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KGI: Apple planning new iPhone model for 2017 with curved glass case, 5.8-inch AMOLED display, and wireless charging — New iPhone model with curved glass case, 5.8" AMOLED display due in 2017, insider says — Apple has plans to introduce a new high-end iPhone model in 2017 that sports …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Some users reporting iPhone crashes on iOS 9.3 when tapping links in Safari and other apps [Update] — Update: Although details around the problem with iOS 9.3 links causing hangs and crashes remain sparse, it appears to be related to the third-party apps a user installed on the system.| Brian Barrett / Wired: |
A look at how Netflix handles major premieres, VPN usage, local competition, and more after expansion to 130 new countries — Netflix's Grand, Daring, Maybe Crazy Plan to Conquer the World — Late into the night on St. Patrick's Day, Netflix hosted a makeshift “war room” at the company's Silicon Valley headquarters.| Stephen Lovely / AllFlicks: |
Netflix's US Catalog Has Shrunk by More Than 2,500 Titles in Less Than 2.5 Years — It's not your imagination - Netflix's catalog is getting smaller. As competition in the OTT streaming space has increased, Netflix's once-massive selection has decreased. In fact, it has shrunk by a third in less than two and a half years.
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In Angola, Wikipedia Zero and Facebook Free Basics are being used to create a clandestine file sharing network — Angola's Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism — Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai talks about his upbringing, legacy, expanding internet access, importance of product, and more in wide-ranging profile — Searching For Google CEO Sundar Pichai, The Most Powerful Tech Giant You've Never Heard Of — universally known as CES, is a riot of technology.
Tweets: @stevekandell, @fwd, @tomgara, @hunterwalk, @fxshaw and @mat
| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Spotify CEO confirms the service now has 30M paying subscribers, up from 20M in June 2015 — Spotify hits 30 million subscribers — The streaming service isn't slowing down — Spotify has 30 million paid subscribers, CEO Daniel Ek announced today in a tweet.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Sources: Dell may announce $3.5B sale of IT services unit to Japan's NTT as soon as Monday — Dell could announce the sale of its IT services unit to Japan's NTT for $3.5 billion as soon as Monday — Capping a process that began late last year, Dell could announce as early as Monday … | Zack O'Malley Greenburg / Forbes: |
Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary reveal their $30M fund is now valued at $250M with investments in 70+ startups including Airbnb, Uber, Shazam, Skype, and Spotify — How Ashton Kutcher And Guy Oseary Built A $250 Million Portfolio With Startups Like Uber And Airbnb
Tweets: @benioff and @davemcclure
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Google and Yahoo say they're still working on usable end-to-end encrypted email but decline to predict release dates — The Dream Of Usable Email Encryption Is Still A Work In Progress — Tech-savvy people have had a way to send secure email since the mid 1990s, when legendary cryptographer … | Samantha Murphy Kelly / Mashable: |
How Liam, Apple's 29-armed robot, disassembles ruined and returned iPhones for salvageable components and recycling — Inside Liam, Apple's super-secret, 29-armed robot that tears down your iPhone — CUPERTINO, Calif — I'm standing in a warehouse parking lot at an undisclosed location … | Alicia Adamczyk / TIME: |
FAA: 2.5M drones to be sold in US in 2016, 7M in 2020; 400K+ people registered to fly drones — Millions More Drones Will Be Flying Above Your Head by 2020 — It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hobbyist drone! — Looks like drones are the new hoverboards.Sponsor Posts
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