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Jonathan Ive on Apple's Design Process and Product Philosophy — When Steven P. Jobs led Apple, he created a core principle for the company's designers and engineers: stay fully focused on making great products. — That philosophy continues to guide Apple, even under its new chief executive …
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| Matt Burns / TechCrunch: |
Nest Brings Back The Protect At $99, But Waving Is Still Disabled — The Nest Protect is now available following its two-month hiatus after it was pulled for safety concerns. The smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector is now only $99, down from its $129 launch price.
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| Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg: |
Apple Settles E-Books Pricing Case With States, Consumers — Apple Inc. (AAPL) reached a settlement with U.S. states and consumers seeking damages over the company's fixing of electronic book prices, avoiding a trial in which it faced as much as $840 million in claims.
| Marcus Wohlsen / Wired: |
A Rare Peek Inside Amazon's Massive Wish-Fulfilling Machine — The first thing I saw when I walked into Amazon's Phoenix warehouse was a man riding on a giant tricycle. Behind him, yellow plastic tubs the size of office recycling bins whizzed by on a conveyor belt.
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| Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
AT&T to Exclusively Carry Amazon Smartphone — Amazon Expected to Unveil its Phone on Wednesday in Seattle — AT&T Inc. will be the exclusive carrier for Amazon.com Inc. 's new smartphone, which is expected to be unveiled on Wednesday, according to people familiar with the plans.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The history of Android: The endless iterations of Google's mobile OS — Android's home screen over the years. — Android has been with us in one form or another for more than six years. During that time, we've seen an absolutely breathtaking rate of change unlike any other development cycle that has ever existed.| Tasneem Raja / Mother Jones: |
On the importance of schools fostering “computational thinking” at a young age — Is Coding the New Literacy? … Detail from “On the Mode of Communication of Cholera,” 1854 … Upending our notions of what it means to interface with computers could help democratize …
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| Mike Rispoli / Privacy International: |
UK intelligence forced to reveal secret policy for mass surveillance of residents' Facebook and Google use — Britain's top counter-terrorism official has been forced to reveal a secret Government policy justifying the mass surveillance of every Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and Google user in the UK.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Parallels' new remote desktop apps let you control your PC like a phone — Remote desktop apps have an easier time working on tablets, where you have a lot of display area to work with, but they're frequently awkward on smartphones. Wouldn't it be nice if you could control a PC at home like it was just another phone app?| Geoff Gasior / The Tech Report: |
In SSD endurance test, no failures until 700TB of writes; Corsair Neutron GTX, Samsung 840 Pro, Kingston HyperX 3K go past 1PB — The SSD Endurance Experiment: Casualties on the way to a petabyte — And then there were three — I feel for the subjects — of our SSD Endurance Experiment.| BBC: |
US lifts restrictions on more detailed satellite images — The Worldview-3 satellite is set to launch in August — Sites like Google and Bing Maps will be able to use higher-quality satellite images, thanks to US government restrictions being lifted. — Companies had not been allowed …
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| Jill Lepore / New Yorker: |
What the Theory of “Disruptive Innovation” Gets Wrong — In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps—college students and new graduates—to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.
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Unicode version 7.0 released: 2,834 new characters including 250 emoji — Announcing The Unicode Standard, Version 7.0 — Version 7.0 of the Unicode Standard is now available, adding 2,834 new characters. This latest version adds the new currency symbols for the Russian ruble and Azerbaijani manat …
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Nuance explores possible sale, met with Samsung and private-equity firms — Nuance Communications Explores Possible Sale — Speech-Recognition Software Maker's Customers Include Samsung, Apple — Speech-recognition software maker Nuance Communications Inc. has held discussions …
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| Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority: |
Moto G 4G LTE now available directly from Motorola for $219 — The Moto G continues to be one of the most popular devices world-wide. In fact, it is Motorola's most sold smartphone ever made! It came as no surprise that Motorola would release a worthy successor.| Steven Levy / Wired: |
One year on, Loon balloon flight times increase 10X, download speeds reach 5-20 Mbps with LTE — Google's Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later — Earlier this month, Mike Cassidy, a project director at Google's high-risk research division X, woke before dawn in the Northwest Brazilian state of Piauí.
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Project Loon, Digital Trends, The Verge, Electronista, 9to5Google, Re/code, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, CNET, PC Pro, TechSpot, DSLreports, Android Authority, Gizmodo, GeekWire, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @hadip
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Paper's New Trending Section Makes It A Better Softcore News Reader — Facebook Paper is pretty, but sluggish when it comes to news. Its human-curated sections take a while to ingest the latest world events and gossip. But today's 1.2 update adds a “Trending” …
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Seattle mayor reaches deal to legalize Uber, Lyft and Sidecar, without driver limits — It looks like UberX, Lyft and Sidecar are here to stay in Seattle. — After more than one year of City Council meetings, protests and debate, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray today announced an agreement between … Sponsor Posts
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