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Thoughts about Apple's event: iPad Pro should compare favorably to recent MacBooks, Apple TV might be the most disruptive Apple product since iPhone, more — Brief Thoughts and Observations Regarding Today's ‘Hey Siri’ Apple Event — All for One, One for All
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How Apple Built 3D Touch — Apple has made many things over the years, but its process has remained essentially the same: Find something ugly and complicated and make it prettier and easier. Prettiness, in brushed aluminum, is more or less a permanent state.| Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple promo video confirms iPhone 6s has a 1715mAh battery, smaller than 1810mAh battery in iPhone 6 — Apple's 3D Touch Video Confirms 1715 mAh iPhone 6s Battery — Last month, rumors and photos of a battery that looked very similar to an iPhone battery suggested that the iPhone 6s' battery capacity …
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Microsoft plans to update Office for iPad Pro with support for Apple Pencil, Slide Over and Split View multitasking, more — Office updates for the iPad Pro, iOS 9 and WatchOS 2 — Today Apple announced the iPad Pro, iOS 9 and WatchOS 2. We've developed a number of new features for Word …
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| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes / ZDNet: |
iPad Pro has 4GB of RAM, claims Adobe — While Apple was typically tight-lipped as to how much RAM was packed into the new iPad Pro, Adobe is far more loose-lipped. — While Apple was typically tight-lipped as to how much RAM was packed into the new iPad Pro, Adobe is far more loose-lipped.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Once seen as bulletproof, 11 million+ Ashley Madison passwords already cracked — Programming errors make 15.26 million accounts orders of magnitude faster to crack. — When the Ashley Madison hackers leaked close to 100 gigabytes worth of sensitive documents belonging to the online dating service …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft confirms Office 2016 is rolling out on September 22 — We knew it was coming, but Microsoft has now officially confirmed that Office 2016 for Windows will be “broadly available” from September 22. — The full public launch comes after many months of iteration …
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Secondhand Clothing Site ThredUp Raises $81 Million at Valuation Around $500 Million — The shakeout in the online used-clothing industry is here, and ThredUp is looking to separate from the pack. — The San Francisco-based shopping site, which sells secondhand clothing for women and children …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Why Apple TV is not a high-end game console killer and how it competes with rival set-top boxes Ouya and Steam Link — Why high-end game consoles have little to fear from the new Apple TV — New gaming functions are a nice added bonus, but unlikely to be a hardware mover.
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| Robin Wauters / Tech.eu: |
Spanish location data visualisation startup CartoDB scores $23m in growth funding from Accel, Salesforce and others — CartoDB, the Madrid/New York-based startup that specialises in location data analysis and visualisation software, has secured $23 million in Series B funding to support its international growth.
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Former Uber driver was an employee, rules California department — Uber has lost another legal round in the dispute over whether its drivers are independent contractors or employees, an issue that threatens the core of the ride-hailing company's business model.| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
Spotify's Found Them First lets you see which artists you listened to before they became popular, defined as having over 20M streams and 2,000% growth — Spotify's ‘Found Them First’ Puts a New Spin on Discovery Bragging Rights — Do you listen to bands before they're famous? Are you a tastemaker?| Steve Reilly / USA Today: |
Attackers compromised US Department of Energy computer systems 159 times between 2010 and 2014; no comment on whether sensitive data was accessed — Records: Energy Department struck by cyber attacks — Attackers successfully compromised U.S. Department of Energy computer systems …
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Help Net Security, Politico and Federal Computer Week
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Social Marketer Unified Raises $30M Round Led by iHeartMedia — Unified is announcing that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding, plus a $10 million credit facility from Silicon Valley Bank. — That sounds like a nice chunk of change, but equally noteworthy is the fact … | Slack: |
Slack diversity report finds 41% of employees have a woman as their manager — Inclusion and Diversity at Slack — Today we are reporting our diversity data. We are not the first technology company to report this and by now, you probably know what that blog post looks like.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter Is Experimenting With Putting Analytics Highlights In Your Notifications Tab — “Popular Tweet,” “Noteworthy Mention,” and “Top Follow” now appear in Twitter's “Notifications” tab for some verified users. — Twitter's “Notifications” tab now features analytics highlights, at least for some users, on the web.| David A. Grogan / CNBC: |
Dell says to invest $125 bln in China over five years — Computer maker Dell will invest $125 billion in China over the next five years, its chief executive said on Thursday, as the company continues to expand in the world's second-largest economy. — The world's third-largest maker …
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| Mark Walton / Ars Technica UK: |
Samsung begins mass production of 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM modules, opens possibility of 6GB RAM inside a mobile device — Samsung's new 12Gb DRAM modules allow for smartphones with 6GB of RAM — Samsung has begun mass production of the industry's first 12Gb LPDDR4 DRAM dies for mobile devices, fabricated on its 20nm manufacturing process.Sponsor Posts
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