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Apple confirms that it has acquired GPS startup Coherent Navigation — Apple Acquires Coherent Navigation, a GPS Start-Up — For many of the largest Silicon Valley technology companies, location software undergirds numerous applications and features in their products. — For Apple, it has been a game of catch-up.
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| Kim Zetter / Wired: |
FBI claims security researcher Chris Roberts told them he was able to hack in-flight entertainment system during a flight and issue commands to engines — Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane — A security researcher kicked off a United Airlines flight last month … | Graham Cluley: |
What we know so far on the story of the alleged in-flight system hacker Chris Roberts — Security researcher ‘hijacked plane in-flight’: questions and (some) answers — Well, at the end of last week, Wired published an extraordinary story: “Feds Say That Banned Researcher Commandeered a Plane”
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Inside InnerTube, Google's three year old project to overhaul YouTube's internal development platform, recommendation engine, and search — TO TAKE ON HBO AND NETFLIX, YOUTUBE HAD TO REWIRE ITSELF — The war over our eyeballs is heating up, and that's mostly a good thing for people who like to look at screens.| Brian Merchant / Motherboard: |
Interview: MakerBot CEO Jonathan Jaglom discusses recent layoffs, retail store closures, future roadmap, more — Remaking MakerBot — MakerBot Industries is the public face of 3D printing. And whenever the public face of a nascent, closely-watched consumer technology undergoes …
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| Owen Bowcott / Guardian: |
UK quietly amends law to give intelligence and law enforcement officers immunity from prosecution for hacking — Intelligence officers given immunity from hacking laws, tribunal told — Legislative changes exempting law enforcement officers from ban on breaking into people's digital devices … | Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Appeals court reverses part of Apple's $930M win against Samsung, upholds patent infringements, not trade dress dilution, $382M in damages to be reconsidered — US appeals court reverses part of Apple's $930 mln verdict vs Samsung — A U.S. appeals court on Monday reversed part …
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| Brett LoGiurato / Fusion: |
Politicians are using Snapchat to attract young supporters ahead of the 2016 election, presenting a challenge to regulators — Snapchat is going to be huge in 2016 — and regulators have no idea how to handle it — As he gears up for a presidential run, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley held … | Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
How Microsoft is making the machine learning capabilities behind Cortana accessible to any app with Project Oxford — Cortana for all: Microsoft's plan to put voice recognition behind anything — Microsoft and co. make computer vision, voice, and text processing a Web request away.| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple readies first significant Apple Watch updates, ‘TVKit’ SDK for Apple TV — Nearly a month after the release of the first-generation Apple Watch with Watch OS 1.0, a proven source has disclosed a collection of upcoming Apple Watch software and hardware updates.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
LG's G4 Flagship Smartphone Begins To Go On Sale Worldwide — LG revealed the G4, its newest flagship device, in April, and now the 5.5-inch screen device is rolling out for sale across the world. — Already on sale in its native Korea first, of course, the G4 will land in Hong Kong, before coming to Turkey, Russia and Singapore.| Richard Feloni / Business Insider: |
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