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Oculus Refund Shipping Costs as Rift Shipments Delayed Due to “Component Shortages” — It seems that Oculus are acknowledging the troublesome Rift launch and associated delivery delays by covering shipping costs for affected customers. According to emails sent out by Oculus to customers still waiting …
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| Salvador Hernandez / BuzzFeed: |
FBI Tells Local Law Enforcement It Will Help Unlock Phones — A law enforcement official told BuzzFeed News the FBI sent the advisory to local authorities on Friday in order to provide them with “technical assistance.” — Just days after breaking into a terrorist's iPhone using …
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| Vidya Nagarajan / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Acer and Google announce Chromebase for meetings, a 24-inch, all-in-one video-conferencing device, available from $799 in US, UK, Canada, Australia, and Ireland — Chromebase for meetings makes video-conferencing personal and simple — Since we introduced Chromebox for meetings just over two years ago …
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| Carolyn Said / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Airbnb to purge illegal hotels from San Francisco listings, releases SF data set showing 1/5 of full-home rentals are controlled by multiple-property operators — Airbnb to purge illegal hotels from San Francisco listings — Airbnb says it is cracking down on San Francisco hosts who violate the city's law on short-term rentals.
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Inside the development of Amazon Echo: early Echo team members recount company's ambitions for the device and the challenges they faced — The inside story of how Amazon created Echo, the next billion-dollar business no one saw coming — When Amazon executive Dave Limp first saw the pitch …
Tweets: @jess, @jess, @kevinctofel, @mdudas, @mercenaryjack, @mgsiegler, @rakeshlobster and @efeng
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Study finds that of 108M DMCA takedown requests, 99.8% targeted Google search, 28% of all requests are “questionable”, Google likely removes more than it should — 28% of Piracy Takedown Requests Are “Questionable” — In recent years copyright holders have overloaded Google … | David Ruddock / Android Police: |
LG G5 review: inferior to Galaxy S7 in almost every way; modular design and accessories, wide-angle camera feel more like gimmicks than useful features — LG G5 Review: A Bit Of A Mess, Frankly — LG is a company whose smartphone products have gone from bottom of the barrel to highly competitive in under four years.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Netflix throttling itself isn't a net neutrality problem, FCC chair says — Wheeler disappoints Netflix critics who called for investigation. — Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler said yesterday that he has no plans to investigate Netflix for throttling its own video streams … | Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 during the recession — Zero tech companies went public in the US in Q1 2016, which hasn't happened since Q1 2009 — The US market for tech IPOs has totally frozen over.| Jason Rosenthal / Backchannel: |
Lytro CEO Jason Rosenthal on why the company exited the consumer business to focus on providing Light Field powered solutions for virtual reality companies — War Stories: Why I Lit Up Lytro — Scrapping the strategy may be the hardest choice a CEO ever has to make| Bloomberg: |
Colombian hacker claims to have rigged elections throughout Latin America by manipulating social media, spying on other campaigns, stealing information — How to Hack an Election — Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade.
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| Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Fitbit Blaze, Alta devices sell over 1 million units each in first month — The surprise success of the new devices may calm investors' fears (for now). — Fitbit's newest trackers have made quite an impression with customers despite only being available for less than a month.
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