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Samsung starts rolling out Android 7.0 Nougat to unlocked Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge devices in the US, UK, China, and elsewhere — Samsung has officially started rolling out the latest Android 7.0 Nougat update to existing Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 Edge handsets.
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU says Amazon's Audible subsidiary and Apple scrap all exclusivity obligations in supply and distribution of audiobooks — A decision by Amazon and Apple to scrap all exclusivity obligations in the supply and distribution of audiobooks will likely boost competition, EU antitrust regulators said on Thursday.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Obama's tech teams are optimistic publicly but quietly fear for their programs' future after Trump inauguration; Matt Cutts in line to be interim head of USDS — The While House imported Silicon Valley's best to transform government. Will Trump undo it all?
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn unveils new desktop site with simpler, app-like look, pop-up messaging window with chatbots, and updated universal search — After a short preview in September last year, and the small matter of getting acquired for $26.2 billion by Microsoft, today LinkedIn …
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| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Minecraft Pocket Edition will no longer receive updates for Windows mobile devices — We received a tip earlier today that Minecraft Pocket Edition will no longer be supported on Windows mobile devices. — Since receiving the tip, we have confirmed with sources familiar … | Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
IDG, owner of PCWorld and IDC, to be acquired by Chinese investor group Oceanwide, headed by IDG Greater China chairman Hugo Shong — International Data Group, the owner of PCWorld magazine and market researcher IDC, on Thursday said it was being acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group and IDG Capital …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
In an effort to avoid governments shutting off access, encrypted email service ProtonMail now supports Tor — Encrypted email service ProtonMail is doubling down on its privacy credentials today with the news that it will now allow users to connect their email accounts through the Tor network.
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| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft game-streaming platform Beam comes out of beta with faster video player, Xbox Live sign-in, and redesigned home page — Microsoft has been making notable improvements to the experiences on its Twitch competitor, Beam, since it purchased the startup this past August.| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Oracle to buy API development firm Apiary for an undisclosed sum, says it will continue to offer Apiary's products to other companies — Apiary provides a front-end platform for designing, creating and governing APIs. — Oracle has announced that it plans to acquire Apiary …
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| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Zuckerberg has 12+ Facebook employees helping him with posts and comments on his Facebook page and professional photographers to snap personal moments — When Facebook went public five years ago, the world had a pretty vivid picture of who Mark Zuckerberg was.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
DigiLens raises $22M from Sony, Foxconn, and others, to make “eyeglass-thin” AR and VR displays — Display technology maker DigiLens has raised $22 million to create better augmented reality and virtual reality products in which digital information lies on top of transparent glass.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft says it will double the size of its Montreal research and design office over two years and invest $7M in Montreal-based AI research over five years — Microsoft is following its acquisition of Montreal-based Maluuba with additional investment in the city that's become quite the artificial intelligence hotbed.
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SiliconANGLE, The Fire Hose, VentureBeat, and On MSFT
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
How Slack overcame the design challenges of making threaded conversations, including notifications, inline vs. broken-out threads, and more — For years, Slack has known that people wanted discussions to appear in clusters. It just wanted to do it right rather than do it quickly.
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Six Colors. Tweets: @erickschonfeld, @jmspool, @harrymccracken, @ohheygreat, @fastcompany, and @jehunter5811
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