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Galaxy S6 Edge's curved screen is ergonomically busted and incompatible with Material Design, prioritizing sci-fi aesthetics over function — Living life on the S6 Edge — Samsung is back atop the Android throne with its new Galaxy S6. The hotly contested title for Android's best … | Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Galaxy S6 review: Samsung at its best with solid build quality, great specs, useful fingerprint sensor, and gorgeous 5.1 inch display; Edge not worth extra $100 — Samsung Galaxy S6 review — It's not ok to make a cheap-looking phone anymore. — Now that Apple is finally making big phones …
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| Melissa Riofrio / PC World: |
Meet the Asus Chromebook Flip, a $249 Chrome OS tablet with a 360-degree hinge — On Tuesday, Google announced the $249 Asus Chromebook Flip. As the first mainstream Chrome device to offer a 360-degree hinge, the Flip can function as a tablet as well as a laptop.
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| Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google announces an Asus-made Chrome OS HDMI stick called Chromebit for less than $100 and new ARM Chromebook laptops from Hisense and Haier starting at $149 — Google pushes Chrome OS software, with or without Chromebooks — Google announces new Chromebook laptops and an intriguing …
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| Brian X. Chen / New York Times: |
Verizon Wireless Customers Can Now Opt Out of ‘Supercookies’ — Verizon Wireless customers now have the ability to completely opt out of the phone carrier's controversial ad-targeting program that tagged users with undeletable tracking codes, which critics called “supercookies.”| JP Mangalindan / Mashable: |
Anonymous messaging app Yik Yak is testing a photo feature — Yik Yak, the anonymous messaging app, is testing a new feature that would let users share photos, Mashable has learned. — Yik Yak is in the early stages of testing the feature on some college campuses for limited periods of time … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Atmel ARM-based microcontroller chip could extend battery life of small low-power devices to decades — New ARM-powered chip aims for battery life measured in decades — Atmel's 32-bit SAM L controllers, shipping soon, take low power to new extremes . — The number of things getting plugged …
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| Katherine Finnerty / The New York Times Company: |
NYT's Apple Watch app features custom one-sentence stories with images and bullet points; readers can use Handoff to continue reading on iPhone or iPad — The Times Rolls Out One-Sentence Stories on Apple Watch — The New York Times has developed a new form of storytelling to help readers catch up in seconds on Apple Watch.
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Hands on with Microsoft's Project Spartan browser: touch support is lacking and extensions aren't yet available, but annotations and Cortana impress — A closer look at Project Spartan, Microsoft's Internet Explorer killer — The Spartan army was the centrepiece of an ancient Greek city-state …
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| David Mack / BuzzFeed: |
Google Maps celebrates April Fools by letting you play Pac-Man using real streets anywhere as your maze — Stop Everything: You Can Play “Pac-Man” In Google Maps Right Now — There goes your productivity for today. — Just in time for April Fool's Day, Google has rolled out a cool …
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How Wall Street Middlemen Help Silicon Valley Employees Cash In Early — Financial firms create ad hoc market where hot stocks of closely held technology companies trade largely out of sight of regulators — Hedge-fund manager Jonathan Sands gushed in a January email that shareholders … | Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
Intel quietly launches 14nm Braswell, Bay Trail's successor — Intel has quietly launched its first 14nm Braswell cores this week. These new 14nm chips are the successor to Intel's 22nm Bay Trail-D (meaning the Celeron / Pentium flavor of Bay Trail) and will target ultra-mobile systems and low-end desktop PCs.
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| Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online: |
U.S. Supreme Court: GPS Trackers Are a Form of Search and Seizure — If the government puts a GPS tracker on you, your car, or any of your personal effects, it counts as a search—and is therefore protected by the Fourth Amendment. — The Supreme Court clarified and affirmed that law on Monday … | Scott Johnston / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google Drive for Work and Google for Education get new security features including admin alerts, ability to set sharing settings by department — Keep all of your work more secure with Google Drive — Posted by: Scott Johnston, Director of Product Management, Google Drive
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