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Amazon expands Dash Button line-up, top sellers to date include Tide, Bounty, Cottonelle — Amazon this morning announced an expansion of its Dash Buttons product line - those Wi-Fi connected, push-button devicesthat let you buy products from its site with just a press.
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iPhone SE teardown reveals mix of 5s, 6, and 6s parts, including processor, memory, NFC chip, axis sensor, modem, Audio ICs, few new innovative components — Apple iPhone SE Teardown — The long-rumored, cost-friendly iPhone SE was finally announced on March 21st of this year.| Los Angeles Times: |
FBI agrees to help prosecutors unlock iPhone 6 and iPod in Arkansas homicide case — FBI agrees to help Arkansas prosecutors open iPhone after hack of San Bernardino device — Apple appears to have gained a momentary reprieve in the tech industry's sparring with the government over encryption technology.
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Roadmap shown in Build presentation reveals Microsoft is building ad blocker into next version of Edge browser — Microsoft plans to build ad blocker into its Microsoft Edge browser — Who needs extensions like AdBlock Plus? In a session for Web developers today, Microsoft revealed …
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| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
CloudFlare: 94 percent of the Tor traffic we see is “per se malicious” — Legitimate users suffer as Tor becomes favored tool of spammers and fraudsters. — More than ever, websites are blocking users of the anonymizing Tor network or degrading the services they receive.
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Consumer-ready Oculus Rift teardown: two OLED displays with a combined resolution of 2160x1200 mounted to adjustable lenses, 90 FPS refresh rate — Oculus Rift CV1 Teardown — We've had two prerelease versions on our teardown table, so we're excited to see what tweaks this Rift has in store.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Sources: Nest generated about $340M in sales last year, below Google's expectations, is facing scrutiny as $500M annual operating budget set to expire this year — With $340 million in revenue, Nest is underperforming, and its future at Google is at risk — Nest generated about $340 million …
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| Darlene Storm / Computerworld: |
1,418 remotely exploitable flaws found in CareFusion's automated medical supply system, warns ICS-CERT; no patch coming as devices are on “end-of-life software” — 1,418 remotely exploitable flaws found in automated medical supply system — Security researchers found 1,418 …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Uber rolling out in-app customer service support globally, in place of its email method — Checking Your Uber Rating Or Getting Your Purse Back Just Got Much Easier — After years of forcing customers to use email to complain about anything, Uber is now committing to more updated technology.
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The Verge, Washington Post, VentureBeat, Uber Global, SlashGear, Digital Trends, TIME, Droid Life, USA Today, Gizmodo, Vox and The Next Web. Tweets: @rsarver
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft releases HoloLens emulator for developers to build and test AR apps — Microsoft launches HoloLens emulator so developers can test holographic apps, no headset required — As promised, Microsoft today started shipping its $3,000 HoloLens development kits.| Ryan Mac / Forbes: |
Drone OS startup Airware raises $30M round led by Next World Capital, adds Cisco's John Chambers to board — Drone Startup Airware Raises $30 Million, Adds Cisco's John Chambers To Board — Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration projected in a report that 7 million drones will be sold annually in the U.S. within four years.| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft teams with ConsenSys to build Ethereum-based distributed apps in Visual Studio — Microsoft Adds Ethereum to Windows Platform For Over 3 Million Developers — Millions of Microsoft developers are now able to build decentralized applications using the Ethereum blockchain thanks …
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