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Jury answers “no” on three of four of Ellen Pao's claims against Kleiner Perkins, asked to deliberate again on retaliation claim to reach sufficient majority — Live: Ellen Pao Loses Lawsuit Against Kleiner Perkins — Ellen Pao lost her gender discrimination lawsuit …
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Slack confirms hackers accessed its user database in February, introduces two factor authentication — March 2015 Security Incident and the Launch of Two Factor Authentication — We were recently able to confirm that there was unauthorized access to a Slack database storing user profile information.
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Valve to offer HTC Vive Developer Edition for free initially; sign-ups begin as soon as next week with kits shipping later in spring — Valve to offer HTC Vive Developer Edition for free — Developers “big or small” will be able to apply possibly as early as next week.
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Intel is in talks to buy programmable logic device maker Altera, which would be its largest acquisition ever given Altera's $10.4B market capitalization — Intel in Talks to Buy Altera — Intel is in talks to buy Altera Corp. in what would be Intel's largest purchase ever.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Baidu's Internet traffic was hijacked to DDoS GitHub and GreatFire in a move that required access to network infrastructure; GitHub DDoS attack continues — Did China Just Launch a Cyber Attack on GitHub? — Late Thursday night, the popular coding site GitHub announced that someone …
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YouTube is experimenting with 4K resolution, 60 FPS video on a limited selection of clips — YouTube Is Experimenting With Ultra High Def, Ultra Smooth Video Playback — Here Are The Examples — Just a few months back, YouTube bumped up the quality of the videos it hosts by allowing for gorgeous, 60 FPS video playback.
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Facebook announces Nuclide, an open-source IDE based on GitHub's Atom text editor — Facebook today announced that it's built Nuclide, its own integrated development environment (IDE) composed on top of Atom, the text editor that code-repository software company GitHub first released last year.
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Jonah Becker, HTC's head of design, resigns after less than a year, shortly after release of flagship One M9 — Jonah Becker, Designer Behind HTC's Flagship One M9, Is Leaving — Although revenues have stopped falling for now at Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC, executive departures continue.
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SEC OKs rules letting technology startups raise up to $50M from unaccredited investors — SEC: Startups Can Now Raise $50 Million in ‘Mini IPO’ — The SEC on Wednesday approved game-changing final rules in the implementation of Title IV of the JOBS Act, known as “Regulation A+,” …
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Google partners with Johnson & Johnson to develop robots to assist surgeons, pending clearance from antitrust authorities — Google Moves to the Operating Room in Robotics Deal With J&J — Google search for big new industries for its technology has led it to the operating room.| Paul McNamara / Network World: |
Booth babes banned at RSA Conference as new guidelines prohibit overly revealing attire — RSA Conference bans ‘booth babes’ — In what may be a first for the technology industry, RSA Conference 2015 next month apparently will be bereft of a long-controversial trade-show attraction: “booth babes.”
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