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New images of the BlackBerry Venice slider leak, showing 18MP OIS rear camera, microSD and SIM card slots on top — BlackBerry ‘Venice’ slider spotted once again in new images [UPDATED] — While the rumors surrounding the BlackBerry ‘Venice’ slider continue to swirl … | Tony Romm / Politico: |
Steve Jobs actively disdained Washington DC, but Tim Cook's Apple has reengaged in politics, especially on issues like privacy — Apple Takes Washington — Steve Jobs famously disdained D.C. Tim Cook's quietly taking it on. — As Apple chief Tim Cook quietly slipped out of a public meeting … | 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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| Karl Bode / DSLreports: |
Verizon customers with two-year contracts can keep and renew them, and still get phone subsidies — Verizon's New ‘Simplified’ No-Contract Prices Confuse Everyone — Verizon is reminding users that while the company recently announced that it was killing devices subsidies and long-term contracts …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming: effective for finding and viewing YouTube's existing gaming content, but it must attract big live audiences to compete with Twitch — YouTube Gaming is a great reminder of everything YouTube already does — YouTube is already a big player in live video.
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PC Magazine, Tom's Guide, CNET, TechCrunch and MediaNama
| Michael de Waal-Montgomery / VentureBeat: |
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.| 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.| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
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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InterDigital, Engadget, Windows Central, Bloomberg Business and Seeking Alpha
| 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 … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
FAA Starts Beta Testing App That Tells Drone Pilots Where They Are Allowed To Fly — Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it would soon start beta testing an app that would help drone flyers understand where they can and — more importantly — can't fly.
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faa.gov, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Neowin, Gizmodo, SlashGear, RT, Engadget, Spatially Adjusted and TIME
| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
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.| Liam Spradlin / Android Police: |
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