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As device makers strive to improve battery and charging tech, Apple tests inductive charging for its watch — Building a Better Battery — SAN FRANCISCO — The next breakthrough smartphone, or maybe the one after that, might not have a traditional battery as its sole source of power.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Developer Behind “Flappy Bird,” The Impossible Game Blowing Up The App Store, Says He Just Got Lucky — Flappy Bird, a game you can barely play for more than a few seconds without throwing your phone across the room in frustration, is dominating the App Store and Google Play.| Leslie Kaufman / New York Times: |
YouTube stars warn of thinning revenues as video uploads and production costs outpace ad rates — Chasing Their Star, on YouTube — It is 3 p.m., and outside another brilliant Los Angeles afternoon beckons. But Olga Kay has drawn her blinds, leaving her living room in a semidarkened haze.| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags in 57% of Super Bowl ads; Facebook led social networks with 5 mentions to Twitter's 4 — New Record For 2014: Hashtags Mentioned In 58% Of Super Bowl Ads … Hashtags were in 58 percent of Super Bowl ads, up from 50% in 2013 and setting a new record.| John Colucci / Engadget: |
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Cycloramic hits top of App Store after Shark Tank appearance, $500k investment & 100k downloads in an hour — What happens when your app gets featured on ABC's Shark Tank, the TV show where rich investors listen to pitches from wannabe entrepreneurs looking to raise funds?| CB Insights: |
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Did the NSA and GCHQ hack this cryptography professor's PC? — Belgian cryptographer Jean-Jacques Quisquater is in the spotlight, after reports were published this weekend claiming that his PC might have been hacked by the United States National Security Agency or Britain's GCHQ.| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Hackers access 800,000 Orange customers' data — Summary: Orange reveals an attack on its website exposed details for three percent of its French customer base. — Liam Tung — Orange customers in France could see a spike in phishing attempts after hackers nabbed hundreds of thousands … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Required Reading: The Economist's Special Report On Tech Startups — It's not every day we here at TechCrunch just point to someone else's work and say, “Here, you should go read this.” But today's an exception, because The Economist has put together a 16-page Special Report on the rise of technology startups around the world.| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Xperia Z1 Compact exceeds predecessor with smaller, better display and unmatched battery life — Sony Xperia Z1 Compact review: when smaller is better — For the longest time, the prevailing trend with mobile phones was to take last year's handset and make it smaller.| Rebecca J. Rosen / The Atlantic Online: |
Forgotify: The Tool for Discovering Spotify's 4 Million Unheard Tracks — The idea first came to Lane Jordan when he heard an odd little fact: Around 20 percent of tracks on Spotify—some four million songs—had been played exactly zero times. — Four million songs! That got Jordan thinking.| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
New iPhone app “Secret” lets you share confessions anonymously with your network of friends — With New Anonymous Social App Secret, the Merit Is in the Message — What if you could share anything you wanted to, with little worry of repercussion?| Kevin Roose / New York Magazine: |
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Twitter partners with 300 Entertainment to give ‘full access’ of its user data to the music industry — Hot on the heels of a deal with CNN and Dataminr to bring the benefits of its data to journalists, Twitter is focusing on unlocking the potential of its platform for the music industry.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
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