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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 … | Wall Street Journal: |
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
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| 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.
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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 …
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| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
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 …
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FBI and other federal agencies are investigating a teen who claims to have hacked CIA director's AOL account, which contained work-related documents — Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account — Hillary Rodham Clinton's email scandal didn't stop the head of the CIA from using …
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| Ravi Somaiya / New York Times: |
New York Times partners with Google on virtual reality project, will distribute over 1M cardboard VR viewers to subscribers, and will release new VR film — The Times Partners With Google on Virtual Reality Project — The New York Times announced on Tuesday a virtual reality project …
| 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.| 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.
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| 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 …
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Ex-DEA agent Carl Force sentenced to 78 months for Bitcoin theft during Silk Road investigation — Ex-U.S. agent gets over six years for bitcoin theft in Silk Road probe — A former U.S. federal agent was sentenced to 78 months in prison on Monday for stealing bitcoins during … | Johana Bhuiyan / BuzzFeed: |
Uber-branded cars collecting 3D images of streets to improve routing technology in driver app and provide more accurate ETAs, says spokesperson — Uber Has Mapping Cars Now, Too — Don't be surprised if you see an Uber-branded car outfitted with a human-size 3D camera driving around your neighborhood.
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The massive 27-inch Lenovo Yoga Home tablet is a tabletop PC with a 1920x1080 native resolution, three-hour battery life, starting at $1499 available in October — The massive 27-inch Lenovo Yoga Home tablet brings back the tabletop PC — This big all-in-one doubles as a futuristic touchscreen tabletop perfect for sharing.
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