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With Reactions, Facebook Supercharges The Like Button With 6 Empathetic Emoji — In September, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made some waves when he hinted Facebook was working on a way to expand its famous Like button — not by adding the much-fabled “dislike” option, but by making it way more empathetic …
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Amazon launches Handmade, an Etsy rival for handcrafted goods with over 80K items from 60 countries — Amazon Challenges Etsy With Strictly Handmade Marketplace — Amazon stepped into the handcrafted-goods ring on Thursday, opening an arts-and-crafts bazaar online that squarely takes aim … | Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
AWS's new services and features go after legacy customers of tech giants like IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft — Amazon Messes With Billions in Corporate Computing Dollars — LAS VEGAS — There is a famous story from the early days of Google that goes something like this …
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Sources: Dell in talks for full or partial takeover of EMC — Dell Is in Talks to Strike Merger Deal With EMC, Sources Say — Unclear whether deal would be for part or all of EMC — Dell Inc. is in talks to strike a combination with EMC Corp., according to people familiar with the matter … | Reuters: |
Sources claim IP address belonging to Lyft CTO Chris Lambert was used to access a security key later used in 2014 breach of Uber driver data — Exclusive: In lawsuit over hacking, Uber probes IP address assigned to Lyft exec - sources — Eight months after disclosing a major data breach … | Valentina Palladino / Ars Technica: |
Dell refreshes XPS 13 and XPS 15, and debuts XPS 12 tablet hybrid — A sleek, premium line of PCs gets another member that's more laptop than tablet. — Dell launched some serious notebooks when it came out with the XPS line, and now the company continues to improve on already solid products.| Ev Williams / Medium: |
Medium adds publishing API, @mentions, updated apps, improved editing options, custom domains for all, and a new logo — Taking Medium to the Next Level — Two years ago, we opened up Medium for anyone to write. It was a new, well-lit place for an old idea: letting people share their stories …
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Light debuts L16 camera, with 16 separate lens modules that can create a single 52 megapixel picture, preorder now for $1299, will ship summer 2016 — This camera is actually 16 cameras in one — It's not often that you see something truly different when it comes to camera design these days.| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Amazon weighs creating a live online TV service, holds preliminary talks with CBS, NBCUniversal — Amazon Said to Weigh Creating a Live Online Television Service — Amazon.com Inc. is exploring the creation of a live online TV service and has reached out to major media companies …
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Matthew Keys found guilty of hacking under Computer Fraud and Abuse Act; US attorney's office may seek less than five year prison sentence in January — Former Reuters Journalist Matthew Keys Found Guilty of Three Counts of Hacking — On Wednesday, a jury in Sacramento, California … | Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
HP introduces Envy all-in-one PC with a 34-inch curved display running Windows 10, available November 22 from $1,799.99 — HP's new all-in-one PC is curved and ultra wide — HP is introducing a number of new PCs today, but easily the most impressive — on a physical level, at least …
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Andy Rubin's Playground Global incubator closes $300M funding round, will invest in hardware startups — Andy Rubin's Playground incubator has closed a $300 million funding round — Former Android chief Andy Rubin has a new incubator called Playground Global, and says the firm has now closed … | Elliot Silver / Domain Investing: |
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com Now Owned by Google — Shortly after it was announced that Google would launch its new brand Alphabet on ABC.xyz, there was a run on alphabet related and .xyz domain names. Judging by a recent Whois change, it looks like Google recently acquired abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com (the full alphabet).| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Sony Acquires SoftKinetic, Which Can Track Hands for Virtual Reality — Sony has acquired SoftKinetic, a computer vision startup specializing in depth-sensing cameras that can track things like what gestures your hands are making, for an undisclosed amount.
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