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NSA documents: Justice Department authorized expansion of NSA surveillance to enable search of US Internet traffic for evidence of hacking originating abroad — Hunting for Hackers, N.S.A. Secretly Expands Internet Spying at U.S. Border — WASHINGTON — Without public notice or debate … | Apple: |
Apple Watch arrives in seven more countries on June 26, some models to start selling in retail stores in two weeks — Apple Watch Arrives in Seven More Countries June 26 — Sales in Apple Retail Stores to Begin in Two Weeks — Apple® today announced Apple Watch™ will be available in Italy …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Lite Is A Stripped Down Android App For The Developing World — Facebook can be painfully slow on weak network connections or prohibitively expensive on stingy data plans that are common in India, Africa, and Southeast Asia. So today, Facebook is launching a bare-bones …
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Sources: Dish in early stage merger talks with T-Mobile US; combined company likely to have Charlie Ergen as chairman, John Legere as CEO — Dish Network in Merger Talks With T-Mobile US — Dish, T-Mobile Have Agreed Charlie Ergen Would Be Chairman, John Legere CEO
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Yahoo announces plans to kill off Maps, Pipes, GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter APIs, and some regional sites — Yahoo today released an updated product report for 2015, highlighting the closure of several products, regional sites, and support for older Apple devices in some cases.
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| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Dell is bringing the borderless Infinity display to its 15-inch XPS laptop — The delightfully borderless Infinity display that Dell introduced on the XPS 13 this year is moving up in size class. As part of a sneak preview of upcoming Windows 10 hardware here at Computex Taipei, Microsoft showed the new Dell XPS 15.
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| Sean Hollister / Gizmodo: |
Steam Machines from Alienware and Syber, Steam Controller, and Steam Link available for pre-order to be shipped October 16; general release on November 10 — Today's the Day You Can Pay for a Steam Machine — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo will do their damnest to sell you on PlayStation, Xbox, and Wii.| Jared DiPane / Android Central: |
Touch to Search feature rolling out in Chrome for Android, allows users to highight text and see Google search results without leaving page — New Touch to Search feature appears to be rolling out in Chrome for Android — Chrome for Android appears to be gaining some new functionality, Touch to Search, in a server-side update.| Ryan Lawler / Medium: |
TechCrunch writer Ryan Lawler to join 500 Startups as venture partner — Breaking: TechCrunch Writer Becomes An Investor — Let's not bury the lede: I'm leaving TechCrunch next week and, after taking a bit of a vacation, I will be joining 500 Startups as its newest Venture Partner come August.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Airbnb launches Price Tips tool that uses machine learning to help hosts choose pricing that will increase rentals — Airbnb is using machine learning to help hosts make as much money as possible — If you go on vacation, regardless of whether you're staying at a hotel or renting …
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| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Tweetbot for Mac updated to 2.0 with Yosemite-style redesign, column management tools, $12.99 for new users, free for current users — Review: Tweetbot for Mac 2.0 brings a Yosemite-style coat of paint, convenient new features, and a price drop — Yes, you read that headline right.
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| James Niccolai / PCWorld: |
Prototype of HP's ‘Machine’ server coming next year, but finished product with memristor technology is still years away — Prototype of HP's futuristic ‘Machine’ coming next year — A prototype of Hewlett-Packard's futuristic Machine computer will be ready for partners …
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| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
User manual for Samsung's ruggedized Galaxy S6 Active leaks, shows hardware buttons and internal specs similar to the standard S6 — Samsung all but confirms Galaxy S6 Active with official user manual — At this point we have to believe that Samsung just doesn't care very much about keeping …
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| Molly McHugh / Wired: |
Mac app Unicorns lets you plug in your phone or tablet and live-stream what's on its screen — New Livestream App Lets Strangers Watch You Use Your Phone — The success of Periscope and Meerkat shows livestreaming offers something beyond the practical intent of the technology.
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