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Facebook F8 App Confirms Messenger As A Platform, Parse For IoT — A notification just sent out by the official app for Facebook's F8 conference later today reads “The Garage and Demo areas are now open! Just revealed: Parse for IoT, Messenger as a Platform, and the Teleportation Station.”
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Apple Acquires Durable Database Company FoundationDB — Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. — A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it's no longer offering downloads of its database software.| Richard Lewis / The Daily Dot: |
Sources: YouTube plans to relaunch live streaming service this year with a focus on gaming, taking on Twitch — YouTube to relaunch livestreaming service with focus on esports and gaming — YouTube is preparing to relaunch its livestreaming platform with a renewed focus on live gaming …
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| John Koller / PlayStation.Blog: |
PS4 update brings suspend and resume, external HD backups, improved social features, and more — PS4 System Update 2.50 Available Tomorrow, Features Detailed — Tomorrow, PlayStation 4 will get an update to system software version 2.50, codenamed “Yukimura,” which will bring an onslaught of features …
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg Business: |
RadioShack's Bankruptcy Could Give Your Customer Data to the Highest Bidder — The phone numbers, e-mail addresses, and shopping habits of more than 100 million customers are part of RadioShack's bankruptcy auction … The remnants of RadioShack's retail empire went on the auction block on Monday … | TechCrunch: |
47 Startups That Launched At Y Combinator Winter 2015 Demo Day 2 — Y Combinator got so big, it had to split its Demo Day in two. During today's second wave we saw a variety of promising biotech, marketplace, enterprise, and financial tech startups. Yesterday we chronicled 50 consumer, B2B, developer, and hardware companies.
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Google is working on a project that lets users receive and pay bills with debit or credit cards from Inbox app and Gmail, to debut in fourth quarter — Google Working on Project to Let You Receive and Pay Bills Directly Inside Gmail — Google's mission to organize the world's information is now targeting your physical mailbox.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Review: Fantastical 2 for Mac graduates to a full calendar replacement w/ Yosemite widget+extension, much more — Fantastical's ability to parse natural language input and create detailed appointment entries on your calendar has always been the primary reason to use it instead of or in addition to Apple's own Calendar app on the Mac.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch sales training encourages employees to build trust with customers, so they can serve as fashion advisors during sale — Apple's sales overhaul for Apple Watch will focus on building trust, offering fashion views, upselling bands — The job of Apple Retail Store employees will begin changing in profound ways next month.
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| Mark Hachman / PC World: |
Microsoft: Office will be free for devices under 10 inches — Microsoft drew a line in the sand on Tuesday, as its Office 365 chief said that editing and viewing documents on small-screen devices would continue to be free—likely killing off the idea of a small-screen Surface Pro mini, incidentally.| Pendarvis Harshaw / Fusion: |
Nextdoor, the social network for neighbors, is becoming a home for racial profiling — As Meredith Ahlberg ushered friends into her home in East Oakland's Ivy Hill neighborhood for a party on a Saturday in early March, she noticed that her phone was lighting up with notifications.
Tweets: @jlev, @belaurie, @mikeisaac and @kashhill
| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Leap Motion Is Bringing Hand Tracking To The OSVR Headset In May — The open-source OSVR virtual reality headset is getting one of its first peripherals in the form of an optional faceplate that brings hand tracking to virtual reality projects via an embedded camera.| David Morgan / Reuters: |
Amazon blasts FAA for slowness on drone regulation, claims its recently cleared drone is already obsolete — Amazon blasts U.S. FAA for slowness on drone regulation — (Reuters) - E-commerce power Amazon.com blasted federal regulators on Tuesday for being slow to approve commercial drone testing …
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