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How a Twitter bot written to automatically enter contests won 1000 prizes in 9 months, or about 4 contests per day — Twitter Contest Winning as a Service — This is the story of how I wrote a Twitter bot to automatically enter contests and ended up winning on average 4 contests per day, every day, for about 9 months straight.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
OEMs and carriers make Android's security update strategy ineffective at Android's scale; a major attack on unpatched phones seems inevitable — Waiting for Android's inevitable security Armageddon — Editorial: Android's update strategy doesn't scale, and that's recipe for disaster.
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| Tim Culpan / Bloomberg Business: |
HTC market valuation falls below its cash on hand; brand, factories, and other assets deemed to have no value by investors — HTC Trading Below Cash Leaves a Smartphone Brand With No Value — An HTC M9 smartphone. Photographer: Pau Barrena/Bloomberg — A 60 percent plunge …
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| Connie Chan / Andreessen Horowitz: |
How WeChat works, and how it became so popular in China: millions of apps within the WeChat app, built-in payments, and more — When One App Rules Them All: The Case of WeChat and Mobile in China — This post is all about WeChat, but it's also about more than just WeChat.| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
One year after the relaunch: Dennis Crowley on the future of Foursquare, privacy, and Yelp — Nearly a year after Foursquare's relaunch, we caught up with chief executive Dennis Crowley to talk Foursquare's future, its plan to cash in on ad tech, privacy, burrito discovery, and why the six-year-old startup doesn't have to kill Yelp.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Hangouts for Android updated with Material Design, speed improvements, and less battery drain — Google today updated Google Hangouts for Android with a revamped design, faster performance, and new messaging features. You can download the latest version now directly from Google Play.| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Vainglory creator Super Evil Megacorp raises $26M round led by Index Ventures — Vainglory Breaks Through in E-Sports on a Tablet — Under everyone's noses, the competitive video game scene has gotten huge, with more than 113 million fans globally by some estimates.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Blockfeed, available in NYC, extracts location from news articles and serves users a feed based on where they are — Blockfeed App Surfaces Hyper Local News — The death knell has been sounded for local journalism at regular intervals during the digital era.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Android to support Vulkan graphics API, the open answer to Metal and DX12 — Khronos also announces OpenGL ES 3.2, which Android already partially supports. — Low-overhead graphics APIs are all the rage these days, at least if you're the sort of person who gets excited …
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| Ariha Setalvad / The Verge: |
Facebook makes it hard to find and take down copyright-infringing videos as it tries to establish itself as the go-to platform for viral videos — Why Facebook's video theft problem can't last — Earlier this year, Facebook's increased focus on video — which began with it introducing autoplay video … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Webvan founder Louis Borders working on $99/year shopping club offering same day delivery that will rely on heavily-automated warehouses — Webvan Founder Plots an Amazon Prime Competitor Powered by Robots — Fourteen years after his first same-day delivery service went belly up, Webvan founder Louis Borders is working on a redo.
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| James Crabtree / Financial Times: |
Google to announce relaunch of its Android One project in India in coming weeks with a goal of specifying phones that will cost less than $50 — Google set to reboot Android One smartphone project in India — Google is to relaunch its Android One cut-price smartphone project …
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| Terje Solsvik / Reuters: |
Opera Sofware considers sale after lowering growth estimates for the second time in six months, hires investment bankers — Norway's Opera warns on growth, says firm may be sold — * Says has interest from a number of parties — * 2015 revenue now forecast lower at $600 mln to $618 mln
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| Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Atlanta, Chicago top RootMetrics' list of cities with best mobile network performance in US — Atlanta has the best wireless service in the land, Denver and L.A. among the worst — Atlanta and Chicago have the best wireless service performance in the United States, says a new report from RootMetrics … | Alice Truong / Quartz: |
Linden Lab working on an Oculus game similar to its Second Life offering codenamed Project Sansar, plans to release it before end of 2016 — Could the Oculus Rift help give Second Life a second life? — Second Life—the online world once considered the hottest destination on the internet—never got much past a million users.Sponsor Posts
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