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Apple loses patent retrial to VirnetX, ordered to $302.4M in damages after federal jury finds FaceTime and other applications infringed on patents — A federal jury in Texas on Friday night ordered Apple Inc to pay more than $302 million in damages for using VirnetX Holding Corp's patented …
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The Verge, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Tech Times, iDownloadBlog.com, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Patently Apple, MacRumors, Engadget, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider and GigaLaw. Tweets: @mattrosoff
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Apple threatens to pull top-grossing iMessage sticker pack Phoneys, which overwrites your friends' messages — Wednesday night of this week, John Gruber wrote, “This is very clever, and I can see how it could be damn funny, but I wouldn't be surprised if Phoneys gets pulled from the App Store.”| Todd C. Frankel / Washington Post: |
How cobalt sourced from dangerous mines in DR Congo ends up inside Li-ion batteries powering gadgets made by Apple, Samsung, and other tech companies — Photos by Michael Robinson Chavez … The sun was rising over one of the richest mineral deposits on Earth, in one of the poorest countries, as Sidiki Mayamba got ready for work.| Brian Benchoff / Hackaday: |
Arduino.cc and Arduino.org settle trademark dispute, announce Arduino Holding for product distribution, and Arduino Foundation for managing IDE and community — For the last two years, Arduino LLC (the arduino.cc, Massimo one) and Arduino SRL (the arduino.org, Musto one) …
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ICANN gains full oversight of Domain Name System as its contract with US NTIA expires on October 1 — A judge in Texas has put the kibosh on a last-minute legal attempt to block the controversial decision for the US to give up control of one of the key systems that powers the internet.| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
What to expect at Google's Oct. 4 event: two new flagship devices without Nexus branding, more details about Home, Google Wi-Fi, Android-Chrome OS hybrid, more — So. Much. Hardware. — PIN — Now that Apple has had its big fall phone event, it's Google's turn to show off its goods.
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Android Authority, Ars Technica UK, 9to5Google, Engadget, Ars Technica and Gizmodo
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
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Android Police, Ausdroid, Android Central, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, TalkAndroid.com, Phandroid and Android Police
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Life On Air, developers of Meerkat, pull the app from the App Store to focus on group video chat app Houseparty — Remember Meerkat? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone's tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope …
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Android Police, Engadget, Politico, iPhone Hacks, Digital Trends, Yahoo, The Verge, Mashable, AndroidHeadlines.com, AndroidHeadlines.com, International Business Times, Pocket-lint, Engadget, The Verge, VentureBeat, Fortune and GeekTime
Tweets: @benrbn, @benrbn, @yipe, @flyosity, @blakespot, @elitistsnob, @markorlan and @chrisherold
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WeChat testing new feature called “little program” that lets service providers build apps within the messaging app, instead of linking to webpages as before — TENCENT Holdings built a hugely successful messaging platform with its WeChat app. Now an experimental new service … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line invests $45M for 25% of Asia-focused Snapchat-like app Snow — Line, the messaging company that went public in the year's highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, a Snapchat clone focused on Asia.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon's jobs website shows Echo and Alexa groups are currently looking to fill 400 positions — Alexa, we're going to need some more recruiters. — When Jeff Bezos revealed in May that Amazon employed more than 1,000 people working on Echo and Alexa products, he warned: “It's just the tip of the iceberg.”
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Washington Post and Amazon.com. Tweets: @brianroemmele, @ashleymayer, @samim and @brianroemmele
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Source code behind IoT device botnet Mirai, responsible for DDoS of KrebsOnSecurity, publicly released by Hackforums user — The source code that powers the “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet responsible for launching the historically large distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) … | Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Amazon announces Twitch Prime with ad-free streaming and other perks for Amazon Prime members; Twitch adds video uploads, loyalty badges, HTML5 support, more — Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon for nearly a billion dollars back in 2014, kicked off …
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CNET, Twitch Blog, Forbes, Tech Times, Twitch Blog, SlashGear, Kotaku, Android Police, Polygon, VentureBeat, Engadget, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, GeekWire and GeekWire
Tweets: @twitch, @saythorlar, @cmpuls3, @saynotorage, @wario64 and @iankar_
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