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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's iOS 9 to have ‘huge’ stability and optimization focus after years of feature additions — Following the success of OS X Snow Leopard for Macs in 2009, one of iOS 9's standout ‘features’ will be a directed focus on stabilizing and optimizing the operating system.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iOS 8.3 brings wireless CarPlay, improved Google login, new Emojis, China Apple Pay — Earlier today, Apple seeded the first iOS 8.3 build to developers alongside Xcode 6.3 beta with Swift 1.2. Readers have discovered that the new operating system brings a new wireless CarPlay feature to the iPhone.| Netflix: |
Netflix starts offering service in Cuba for $7.99 a month — Netflix Is Available in Cuba — Cubans Will Gain Access to A Broad Range of Original Series, Movies, Documentaries, Stand-up Comedy Specials and TV Shows Starting At $7.99 — Los Gatos, California, February 9, 2015 …
| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Sling TV opens the floodgates, accepts sign-ups without invites — Credit: Janko Roettgers / Gigaom — Credit: Janko Roettgers / Gigaom — Sling TV, the online TV streaming service from Dish Networks, is now available to everyone: The service ended its invitation-only soft launch late Sunday night …
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| Aaron M. Kessler / New York Times: |
Senate report: vulnerabilities in cars' wireless systems can let hackers take control of vehicles' electronics and collect personal information on drivers — Report Sees Weak Security in Cars' Wireless Systems — WASHINGTON — Serious gaps in security and customer privacy affect nearly every vehicle …
| Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily: |
Apple Has 93% of Mobile Profits; 650M Users by 2018, Says Canaccord — Canaccord Genuity's Mike Walkley this morning raises his price target on shares of Apple (AAPL) to $145 from $135, writing that his review of market data suggests continued strength for the iPhone 6 upgrade cycle.| Carl / OnePlus Blog: |
OnePlus will sell One without invites for 24 hours every Tuesday starting at midnight PT — OnePlus One Open Sales, every Tuesday — We've been shipping the OnePlus One for half a year, and nowadays we're bumping into lots of people using it when we're out and about.
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| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
LinkedIn, American Airlines, and other major developers begin to adopt Apple's Swift, report improved productivity and fewer errors — Apple's new Swift programming language takes flight with Getty Images, American Airlines, LinkedIn, and Duolingo — Apple's new Swift programming language …
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| Jill Daly / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: |
Teen charged with murder after posting selfie with victim's body to Snapchat — Jeannette 16-year-old faces murder charge in teen's shooting death — Although officials have not described a motive in the shooting death of a Jeannette teen Wednesday, the young man charged with murder …
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| Liz Gannes / Re/code: |
Ten Years of Google Maps, From Slashdot to Ground Truth — Ten years ago today, Google Maps launched to the world. — When it was born, it was a paper atlas in living form, with no pages to turn. Instead of online mapping leader MapQuest's printable list of directions, navigation routes were overlaid on top of the map itself.
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| Jeremy Kessel / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter transparency report: in the last 6 months, government requests for user account information and content removal were up 40% and 84% respectively — Three years of increased #transparency ... and counting — Since we launched our first transparency report back in 2012 … | Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
KickassTorrents loses .so home to domain name seizure, reverts to .to domain — KickassTorrents Taken Down By Domain Name Seizure — With millions of unique visitors per day KickassTorrents (KAT) is one the most used torrent sites on the Internet. — The site's popularity … | Lance Whitney / CNET: |
DexCom's body sensor paired with Apple Watch app will track and display glucose levels — Apple Watch app will track glucose levels for diabetics — Already approved by the FDA, the app is slated to debut in April to help diabetics make sure their blood sugar levels don't go too high or too low.
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