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Google rolling out new colorful grid layout for app searches on Android — Google Rolling Out A Gorgeous New ‘Apps’ Results Layout For Mobile — In an apparent effort to boost app discoverability and engagement, it looks like Google is rolling out a beautiful new layout for “apps” search results on mobile.| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google to app developers: iOS 9 privacy feature that forces HTTPS can break ads, so add an exception to allow ads to be delivered over HTTP — Google Tells Developers How to Get Around Apple's New Security Rules So They Can Keep Selling Ads — Apple says it cares a lot about privacy.| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Q&A with Bitcoin Foundation's chief scientist, Gavin Andresen, on the imminent technical challenges facing Bitcoin — The Looming Problem That Could Kill Bitcoin — The man who took over stewardship of Bitcoin from its mysterious inventor says the currency is in serious trouble.| Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Amazon Echo now plays music, books from multiple accounts; gains BART schedules — Don't want to hear the kid's hip-hop on your Echo? Just add another Amazon account and tell Alexa to use it for music and audiobooks. — The Amazon Echo got a little more useful on Friday both for families … | Alice Truong / Quartz: |
Branch founder Josh Miller and Parse founder Ilya Sukhar have announced this week they are leaving Facebook — The founders of two Facebook-acquired startups are leaving the company — Within a day of each other, two founders of startups acquired by Facebook said they are departing the company.| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Japanese mobile game and Internet company DeNA launches Mirrativ for Android to let users livestream anything on their screen — DeNA Goes Live Streaming With Mirrativ — Japanese mobile game and Internet company DeNA Co. is joining the global live streaming race with a new app …
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Sources: new Apple TV's remote will contain motion sensors likely on par with a Nintendo Wii remote — Apple Is About To Lay Down Its TV Cards — Some of us have been waiting for Apple to drop its proverbial hammer on television for what seems like forever.
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HTC cofounder Peter Chou joins Hong Kong visual effects studio in VR push — The cofounder and former chief executive of struggling Taiwanese smartphone maker HTC has joined Hong Kong-based visual effects studio Digital Domain Holdings, according to an exchanges filing Friday.
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ITC clears Microsoft phones of infringing on two InterDigital patents — U.S. International Trade Commission clears Microsoft of patent infringement — Microsoft Corp avoided a potentially costly setback to its mobile phone business on Friday as the U.S. International Trade Commission declined …
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Facebook's Post-Roll Video Ad Test With the NFL and Verizon Quietly Ends — Late last year, Facebook inked a unique partnership with one of the more discerning and coveted media partners out there: the National Football League. — The deal featured NFL clips being promoted in people's Facebook news feeds.
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Uber hires Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, the researchers who hacked into moving Jeeps — Uber hires two security researchers to improve car technology — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has hired two top vehicle security researchers, the company said on Friday, additions to its staff …
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Ten ISPs Sign On With FCC Fund, Will Expand Rural Broadband To Over 7M Customers In 45 States — The FCC's map of 25 Mbps broadband deployment as of January, 2015. Yellow areas are served; blue are unserved. — While those of us who live in or near the country's medium and large cities …
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