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HTC's One A9 has a high-quality look and feel, similar to an iPhone, available this November for $399 with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage — HTC's One A9 is a $399 iPhone running Android 6.0 — The HTC One M9 introduced earlier this year was a disappointment, both to fans of high-end smartphones and, consequently, to HTC itself.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
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Sky-high valuations begin to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies trying to raise more money or go public — Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill — Sky-high valuations are starting to backfire on some Silicon Valley companies that are trying to raise more money or go public; Dropbox stalls| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook rolls out instant articles to all iOS users and announces an Android beta — Five months after introducing its fast-loading instant articles into the News Feed, Facebook is now rolling out the format to all iPhone users, the company said today. Speaking at The Wall Street Journal's … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Cook says new Apple TV coming next week, reveals 6.5m paying Apple Music subscribers — As expected, Tim Cook today took the stage at the Wall Street Journal Digital Live conference for an interview. During his time on stage, Cook discussed a variety of topics, ranging from iPhone to Apple Watch and to Apple Music.| Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: |
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Mozilla-backed Let's Encrypt says its free HTTPS certificates are now trusted by all major browsers — Let's Encrypt is one step closer to offering free HTTPS certificates to everyone — Let's Encrypt has announced that its free security certificates are now trusted by all major browsers … | Andy / TorrentFreak: |
BrowserPopcorn Shut Down By the MPAA, Dev Says — Last Friday, TorrentFreak was contacted by Milan Kragujevi, a web developer with a brand new service up his sleeve. As the name implies, BrowserPopcorn.xyz looked very similar to the Popcorn Time application that has gained so much publicity in recent times.| Ruth Reader / VentureBeat: |
Twitter hires Marcus Mabry, New York Times editor at large, to oversee Moments' editorial direction — Twitter hires New York Times editor at large for its Moments channel — One week after announcing major layoffs, Twitter is hiring New York Times editor at large Marcus Mabry … | Charles Arthur / The Overspill: |
Google's growing problem: 50% of people do zero searches per day on mobile — Amit Singhal in 2011 showing a comparison of search volumes from mobile and “early desktop years”. Photo by Niall Kennedy on Flickr. — Amit Singhal, Google's head of search, let slip a couple of interesting statistics … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
New Android phones and tablets that ship with Marshmallow should enable full-disk encryption by default if their AES crypto perfomance exceeds 50 MiB/s — Android 6.0 re-implements mandatory storage encryption for new devices — As long as you meet the minimum speed requirements, that is.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Invests In Mobvoi, Its Android Wear Partner In China — Google's services are not available in China, but that isn't stopping it from making a significant investment in a company based on Chinese soil. The U.S. search giant is backing Mobvoi, a three-year-old company specializing … | Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland following collapse of Safe Harbor — Max Schrems Facebook privacy complaint to be investigated in Ireland — Irish internet watchdog audit over alleged gathering of data by Facebook follows three-year campaign and ECJ ruling
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.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Run payroll in batches using Pay Groups, now with Zoho Payroll — Learn how Pay Groups in Zoho Payroll lets you process, approve, and run multiple pay runs independently for different employee groups within the same pay period.
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.
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