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| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast's Apple Watch app redesign shows why scaled-down iPhone apps don't work well on Watch — Redesigning Overcast's Apple Watch app — I originally designed the Apple Watch app for my podcast player, Overcast, with a scaled-down version of the iPhone app's structure.
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| James Appell / Foreign Policy: |
Skolkovo, Russia's $4B tech incubator near Moscow, languishes as funding is cut and startups leave — The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia's Silicon Valley — In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
Tweets: @kasparov63, @eurasiagroup and @pmarca
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
How Microsoft's strategy for supporting apps developed for Android and iOS differs from similar plans by BlackBerry and IBM — Android and iOS apps on Windows: What is Microsoft doing—and will it work? — Running a competitor's apps has been done before. It hasn't worked.
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| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga says it's shutting down data centers it spent $100M to build, goes back to Amazon — For Zynga, a Journey From the Cloud to Home — and Back Again — In 2009, Zynga was a marquee customer for Amazon.com 's cloud-computing services. Two years later, it spent $100 million to build …
Tweets: @chrismunns
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Numerous security holes found in Open Smart Grid networking protocol used by over 4M smart power meters — Weak Homegrown Crypto Dooms Open Smart Grid Protocol — In the three years since its inception, the Open Smart Grid Protocol has found its way into more than four million smart meters and similar devices worldwide.| Heidi Roizen: |
How to build a unicorn from scratch and walk away with nothing, or why deal terms matter more than valuations — How to Build a Unicorn From Scratch - and Walk Away with Nothing. — This is a grim fairy tale about a mythical company and its mythical founder.
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Amazon's ever-cheaper Fire Phone gets a belated KitKat update — A significant change for the few who took a chance on Amazon's first phone. — It's been a while since we last checked in with the Fire Phone, Amazon's attempt to break into the high-end smartphone market.
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GSMArena Blog, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Liliputing, The Verge, ZDNet, GeekWire, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Android and Me and Ubergizmo
| Boris Wertz / Version One: |
“Uber for X” works well only when X is a frequently-used, time-sensitive, commoditized service — Why there won't be an Uber in every vertical — The success of Uber has inspired hundreds of startups to call themselves the “Uber of X, Y, or Z.”
Tweets: @startupljackson
| U.S. Department of Justice: |
Two Men Who Breached Photobucket.com Indicted and Arrested on Conspiracy and Fraud Related Charges — Two men have been arrested after breaching the computer services of Colorado based Photobucket, a company that operates an image and video hosting website, announced U.S. Attorney John Walsh …
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Denver Post, The Register, Engadget, Tech News Today, Reuters, Tech Times and Slashdot
| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Sources: US cable operator Bright House to drop $10.4B Charter deal, wants to retain TWC agreement after TWC-Comcast deal collapsed — Bright House Networks plans to drop merger with Charter - sources — (Reuters) - Bright House Networks, the sixth largest U.S. cable operator …
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Engadget, Deadline and Seeking Alpha
| Wavelength: |
Wavelength gives up on a sharing feature for movies that viewers own, but reopens site for showcasing movie collections, browsing friends' libraries — Update! — Hello! — Today we're excited to reopen wavelength.io. We've been working hard to bring you a great product and we're grateful for your support.
| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
The NSA has a program actually named SKYNET that uses phone metadata to track location and call activities — So, the NSA Has an Actual Skynet Program — We've suspected it all along—that Skynet, the massive program that brings about world destruction in the Terminator movies …
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The Intercept, The Verge, Gizmodo and Engadget
| Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo: |
LG Watch Urbane proves surprisingly easy to fix in teardown — Last month, the folks at iFixit got their hands on the Apple Watch, which unsurprisingly isn't easy to fix on your own. By comparison, repairing LG's Watch Urbane could be a walk in the park. The wearable device scored an impressive 7 out of 10 from iFixit.
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iFixit, Engadget, Tech Times, TechSpot, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Phandroid, Android Central and 9to5Google
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