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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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| 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
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| 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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| 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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