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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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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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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google introduces Destinations, a travel tool available via search on mobile, with information on flights, hotels, price comparisons, more — Google Search now has travel guides to help plan your vacation — Google is trying to make planning vacations less of a hassle.| Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News: |
Researchers at Michigan State unlocked fingerprint-protected Samsung Galaxy S6 and Huawei Honor 7 phones using inkjet prints — You Can Unlock Fingerprint-Protected Phones with a Regular Inkjet Printer — Two researchers have come up with a new method of hacking smartphones … | 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.| 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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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google renames its satellite startup, Skybox Imaging, to Terra Bella and adds focus on image analysis — Google today announced that it is renaming Skybox Imaging, the satellite startup it acquired in 2014, to Terra Bella. More than just a name change, though, the company says this switch … | 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 … | 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 …
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| Aaron Tilley / Forbes: |
Sources: self-driving car kit startup Comma.ai, founded by former iPhone jailbreaker 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.| Hiawatha Bray / BetaBoston: |
Intuit to sell QuickBase software-development unit to New York private equity firm; QuickBase general manager Allison Mnookin to be named CEO of new firm — Intuit spins off Cambridge software business — Intuit Inc., the financial software company known for its TurboTax tax preparation software …
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Bloomberg Business, Boston Business Journal, CFO, ZDNet and Forbes
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Android Marshmallow hits 2.3% adoption in March, up from 1.2% in February, as 16-month-old Lollipop becomes the most used version — 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, Gizmodo, Engadget, International Business Times and Fone Arena
| 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 …
Tweets: @niemanlab
| 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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| 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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