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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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Tweets: @timcohn, @karaswisher, @michael_saylor, @venturebeat, @jabolins, @antoniocasilli, @johnlegere and @darrellprichard
| 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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Engadget, VG247, Tech Times, SiliconANGLE, Gamasutra, ExtremeTech, SlashGear and Digital Trends. Tweets: @edzitron
| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
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.| Co.Design: |
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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Medium, ignore the code, Jared Sinclair, Chris Pirillo's Tech …, Forbes, High Scalability and Michael Tsai
Tweets: @counternotions, @whatthebit, @reckless and @panzer
| 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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PCWorld, PCMag UK, xda-developers, Android Community, 9to5Google, AndroidHeadlines.com and Redmond Pie. Tweets: @frabcus
| 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 …
Tweets: @kaylatausche
| Julia Angwin / ProPublica: |
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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Wired, Breitbart, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Daily Mail, Slate, Forbes, TWICE, PCWorld, IEEE Spectrum and Network World
| 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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Network World and SiliconANGLE
| 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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PCWorld, gHacks Technology News and Digital Trends
Tweets: @stevestreza, @niftyc, @zittrain, @josephmenn and @dangillmor
| Aaron Souppouris / Engadget: |
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.| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Vevo revamps iOS app for US users with personalized recommendations, favorites feed, and new design — Vevo Releases New iPhone App That's A Lot More Like Tinder Than YouTube — Music video service Vevo released a completely revamped iPhone app to its U.S. users Thursday … Sponsor Posts
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