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HTC cancels previously unveiled Grip fitness band that was slated for a Spring 2015 launch — HTC won't ship the Grip after all, but its fitness ambition lives on — Hey, remember that time HTC built a fitness tracker (with a little help from Under Armor) and showed it off in Barcelona?| Aileen Lee / TechCrunch: |
Welcome To The Unicorn Club, 2015: Learning From Billion-Dollar Companies — It's been over a year since we wrote our original post sharing our analysis of the last decade's most successful U.S.-based, venture-backed tech companies. — As we wrote in our original post - many entrepreneurs …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Symantec: Spam falls below 50% of all email for the first time since 2003 — Good news for all of us who still have to use email: spam rates are dropping! In fact, junk messages now account for just 49.7 percent of all emails. — The latest figure comes from security firm Symantec's … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
0-day attacks exploiting Flash just got harder thanks to new defenses — Flash mitigations now fully baked into Chrome; coming to other browsers soon. — A string of weaponized attacks targeting Adobe's Flash media player—including three in the past 10 days—has kept software engineers scrambling …
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Health clinic in rural Virginia got the first government-approved drone delivery in the US — Drone Delivers Medicine to Rural Virginia Clinic — Government-approved demonstration also shows that hurdles remain — A pop-up health clinic in rural Virginia received deliveries of medicine …
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| Chris Johnston / Guardian: |
British man Lauri Love rearrested, charged wth hacking into US government agencies including the US army, NASA, and the Federal Reserve, faces extradition to US — British man accused of hacking into US government networks arrested — Lauri Love arrested in Suffolk on an extradition warrant …
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Startups grapple with prospective employees increasingly seeking information such as cap tables and liquidation preferences — Employees Wise Up — This week, a Bay Area founder was taken aback when an engineer being recruited by his startup asked for both its cap table and information regarding …
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
YouTube's global watch time grew 60% YoY; average mobile viewing session now over 40 minutes — Google Grows YouTube Views, Revenue Despite Facebook Threat — YouTube got a big shout-out during Google's Q2 2015 earnings call Thursday, with Google's new CFO Ruth Porat stating that the company has seen …
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Yahoo quietly launches Livetext, combining mobile messaging with silent live video, in Hong Kong's iTunes store — Yahoo Quietly Launches A New “Video Texting” Mobile Messaging App On iTunes — Yahoo has been rumored to be working on a revamped messenger app for a while now … | Wall Street Journal: |
Apptio, maker of cloud-based software to manage IT, taps banks for an IPO that could value the company at about $1B — Apptio Taps Banks for IPO — Cloud IT Software Maker Working With Goldman, J.P. Morgan and Bank of America on IPO — Apptio Inc., a maker of cloud-based software …
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iPod touch 6th-gen teardown: slightly more repairable and double the RAM of last model at 1GB — iPod Touch 6th Generation Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide| Kait Gaiss / Pocket Blog: |
Pocket brings Listen, its text-to-speech feature, to iOS — Text-to-Speech for iOS is Now Available! Listen to Your Articles in Pocket — We don't always have the opportunity to sit down and read the amazing content we save to Pocket every day. Sometimes, our hands are simply full …
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Hacking Team's evil Android app had code to bypass Google Play screening — Full backdoor code wasn't installed until after user activated app. — Security researchers at Trend Micro's Trend Labs have uncovered a trick in a sample of a fake news application for Android created …
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