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Oculus Touch controller delayed to second half of 2016, Oculus Rift remains on schedule to ship in Q1 2016 — Update on Oculus Touch Ship Date — On the path to perfecting Touch, we've decided that we need more time before release, and we'll now be shipping Touch in the second half of 2016.
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| Rob Price / Business Insider: |
Twitter is reversing its ban on political watchdog Politwoops — Four months after being banned by Twitter, Politwoops is coming back. — If you're not familiar with it, Politwoops is a kind of social media watchdog. It automatically monitors the Twitter feeds of politicians and highlights whenever they delete a tweet.
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Tweets: @amp6, @nacin, @sunfoundation, @digiphile, @margarita and @tapbot_paul
See also Mediagazer| Scott Charney / Microsoft on the Issues: |
Microsoft now notifies users if it believes their accounts were targeted by a state-sponsored hacker — Additional steps to help keep your personal information secure — We're committed to helping our users keep their personal information secure and private.
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| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Former Microsoft employees say company failed to alert Hotmail users in 2011 that their accounts were hacked by Chinese authorities — Microsoft failed to warn victims of Chinese email hack: former employees — Microsoft Corp experts concluded several years ago that Chinese authorities …
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Tweets: @csoghoian, @levynews, @adamminter, @csoghoian and @csoghoian
| BBC: |
Sources: BBC websites hit by DDoS attack, services disrupted for several hours — Web attack knocks BBC websites offline — All the BBC's websites were unavailable early on Thursday morning because of a large web attack. — The problems began about 0700 GMT and meant visitors …
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Tweets: @bbcpress, @ruskin147, @trixxy and @mightyshakerjnr
See also Mediagazer| Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
As Microsoft and Corel battle in patent lawsuits, EFF notes the absurdity of one Microsoft design patent, for a slider — Microsoft patents a slider, earning EFF's “Stupid Patent of the Month” award — The patent is ammo in a battle between MS Word and Corel's WordPerfect.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
FCC: Internet speeds tripled from 10 Mbps in March 2011 to an average of 31 Mbps in September 2014, but US still ranks only 25th out of 39 nations surveyed — U.S. says its Internet speeds triple in three-and-a-half years — U.S. Internet connection speeds have tripled over 3-1/2 years …
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Ars Technica, FCC, FCC, PC Magazine, Rapid TV News, LJ INFOdocket, USA Today, Gizmodo, Quartz, TIME, The Register, Digital Trends, DSLreports, Consumerist and SlashGear. Tweets: @jguynn
| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
AT&T to stop offering two-year phone contracts on January 8, moving to up-front purchase of new phones or AT&T Next financing plans — AT&T to ditch most two-year phone contracts on January 8th — AT&T's long affair with the two-year contract seems to be coming to a close, Engadget has learned.
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CNNMoney, Tapscape, Macworld, The Daily Dot, Washington Post, The Verge, O'Grady's PowerPage, Tech Trader Daily, iPhone Hacks, Tech Insider, Lifehacker, AndroidGuys, InvestorPlace, Phone Scoop, TIME, MacRumors, Droid Life, International Business Times, Pocketnow, WWLP-TV, TechSpot, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority, Android and Me, AppleInsider, Consumerist, Mashable, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Liliputing, App Advice, Digital Trends, CNET, CrackBerry.com, BGR, MacNN and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @stevesi
| Jason Schreier / Kotaku: |
Valve says Steam's privacy breach on Christmas day affected 34K users, the service malfunction and outage were triggered by DDoS attack — Valve Apologizes For Steam's Christmas Malfunction, Says It Affected 34,000 Users — Valve has finally apologized for last week's Steam Christmas disaster … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42 — Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He was 42.
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Tweets: @dchest, @thomas_lord, @endpoint, @davidu, @digiphile, @smgalante, @declanm and @digiphile
| BBC: |
BlackBerry to keep operating in Pakistan after authorities drop demands to access users' messages — Blackberry to keep operating in Pakistan — Blackberry is no longer going to shut down its operations in Pakistan as it has resolved a row concerning its users' messages.
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Inside BlackBerry, Engadget, Neowin, CBC News, CrackBerry.com, Globe and Mail, Reuters, VentureBeat, SlashGear and Tech Times
| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces it completed its one billionth trip on Christmas Eve in London — Uber just completed its billionth trip — By most measures, Uber has had a pretty good year: numerous political victories, new product launches, and scary amounts of cash raised. And the hits keep coming.
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Uber Global, Digital Trends, CNNMoney, Tech Times, PYMNTS.com, 24/7 Wall St., Wired.co.uk, MobileSyrup.com, VentureBeat, SlashGear, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Ars Technica UK, Fortune, Engadget and Tech Insider
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @shervin and @mdudas
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Sources: development for updated Twitter Mac app was outsourced; one source says to Black Pixel — Twitter's updated Mac app wasn't made by Twitter — Twitter's oft-neglected app for Mac got a much-needed update today, adding support for inline GIFs, videos, quote-tweets, and other features that mobile users have had for ages.| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
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Tweets: @dcseifert and @milend
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