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Apple plans to announce 21.5" iMac with 4K display by the end of October, ship in November — Apple planning to bring 4K screen to 21.5-inch iMac in October — Apple is indeed planning to release a new version of its 21.5-inch iMac with a 4K display this fall, according to reliable sources.| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
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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| 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 … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Hands-on with Samsung Gear S2: slim round design, smart interaction model, makes it the most promising Samsung smartwatch so far — Samsung's Gear S2 is its best-looking smartwatch yet — Samsung and smartwatches have had a tenuous relationship. It's not for lack of trying … | 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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MacRumors, 6S Marketing, PCWorld, The Daily Dot, BGR, PCMag Australia Feed, Ars Technica, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, iMore, Ars Technica UK, App Advice, Business Insider, MobileSyrup.com, Laptop Mag, TodaysiPhone.com, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Telegraph, ValueWalk, Tech Times, O'Grady's PowerPage, Ubergizmo, Redmond Pie, TechEye, Tech Insider, SiliconANGLE, Network World, MacDailyNews, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo and WatchAware. 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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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Facebook's Parse unveils a catalog of new IoT SDKs for Intel, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, and Atmel to support more connected devices — Facebook's Parse expands Internet of Things reach with Intel, others — The department has undergone a few leadership changes — most recently losing founder and CEO Ilya Sukhar.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
OLX co-founder's mobile app letgo raises $100M Series A from South Africa's Naspers to take on Craigslist and eBay in US — Mobile App Letgo Raises $100 Million From Naspers To Take Over Classifieds In The U.S. — Can a mobile classified app topple the behemoth that is Craigslist?
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Fortune, New York Times and Virtual-Strategy Magazine
| 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, ZDNet and BuzzFeed
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Acquires Organizational Analytics Service VoloMetrix — Microsoft today announced that it has acquired VoloMetrix, a service that specializes in analyzing organizational performance using anonymized data it gathers from across a company's corporate communications systems.| 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 … | 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 …
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The Verge, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, BetaNews, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Good E-Reader, Engadget and Android Police
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tops App Annie's iOS all-time downloads chart, with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp also in top 10, Pandora, Clash of Clans top grossing — Facebook tops App Annie's all-time iOS downloads chart, Pandora, Clash of Clans top grossing — A new report from app store analytics firm App Annie … | 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 …
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Inside Search, The Verge, Android Police, TechCrunch and VentureBeat
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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, FierceCIO News, PE Hub Blog, Wall Street Journal, FinSMEs and silicontap.com
| 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, ZDNet, SecurityWeek, The Register and Slashdot
| 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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