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| David McLaughlin / Bloomberg Business: |
Google Said to Be Under U.S. Antitrust Scrutiny Over Android — New FTC inquiry comes years after it closed search-engine case — Lingering skepticism meets probe over access to phone platform — Google Inc. is back under U.S. antitrust scrutiny as officials ask whether … | iFixit: |
iPhone 6s teardown reveals smaller 1715 mAh battery, 3D Touch display, Taptic Engine shown in x-ray — iPhone 6s Teardown — Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — In Progress — This guide is a work in progress.
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| Hayden Dingman / PCWorld: |
Samsung and Oculus announce $99 consumer Gear VR with support for Samsung's 2015 flagship phones and a redesigned trackpad, shipping in November — 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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Samsung Mobile Press, Android Authority, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, GamesIndustry.biz, PCWorld, VentureBeat, Silicon Republic, eWeek, Engadget, Android Police, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, SiliconANGLE, BuzzFeed, The Verge, VentureBeat, SamMobile, PCWorld, Re/code and Gizmodo. Tweets: @iansherr
| 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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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
BlackBerry confirms “Priv” Android phone will launch end-2015, posts weak Q2 earnings with loss of 13 cents per share — BlackBerry Confirms Android Plans, Posts Weaker-Than-Expected Earnings — BlackBerry on Friday confirmed its plans to launch an Android-based handset … | 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.| Martin Anderson / The Stack: |
Researchers: cookies can be used to bypass HTTPS, reveal private session information in all modern browsers — Cookies can render secure websites vulnerable in all modern browsers — Share1 — Pin1 — TOTAL SHARES 3 — CERT have issued a new directive notifying that cookies …
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| Jackie Dove / The Next Web: |
Adobe announces Photoshop and Premiere Elements 14 with 4K video editing, motion titles, tools to remove camera shake and haze, and more — Adobe updates Elements hobbyist photo and video apps with more pro-level features — As a consumer photo/video editing package … | Office Blogs: |
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.| 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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SiliconANGLE, NASDAQ.com, RTTNews, 24/7 Wall St., Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, SiliconBeat and Reuters. Tweets: @danprimack
| Katherine Noyes / Computerworld: |
Michigan sues HP over $49M project that's 5 years late — Hewlett-Packard has faced no end of financial and legal woes in recent months, and on Friday it was hit with one more: A new lawsuit filed by the state of Michigan over a $49 million project the state says is still not completed after 10 years.
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