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Microsoft previews Windows 10, touts familiarity and consistency across devices, enterprise features, Start menu with incorporated tiles — Microsoft unveils the future of Windows — Company gives first look at Windows 10, highlighting enterprise advancements and open collaboration.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 aims to run universal apps on devices ranging from internet-of-things to servers; preview coming tomorrow, final release in late 2015 — Windows 10 is the official name for Microsoft's next version of Windows — Microsoft is officially unveiling the name for the next release of Windows today: Windows 10.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 Enterprise Technical Preview available Oct. 1 will work on x86 machines only; here's how to get it — Microsoft's Windows 10: What's new and how to get the preview bits — Summary: Microsoft will open up its first public preview build of the next version of Windows client on October 1.
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| Ian Kar / Bank Innovation: |
PayPal was excluded from Apple Pay because PayPal partnered with Samsung on the Galaxy S5's fingerprint reader — The Real Reason PayPal Isn't an Apple Pay Preferred Partner — Earlier this month, before Apple Pay came out, Bank Innovation wrote that Apple and PayPal had been involved in talks for ... something.
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| eBay Inc: |
eBay Inc. to Separate eBay and PayPal into Independent Publicly Traded Companies in 2015 — American Express executive Dan Schulman joins PayPal immediately as President and CEO designee for PayPal post-separation — eBay Inc. President and CEO John Donahoe and CFO Bob Swan to oversee separation …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
| David Faber / CNBC: |
| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Reddit raises $50M round led by Y Combinator president Sam Altman, investors plan to allocate 10% of the round's equity to Reddit users — Reddit Raises $50 Million, Plans to Share Stock With Community Members — Reddit, the Internet's favorite place to share links, has raised about $50 million in funding.
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Tweets: @danielcawrey, @papadimitriou and @danielzarick
See also Mediagazer| Nicky Woolf / Guardian: |
Hackers charged with stealing over $100m in US army and Xbox technology — Indictment unsealed on Tuesday reveals Department of Justice charged four people in international computer hacking ring — Four men have been charged with breaking into the computer systems of Microsoft …
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Tweets: @shiraovide, @dannyyadron and @dannyyadron
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google unveils Drive for Education with free, unlimited storage and ‘Classroom’ integration — Google Apps for Education just got a little bit sweeter: In the coming weeks, new and existing customers will have access to Drive for Education, an academic version of its online storage solution.
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| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Holder urges tech companies to leave device backdoors open for police — Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that new forms of encryption capable of locking law enforcement officials out of popular electronic devices imperil investigations of kidnappers and sexual predators, putting children at increased risk.
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Golden Master Candidate to Developers [Update: Also Public Beta] — Apple today released a candidate golden master version of OS X Yosemite to developers, just over two weeks after releasing the eighth Developer Preview alongside the third public beta of the upcoming Mac operating system.
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| AnandTech: |
iPhone 6 Plus: best phablet available, may appeal more than the iPhone 6 if you don't mind two-handed usage — The iPhone 6 Review — With every launch of the iPhone, Apple seems to have everything to lose and not much to gain. Apple's iPhone line accounts for the majority of profits …
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| Nellie Bowles / Re/code: |
Amid layoffs at the Las Vegas Downtown Project, Tony Hsieh hands off lead role to his lawyer — Tony Hsieh Steps Down From Lead Role at Las Vegas Downtown Project — Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and founder of the ambitious startup-city development Downtown Project in Las Vegas …
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Las Vegas Weekly, Valleywag, Las Vegas Weekly, Gigaom, GeekWire, KNPR, Inc.com, PandoDaily, TechCrunch and Here & Now
| Nick Summers / The Next Web: |
Google is closing Orkut, its first social network, today — We knew it was coming. Google is shutting down Orkut today, its first attempt at a social networking service. The decision was announced in June and users have had a few months to export their profile data, community posts and photos using Google Takeout.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Pebble Gets A Permanent Price Cut, Plus Background Sleep And Activity Tracking — Smartwatch pioneer Pebble is hoping to make its platform accessible to more people with a permanent price drop of $50 and $30 for both the original Pebble and the Pebble Steel, putting them at $99 and $199 respectively.Sponsor Posts
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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.
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.
Cloudflare:
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Zoho:
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Automate your scheduling workflows with Zoho Calendar — Your calendar can do more than schedule meetings Creating a calendar event takes only a few seconds. But scheduling is rarely just about creating the event.
IDrive:
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