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Samsung and Oculus announce new, consumer Gear VR with support for Samsung's 2015 flagship phones and a redesigned trackpad, shipping in November for $99 — Samsung's new Gear VR virtual reality headset only costs $99 — And even better, the new Gear VR works with all of Samsung's flagship Galaxy phones released in 2015.
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TechCrunch, Samsung Tomorrow, The Verge, eWeek, Engadget, PCWorld, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, Android Police, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, Associated Press, BuzzFeed, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, Android Authority, PCWorld and SamMobile. Tweets: @iansherr
| Jessica Conditt / Engadget: |
Oculus partners with Alienware, Dell, and Asus to offer “Oculus Ready” PCs for less than $1K at launch — ‘Oculus Ready’ PC program offers VR-ready rigs for less than $1,000 — Oculus Ready is a new program that offers officially licensed, Oculus-branded PCs from Alienware, Dell and Asus.
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Oculus, PC Gamer, TrustedReviews, The Tech Report and KitGuru
| Ben Gilbert / Tech Insider: |
Oculus partners with Netflix, Hulu, Twitch, Vimeo, Lionsgate, and 20th Century Fox to provide content for Gear VR and Oculus Rift — You can watch Netflix in virtual reality starting today — Netflix is heading into virtual reality. — The streaming giant is partnering … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Minecraft Windows 10 edition will launch on Oculus Rift in 2016 — VR Minecraft announced for 2016 at Oculus Connect conference — More Oculus Touch details confirmed; “200,000” developers have registered. … The second day of this year's Oculus Connect conference …
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| Jack Marshall / Wall Street Journal: |
iOS ad blocker Crystal will get a flat monthly fee to let through ads that are on Adblock Plus owner Eyeo's paid whitelist — Propelled By Apple, Ad Blocking Cottage Industry Emerges — Software promises to block ads, and in some cases allow “acceptable” ones
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| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Crystal ad-blocking iPhone app leaves Safari unable to fully render e-commerce sites of major retailers like Walmart and Sears — Apple's ad-blocking move causes big problems for retailers like Walmart — When Apple AAPL last week released a new operating system that permits ad-blocking extensions …
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Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, MacDailyNews, Lifehacker, 9to5Mac and Cult of Mac
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Behind the fake traffic schemes using bots for fraudulent ad clicks that will cost advertisers $6.3B this year — The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet — Ron Amram has been in the brand marketing business for about 20 years. In the 2000s he was media director …
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Microsoft launches Invite for iPhone, an app for scheduling meetings, in the US and Canada; coming soon to Android and Windows Phone — Invite—the easiest way to organize meetings on the go — We all know that organizing group meetings can be tricky—especially when you're on the move.
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Ubergizmo, iMore, WinBeta, Macworld, The Next Web, Patently Apple, Neowin, VentureBeat, Microsoft News, Business Insider and 9to5Mac
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iOS 9's space-saving “app slicing” disabled for now, will return in future update — iCloud bug affects users who are restoring backups to new devices. — Back in June, we wrote a bit about App Thinning, a collection of iOS 9 features that are supposed to make iOS 9 apps take up less space on iDevices.
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Apple Developer, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, BetaNews, SlashGear, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, Pocketnow and Six Colors
| Alex Barinka / Bloomberg Business: |
Pure Storage seeks to raise $450M in IPO at $16-18/share, for a valuation of up to $3.33B — Pure Storage Seeks to Raise as Much as $450 Million in IPO — Flash-storage maker would be valued at up to $3.33 billion — Company to offer 25 million shares at $16 to $18 apiece
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Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, RTTNews, 24/7 Wall St., NASDAQ.com and SiliconBeat. Tweets: @danprimack
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
FanDuel acquires eSports fantasy platform AlphaDraft, which will continue operating — FanDuel Acquires eSports Company AlphaDraft, Also Jumps Into Competitive Video Gaming — Aren't business rivalries fun? — Just one day after fantasy sports site DraftKings announced … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Note taking app Google Keep comes to iPhone and iPad, 2.5 years after debuting on Android — Google launches its Keep note-taking app for iOS — Google today launched Google Keep for iOS. You can download the new app now directly from Apple's App Store.
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The Next Web, GeekWire, 9to5Mac, ZDNet, Macworld, Ubergizmo, Lifehacker, 9to5Google, iLounge, WebProNews, Pocketnow, Official Google for Work Blog, The Verge, Engadget and iMore. Tweets: @caseynewton
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