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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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 … | 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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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 …
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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.”
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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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| 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 … | 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 … | Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
WhatsApp for Android now allows all users to make voice calls, iOS coming soon — If you've been wondering when, oh when, someone will ring you via WhatsApp so you'll get its new voice calling feature, you won't have to sit by the phone any longer. — Updating to WhatsApp version 2.12.5 via Google Play does the trick.| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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GoDaddy prices IPO at $20 per share, above previously indicated $17-$19 range, seeks to raise $440M at about $4.5B valuation — GoDaddy IPO values company at $4.5 billion — (Reuters) - Web hosting company GoDaddy Inc (GDDY.N) has priced its initial public offering at $20 per share …
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| 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.Sponsor Posts
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