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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Apple Watch review: a blissful link from the digital world to my brain, but has a steep learning curve, requires fine-tuning of notifications settings — Apple Watch Bliss, but Only After a Steep Learning Curve — It took three days — three long, often confusing and frustrating days — for me to fall for the Apple Watch.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Apple Watch review: easily the best smartwatch, but costlier than rivals, and with performance issues in apps and locations services — Apple Watch: the definitive review — The Apple Watch is an extraordinarily small and personal device. It is designed to participate in nearly every moment … | John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
Apple Watch review: falls short of conventional watches as a timepiece, but Taptic Engine is a breakthrough — The Apple Watch — Apple Watch is, in many ways, the Bizarro iPhone — in some ways parallel and similar, but in others, the inverse, the opposite. — Both were introduced as three things in one.
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| Katherine Boehret / Re/code: |
How Other Smartwatches Stack Up to Apple Watch — Smartwatches are quickly evolving from geeky, ugly devices into user-friendly, stylish wrist computers. Some of the most notable differentiating factors among these watches are battery life and compatibility with more than one operating system.
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Reuters, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Android Police, The Verge, VentureBeat and BGR. Tweets: @panzer
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: YouTube's ad-free subscription service coming in the next few months for around $10/month, will offer offline viewing, creators required to join — YouTube's paid subscription offering takes shape — and it's almost here — YouTube's forthcoming paid subscription offering …
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Bloomberg Business, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Ars Technica, Fortune, Marketing Land, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Police, Reuters, Business Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat, CNNMoney, Phandroid, Seeking Alpha, Polygon, Pocket-lint, Tubefilter, Pocket-lint, Android Central and Mashable
Tweets: @jessicalessin, @brianstelter and @caseynewton
| New York Times: |
Zynga founder and chairman Mark Pincus returns as CEO, replacing Don Mattrick — Mark Pincus, Zynga's Founder, Returns as C.E.O. — When Mark Pincus hired a new executive to run Zynga, the online games company he founded, he tweeted a message calling the executive, Don Mattrick, an “Internet treasure.”
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Zynga Company Blog, Re/code, VentureBeat, Engadget, International Business Times, USA Today, Ars Technica, ZDNet, CNET, The Verge, Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, Business Insider, SocialTimes and Mashable
Tweets: @neilcybart and @jowens510
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Facebook launches a standalone website for Messenger at Messenger.com, intended for users who want to chat without other Facebook distractions — Facebook Launches Messenger for Web Browsers — Facebook is bringing Messenger, its standalone messaging tool, to the Web.
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TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Marketing Land, Computerworld, BetaNews, Android Authority, SlashGear, VentureBeat, The Daily Dot, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, BuzzFeed, Ubergizmo, Mashable, SiliconBeat, CNET, TIME, SocialTimes, TechCrunch, Windows Central, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, Lifehacker, Android Beat, GeekWire and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @mgsiegler
| Gabor Cselle / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter retires Discover and Activity features for iOS and Android users, moves Trends tool to search page — Updating trends on mobile — Trends are a great way to find out what people are talking about on Twitter at a given moment and at a single glance.
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Re/code, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Marketing Land, Wall Street Journal, SlashGear, VentureBeat, PhoneDog.com, App Advice, Android Central and The Next Web. Tweets: @sarahfrier
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 8.3, including new emojis with diversity, new Siri languages, more — Following the release of OS X 10.10.3 to the public, Apple has also released iOS 8.3 for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. The update, which has been in beta for several months, brings over 300 new emojis …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to add virtualized containers, Nano Server mode to Windows Server 2016 — Summary:Microsoft confirms it will have a Nano Server mode in Windows Server 2016, along with new Hyper-V containerization technology. — Although the second test build of Windows Server 2016 isn't coming until May … | Jeff Carlson / Macworld: |
Review: Photos for OS X is faster than iPhoto but less powerful than Aperture — AT A GLANCE — Last June, Apple announced the impending retirement of iPhoto and Aperture in favor of Photos for OS X, a new application it demonstrated briefly at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
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| Xbox Wire: |
TV on Xbox Gets More Versatile with Over-the-Air Tuner for the U.S. and Canada — At Xbox, we're committed to delivering amazing new gaming and entertainment experiences, and part of that commitment includes giving you the best TV-viewing options, in one place, never more than one step away from your gaming.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Apple Quietly Bought Dryft, A Keyboard App — Apple quietly bought Dryft, a startup that develops keyboard apps — an acquisition that appears to have occurred last year — TechCrunch has learned. — The acquisition seemed to be confirmed by Randy Marsden's LinkedIn profile, which lists him as joining Apple last September.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft's ‘Redstone’: An update to Windows 10 due in 2016 — Summary:Microsoft is working on two updates to the Windows 10 core, codenamed ‘Redstone,’ that are targeted to arrive in 2016, sources say. — There's a new Windows codename on the roadmap: “Redstone.”
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| Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Dell introduces Venue 10 7000 Android tablet: 10.5" screen, starts at $499, $629 with keyboard dock, on sale in US and China later this month — Dell's new Android tablet is built for work and play (hands-on) — As the name implies, the main difference between the two slates is the Venue 10's display.
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Engadget, The Verge, Gizmodo, Laptop Mag, Fortune, PC World, Android Police, Gizmodo, Mashable, Electronista, HotHardware.com News and Chip Chick
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Domo raises $200M Series D valuing company at $2B, launches real-time business intelligence platform after five years of development — With Another $200M In The Bank, Josh James Finally Takes The Wraps Off Business Analytics Startup Domo — It's rare that a company can hire 600 employees …
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Re/code, Business Insider, Forbes, New York Times and Reuters
| Rebecca R. Ruiz / New York Times: |
FCC fines AT&T $25M for failing to protect personal information, including SSNs, of customers — F.C.C. Fines AT&T $25 Million for Privacy Breach — The Federal Communications Commission announced on Wednesday a $25 million fine against AT&T for failing to protect the personal information …
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FCC.gov, BGR, The Register, CNBC, ExtremeTech, Fortune, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, The Verge and Stop the Cap!
Tweets: @gigibsohnfcc and @digiphile
| Philip Rucker / Washington Post: |
Hillary Clinton hires Stephanie Hannon, Google's director of product management for civic innovation and social impact, as campaign's chief technology officer — Hillary Clinton hires Google executive to be chief technology officer — Hillary Rodham Clinton has hired a longtime Google executive …
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Reuters, VatorNews, Engadget, GeekWire, Mashable, The Daily Caller and Gizmodo. Tweets: @tajmagruder
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Operator app from Uber co-founder Garret Camp will fulfill requests such as purchases and deliveries — Uber Co-Founder's Startup ‘Operator’ Will Get You What You Want — Send an instant message asking for something, and they'll do the grunt work of placing your order and getting it delivered to you.Thanks:@joshconstine
| Business Insider: |
Yahoo reorganization may end Tumblr's run as an independent unit — Marissa Mayer is doing a huge shakeup at Yahoo and Tumblr will never be the same — Yahoo is planning a big reorganization that will bring Tumblr more closely into the company, instead of allowing it to be run as a largely independent business unit.Sponsor Posts
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