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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch includes 8 GB of storage, allows 2 GB of music and 75 MB of photos — In our report last week, we reported that internal models of the Apple Watch included 8 GB of storage. We have now confirmed with the company that the shipping units do indeed ship with an 8 GB storage capacity.
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MacRumors, The Verge, MacDailyNews, Wearables Arena, O'Grady's PowerPage, iPhone in Canada Blog, Digital Trends, PhoneDog.com, iDownloadBlog.com, DailyTech and WatchAware. Tweets: @thenewlou. Thanks:@jordankahn
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Apple can replace the Apple Watch battery; lifecycle of the battery is around three years — The Apple Watch Battery Is Replaceable — The Apple Watch got its grand unveiling yesterday. You can read our round-up of details from Apple's event here. But as tech watchers chewed … | John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed: |
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
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| The Intercept: |
New Snowden leaks show a multi-year CIA effort to break the security of Apple's iPhone and iPads — The CIA Campaign to Steal Apple's Secrets — RESEARCHERS WORKING with the Central Intelligence Agency have conducted a multi-year, sustained effort to break the security of Apple's iPhones and iPads …
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| Wikimedia blog: |
Wikimedia v. NSA: Wikimedia Foundation files suit against NSA to challenge upstream mass surveillance — Justice presides with her scale and sword at Frankfurt am Main. — Photo by Roland Meinecke, licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND-3.0. — Today, the Wikimedia Foundation is filing suit …
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See also Mediagazer| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Android Wear will get Wi-Fi support, gesture control in next software release — Faster, easier access to apps and contacts is also on the way — Google isn't standing still with its wearable platform now that Apple has given the press a chance to use the Apple Watch.
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| Gigaom: |
Gigaom, unable to pay creditors in full, ceases all operations, does not currently intend to file for bankruptcy — About Gigaom — Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time. As a result, the company is working with its creditors that have rights to all of the company's assets as their collateral.
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See also Mediagazer| Om Malik: |
Om Malik confirms Gigaom, the pioneering tech news site he founded, is shutting down — A statement about Gigaom — Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company's lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end.
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See also Mediagazer| TechCrunch: |
Ellen Pao testifies in gender discrimination case, talks about her affair with Ajit Nazre, his retaliation, HR policies, a missed Twitter opportunity, more — Ellen Pao “Owns The Room” — Kleiner Perkins' legendary venture investor John Doerr testified last week that Ellen Pao needed to … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
U.K. Parliament says banning Tor is unacceptable and impossible … Tor “plays only a minor role in the online viewing and distribution of indecent images of children,” according to the briefing, quoting Britain's Parliament by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) of the U.K. National Crime Agency.| Andy / TorrentFreak: |
Sky Will Hand Over Customer Data in Movie Piracy Case — Any regular reader of these pages will be familiar with the term “copyright troll”. These companies have made a business model out of monitoring file-sharing networks for alleged copyright infringements, tracking down alleged offenders …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple releases iOS 8.2 with Apple Watch support, Health app improvements, bug fixes — Apple releases iOS 8.2 today with Apple Watch support and plenty of bug fixes — The Health App gets particular attention, but lots of other bugs make the list. — SAN FRANCISCO—iOS 8.2 …
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eWeek, The Register, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, MacStories, BetaNews and Gotta Be Mobile
| Liam Tung / CSO Online: |
| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
Sources: Apple backs down in effort to offer $7.99/month rate for its upcoming subscription music service as labels reject pricing below $9.99/month — Fight Between Apple and Spotify Could Change Digital Music; Labels Said to Reject Pricing Below $9.99 — A renewed focus on the value … | Toby Wolpe / ZDNet: |
Datacenter startup SimpliVity seals $175m at a $1B+ valuation for engineering and sales boost — Datacenter startup SimpliVity seals $175m for engineering and sales boost — Summary:A new funding round for the converged infrastructure software and appliance company is to be pumped into a rapid expansion in 2015.
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Re/code, VentureBeat, Business Insider, The Register and PE Hub Blog
| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Former Google exec Lee confirmed to lead U.S. patent office — (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed former Google Inc executive Michelle Lee to head the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a position that has been vacant for more than two years. — President Barack Obama's choice … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Hands On With The All-New Ultra Thin MacBook With Retina Display — Apple's newest MacBook is clearly designed to set the stage for all Apple notebooks to come - it has a dramatically thin body, which measures only 13.1 mm deep at its thickest point, and a 12-inch display with a very small surrounding bezel.
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9to5Mac, Ars Technica, ZDNet, The Verge, iMore and AppleInsider
| Jeremy Horwitz / 9to5Mac: |
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, Business Insider, The Register, iMore, Apple, PC World, Re/code, MacDailyNews, Intuitive Systems and The Verge
Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @sama, @nichcarlson, @dcseifert, @paulg and @tim_stevens
See also Mediagazer| Michael Steeber / 9to5Mac: |
Hands on with the first medical apps using ResearchKit — As part of ResearchKit, Apple's new foray into medical research, five brand new apps have been launched in conjunction with leading medical institutions that utilize the new capabilities of ResearchKit.
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Business Insider and The Loop
| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
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GeekWire and Wired. Tweets: @dhh, @laurengoode, @bajarin, @thenextweb, @joshuatopolsky and @marcoarment
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