|
February 16, 2016, 5:15 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Samsung starts pushing Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to its devices, beginning with Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge today — Samsung starts Android Marshmallow update with Galaxy S6 today — Samsung is pushing the latest version of Google's Android operating system to its mobile devices from February 15th.
More:
SAMSUNG NEWSROOM, The Verge, Android Authority, Phone Probe, SamMobile, Gizmodo, Inquirer, The Register, ZDNet, VentureBeat, The Verge, ABC News, Engadget, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, BGR, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, Silicon Republic, CNET, SamMobile, TechRadar.com, ZDNet, AndroidGuys, Digital Trends, The Tech Portal, Fone Arena, Pocketnow, MobileSyrup.com, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Droid Life, GSMArena.com, International Business Times, BetaNews, Ars Technica UK, Ars Technica, Neowin, Droid Life, Ubergizmo, Fone Arena, Liliputing, Tech Times, Pocketnow, Inquirer, International Business Times, Android Beat, Pocket-lint, PhoneDog.com and Android Central
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @dcseifert and @reckless
| John Kell / Fortune: |
Mattel's ThingMaker, a 3D-printer and app enabling kids to make toys, is available for pre-order on Amazon for $299, will ship this fall — Mattel Is Using 3D Printing to Resurrect An Old Hit — Mattel kicked off New York Toy Fair with a big announcement: the world's largest toy maker …
More:
Gizmodo, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, USA Today, The Verge, Ars Technica, SlashGear, newlaunches.com, Ars Technica UK, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, Engadget, Geeky Gadgets, I4U News, Headlines & Global News, Gizmag, Android Community, 3DPrint.com, Geek.com, HotHardware, bit-tech.net, Tech Times, Technabob, iPhone Hacks and Wonderland
Tweets: @kevinsuttle and @petervogel
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Palantir acquires Kimono Labs, will shutter data collection service on February 29 — Kimono Labs has been acquired by Palantir in a move that will see the team behind the data collection service absorbed into the secretive data analytics platform. As a result of the deal … | Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Tidal Tops U.S. App Store After Landing Exclusive Rights To Kanye West's New Album — After scoring exclusive streaming rights to Kanye West's new album, The Life of Pablo, Tidal has taken over the number one spot on the U.S. App Store. … The album, which went live yesterday …
More:
The Verge, MacRumors, The Verge, The Next Web, BGR, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Insider, ABC News, Consequence of Sound, Macworld, Gizmodo, iMore, Tech Times, Patently Apple, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, Ubergizmo, The Loop, The Verge, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Engadget
Tweets: @kanyewest, @snowden and @harvilla
See also Mediagazer| John Markoff / New York Times: |
How software designers are grappling with creating a computer voice that people like, which is as much an art as it is a science — Creating a Computer Voice That People Like — When computers speak, how human should they sound? — This was a question that a team of six IBM linguists … | Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
The end of MixRadio as LINE quietly kills off music streaming service — After a whirlwind ride through many owners the latest one - LINE - has just posted a late-night press release noting that the company is shuttering the doors on the popular music streaming service MixRadio.
More:
LINE Corporation, VentureBeat, The Verge, VatorNews, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Neowin, Ubergizmo and WinBeta. Tweets: @deano_42. See also Mediagazer
| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Mattel's $40 Google Cardboard-compatible VR View-Master 2.0, coming this fall, fixes many problems of the original — The VR View-Master 2.0 Will Be the Best Google Cardboard You Can Buy — Last year Mattel completely re-invented the View-Master by turning it into what eventually became …
More:
The Verge, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Google, Marketing Land, Road to VR, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Engadget, TechCrunch and Liliputing. Tweets: @marshallk
| Steve Ragan / CSO: |
Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center's network down for more than a week after ransomware attack; hackers demand $3.6M — Ransomware takes Hollywood hospital offline, $3.6M demanded by attackers — Network has been offline fore more than a week, $3.6 million demanded as ransom
More:
TechEye, The Verge, Engadget, Computerworld, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Hacked, SlashGear, International Business Times, The Register, SC Magazine UK, The Next Web and SiliconANGLE. Tweets: @jasonlk
| ABC: |
Wikimedia's Knowledge Engine, a $2.4M research project to build a transparent search engine, received a $250K grant from the Knight Foundation in September — Knowledge Engine: Wikimedia Foundation takes aim at Google with $3.5m search project — Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is preparing …
More:
Motherboard, The Register, Search Engine Land, The Overspill, The Next Web, WebProNews and TrustedReviews. Tweets: @nathaliecollida
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle — The Reality of Missing Out — When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you're not the customer you're the product”.
Tweets: @mdudas
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Hulu's universal Windows 10 app features live tiles and Cortana — A big part of the promise of Windows 10 is the big push for universal applications, which enable developers to write one app that'll work on PCs, phones and tablets. Hulu has embraced Microsoft's vision and is launching its universal Windows 10 application today.| LG Newsroom: |
LG details its Stylus 2 smartphone: 5.7 inch display, 1.2 GHz quad-core processor, 1.5GB RAM, 13 MP rear camera, 8 MP front camera, will be unveiled at MWC 2016 — ALL NEW LG STYLUS 2 TO MAKE FIRST PUBLIC APPEARANCE AT MWC 2016 — Enhanced Stylus Pen Offers Easy Note Taking and Drawing Experience
More:
The Next Web, Android Authority, SlashGear, Engadget, PhoneArena, PhoneDog.com, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Android Central, Ubergizmo and AndroidHeadlines.com. Tweets: @whatthebit
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Warp:
The #1 Coding Agent — #1 on Terminal-Bench. 71% on SWE-bench Verified. Trusted by 600K+ devs. Try the top agentic dev tool for $1 for 1st month with code TECHMEME.
The #1 Coding Agent — #1 on Terminal-Bench. 71% on SWE-bench Verified. Trusted by 600K+ devs. Try the top agentic dev tool for $1 for 1st month with code TECHMEME.
Zoho:
Tuning response time psychology with an integrated solution — This is a guest post by Sharath Joji, Content Marketing Lead at Office24by7.Indecision and delays are often considered the parents of failure, and nowhere is this more true than in sales.
Tuning response time psychology with an integrated solution — This is a guest post by Sharath Joji, Content Marketing Lead at Office24by7.Indecision and delays are often considered the parents of failure, and nowhere is this more true than in sales.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Tech Brew Ride Home:
Now Meta Has Frozen AI Hiring
Tech news headlines every day. 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.
Subscribe to Tech Brew Ride Home.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Amazon is betting on agents to win the AI race
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Great Chat:
Is AI a job killer or job creator?
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Spotlight On:
Figma IPO, GPT-5, and a Q+A with Kerry Wang
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Big Technology Podcast:
Inside Google's Generative AI Reinvention -- With Nick Fox and Liz Reid
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:15 AM ET, February 16, 2016.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Anthony Noto / New York Business Journal: |
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
More:
livemint.com, Business Standard, Techvibes Global News, dna, Business Standard, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Times of India, bgr.in, Firstpost, iamwire, Reuters, Wall Street Journal and YourStory.com
Tweets: @jonrussell, @mgsiegler and @mdudas
Thanks:@ravichandrans25Earlier Picks
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Tweets: @wadhwa and @stephfierman
| Ben Rosen / BuzzFeed: |
More:
VentureBeat, Washington Post and Motherboard
Tweets: @eunicortiz, @katie_roof, @dshankar, @marshallk, @profjeffjarvis, @nickbilton, @wickedgood and @umichlsa
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |