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Google Photos now lets you easily delete photos from your phone that have already been backed up to the cloud, available now on Android and web, soon for iOS — Google Photos Will Now Help You Free Up Space On Your Phone — Google's popular photo management utility, Google Photos …
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John Elstone, Google Photos, Gizmodo, Android Police, 9to5Mac, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web and Ubergizmo
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Google rolls out redesigned Google+ with focus on Communities and Collections; users can opt-in today — Introducing the new Google+ — If you head over to Google+ today, you'll see that things look a little different. — Since we last posted, we've spent a lot of time listening to what people using Google+ had to say.
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| Bret Arsenault / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft to create a Cyber Defense Operations Center and an Enterprise Cybersecurity Group, with security experts for rapid response to security threats — Enterprise security for our mobile-first, cloud-first world — Today, I was able to join Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Washington …
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Tweets: @msftenterprise and @teroalhonen
Thanks:@anectolts| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Pushbullet Introduces A Pro Plan, Will Soon Require $5 A Month Or $40 A Year For Some Of The Currently Free Features — We here at Android Police have a thing for Pushbullet. You could even call it a crush. Not everyone on the team uses it, but we and many of our readers agree that it's a solid service.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick — Earlier this year, Google and ASUS announced the Chromebit — a full Chrome OS-based computer on an HDMI stick. Today, the two companies are officially launching this new way of using Chrome OS on any screen with an HDMI port.
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| Laura Shin / Forbes: |
Online lender Earnest raises $275M Series B led by Battery Ventures and has originated $400M in loans this year — Online Lender Earnest Raises $275 Million; Has Originated $400 Million In Loans This Year — Earnest, one of the new online lenders using smart algorithms to serve millennials … | Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Pay is now available in Canada with American Express, UK Apple Pay adds Tesco Bank and TSB — As expected, Apple Pay is now available in Canada. You can use use eligible American Express bank cards to make mobile payments at a whole host of retailers that support the NFC technology across Canada.
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Netflix open sources Spinnaker, its cloud resource management tool for AWS, with support for Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Foundry, Azure support coming soon — Netflix launches open source project ready for Amazon, Google clouds — Additional deployment support for Microsoft Azure was said to be … | Joshua Goldman / CNET: |
The Parrot Bebop 2 Drone stays airborne about 25 minutes, twice as long as its predecessor, available December 14 for $550 — Parrot Bebop Drone 2 boosts performance, battery life, $549, lands in December — Parrot's latest consumer camera drone was designed with performance in mind.
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| Jared Newman / TechHive: |
LG to bring Google Play Movies and TV to its Smart TV range later this month in US, UK, Australia, and Canada — LG brings Google Play Movies & TV to its Smart TV range — Google's video store for televisions slowly expands beyond Chromecast and Android TV. — Google's video store is getting a new home on LG's smart TVs.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
UK to create £165M DARPA-like fund for cybersecurity startups and double its public spending on fighting cybercrime to £1.9B a year by 2020 — UK To Create £165 Million DARPA-Like Fund For Cyber Security Startups — The British government has announced a bold series …
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Jack of Kent blog, GOV.UK departments and policy, CNET, Business Insider, We Live Security, Inquirer, Mashable and ITV. Tweets: @forbestech. Thanks:@parmy
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Spotify launches Fan Insights portal for musicians to see data on their fans — Spotify Opens Up Its Data Firehose — The modern-day music industry is missing all sorts of stuff it used to have in the old days. Like sales. — But the 2015 music industry has at least one thing the CD era didn't: Lots of data.| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
Samsung Galaxy Note 5 now ships with warning not to insert S-Pen the wrong way — A recently published YouTube unboxing video reveals that Samsung has begun shipping its Galaxy Note 5 handsets with a warning label, telling users not to insert the proprietary stylus in the wrong way.
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| Chris Dixon / Medium: |
What media firms can learn from the PC video game industry's embrace of freemium models, remixes, mods, and crowdsourcing — Lessons from the PC video game industry — The future of media is here—it's just not evenly distributed — The success or failure of tech and media products depends … | Suzanne Barlyn / Reuters: |
New York AG files for temporary injunction to shut down DraftKings and FanDuel in the state, following a failed attempt by the companies to thwart initial order — NY attorney general seeks halt to daily fantasy sports in state — New York State's top prosecutor on Tuesday filed … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Home Services Marketplace Angie's List Rejects IAC's $512M Acquisition Offer — Well, it looks like it might be a while yet before you swipe right to find your next bricklayer or painter. Angie's List, a marketplace for independent contractors, has formally rejected an offer from IAC …
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| Cameron Summerson / Android Police: |
NVIDIA re-releases SHIELD Tablet as SHIELD Tablet K1 without stylus, charger, and only 16 GB option for $199 — NVIDIA Re-releases SHIELD Tablet As SHIELD Tablet K1, Drops The Price To $199 [Quick Hands-On] — In my personal opinion, NVIDIA's SHIELD Tablet has been one of the better Android tablets … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
With Rdio Buy, Pandora Envisions Apple Music Model for New Service — Pandora, the Internet radio service, says that after buying Rdio, a music subscription service, it wants to offer a new subscription service of its own next year. — What will that service look like? Pandora execs won't say.
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