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Microsoft's new Atom-based Surface 3, starting at $499, to hit in May — Summary:Microsoft's coming Surface 3, an Intel Atom x7-based Surface, is the new little sister to the Surface Pro 3. — Microsoft is adding a new Surface tablet to its line-up — one aimed at students …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Surface 3 is a $499 tablet that could be a full Windows laptop — Microsoft is back with a brand new Surface 3 tablet, but this time things are a little different. While the original Surface RT and Surface 2 tablets didn't let you run traditional Windows applications … | Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Jay-Z relaunches Tidal with $9.99/month standard and $19.99/month high-quality tiers, with top artists as co-owners — Jay Z relaunches Tidal with music's biggest artists as his co-owners — At a press conference in New York City this afternoon, Jay Z and a huge group of musical stars took …
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Tweets: @digiphile, @panzer, @benedictevans, @joshconstine and @benpopper
See also Mediagazer| Bob Lefsetz / The Lefsetz Letter: |
Tidal is dead on arrival because listeners are cheap, it lacks a critical mass of both users and musicians, and the market is crowded — Tidal — Now let me get this straight...piracy can be eradicated if artists just band together in the name of money? That's what this is all about, cash.
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Tweets: @tomcoates, @alfredspellman, @travisthrasher, @joshconstine and @st1ck3r
See also Mediagazer| Régis Décamps / Gmail Blog: |
Gmail for Android updated with unified inbox view, conversation view for non-Gmail accounts, smarter search — All your mail, together in one place — These days, many of us have more than one email address. If you're a student, you may have one account for school, one for a campus group you lead, and one for your blog.
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| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Belgian data regulator finds Facebook tracks logged out, explicitly opted out, and unregistered users, thus breaching EU privacy law — Facebook ‘tracks all visitors, breaching EU law’ — Exclusive: Social network even sets a new cookie to track untracked EU users who have explicitly opted out of tracking, report says
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft rolls out first Windows 10 preview with ‘Spartan’ browser — Summary:Microsoft has released to testers a new Windows 10 Desktop preview build, the first to include the coming new ‘Project Spartan’ browser. — Microsoft is making available to its Windows Insiders testers … | Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Handy raises $15M and hires CTO Ken Little, former VP of product at Tumblr — Handy sweeps up $15M to grow its home maintenance platform, hires Tumblr VP as new CTO — On-demand house cleaning service Handy just raised another $15 million in funding and hired a new chief technology officer to grow its platform.
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| Josh Hudgins / Google Drive Blog: |
Google makes photos and videos from Google+ Photos available in Drive — Your photos and files, together in Drive — We take all kinds of photos, from pics of friends and family to snapshots of a scenic view. We also use photos for more practical purposes, like planning a wedding …
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Tweets: @fmanjoo and @dannysullivan
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
US Used Zero-Day Exploits Before It Had Policies for Them — Around the same time the US and Israel were already developing and unleashing Stuxnet on computers in Iran, using five zero-day exploits to get the digital weapon onto machines there, the government realized it needed a policy … | J.J. McCorvey / Fast Company: |
How Drew Houston ensures that Dropbox keeps thriving while competing with Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Tencent — Dropbox versus the world — The new tech war is a battle to own your digital data. Dropbox's 32-year-old CEO thinks he can thwart the world's most formidable titans.
Tweets: @dropbox, @jjmccorvey, @susibillingsley, @ricardobo2010, @baileygroupmn, @sequoia, @dbasch, @anjalimullany, @whitkel and @edpichler
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T launches gigabit fiber in parts of Cupertino, with prices from $110/month, $40 more than it charges in cities where it competes with Google Fiber — AT&T's newest fiber customers to pay $40 more than Google Fiber users — There's no $70 Google Fiber in Cupertino, so AT&T can charge what it wants to.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Former DEA agent who worked on Silk Road case charged with acting as paid mole for Ross Ulbricht; second agent charged with pocketing $800K in bitcoin — DEA Agent Charged With Acting as a Paid Mole for Silk Road — Nearly 18 months after the Silk Road online drug market was busted by law enforcement … | New York Times: |
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