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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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| 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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| 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.| 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 … | 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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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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| 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 … | 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
SHA1 sunset will block millions from encrypted net, Facebook warns — Companies unveil controversial fallback plan for tens of millions of browsers. — Tens of millions of Internet users will be cut off from encrypted webpages in the coming months unless sites are permitted to continue using SHA1 … Sponsor Posts
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