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Microsoft concedes that it won't have Windows 10 installed on 1B devices by mid-2018, as previously projected — Microsoft isn't going to make its self-imposed deadline of having Windows 10 installed on 1 billion devices by mid-2018, company officials have conceded.
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| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube reportedly blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt; Instagram and Vimeo still available — The Turkish military has deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup.
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US pledges $400M over the next 7 years for 5G research led by National Science Foundation — As President Obama approaches the end of his tenure in the White House, his team is launching a wireless networking research project that it hopes could be part of his wider legacy in the world of tech.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Kantar: Samsung's Galaxy S7 outsold Apple's iPhone 6s in the US between March and May 2016 — The iPhone showed its first decline in sales numbers earlier this year, which has today been reiterated by the latest US mobile market data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Google recently shut down project to create high-end standalone VR headset with non-Android OS — Another sign that Google is putting its eggs into mobile VR. — Google recently shut down an internal project to create a high-end standalone virtual reality headset akin to devices …
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Sources: final bids for Yahoo are due on Monday, with the board set to make a decision soon afterward — SAN FRANCISCO — The gavel is finally poised to drop in the drawn-out auction for Yahoo's core internet business. — Final bids for the services, which include Yahoo's search, email …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
BitTorrent Now officially launches on iOS and Apple TV — Earlier this year, BitTorrent announced a new BitTorrent Now app that allows users to stream a variety of content including videos and music. At the time, the app was Android-only, but now the app has officially come to iOS and Apple TV.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nvidia launches its first game, VR Funhouse, for HTC Vive VR on Steam, will release it as open source later this summer — Virtual reality could be a big driver for gamer PCs with powerful graphics cards. That's why Nvidia wants it to succeed. And to boost VR hardware sales … | Aaron Pressman / Fortune: |
T-Mobile Is Giving Customers a Year of Free Data to Play Pokemon Go — There are few executives in telecommunications—or most other industries for that matter—who are better masters of free publicity than T-Mobile CEO John Legere. — And so, with the popularity of the Nintendo smartphone game Pokemon …
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| Colin Gibbs / FierceWireless: |
AT&T and IBM to combine their cloud and IoT platforms in an effort to provide developers with easier tools to build and implement IoT offerings — AT&T (NYSE: T) and IBM are targeting the enterprise with a new IoT initiative. — The companies said today they will combine their cloud …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle closes $50M Series C — Encrypted comms company Silent Circle, which also makes a security-focused Android smartphone called the Blackphone, has announced it's closed a $50 million Series C round of financing, led by Santander Bank.
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| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC released a list of 62 bidders who made deposits for the next stage of spectrum auction; Chamath Palihapitiya's Rama is not among them — Chamath Palihapitiya's Social Capital drops out of agency's airwaves auction — Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya boasted last year …
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