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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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| 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.
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
T-Mobile offers iPhone 6s for $5, $10, or $15/month via its JUMP upgrade program, price depends on trade-in model — T-Mobile Offering iPhone 6s Starting at $5/Month With iPhone 6 Trade In — T-Mobile CEO John Legere has announced on Twitter that it will offer the iPhone 6s for as low as $5 per month through JUMP!
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| Instagram Blog: |
Instagram announces it has reached 400M monthly active users, doubling in size since March 2014, with more than 75 percent of users outside US — Celebrating a Community of 400 Million — We are thrilled to announce that the Instagram community has grown to more than 400 million strong.
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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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| 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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| 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 … | TechCrunch: |
Kleiner Perkins brings on new partners in effort to increase diversity and hires Mark Zuckerberg's youngest sister, Arielle, as an associate partner — Arielle Zuckerberg, Zuck's Youngest Sister, Is Joining Kleiner Perkins — Arielle Zuckerberg, the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg … | Mark Walton / Ars Technica: |
Samsung unveils 950 Pro SSD with V-NAND and NVMe, coming October and priced at $200 for 256GB, $350 for 512GB — Samsung's 950 Pro M.2 SSD pairs NVMe with V-NAND for eye-popping performance — Consumer-ready drive hits sequential reads of 2500MB/s and writes of 1500MB/s.
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| Mike Allen / Medium: |
Shred denies it repurposed Smule's IP, details how its technology works — When your Former Boss Sues you for Starting a Startup — At Y Combinator, the partners often say, “Startups die of suicide, not homicide.” It's a startling statement, but it's true.| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Uber Is Testing UberCommute, A New Carpooling Service, In China — Uber is testing a new kind of carpooling service after it announced UberCommute, a service that will be piloted first in China. The news comes weeks after UberChina closed a $1.2 billion funding round.
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| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Facebook ramps up its Instant Articles as Washington Post says it will publish all of its articles on Facebook and over a dozen new publishers join — Facebook Ramps Up Its Instant Articles, and the Washington Post Is All In — Last spring Facebook started hosting stories from the New York Times …
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Waze considers reducing suggestions for dangerous left-hand turns that save time — The “Waze left” may be coming to an end — The navigation app Waze is beloved for exploiting shortcuts, avoiding traffic, and proving that the shortest distance between two points is not always a straight line.| Gordon Mah Ung / PCWorld: |
Nvidia's desktop GTV 980 graphics cards coming to six gaming laptops, includes overclocking headroom and support for VR — Nvidia hits gaming milestone: True desktop performance in a laptop with GeForce GTX 980 — Nvidia somehow managed to cram a desktop GPU into a laptop. Read on to find out how.
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Sources: Cisco to announce partnership with Chinese server maker Inspur in deal that may involve resale of Cisco networking gear and joint hardware development — Struggles in China Push Cisco to Strike Deal — U.S. technology giant to unveil partnership with Chinese server maker
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