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Airbus CEO says it will provide helicopters to Uber's chopper service via pilot project launching in a few weeks — Airbus to Join Forces With Uber for On-Demand Helicopter Service, CEO Says — European aerospace company looking to expand its audience for helicopters
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WhatsApp Ditches $1 Annual Fee, Tests Business Accounts But No Ads, Says CEO — Today at the DLD conference in Munich, Germany, the CEO of Facebook-owned WhatsApp made a couple of big announcements about how the messaging app plans to evolve to its next phase as it approaches 1 billion users …
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
AOL considering changes to its brand, including a name change, to better reflect properties like Huffington Post, TechCrunch, ad platforms, CMO Allie Kline says — AOL's identity crisis: The company may ditch the ‘AOL’ brand — Verizon-owned AOL has an image problem.
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Profile of ComplaintsBureau.com owner Scott Breitenstein, who decided to ban revenge porn on his site after interviews for this piece — At Home with a Revenge Porn Mogul — Scott Breitenstein has been called an “internet terrorist,” “the worst man on the internet,” and worse.
Tweets: @ryanlcooper, @emmaroller, @thisisfusion, @caseynewton, @panzer and @kashhill
| Karl Bode / Techdirt: |
Netflix Pretends It Will Crackdown On VPNs Just Days After Admitting It's Futile To Do So — For a few years now, broadcasters have whined endlessly about the use of VPNs to access Netflix in markets where the streaming service had yet to launch. You'll recall that Australian broadcasters …
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Microsoft updates support policy: new CPUs will require Windows 10, a list of preferred devices will support older Windows versions, but only for 18 months — Microsoft updates support policy: New CPUs will require Windows 10 — In a change to its longstanding support policy …
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| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
LastPass web design elements can enable a hard-to-detect phishing attack; company says it has released an update that mitigates most of the risks — ShmooCon: LastPass design elements create perfect Phishing opportunity — “There's a cool hacker technique called right click, inspect element...”
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Uber won't face limits on surge pricing under NYC Council legislation; Mayor de Blasio releases $2M study saying Uber isn't to blame for worsening congestion — Uber Won't Face Limits on Surge Pricing Under NYC Council Legislation — The package of bills regarding the taxi … | BBC: |
BT takeover of EE gets final Competition and Markets Authority clearance — BT Group's takeover of mobile phone network EE has been given final clearance by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). — The £12.5bn deal brings together the UK's largest fixed-line business and the largest mobile telecoms business.
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
Truly wireless $300 earbuds from Bragi and Earin are available now, but suffer from bluetooth connectivity issues and poor sound quality — Review: Truly Wireless Headphones Arrive, But With a Few Strings Attached — Bragi Dash and Earin earbuds may usher in an era of ‘hearable’ computers, but they're also works in progress
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| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Alexa can now read Kindle books aloud from an Amazon Echo for free — You won't get the tone of a professional voice actor, but Alexa can read your Kindle books aloud: Best of all, there's no charge. — With so much recent focus on using an Amazon Echo to control smart home devices …
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Tech Times, Mashable, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TrustedReviews, Engadget, The Verge, Ubergizmo, The Next Web and Android Central
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Qualcomm, Guizhou province to establish $280M server chip development company in China; Qualcomm will also license server chip technology, provide R&D processes — Qualcomm, Chinese Province Set Up Server-Chip Venture — China has taken steps to build a bigger domestic semiconductor industry
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