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Sprint to shutter WiMAX network around Nov. 6, 2015 — Sprint (NYSE:S) confirmed it will shut off service on its mobile WIMAX network on or around Nov. 6, 2015, giving further clarity on its network evolution. — Sprint spokeswoman Adrienne Norton confirmed the date to FierceWireless.
| James Cook / Business Insider: |
Hackers accessed at least 100K Snapchat photos, Snapchat says through third-party app that violated TOS — Hackers Access At Least 100,000 Snapchat Photos And Prepare To Leak Them, Including Underage Nude Pictures — A giant database of intercepted Snapchat photos and videos has been released …
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| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
Apple's Beats Settles Headphone Patent Dispute With Bose — Bose Corp. and Apple Inc.'s Beats Electronics settled a patent dispute over noise-canceling headphones. — Bose and Beats in joint filings told a U.S. court in Delaware they've settled their claims, and asked …
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| Kelly Hodgkins / MacRumors: |
Apple Reportedly Preparing to Remove Bose Audio Products From Retail Stores — Apple is preparing to remove all Bose audio products, both demo and sellable, from its retail environment, according to a reliable source who spoke to MacRumors. The inventory change will begin early next week …
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Comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with facial recognition to charge per laugh — Comedy club charges per laugh with facial recognition — A comedy club in Barcelona is experimenting with charging users per laugh, using facial-recognition technology to track how much they enjoyed the show.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Judge Rejects Defense That FBI Illegally Hacked Silk Road—On a Technicality — Lawyers for Ross Ulbricht have spent the last two months shifting the focus from their client, charged with creating the billion-dollar drug market the Silk Road, and putting it onto the potential illegality of the FBI's investigation.
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| Jim Dalrymple II / BuzzFeed: |
Kmart says hackers have obtained credit and debit card numbers of “potentially” all customers since September — Kmart Says Credit Card System Breached In Malware Attack — The attack began in September and involved the use of malware. A separate hack reportedly targeted Dairy Queen.
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| Megumi Fujikawa / Wall Street Journal: |
Tokyo court orders Google to delete search results about Japanese man, citing privacy violations — Google Suffers New Privacy Setback in Japan — TOKYO— Google Inc. has suffered another setback on privacy issues, this time in Japan, following a European court ruling that gave Internet users …
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| Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune: |
iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in China: three carriers took 1M pre-orders in first six hours of availability — iPhone 6 in China: 3 carriers took 1 million pre-orders in 6 hours — Apple's new iPhones are hot commodities in China. Millions of customers, scalpers and resellers registered … | Jonathan Blake / BBC: |
Co-founder of Silent Circle, maker of privacy-centric Blackphone, says tablet is coming soon — Privacy-focused Blackphone maker plans tablet ‘soon’ — Encrypted calls are only possible between Blackphone users or other devices running the Silent Phone app| Doug Cameron / Wall Street Journal: |
iRobot introduces new operating system enabling more autonomous robots for military use — IRobot Introduces System to Help Machines Think for Themselves — Technology Dovetails With Pentagon Push for Robots to Steer Themselves in Tricky Environments — IRobot Corp. , best known …
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How marketing firms scan logos and emotions on services like Instagram for research and targeting customers — Smile! Marketing Firms Are Mining Your Selfies — Photo-Sharing Sites Are Being Scanned to Find Brands, Target Ads — Most users of popular photo-sharing sites like Instagram …
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