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Apple sold a record 13M iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus in opening weekend — Apple Announces Record iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus Sales — iPhone Available in 40 Additional Countries Beginning Friday, October 9 — Apple® today announced it has sold more than 13 million new iPhone® 6s … | Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
India Replaces China as Next Big Frontier for U.S. Tech Companies — BANGALORE, India — American technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family. — Mr. Padachuri, who runs a construction business in this city, the center of India's technology industry …
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Indian PM Narendra Modi, meeting with top Silicon Valley execs this weekend, inks deals with Google and Microsoft to expand Internet access in India — Narendra Modi inks series of US tech deals — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inked a series of tech deals during a two-day tour … | Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Dropbox's main business of consumer file storage and sync doesn't justify $10B valuation, as efforts to expand beyond company's core competence are not working — The case against Dropbox looks stronger with each passing day — I first met Drew Houston four years ago, when Dropbox … | John Markoff / New York Times: |
As Moore's Law slows, engineers look to new approaches and opportunities in chip innovation — Smaller, Faster, Cheaper, Over: The Future of Computer Chips — At the inaugural International Solid-State Circuits Conference held on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1960 …
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| Michael Crider / Android Police: |
Nexus 6P training deck for retail employees leaks, reveals AMOLED display, 3450mAh battery, Gorilla Glass 4, 12.3MP camera with 2.0 F-stop, 1.55 μM pixels — [Update: More Specs] Nexus 6P Presentation Leak Includes More Images, Confirms Metal Body, Gorilla Glass 4, And 3450mAh Battery| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
GoPro's new budget Hero+ Wi-Fi action cam offers wireless connectivity for $199.99 — GoPro wants to make sure it has the action camera for you no matter how much you're looking to spend. The company's announcing a new entry-level action camera today, the GoPro Hero+ Wi-Fi.
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Volkswagen scandal shows why tinkering with vehicle software should be exempted from DMCA restrictions, despite objections from automakers and the EPA — VW scandal highlights irony of EPA opposition to vehicle software tinkering — EPA says public can't be trusted to tinker with vehicle software.| Ashlee Vance / Bloomberg Business: |
A look at coding competitions, increasingly common recruiting venues for top tech companies — The Jocks of Computer Code Do It for the Job Offers — At 21, Gennady Vladimirovich Korotkevich is already a legend. Tourist, as he's known online, is now the world's top sport programmer.| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Google voice search now faster and works in noisy places — If you've recently noticed that Google's voice search is faster and more accurate, it's thanks to the search-to-advertising giant's work on recurrent neural networks. — Google says improvements to its voice search make it more accurate, even in noisy environments.
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| Ben Einstein / Medium: |
Quirky failed because it built too many products instead of just making a few great items — The Real Reason Quirky Failed — There's been a lot of buzz covering the story of Quirky failing this summer (and filing for bankruptcy this week). It usually reads something like … | Luke O'Brien / Fortune: |
Profile of Will Ackerly, ex-NSA security architect and founder of email encryption firm Virtru — Could this ex-NSA hotshot protect your email from hacking? — One morning in June 2013, Will Ackerly opened his laptop in his Washington, D.C., apartment and began to worry.Sponsor Posts
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Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
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Equals:
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Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
Pro tips: 5 ways to close WhatsApp leads in Zoho CRM — This is a guest post by Orkhan Jafarli, Growth PM at TimelinesAI.More buyers now reach out on WhatsApp before they ever fill out a form.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Hard Fork:
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
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The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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The Upstarts Podcast:
Abridge's Shiv Rao: The Doctor Founder Taking On Microsoft In Healthcare AI
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
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Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
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Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
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Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
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