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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 …

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.

More: SiliconANGLE, The Verge, OMG!, TechRadar.com, Digital Trends and SlashGear

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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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

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 …

More: PC Magazine, Sydney Morning Herald, Android Beat, Android Authority, Android Authority and Forbes

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.

More: GeekWire, Business Insider, Poynter, Adweek, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, mobihealthnews, Capital New York, The Daily Dot, Cult of Mac, International Business Times, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, Techvibes Global News and Fortune

Tweets: @benpopper, @sulliview and @fmanjoo

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Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Apple now inviting all third-party developers to submit Watch apps to the App Store

More: Apple Developer News, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, ReadWrite, O'Grady's PowerPage, iLounge, The Next Web, MacRumors and App Advice

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.”

More: The Next Web, Digital Trends, AdExchanger, Daring Fireball, SlashGear, MacRumors and The Register

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Amazon's new Dash Button hardware offers instant orders for staple products; Prime members can request an invite to get the hardware for free — Amazon's New Dash Button Hardware Offers Instant Orders For Staple Products — Amazon has new hardware called the Dash Button that allows …

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 …

More: Kotaku, Boing Boing, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Curbed SF, TechRadar.com, CNET, mirror, Search Engine Land, TIME, ABC News and Engadget. Tweets: @inafried

Wall Street Journal:

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 …

More: StrictlyVC. Tweets: @paulsingh and @bgurley

Tom Warren / The Verge:

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 …

More: The Next Web, PC World, Ars Technica, Mashable, BetaNews and ExtremeTech

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.

More: CPU-World, AnandTech, Liliputing, The Register, CNXSoft, The Tech Report, Ars Technica, TechSpot and Digital Trends

Erin Griffith / Fortune:

Sprinklr raises $46 million to become latest billion-dollar unicorn — Sprinklr, a New York-based marketing startup, has raised $46 million in new funding from existing investors Intel Capital, Battery Ventures and Iconiq Capital. The round, which brings Sprinklr's total funding to $123.5 million …

More: Business Wire, Experience Management Blog, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, internetretailer.com, Re/code, bizjournals, TechCrunch, Xconomy and PE Hub Blog

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook's new “Scrapbook” feature lets parents tag their children in photos, giving kids an official presence without full profiles — Facebook's New Photo “Scrapbook” Lets Parents Give Kids An Official Presence — For the first time, children under 13 are allowed to have an official presence on Facebook.

More: Facebook, Re/code, GeekWire, Android Police, Forbes, The Daily Dot, Business Insider, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, The Verge and WebProNews. Tweets: @joshconstine

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 …

More: Slashdot, The Beaufort Observer, Courthouse News Service, Washington Post and Gizmodo

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

More: SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Register, 9to5Google, InfoWorld, Google for Education, ZDNet, CIO.com and The Next Web

Megan Geuss / Ars Technica:

Flickr adds public domain and Creative Commons Zero designations — Flickr offers new public domain licensing in wake of SpaceX photo release — Creative Commons Zero—the CC licensing with fewest restrictions— now an option. — On Monday afternoon, Yahoo's photo-sharing platform Flickr announced …

More: SiliconANGLE, Techdirt, SlashGear, Ink, Bits, & Pixels and Engadget

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Twitter Publicly Launches Curator, Its Real-Time Search And Filtering Tool For Media Outlets — Twitter this morning is publicly launching Curator, its new product that lets media organizations, publishers, and broadcasters identify, filter and display tweets and Vine videos on any screen in real-time.

More: The Twitter Blog, SocialTimes, VatorNews, Marketing Land, Mashable, LostRemote, SlashGear and The Next Web. Tweets: @xdamman. See also Mediagazer

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Charter to buy cable operator Bright House for $10.4B contingent on approval of the Comcast-TWC merger; deal would make Charter the 2nd largest US cable company — Comcast mega-merger brings more cable consolidation with new Charter deal — Charter to buy Bright House, but only if side deal with Comcast gets approved.

More: Thomson IR, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Forbes, Income Investing, Breakingviews, Deadline, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Consumerist, Fortune, Bloomberg Business, The Verge, New York Post, CNET and ValueWalk. See also Mediagazer

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

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 …

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Hands on with the Microsoft Surface 3: new 3:2 aspect ratio makes it more usable in portrait mode, no major performance issues in limited use

More: CNNMoney, CNET, Ink, Bits, & Pixels and Guardian

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