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Motorola name to be slowly phased out, products to carry label “Moto by Lenovo” instead — Goodbye, Moto(rola). Iconic brand to be phased out — Motorola, where wireless got its start, will see its name disappear from its products. It'll soon be Moto by Lenovo.
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Apple says it has acquired Emotient, an AI startup that reads emotions by analyzing facial expressions, and was recently seeking a new round of financing — Apple Buys Artificial-Intelligence Startup Emotient — Emotient technology is used to assess emotions by reading facial expressions
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Legal experts say net neutrality case against T-Mobile's Binge On is far from clear-cut — T-Mobile's Binge On: When throttling may not break the rules — CEO John Legere says throttling accusation is “semantics” and “bulls**t.” — T-Mobile USA will soon meet with the Federal Communications Commission …
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Jide announces Remix OS 2.0, a fork of Android Lollipop that is designed to run on x86 PCs, alpha build will be available as a free download on January 12 — The excellent Remix OS is bringing Android to every old x86 PC (and Mac) for free — When I first tested the Remix Mini at the end of last year, I was blown away.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Mozilla reinstates support for SHA-1 certificates temporarily after some Firefox users experienced problems accessing HTTPS sites — Firefox ban on SHA-1 dropped after many locked out of HTTPS sites — Mozilla reinstates support for the vulnerable SHA-1 crypto on a temporary basis until … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google teams up with Lenovo on smartphone with Project Tango's augmented reality — Lenovo and Google announced a partnership today to create a new smartphone that makes use of a 3D augmented reality technology known as Project Tango. — Johnny Lee, a member of the Tango team at Google … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google removes 13 apps from Play Store after researchers found they made unauthorized downloads and tried to gain root privileges — Malicious apps in Google Play made unauthorized downloads, sought root — Apps with as many as a million downloads removed following their discovery.
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Sprint set to join other major US carriers in killing two-year contracts for smartphones, according to leaked internal document — Sprint kills 2-year contracts for smartphones — Sprint has gone through with its plans to 2-year contracts for smartphones, according to an internal document sent to us by an anonymous tipster.
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Yellow Cab, San Francisco's largest taxi company, edges toward filing for bankruptcy due to challenges from tech rivals Uber and Lyft — Yellow Cab to file for bankruptcy — San Francisco's largest taxi company is edging toward filing for bankruptcy. — Yellow Cab Co-Op said challenges …
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ProPublica becomes first major news site on the dark web, running as a hidden service on the Tor network, offering stronger privacy than SSL to readers — ProPublica Launches the Dark Web's First Major News Site — The so-called dark web, for all its notoriety as a haven for criminals and drug dealers … | TechCrunch: |
Samsung announces partnership with Microsoft to develop Windows 10 IoT devices — Samsung Partners With Microsoft For Windows 10 IoT Effort — Samsung has made its name in mobile as the world's biggest maker of Android devices. But it looks like it has different plans in mind when it comes …
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Time Warner Cable says up to 320K customers' email passwords may have been stolen, it's not yet sure how data was obtained — Time Warner Cable says up to 320,000 customers' data may have been stolen — Time Warner Cable Inc said on Wednesday up to 320,000 customers may have had their email passwords stolen.
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