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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.| 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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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 … | 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.| 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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| 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.
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Facebook exploring counter speech tactics to discredit extremist speech, including giving up to $1K in ad credits and funding student competitions — Facebook Adds New Tool to Fight Terror: Counter Speech — Tuesday mornings, Monika Bickert and her team of content cops meet to discuss ways …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Bug in Adobe Creative Cloud deletes Mac user data; Adobe stops pushing affected update and is working on a fix — Warning: Bug in Adobe Creative Cloud deletes Mac user data without warning — Adobe has stopped distribution of an update believed to be triggering the deletions.
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| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
AT&T preparing to test 5G technologies in Austin, Texas by the end of the year — AT&T to run field trials of 5G wireless in Austin this year — AT&T announced today it will being field trials of faster 5G wireless technology this summer in Austin, Texas.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
European Commission VP Andrus Ansip on leading the Digital Single Market initiative, cybersecurity, opposition to encryption back doors — European Commission VP Andrus Ansip on Digital Single Market — Andrus Ansip has a problem with Tim Cook. — At his Brussels office …
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