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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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| Charles Armstrong / Google Lat Long: |
Google launches standalone Street View app with ability to post 360-degree photos to Maps — Introducing the new Street View app from Google Maps — For all the Street View fans out there: exploring the world just got even easier. Today we are introducing the new Street View app for Android and iOS … | 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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MacRumors, BGR, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, iMore, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, TodaysiPhone.com, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, Tech Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, iPhone Hacks, Telegraph, ValueWalk, TechEye, Tech Times, O'Grady's PowerPage, SiliconANGLE, Pocketnow, Network World, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, WatchAware, App Advice, PhoneDog.com, Washington Post, Seeking Alpha, The Verge and iLounge. Tweets: @mgsiegler. Thanks:@jordankahn
| 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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| 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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| 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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ValueWalk, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and BetaBoston
| 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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| 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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Help Net Security, SecurityWeek, ZDNet, The Register and Slashdot
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook partners with Summit, a public K-12 charter school, to build a suite of personalized learning software that will eventually be free for any US school — Inside Facebook's plan to build a better school — Looking back, Mike Sego says, he was always meant to work in education.
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Facebook, TechCrunch, Business Insider and BuzzFeed
| 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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Check Point Blog, Threatpost and Help Net Security
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Samsung and Barnes & Noble launch the Galaxy Tab S2 Nook, a $400 8-inch tablet for readers — Barnes & Noble and Samsung have launched the latest iteration from their joint mission to combine tablets and e-readers. — The Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 Nook follows the $150 Galaxy Tab 4 Nook tablet … | 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
| Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: |
Google to more than double the number of health conditions in search results from 400 to 900, add downloadable PDFs — Google To Double The Number Of Health Conditions In Search Results — Google announced they are more than doubling their health conditions database so that when you search …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Lenovo intros 6.98" Phab, 6.8" Phab Plus, Vibe S1 with 2 front-facing cameras, Vibe P1 and P1m with switches for power saving; retailing outside North America — Lenovo's new smartphones are weird — Alongside all of its other announcements today, Lenovo is showing off a pile of random, weird smartphones.Sponsor Posts
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