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US officials concerned that increased Russian naval operations indicate plans to cut undersea cables carrying most of global Internet data in times of conflict — Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns U.S. — WASHINGTON — Russian submarines and spy ships are aggressively operating near …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
The new Apple TV is now available to order from the Apple Online Store, first units ship October 30th — The Apple TV is now available to order from Apple's online store, $149 for the 32 GB model and $199 for the 64 GB model. The first Apple TV orders will ship later this week, from October 30th.
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
EverythingMe, which raised $35M+ and made an Android launcher with 15M installs, shuts down after failing to find a business model, lays off all 36 employees — Israeli startup Everything.me shuts down, despite $35 million in funding and 15 million app installs
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| Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat: |
Hands-on with Apple TV dev unit: easy setup, cleaner UI, but Siri is buggy and games must support Apple's remote — Hands-on with the brand new Apple TV — Tomorrow, Apple opens pre-orders for its long-overdue Apple TV relaunch. Today, we got a closer look at the developer edition of the device.| Rosie Cima / Priceonomics Blog: |
Behind the rise and fall of .Ly, Libya's top level domain — The Rise and Fall of .Ly … In 2012, the US imposed sanctions on Syria, for, among other things, their occupation of Lebanon, their apparent support for terrorist groups, and an intent to pursue weapons of mass destruction.| Patrick Caldwell / Mother Jones: |
After billions spent, lack of interoperability among electronic health record providers like Epic still hampers data exchange for many doctors — Epic is like the Microsoft Office of health care software—more comprehensive than its competitors, even if its individual parts are kind of meh.| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
Sources: Time Warner Cable will start testing $10 to $50 internet-only TV service in New York City next week — Time Warner Cable will test internet-only TV in NYC next week — If you want cable TV without the cable box, Time Warner Cable may have something for you soon.| Kevin Roose / Fusion: |
How the Strater family endured 3 years of online harassment, hacked accounts, and swatting — Haunted by hackers: A suburban family's digital ghost story — The systematic destruction of Paul and Amy Strater's lives began with pizza. — Several years ago, pizzas began showing …
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A quantitative case for how outsiders to traditional VC have contributed to a bubble in private technology valuations — Venture Outlook 2016 — There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Toshiba is close to selling its image sensor business to Sony for $165M — Toshiba Said Near $165 Million Sale of Sensor Business to Sony — Companies said to announce deal as early as next week — Toshiba selling assets after $1.3 billion accounting scandal| Jonah Bromwich / New York Times: |
Inside the Unicode Consortium and how it decides which emojis to officially support — How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones — An obscure organization that standardizes the way punctuation marks and other text are represented by computer systems has in recent years found itself at the forefront … | Murad Ahmed / Financial Times: |
NYC-based Karhoo, an app that lets you hail taxis from multiple taxi services, raises $250M ahead of its January 2016 launch in London, New York, and Singapore — Taxi groups unite to fight Uber with $250m start-up — An unexpected new combatant is set to join the taxi app wars …
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