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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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| Mike Brunker / NBC News: |
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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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?
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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon's Email And Calendaring Service, Amazon WorkMail, Exits Preview — Amazon this week took its enterprise-aimed email and calendaring service called WorkMail out of preview mode. The product, which first debuted a year ago, is based on Amazon Web Services and is meant to sub in for legacy solutions, like Microsoft Exchange.
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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 … | CB Insights: |
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.| Will Oremus / Slate: |
Facebook's News Feed team on algorithms, relevancy scores, and the importance of giving users more control over their feeds — How Facebook's news feed algorithm works — A small team of engineers in Menlo Park. A panel of anonymous power users around the world. And, increasingly, you.| New York Times: |
Microsoft Faces New Scrutiny in China — HONG KONG — A few months ago, Satya Nadella, the chief executive of Microsoft, hosted a technology summit meeting at the company's headquarters near Seattle with some of China's most powerful political leaders. He smiled for a photo while flanked by Xi Jinping …
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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