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Marco Arment pulls ad-blocking app Peace, the top paid app for 36 hours, citing the unfairness of indiscriminate ad blocking — Just doesn't feel good — I've pulled Peace from the App Store. I'm sorry to all of my fans and customers who bought this on my name, expecting it to be supported for longer than two days.
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Leaked documents show second-gen Chromecast has new backdrop feeds, improved Wi-Fi, “Fast Play”, to be announced September 29 — Exclusive: This is the 2nd gen. Chromecast w/ backdrop feeds, better WiFi, ‘Fast Play,’ more — According to internal documents that 9to5Google has obtained …
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| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
Google set to announce this month that Spotify will gain Chromecast support alongside new device — Exclusive: Google and Spotify launching Chromecast support later this month — While Chromecast has long supported Google Play Music, Netflix, Pandora, and other subscription services … | Mark Harris / Guardian: |
Documents show Apple held discussions with California DMV for self-driving car; Project Titan gets an Engineering Program Manager — Apple meets California officials to discuss self-driving car — The meeting in California, which is developing regulations for driverless vehicles …
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iPad Mini 4 teardown: 2048x1536 LED-backlit display, smaller single-cell 19.1 Wh battery, 2GB RAM; smaller form factor with the power of an iPad Air 2 — iPad Mini 4 Teardown — Everyone knows that Fall is the season for Apples, and they're finally starting to drop.
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| Jacob Demmitt / GeekWire: |
AT&T sues former workers and California-based Swift Unlocks, alleging scheme to download malware to AT&T computers to unlock hundreds of thousands of phones — AT&T sues former workers, alleging secret scheme to unlock hundreds of thousands of phones| Harish Jonnalagadda / Android Central: |
Samsung's feature-laden S Health app is now available for all Android smartphones running Android 4.4 or above — Samsung's S Health is now available for all Android smartphones — Samsung's feature-laden fitness tracking app, S Health, is now available for all Android smartphones, regardless of the manufacturer.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry Venice hands-on video: Android slider has touch keyboard, universal search, and Google services — BlackBerry's Android phone, codenamed Venice, continues to see leak after leak. Following the slew of images we've already seen, we now have a hands-on video.
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| Pavithra Mohan / Fast Company: |
Facebook offers new option to pay only for fully visible ads, partners with Moat for video ad analytics — Facebook Now Lets Advertisers Pay Only For Fully Visible Ads — Facebook has slowly but surely tried to endear itself to advertisers, most recently with an option that only charged … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Insurance startup Clover Health raises $100M equity and debt funding, with $4M equity from First Round Capital — How this startup is trying to upend health insurance — As the health insurance industry consolidates, Silicon Valley is starting to focus on making it more efficient to better serve patients and hospitals.
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| Jessica Guynn / USA Today: |
Microsoft to spend $70 mln to boost computer science in schools — SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft will invest $75 million over the next three years in initiatives to increase access to computer science education for youth. — Microsoft's Satya Nadella made the announcement during his keynote speech …
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| Yashaswini Swamynathan / Reuters: |
Comcast settles with California for $33M after posting personal details of 75K customers online — Comcast reaches $33 million settlement with California over privacy violations — Comcast Corp has reached a $33 million settlement with California over allegations that the cable company … Sponsor Posts
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