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Motorola name to be slowly phased out, products to carry label “Moto by Lenovo” instead — Goodbye, Moto(rola). Iconic brand to be phased out — Motorola, where wireless got its start, will see its name disappear from its products. It'll soon be Moto by Lenovo.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
ProPublica becomes first major news site on the dark web, running as a hidden service on the Tor network, offering stronger privacy than SSL to readers — ProPublica Launches the Dark Web's First Major News Site — The so-called dark web, for all its notoriety as a haven for criminals and drug dealers … | Ben Woods / The Next Web: |
Jide announces Remix OS 2.0, a fork of Android Lollipop that is designed to run on x86 PCs, alpha build will be available as a free download on January 12 — The excellent Remix OS is bringing Android to every old x86 PC (and Mac) for free — When I first tested the Remix Mini at the end of last year, I was blown away.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google removes 13 apps from Play Store after researchers found they made unauthorized downloads and tried to gain root privileges — Malicious apps in Google Play made unauthorized downloads, sought root — Apps with as many as a million downloads removed following their discovery.
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| Dan Thorp-Lancaster / Android Central: |
Sprint set to join other major US carriers in killing two-year contracts for smartphones, according to leaked internal document — Sprint kills 2-year contracts for smartphones — Sprint has gone through with its plans to 2-year contracts for smartphones, according to an internal document sent to us by an anonymous tipster.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
German Publishers Still Upset That Google Sends Them Traffic Without Paying Them Too; File Lawsuit — from the your-honor,-how-dare-they-send-us- traffic dept — Oh boy. Remember VG Media? That's the consortium of German news publishers who were so damn angry that Google News sends …
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Google teams up with Lenovo on smartphone with Project Tango's augmented reality — Lenovo and Google announced a partnership today to create a new smartphone that makes use of a 3D augmented reality technology known as Project Tango. — Johnny Lee, a member of the Tango team at Google … | Wall Street Journal: |
Apple says it has acquired Emotient, an AI startup that reads emotions by analyzing facial expressions, and was recently seeking a new round of financing — Apple Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup Emotient — Emotient technology is used to assess emotions by reading facial expressions
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Mozilla reinstates support for SHA-1 certificates temporarily after some Firefox users experienced problems accessing HTTPS sites — Firefox ban on SHA-1 dropped after many locked out of HTTPS sites — Mozilla reinstates support for the vulnerable SHA-1 crypto on a temporary basis until … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook, Microsoft, and Google say UK spying laws are ‘a step in the wrong direction’ — America's biggest tech companies have united to criticize new digital surveillance laws proposed in the UK. In evidence submitted to the committee assessing the legislation, Facebook, Google, Microsoft …
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Publishing and tech consulting firm IDG, which published Macworld, Computerworld, and PCWorld, retains Goldman Sachs to prepare for sale — Global publishing and consulting company in Framingham could be up for sale — Former IDG exec Colin Crawford reports that IDG has retained Goldman Sachs … | TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces partnership with Microsoft to develop Windows 10 IoT devices — Samsung Partners With Microsoft For Windows 10 IoT Effort — Samsung has made its name in mobile as the world's biggest maker of Android devices. But it looks like it has different plans in mind when it comes … | Tim Fernholz / Quartz: |
T-Mobile CEO John Legere responds to Binge On criticism, claims it's not throttling because the service doesn't slow down data or remove customer control — T-Mobile CEO John Legere defends his streaming plan against “bulls**t” complaints from “jerks” at Google
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