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New Apple TV Will Not Support 4K Video Streaming — And you probably won't care. — BuzzFeed Illustration — When Apple's next-generation Apple TV finally arrives at market later this year, it will bring a groaning board of new features to the company's dusty set-top box — as BuzzFeed News first reported.
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| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
Preparing for its MVNO, Google in talks over a deal that lets Americans use the service abroad with no roaming fees on Hutchison Whampoa's networks — Google in talks with mobile operators for cheap overseas calls — It is understood that Google aims to create a global network that will cost …
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| Tomasz Tunguz: |
Charted: the alarmingly widening gap between the number of late stage private rounds and the number of IPOs — The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising — Every morning, it seems like a startup raises a massive growth ground. In fact, the data proves the point.
Tweets: @alexandrelynn, @davidlee, @athomasq and @peterfenton
| Ad Age: |
TV Networks Put Subscriber Caps on Skinny Bundles and Streaming Video Services — 2 Million Max Can Sign Up for Sling, Executive Says … Four International News Publishers Team Up for Programmatic Offering — Thinking about joining the ranks of cable cord-cutters and signing up for Sling TV?
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| Bonnie Cha / Re/code: |
Roku Adds Voice Search, My Feed for Upcoming Movies — Starting today, Roku users will have new ways to search and discover content on their set-top boxes. — That's because the Silicon Valley-based company updated its line of media streaming devices and mobile apps to support voice search.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Sling TV apologizes for choppy streams during March Madness, but it's unclear what went wrong — Sling TV Says It Dropped the Ball During March Madness. When Will Web TV Be Ready for Primetime? — Yesterday was a big test for Sling TV: How would the Web TV service do when lots … | Samantha Olson / Newsweek: |
EchoPixel's medical visualization software transforms 2D MRI and CT scan images into interactive 3D holograms; has US FDA's approval — Bringing Virtual Anatomy to the Operating Room — Medicine has come a long way from its “let's-just-open-it-up-and-take-a- look” past.
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| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Russia reportedly pays online trolls to write nice things about the country's YotaPhone — We've known for some time now that Russia employs a small legion of online writers — trolls — to advance political agendas, but rarely do we get a look inside. The Guardian, however …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Review: Intel's upcoming $500 Core i7 NUC mini PC improves on performance of cheaper models — Mini-review: Intel's powered-up Core i7 Broadwell mini PC — 28W chips give a nice CPU and GPU performance bump to the first Core i7 NUC. — Earlier this week, Intel sent us its latest variation of its growing line of NUC mini PCs.
Tweets: @lamw
| Kanika Sikka / Reuters: |
Plaintiffs withdraw antitrust case against Google over Android app bundling — Consumers withdraw U.S. lawsuit against Google over Android app limits — (Reuters) - Plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit against Google Inc (GOOGL.O) on Friday withdrew their case accusing the search engine company …
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| Economist: |
On Microsoft's 40th birthday, a look at how Satya Nadella is upending Microsoft's old Windows-first strategy — Opening Windows — A once-dominant software giant is determined to prove that life begins again at 40 — “WHAT are you on? The ‘f**k Windows’ strategy?”
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ABC News, ParisLemon, TechSpot, Fortune, ZDNet, The Next Web, Times of India, BetaNews and The Seattle Times
Tweets: @satyanadella and @paulgallen
Thanks:@refsrc| New York Times: |
Semiautonomous driving gradually becomes reality as luxury automakers like Volvo, Audi, Tesla, and Cadillac add “active safety features” to new cars — Semiautonomous Driving Arrives, Feature by Feature — AUTOMAKERS descended on New York for the city's annual auto show …
Tweets: @erikbryn and @hunterwalk
| Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sharp plans to spin off LCD panel unit, ask government-supported investment fund for help — Sharp Seeks to Spin Off LCD Panel Unit — Troubled Japanese electronics provider plans to ask government-supported investment fund for help — TOKYO—Sharp Corp., the troubled Japanese electronics provider … Sponsor Posts
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