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Samsung announces Galaxy Note 5 available August 21 with 5.7" quad HD display, 4GB RAM, 16MP camera, refined design and materials — Samsung's Galaxy Note 5 is official and will be available on August 21st — Samsung is officially taking the wraps off of the Galaxy Note 5 today, the latest in its flagship line of Note phablets.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Samsung announces slightly larger variant of the Galaxy S6 Edge, the Edge+, with 5.7" display — Samsung's new Galaxy S6 Edge+ is bigger and smarter — Samsung released two phones in March that featured some radical shifts in design philosophy: the Galaxy S6, and the Galaxy S6 Edge.
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Samsung announces hardware keyboard that snaps onto the screen of Galaxy Note 5 or S6 Edge+ — Samsung resurrects the dream of a hardware keyboard — If there's one thing that's missed more than anything else in today's smartphones, it might be the hardware keyboard.
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Android Authority and BGR. Tweets: @mkbhd, @fmanjoo, @ow, @joannastern, @samsungmobile, @mcwm and @mims
| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Hands On With the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Samsung Galaxy S6 edge+ — Today, Samsung is announcing the next generation of their Galaxy-brand phablets, the Galaxy Note 5 and the Galaxy S6 edge+. Samsung's phablets have been one of their greatest smartphone success stories … | Mark Sullivan / VentureBeat: |
Samsung's new phones offer new Periscope-like service using YouTube Live — Along with a couple of big-screened phones, Samsung today announced a set of services to go with them. One of the new services is a Periscope-like live video service called Live Broadcast.
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| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple Updates Boot Camp With Windows 10 Support — Apple today released an update to Boot Camp with support for Microsoft Windows 10, according to a new support document. The update, Boot Camp 6, is still propagating and is not yet available for OS X. However, several MacRumors forum members … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Samsung teases Gear S2 circular smartwatch to be unveiled on September 3 — Here is the first look at Samsung's new Gear smartwatch, coming next month — Samsung's big news today was two big phones, but it has even more tech to come shortly: a new smartwatch that's going to be unveiled next month.
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| Allison Pohle / Boston.com: |
Facebook rescinded Harvard student's internship after he revealed privacy flaw, created Chrome extension to map people's locations when they used Messenger — Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws — Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna …
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| Ed Bott / ZDNet: |
Windows 10 activation status for each device is now stored online; future reinstalls on that device don't require product key — Microsoft quietly rewrites its activation rules for Windows 10 — Windows activation is alive and well in Windows 10. Microsoft doesn't like to talk …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Group commerce website Massdrop raises $40M Series B led by August Capital — Group Commerce Startup Massdrop Raises $40M — Massdrop is announcing that it has raised $40 million in Series B funding. — The company focuses on what it calls “community-driven commerce.”| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Tinder Founder Sean Rad Returns as CEO, Replacing Chris Payne — Sean Rad, the co-founder of Tinder, who was replaced as CEO in March, is returning to the job. — As part of the move, Chris Payne — the former eBay and Microsoft exec who was hired in March to give the company more experienced management — is leaving.| Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Google's NASA relationship lets it test 100-mph, 55-lb Project Wing drones in US as high as 400 feet over private land — Google is testing drones in US airspace by piggybacking on Nasa exemption — Documents show the tech company has skirted regulations for private firms for a year …
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9to5Google and Gizmodo
| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi announces new flagship Redmi Note 2: Octa-core and full HD for $124 — Just days after releasing its last new phone, Xiaomi has announced yet another device with competitive specs at a very disruptive price point. Xiaomi calls it ‘the new monster’ and for good reason.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mojio Launches Apps And Services Marketplace For Its Connected Car Platform — Mojio, a connected car platform based around a small, Internet-connected device you plug into your car's OBD port, is launching an app and services store for its platform today. The new Mojio Drive will feature 20 apps …
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Re/code, Techvibes Global News, BetaKit and Mojio
| Celena Chong / Business Insider: |
Russia bans Reddit because a thread gave advice on how to grow psilocybe mushrooms — Russia bans Reddit over shrooms — The Russian government has officially banned Reddit, one of the most popular sites on the internet. — Unless Russian users take advantage of VPN to bypass the website blocks …
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
LG to launch Hi-Fi music service for its premium phones with two free song downloads per month — LG's premium phones to get a Hi-Fi music service — LG is launching a new Hi-Fi music service later this month, but the company's not touting it as an Apple Music or a Spotify rival.
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LG Newsroom, RAIN News, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Tech Times, Pocketnow, TWICE, Android Central and Ubergizmo
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