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How tech firms responded to Paris attacks: Facebook's Safety Check used in first man-made disaster, emergency response tools activated by Airbnb, Uber, others — How Tech Learned From Past Crises And Reacted To The Paris Attacks — What Facebook, Airbnb, and Uber did when terrorists attacked Paris.
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Apple's quest for style and appearance comes at the cost of usability, particularly on iOS, according to former employees — How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name — For years, Apple followed user-centered principles. Then something went wrong. — Once upon a time …
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
SteamOS gaming performs significantly worse than Windows, Ars analysis shows — Cross-platform 3D games face 21- to 58-percent frame rate dip on same hardware. — Since Valve started publicly talking about its own Linux-powered “Steam Boxes” about three years ago now …
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Alienware Steam Machine review: delivers on promise to bring PC games to the living room, but game library is limited, controller has a steep learning curve — Alienware Steam Machine (2015) review: A new gaming console with the heart of a PC — THE GOOD The Alienware Steam Machine brings …
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Profile of REVOLVE, an online apparel startup whose sales is set to reach $400M this year — How Revolve Became the Biggest, Trendiest, Most Profitable E-commerce Startup You've Never Heard Of — If you attend enough Hamptons house parties, they tend to blur together.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Costly Wizard of Oz party seen as indicative of Marissa Mayer's convoluted Yahoo strategy — Marissa Mayer's Convoluted Yahoo Strategy: There's No Place Like Home — Last fall, in one of the stranger and more expensive efforts to boost company morale, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decided … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Marc Andreessen Sold 73 Percent of his Facebook Stock in the Last Two Weeks — Facebook board member Marc Andreessen is padding his wallet ahead of the holiday shopping season. — Andreessen, an early Facebook investor and board member since 2008, has sold over 1.5 million shares … | Peter Dolanjski / Mozilla Hacks: |
Mozilla releases experimental Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview for Android devices — Firefox OS 2.5 Developer Preview, an experimental Android app — Today we have made Firefox OS 2.5 available worldwide. We are also making an early, experimental build of the OS …
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Vizio is selling your viewing data, collected via its smart TVs with tracking on by default, and possibly connected to your IP — Own a Vizio Smart TV? It's Watching You — TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands …
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| E.T. Brooking / Foreign Policy: |
Behind #OpISIS and GhostSec, a group of hactivists fighting ISIS online, gathering and passing intelligence, which may have helped to disrupt a terror plot — Anonymous vs. the Islamic State — For nearly a year, a war has been unfolding in strange corners of the Internet.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Privacy advocate warns FTC about ads that use inaudible sound to link phone, TV, tablet, and PC — Beware of ads that use inaudible sound to link your phone, TV, tablet, and PC — Privacy advocates warn feds about surreptitious cross-device tracking. — Privacy advocates …
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OnePlus X review: good build quality, performance, and display for the price, but poor camera and limited LTE band support even when compared to cheaper phones — OnePlus X review: Never settle for second best — The OnePlus X breaks new ground for the young Chinese company.Sponsor Posts
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