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With juror changing vote to “no” on retaliation claim to reach majority, Ellen Pao now loses on all four claims in her lawsuit against Kleiner — Live: Jury Misstep Leaves Pao/Kleiner Perkins Verdict in Limbo for Now — Ellen Pao appeared to lose her gender discrimination lawsuit …
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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.| Anne Toth / Slack: |
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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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.
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Using GIFs, Google critiques a Wall Street Journal report about its White House influence during an FTC probe — Really, Rupert? — Last year Robert Thomson, CEO of News Corp, accused Google of creating a “less informed, more vexatious level of dialogue in our society.”| 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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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.| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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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Amazon to remove non-compete clause from contracts for hourly workers — Announcement comes after the Verge reported that the retailer required its US employees, including seasonal workers, to sign non-compete contracts — Amazon is to remove a “non-compete” clause from its employment contracts … | Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal: |
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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