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Sources: Twitter considers 10K-character limit for “Beyond 140” feature slated for Q1, testing timeline that shows 140 characters with option to expand for more — Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets — Longer tweets are coming soon to Twitter.
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Jack Dorsey likens additional text in tweets to text screenshots, affirms the value of the 140-character constraint, predicts most tweets will still be short — At its core Twitter is public messaging. A simple way to say something, to anyone, that everyone in the world can instantly see. We didn't start Twitter with a 140 character restriction. We added that early on to fit into a single SMS message (160 characters).
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Samsung's new Notebook 9 laptops take “thin-and-light” to a beautiful extreme, with the 13.3-inch model weighing just 1.85lbs, the 15-inch 2.84lbs — Samsung's Notebook 9 laptops take ‘thin-and-light’ to a beautiful extreme — Before Intel coined the term “ultrabook” …
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Lumosity to Pay $2M to Settle FTC Charges Over ‘Brain Training’ Ads — The company that created the Lumosity “brain training” program has agreed to pay $2 million to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it deceived consumers into believing that its mind games could help users excel …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Casio's First Android Wear Watch Will Be Ruggedized And Have Up To A Month Of Battery Life — Most of the Android Wear devices out there are similar takes on the same use case, but watchmaker Casio is trying something a little different. The Casio Smart Outdoor Watch (WSD-F10) … | Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Apple to build another data center adjacent to its existing campus in Reno — Apple Doubling Down on Data Center Construction in Reno — Apple has filed for approval to build another massive data center campus adjacent to the existing Apple data center site in Reno, Nevada, local officials told the Reno Gazette Journal.
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| Michael S. Rosenwald / Washington Post: |
President Obama instructs Defense Department, the Justice Department, and DHS to research and regularly review smart gun technology in executive action — Obama embraces smart guns, thrilling proponents of the controversial technology — Proponents of smart guns say President Obama's executive action … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Oculus giving Oculus Rift consumer edition headsets to original Kickstarter backers who pledged enough for the Oculus Rift DK1, in the countries it's launching — Oculus Rift Kickstarter backers will get a free consumer edition — Oculus will be shipping a consumer version of its Rift VR headset … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's new “conversational ads” let users respond to ad tweets by choosing between multiple preselected hashtags and then tweeting them — Twitter's ‘Conversational’ Ad Unit Encourages Users To Participate With Customizable Hashtags — Twitter is announcing a new …
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| James Niccolai / PCWorld: |
Panasonic and Facebook develop freeze-ray cold storage system; Facebook to deploy 300GB disks this year, companies working on 500GB and 1TB disks — Panasonic to commercialize Facebook's Blu-ray cold storage systems — Facebook has said Blu-ray can cut costs significantly for long term data storage
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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Fitbit's new fitness watch, Blaze, offers 5-day battery, improved heart rate tracking, touch LCD display, swappable bands, more available in March for $200 — Fitbit's new wearable is a fitness watch called Blaze — How do you compete in a growing smartwatch market without making a smartwatch?| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
Dutch government backs strong encryption, condemns backdoors — The Netherlands government issued a strong statement on Monday against weakening encryption for the purposes of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. — The move comes as governments in the United Kingdom and China act …
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Sources: Verizon to auction off 48 data centers to focus on core business, hopes to raise $2.5B+ new messages — Exclusive: Verizon launches auction to sell data centers - sources — Verizon Communications Inc (VZ.N) has started a process to sell its data center assets …
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| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 With Cortana Integration Is Rolling Out To The OnePlus One — Cyanogen Inc is rolling out Cyanogen OS 12.1.1 for the OnePlus One today, and it's not just any update. This is the first version of Cyanogen OS with support for Microsoft Cortana baked right in.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Toshiba's 12-inch Windows 10 DynaPad available for pre-order today, will be available in stores late January, prices start at $570 — Toshiba starts selling its thinnest 12-inch Windows 10 Dynapad tablet — Toshiba said today it is shipping its newest 12-inch Dynapad tablet powered by Windows 10.| Andrei Frumusanu / AnandTech: |
Huawei Mate 8 review: excellent battery life and performance, while display and camera leave room for improvement — The Huawei Mate 8 Review — It's been over a year since we reviewed the Huawei Ascend Mate 7 and Ascend Mate 2. For many people and including ourselves at AnandTech … | Jon Healey / Los Angeles Times: |
Dish releases Hopper 3 set-top box, can record 16 HD shows simultaneously, introduces HopperGo, a portable, $99 battery-powered storage device — CES 2016: Dish offers a DVR for the stream-and-binge generation — Dish Network's Hopper 3 set-top box can record programs on 16 channels simultaneously … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Oracle Buys Audience Tracking Firm AddThis For Around $200M — Oracle continues to ramp up its business in the area of marketing tech. Today the enterprise software giant announced that it has acquired AddThis, which makes sharing features (i.e., those buttons on web pages that let you share stories …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The second HTC Vive development kit has a built-in camera and new controllers — HTC is spending a surprisingly good name on a product that will only exist for a few months. — The product is the Vive Pre, a virtual reality headset that's going out to developers soon after its unveiling this morning.
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| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Magic debuts premium service, Magic+, to cost $100/ hour for a virtual assistant that can complete any task — Magic, the Virtual Assistant for Everything, Debuts A Premium Service — When reality TV star and pawn shop owner Corey Harrison was jilted by a staff member at an unnamed Laguna Beach hotel … | Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
LastPass launches first major release since LogMeIn, lets you grant account access to people during emergencies, and provides a new way to share passwords — LastPass 4.0 Is The First Major Release Since LogMeIn, Adds Emergency Access And A New Sharing Center — New Emergency Access, Sharing Center headline key new release
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| Garett Sloane / Digiday: |
Sources: Snapchat is building an ad API, and reaching out to potential ad partners — Snapchat is building an ad technology platform — Snapchat is working on a crucial part of its growing digital ad business: an application programming interface (API) that would let partners start buying ads …
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Yahoo, Google, Facebook, and Dropbox eased up on “acquihires” in 2015 — The End Of The Acquihire - Silicon Valley's Startup Severance Package Falls Out of Favor — Silicon Valley's “severance package” for startups fell out of favor in 2015 as Yahoo, Google, Facebook, Dropbox eased up on acquihires.| Michael Zhang / PetaPixel: |
Nikon unveils KeyMission 360, a waterproof, action camera that can capture 360-degree footage in 4K, coming spring 2016 — Nikon KeyMission 360: A Waterproof 4K Action Cam for 360° Photos and Videos — Nikon surprised everyone today by announcing an entirely new type of camera at CES 2016 in Vegas.
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| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
HP announces 12-inch, 12.4mm-thin EliteBook Folio G1 business laptop with Core M processor and optional 4K display, coming in March in US, starting at $999 — HP's EliteBook Folio G1 may be the pro-level 12-inch laptop you've been looking for (hands-on) — 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10
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