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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Leaked Images Of The New Nexus Phone Retail Boxes Confirm ‘Nexus 5X’ And ‘Nexus 6P’ Model Names — It's a little less than a week until Google reveals its new Nexus devices in San Francisco, but as seems to happen every year, we know pretty much every detail beforehand.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
OPM now reports 5.6M federal employees' fingerprints stolen in breach, up from 1.1M — OPM Now Admits 5.6m Feds' Fingerprints Were Stolen By Hackers — When hackers steal your password, you change it. When hackers steal your fingerprints, they've got an unchangeable credential that lets them spoof your identity for life.| David Pierce / Wired: |
Keyboard apps are becoming more capable by adding new functionality, like search, emoji, and more — Super-Smart Apps Are Invading Our Keyboards — The origin story of the QWERTY keyboard layout is a very particular, very nerdy sort of mythology. There was a guy with a typewriter patent in the 1800s …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: Citrix looking to sell itself as a whole before embarking on asset sales, has reached out to Dell and others — Exclusive: Citrix in last-ditch attempt to sell itself - sources — Citrix Systems Inc (CTXS.O), the U.S. cloud computing company targeted by activist hedge fund Elliott Management …
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Pebble debuts Pebble Time Round, its first round smartwatch, with slim 7.5mm design, arriving in November for $249, available to preorder today — Pebble introduces its first round smartwatch — Take a look around at the watches on people's wrists. It doesn't take long to notice a trend: the vast majority of them are round.
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| Cory Weinberg / bizjournals: |
Source: Uber leasing space in former Sears building in Oakland, likely all 330K square feet, for an office that will open in two years — Exclusive: Uber shakes up real estate market with massive lease in Oakland's former Sears building — Uber Technologies Inc. will open a large office in Oakland …
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International Business Times and VatorNews. Tweets: @anm, @startupljackson, @kevinroose and @mat
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
On iPhone 6s and the importance of Apple's tick-tock release cycle: new-number phones demonstrate design focus, and S models are for perfecting engineering — The iPhones 6S — The pattern is pretty clear. In even-numbered years (2008, 2010, 2012, 2014) Apple releases all-new iPhone form factors: 3G, 4, 5, 6/6 Plus.
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Launches Cloud Dataproc, A Managed Spark And Hadoop Big Data Service — Google is adding another product in its range of big data services on the Google Cloud Platform today. The new Google Cloud Dataproc service sits between managing the Spark data processing engine …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook works with Oculus to roll out 360-degree videos in News Feed, launching today with six partners including Star Wars, Vice, and SNL — Facebook collaborates with Oculus to bring 360-degree video to the News Feed — For the first time, Facebook has collaborated with its Oculus division …
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| Zoltan Szabadka / Google Open Source Blog: |
Google develops and open sources Brotli compression tool, claims it offers 20-26% higher compression ratios than predecessor Zopfli — Introducing Brotli: a new compression algorithm for the internet — At Google, we think that internet users' time is valuable, and that they shouldn't have to wait long for a web page to load.
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bit-tech.net, Wired, The Register, Ubergizmo, BetaNews, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| Alexandra Alter / New York Times: |
E-book sales fell 10% in first five months of 2015, while print books and bookstores are showing resilience — The Plot Twist: E-Book Sales Slip, and Print Is Far From Dead — Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print.
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Nieman Lab, Poynter, BOOK RIOT and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
Tweets: @mathewi, @amandaemcgowan and @dangillmor
See also Mediagazer| Glyn Moody / Ars Technica UK: |
EU-US data flows using “Safe Harbour” may be illegal because of NSA spying — Just how safe is Safe Harbour? (credit: Elizabeth du Toit) — The “Safe Harbour” framework—which is supposed to ensure data transfers from the EU to the US are legal under European data privacy laws … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Socialtext founders launch Pingpad, a Slack-like messaging and collaboration tool for web, iOS, and Android — Socialtext founders launch Pingpad, a single app for chatting and collaborating — Collaboration tools are abundant these days, but each one seems to be taking a unique approach to the mobile space.
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Laughing Squid, iMore, Forbes, TechCrunch and Business Insider
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Smule sues two former employees, claims their new startup Shred Video used Smule IP — Startup sues former employees who launched similar company; CEO warns, 'If we're wrong, we'll win' — Smule, a maker of popular apps like Sing! Karaoke, AutoRap, and I am T-Pain … Sponsor Posts
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