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| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
FAA announces drone owners must register by February 19th, 2016 — Regulation of drones in the hands of civilian pilots took a big step forward today. The Federal Aviation Administration announced that all units weighing between 0.55 pounds and 50 pounds must be registered by February 19th, 2016.
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Tweets: @thedroneguy and @airlineflyer
| Jonathan Cheng / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung Galaxy S7 to have pressure-sensitive display, USB Type-C port for full-day's charging in 30 minutes — Samsung Adding Pressure-Sensitive Display, High-Speed Charging Port to Galaxy S7 — South Korean tech major is also considering a retina scanner for some versions of the new flagship smartphone
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Is Killing Photo Syncing, Asks Users To Download Its “Moments” App Instead — Facebook clearly believes it has its next hit app on its hands to follow Messenger with its private photo-sharing service, Moments. The company has now announced it will soon discontinue support for photo syncing …
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Sources: Dell is looking to sell Perot Systems for more than $5B to raise cash for EMC deal — Dell Looks to Sell Perot Systems for More Than $5 Billion to Raise Cash for EMC Deal — Dell is looking to sell Perot Systems, a key piece of its technology outsourcing business, for more than $5 billion, sources tell Re/code.
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| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
VMware Walks Away From Virtustream Joint Venture With EMC — Cloud software company VMware says it will not participate in a previously announced cloud services joint venture called Virtustream with its parent company EMC. — Shares of VMware initially rose but later fell after VMware announced … | Kevin Tofel / ZDNet: |
Google's Inbox now allows you to share trip bundles, add emails to a trip bundle, view trip info offline, attach multiple photos easier — Google updates Trip Bundles for road warriors using Inbox — After holding off on switching to Google's Inbox app, the updated Trip Bundles feature … | Wall Street Journal: |
Canyon Capital, Eric Jackson's SpringOwl join Starboard in calling for change at Yahoo — Yahoo Investors Tighten Screws — Canyon Capital, SpringOwl lay out varying proposals to slash workforce, replace CEO Mayer, find a buyer — Yahoo Inc. is facing new pressure from investor groups …
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Tweets: @om, @om, @mims, @wsjd, @tomgara, @mikeisaac, @stevesi and @ericjackson
| Nate Swanner / The Next Web: |
Facebook announces Parse SDKs for Apple Watch and Apple TV, and Embedded Video Player API, oEmbed support — Facebook drops new video embed API and SDKs for Apple Watch and Apple TV — Facebook is giving developers a few more tools to work with today, and is launching a new video embedding API …
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Parse Blog, Facebook Developers, TechCrunch, eWeek, ZDNet, MacRumors, iMore, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, PCWorld, VentureBeat, SocialTimes and Designer
| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Samsung Asks Supreme Court to Take Up Its Apple Patent Case — Samsung is taking its battle with Apple to the Supreme Court. — Although it has already written Apple a $548 million check, the Korean electronics giant insists that not only was the verdict in the patent case incorrect …
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| Chris Phillips / Pandora Blog: |
Pandora launches Thumbprint Radio, a personalized radio station based on your thumbs ups — Thumbprint Radio: A Uniquely Personal Station Inspired By All of Your Thumbs Up — Today we launched Thumbprint Radio - a hyper-personalized station for each listener.
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AppleInsider, The Verge, Tech Insider, CNET, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Macworld, MacNN, Digital Trends, Seeking Alpha, App Advice, International Business Times, Gizmodo, RAIN News, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Phandroid, The Next Web, SlashGear, VentureBeat, SocialTimes, Engadget, iMore and Mashable. Tweets: @tconrad. See also Mediagazer
| Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DHS is working on a plan to scrutinize social media posts during visa application reviews — U.S. Working on Plan to Scrutinize Social Media in Visa Reviews — Move is part of new focus following San Bernardino shootings — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Department of Homeland Security …
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ABC News, International Business Times, The Verge, The Hill, Hit & Run and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @shiraovide, @guypbenson and @damianpaletta
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Maps for iOS gets offline navigation, popular business hours, and up-to-date gas prices — Google today updated its Google Maps app for iOS with a slew of new features. You can download the new version now directly from Apple's App Store (iOS 7+ required).
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9to5Mac, Search Engine Land, The Verge, The Next Web, Fone Arena, TechCrunch, iMore and CIO.com
| Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters: |
New York Attorney General encourages public to send in speed test results as part of broadband provider probe — New York attorney general solicits help from the public in broadband probe — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman invited the public on Sunday to test the speed … | Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
MacKeeper Leaks 13 Million Mac Owners' Data, Leaves Passwords Open To Easy Cracking — Anti-virus provider MacKeeper is known for pushing the message Apple Mac owners need protection. It needed some extra protection of its own today, after a white hat hacker discovered …
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MacKeeper Reviews, Krebs on Security, Macworld and International Business Times
Tweets: @jollymoh and @dan_rowinski
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