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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
David Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, dies suddenly — Beloved Silicon Valley Entrepreneur David Goldberg Dies Suddenly — David Goldberg, one of Silicon Valley's most high-profile entrepreneurs, died suddenly last night of undetermined causes.
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| Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: |
Remembering Dave Goldberg — Here are some of the descriptions you'll be hearing in coming days about Dave Goldberg, who died suddenly Friday at 47: friend, dad, husband, brother, Midwesterner, entrepreneur, poker player, mensch, investor, mentor. — It is with no hyperbole to say Goldberg … | Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Microsoft confirms that Windows Media Center will not be updated for Windows 10 — R.I.P., Windows Media Center — Summary:Microsoft discontinued development of Windows Media Center in 2009, but enthusiasts have held out hope that the feature would get one more reprieve for Windows 10.
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| Leslie Berlin / Backchannel: |
How Silicon Valley became a unique, self-perpetuating culture that will continue to dominate the high-tech economy — Why Silicon Valley Will Continue to Rule — William Shockley's employees toast him for his Nobel Prize, 1956. Photo courtesy Computer History Museum.| Ian King / Bloomberg Business: |
As Samsung grabs contracts from Apple, other chipmakers reliant on Apple will take big blow — Apple and Samsung Are Friendly Again, and the Competition Should Be Terrified — As the relationship thaws, winter may be coming for SanDisk, TSMC, and other chipmakers
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| Justin Lafferty / SocialTimes: |
Facebook Tests Feature Letting Users Pick Pages, Friends They'd Want To See Atop News Feed — Facebook is testing a feature on mobile that allows users to select friends and pages whose posts they'd want to see atop News Feed. — For some mobile users, a box with an animated puppy shows up …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Wired: |
UnitedHealthcare, the largest health insurer in US, will cover video-based doctor visits from telemedicine firms NowClinic, Doctor on Demand, and American Well — Video Is About to Become the Way We All Visit the Doctor — The country's largest health insurer is putting telemedicine …
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| Matt Haughey / Medium: |
24 hours with the Apple Watch: disappointing third party apps, inconsistent notifications, few watch faces make it feel very “version 1” — My rocky first 24hrs with the Apple Watch — Setup wasn't smooth. The watch app forcibly installed on everyone's phone a few weeks … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Eight cloud photo storage services compared as they roughly achieve feature parity: Amazon, iCloud, OneDrive, Google+, Picturelife, Dropbox, SmugMug, Flickr — The best way to manage your photos online in 2015 — In August 2013, we reviewed the best services for storing your photos in the cloud.| Instagram Engineering: |
Instagram charts growth in emoji usage on the service, offers “translations” for some emoji by analyzing words used with them — Emojineering Part 1: Machine Learning for Emoji Trends — 🆒🆕In October 2011, Apple added the emoji keyboard to iOS as an international keyboard.
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New York Times, Gizmodo, PhoneArena, The Verge and Engadget
| Jad Mouawad / New York Times: |
Software bug could make Boeing 787s lose all electrical power if planes' power control unit left on for 248 days — F.A.A. Orders Fix for Possible Power Loss in Boeing 787 — Federal regulators will order operators of Boeing 787 Dreamliners to shut down the plane's electrical power periodically …
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| Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook offering 100% of revenue to publishers for hosted media if they sell ads, 70% if Facebook sells ads — Facebook Offers to Let Publishers Keep Revenue From Certain Ads — Publishers currently post links to content but mobile device speed frustrating users
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Re/code, Business Insider, The Verge, Digital Trends, CNET and Marketing Land. Thanks:@bluechoochoo. See also Mediagazer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
HoloLens Hands-On: How We Built An App For Microsoft's Augmented Reality Headset — Microsoft's HoloLens is no joke. We've now tried the company's latest revision of its unreleased augmented reality headset and even built an app for it. The new hardware, which Microsoft also showcased during …
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| Economist: |
Researchers find an algorithm can spot comment trolls scanning just 5 posts with 80% accuracy — Proactive policing — New research suggests it is possible to identify online troublemakers before they strike — HECKLERS have long been a problem for politicians and stand-up comedians …
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