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Apple invites media to event on March 21 at 10AM PT at its Cupertino campus, where it's expected to announce iPhone SE and a new iPad — Apple sends out invitations for a new iPhone event on March 21 — Apple sent out invitations for an event on March 21 where it's expected to announce a new iPhone called the iPhone SE.
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| Krystian Kolondra / Opera Desktop: |
Opera introduces native ad-blocking feature to its browser, claims it is about 45% faster than Chrome with AdBlock Plus extension — Introducing native ad-blocking feature for faster browsing — If there were no bloated ads, some top websites would load up to 90% faster.
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| Brent Lang / Variety: |
Sources: The Screening Room, backed by Sean Parker, pitches film industry on service that would offer $50 home movie rentals on theatrical release day — Studios, Exhibitors Consider Revolutionary Plan for Day-and-Date Movies at Home (EXCLUSIVE) — Tech moguls Sean Parker …
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See also Mediagazer| Nicholas Deleon / Motherboard: |
MIT researchers develop Polaris, a software framework that they say can make web pages load up to 34% faster — MIT May Have Just Given the Web a Huge Speed Boost — An open source tool may help tame the hobbled mess of autoplaying videos and advertising trackers that is the modern web.
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| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
Sonos announces layoffs, greater focus on voice technology and paid streaming music services — Sonos has announced that it will be “letting go of some employees,”; part of reshaping the company in a new direction. In an (admittedly vague) blog post, CEO John Macfarlane doesn't say exactly …
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See also Mediagazer| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Nest launches family accounts and Home/Away feature that will use phones' locations to tell when house is empty — Nest can now use your phone to tell when you've left the house — Nest's products are about to get better at telling when you're out of the house and when you're about to come back home.
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| Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Twitter offering additional restricted stock and cash bonuses to employees companywide to stem talent drain — Twitter Bets on Payouts to Rein In Talent Flight — Social media company offers additional restricted stock and cash bonuses to employees
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| Tom Wheeler / The Huffington Post: |
FCC chairman Tom Wheeler proposes rules that would force ISPs to ask your permission before sharing personal data with some outside parties — It's Your Data: Empowering Consumers to Protect Online Privacy — It's the age of anywhere, anytime Internet connectivity — do you know where your information is?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
YouTube Gaming expands to several new markets, adds 60fps playback, DVR mode, and pop-out player support to Android — YouTube Gaming expands to new markets, improves its browsing and viewing experience on mobile — YouTube Gaming, the video network's dedicated application for streaming …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft releases Dynamics AX ERP as a cloud-first service in 137 markets and 40 languages — Microsoft's new Dynamics AX ERP-as-a-service offering is truly cloud-first — Microsoft is making generally available its latest Dynamics AX ERP service offering in 173 markets.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Messaging app Cola, which uses interactive text message Bubbles to expand functionality, publicly launches on iOS — Cola launches its app for smarter, more interactive text messages — Do you sometimes get the feeling that you're having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning?
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The Next Web, VentureBeat, Fast Company and Business Wire. Tweets: @chrismessina. Thanks:@drs650
| Jordan Valinsky / Digiday: |
Facebook says it will let users disable all notifications for live video within the next few weeks — Facebook will soon let you disable seeing all notifications for live videos — Relief is on the way. If you've noticed an influx of Facebook notifications from brands or publishers every …
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