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| Walt Mossberg / The Verge: |
Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge review: great build quality, design, and cameras, but software bloat and clumsy Edge settings undermine the experience — Mossberg: Samsung's new Galaxy S7 phones are beautiful — Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code …
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| iFixit: |
Samsung Galaxy S7 teardown: glued components make it harder to repair than S6, rear camera was downgraded to 12-megapixel/4K from 16-megapixel in S6 — Samsung Galaxy S7 Teardown … Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions.
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| Spencer Ackerman / Guardian: |
FBI applies FISA-approved changes to its rules for accessing NSA data on US citizens; specifics remain classified — FBI quietly changes its privacy rules for accessing NSA data on Americans — Exclusive: Classified revisions accepted by secret Fisa court affect NSA data involving Americans …
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Digital Trends, Engadget, BetaNews and Ars Technica
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Behind Dick Costolo's and Jack Dorsey's efforts to fix Twitter — Fixing Twitter — How the media-juggernaut-turned-train- wreck is getting back on track after a rough two years. — In late January the Tweeps needed a kumbaya moment, and Jack Dorsey knew exactly how to give it to them.| Lucas Mearian / PCWorld: |
Seagate to launch “world's fastest” 10GBps NVMe SSDs with 16-lane PCIe slots this summer — Seagate's blistering new 10GBps NVMe drive is the world's fastest-ever SSD — The new SSD will be available this summer. — Seagate today announced what it's calling …
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Millennial news site Mic acquires Hyper, mobile app that aggregates video content into magazine format — Mic Acquires Mobile Video App Hyper — Millennial-focused Web publisher looks to curate top video content each day — Many digital media companies are focused on distributing content …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Shorts, from the makers of Highlight, lets you swipe through camera roll photos to quickly share in bulk — Shorts is an insane social camera roll from the makers of Highlight — Even in an era when social networks are constantly pushing us to share more of ourselves, Paul Davison's projects stand out for their pushiness.
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Sources: self-driving car kit startup Comma.ai, founded by hacker and Musk challenger George Hotz, valued at $20M based on a16z seed round — How George Hotz Plans To Beat Tesla And Google With His Robocar Startup — George Hotz has a knack for showmanship.| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Home Depot settles lawsuit for $19.5M+ over 2014 data breach that affected 50M+ cardholders — Home Depot settles consumer lawsuit over big 2014 data breach — Home Depot Inc (HD.N) agreed to pay at least $19.5 million to compensate U.S. consumers harmed by a 2014 data breach affecting more than 50 million cardholders.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Android Marshmallow hits 2.3% adoption in March, up from 1.2% in February — Marshmallow barely crawls past 2% adoption in March Android distribution numbers — Last month, Marshmallow finally reached a full percentage point in the Android distribution numbers.
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VentureBeat, Engadget, Android News, Rumours …, Phandroid and PhoneDog.com
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft joins the Eclipse foundation, open sources some of its plugins — The Eclipse Foundation, the organization that oversees development of the Eclipse development environment, has a new member: Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is joining so that it can more easily collaborate with the Eclipse community.
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GitHub, ZDNet and The Register
| Daniel Kahn Gillmor / American Civil Liberties Union: |
How the FBI can bypass auto-erasing without Apple's help by backing up part of the shooter's iPhone — One of the FBI's Major Claims in the iPhone Case is Fraudulent — Does the FBI Need to Worry About the San Bernadino Shooter's iPhone Self-Erasing? — “We have enormous computing power … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest opens up its ads manager tools to smaller and medium-sized businesses — Pinterest today is releasing a set of new advertising management tools that were previously unavailable for smaller businesses as its portfolio of advertising products — and revenue potential — continues to grow.
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for Business, Social Media Today, AdExchanger, SocialTimes and WebProNews. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Amazon launches its first live show, Style Code Live, a QVC-like web show — Amazon's first live show is QVC for the YouTube generation — Now that Amazon has its own private fashion labels, it's launching its its first ever live TV show called Style Code Live.
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Business Wire, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Variety, GeekWire, Re/code, Mashable, WebProNews, Digital Trends, CNET, The Verge, Gizmodo UK, TechCrunch and TWICE. See also Mediagazer
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Yik Yak asks users to create user names for their posts but still allows posting anonymously — Yik Yak asks users to create user names in a step away from anonymity — Yik Yak, the anonymous social network popular on college campuses, is asking users to create user names.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Flickr makes desktop Auto-Uploadr available to Flickr Pro members only, membership remains $5.99/month or $49.99/year — Flickr's desktop auto-upload feature is no longer free — Flickr has made a change to its $5.99 monthly Pro membership plan that will affect those using the photo-sharing social network for free.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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