|
February 16, 2016, 11:50 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, Android Authority, SamMobile, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, TechSpot, ABC News, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Inquirer, The Register, AndroidGuys, Pocketnow, ZDNet, Silicon Republic, Digital Trends, BGR, VentureBeat, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat, The Tech Portal, Fone Arena, Droid Life, TechRadar.com, CNET, BetaNews, SamMobile, GSMArena.com, International Business Times, Ars Technica UK, Ars Technica, Neowin, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, Fone Arena, Liliputing, Pocketnow, Inquirer, International Business Times, Android Beat, Pocket-lint, PhoneDog.com, Droid Life 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:
TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Gizmodo, TIME, ZDNet, Ars Technica, USA Today, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Republic, newlaunches.com, Ars Technica UK, Digital Trends, Engadget, The Next Web, Geeky Gadgets, I4U News, bit-tech.net, Headlines & Global News, Gizmag, Android Community, 3DPrint.com, Geek.com, HotHardware, Wonderland, Tech Times, Technabob and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @kevinsuttle and @petervogel
| Reuters: |
Apple Pay to go live in China on Feb 18 — Apple Inc's (AAPL.O) Apple Pay mobile payment system will be available in China from Feb. 18 for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Ltd (ICBC) (601398.SS)(1398.HK) customers, bank representatives said in social media posts on Tuesday.| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg Business: |
Vaio owner says it aims to strike three-way merger deal with the PC units of Toshiba and Fujitsu by March's end, focusing on Japan market at first — Vaio Near Deal With Toshiba, Fujitsu to Form Japan PC Giant — Sony's PC spinoff aims to strike a merger deal by March's end
More:
Reuters, eWeek, PCWorld, Engadget, The Verge, TechSpot, Neowin, The Register, WinBeta, Gizmodo, Windows Central and Japan Times. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| 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.| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Apple Uses Dr. Dre Video, Other TV Production as Apple Music Marketing — Wait a minute: After years of anticipation, Apple finally made its entry into the TV business, and the rest of the world ... shrugged? — Well, yes. But also, no. — Because it's interesting — but not that interesting.| 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:
Tech Times, The Verge, Engadget, Digital Trends, Geek.com, Fortune, Computerworld, Softpedia News, BBC, Security Affairs, Graham Cluley, TechEye, SiliconANGLE, Tech Insider, The Register, SlashGear, The Next Web, socalTECH.com, Hacked, International Business Times, SC Magazine UK and ZDNet. Tweets: @jasonlk
| 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 Verge, BetaNews, Android Authority, Android Police, SiliconANGLE, The Korea Times, eWeek, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Android Authority, SlashGear, Engadget, PhoneArena, PhoneDog.com, NDTV Gadgets360.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, Android Central, Ubergizmo, The Next Web, TechCrunch and AndroidHeadlines.com. Tweets: @whatthebit
| 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 … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Giphy closes $55M Series C at a $300M post-money valuation led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, though the service is not yet monetizing — Giphy Closes $55 Million Series C At A $300 Million Post-Money Valuation — Giphy, the Google of GIFs, has closed a $55 million Series C funding round at a valuation of $300 million post-money.
More:
GIPHY. Tweets: @pkafka, @romaindillet, @mathewi, @caseynewton, @jasonlk, @sfiegerman and @rrhoover
| 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 … | 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, The Overspill, Search Engine Land, The Next Web, WebProNews and TrustedReviews. Tweets: @nathaliecollida
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Transform ML Experimentation with Tangle — Save months of compute time with Tangle, built by Shopify. Try this open-source platform to simplify ML workflows, ensure reproducibility, and seamlessly share with collaborators.
Transform ML Experimentation with Tangle — Save months of compute time with Tangle, built by Shopify. Try this open-source platform to simplify ML workflows, ensure reproducibility, and seamlessly share with collaborators.
Zoho:
Contract Signed. Project Ready. Tasks Created. — Every project begins with a promise; a contract that outlines the deliverables, the timelines, and the terms. But for most businesses …
Contract Signed. Project Ready. Tasks Created. — Every project begins with a promise; a contract that outlines the deliverables, the timelines, and the terms. But for most businesses …
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
Grit:
The Pull to Build: Joubin Mirzadegan on Grit and Starting Roadrunner
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
AI Device Wars Heat Up, RIP Metaverse?, Netflix Acquires Warner Brothers
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
"Hollywood is Truly Freaked Out." Inside the Netflix/WBD Deal with Lucas Shaw
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Hard Fork:
OpenAI Calls a 'Code Red' + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Access:
Is Roblox making the internet better or worse? We asked the CEO
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:50 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
Committee to Protect Journalists:Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Matt Donnelly / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Matt Kinne / Phone Probe: |
More:
The Verge, PhoneArena, Gizmodo, Telegraph, ZDNet, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, The Verge, Android Authority, The Next Web, PR Newswire, Engadget, Computerworld, TechRadar.com, BGR, TechCrunch, Tech Times, MobileSyrup.com, Android Authority, International Business Times, Fone Arena, Android Beat, Technology Personalized, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Forbes, Fone Arena, Neowin, Pocketnow, TechSpot, SamMobile, PhoneDog.com and SiliconANGLE
| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
| Anthony Noto / New York Business Journal: |
Earlier Picks
| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
More:
Silicon Valley Business …, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Marketing Land, Road to VR, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, The Next Web, Engadget, Pocket-lint and TechCrunch. Tweets: @marshallk
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
More:
Fortune, Fone Arena, livemint.com, Techvibes Global News, Business Standard, iamwire, dna, Business Standard, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Times of India, bgr.in, Firstpost and YourStory.com
Tweets: @jonrussell, @mgsiegler and @mdudas
Thanks:@ravichandrans25| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
More:
Motherboard, The Verge, MacRumors, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, PYMNTS.com, Mashable, Business Insider, The Next Web, iMore, Consequence of Sound, BGR, Gizmodo, Tech Insider, Macworld, iPhone Hacks, ABC News, Patently Apple, Tech Times, App Advice, The Verge and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @kanyewest, @snowden and @harvilla
See also Mediagazer