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Apple wants TV networks to handle infrastructure and costs of streaming for its video service — Apple Asks TV Programmers to Supply Their Own Streams for Apple's TV Service — Apple wants the TV guys to provide their shows for its proposed streaming video service.| Barack Obama / Medium: |
Obama signs Executive Order authorizing targeted sanctions against perpetrators of cyberattacks, with threats from overseas a primary focus — A New Tool Against Cyber Threats — It's one of the great paradoxes of our Information Age—the very technologies that empower us to do great …
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Facebook's Newest App Riff Lets Friends Add Clips To Collaborative Videos — You could start the next Harlem Shake-style crowdsourced video phenomenon with Facebook's new app Riff, out today worldwide in 15 languages on iOS and Android. — Shoot a video of up to 20 seconds in Riff …
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Sling TV will offer HBO for $15/month by April 12 as part of Dish and Turner distribution deal — Sling TV's Service For Cord Cutters Will Offer HBO Starting This Month — Sling TV, Dish's new over-the-top service designed for cord cutters, announced today that it will become … | Wall Street Journal: |
GoDaddy opened and closed at $26.15 per share, almost 31% above IPO price, raising $460M; closing price values firm at nearly $4B — GoDaddy's IPO Shares Surge in NYSE Debut — Web-hosting firm—known for its ads with Danica Patrick—seeks image makeover| Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed: |
Joint statement from 39 tech leaders calls for state laws to protect “everyone including LGBT people and people of faith” — Tech Leaders Call For States To Pass LGBT Protections, Ban Denial Of Services — Joint statement from 39 tech leaders comes in the midst of a national debate over religious liberty measures.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter tests displaying promoted tweets on user profile pages — Twitter Is Now Placing Ads Within User Profiles — Your Twitter profile may soon include a new decoration: Advertising. — Twitter is bringing promoted tweets, the app's signature ad unit, to people's profile pages as part of a new test.
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Google says 5% of its visitors have ad injectors installed, disables 192 deceptive Chrome extensions — Google Says 5% Of Visitors To Its Sites Have Ad Injectors Installed — According to a study Google conducted with researchers at the University of California, Berkeley … | Amanda Connolly / The Next Web: |
Roundup of April Fools' Day gags by tech companies — Roundup: The best (and worst!) April Fools' Day pranks in the tech world ever — April Fools' Day might be dying a slow death in reality, but on the Web, it's being taken to a whole new level every year.| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Acer is launching an all-in-one Chromebase desktop with a touchscreen this summer — While Google's Chromebooks are finding a measure of success in certain markets, Chrome OS hasn't exactly found much traction in other form factors, like the Mac mini-esque Chromebox or all-in-one Chromebase.
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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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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 …
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