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SmartThings' new hub supports 200 sensors and switches, video monitoring, has 10 hour battery backup, goes on sale today for $99 — SmartThings' new hub uses Samsung cameras to monitor your home — SmartThings, the open-platform smart home company that sold itself to Samsung a year ago … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung launches SleepSense, a smart sleep-tracker that connects to your home appliances — Samsung has launched a new “Internet of Things” (IoT) healthcare device designed to improve your sleep. — At the IFA consumer technology event in Berlin, Samsung unveiled the cylindrical device …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
AOL Confirms It Is Buying Millennial Media In $238M Deal To Expand In Mobile Ads — This just in: AOL, itself acquired by Verizon for $4.4 billion earlier this year, has announced that it is making another purchase of its own. It is buying Millennial Media as it continues to build …
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Judge gives final approval to $415M settlement from Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel for anti-poaching suit — U.S. judge approves $415 mln settlement in tech worker lawsuit — A U.S. judge on Wednesday granted final approval to a $415 million settlement that ends a high profile lawsuit …
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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
New iPhone 6S/6S Plus to retain same storage tiers as iPhone 6: 16GB, 64GB, and 128GB, despite 4K video, increased photo resolution, and other improvements — Apple Event: New Apple Watch bands, 16GB iPhones confirmed with 7000 series aluminum — Starting with the iPhone 3GS …
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| Alyssa Bereznak / Yahoo! News: |
Men's rights activists are using a 1950s California law to file lawsuits against women-only tech events — These men's rights activists are using a 1950s law to shut down women in tech — Stephanie Burns came up with the idea for Chic CEO, a free online platform for female entrepreneurs, in 2008, when she was getting her MBA.
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| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Netflix releases Sleepy Puppy, an open-source tool to track XSS vulnerabilities across multiple apps — Netflix Sleepy Puppy Awakens XSS Vulnerabilities in Secondary Applications — Most automated scanning and security tools that ferret out cross-site scripting vulnerabilities don't do much analysis beyond the target application.
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Twitter board meets Thursday to discuss CEO search; Jack Dorsey remains a leading internal candidate, Padmasree Warrior among external candidates — Twitter CEO Search Gains Urgency as Stock Slips, Executives Exit — Pressure on Twitter Inc.'s board is mounting.
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter names developer platform lead Jeff Seibert head of consumer product in product team restructure — Twitter Restructures Product Team, Promotes Jeff Seibert — Twitter has promoted Jeff Seibert, the man who's been running the company's developer products for over a year.
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| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Improved Simplocker Android malware disguises as an NSA app, has infected tens of thousands of devices using XMPP — Android ransomware uses XMPP chat to call home, claims it's from NSA — Improved Simplocker lurks disguised as legitimate Flash or video player app.
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| John Dyer / VICE News: |
FAA allows drone-as-a-service firm Measure to fly 324 data-collecting commercial drones, provoking ire from privacy advocates — FAA Approves Corporation's Use of Drones To Collect Data, Prompting Protest from Privacy Advocates — The Federal Aviation Administration's recent approval …
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
PhantomAlert files suit against Waze, claims Waze copied its database, incorporated it into its own application before sale to Google — Rival traffic app PhantomAlert wants to shut Waze down after alleged theft — CEO says he was “crushed” by Waze, which Google bought in 2013 for over $1B.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
T-Mobile launches native video calling starting with Samsung's latest phones — Starting today, T-Mobile customers with a Galaxy Note 5 or Galaxy S6 Edge+ can place video calls right from their phone's dialer. The Uncarrier is introducing T-Mobile Video Calling, a VoLTE-powered feature …
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| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Cloud security firm Netskope raises $75M round led by Iconiq Capital — Security Financings Continue Their Heat Wave With A New $75M Round For Netskope — Netskope, which sells a technology service protecting businesses' cloud-based software, has joined the ranks of the massively funded …
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VatorNews, Wall Street Journal, PE Hub Blog, FinSMEs, FierceCIO News and silicontap.com
| Sean Captain / Fast Company: |
IBM and ARM partner for data analytics from industrial, health, car, and wearable IoT devices — IBM And Chip Designer ARM Want To Monitor Every Device They Can — The term “Internet of things” is a bit like “Web 2.0” was a decade ago—a buzzword for some big change in the Internet that no one can clearly describe.
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| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
Asus announces GX700 water-cooled laptop with 17-inch 4K display and overclocked Skylake chip; ROG gaming laptops updated to G752 series, starting at $1,500 — Asus updates ROG gaming laptops, and teases liquid cooling — Asus is known for its powerful gaming PCs, such as the ROG G751 … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Skype redesigns its Android and iOS apps with easier navigation, enhanced search, and better multi-tasking — Microsoft today updated its Skype apps for Android and iOS with a big focus on the look and feel. You can download the new apps now directly from Google Play and Apple App Store (iPhone, iPad).
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Skype Blogs, TechCrunch, MacRumors, PCWorld, ZDNet, Android Police, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, The Verge, WinBeta and iClarified
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Tumblr redesigns reblog chains on dashboard, with goal of making comments easier to read — Tumblr Finally Makes “Reblogs” More Readable, Especially On Mobile Devices — One of blogging site Tumblr's flagship features, the reblog - meaning the reposting of another person's content onto your own site …
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Tumblr Support, Mashable, Digiday, The Digital Reader and The Next Web
| Joshua Ho / AnandTech: |
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 twice as fast, power efficient as predecessor thanks to quad-core Kryo CPU; Symphony System Manager to handle heterogeneous computing — Qualcomm Announces Kryo CPU Details: Quad Core 2.2 GHz, 14nm FinFET — Today, Qualcomm announced a number of details in the Snapdragon 820 … Sponsor Posts
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