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| Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Google cancels Daily Stormer's domain registration, hours after site switched from GoDaddy; enterprise computing provider Zoho also says it's dropping the site — Google has canceled the domain registration for The Daily Stormer, a company spokesperson confirmed Monday.
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy tells neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer it violated its ToS and to find a new domain provider, after it posted an obscene article about Charlottesville victim — White supremacist site the Daily Stormer needs to find another domain provider after getting the boot from GoDaddy.
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
In open letter to Uber employees, Benchmark says it warned Kalanick over a month ago it was preparing litigation and hints of damning findings in Holder report — The VC firm sent a letter to Uber employees to explain why it sued Kalanick and the company. — Benchmark Capital sent a letter …
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drive.google.com, Gizmodo, Reuters, and CNBC
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft memo: Surface Book return rate hit 17% in late-'15; source: Intel was made scapegoat for Surface Book problems, as other OEMs handled Skylake's issues — Thurrott.com has seen an internal Microsoft memo that indicates that the software giant is readying a broader campaign to undercut …
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Swift and LLVM creator Chris Lattner joins Google Brain following his Tesla Autopilot stint — One of the key creators behind Apple programming language Swift, Chris Lattner, is on the move again. After a short six month stay at Tesla, which he joined last year from Apple to act as VP …
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VentureBeat, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, The Mac Observer, iDownloadBlog.com, and SlashGear. Tweets: @clattner_llvm
| Ruth David / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Angry Birds maker Rovio is planning an IPO as early as next month that could raise about $400M and value the company at about $2B — Rovio is said to plan a share listing as soon as next month — Games maker is searching for growth after Angry Birds success| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS unveils Macie security service, which uses machine learning to classify sensitive info stored on S3 and then monitors access to it — Amazon's AWS cloud computing service hosted its annual NY Summit today and it used the event to launch a new service: Amazon Macie.
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Amazon.com, AWS Blog, VentureBeat, InfoWorld, GeekWire, SiliconANGLE, and CNBC
| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Opera discontinues Opera Max, the data-saving Android app released in 2013, says it had a “substantially different value proposition than our browser products” — Opera Software announced the decision to discontinue Opera Max, an application for Android designed to save bandwidth and improve privacy today.
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Opera Mobile, Android Police, Android Police, SlashGear, Liliputing, AndroidGuys, BetaNews, Gotechster, and Neowin
| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Snapchat debuts Crowd Surf feature, which stitches together Snaps from select live events by syncing audio, to create multi-perspective viewing experiences — Having FOMO about not seeing Lorde at Outside Lands? Well, Snapchat just released a feature that could help alleviate your melodrama.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on iOS that includes its own link in the app's main navigation, with the feature in testing on Android — Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on mobile that includes its own link in the app's main navigation.| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Over 1,000 Android apps, including 3 in the Play Store, found to be distributing SonicSpy spyware that silently records audio, takes photos, and makes calls — Three fake messaging apps in the Google Play Store discovered to be distributing stealthy data-stealing SonicSpy malware … | AnandTech: |
AMD's Radeon RX Vega 64 review: on average neck-and-neck with the NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming performance but is less power efficient — We've seen the architecture. We've seen the teasers. We've seen the Frontier. And we've seen the specifications.
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PCWorld, Digital Trends, Business Insider, pcgamer, Gizmodo, Eurogamer.net, Forbes, Digital Trends, and HotHardware. Tweets: @jasoncross00. Thanks:@iancutress
| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
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