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Samsung to release two versions of 5.1" Galaxy flagship, one with a 3-sided display next month — Samsung Said to Plan 3-Sided Screen in New Galaxy Smartphone — Don't Miss Out — (Bloomberg) — Samsung Electronics Co. plans to release two new versions of its top-tier Galaxy smartphone next month … | Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Tim Cook talks about Apple Watch, international growth, commitment to privacy, and more in a wide-ranging Goldman Sachs interview — Apple CEO Tim Cook Speaking Live at 2015 Goldman Sachs Technology Conference — Apple CEO Tim Cook is speaking at the Goldman Sachs Technology … | Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Apple partners with First Solar to build a $850M 130 megawatt solar farm in CA, to produce enough power for new headquarters and all retail stores in the state — Apple will partner with First Solar on $850M California solar farm — Apple CEO Tim Cook says the solar farm will produce enough power …
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Facebook launches ThreatExchange, an API-based platform that lets companies share security threat info — Facebook today launched ThreatExchange, described as “an API-based clearinghouse for security threat information.” It's really a social platform, which Facebook naturally excels at building …
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The Register, Facebook, PC World, Gigaom, TechCrunch and The Next Web
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
FBI tries to prevent disclosure of information about use of fake “stingray” cell towers by local police — FBI really doesn't want anyone to know about “stingray” use by local cops — Memo: cops must tell FBI about all public records requests on fake cell towers.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
Darpa Is Developing a Search Engine for the Dark Web — A new search engine being developed by Darpa aims to shine a light on the dark web and uncover patterns and relationships in online data to help law enforcement and others track illegal activity. — The project, dubbed Memex …
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Samsung TVs start inserting ads into your movies — Thought you could watch that video on your local hard drive without ads? Think again: A number of owners of Samsung's smart TVs are reporting this week that their TV sets started to interrupt their movie viewing with Pepsi ads … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security researcher publishes 10M unredacted usernames with passwords despite risk of FBI raid — Fearing an FBI raid, researcher publishes 10 million passwords/usernames — Move could advance password research—and test prosecutors' tolerance for leaks.
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Search Whiz Udi Manber Leaves Google — Google veteran Udi Manber, a computer scientist best known for his work on search, has left the company to join the National Institutes of Health. — “I had a wonderful nine years at Google and YouTube, but I could not resist the amazing opportunities at NIH … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Dating app The League with a $2.1M seed round and a 75,000 person waitlist aims to be a more “selective” Tinder — There are already 75,000 people trying (and failing) to join The League, a Tinder for the elite — The League, a new dating app that launched in January, has a waitlist that's already 75,000 people long.| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Jeb Bush releases 4GB of emails from his 8 year tenure as Florida governor to demonstrate “transparency”, unwittingly exposing constituents' personal data — Jeb Bush dumps emails, home addresses, and social security numbers of Florida residents online
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Study says phones are just as good as wearables at tracking fitness — Think you have to wear a dedicated fitness tracker to get accurate data? Don't worry — you may have a good excuse to skip the wristband. The University of Pennsylvania has published a study showing that smartphone apps' step counts …
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Dell extends its ProSupport Plus predictive monitoring service to laptops, desktops, and tablets — Dell launches ProSupport Plus for tablets, PCs — Summary:Dell is extending its ProSupport Plus effort from data centers to laptops, desktops and tablets.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Microsoft giving away 100GB of OneDrive storage if you join Bing Rewards — “Free” cloud storage offers can be gimmicky and require you to jump through a few too many hoops sometimes, but Microsoft's offering a pretty solid deal that doesn't call for much effort.
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Google Drive Blog, CNET, Pocketnow, Android Authority and Android Police. Tweets: @matthiasshap
| Lizzie Plaugic / The Verge: |
Scribd expands its ebook library to include comic books — The subscription service has partnered with more than 10 comic book publishers — Scribd will expand its library to include comic books today. The ebook subscription service just announced it has acquired more than 10,000 comic books …
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| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Prezi Launches Nutshell, An App To Turn Photos Into ‘Mini-Movies’ — Prezi's online presentation software already offers a popular alternative to creating otherwise tedious and visually uninspiring PowerPoint presentations, but now it seems the startup wants in on the consumer ‘video’ sharing trend.
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| Sophie Sassard / Reuters: |
French Internet of Things startup Sigfox raises $113M from Telefonica, NTT Docomo, and more — Exclusive: France's Sigfox taps Telefonica, GDF Suez to raise $113 million - sources — (Reuters) - French start-up Sigfox has raised 100 million euros ($112.80 million) from seven heavy-weight investors …
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VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog, Gigaom, TechCrunch and Rude Baguette
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Republicans launch attack on FCC's net neutrality plan — A commissioner, a former chairman, and Congress target Obama and Tom Wheeler. — Republicans are launching a multi-pronged assault on the net neutrality plan proposed by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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| Mark Prigg / Daily Mail: |
Google-owned Boston Dynamics shows off Spot, its newest, electrically powered robo-dog — Here, Spot! Google reveals smaller version of its robo-dog that can walk, trot and climb up steps - even when KICKED — Google has already shown off several robo-dogs, including one which has even taken part in military trials.
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| Danny Yadron / Wall Street Journal: |
Chinese hackers reprogrammed Forbes “Thought of the Day” widget to attack readers' computers using zero day exploits in Flash and Internet Explorer — Forbes Website Used to Hack Readers — Users of Microsoft 's flagship Internet browser who visited Forbes.com …
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Detection, BBC, SecurityWeek, Fortune, darkREADING, PC World and The Register
Tweets: @scottthurm, @gregbensinger and @dannyyadron
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Flipboard launches on web, signs ad revenue sharing deals with publishers including National Geographic and Fast Company — Flipboard swims against the tide by launching a website — If there's one word that sums up where most media entities are focused for the future, it's “mobile” … | Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Jive Software Names Elisa Steele Permanent CEO — Elisa Steele, the former chief marketing officer of Skype, has been named CEO of Jive Software after holding the position on an interim basis for about three months, the company said today. — The move, which is not entirely a surprise …
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