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The Inside Story of Apple's New iMacs — Retina displays, rechargeable input devices, a force touch trackpad, and more power. Not bad for a truck. — Early this year, the top-secret laboratory where Apple designs its Macintosh accessories was bedeviled by a crisis on tiny feet.
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Apple launches larger Magic Trackpad 2 with Force Touch for $129, Magic Mouse 2 for $79, and Magic Keyboard for $99 — Apple's standalone keyboard, trackpad, and mouse just got a lot better — Apple is updating its standalone keyboard, trackpad, and mouse today in ways that make them much better than they used to be.
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Twitter is laying off 336 employees, or about 8% of its global workforce — Twitter Will Cut More Than 300 Employees, 8 Percent of Staff — Twitter plans to lay off as much as 336 people, or 8 percent of its staff, as part of an internal restructuring plan, according to a filing submitted …
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Jury finds Apple infringes University of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation patents on chip technology, faces $862M in damages — Apple loses patent lawsuit to University of Wisconsin, faces hefty damages — Apple Inc could be facing up to $862 million in damages after a U.S. jury …
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| David Rowan / Wired.co.uk: |
Interview with Facebook's David Marcus on the future of Messenger, and why the company considers it the app for everything — Facebook Messenger: inside Zuckerberg's app for everything — , and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Fixed, The App That Fixes Your Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked In San Francisco, Oakland & L.A. — Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users' behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its top cities, San Francisco …
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| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Study of 20K Android devices finds 87% vulnerable to security bugs due to manufacturers' failure to deliver patches — Android security a ‘market for lemons’ that leaves 87 percent vulnerable — New research finds that some Android device makers need to do a lot more to protect smartphone owners from old security bugs.
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Facebook tests dedicated feed for watching videos, video bookmarking, floating videos for in-app multitasking — Facebook Tests Video Feed To Sidestep YouTube With Friendly Discovery — Facebook is where you watch videos you weren't looking for. And now it's looking …
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| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
Google registered two drones with the FAA for US testing earlier this month — Google registers two delivery drones for US testing (update) — Google X's Project Wing concept was a unique take on the delivery drone: a single-winged UAV that took off and landed vertically.
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In-house chip design and integration are Apple's key platform advantages that automakers won't be able to match, just as iPhone's competitors couldn't — On Apple's Insurmountable Platform Advantage — Since the iPhone 6s was released last month anyone who has used the device says it feels like magic.
| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Google acquires web-hosting company Divshot, which will join the Firebase team and shut down in December — Google Acquires Divshot To Join Its Firebase Team, Will Shut Down In December — Google has acquired Divshot, an HTML5 web-hosting platform that it says is “tailored for performance and developer productivity.”
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US Justice Department says monitoring no longer needed in ebooks antitrust case — Apple E-Book Antitrust Monitoring May End After Rocky Course — Government says company has put meaningful reforms in place — Apple says relations with monitor were ‘rocky at times’
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Facebook now lets you filter out bad memories by date and people's names to better control what is surfaced in On This Day, Year in Review nostalgia posts — Facebook lets you filter bad memories out of your nostalgia — Facebook is a nostalgia machine, with features like “Year in Review” …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Blocks modular smartwatch quickly exceeds Kickstarter goal of $250K, plans to ship May 2016, core module is $195, core plus four modules $250 and up — Blocks Modular Smartwatch Now On Kickstarter — Blocks has been a very long time in getting off the drawing board …
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Personalized notification platform Boomtrain gets $12M Series A, partners with CBS Interactive — Personalization Platform Boomtrain Snags $12M In Series A, Gets Personal WIth CBS Interactive — GameSpot readers know what they like - and they know what they don't like.
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
SteelBrick, known for its quote-to-cash Salesforce tools, raises $48M Series C, led by Institutional Venture Partners — SteelBrick Snags $48 Million As Quote-To-Cash Stays Hot — SteelBrick, the quote-to-cash cloud service aimed primarily at small- and mid-market companies, announced a $48 million Series C round today.Sponsor Posts
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