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AppleCare+ for Apple Watch: $999 for Edition, $79 for Watch, $59 for Sport — To go along with the premium $10,000 and up pricing of the 18-karat gold Apple Watch Edition, Apple will charge up to $999 for the Apple Watch Edition's AppleCare+ Protection Plan, 9to5Mac has learned.
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| Brendon Lynch / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft's future browsers will not enable Do Not Track as the default setting, in a reversal of the company's policy with Internet Explorer 10 — An update on Microsoft's approach to Do Not Track — As industry standards evolve, how we implement those standards evolve as well.
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Mark Russinovich, Microsoft's Azure CTO, said in an off hand remark at a ChefCon panel discussion that an open source Windows is “definitely possible” — Microsoft: An Open Source Windows Is ‘Definitely Possible’ — Microsoft's software empire rests on Windows …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Is Testing An Online Note-Taking Service With “Project Composer” — It appears that Dropbox is bringing back HackPad, the collaborative documents service the company acquired a year ago. The Y Combinator-backed startup had grown to become a popular tool for taking quick notes at conferences … | Wall Street Journal: |
Disney to invest $250M in fantasy sports site DraftKings, valuing company at $900M — Disney to Invest $250 Million in Fantasy Site DraftKings — Walt Disney Co. is investing $250 million in online fantasy sports business DraftKings Inc., valuing the company at roughly $900 million, people familiar with the matter say.
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Operator of “revenge porn” website sentenced to nearly 18 years in prison in a first-of-its-kind prosecution — ‘Revenge porn’ site runner gets 18 years in prison — In a first-of-its-kind prosecution, the convicted operator of a “revenge porn” website was sentenced …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Acquires Team From Hike Labs, Including Google Reader, Blogger Veteran Jason Shellen — Pinterest today scored two notable new hires with the acquisition of a small, two-person startup known as Hike Labs, which had been developing a mobile publishing application called Drafty.| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
A year after firestorm, DHS wants access to license-plate tracking system — The Department of Homeland Security is seeking bids from companies able to provide law enforcement officials with access to a national license-plate tracking system — a year after canceling a similar solicitation over privacy issues.| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google+ Stories now showing up as a Google Now card for some users — Google+ has long had an interesting feature called “Stories” that creates a fun timeline out of your uploaded photos, but now users are reporting that these are now showing up in Google Now.
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| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Gondola's dynamic pricing engine intelligently changes the price of game in-app purchases to maximize revenue — What Can the Video Game Business Learn From Airlines and Uber? — When you make a purchase in a free-to-play video game like Candy Crush Saga or Clash of Clans …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Dish rebrands DishWorld as Sling International, offering 200 channels in 18 languages to US customers, starting at $15 per month — Dish Rebrands DishWorld as ‘Sling International’ Over-the-Top Service — Dish Network, the No. 2 satellite TV service in the U.S., announced that DishWorld … | Kit Walsh / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF seeks DMCA exemptions to modify and inspect car source code to make DIY auto repairs possible and keep diagnostic information accessible to mechanics — Automakers Say You Don't Really Own Your Car — EFF is fighting for vehicle owners' rights to inspect the code that runs their vehicles …
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