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Apple to add gold color option to new 9.7" iPads this month, launch 12.9" model next year — Apple Said to Add Gold Option to IPad to Goose Sales — Apple Inc. (AAPL) will add a gold color option for its full-size iPads in an effort to boost a category that's posted declining shipments this year …
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A Rare Look at Design Genius Jony Ive: The Man Behind the Apple Watch — How Apple's under-the-radar design genius, Jonathan Ive, has found the way to our hearts. — I first catch sight of Jony Ive across the Apple campus, in a plain Dodger-blue T-shirt and white painter's pants, in conversation, nodding.
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This Is The Motorola Nexus 6: A 5.9" QHD Display, 3200mAh+ Battery, Dual Front-Facing Speakers, And More — If you've been keeping up with any tech blogs over the past couple of weeks, you know that the next Nexus phone has been a hot topic. We saw rumored specs and rumored hardware photos … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook to refine process of authenticating names; CPO apologizes to LGBT community — Facebook clarifies real name policy amid LGBT protests — Drag queens will be able to post under their stage names, the company says — Facebook said today it would build new authentication tools … | Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
Finding Alibaba: How Jerry Yang Made The Most Lucrative Bet In Silicon Valley History — Jerry Yang is giving a quick tour of the conference room at his private investment firm in Palo Alto, Calif. It's dotted with gifts and photos from his 20 years in Silicon Valley.
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Microsoft launches Sway, a new Office application for creating elegant interactive presentations on the web, now available in preview — Microsoft adds new Sway presentation application to the Office family — Summary: Microsoft's Sway presentation application, available starting today in preview form …
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Sources: Apple Pay to be included in iOS 8.1, scheduled to be released October 20 — Apple Pay to Be Included in iOS 8.1, Sources Confirm — Based on multiple sources close to Apple, Bank Innovation has learned that iOS 8.1 will include Apple Pay, and the current expected timetable for the public release is schedule for October 20.| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
Your move, AWS and Microsoft: Google's cutting basic cloud compute prices 10 percent — Google's taken another whack at compute pricing; expect Microsoft and Amazon Web Services to respond. — Once more into the fray: Google is cutting price on Google Compute Engine instances by about 10 percent across regions and all types.
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Houzz Raises $165M Series D Funding Round Led By Sequoia To Fuel International Expansion — Houzz, the fast-growing home-remodeling site, today announced that it has raised a $165 million Series D round led by Sequoia Capital, one of its early backers. Existing investors Oren Zeev …
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ARM attempts to speed up ‘internet of things’ adoption with new platform — It's the year 2014, and we've yet to have our flying cars and commuter jet packs. But we do have a glimpse of the future with the advent of the “internet of things.” It's essentially the idea of connecting everyday objects …
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Microsoft Says Free Windows Has Helped Woo 50 New Phone and Tablet Makers — Microsoft said it has attracted a number of new partners since offering Windows free for devices with screens smaller than nine inches. — Windows chief Terry Myerson said Tuesday that 50 new companies …
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At the 11th hour, Verizon decides to cancel its controversial throttling plans — Verizon's “network optimization” policy would have restricted speeds for its heaviest unlimited data users when the LTE network was congested. But Big Red is now nixing the controversial plan.
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StackEngine Emerges From Stealth, Adds Operational Layer To Docker — StackEngine, a startup out of Austin, TX, emerged from stealth today with $1M in seed funding and a product that gives operations and IT staff a way to manage Docker containers, providing the operations side of the house some control over Docker instances.
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How RAM Scrapers Work: The Sneaky Tools Behind the Latest Credit Card Hacks — Today, news broke of yet more large-scale credit-card breaches at big-box stores, this time at Albertson's and Supervalu, grocery chains in the American west. — The breaches follow in the wake of other recent breaches …
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Twitter to invest $10M in MIT social media research lab — Social media giant Twitter will invest $10 million over five years to support the newly launched Laboratory for Social Machines at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the aim of analyzing various trends across social media.| Bloomberg: |
Box Said to Delay IPO Until 2015 Amid Market Volatility — Box Inc., the cloud-storage provider that filed for an initial public offering in March, will postpone its market debut, which probably won't happen until 2015 because of volatile market conditions, people familiar with the matter said.| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Comcast launches cloud DVR in San Francisco, lays foundation for a set-top box-free future — Comcast customers in the Bay Area now have two DVRs available to them: One in their living room, one in the cloud. Eventually, the one in the living room will disappear.| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
‘Twilight’ Will Be Revived via Short Films on Facebook — LOS ANGELES — Two years after Lions Gate released the fifth and supposedly final installment of its “Twilight” movie series, the studio has devised an unusual franchise-rekindling effort — and it may hold clues about Facebook's future in Hollywood.| John Graham-Cumming / CloudFlare: |
Inside Shellshock: How hackers are using it to exploit systems — On Wednesday of last week, details of the Shellshock bash bug emerged. This bug started a scramble to patch computers, servers, routers, firewalls, and other computing appliances using vulnerable versions of bash.
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FireEye Blog and The Verge
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German regulator orders Google to limit how it combines user data from multiple services — Google Ordered to Change Handling of User Data in Germany — Google Inc. (GOOG) was ordered by a German regulator to limit how it combines user data that could be used to find out customers' personal preferences …
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Chinese iOS Trojan Targets Jailbroken iPhones Used by Hong Kong Protesters — Lacoon Mobile Security has discovered a new ‘advanced’ Chinese iOS trojan targeting jailbroken iPhone users in Hong Kong, linked to a previous Android spyware app currently being distributed among protesters via a link shared on WhatsApp.
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