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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 …
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PC Magazine, SiliconBeat, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Verge, Reuters, The Register, TechEye, TIME, Android Authority, InfoWorld, USA Today, KitGuru, Patently Apple, Beyond Search, Gizmodo, Inc.com, Inquirer, BGR, VentureBeat, International Business Times, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, Android Central and ITProPortal. Tweets: @scottthurm
| iFixit: |
iPhone 6s teardown reveals smaller 1715 mAh battery, 3D Touch display, x-ray view of Taptic Engine — 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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iFixit, MacRumors, Inquirer, CNNMoney, Macworld, BGR, Ars Technica, Engadget, 9to5Mac, CNET, AppleInsider, iLounge, TechnoBuffalo, Geeky Gadgets, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice, Pocket-lint, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com, ZDNet, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, MacNN, TechSpot, Pocketnow, The Mac Observer, Fone Arena, Computerworld, Mashable, iMore, MacRumors and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Ryan Gallagher / The Intercept: |
GCHQ debuted a program called Karma Police seven years ago to track the browsing habits and communications of “every visible user on the Internet” — From Radio to Porn, British Spies Track Web Users' Online Identities — THERE WAS A SIMPLE AIM at the heart of the top-secret program …
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Business Insider, PCWorld, Engadget, Ars Technica, The Next Web, The Verge, Boing Boing, The Register, Hit & Run and Consequence of Sound
Tweets: @dhh, @ggreenwald, @matthew_d_green and @ioerror
| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Forcing suspects to reveal phone passwords is unconstitutional, court says — Demanding “personal thought processes” amounts to compelled self incrimination. — The Fifth Amendment right against compelled self-incrimination would be breached if two insider trading suspects were forced …
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Slashdot, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, ZDNet, Pocketnow, Inverse, ExtremeTech and Wall Street Journal
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
BlackBerry confirms “Priv” Android phone will launch at the end of 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 …
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Marketwire, CNBC, New York Times, The Verge, PCWorld, InfoWorld, Android Authority, CNET, The Register, Business Insider, ZDNet, Bloomberg Business, The Next Web, MacRumors, Android and Me, Tech Gadget Central, MobileSyrup.com, Reuters, Engadget, Pocketnow, PhoneDog.com, Fone Arena, VentureBeat, Phandroid, Globe and Mail, TmoNews and Tech Trader Daily
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Netflix announces in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad, offers same monthly rate as on the web — Netflix adds in-app subscriptions for iPhone and iPad — Now you won't even need to get off the sofa to find your laptop before you start binge-watching Netflix.
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Variety, Engadget, iMore, CNET, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, The Mac Observer, MacRumors and 9to5Mac. See also Mediagazer
| Iljitsch van Beijnum / Ars Technica: |
The American Registry for Internet Numbers reports it has run out of IPv4 address blocks to allocate to organizations in North America — North America is out of IPv4 addresses—for really real this time — ARIN's pool is finally empty, so if you have IPv6 plans, maybe now is the time.| Steven Musil / CNET: |
Verizon begins offering annual iPhone upgrade plan — Under the new arrangement, customers who buy one of Apple's newest smartphones on the monthly payment plan can get a newer iPhone model in a year.| 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 … | 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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Detroit Free Press, eWeek, The Register and Data Center Knowledge
| 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.| Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
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BetaKit, The Verge, Gamasutra, The Verge, Engadget, TechEye, SiliconANGLE, GameSpot, VentureBeat, IGN, Polygon, Digital Trends, SlashGear, CNET and Ars Technica
Tweets: @oculus, @notch, @id_aa_carmack and @notch
| Ben Gilbert / Tech Insider: |
| 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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US-CERT, PCWorld, Threatpost, The Hacker News, iTnews and The Register
| 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, SiliconANGLE, NASDAQ.com, RTTNews, 24/7 Wall St., Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, SiliconBeat and Reuters. Tweets: @danprimack
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