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Source: smaller HTC Nexus will have 5-inch 1080p display, 4GB of RAM, 2770mAh battery, 12MP rear and 8MP front camera, quad-core 2.0GHz 64-bit CPU — It's that time everybody: Nexus season. While the last substantive pieces of Nexus information we could share popped up nearly two months ago …
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| Ina Fried / Recode: |
Apple clarifies differential privacy will be opt-in for iOS 10; data collected for user-added local dictionary words, emojis, deep links, lookup hints in notes — “Differential privacy” is Apple's way of collecting data without being totally creepy. — After years of touting itself … | Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers for dynamic pricing during demand surges — Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.
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Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version — Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime — For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
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| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Source: Google is building a live support app with screen-sharing for Nexus devices — A long-standing gap in the Nexus device feature-set for “normal” buyers has been live on-device support. In the event you need help setting up your Nexus smartphone - a smartphone you bought on the internet …
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| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
In latest update, Oculus removes DRM that stopped Rift games from being played on HTC Vive, says it will not use hardware checks as part of DRM on PC anymore — News breaks not from official announcement, but from discovery by workaround dev. — What a difference an Internet uproar can make.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS — Finally Twitter will let you see tweets from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it's now rolling out this big …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products — Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. — Not in the martial arts—she's already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Behind the race in Silicon Valley and Detroit to build a self-driving car — Silicon Valley and Detroit are in a race to create our driverless future. And for the first time ever, the car may take a backseat. — My brain knows that this demonstration has been carefully staged … | Scott Cendrowski / Fortune: |
Xiaomi struggles to expand abroad as its smartphone sales in China decline and ecosystem growth misses forecasts, making some question its $45B valuation — The “Apple of China” gets a reality check as its smartphone sales slump. … Xiaomi's tale may sound like merely another iteration …
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