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Apple to start selling SIM-free iPhone 6 & 6 Plus in the U.S. tomorrow — Apple will start selling fully unlocked, SIM-free iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus models in the United States beginning tomorrow, January 6th, according to several sources. The unlocked iPhones will be available … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Dish announces Sling TV: stream channels like ESPN, CNN, and TNT over the internet for $20 per month without a cable subscription — You Can Finally Get ESPN on the Web, for $20 a Month — Lots of people say they want to ditch cable TV for the Web, but can't because they want to watch sports …
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Sources: Verizon approached AOL about possible acquisition or joint venture to strengthen mobile-video offerings — Verizon Said to Approach AOL About Possible Takeover or Venture — Verizon Communications Inc. has approached AOL Inc. (AOL) about a potential acquisition or joint venture …
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Facebook Acquires Wit.ai To Help Its Developers With Speech Recognition And Voice Interfaces — Facebook today acquired Wit.ai, a Y Combinator startup founded 18 months ago to create an API for building voice-activated interfaces. Wit.ai already has 6,000 developers on its platform who have built hundreds of apps.
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| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Lenovo enters the smart fitness band game with e-ink, water-resistant Vibe Band VB10 — LAS VEGAS — Fitness band meets smartwatch: yeah, it's a well-trodden formula. Lenovo, however, hasn't made a splash into wearables before. The Vibe Band VB10, debuted at the 2015 International CES in Las Vegas … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Broadwell U arrives: Faster laptop CPUs and GPUs from Core i7 to Celeron — Intel's staggered Broadwell rollout continues with 17 new laptop chips. — Intel promised us more chips based on the new Broadwell architecture in early 2015, and today it's delivering on that promise.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Bitstamp confirms exchange hacked, has lost less than 19K bitcoins worth about $5M — Bitstamp exchange hacked, $5M worth of bitcoin stolen — The European bitcoin exchange suspends its service after it was hacked, ZDNet can confirm. Less than 19,000 bitcoins were stolen from an operational wallet.| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificates to block in-flight YouTube streaming, says no user info collected — Gogo issues fake HTTPS certificate to users visiting YouTube — Gogo has been caught issuing a fake digital certificate for YouTube, a practice that in theory could allow …
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| Hayden Dingman / PC World: |
Asus announces Transformer Book Chi family of Surface-like Windows 8.1 tablets that start at $300 — Asus' Transformer Book Chi line offers a cheap alternative to the Surface Pro — Asus' Transformer Book Chi line offers a cheap alternative to the Surface Pro
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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's marketing priorities are driving the pace of software releases at the expense of quality — Apple has lost the functional high ground — Apple's hardware today is amazing — it has never been better. But the software quality has fallen so much in the last few years that I'm deeply concerned for its future.
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Bitsplitting.org, NEWS.com.au, Wall Street Journal, Daring Fireball, Valleywag, ignorethecode.net, TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Business Insider and Fortune. Tweets: @johnbattelle
| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Google Asked to Remove 345 Million “Pirate” Links in 2014 — In the hope of steering prospective customers away from pirate sites, copyright holders are overloading Google with DMCA takedown notices. — These requests have increased dramatically over the years.
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The Next Web, Search Engine Watch, Plagiarism Today and Gizmodo
| Gordon Mah Ung / PC World: |
HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC — HP takes on Chromeboxes with $180, Windows-based Stream Mini PC — Late last year, HP kicked off the Windows war against Google's Chromebooks with its $200 Streambook 11, and now the company is back again to tackle Chromeboxes with its Stream Mini PC.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC launches new complaints site after old site crumbled under load of net neutrality comments — FCC makes it easier to complain about cable, Internet, and phone providers — The Federal Communications Commission is still plagued by an ancient IT infrastructure despite being the government agency … | Caleb Pershan / SFist: |
Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's Resolution Book Club Sells Out First Title On Amazon — Mark Zuckerberg is not like us. For example, when it comes to New Year's resolutions, the Facebook CEO actually achieves things. And in the five short days of 2015 so far, he's already become Oprah Winfrey.
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| Lynn La / CNET: |
LG G Flex 2: curved smartphone with 5.5-inch screen and Snapdragon 810 coming to Korea this month, AT&T and Sprint later this year — LG G Flex 2: Second-gen curved smartphone features 5.5-inch screen, Snapdragon 810 and ‘self-healing’ capabilities (hands-on)| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Gogoro lays foundation for a smart battery swapping infrastructure with a new electric scooter — After Raising $150 Million In Stealth Mode, What The Heck Is Gogoro? — In 2011, Gogoro raised $50 million. Three years later, another $100 million. And yet, no one seems to have any idea what the heck Gogoro does.
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
AT&T is the first US carrier to support WebRTC — WebRTC will allow AT&T customers to make calls and video chat using their AT&T numbers in the browser — During its annual Developer Summit held the day before CES officially begins, AT&T announced it will be the first carrier in the US … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Cast for audio lets you stream music from apps like Pandora and Rdio to compatible speakers, coming this spring — Google Cast will offer direct streaming from apps to Sony, LG, and Denon audio products this spring — What will be hot in consumer electronics and computing in 2015?| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba Competitor Wanda E-commerce Raises $161M At $3B Valuation — China-based Wanda E-commerce, which hopes to position itself as a rival against Alibaba, has raised one billion RMB (about $161 million) in funding from investment funds Centec Networks and Xude Rendao.
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PandoDaily, Fast Company and PR Newswire UK
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Netflix's Recommended TV program will help you find the best TV for streaming — A lot of what we watch on TV nowadays comes streaming in from the internet, but not every TV is cut out to do that well out of the box. In an attempt to make sure that viewers have a good experience …
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Netflix, TechCrunch, Re/code and Engadget
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Garmin announces three wildly different smartwatches: Fenix 3, Epix, and Vivoactive — If smartwatches and fitness trackers were extraordinarily hot topics last year, they've only gotten hotter going into 2015. A few products have tried to walk the line between both categories with a single …
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Re/code, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Electronista and Android Authority
| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
TapSense announces platform for contextual ads on Apple Watch as developers scramble to deliver ads through Watch SDK — TapSense Announces Platform to Bring Contextual Ads to Apple Watch — Amidst the new and upcoming product launches at this year's Consumer Electronics Show … | Stacey Higginbotham / Gigaom: |
Qualcomm and LIFX partner up for smart lighting reference design — To make it even easier to build a connected light bulb, Qualcomm Atheros and startup LIFX have teamed up to create a Wi-Fi module and software that lets lighting manufacturers get a connected product on the shelves in no time.
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