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| Clive Thompson / New York Times: |
Inside Uber's talent raid on Carnegie Mellon's robotics center, and Silicon Valley's sudden interest in the field — Uber Would Like to Buy Your Robotics Department … In the center of the lab, CHIMP stretched out one huge arm, then gracefully unfurled its three metal fingers, as if about to beckon someone.
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| Max Chafkin / Fast Company: |
An in-depth look at Travis Kalanick, his prior startups and how his changing philosophies are influencing Uber — What Makes Uber Run — Jordan Kretchmer remembers what Travis Kalanick was like before Uber was Uber. — Kretchmer was a 25-year-old college dropout with a lot of ideas, and Kalanick had even more.| Andrew Nusca / Fortune: |
HopStop, acquired by Apple in 2013, to shut down next month — “HopStop will no longer be available starting October 2015,” screams the website of the well-known transit navigation app this week in bold red type. If you've ever lived in a city, you know how useful HopStop can be. So does Apple.
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| Daniel Pasco / Medium: |
Lack of WebKit webview support in Apple's tvOS poses problems for porting many apps that use webviews to display web widgets and pages — Apple TV—A World Without Webviews — The new Apple TV's operating system—tvOS—has some differences from iOS 9, but one of the most startling ones is the removal of support for webviews.
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White House announces updated College Scorecard website with 18 years of data from 7K+ colleges, open APIs, new comparison tools, and more — Fact Sheet: Empowering Students to Choose the College that is Right for Them — Increasing the number of Americans with college degrees is a key part …
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| Gabe Rivera / LinkedIn Pulse: |
10 shocking (or at least interesting) facts about Techmeme on its 10th birthday — Ten Years Later, This Is How Techmeme Has Avoided Click-Bait, Auto-Play Ads And More — Techmeme launched on September 12, 2005 amid a flurry of blog posts from Robert Scoble, Richard MacManus, and several others.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Xcode confirms 2 GB RAM for iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, 4 GB RAM for iPad Pro — Hamza Sood has cleverly used asset catalogs with the Xcode 7 GM to confirm the rumors around the iPhone 6s and iPad Pro RAM specifications. It confirms that the iPhone 6s has 2 GB of RAM, up from 1 GB in the iPhone 6 …
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AppleInsider, Ars Technica, ZDNet, PhoneDog.com, BetaNews, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie and MacRumors
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Baidu is using CloudFlare technology to make foreign sites more accessible in China, shares revenue with CloudFlare as part of virtual joint venture structure — Partnership Boosts Users Over China's Great Firewall — HONG KONG — It is one of the best-guarded borders in the world, and one of the most time-consuming to cross.
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| Margaret Rhodes / Wired: |
Estimote's Location Intelligence Platform now allows users to track and search for indoor items that have company's Bluetooth beacon-enabled stickers on them — You Can Use These Tiny Stickers to Map All of Your Stuff — From the beginning, Estimote has wanted to create an operating system for the physical world.| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Mozilla quietly rolled out Suggested Tiles, its built-in ad product for Firefox, in early August; currently not getting paid for them — Mozilla quietly deploys built-in Firefox advertising — Firefox fans didn't want Mozilla to add ads to their favorite web browser … | Mary-Ann Russon / International Business Times: |
Companion: Tens of thousands using safety app that lets friends digitally walk you home at night — Tens of thousands of people around the world are now using a free personal-safety mobile app that allows friends to virtually walk you home at night. The Companion app, created by five students … | Nick Summers / Engadget: |
OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei apologizes for month-long shipping delay for OnePlus 2 — OnePlus: ‘We messed up the launch of the OnePlus 2’ — Once again, OnePlus has built a “flagship killer” that millions of people want, and once again, it's struggling to get the device in customers' hands.Sponsor Posts
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