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Google, Intel and TAG Heuer Partner on Luxury Smartwatch — Watch industry, consider yourself warned — Swiss watchmaker TAG Heuer is creating a smartwatch in partnership with American technology firm Google. The watch is an attempt to compete with devices by consumer-electronics makers, particularly the much-hyped watch by Apple.
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NYC has 14K cars affiliated with Uber, outnumbering 13.5K medallion cabs, 4 years after launch — More Uber cars than yellow taxis on the road in NYC — Black is the new yellow. — Uber has thrown down the gauntlet in the Big Apple taxi wars — overtaking the yellow-cab industry … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15-minute appointments, at least 10 try-on stations, some employees dedicated to assisting Edition buyers — Apple Store retail plan for Watch: 15 min. appointments, 10+ try-on stations, Experts for Edition — Apple will introduce several major initiatives …
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| Matt Peckham / TIME: |
Nintendo CEO talks about plans for smartphone games, says most will be developed in-house — Exclusive: Nintendo CEO Reveals Plans for Smartphones — It's official: Mario, Donkey Kong and Zelda will appear on smartphones and tablets at last—and that's just the start.| CBS News: |
Target agrees to $10M settlement in class-action suit for 2013 data breach, up to $10K/person — Target agrees to pay $10 million to data breach victims — MINNEAPOLIS — Target has agreed to pay $10 million under a proposed settlement in a class-action lawsuit stemming from a massive 2013 data breach …
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| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Windows 10 will come in 32-bit and 64-bit versions, supports phones up to 8 inches and requires that they have at least 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage — Windows 10 hardware specs allow for huge phones and teeny tablets — If you thought the six-inch Lumia 1520 was a monster phone …
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Alibaba's Jack Ma demos Smile to Pay app that validates mobile payments using facial recognition — Alibaba's Jack Ma shows off new ‘pay with a selfie’ technology — New facial recognition software is intended to buttress the fast-growing mobile-payments business.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Rakuten Buys Ebook And Audiobook Platform OverDrive For $410M — Rakuten is beefing up its digital content chops after it announced the acquisition of ebook and audiobook marketplace OverDrive for $410 million. — The Japanese e-commerce giant got into the e-reader game when it picked up hardware maker Kobo for $315 million in 2011.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Opera Buys SurfEasy To Add Secure VPN Services To Its Browser Software — Opera, makers of a suite of software for browsing the web on mobile and desktop devices used by some 350 million consumers, has made another acquisition to build out the services it offers to users.
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
French Government Starts Blocking Websites With Views The Gov't Doesn't Like — We had been noting, in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo attacks in France, how the country that then held a giant “free speech” rally appeared to be, instead, focusing on cracking down on free speech at every opportunity.
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
RIAA finds streaming services made $1.87B in 2014, eclipsing US CD sales for the first time — Sales of Streaming Music Top CDs in Flat Year for Industry — The American market for recorded music was flat in 2014, but income from streaming services like Spotify and Pandora has quickly grown …
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Slack launches app for Windows 7 and above — Press the Start Button: Slack for Windows Has Arrived — Every week, hundreds of thousands of people all around the world sign into Slack from a web browser on Windows. Each of them is (we imagine) yearning for something more.
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| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Latest version of Apple's HealthKit still does not track menstrual cycles, despite criticism for not considering women's health — Apple has a lady problem: the new version of HealthKit still doesn't track periods — Last night, Apple pushed out iOS 8.2, an update to the iPhone operating system.
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