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| Bret Arsenault / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft to create a Cyber Defense Operations Center and an Enterprise Cybersecurity Group, with security experts for rapid response to security threats — Enterprise security for our mobile-first, cloud-first world — Today, I was able to join Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Washington …
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Thanks:@anectolts| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google And ASUS Launch The $85 Chromebit, A Chrome OS Desktop On An HDMI Stick — Earlier this year, Google and ASUS announced the Chromebit — a full Chrome OS-based computer on an HDMI stick. Today, the two companies are officially launching this new way of using Chrome OS on any screen with an HDMI port.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos now lets you easily delete photos from your phone that have already been backed up to the cloud, available now on Android and web, soon for iOS — Google Photos Will Now Help You Free Up Space On Your Phone — Google's popular photo management utility, Google Photos …
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| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Netflix open sources Spinnaker, its cloud resource management tool for AWS, with support for Google Cloud Platform and Cloud Foundry, Azure support coming soon — Netflix launches open source project ready for Amazon, Google clouds — Additional deployment support for Microsoft Azure was said to be … | Laura Shin / Forbes: |
Online lender Earnest raises $275M Series B led by Battery Ventures and has originated $400M in loans this year — Online Lender Earnest Raises $275 Million; Has Originated $400 Million In Loans This Year — Earnest, one of the new online lenders using smart algorithms to serve millennials … | Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Nvidia's Shield Tablet is back on sale for $199 after fire hazard recall — Nvidia called its Shield Tablet the “ultimate tablet for gamers” upon announcement last year, but the company had to backtrack hard this summer when it issued a recall for every single unit due to a potential battery fire hazard.
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Pay is now available in Canada with American Express, UK Apple Pay adds Tesco Bank and TSB — As expected, Apple Pay is now available in Canada. You can use use eligible American Express bank cards to make mobile payments at a whole host of retailers that support the NFC technology across Canada.
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| Parmy Olson / Forbes: |
UK to create £165M DARPA-like fund for cybersecurity startups and double its public spending on fighting cybercrime to £1.9B a year by 2020 — UK To Create £165 Million DARPA-Like Fund For Cyber Security Startups — The British government has announced a bold series …
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GOV.UK departments and policy, Jack of Kent blog, CNET, Business Insider, We Live Security, Inquirer, Mashable and ITV. Tweets: @forbestech. Thanks:@parmy
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
With Rdio Buy, Pandora Envisions Apple Music Model for New Service — Pandora, the Internet radio service, says that after buying Rdio, a music subscription service, it wants to offer a new subscription service of its own next year. — What will that service look like? Pandora execs won't say.
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musictechpolicy.wordpress.com, Rdio Blog, MAC" blog, Digital Trends, AndroidGuys, MediaNama, Fone Arena and VentureBeat. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
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The Parrot Bebop 2 Drone stays airborne about 25 minutes, twice as long as its predecessor, available December 14 for $550 — Parrot Bebop Drone 2 boosts performance, battery life, $549, lands in December — Parrot's latest consumer camera drone was designed with performance in mind.
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| Chris Dixon / Medium: |
What media firms can learn from the PC video game industry's embrace of freemium models, remixes, mods, and crowdsourcing — Lessons from the PC video game industry — The future of media is here—it's just not evenly distributed — The success or failure of tech and media products depends … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Home Services Marketplace Angie's List Rejects IAC's $512M Acquisition Offer — Well, it looks like it might be a while yet before you swipe right to find your next bricklayer or painter. Angie's List, a marketplace for independent contractors, has formally rejected an offer from IAC …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Foursquare Joins Apple Maps Data Sources As Company Builds Out Ecosystem — Apple continues to improve its mapping product by adding new features and content, albeit often under the radar. Last year, reviews and content from Booking.com and TripAdvisor began to show for locations and travel destinations, especially outside the US.| Ben Kepes / Computerworld: |
Are the container wars back again? CoreOS and Docker roll out container security offerings — It might seem like a lifetime ago, but it was only last December when Silicon Valley startup CoreOS dropped a bit of a bombshell with a full-frontal assault on Linux container kingpin Docker's hegemony.
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GitHub, SiliconANGLE, eWeek and eWeek
| Jessica E. Lessin / The Information: |
Sources: Google wearable tech group Project Aura working on three prototypes, one with screen, and two without that rely on bone conduction like original Glass — Google Glass Successor Dumps Some Glass — So much for the screen. We've learned that Google's revamped Google Glass project …
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PC Magazine, bizjournals, Inquirer, TechnoBuffalo, Telegraph, Yahoo Tech, Fone Arena, Android Authority, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Tech Portal, The Verge, 9to5Google, Engadget, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo and SlashGear. Tweets: @jguynn
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