' editorial direction — Twitter hires New York Times editor at large for its Moments channel — One week after announcing major layoffs, Twitter is hiring New York Times editor at large Marcus Mabry …
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Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland following collapse of Safe Harbor — Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland — Irish internet watchdog audit over alleged gathering of data by Facebook follows three-year campaign and ECJ ruling
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