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Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery — Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's considerations for the 2016 release of a second-generation model.
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Twitter's Project Lightning will make events easier to follow for logged-in and logged-out users — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter to both logged-in and logged-out users on a variety of platforms.
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New York City criticizes Verizon for slow FiOS rollout: 40K requests pending with 75% outstanding for over one year — New York City Criticizes Verizon on FiOS Delivery — Verizon promised New York City to deliver FiOS to anyone who wanted it by 2014 — New York City says Verizon … | Julia Love / Reuters: |
Slice Intelligence research says 2.79M Apple Watches sold to date; IHS estimates $49 band costs Apple $2 — Exclusive: Apple mines big profits from Watch band — Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a spare band too …
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Fitbit opens at $30.40 in market debut, 52% above their IPO price — Fitbit opens 52% higher in market debut — Fitbit CEO: We're more than just wearables — Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park, shares how one customer got really into counting steps, and the company's mission.| Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
An Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling — FCC's new net-neutrality rules went into effect Friday — The Federal Communications Commission's new net-neutrality rules are already having an effect. — Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google quietly acquired “app streaming” startup Agawi last fall that lets users access apps without downloading them first — Report: Last Year Google Secretly Acquired Agawi, A Specialist In Streaming Native Mobile Apps — Native apps have overtaken the web as the main place …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank Lands $236M From Alibaba And Foxconn To Bring Its Pepper Robot To The World — Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled last year? Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufacturer Foxconn …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web — Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.| TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker's Brigade App Enters Private Beta As A Dead-Simple Way Of Taking Political Positions — Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he's wanted to change: American democracy.
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Many unicorns may fail, but as a group they are likely undervalued — Unicorns — The entire point of the name “Unicorn”, first coined by Aileen Lee in November 2013, is to describe something very rare: “U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion …
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Xbox 360 game-streaming is coming to Windows 10 — As if backwards compatibility on the Xbox One wasn't enough, Microsoft's also going to let you stream and play those older games on Windows 10 PCs. In a private demo of the recently announced Xbox One updates, the company confirmed to Engadget …
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Ello's ad-free social network comes to the iPhone — When Ello came into the social networking scene late last year as an ad-free alternative to Facebook, it was pretty barebones in terms of features. That didn't stop it from gaining hundreds of thousands of users in a few short days … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Ad Tech Vet Ben Barokas Launches Sourcepoint to Block Ad Blockers — Ad-blocking software for Web surfers isn't new. But there's a growing chorus of people who insist that ad blockers are no longer a niche group, but a large subset of Internet users — and big enough to hurt Web publishers that depend on ad revenue.
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Business Insider, BGR, 9to5Google and AdExchanger
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Vimeo overhauls Cameo into a simple video editor for iOS — Vimeo is today releasing a huge update to Cameo, stripping the app down to its core elements and making the entire experience about editing video. The new app doesn't resemble the old Cameo at all, and the changes are for the better.
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TechCrunch, iMore, Engadget and Variety
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BuzzFeed launches news app that focuses on serious reporting, notifications, and curation — Why BuzzFeed wanted everyone to know about its new news app — even before it launched — If you're reading this, then it's more likely than not that you're already aware of BuzzFeed's news app.
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USA Today, VentureBeat, Fortune, BuzzFeed, Poynter, TechCrunch and The Next Web. Tweets: @niemanlab. See also Mediagazer
| Cory Bennett / The Hill: |
Reddit to fully encrypt traffic — Reddit, the self-described “front page of the Internet,” will start encrypting all of its traffic by the end of the month, joining other major Internet players that have made similar moves in recent months. — “We're ready to enforce that everyone use … | Jeremy Wagstaff / Reuters: |
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