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Tim Cook talks data encryption and criticizes competitors' stances on customer privacy at Washington event — Apple's Tim Cook Delivers Blistering Speech On Encryption, Privacy — Yesterday evening, Apple CEO Tim Cook was honored for ‘corporate leadership’ during EPIC's Champions of Freedom event in Washington.
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Yahoo to livestream web's first NFL game on Oct. 25, pays reported $20M for free broadcast — Yahoo Will Stream the NFL's First Web Game, for Free — A couple of months ago, when the NFL announced that for the first time ever, it would show a regular season game (almost) …
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Amazon offers free shipping on small goods to all customers without requiring a minimum order — Amazon Debuts Free Shipping on Small Goods Without Minimum Order — Not just for Prime members — Amazon.com Inc. is introducing free shipping on thousands of popular, smaller items …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Tests “Saved Replies,” A Tool That Lets Pages Respond To Customers With Canned Messages — Facebook is testing a new feature called “Saved Replies,” which will allow business Page owners the ability to write, save and then re-use canned messages when communicating with their customers over Facebook.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Recalls Beats Pill XL Due To “Rare” Fire Safety Risk — Apple has issued a voluntary recall for the Beats Pill XL Bluetooth speaker, which is made by the company it acquired last year. The speaker, originally created pre-acquisition, apparently poses a potential fire safety risk … | David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Obama signs USA Freedom Act into law, surveillance measures of Patriot Act now resume — Let the snooping resume: Senate revives Patriot Act surveillance measures — Lawmakers approve a variation of the phone-records spy program Snowden revealed. — The Senate on Tuesday revived three …
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HomeKit documented officially by Apple, as Apple TV confirmed as gateway device — A new Apple support document for HomeKit has now officially confirmed our earlier report that the Apple TV would serve as a hub for HomeKit devices. The document confirms an Apple TV is needed … | Cale Guthrie Weissman / Business Insider: |
Sources: nearly all of Medium's sites are undergoing major upheavals; employees quiet on changes due to NDA — Medium, the publishing platform started by one of Twitter's cofounders, is gutting some of its most popular sites — Two weeks ago, publishing platform Medium … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Opendoor launches service for home buyers, enables them to browse listings, organize a site visit, even make an offer — Is this the future of shopping for a house? — Imagine selling your house almost as soon as you decide to list it, and for a fair price.
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| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Google Photos Review: best photo backup-and-sync cloud service, but free only applies to images up to 16MP, and videos 1080p or less, more than enough for most — The New Google Photos: Free at Last, and Very Smart — Last Thursday was liberation day for Google Photos …
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Meg Whitman confirms HP split for Nov. 1; HP Enterprise gets new logo but future vision remains vague — Whitman Paints a Vague Picture of Hewlett Packard Enterprise — LAS VEGAS — Meg Whitman, chairwoman and chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, explained her dream Tuesday for Hewlett Packard Enterprise …
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Skype crashes after specific 8-char string is received in chat, updates released with fix — These 8 characters crash Skype, and once they're in your chat history, the app can't start (Update: fixed) — Skype users have discovered a rather nasty bug in the app.
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| Laurie Denness / laur.ie's blog: |
Comparison of SSD firmware reliability of different brands after using thousands of drives for five years — SSDs: A gift and a curse — Artur Bergman, founder of a CDN exclusively powered by super fast SSDs, has made many compelling cases over the years to use them.| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
AMD's new 28nm Carrizo chips for mainstream notebooks use half the power of last-gen chips and improve performance 1.5x — AMD's Carrizo chip targets the one thing every laptop user wants: Longer battery life — Think of Intel's Core chips as the giant's massive broadsword … | Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas in case against Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood — Google demands movie studios comply with subpoenas — Google Inc (GOOGL.O) has asked a federal judge to require three major movie studios to comply with subpoenas it believes … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Pinterest doesn't plan on taking a cut of retailers transactions with Buyable Pins, will instead make money promoting the pins — Pinterest Brings E-Commerce to Social Scrapbooking With ‘Buy It’ Button — Pinterest, the online social scrapbooking service, has long claimed to help people discover new things in the real world.| James Risley / GeekWire: |
Amazon brings Minions ads to delivery boxes, marking its first advertising deal on packaging … Your next Amazon box might double as a billboard. The company has started sending boxes featuring advertisements for the new Minions movie — the first non-Amazon ads to appear on the company's delivery boxes.
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Magic Leap announces augmented reality SDK that supports Unity and Unreal game engines, no release date given but company says “soon” — Magic Leap Announces Its Augmented Reality Developer Platform — Magic Leap wants game makers, filmmakers, and other creators …
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Yahoo brings third-party verification tags from comScore, Moat, DoubleVerify, and others to its ads in order to independently verify viewability rates — Yahoo Says Welcome To Third-Party Fraud And Viewability Tags — Brands need to feel confident that their ads are being seen - and “because we said so” is not an acceptable answer.
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Korean E-commerce Leader Coupang To Raise $1 Billion From SoftBank At $5 Billion Valuation — As a Harvard undergraduate student, Bom Kim signed off on most emails with a quote from his entrepreneurial hero, SoftBank leader Masayoshi Son. “All I had was a dream and confidence for which I had no basis … | Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Pharmacy Delivery Startup PillPack Locks In $50 Million To Take On Walgreens — Pharmaceutical delivery startup PillPack has raised a $50 million growth round in Series C financing to start building retail pharmacies and take on other retail drugstores like RiteAid and Walgreens.Sponsor Posts
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