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MyShake Android app uses your phone's accelerometer to detect earthquakes and automatically warn scientists — With “MyShake” App, Your Phone Feels Earthquakes and Automatically Warns Scientists — And MyShake won't kill your battery life, either. — Your newest app hums away …
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| M. Mitchell Waldrop / Nature: |
Semiconductor industry roadmap to abandon pursuit of Moore's law for the first time as computing becomes increasingly mobile — The chips are down for Moore's law — The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore's law. Now things could get a lot more interesting.
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Immersion files a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple over 3D Touch, Force Touch, Taptic Engine and other haptic feedback technologies — Haptic Feedback Company Immersion Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple — Immersion, a company that develops and licenses haptic touch … | Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
AWS Bolsters High Performance Computing Offering With NICE Acquisition — AWS attempted to enhance its high performance computing offering today when it purchased NICE, an Italian software and services company for an undisclosed price. — NICE provides a set of tools and technologies … | Cade Metz / Wired: |
Coinbase throws support behind Bitcoin Classic as Bitcoin community faces schism over block size issue — The Schism Over Bitcoin Is How Bitcoin Is Supposed to Work — The bitcoin community can't even agree on whether it's breaking up. — Last month, Mike Hearn—an ex-Googler …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Study: investors in unicorns received senior liquidation preferences in 42% of Q4 2015 rounds, up from 15% in previous two quarters — Doomed-i-corns: Unicorns Seemingly Reach a Tipping Point — This morning, the law firm Fenwick & West published new findings about all the U.S.-based unicorn financings … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
4-inch iPhone 5se & iPad Air 3 planned to go on sale March 18th — Apple is currently on target to start selling its next iPhone and iPad models the same week that the new products are introduced in March. Apple is currently planning to introduce a new 4-inch iPhone dubbed the “iPhone 5se” …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Tumblr gets a dedicated ad sales team again, after integration with Yahoo ad sales failed — Yahoo is ditching a plan that caused turmoil within Tumblr — Yahoo's challenges have been in the investor spotlight for months — now signs of turmoil are becoming visible at its Tumblr group.| Bloomberg Business: |
Baidu CEO and Qiyi CEO offer to buy Baidu's 80.5% stake in the streaming video platform, valuing Qiyi at about $2.8B — Baidu Gets Offer From Executives for Majority Stake in Qiyi — Search provider's shares climb 8.2%, the most since October — Bid could lead to eventual IPO of Qiyi in China, analyst says
| Jennifer Miller / New York Times: |
Some real estate firms aim to improve efficiency and remove stress from house-hunting by using virtual reality to showcase properties — A New Dimension in Home Buying: Virtual Reality — The goggles were strapped to my face like a scuba mask. Only instead of fish, a studio apartment was wavering in my field of vision.| Ben Rosen / BuzzFeed: |
How one teen and her friends use Snapchat, replying to 40 snaps in under a minute, getting scores of 100K+ in 45 days, burning tens of gigabytes of data a month — My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens” … TRENDING — I'm 29 years old, and I've been on Snapchat for about a year now.
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| Alan Fram / Associated Press: |
Congress passes bill permanently barring state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet — Congress gives final OK to banning local Internet taxes — WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress voted Thursday to permanently bar state and local governments from taxing access to the Internet …
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