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How tech firms responded to Paris attacks: Facebook's Safety Check used in first man-made disaster, emergency response tools activated by Airbnb, Uber, others — How Tech Learned From Past Crises And Reacted To The Paris Attacks — What Facebook, Airbnb, and Uber did when terrorists attacked Paris.
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SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows — Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware. — Since Valve started publicly talking about its own Linux-powered “Steam Boxes” about three years ago now …
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Alienware Steam Machine review: delivers on promise to bring PC games to the living room, but game library is limited, controller has a steep learning curve — Alienware Steam Machine (2015) review: A new gaming console with the heart of a PC — THE GOOD The Alienware Steam Machine brings … | Adrian Weckler / Independent.ie: |
Tim Cook: Apple won't create ‘converged’ MacBook and iPad — ADRIAN WECKLER TWITTER — Apple will not create a “converged” MacBook and iPad, according to chief executive Tim Cook. — Google — Speaking to Independent.ie , Cook denied that the death of computers such as the Mac …
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Apple's quest for style and appearance comes at the cost of usability, particularly on iOS, according to former employees — How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name — For years, Apple followed user-centered principles. Then something went wrong. — Once upon a time …
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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's Bold Plan For The Future Of Facebook — Facebook is firing on all cylinders. Now Mark Zuckerberg is looking to the decade ahead, from AI to VR to drones. — “Mark is fixing stuff.” — I'm killing time in the Frank Gehry-designed Building 20 … | E.T. Brooking / Foreign Policy: |
Behind #OpISIS and GhostSec, a group of hactivists fighting ISIS online, gathering and passing intelligence, which may have helped to disrupt a terror plot — Anonymous vs. the Islamic State — For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet.| Joseph Lichterman / Nieman Lab: |
Storyful is testing Slack integrations that let clients subscribe to news alerts within channels — How Storyful is turning Slack into an extension of its newswire — Usage of the messaging app Slack has exploded. The company says it has 1.25 million daily users, tenfold growth in just a year …
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Profile of REVOLVE, an online apparel startup whose sales is set to reach $400M this year — How Revolve Became the Biggest, Trendiest, Most Profitable E-commerce Startup You've Never Heard Of — If you attend enough Hamptons house parties, they tend to blur together.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Costly Wizard of Oz party seen as indicative of Marissa Mayer's convoluted Yahoo strategy — Marissa Mayer's Convoluted Yahoo Strategy: There's No Place Like Home — Last fall, in one of the stranger and more expensive efforts to boost company morale, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decided … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Marc Andreessen Sold 73 Percent of His Facebook Stock in the Last Two Weeks — Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is padding his wallet ahead of the holiday shopping season. — Andreessen, an early Facebook investor and board member since 2008, has sold over 1.5 million shares … | Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
Vizio is selling your viewing data, collected via its smart TVs with tracking on by default, and possibly connected to your IP — Own a Vizio Smart TV? It's Watching You — TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands …
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