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Microsoft is launching a dedicated LinkedIn app for Windows 10 — Microsoft is bringing one of its LinkedIn goals to life today with the launch of a dedicated LinkedIn app for Windows 10. The software giant finalized its $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn more than six months ago …
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Atari reveals first pictures of Ataribox with SD card support, a HDMI port, and 4 USB ports, says console will deliver classic games alongside “current content” — Atari started teasing its Ataribox at E3 this year, promising a “brand new Atari product.”
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The real problem in US is near total lack of ISP competition; FCC's net neutrality plans only enable ISPs to extract more profits with no incentives to reinvest — Why does this keep happening? — FCC chairman Ajit Pai is fond of saying that “the internet was not broken in 2015” … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
In provisional ruling, judge denies US Labor Department request for full details on Google employees that it sought as part of an equal pay investigation — The Labor Department will not get access to the full details it has requested on 21,000 Google employees as part of its investigation of equal pay …
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HTC unveils HTC Alexa app for HTC U11 in the US to bring hands-free Amazon Alexa support; the app also allows users to listen to Amazon Music and Audible books — Throughout the history of HTC, it has been known to be the first to bring various technologies and features to the smartphone world.
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New line of IBM Z mainframes offer pervasive, full-time encryption to hinder data breaches — Big Blue announced that its latest IBM Z mainframe computer will be able to encrypt all of the data in an enterprise all of the time, bringing encryption to everything from cloud services to databases.| John Mannes / TechCrunch: |
Jefferies report says IBM's Watson investment will struggle to return value to shareholders, points to IBM's failed partnership with MD Anderson to show why — IBM's Watson unit is receiving heat today in the form of a scathing equity research report from Jefferies' James Kisner.| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Maps for Android now displays a graph showing the best time of day to travel to your destination — Google is always adding something new to Maps, but not everyone gets the new stuff at the same time. Right now, it looks like Google has added a nifty travel time graph to directions …
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Intuition Robotics raises $14M Series A for its intelligent hardware assistant for senior citizens, led by the Toyota Research Institute — Intuition Robotics' robot communicates with and encourages senior citizens. — Israeli startup Intuition Robotics, which yesterday announced …
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As tech platforms experiment with TV content, a look at how corporations controlling music and ebooks lost their strategic value to tech companies — People in tech and media have been saying that ‘content is king’ for a long time - perhaps since the VHS/Betamax battle of the early 1980s, and perhaps longer.
Tweets: @craigmod, @benedictevans, @trengriffin, @mdudas, and @donaldrichard
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK startup WaveOptics raises $16M Series B for its waveguide-based optics for AR devices — WaveOptics, a UK startup that builds waveguide-based optics — technology based on hologram physics and photonic crystals — for augmented reality hardware, has raised $16 million (£12 million) …
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Foxconn Technology Group aims to reduce dependence on its core assembly business by developing brand-name products and manufacturing high-margin components — Taiwan's largest company aims to move up the value chain; will it succeed? — TAIPEI Terry Gou, founder and chairman … Sponsor Posts
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