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Google Glass to become an independent division reporting to Tony Fadell; Glass Explorer Program shutting down; production of device in current form to end — Google calls end to Glass programme but says kit is not dead — Google is ending its experimental Google Glass programme, the BBC has learned.
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi takes on iPhone 6 Plus with 5.7" 1080p Mi Note phablet launching January 27 for $370; $530 Mi Note Pro with 2560x1440 display coming in March — Xiaomi mocks Apple with its very own premium phablet — There's just no stopping for the world's most valuable startup.
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| Jared Newman / TechHive: |
Xiaomi announces $30 Mi Box Mini, a media streamer the size of a phone charger, with pre-orders open in China on Jan. 20, shipping late Jan. — Xiaomi's Mi Box Mini is a media streamer the size of a phone charger — With the $30 Mi Box Mini, Xiaomi has managed to stuff … | Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
MySpace says it reached 50.6M unique users in US in November, 575% over same month in 2013, and generated over 300M video views — MySpace Still Reaches 50 Million People Each Month — Did you know that 50 million people still visit MySpace each month? — Would you be surprised … | Phil Goldstein / FierceWireless: |
T-Mobile launches new ‘Simply Prepaid’ plans, starting at $40/month with 1 GB of LTE — T-Mobile US (NYSE:TMUS) launched new prepaid plans under its “Simply Prepaid” banner starting at $40 per month. The new plans come several months after T-Mobile launched the “Simply Prepaid” …
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KeySweeper, a USB charger that sniffs, decrypts, logs, and transmits keystrokes of some Microsoft wireless keyboards can be built for $10 — Meet KeySweeper, the $10 USB charger that steals MS keyboard strokes — It sounds like the stuff of a James Bond flick or something described … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
DHS suspected Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles may have been Silk Road's mastermind, Dread Pirate Roberts — DHS Believed Mt. Gox CEO Might Have Been Silk Road's Secret Mastermind — Long before the Department of Homeland Security set its sights on a 29-year-old named Ross Ulbricht …
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| David Meyer / GigaOm: |
Be My Eyes app harnesses volunteers to help sight-impaired people — The Danish developer Robocat, which I've previously covered for its Thermodo thermometer dongle, has fully launched a new app that could be of great use to visually-impaired people. — Robocat built the open-source …
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Instacart quietly changed its primary revenue model from delivery fees and product markups to grocer fees — On the way to $220M in funding, Instacart quietly changed its business model — Kaitlin Myers a shopper for Instacart studies her smart phone as she shops for a customer at Whole Foods in Denver on October 28, 2014.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Maker Studios Looks Beyond YouTube As It Announces Exclusive Content Deal With Vimeo — Vimeo and Maker Studios are announcing a partnership that will bring new videos from the Disney-acquired content network (that's Maker Studios) to the IAC-owned streaming video service (that's Vimeo) for an exclusive time window.| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Neo Technology, a graph database company, raises $20M Series C led by Creandum — Neo Technology Bags $20M As Graph Databases Get Hot — Neo Technology, developers of the neo4j graph database have been growing steadily, and investors have noticed, rewarding them with a $20M Series C pay day.| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Intel reports net income of $3.7B, record revenues of $14.7B, EPS of $0.74 for Q4; Q1 sales estimated to be a modest $13.7B — Intel Sales Forecast Misses Estimates, Signaling Deeper PC Slump — Intel Corp. (INTC), the largest maker of chips that run personal computers …
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Open Interconnect Consortium releases preview of IoTivity, an open-source framework for its Internet of Things standard — Intel-backed OIC advances in fast-moving IoT standards race — Internet of Things industry groups are in high gear, driving toward standards they hope will define … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Twitch launches free music library for video game streamers — Game streaming platform Twitch is trying to solve a problem that has plagued it for months: how can you enforce copyright laws without limiting what players can do on the service? Today, the Amazon-owned company is launching … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Source: FCC to vote February 26 on petitions from two cities asking to preempt state laws that limit municipal Internet service — The FCC will vote next month on whether to help cities build their own Internet — US President Barack Obama speaks about increasing access to high speed …
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Skydio raises $3M from Andreessen Horowitz and Accel Partners to create self-navigating drones — A tiny startup has made big strides in creating self-navigating drones — Veterans of Google X and MIT have created some remarkable computer vision systems
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Boxed, a wholesale shopping app, raises $25M series B led by GGV and DST — Boxed, a bulk shopping app, raises $25 million — Boxed, a mobile application for wholesale shopping, has raised $25 million in a Series B round of funding. GGV Capital and Digital Sky Technologies led the round … | Guardian: |
David Cameron seeks cooperation of US president over encryption crackdown — PM to ask Barack Obama to put pressure on US internet companies to work more closely with UK intelligence agencies — David Cameron is to urge Barack Obama to pressure internet firms such as Twitter and Facebook … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Video chat startup Rounds raises $12M led by Sequoia, allows chats with up to 12 users and gameplay and video watching while chatting — Video Chat Startup Rounds Raises $12 Million — Rounds, a Tel Aviv-based video chat startup, has raised $12 million in new venture funding, according to CEO Dany Fishel.
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Google and Lending Club to launch pilot program offering low-interest business loans to eligible Google partners — Google and Lending Club launch low-interest loans for Google partners — Peer-to-peer lending service Lending Club has announced a new tie-up with Google to facilitate funding for “eligible Google partners.”
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Elon Musk Donates $10M to Future of Life Institute to fund research on artificial intelligence safety — Elon Musk's fear of Terminators just netted researchers $10 million — A T-800 Terminator in a scene from “Terminator Salvation.” (Warner Bros. Pictures)
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| Lucian Constantin / PC World: |
CryptoWall ransomware is back with new version after two months of silence — Attackers have started distributing a new and improved version of the CryptoWall file-encrypting ransomware program over the past few days, security researchers warn. — The new version, dubbed CryptoWall 3.0 …
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