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Andy Rubin's hardware incubator Playground Global raises $48M from Google, HP, Foxconn, others, and will provide support in exchange for equity, not capital — Android Creator Andy Rubin Launching Playground Global — Firm to provide support, advice to tech startups making devices
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Andy Rubin joins Redpoint as a venture partner — Andy Rubin Joins Redpoint — Most people know Andy Rubin as the creator of Android. I know Andy as a twenty-something engineer at WebTV who had built a sleeping loft above his cubicle so he didn't have to leave the office. 20 years …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquired Search Startup Ottocat To Power The ‘Explore’ Tab In The App Store — Apple has slowly been making changes to improve how people search and navigate the App Store. Part of the way it does that is via small acquisitions — some of which stay under the radar for years.
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook: Apple employees will get 50% off Apple Watch, 1000+ apps submitted — Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent out a memo to all employees ahead of the Apple Watch's retail try-on kickoff this Friday. Cook thanks employees who have worked on the Apple Watch by saying, “congratulations …
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| Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch: |
In Snowden interview, John Oliver makes surveillance debate relatable by avoiding civil liberty hypotheticals, focusing on NSA's ease of access to “dick pics” — John Oliver Just Changed The Surveillance Reform Debate — Remember Edward Snowden?
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| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |
After Kleiner trial, Ellen Pao talks about workplace sexism, changing hiring practices at Reddit, more — Ellen Pao Says Gender Issues Won't ‘Go Away’ After Kleiner Trial — In first interview since losing sexism case, Pao says too many 'women feel like there's no way to win'| NY Daily News: |
EXCLUSIVE: Judge says Brooklyn woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers — A Brooklyn woman scored a judge's approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook. — In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Hulu launches GIF search engine for its TV shows, powered by Tumblr and shareable on Twitter, Pinterest or via email — Hulu Launches Its Own GIF Search Engine — Streaming video service Hulu is today launching its own tool for fans of GIFs, with the debut of its own GIF search engine powered by Tumblr.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Replaces “Best Friends” With Friend Emojis, Adds Low-Light Camera — It was always weird that Snapchat exposed who you snapped with most in the “Best Friends” list, so today the app is ditching that for a new private way to see who you're closest to.
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The Next Web, The Verge, PC Magazine, The Daily Dot, SlashGear, Business Insider, Engadget, Phandroid and TechnoBuffalo. Tweets: @hugeinc
| Jan Willem Aldershoff / Myce.com: |
Update for Windows 7 and 8.1 silently installs Windows 10 downloader — Microsoft has released an optional update that “enables additional capabilities for Windows Update notifications when new updates are available to the user”. We discovered the update is actually a downloader for Windows 10 …
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Neowin, WinBeta, Windows Central, InfoWorld and SlashGear
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LG may have accidentally revealed Apple's 8K iMac plans in a press release about display tech — Apple to release super-high resolution ‘iMac 8K’ later this year, display partner LG says — In a rather unusual reveal, a supposed “iMac 8K” has been outed in a press release that was published … | Brad Linder / Liliputing: |
Intel Compute Stick now available for pre-order: Linux version starts at $110, Windows at $150 — Intel Compute Stick mini PC now available for pre-order — The Intel Compute Stick is a tiny computer with an HDMI connector on one end. Plug the device into the HDMI port on your TV or monitor …
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